Father’s speech at the speaking tour on NOVEMBER 5, 1995 in PARIS, FRANCE
Paris was the first city in Europe as True Parents’ took the “True Family and I” speech to the world level in 1995. In Paris and many cities of the tour, Father spoke to the members after his public speech, with a program that included cutting a celebration cake for all to enjoy. He would always offering encouragement and guidance for their particular national situation. Throughout all of the speeches, his main points were the same. We are, therefore, offering this one as symbolic of them all.
INCLUDING children, those who are meeting me in person for the first time, raise your hands. What do you want to hear from me? There is not enough time, what can we do? You second generation children all look beautiful and handsome. Our second generation children must be different from the children of the secular world. Do you love your father and mother? (Yes.) Do you see your father and mother fight sometimes? (Laughter.) Where there is conflict and fighting, God cannot come and stay.
By the same token, there should not be any fighting or conflict between your mind and body. You second generation children, do you feel your mind and body are fighting? Your body must follow your mind’s guidance. God has mind and body, too. Do you think God’s mind and body are always fighting? If you want to become children whom God loves, then you should have your mind and body in harmony and unity. Throughout His entire life, God’s mind and body never fight. If you want to become children who are loved by God, your mind and body must not fight.
Whom do you think God resembles? God looks like you and me; He looks like everyone. When you are fighting, God does not look like you. When you do not fight, God looks like you. Do you know who God is? God is the One who tells you to live for the sake of the whole; for your parents, for your brothers and sisters, for your friends, for the people in your school; not for yourself. If you follow God’s teaching to do everything for other people, then God will always come and protect you, sup-port you and love you.
Everyone has two eyes, right? Do you see yourself with your eyes? What about your nose? What about your ears? Do you think you have ears to hear your-self? You also have a mouth. What do you do with your mouth? You eat and speak. Do you think your mouth speaks for your own sake? No, you have to understand that all five sensory organs are created by God, not for you to use for yourself, but for the sake of others.
WE WERE BORN FOR LOVE
You girls were not born for the sake of yourselves. That means you girls were born for the sake of boys. What about the boys? Boys were born for the sake of girls. What about boys and girls? For whom were they born? For your father and mother. You were not born for yourselves. If we are not born for ourselves, then for whom are we born? Man is born for woman, and woman is born for man, because of love. Do you like love? Have you seen love?
Children are born for parents and parents for children. What about parents and children together? For whom were they born? For God. What then are you going to do if you were born for the sake of God? What is your purpose? Man is born for woman and woman is born for man; children are born for parents and parents are born for children. We jointly exist for the sake of God. That means our entire family exists for the sake of God’s love. If there were no love, you would not need your brother or sister, you would not need your mother or father. You would not need anyone; but because of love, you need everyone.
If you ask your eyes, nose, ears, mouth, hands or body why they exist, they will all answer, “I exist for the sake of love.” They will laugh. (Father demonstrates.) Where there is love, everything flocks together, everything will be attracted there. Your friends, money, your house and automobile, even God, will come where there is love. As children, your father and mother always do things for you. They live for you, their children. By the same token, you children should live for your father and mother. When that happens, there is love and happiness in your family. When parents love children and children love parents, centered on God’s love, everything will come to your house: money and fortune, even God’s blessing, will be in your family with you.
Do you want to become children who really pursue love or who seek something else, such as friends or money? So love is your number one goal. Do you promise me today that you will be the children who always stay with love? Yes or no? (Yes.) All the children stand up now. As you go out, receive the cake and go out to the hallway and eat it.
THE KINGDOM OF GOD
Those who understand English, raise your hands, please. What kind of teaching shall I give you today? Do you have any questions regarding the content of the talk I gave today? The talk I gave today to the people of France is the message I gave throughout South America; then I moved to North America, where I delivered this speech in sixteen states. Mother went to Japan and delivered this speech to hundreds of thousands of people there. Mother and I then moved to Korea where we delivered this message to the Korean people and the Korean students in more than 34 cities and university campuses. Beginning today, I am touring the world with this message. This is the message which answers all the questions regarding your life, your conscience, the spirit world, humankind, God, and Satan, religion, and all general questions one may have about life. Therefore, as True Parents and the Messiah to humankind, we have the responsibility to spread this message to every per-son in this world. That is what Mother and I are doing. If you study this message and truly believe in it, all your good ancestors will come from the spirit world and help you. We are also proclaiming this message to give blessing to the human race here on the Planet Earth, as well as in the spirit world. This is the message that can be given only through True Parents.
Today, I want to give you a very important message. In 1992, I declared the liberation of women. Before Mother and I laid this victorious foundation, women could not go in front of God’s throne since they were the ones who initiated the process of the fall. Because of the victorious foundation laid by Mother and me, women are now in the position to go forward to God’s throne. Mother and I started the worldwide scale blessing with the 30,000 Couples’ Blessing, which was the formation stage. This year, we blessed 360,000 couples, which is our growth stage. Next will be the perfection stage, with 3.6 million couples. When Mother and I complete that perfection stage blessing ceremony, all people, not only on earth but throughout the spirit world, will be able to come and receive the blessing from True Parents.
Do you know what the Kingdom of God is like? The Kingdom of God is like a home where parents who do not have anything to do with sin live happily with sinless children centering on God’s love. When that family dies and goes to the spirit world, that will be the Kingdom of Heaven in the spirit world. True Parents are forgiving all your sin and giving you the blessing from a sinless position; only when you live that quality of sinless life as parents and children will you attain the license to enter the Kingdom of Heaven in the spirit world.
For example, this hotel may be big, but if you have the title to it, you can immediately take ownership of it. By the same token, if True Parents sign a statement saying that your entire family is liberated and pardoned, then you will be able to enter the Kingdom of God. That document is what you need; but there is a provision. You have to understand that when God
created this world, He did not take it lightly. God did not create this world as a game. He created this world in absolute faith-faith in Himself and faith in the creation. Do you understand? The foundation on which God could create humankind, as well as the rest of the world, was absolute faith!
Another reason God created the world is that He feels lonely by Himself; God needs a love partner, an object of love. God created the human race, in particular, to become the absolute love partner. To find the champion love partner, God created humankind. The rest of creation was created for the sake of God’s champion love partner, which is the human race. The human race is God’s royal love partner; the rest of creation is God’s ordinary love partner.
Even in the mineral kingdom, there is a partnership of love. That is the reason for the relationship of plus and minus. Positive ions and negative ions circulate in a demonstration of love by the mineral kingdom. Of course, that demonstration of love is on a very low level, but all existence strives for a higher realm of love. That is why the mineral has to be absorbed by plants. In the plant kingdom, what are the symbols of plus and minus? Stamen and pistil. They are love partners. Who then absorbs the plants? Animals. Male animals and female animals absorb these plants. Even among the animals, there is a food chain where the smaller and weaker animals are eaten by the stronger ones. In a river or an ocean, you can see the food chain principle. Small fish are usually on the surface, but the big ones stay lower. As soon as they are hungry and they see some small fish, they come up and eat them.
When you ask minerals for whom they want to be sacrificed, they will say, “I want to be absorbed by the king love partner to God, the highest Being.” That is their desire. The purpose and goal of every being in creation are to be absorbed by the highest being, but they do not have direct access to the highest being. That is why usually the minerals are absorbed by the plants, plants by animals, small animals by the larger animals, and larger animals eventually eaten by human beings. Human beings are God’s royal love partner.
QUALITIES OF KINGS AND QUEENS
Originally, Adam and Eve were God’s royal love partners. That means male and female. That means every one of you. Every man and every woman has the desire to become the most respectable or highest human being. For example, women, whether you admit it or not, usually want to reach the highest position, like the queen of the world. Men want to be the king of the world. You have that kind of desire.
Suppose you become king or queen of the world. What is the purpose of becoming king and queen? The next stage then is to conquer God. You want to conquer God’s love. Because of the power of love, this cosmos is moving constantly. In the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms, all existence is engaged in give and take action. Through this love relationship, they generate continuous action and gradually become elevated.
Are human beings good or evil? Let us look at it this way. What are humans? People kill all kinds of animals. They kill cows, pigs and deer, and eat them. Do you still call human beings “good”? Not just animals, but we kill plants and eat them. When cows look at human beings’ mouth, do you think cows would be happy and say, “Oh, I want to jump into that mouth and become food for that person”? Would they say instead, “Wow, look at those jaws. Let us run away from him”? If animals feel that way, what kinds of people are we? Are we good people or bad people?
What qualifies a person to be the king or queen of the world? That qualification comes with love. Number one love! What do we mean by “number one love”? God’s absolute love. Once you have a grip on God’s love, the entire universe will give you three cheers of mansei. All realms, including the mineral kingdom, plant kingdom and animal kingdom, will congratulate you.
How then can you get that kind of love? The secret is to invest yourself 100 percent! That is the only way. Once you truly invest yourself 100 percent for the sake of love, then the entire world-including the minerals, plants and animals-will all push you and support you in your efforts to enter into God’s bosom, which is their goal, too. Through you, they will want to reach God’s bosom, too. Your life is not the important matter in that case.
In the secular world, because of love, some people give their lives, don’t they? What about for God’s love? Because God gave you absolute love, your life has more value. We then have to conquer God’s true love. Those who want to possess God’s true love, raise your hands; but there is a condition to do that. You should be able to sacrifice your life 100 percent! Do you still want it? Even those who raised your hands earlier, after you heard my explanation you are hesitant about raising your hands again. Again, to conquer God’s true love, are you willing to sacrifice your life 100 percent? (YES!) It is easy to say. If I grab your hair, you feel pain and you shout. What if I poke your eye out and give it to an eagle? What if I cut off one of your ears and throw it in the water? You would still have your life.
God created the entire universe, including the human race, based on absolute faith and absolute love. Absolute love allows one to sacrifice his life 100 times over. Even if you sacrifice your life 100 times, you still pursue that love in order to pursue 100 dimensions of its height and 100 dimensions of its depth. Think about how high, how powerful, and how deep, absolute true love must be to inspire a person to sacrificing his life 100 times.
That is why the Bible gives such a paradoxical teaching that he who seeks to save his life will lose it, while he who is willing to sacrifice his life will gain it. If you sacrifice your life 100 times, you will gain 100 times of love. If you sacrifice 1,000 lives, you will gain 1,000 times of love. How many times do you want to sacrifice your life? That is the question. If you sacrifice your life 10,000 times, do you think God will pay you back more than 10,000 times? Think about it.
How many times throughout human history do you think God has sacrificed His entire life for the sake of the human race? During the persecution of the early Christians under the Roman Empire, how many tens of thousands of people were martyred? Do you think God was happy to watch that? God Himself sacrificed His life along with each of those martyrs. However, God could not save their lives from the lions’ den, because God was facing the even greater challenge of restoring the human race. The condition to enable God to take action was not yet fulfilled. Once it is totally filled, God can take the entire amount at once and take it back.
So, answer me: How many of your lives do you want to sacrifice for the sake of God? You say a million times, but you would not be able to even count a million times in your life. If the absolute God, who has absolute love, is looking for an absolute partner, such a partner should be able to do anything absolutely, for the sake of God! Do you then want to become an absolute partner to God or a mediocre level partner to God? God needs absolute partners.
ABSOLUTE FAITH, LOVE AND OBEDIENCE
God also created through absolute obedience. What do we mean by “absolute obedience”? At the time of creation, do you think God had absolutely no consciousness about Himself, but invested Himself 100 percent for the sake of creation. It was like an absolute vacuum. When an absolute vacuum is created, do you know what happens? When there is an absolute vacuum, it means that absolute power is following immediately behind, creating action and phenomena.
You say absolute obedience, but if I hit you, what are you going to do? Will you react to me or will you still be dead silent? No existence, no feeling, and no consciousness-absolute for-ever zero place. You have to stick with this zero-point forever.
Suppose your husband devotes himself and lives with absolute obedience to you, just as I described, would you want him to go or would you grab him and hold on as long as you live? You would never let him go, right? Suppose while you were holding on to him, his lifeline stretched 100 miles like an elastic rubber band; would you still want to hold onto it? You wives, do you want an absolutely obedient husband or a mediocre obedient husband?
When I watch you answer, your mouth moves, but no sound comes out. That means you do not have confidence. Do you understand the kind of realm of love I am talking about?
When God created this entire universe, He created on the basis of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience. Therefore, the entire creation is going after God. (Father demonstrates.) All existence keeps calling out, “God, God, God!” Every creature wants to connect to God, and only to God, forever. Have you really thought about God the way I just described? God, who has such a high, absolute standard, created a partner like you? Did God want a partner more absolute than Himself or less absolute?
I use this kind of gesture to plant this concept and understanding into your heart so that you will not forget it. Do not think I am just doing a one-man show. God expected Adam and Eve to become His absolute partners. Do you feel good about it? God gave the commandment to Adam and Eve so they could embody absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience. By following God’s commandment, they could perfect themselves as God’s absolute partner. How wonderful is humanity! That is the demarcation line between the kingdom of God and hell. Without reaching absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience, you cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Those who want to enter the Kingdom of God, raise your hands. Do you then think you are standing on the foundation of absolute faith? Do you feel that you really have absolute love toward God? (Yes.) Have you heard about love sickness? Who has a tendency to get love sickness more–man or woman? Why woman? Women are like one way streets. Men are in the center. The center person always has to look around in four different directions, whereas women are in the position of partner, who only have to follow one direction.
When a woman is lovesick over one particular man, you could use that man’s spit to make bread or rice cakes and give it to that woman and she would eat and be cured. One could use that man’s urine to make the bread for curing that woman; if she knew that it was his, she would be cured. I am trying to describe how extreme you have to become. Do you think you can go beyond that kind of level when it comes to loving God? Love can overcome and conquer any dirtiness.
LOVE CONQUERS EVERYTHING
Those who are blessed already, do you usually exchange kisses with your spouse? Between husband and wife-not anyone else, okay? if you truly love each other, do you think you have to tell your husband to go to the bathroom, wash himself and brush his teeth before you will kiss him? Or will you go after him and kiss him regardless of what he ate, even if it was garlic? Absolute love invites such contact.
Suppose your husband is a very hardworking laborer, and in the summer he comes home after working many hours, takes off his smelly socks and throws them on your lap. As a loving wife, will you hold your nose and run away from them, or will you love him for it? If you truly love your husband and understand his heart, you will shed tears in appreciation for his hard work, because he devoted himself for the sake of you. Now if you understand that kind of heart, you will love to smell those dirty, smelly socks.
Now suppose he does not just throw socks on your lap but he lifts his foot and puts his toe to your mouth. Will you punch him and run away or will you suck his toe, even if it is smelly? Which is closer to the absolute love standard: sucking or running away? When you kiss your spouse, does dirt bother you?
Do you know what is love? Love is very mysterious and very ridiculous sometimes. It is sometimes a riddle and sometimes silly. You cannot understand it; you cannot grasp it. That is why love has the power to make everyone happy or make everyone sad. When love departs, everyone becomes sad; but when love visits, everyone becomes joyful and happy. Which way is more ideal: to wear love armor around your body all the time or to live without any love? Even if it is armor, do you still want to wear that? Even if this armor is heavy on your shoulders, as long as it is the armor of love, do you still like it?
Today you answered me many times, “I want the absolute love standard. I seek the absolute love standard.” Therefore, go home and really check if you are really seeking that or if you can reach that standard.
NO COMPROMISE!
What is the difference between True Parents and you? How many times did I have to go to prison? In the secular world, if someone comes to you and says, “I am a convict six-times,” you would be scared to death. You would imagine that person to be the worst monster. Instead of running away from me, why do you still stick around and make all kinds of commotion? Does that mean you want to become even better than me, or do you care if you become less than me? Do you want to become better than me? (Yes.) How many times will you become a convict? Seven times? It is a serious question.
Until I reached this level, have I compromised my standards or have I lived according to an absolute standard? (Absolute.) What about your life? In the world of absoluteness, is there any concept of compromise? Does God like a wishy-washy standard? If God wants to create an absolute person, do you think God will hold onto him until He is sure he has become absolute or will God let him go and not care? He will hold on to him, right? The same principle applies to women. Will you wives grab your husband in the same way God grabs onto someone to make him an absolute person? Do you want to grab him absolutely until you make sure that he becomes your absolute husband or will you let him go? Are any of you women confident that you can grab onto your husband until he becomes an absolute husband? Show yourself to me. Where are you from? (London.) Originally, did you want to marry a Filipino man or a British man? You said, “Just a man,” but you should have said, “absolute man.” “Absolute” means “only one.”
In absolute love, there is no division between man and woman, or husband and wife. Once you become absolutely one with your spouse, your five organs become absolutely your spouse’s, and the environment will become an absolute environment for your love. Your conscience clearly knows to what level you belong. Your conscience is telling you what percentage of this standard you have reached. Don’t you think your conscience knows about yourself?
WHO HAS Goo TRUSTED?
When we join the spirit world, our life will be like an inflated balloon. When a balloon loses air, it comes down. When you have light air inside the balloon, it floats more freely and more briskly. Upon the foundation of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience, you will find God. Fallen Eve always thought about herself. That means Eve rejected absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience. That is why her course was the course to hell. It is like a trash can. It is a serious matter.
Every one of us, without exception, is obligated to answer these questions. The entire world was mobilized to oppose and persecute me all these years. The entire world was testing me-whether I achieved the foundation of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience.
Throughout human history, do you think there has been any human being whom God really trusted and loved? What about Jesus Christ? When Jesus Christ spoke his final words to God at Gethsemane, he said, “My Father, my Father, if it is possible let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will but as Thou wilt.” That was the wrong prayer. That indicates that Jesus was not on the level of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience level. It is a serious matter.
It probably would have been better for you not to hear this kind of teaching from me today. Since you have been taught the standard of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience, when you join the spirit world, you will be asked about this standard. What will you answer then? You are obligated to answer. Do you wish me to stop talking? (No.) You do not give me an answer. There is no guarantee that you will reach that absolute standard. What more reason is there for me to continue speaking?
You learned a very precious lesson today, didn’t you? Who will pledge to embody this absolute standard? If you are deter-mined to become such people, you will never be able to dislike your spouse. You will eternally love your spouse. Do you agree?
We are born as man and woman. What is the difference then? What does a woman possess and what does a man possess? There is some difference. What do we have not in common? Only the sexual organs are different. One sexual organ looks convex; the other one is concave. Why are they shaped differently? To complement each other. When they are put together, complementing each other, do you think they should fit together so tightly that even God cannot separate them or should the connection be so loose that they can move around?
Can such an absolute person exist? God is still waiting for the absolute standard love partner. If we cannot find such people, don’t you think God will be lonely? How miserable is God’s situation? Those who feel confident that they can become an absolute partner to God, raise your hand. This is a serious matter. What is your score in relationship to that absolute standard? 100 points? Your conscience knows better than anyone else.
Have you really thought, “I will absolutely believe in what I absolutely cannot believe”? Have you thought, “I will give my absolute love before I die; I will give my 100 percent, forget it, and repeat it over and over absolutely, eternally”? Do you want to become number one or number ten? If so, I give you the privilege, authority, skill, knowledge, wisdom and every-thing to become such a person. Go ahead and become one.
Christians say, “Believe, and it will be solved, you will enter the Kingdom.” Believe in what? I am giving these students who came to Europe a push and asking them what they are doing here. Did you come here with absolute faith or a wishy-washy faith?
Now you understand the standard of my life of faith. The entire world, as I said earlier, was mobilized to oppose and persecute me, and now it looks like the entire world is now worn out, fainted with exhaustion, while I am standing strong, on top of the world. (YES!)
“I HAVE THE BIGGEST POCKET.”
Have you seen any Westerner who is willing to lose to an Oriental person? I belong to the Oriental race, so you want to be better than me. Isn’t that true? If God finds a Westerner who lives by a more absolute standard of love, do you think God would stick with me and love me? I am bequeathing my wisdom to you and my authority so you can become such a person. Do you like that idea?
Is France big or small? Which is bigger, my pocket or sixty million French people? I say my pocket is bottomless; therefore, even after I put all 240 million Americans, sixty million French people, all five billion people on earth, and all the people in the spirit world, still it would be half empty. All the generations to come would still not fill it. Is your pocket as big as that? gated to answer. Do you wish me to stop talking? (No.) You do not give me an answer. There is no guarantee that you will reach that absolute standard. What more reason is there for me to continue speaking?
You learned a very precious lesson today, didn’t you? Who will pledge to embody this absolute standard? If you are deter-mined to become such people, you will never be able to dislike your spouse. You will eternally love your spouse. Do you agree?
We are born as man and woman. What is the difference then? What does a woman possess and what does a man possess? There is some difference. What do we have not in common? Only the sexual organs are different. One sexual organ looks convex; the other one is concave. Why are they shaped differently? To complement each other. When they are put together, complementing each other, do you think they should fit together so tightly that even God cannot separate them or should the connection be so loose that they can move around?
Can such an absolute person exist? God is still waiting for the absolute standard love partner. If we cannot find such people, don’t you think God will be lonely? How miserable is God’s situation? Those who feel confident that they can become an absolute partner to God, raise your hand. This is a serious matter. What is your score in relationship to that absolute standard? 100 points? Your conscience knows better than anyone else.
Have you really thought, “I will absolutely believe in what I absolutely cannot believe”? Have you thought, “I will give my absolute love before I die; I will give my 100 percent, forget it, and repeat it over and over absolutely, eternally”? Do you want to become number one or number ten? If so, I give you the privilege, authority, skill, knowledge, wisdom and everything to become such a person. Go ahead and become one.
Christians say, “Believe, and it will be solved, you will enter the Kingdom.” Believe in what? I am giving these students who came to Europe a push and asking them what they are doing here. Did you come here with absolute faith or a wishy-washy faith?
Now you understand the standard of my life of faith. The entire world, as I said earlier, was mobilized to oppose and persecute me, and now it looks like the entire world is now worn out, fainted with exhaustion, while I am standing strong, on top of the world. (YES!)
“I HAVE THE BIGGEST POCKET.”
Have you seen any Westerner who is willing to lose to an Oriental person? I belong to the Oriental race, so you want to be better than me. Isn’t that true? If God finds a Westerner who lives by a more absolute standard of love, do you think God would stick with me and love me? I am bequeathing my wisdom to you and my authority so you can become such a person. Do you like that idea?
Is France big or small? Which is bigger, my pocket or sixty million French people? I say my pocket is bottomless; therefore, even after I put all 240 million Americans, sixty million French people, all five billion people on earth, and all the people in the spirit world, still it would be half empty. All the generations to come would still not fill it. Is your pocket as big as that? law and daughters-in-law from twelve different nations and another family has in-laws only of its own race and nationality. Which family is closer to the absolute standard of love?
Do not forget what I taught you today. Even if you forget everything else, remember absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience. This is like a watershed, a fountainhead, which determines whether you can enter the Kingdom of God or not.
THE SECRET OF ONENESS WITH GOD
This is the end of my speech, but I have one special point that I would like to make before everyone leaves. Why did God create humans? This is an important question. If you go to the spirit world, you cannot see God, just as you cannot see your mind. Although God is invisible, God created visible children, the human race. When they come to the spirit world, they will fill the spirit world. Therefore, God Himself needs some sort of form or shape. What kind of shape or form would God want for His body? Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve were in the position of God’s body. Even on your individual level, your body resembles your mind. That is why everyone has a different face, and a different body shape. Therefore, if Adam and Eve had absolutely united with God and become one with each other, God would have established the Kingdom of Heaven on earth with the face of Adam and Eve. God can make unification. The connection between God and His partner, humankind, will result in ownership. Love can make ownership. When you, as a woman, connect with man centering on true love, you become each other’s love property. That means ownership.
Therefore, if Adam and Eve truly had become absolutely one with God centering on true love, then God would have become part of them and they would have become part of God. Through true love, you can create one body. Husband and wife, centering on true love, become one entity, one person and one body. Only through true love is this possible. In that sense, God equals Adam, and Adam equals God. God originally planned to appear to humankind with Adam’s body, Adam’s appearance, as the eternal King of kings.
Since God wants an absolute love partner, and humankind wants an absolute love partner, at what point can God and humankind become one? If God wants one thing and the human race wants another, that means there are two parallel desires, two purposes, which cannot intersect. Logically, they have to begin from one common point. The starting point should be the same. Only by starting from one point and following one direction can both reach one terminal point. If there are two beginning points, God’s love and human love, the world would have two purposes and two directions.
That is why we absolutely have to find one specific point where God and humankind should begin together. Where is that point? Don’t you think we need it, and God needs it? Humankind has not known what it is until now. This is the core secret of God’s creation. Do you want to know about it? How much tuition do you want to pay?
Number Three of our Family Pledge refers to the four great realms of heart and three great kingships. Where can we achieve that goal? The place where we can complete the love of children, love of brothers and sisters, love of husband and wife, and the love of parents should become one single point, not four different points. What is it? That specific point and time are the blessing of the first blessed couple, when as virgin man and woman they join as husband and wife through making love. That point is where you can complete these four great realms of heart and three great kingships. Do you follow? Where is that? Repeat after me: sexual organ.
Because of the fall, it became dirty and corrupted; but in the original sense of God’s creation, the sexual organ is the most holy place. It took God the longest time and the greatest effort and energy to create that palace of love. Is that true? Only from the love palace can man’s life and woman’s life connect. Man’s blood and woman’s blood connect in the love palace. Where man’s blood and woman’s blood mix, children are formed. History is created in the palace of love, the palace of life, and the palace of lineage. It is also the palace of conscience. That is only one place, not two or four places.
Through the fall, that holy palace destroyed the entire world and made it like a trash can. It soiled the entire universe. People consider it the most dirty place, because of the fall. Isn’t it true? How precious is that place? It is the starting point of the Kingdom of God on earth, as well as the Kingdom of God in heaven. When we know this truth, can we even talk about free sex? That is the concept from the devil.
How precious is that love organ? You should not exchange your love organ for the entire cosmos, not even for God. Even God cannot be called absolutely complete, unless He has His love partner. Once we become God’s love partner, establishing the love relationship between God and humankind, then God is liberated. Peace, happiness and freedom follow. Otherwise, God cannot experience freedom, peace and happiness. That organ is such an important and valuable place. When you get up in the morning, greet it “Good morning” and pledge to make a victorious day to that place.
The marriage of Adam and Eve can be called the wedding of God, because the dual characteristics of God come and dwell in Adam and Eve. God’s marriage takes place simultaneously with Adam and Eve’s physical marriage. Adam and Eve are manifestations of God on the horizontal level. Therefore, while the vertical manifestation of the marriage of God is invisible. These horizontal and vertical dimensions meet to form a perpendicular line, a ninety-degree angle. The starting point is only one place, not two.
HORIZONTAL MIND, VERTICAL BODY
Eve is in the position of wife to Adam, who is the horizontal husband, and wife to God, who is the vertical husband. That is why every one of us is born from two parents, not from a single parent. Our conscience belongs to God, vertically, whereas our body belongs to this horizontal, physical world. Your conscious mind connects vertically and belongs to the vertical world. Which one is in the subject position? Your vertical mind is in the position of plus, and your body is in the position of minus. Because of the fall, however, the body took the plus position. The original mind, in the plus position, and the body as an extra plus started to conflict after the fall, because two pluses always repel. The body is the plus on Satan’s side. Mind and body are fighting. How can they be unified? That is the purpose of religion. The major religions-through their emphasis on hardship, asceticism and chastity-keep repressing the bodily desires. Thus people have been trained through religious exercise and practice.
My conclusion is, Adam and Eve were in the position of king and queen of this physical world, as well as in the spirit world. That is why all men and all women, whether they admit it or not, have a certain amount of desire, which is from God, to become the champion king and queen, resembling God-because we all resemble God. That is the ambition of our conscience, leading us. This is the secret of the cosmos that I am giving you today. You understand both, right?
What then is the third purpose of God’s creation of humanity? When you join the spirit world, there is one absolute, unique love center-like a dot. Because there is no horizontal relationship, only one dot, no multiplication, no reproduction, is possible, because there is no room. That is why in the spirit world there is no reproduction or multiplication. That is why God created humans in this physical world, with this physical body, so that they can have, of course, a vertical point, as well as the horizontal space where people can be reproduced. We need room and space.
Heaven is so vast, but it is still empty. God needs heavenly citizens who can fill that vast heaven. God created Adam and Eve with physical bodies so that they could reproduce, resulting in generation after generation of the entire human race. Adam’s family was the major factory for producing heavenly citizens. Each of our families is like a branch factory, where we are supposed to reproduce heavenly citizens. What is your family? A branch factory. A branch factory for what? To produce heavenly citizens. You have to remember the three purposes for which God created humankind.
You NEED TO HAVE MANY CHILDREN
Now after you heard my explanation, do you think you should have as many children as you can afford in this physical world-up to even 100-before you go to the spirit world or only one? (One hundred.) In the spirit world, there are twelve pearly gates. That is why Jacob had twelve children, and Moses and Jesus had twelve disciples. What about me? The 36 blessed couples include three groups of twelve each; like the formation, growth and perfection stages; like Adam’s family, Noah’s family, and Jacob’s family. Twelve times three equal 36. That is from where the 36 couples come. How many months does a year have? Twelve. Even among people, generally we categorize twelve different types and shapes of people.
Women who give birth to many children cannot become evil, because through the experience of having and raising many children they learn to love and care for many people. Eventually they come to treat other people like their own children. They cannot become bad. Therefore, they deserve to go to a higher level in the spirit world. Therefore, you women answer me: Do you think you are obligated to give birth to as many children as possible or give birth to none? What about French women? Do you want to have many children or no children?
Those who do not want to have children are bad women. If you have twelve children trailing behind you, you can enter any pearly gate in the spirit world, going in and out freely. Don’t you think you should have many children? (Yes.)
How many children do I have? Suppose I were not the True Parent, when I go to the spirit world I would be awarded and welcomed because I have more than twelve children. Even though I have thirteen children, if one child is not around I feel as if all the children are gone. I want all the children around me. I want to see everyone. As I kept having more children, each new one was smarter, wiser, more talented, and a better child. Don’t you want to have beautiful and good children? What if you have only one child and that child happens to be mediocre? If you have many children, one of them may turn out to be a good one. Therefore, as Unification Church members, if you want to have many children, just go ahead and try. If you have truly many children, I may give you an award.
Have you ever seen any pastor eating and giving a sermon at the same time? Since I am True Father, I treat you as if you are all my children, so that kind of formality does not work here. However, if I were a Christian minister, I would be kicked out of this room.
That is why people call you “crazy.” Your brain is washed, so I am the champion brain-washer. Do you still like it? Look deep into your heart and your feeling at this point. After hearing two or three hours of my teaching, don’t you think your brain is washed now? (Yes.)
Therefore, remember the three points I taught you today, and remember how precious is your body. If you truly understand, you cannot abuse your body and soul. You have to protect them. You cannot exchange your body for the Louvre or for all the museums in the world. It is that precious. Until you conquer true love and perfect true love, do not feel proud of yourself. Once you reach that goal, you can be proud. Now you understand my message today, right?
We all feel hungry, don’t we? Well, you have been sitting there, but I have been talking, so I am more hungry.
Everyone stand, please. I came here after a five-year interval, so I am not sure when the next time will be that I will meet you here in France. If you truly work hard and become the number one country, in terms of bringing a great result, then even if you do not want me to come I will be here. I also give you a new interpretation of your country name “France.” Bullansoh (in Korean) means “the country in the West where the fire is burning.” That is my Korean interpretation of bullansoh. Don’t you want to set the fire in your country? Let us have a mansei.