Father’s Speech on April 19, 1992, Easter Sunday at Belvedere, New York
The topic of this morning’s speech is “True Family Resurrection and the Liberation of the World.” Can anyone here describe what True Family is? True Family is the family which God created in His ideal and then accomplished Adam’s family as it should have been accomplished or revived, to the world level. We would not have wars or any of the other difficulties that we face today. Satan would be no more. There would be no division of countries and languages and there would not be such a division of cultures. If the fall had not taken place in the ancestry of mankind, then it would have been Adam’s country, Adam’s civilization and Adam’s world.
We are talking about revival, being born again. Today is Easter. If Adam and Eve had not fallen, they would have given birth to godly children and their number would have expanded to the world. Adam and Eve, being the True Couple, would have formed a True Family. Because we did not have a true couple, we did not have a true child, true brothers and sisters, or True Parents. True Family originates from God. From there, God’s love, God’s life and God’s lineage would have started. The rest of the world, like the True Couple would have inherited God’s love, God’s life and God’s lineage.
Satan’s love, Satan’s life and Satan’s lineage would not have been in any part of mankind. Centering on Satan the world has been formed. What is the destiny of that world? It must return to the original world. What do we do after returning? We go the original path, the original way we should have gone. We should return in our love, return in our life and return in our lineage as well.
Once fallen, since we cannot go directly back to God, we go through True Children. That means Cain should return through Abel. Not directly, but according to the principle of recreation, we should be created again. God created the environment first. In nature there is always subject and object. All relationships, all things form subject and object relationships. Big or small, everything comes in a pair system of plus and minus. We see it in mankind, in the animal kingdom, the vegetable kingdom, the mineral kingdom, even in the smallest atom. We have this relationship of subject and object, plus and minus, male and female. What is flowing right in the middle consistently, from the smallest up? Love.
Love is flowing between plus and minus. Each different kingdom does not exist separately or unconnected. Instead one plus and minus and another plus and minus form a bigger minus to form a bigger plus. Together later, they form a bigger minus to stand in front of, and connect to, an even bigger plus. We can understand this easily in mankind. The family will get together and form a minus to the clan. The clan is their plus. Then the whole clan is minus to the country which would be the next larger plus: mutual, reciprocal, corresponding relationships, so to speak. We too want to expand to a bigger and bigger entity. We want to form the world. (As we see in the original creation, as well as in the recreation, first the environment becomes a big factor. The second important factor is the subject/ object relationship, and third, the reciprocal relationship. That is the way God created all things.)
The importance of the Cain and Abel relationship starts right here. In God’s recreation process, as well as in the original creation process, the subject and object relationship is very important. We see plenty of examples of this in the Bible; namely good and bad seem to be in conflict and fight, but eventually goodness overcomes. That is the point. If the fall had not taken place, in His original creation, God would have been the subject and the rest of the world would have been the object.
NO HATRED IN GODLY THINKING
However, it turned upside down. God became the object. How sorrowful! We have to restore this. We see that the first son, who did not belong to God, always took the first position of subject. God’s side, represented by the second son, always tried to restore the elder sonship. So there was always struggle. After good and evil fight and enough conditions are established then Satan has to separate from goodness. That has been the history.
God wants to enlarge His nucleus. Satan’s side always ends in destruction, getting smaller and losing. That pattern is visible everywhere in the individual, in a family and in the big world. Today we see the confrontation between the right wing and the left wing. Now is the time of a world war; not a small, but a big confrontation. In the previous world wars, the one who struck first lost. They represented Satan’s side. God’s side was struck first, paid indemnity and then united and won. You cannot have antagonism and hate in godly thinking. God does not have those things. If you say, “No that is not true. God has hatred and acts in hatred,” then you have a view of dualism, which is not true and very difficult to explain.
We know that history is moving towards recreation. We are going back to the original position to be recreated. We may say, “What about amoebas? Amoebas exist all by themselves. They are single sex animals.” Science didn’t get around to that yet. We think it is not clearly divided into subject and object but it is. So the subject and object become a very important part of recreation as well as creation.
Our two eyes, do they have two different points of focus? No. Even though we have two eyes, their focal point is the same. What is the focal point of man and woman? Love. If we do not make the right focus the value of that existence diminishes. If you ask the question, “What is recreation?” basically you need these three elements. First, environment should be there. Second, subject and object should be firmly established. The third point, the reciprocal relationship, should improve, moving higher and higher and higher.
No matter what circumstances, or what environment you enter, there is always a subject and an object. The only difference is that subject may be a good subject or that subject may be bad. That is the only difference because there is always a subject under any circumstance. When you walk into the Unification Church there are subjects and there are objects. Is the subject a good one or does he happen to be a bad subject? If you walk into any Christian church, of course you will find a subject there. By what are subject and object bound? They are not bound together by money or by anything else other than love, and that love is true love. True love means original, absolute love.
For what does God live? Does God exist so He can create a lot of money? Or does He strive to be the master of knowledge? Does He exist to show off power? Is that His pleasure in living? All of these are already part of God. He does not have to do anything. He is the creator so He can make everything. One thing that even God cannot do at will, unless He has some object, is create love. By yourself you can pretty much achieve the perfection of anything, but not love. You cannot perfect love without having somebody in front of you, either your subject or object.
Ask a woman the question, “Why were you born? Why did women come into existence?” So she can enjoy a lot of wealth? No that is degrading. So she can enjoy enormous power? No, you are not very happy hearing that. What about knowledge? Which is eternal and never changes? Wealth and power and so on, are all changeable except for true love. American love is not eternal nor permanent.
In recreation God starts as the subject. It is ever expanding, becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes bigger so that all the other realms gather around and become as big, too. Eventually it develops so God Himself is the subject. Through the subject and object relationship and reciprocal relationship it improves and becomes bigger and greater towards the universal level.
Obviously God should have been at the top of the subject realm, but now God is down here and Satan is up, above God in the fallen world. In the constant effort to make this right side up and restore it, we see that what used to be on top is now on the bottom and vice versa.
AN UNCHANGEABLE PERSON
What is it that we see in history which does not change? From the individual level to the family, clan, national and to the world level we should go each step of the way being an unchangeable person. That is the development of true love to the highest level. Only true love can travel through the realm of the fight and penetrate this barrier and go higher and higher. This is the realm of the fight; in other words, you always struggle against Satan so that you can separate from him. The world is involved in an individual-level war, a family-level war, clan-level war, nation-level war and the world-level war. In the same way it is Adam the individual, Adam’s family and Adam’s clan and Adam’s nation and world. As recreation goes through these stages, it is not just the perfection of Adam that we see. The liberation of this world is also taking place.
In front of Adam, Satan should have bowed down and availed himself of the object position. Love is the ultimate goal. It can gather many plus and minuses. What can possibly be more precious than your own life? We have learned that it is love. How does love work? Only the power of love can separate us from Satan, not the power of life. Whether we live or die we cannot love on our own will, but with love we can cut off and separate from Satan.
We have plus on one side and minus on the other. That means the love on the first side should be stronger than the love on the second side, which represents the old world. We should weaken whatever we inherited there, on the other side and we should build up a stronger love and connect our life and everything to this side.
[Father explains as he makes a diagram on the board.] So, we see that the perfection of Adam is not individual perfection, but the perfection of Adam and Eve and the perfection in Adam and Eve’s clan, perfection of the nation and the perfection of Adam and Eve’s world, and also perfection of Adam and Eve on the universal level. This is horizontal.
What they achieve horizontally would connect to the vertical, so vertically is how Adam and Eve develop. When they reach the cosmic level then it will be connected. Once this is done the satanic realm will be separated. When Adam achieves this perfection, Satan will be separated, which is God’s whole purpose. This is the way it should be.
There is above and there is below. In this fashion history repeats itself. But the path and standard that Father says only love can travel will reach to the throne of heaven in heaven. If you condense it, it will be a dot right here. Centering on that dot, the individual, family, clan, nation, the world, even the universe reaches that same high status. So what is the True Family? It is this revival of Adam’s family.
Throughout history the struggle or fight started with mind and body. Until now your body has been fighting your mind. This is a problem. On one side there is religion and on the other side politics. Like mind and body they fight to separate and improve. Until now, just like our individual struggle, the body always strikes the mind. It should be the other way around. However until now we see the body always gets the better of the mind. In just the same way, the political world always attacks religion.
On August 27, 1991, Father launched the big operation of the religious realm: the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace. This is the culmination of a long effort by God to unite the religious federation with the political federation, and have religion play the role of plus and politics the role of minus for the sake of world peace. This represents the eventual development of mind and body. It’s like religion being in the mind’s position for the first time, and politics in the body’s position, where it belongs.
To restore that environment, there exists a left and right wing in the political world, and the religious world as well. The political world represents the body and the religious world, represents the mind; this plus and minus, are fighting. The goal is for them to eventually come up with a godly plus.
We can look back at history and see that at the end of World War II, God prepared, centering on Father and his family, for all mankind to become one. The purpose of recreation could have been attained then. The purpose of all religion could have been attained right there. However, mankind did not know, and it took another forty years for True Parents to re-indemnify history completely. We know this through the Divine Principle.
At the end of World War II, France, America and England, were ready, through their struggle, to receive True Parents. England was in Eve’s position, America was in the Abel position and France was in the Cain position. England and France were enemies in the past. Abel was given birth by the Eve nation, England. Today is the same time centering on Father.
AMERICA SHOULD HAVE KNOWN
Father mentioned the nation which is in Eve’s position. Of course it all started from the individual level but as history progresses, it will be culminated in the nation’s position. Eve’s position is no longer an individual’s position but a nation’s position. It is an autumn-time position. By Eve embracing both the Cain and Abel positions, they go towards the nation in Adam’s position. The one who harvests this is the One who is to Come, the result of God working through Judaism and Christianity for four thousand years. America, in the Abel position, should have known it and fulfilled her responsibility. One can see where Abel began failing, by looking back forty years. America started going down and going through tremendous pain, misery and turmoil until today.
Adam himself, Father, had to indemnify the whole failure. Not only the failure of America, but the failure of England and the failure of France. England, America and France should have been in the realm of object to God. The realm of subject or Father’s realm should be there. For this whole purpose God has been working. Satan took hold of the head. God had no place else to hold on, so God had to take hold of the tail.
FATHER TOOK RESPONSIBILITY FOR AMERICA
The countries in these three positions had to be recreated. Japan, America and Germany. Usually something which fails God, God never uses twice. We see England was replaced by Japan and America should have been replaced, maybe by Italy, but it isn’t so. America remains in the same position. Why is that? Because it is in the second Israel position and without the first Israel and the second Israel, the third Israel cannot be connected. So God almost had no choice. Of course God could not use it again, but who took responsibility for that country? Father did, since the responsibility rests on the son. Father, who is in the son’s position took America for the second time. It was not God who took it. He put it into that position and nurtured this country so it could fulfill its responsibility.
Korea and Japan were enemies; Japan and America were enemies, and America and Germany were enemies. Isn’t this so? Christians are still there, but their foundation had already weakened. Centering on America, someone in the son’s position has to restore and recreate the whole foundation all over again. The arena of restoration has been the Unification Church. Through the Unification Church, Father restored these nations to their original positions. To Father, Korea has been an enemy, it is not even a friendly country. Until now, to this moment, Korea has opposed him. Now they welcome and embrace him as they should have; in the manner God expected them to. Japan and America, as well as Germany are no exceptions. All alone, Father undertook this enormous, historical work.
Already, we know a great amount of what has happened throughout history. The very work of God through religion, which took four thousand years to accomplish had to be re-indemnified. It could not be done in four hundred years, since Father is the individual who must do this and he cannot live for four hundred years. He had to do it in forty years. It is so staggering that you cannot imagine the work that Father has done single-handedly in the past forty years.
The task accomplished in these forty years was to push back all the major opposition powers so there will be no opposition either to him or each other. He had to accomplish this in a mere forty years. He cannot do just something, but he was required to do this complete work within forty years.
At the height of opposition, in 1975, the entire world came against Reverend Moon and opposed him. That was the very year he sent out missionaries to over one hundred nations in all four corners of the world. Head to head, one to one, Father pushed established Christianity and all the secondary and tercerary major religions back. So everybody came against him. By 1991 Father had been working intensely here in America for twenty years. Father came on November 18, 1971. Father met Kim Il Sung on November 30, 1991, exactly twenty years later, slightly ahead of schedule of a twenty-one year course. Father had to embrace even Kim II Sung, who represents the entire left wing world. He is the second advent on Satan’s side. After that, Father simply has no enemy. Japan was included on March 26, 1992 when she invited Father to her country.
The Washington Times interview with Kim II Sung was amazing. The fact that Kim Il Sung agreed to do it and how he responded to The Washington Times representative was unique. He was all ears and very happy. North Korea threw out The Washington Times team, but Father pushed them and they went back again and saw Kim II Sung. The results have been fantastic. Within the North Korean country, the Communist Party worked in one way and Kim Il Sung worked in quite a different way. There was an obvious rift between the two. Everybody wondered, even the party members wondered, “What is Reverend Moon in this world?” They never imagined anybody like that and that this was actually happening. “What is the meaning of this?,” is the question they were asking. Nobody has been able to even get close to Kim Il Sung let alone have an interview with him.
The American, Japanese, even the Korean press were denied access to him. The Washington Post and The New York Times, America’s biggest daily newspapers, could not interview him. Nobody could succeed, but even though the party threw us out too, Father stood up and Kim II Sung welcomed The Washington Times back. Kim II Sung’s answer was “I didn’t know.”
FATHER PUSHED WASHINGTON TIMES
The Washington Times will have its tenth anniversary in May. Ten years after Father created The Washington Times, it served its purpose. Now, as Father predicted a long time ago, no country opposes Father. Russia does not oppose Father. America has no reason to oppose Father because he is doing so much for this country; Japan too, and also Germany. Anyone opposing Reverend Moon will lose. They will never gain from opposing Reverend Moon anymore. People in every country think that Reverend Moon has such great power and anyone going against him will lose everything.
We must realize this amazing fact. Today America knows what they did not know forty years ago. America did not know where to go, what to do, what was God’s purpose in making America victorious forty years ago. Now, after forty years of bloody, intense re-indemnification, America now stands in exactly the same position as it did forty years ago. The major difference is that now America knows what they are supposed to do. What an improvement!
The realm of the third Israel now comes to the limelight. Do you understand? What Father is focusing on now is unfication of North and South Korea. It is an amazing realization on the part of all mankind. Everybody feels, everybody shares the same idea that nobody can unify North and South Korea except Reverend Moon. That is what the grassroots of South Korea is saying, and even Kim Il Sung is saying that. Father reconfirms this news that Kim Il Sung knows that without Father the reunification of Korea is not possible. America’s CIA and Germany know this as well. They see Reverend Moon as the main person who can bring unification. All the intellectuals of the world today, in this great world of communication, including America and Germany, know that without Reverend Moon, unification is not possible.
In America, people understand that the second generation problem, the youth problem, is the largest and most important problem to solve. No first or existing generation can do anything about that now. It takes some new person to do this, and they know Reverend Moon is this person. As in Russia, any intellectual knows, when Father goes to a communist country they cannot influence Father, but Father can influence the communist country. Everybody knows that. Kim Il Sung knows it, too. He knows he himself should be influenced by Father, not the other way around. It is an amazing realization.
We can see that instead of through the second Israelites, as it was in 1945, after the end of World War II, what God tried to accomplish is now being done through the third Israelites in 1991. The world knows about it, too. The enemy mark has now been erased between Korea and Japan. This is also true between Japan and America, and America and Germany. They are no longer enemies. This could never have happened automatically. Only through the Unification Church and the intense work of Reverend Moon, have these enemy’s marks been erased. We must realize that this came as a result of going over and pulling down the walls and boundaries of religions.
In other words, a revolution has taken place in religion. A revolution has also taken place between the races. There is no sense of race anymore. Even the wall has gone down between satanic love and godly love, and true love is flowing freely for the first time.
EFFORTS ERASE ENEMY MARKS
A revolution in love has also taken place. There are clear signs. These are all historical achievements: going over the boundaries of religion, going over the hard boundaries of race, going over even the barrier of satanic love so that true, godly love can flow through.
All are going toward world peace forever. We are reaching a new dimension of high level modern society. You no longer see satanic connections. You see no more satanic connection in this new restored world. We have already returned to a God-centered, parent-centered world which is the revival of True Family. Another thing that is very visible is that the resurrection or revival of the True Family can now be done in the horizontal way.
When Jesus had to work through the spirit world it was a vertical descension or ascension. It was very difficult and time consuming, and took a lot of conditions. Now all is done in a horizontal way in no time at all.
The third Israel has landed firmly now. The completion of Adam’s family on the world-level has taken place. Because there is no satanic world, the third Israelites will follow the wake of Reverend Moon with no opposition. The family will tag along with him because there is no Satan to distract them. Everybody followed Father, including Mother. Mother followed Father closely because Mother did not know how to fight. So just like a shadow she was always with Father. But when the completion of Adam’s family on the world wide level was near, Father made Mother stand on the front line and we saw the big rallies which took place. After her rallying the women the first, second and third times, and then rallying them in Japan and Korea as well, Father was able to proclaim the liberation of entire womanhood.
All around the world, women have been liberated for the first time in history. So there is no meaning for you to promote women’s liberation, Father has already done it! [Laughter.] It’s true! Until now women had to stand right behind Adam and Adam was supposed to recreate Eve. But not anymore. Adam and Eve, in the original position, can now stand side by side as equals. All of this contributed towards the perfection of God’s ideal. God is the big plus, the absolute plus. Adam and Eve together, side by side will form the perfect minus. They will automatically combine into one. That is the completion of God’s ideal of creation.
INHERIT ABSOLUTE FAITH IN WHAT WE ARE DOING
This overview of what Father has done in history makes us now understand for the first time that world peace is possible. The liberation of the world is possible. Until now the world has been fettered, it is now liberated. This is a humble place, but to the universe this is a place of proclamation to the world: “World, you are now liberated!” Amen! Amen! Amen!
Now Father wants all of us to inherit this absolute faith that what we are doing is right. Father wants us to inherit this self reliance, in other words the confidence that “I can do it.” Compared to what Father had to go through for forty years, our task is nothing. It can be done.
Yesterday was True Parent’s thirty-third wedding anniversary. If Jesus had not died in his thirty-third year, he would have married in that year. If he had married then everyone, many, would have partaken of that blessing. The world would have come into one at that time.
Originally Easter Sunday was on April 17. This is to proclaim that, as well as the revival of Jesus, the revival of True Family was to happen at the same time. Today, Father proclaims here and now, the revival of the True Family on April 18. Eighteen is the number six multiplied by three. Do you follow? Father now proclaims the revival of the True Family. The result is that anyone who stands in our way, anyone who tries to stop our advance, will immediately incur damage. Not after a while, but immediately they will lose. Until now there was leeway. They had time to work around and come back to the right position. But now the good ancestors will come down and help, so that immediately an effect will start taking place. Believe in this and immediately, starting from this moment on, this will take effect.
Of course it takes a little time, just as a sick man becomes better. That means it takes a few days or a few weeks, doesn’t it? He has been sick a long time but he is not going to die; he is going to live, but obviously it will take some time to restore. In the same way, it’s only a matter of time. Father feels, more practically, that in fourteen years, restoration will be accomplished.
That is the year 2006. Everything will have been accomplished. Fourteen years is nothing in the long expanse of history; that means it is already done. You can say it is already done.
In the interrelationship of all elements-mankind, God, history, everything-there is nothing Father did not explain about these important relationships through his teaching to the Unification Church. We all know. As we know, it is the most important explanation of how the world should be. You have to think that we have the strongest armament in the intellectual way. We have the strongest knowledge, a strong weapon.
It took a mere four nights and five days for all communism to crumble. Christianity itself is no exception; no religion is an exception. In a mere few days they can crumble and their foundation will be no more. Because they are not right. Do you follow? This is what Father has done.
So the “Proclamation of the Revival of True Family” is April 18, 1992. Father took this opportunity of the thirty-third anniversary of Father’s wedding on the 18th of April, and the following Easter Sunday of this year in the Christian religion, which is very much a part of us.
Seven years from 1945 took us to 1952. After forty years, in 1992, everything, literally everything, is now accomplished. At this time the Christian world has welcomed True Parents to make the unified world. Seven years was all it took for the world to welcome Father. It could have been accomplished in 1952. But from there it has taken forty years of re-indemnification. Father has now accomplished all that. This, too, is a cosmic spring.
The month of April is spring for the whole world. This is not only for this world but for the spirit world as well. Millions of years of God’s history is now experiencing the cosmic springtime. This is springtime for the Unification Church especially. Until now it has been cold winter.
So from today on we will enter into the world of joy and the time of joy. It will make a lot of difference in time. With this vision and understanding, do you think the world’s liberation is possible? [Yes!] All the misery will be liberated.
You can even own things from now on. According to how hard we work we will connect with lots of wealth. This is the harvest time. How to harvest is the question. God is the subject of the people of the heavenly nation; namely the tribal messiahs. What does the tribal messiah do? Harvest a lot of crop to bring to the godly kingdom. For all Father accomplished until now, Father sees he doesn’t have much to do anymore. What will he do? Our role now is to support. Just like we have been paying taxes to our country wherever we may be, the third Israelites should now support and dedicate and back up the godly kingdom of the third Israel.
PROCLAMATION DAY!
So what is the topic of Father’s sermon this morning? The “Revival of the True Family and World Liberation.” All we have to do is resow the seed which Father has bequeathed to us. Father gives us the seed, and all we have to do is sow it again. Then what should we do? Should we go back to our hometown or should we just stay here? Just like we see in the Bible where Mary and Joseph went to register, so we, too, and all mankind in the world, should register. Understand that this is the time now to begin the original nationality. You have to re-register your address. Now we are going into that time.
Everyone now stand up. On the day of 18th April, 1992, I hereby proclaim the Day of True Family. Amen! The fact that the world is now in the realm of liberation is now proclaimed in the name of God and True Parents. Amen! Let us pray. [Father prays] Let us have three Manseis!