The following content is excerpted from notes taken during the leaders’ conference that spanned the two days after True Children’s Day on November 21, 1998 at East Garden. It is not a complete overview of Father’s words, but some of the most central content is offered here.
WHEN you bow, whether 100 times or ,000 times, all the spirits are bowing with you. Heaven and ear h meet_ through offering kyungbae. Prepare a big offering table as an offering of love to God. You cannot offer people; you have to offer material things. The number 160 has 4 times 4 as its root. The offering must involve the number 16. The formation stage is 16, 160 is the growth stage and 16,000 is the minimum completion stage offering, then 160,000 and 1.6 million. Offer everything.
Can we have private ownership and receive the blessing? In the Old Testament Age, all things were lost. In the New Testament Age we lost the son. In the Completed Testament Age we lost parents. We need to unify everything and resolve resentment. Go through the Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament Ages. Make a ceremony for unification through resolving resentment, or han, representing all three ages, to indemnify the ages through four stages. The mistake happened at the growth level and the growth level offering is 16,000. Everyone has to finish the Jardim workshop as soon as possible. Then you will receive unification fortune and enter the age of unification by resolving resentment and bitterness.
The Principle teaches us to be hit and then take back what belongs to God. We are beyond the national level and are moving to the world level. This is the age of God having all power, all authority and all capability. Everything will come to order very quickly. This is how to handle all the affairs of the world.
No one can deceive me, because I can feel what is happening. Some people see their spouse in a dream prior to matching. How is it that I pick that person? If you live for your own desire, you and your descendants will get worse and worse over the generations. Who here was matched by me? Maybe it was difficult in the beginning. The point is to trust and depend on one another. Entrust everything to each other. The power to love increases when you live for the sake of the other. What happens if you love one another? You form a core and continue to develop in a spiral motion.
In the spirit world more than three times 360 million couples are blessed. This can multiply 30 times, even 300 times. They will come to the earth and work to turn around satanic families for the restoration of elder sonship. How valuable is the Family Pledge! It is absolute and should be fulfilled. You have to fulfill it even after you die. Keep trying until you make it. The Pledge is the result of forty years of my hard work. It represents what Jesus tried to find by shedding blood. We are so grateful to Jesus. You make this pledge to the parents of heaven and earth, to the vertical God and horizontal True Parents, in front of all the families of heaven and earth.
It is time for the master to find his own place. I went to Kim 11 Sung in North Korea and tried to develop our relation-ship. Through this we brought blessing to North Korea. Did we bless Kim 11 Sung? When he died, he advised his son to work with me. I am preparing land in South America to hold North Korea’s people. There is a lot of land to support them. The quality of land is better there. South America is my world. Everything is there, within reach. To make a living, to survive, the place is South America.
In the future, the city of Bridgeport will be famous. It will be the home of cultural, medical and diplomatic exchange. It will also be a center for the unifying of eastern and western medicine. But when you are truly in love, can you get sick? Can germs get in? No germs can infect the body of someone who is truly in love. Germs are burned by true love.
One sister recently had cancer and almost died. I advised her to do moksa treatment. It is more important than eating. I have had over 100 days of moksa treatment. I had hurt some muscles in my chest when wrestling. Moksa healed it, and also got rid of a small growth on my neck. There is nothing it cannot heal; 5,000 pieces can cure any disease. I used 4,000 pieces in 40 days. Do Hee Park cured his cancer. Try it. Treat three hundred people and you will succeed. You can support yourself and more through this. It helps bring about the unification of eastern and western medicine. Western medicine treats the result, but eastern medicine treats the root.
When you reach 80 years of age you lose sensation in your fingers and toes and your saliva dries up. My younger cousin is frozen up. Exercise is good. It frees up the blocks in your limbs. Exercise everyday for three hours. Exercise when you go to the bathroom. I exercise, so my joints are still flexible; I can fly up the stairs. When I was in Hungnam prison, I exercised and trained myself to sleep with my eyes open.
EXPLANATION OF THE FAMILY PLEDGE
Family Pledge #1. What is the original homeland? It is the earth. My family pledges, not our families. By establishing this in my family, God can experience the realization of the original ideal. Without having a country we cannot enter the original homeland. It should be done by this generation.
Family Pledge #2: Attending God and True Parents, become one family that represents heaven and earth. This is Adam’s family. It becomes the center. There is only one center and it is my family, the family that accomplishes the three object purpose. Then go through the stages as a family. The time of individual filial piety is over. “Family filial piety” will restore individual filial piety.
Family Pledge #3: The four great realms of heart and three great kingships are beyond the realm of the fall. They become the substantial object partners of God. The three great king-ships are linked to the three object purpose, each position links to three generations, including itself. God is the center of the four position foundation.
What is the realm of the royal family? It has to do with subjugating Cain. Subjugate the Cain world through true love. This is the meaning of being a royal family. Parents and children unite totally, and children will inherit from parents naturally. The principle of absolute faith, love and obedience is for the unity of parents and children. You inherit the three kingships, the four great realms of heart and royal family ship. You are then part of the cosmic family.
Family Pledge #4: Through the above, freedom, peace and unification are achieved. Without unification, the Kingdom of Heaven cannot come. The mind and body should unite through love. Without love, unification cannot hap-pen. The horizontal should unite with the vertical. Get rid of ethnic feelings and the world’s boundaries. Create unity, then unification leads to happiness.
Up to Pledge #4, we accomplish everything on the earth. Then we have to understand about the spirit world. I have taught you clearly and you also have Dr. Lee’s book. When he was alive, Dr. Lee did not really believe everything I said. When you realize it is true, you are truly surprised. He had the capability to do trus research because of his academic training. Whoever does not believe what he says about the spirit world will stumble. Dr. Lee says he realizes for the first time how great the blessing is. He is so amazed. Until I understood the spirit world, I did not understand how to live for others. Understand the spirit world clearly and it will change your life.
Political and economic management are important. The mind has to lead the bod) and politics has to follow the ideal. The time has come to meet politicians. They prepared to meet us as Esau prepared to meet Jacob.
You will be tested–for example, 100 million dollars may suddenly appear. Will you give just 10 percent? I have no money (shows empty wallet). The church system will be changed. Supra-national changes of personnel will take place. Church leaders should graduate from the University of Bridgeport and Unification Theological Seminary.
Family Pledge #5: My family is the foundation to I unify the physical world and the spirit world. Like hit-ting a baseball with a bat, or setting gasoline on fire, it should explode immediately. We have to hurry; time is short. We have a year and a half. We must finish in this generation. Do you trunk I am serious or not? We need to develop the strength to unify North and South Korea. Through that the next step is the unification of the world, then the unification of the physical world and the spirit world.
Family Pledge #6: A family that embodies God and True Parents represents heaven and earth. If you do so, heavenly fortune will follow you. You become like a messiah, the master of God’s love. You have not taken my guidance very seriously so far. Even though I do not seek it, heavenly fortune follows me.
The blessing is not True Parents’ blessing; it is God’s blessing. It is the place of liberation. After you are liberated, you are connected with the original lineage through a life of service. This is the culture of love.
Family Pledge #7: Please add the phrase, “through living for the sake of others.” That is the essence of the culture of heart. Such a culture is created through heavenly life. From today on Pledge #7 should read … ” connected to the original blood lineage, through living for the sake of others” or “through a life of service.” If you serve others, a world of love and heart is created. [Editor’s note: Father thus officially changed the content of the Family Pledge.]
Family Pledge #8: The Completed Testament Age means perfection through the blessing. Absolute faith, love and obedience are at the beginning of creation. It means to invest everything and forget, and hope that your object partner will be infinitely greater than you are. In the original world of love you live eternally with your true parents and true teacher. Through our true teacher, true parents and true owner, we have the Kingdom of Heaven on earth with God. God followed absolute faith, love and obedience when He created the world.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COMPLETED TESTAMENT AGE
The Completed Testament Age is the realm of the family ideal. Realize the realm of liberation. God has established this realm in the family, nation, world and cosmos. We can move around freely. Keep this in your mind. Try to practice and achieve the ideal of the Family Pledge on a daily basis. To do this and to live and expand the ideal, you need Hoon Dok Hae. Let Father’s prayers inspire you to follow God’s will.
Have you served God and True Parents? Absolutely or partially? Absolutely means mobilizing all your senses, and unifying mind and body. There has been no such representative family. Check whether your family has reached the level of a family of filial piety or the level of patriot, saint or divine sons and daughters. If you have not, you should put this part of the Pledge in parentheses and not recite it until you have achieved it.
National messiahs, you have to teach the following content in your countries. You have to understand the spirit world clearly. The years from 1992 to 1999 are a seven-year course that has the same significance as the seven year course from 1945 to 1952. God’s will is to unite heaven and earth. True Parents have completed the age of indemnity but now parents and children together have to go through the stages of indemnity. The Completed Testament Age transcends Christianity and all nations and signifies the global providence carried out through the Adam and Eve nations. Jesus Christ was lost in the east, so he has to be restored in the east. Thus, civilization is advancing in the Pacific region.
The substantial aspect of the fall of Adam and Eve was that it led to wrong lineage. The blessing is necessary to re-verse this. Now, centering on Christianity, the Lord of the Second Advent comes. The Christian church and state should have become one in harmony in order to make a system to receive the messiah as their king. But they fought one another.
Create blessed families centered on True Parents’ tradition, not your nation’s tradition. True Parents’ tradition promotes pure love. You do what Adam and Eve failed to do and restore what they did that was wrong. The whole world should have been united by 1952 and could have done so centering on the unity of the Allied and Axis nations. But in 1945 Christians opposed me and I was left alone. If the American government, together with South Korea’s government, had supported me, the world could have united at once. Some Christian denominations fought each other. If I had appeared with support, I could have unified Christianity.
There were four major religious groups in Korea. If they had united and received financial aid from America, it would have worked. If they could have gained a nation, centered on one family, then within three years Korean unification would have been realized. The failure led to greater division of the family, nation and world. The next turning point in the providence was with Ewha Women’s University. Ewha was led by a woman whose husband was the second most powerful in the nation, and she was passionate to do God’s will.
The Japanese should get rid of everything to prepare to create one nation with Korea. As the True Father I represent every level, so in order to enter heaven you have to connect with me at each level. This indemnifies the failure of Adam’s family on each level.
To fulfill om responsibility, we need absolute faith. Absolute faith starts from God, not from us. So prior to absolute faith there should be absolute love. Then an absolute object emerges. An absolute unlimited plus brings forth an absolute unlimited minus. Between husband and wife there should be absolute heart, absolute trust. Prior to that there should be absolute love. After giving love, we should forget. The more we forget, the bigger the love that will come. If we have absolute unlimited love, then absolute unlimited power will emerge.
BECOME ONE WITH TRUE PARENTS
Attach to my jacket like a fly and you will go wherever I go. Don’t hang back; just follow me. Have absolute love, faith and obedience and cling to True Parents and you will succeed. Everyone without exception has to go this public way, so you have no basis for complaint. You have to know how to digest what you think you cannot. You can digest both good people and bad.
The 1st Jardim Declaration is all about absolute faith, love and obedience. The 2nd Jardim Declaration is about the absolute, eternal, unchanging and unique love of God. In the ideal family we see these four elements–an absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal father and mother–and the same for the children, the couple itself and the family itself. This is an unchanging vertical relationship. The absolute couple with absolute children is an absolute family.
The 3rd Jardim Declaration proclaims that the invisible God wants to become visible. He wants to see His image. He stays in the parent’s position. The true family resembles Him; it is the visible God’s family. We come back to mind-body unity and ownership in the embrace of God. The invisible God in the spirit world and the visible God on earth cooperate. The family develops generation after generation, because the first Adam is the second creator. The third creator is their vertical and horizontal unity manifested in their children. This can never fall to Satan. The 4th Jardim Declaration teaches about the destined relationships.
The mission of the Korean national messiahs is to bequeath church tradition. The Japanese national messiah mission is to connect to the ocean providence or hobby activity. The American national messiah mission is outreach to VIPs.
The last forty years were a wilderness course for me. My idea is to share technology with the world and employ young people. We have to maintain this vision. I have had to stand in the forefront all my life, bearing all the difficulty. Abel has to serve Cain, being hit to make up for hi past mistakes, and thereby make progress. Otherwise he will perish. The mother nation has to carry the entire burden and blame. This is what the mother should accept. This is the time to take action. Don’t wait for a few years. You elder brothers must stand on the front line, especially in public relations and diplomatic work. It is a serious position.
COMPLETE OFFERING
The 4.4 Jeol declaration signifies coming back to the top. So we invite everyone to the blessing, regardless of their foundation. Become a total living offering. If you can surmount everything, then God will take responsibility. Go beyond material things and human beings, even children and parents. We need to make the foundation for an ideal family based on the number 16. Consider the 1988 Seoul Olympics where the democratic and communist worlds united.
In the spirit world at present there is no concept of ancestry. Everything starts anew centering on True Parents. Only in this way can we engraft into the mainstream of God’s providence. If you oppose this direction, you will have nowhere to go and you may suffer misfortune. You will receive God’s judgement. It is a fearful and formidable time. Be careful, and listen to Father.
Japan is providentially unstable, floating on the ocean. The only way to survive is to grab hold of and follow me, whatever I say. Listen to your conscience tell you the things you should already know, such as the importance of the unification of North and South Korea. You should be involved in that, at least in your intention. You cannot escape your conscience. It doesn’t matter what you sacrifice now. Once we have a nation, it will be wonderful. You offer to True Parents, and True Parents offer to Heavenly Father. Everything goes to God.
The satanic world wants to destroy Korea because the Messiah came there. When I visited North Korea, my sister asked me why I was not crying. I told her it is not yet the stage of the providence to cry. I have the greatest han. I will cry in the spirit world. Think about the situation in Korea.
I do not want to say these things, but I know God’s heart. So we should see clearly how crucial the situation is now. Feel that God’s property is your property. Have a sense of owner-ship. This will usher in the time of opening up one world. Have that determination in your mind. Use the elder son’s position and authority to persuade people. Bring the pure blood lineage to the American people and throughout the world. How can it happen from now, other than by implementing Father’s ideas? If America does not change its miser-able situation, God will intervene. Have that kind of confidence. Then saving nations is no problem.
The 4.4 Jeol signifies the determination to make this special offering. This is all in the context of the seven-year course of 1992-1999 restoring the course from 1945-1952. Now there is a golden opportunity to support God’s providence and offer everything to God and True Parents.
On the foundation of the blessing of 360 million couples I will go on a world tour. We need to publicize the 360 Million Couples Blessing. Develop our educational institutions to the elementary school level. Invest energy and ideas to promote the blessing, because everyone needs it. Even make a simple booklet about the content of the blessing that anyone can read. The president of a nation should accept, then acceptance will trickle down. Everyone needs the words “True Parents.” They can liberate even God. The words True Parents are the key. Even God needs True Parents.