참부모님의 섭리론적 책임완수
Father’s speech on December 19, 1999 at Belvedere International Training Center, New York
Where is your hometown and fatherland in this world? Everyone has a different hometown and fatherland because we have different nationalities. To resolve this, let us examine the meaning of the cosmos. There can be many different hometowns, but there is only one cosmos.
In Chinese characters, which are mystically formed, cheon represents heaven, joo means house and cheon joo means heavenly house, or cosmos. Cheon consists of two people, but the second character means house. So this means a house in which two people can dwell freely, with no restrictions. Cheon joo means two people living in the heavenly house in total freedom.
In English, we cannot separate the syllables “cos” and “mos,” but in Chinese characters we can do this. If you look into the structure of Chinese characters, you see this deep meaning. When we say chun-ji-in, it means heaven and earth and the individual. Everything is included there. When we study our own body, we find both spiritual and physical elements. Chun-ji-in includes it all. In your face, everything is in pairs. Your face is like your home. Subject-object relationships are there. Your eyes represent heaven or God.
Oriental thought usually has a broader meaning or perspective than western thought. Orientals have a tendency to set priorities for their work. They prioritize in a yin-yang way, this, then that, coming in, going out. Oriental culture is more round, inclusive and embracing. Western is straight and narrow. So Westerners can go out but not come back. So Westerners need Orientals in order to return. To grasp the entire universe you need this chun joo, this house. So you should hang on to Orientals.
If I keep talking on the meaning of Chinese characters, there will be no end. Just make sure you Westerners are united with Orientals in order to form a sphere, a rounded personality. Front and rear, upper and lower: when you establish all these points, you can secure your position in the center. A globe needs a center, uniting what is above and below, right and left, front and rear. You cannot just deal with the front; you need to know the rear. You need to know past and future, east and west, eastern and western cultures. These relationships should exist, not just one side or the other.
three planes create a sphere
Make sure you position yourself in the center. Above and below represent parent and child, right and left are husband and wife, and front and rear are brother and sister. With proper relationships in these directions, we can form a spherical shape with our life. Every segment of the sphere converges to the center. Nothing is present in the center; it is the zero point. Yet from that zero point, everything is connected on the circumference, at the same distance. The center point is the number seven. That’s where you should be positioned. That is why there is the expression that seven is a lucky number. That is where God dwells. Yet God is invisible. It is the invisible center, where God stays.
When we join spirit world, God will guide us, yet God is invisible. We cannot see above, but we can see below. Therefore the visible below and invisible above should become one. That is perfection. If you just have one of them, it is incomplete. The visible body and invisible mind should be one, then you are complete. If either is missing, you are incomplete. You cannot live just with right and not left. They should come together to establish a different direction. When you move, there is front and rear. The air in front of us is pushed and that air behind us is following. This relationship should have a balance, equality. Above and below are heaven and earth; right and left represent humanity, and front and rear are past and future. These three elements should be combined together. In this sphere are three different circular movements, centering on the three directions. When the three circular movements unite, a seed is produced.
You may be handsome but you still need your parents! A man needs a woman and also brothers and sisters. In your parents, you should be able to find everything, and all directions, because they represent everything. They already grew up as brother and sister and husband and wife, and now they are parents. So everything is within them. So whoever denies his parents is a total failure and has no value in life. Such a person does not have this formula or pattern. In the same way that Adam and Eve grew up from childhood toward becoming husband and wife and parents, we all go through the same process. The three planes of circular movement come together and eventually become one. They mingle together and form the center and the outcome is the seed of your family. So in your family you find your parents, husband and wife and children. Your family can make this circular movement. This is the model for the ideal family existence.
When God is with the movement of the sphere, the seed can be formed. The dimensions become one. The seed is protected by three layers, with plus and minus inside. In other words, our family should become like God. In the Principle this is the four-position foundation and triple objective purpose, and this is the origin of the universe. This Principle exists in everything. Can a woman become a seed? To provide a seed, she needs to go through three stages, child, wife and parent. Then she can provide the seed of life. That way she can exist for eternity, like a wheel spinning in the universe.
A soccer ball is round, like a sphere. For it to be so there is air pressure pushing with equal power in every direction from the inside. Otherwise it will not be round. There is a centrifugal force pushing out in each direction at an equal amount. What makes that possible? The power of love. True love power is giving power. If you apply that in your life, you will find a balance. It is not receiving power but giving and supporting power. So if you stand in the center and give out, there is natural harmony. At that point you are in total negation of yourself and you are just giving. At this zero point, everything is welcomed. This giving power is internal power. You deny yourself and keep giving. So receiving power will follow the giving power and the eternal movement will begin.
The entire cosmos exists as a sphere, with God at the center exercising giving, true love power. Heavenly fortune is being applied in every corner, making sure everything grows and prospers. In this universe, there is always the giving power—true love power—and because of this, a receiving power follows and fills the vacuum, creating eternal movement. The center is thus established. Love is flowing constantly, as do water and air.
give out until you reach the zero point
Today’s topic is “The Cosmos is My Hometown and Fatherland.” In this home, the cosmos, all beings are included. God is in the center of the sphere and God is giving His power to support everything. Once everything receives, it has to give back, like a reflective light. Like God, they should be willing to give more than they receive. This leads to the expansion of everything and of the cosmos.
A good man is one who gives more than he receives, and one who gives less than he receives is called evil. Parents are the example of goodness because they want their children to have greater value than they. Between husband and wife, each expects the other to become greater than they are. The elder brother expects the younger brother to become greater. Those who give more than they receive are the origin. Even in one’s conversation, if you feel happy by hearing something, then you feel like talking more and more. If you are intoxicated looking at someone, you keep looking and looking. In relationship of husband and wife, you may just kiss or hug at the beginning, but you get hotter and hotter and finally say, “Even if we die, let’s just stay this way.” Once you understand the principle here, you need no more explanation.
The top unification members are the ones who give more than they receive. Those who practice what they read in hoon dok hae are the number one members. Is this right or wrong? [Right!] Those who receive, and just consume, not returning anything, move backwards in life. It looks as if they are walking forward but they are moving backwards. You are in relationship to everything in the universe, so you should give back everything that you receive. Then you can be in balance with the universe.
The conclusion is to become a person who can give more than he receives. In the cosmos as my hometown, what position am I talking about? If you position yourself on the border, you cannot reach everything because some things are close and others are far away. The position you call your hometown and fatherland, in which every position and angle will welcome you and do mansei, is what position? It’s like a soccer ball being filled with air, that you cannot see but you know is there. The entire sphere is totally vacant; you don’t see anything. Even at the center, nothing is visible. However, there is a secret. Just like God, you don’t see anything in the external world, but once you reach the core of the internal world, you can reach out to the external world and the internal world as well. Without experiencing this absolute zero point, you cannot know about or experience God’s love.
While you are denying yourself and your country, keep going for God and you will reach the core of the cosmos and find God. It is not easy to deny and negate yourself. That is the point of marking the eight stages. As when God created the universe, there was nothing and He created it from nothing. So we have to go to the zero point and achieving nothingness. Then we meet God and and like God who created all things, we will receive this substantial world. This means that we should be able to digest everything created by God.
Where do you want to build your hometown and fatherland? When you say, hometown, you may refer to the entire earth, but fatherland refers to where God dwells. It is on the earth. Where on earth? You may have to be more specific then. Your hometown is this entire world. The definition of hometown is where your parents live, where you were born and where your brothers and sisters live.
the holy trinity of love, life and lineage
Would you like to train a tiger and sit and ride on its back? If you train it with love from its infancy, the tiger will become your horse. It will rather eat its own parent than you because you are the master of love. He will even want to die in your arms. In Jardim I did an experiment. I told Rev. Kim to have the dogs and cats eat and sleep together. Now they are very friendly with each other. There is nothing surpassing love. If a little child loves the cat most, the cat will go to the little child. The cat will follow love, even from little children. There is nothing in the natural world that does not return the equal amount of love they have received. Only human beings violate this.
The cosmos is my hometown and fatherland. You may have come from all over the world, but centered on true love there is only one hometown and one fatherland. Everything goes to the true love place, the center. This planet earth can become our hometown and fatherland. The fatherland is where God and I dwell.
Is it “blessed couples” or “plus couples”? From now you can call blessed couples, “plus couples.” In ten days, we will step into the new millennium, at which time this name change will take place. “Plus” indicates that we want to give more and not be indebted. Plus couples always want to add more, to make a plus. There will be plus parents and plus children. Then what is the name of our race? The Unification race, because all five races are to be found.
We do not have a hometown on earth yet. We need the trinity of love, life and lineage. These are like the primary colors: love, life and lineage. To have love we need the same lineage. Above love are God and our ancestors. Based on them we establish the center point of above, below, right, left and front and rear. So we can find love, lineage and family. Love is connected with life. They all have to be connected. Then we can become perfect. You need all three of that trinity together, or none of them can exist. (Pointing to a sister in the front row.) Even if she seems to have life, she should have love and lineage connected or there will be no life. Love is there to create eternal history, connecting past, present and future. God’s lineage can be tens of millions of generations. That is why this love, life and lineage always travel together at perpendicular angles. So in history you can point everywhere and anywhere and get the same thing. Centering on this we can automatically return to our hometown and fatherland.
The conclusion in the eyes of God’s ideal of creation is that we are to become true human beings who possess the true life, love and lineage. Whoever possesses these are the true children of God, will resemble God and will belong with God in the eternal Kingdom of God on earth. We marry in order to protect and keep this heavenly tradition. Above and below, and east and west, we have to create the same quality of family. Be the woman who wants to create a pure lineage with her husband. Take a meal not of leftovers but that is newly prepared. Do not mix your lineage and love with junk.
loving the children of the enemy
The mother is most intimately involved in raising the baby. This is also true for the animal kingdom. In that sense, who’s love is stronger? The mother’s love is stronger because the children are part of the blood and flesh of the mother. They received it from their mother. From a mother’s point of view, the baby is her second self. Just as Adam and Eve were born from God and were part of God, so God had to love them; He had no choice. Before the fall, they could touch God, talk to God and receive love from God directly. But after the fall they lost this. So we have to know the importance of keeping the right lineage.
God’s position is to love the children of the enemy more than His own children. He carries out restoration by giving more to the enemy’s children, yet falling water may take thousands of years to eliminate ink from paper. To create a new life you have to give more than you did at the outset. (Father draws a womb with a fetus.) The fetus asks, where is my original world? Where can I belong? It knows that it is in a fallen mother’s body. The seed came from a fallen father, fallen seed from fallen love, life and lineage. The fetus goes through agony. God will hear it. Will God pity the fallen mother’s body? We’re talking about the entire human race, not just one woman.
When a baby is born, from the world of the mother’s womb, the water world, into this world of earth, he will absorb all things to mature in this world that is the extension of the mother’s womb. Just as the fetus receives nutrition from the mother’s womb, so we receive nutrition from the planet earth. The earth is our second mother. So we must love the land. God loves the land and so must we. God created it for us. We travel from the world of water to the world of land, and eventually to the world of spirit. This final stage is the era of the sun. The mouth represents the era of water and the nose the era of land. You drink water with your mouth and inhale air with your nostrils. Your eyes deal with light from the sun. So everything flows, water, air and sunlight. So your eyes can figure out if everything is balanced—hence measurement comes from your eyes. In this physical world, we pass through three stages, the era of water, land and light, the world of the sun. We have night and day on earth, but the spirit world is always bright, there is no night. We have the eras of water, of air, of love. Love never stops, like sunlight. Love should flow constantly, day and night, pole to pole. That is the spirit world.
the path from one level to another
We have to know ourselves. To cleanse ourselves we need tons of blood and sweat. We have to work it out. Unless we completely cleanse ourselves in order to be qualified to join True Father in the spirit world, we will have to go through the eight stages in spirit world, which is much harder than doing it here. The secret is to live for the sake of others. God has been working for thousands of years. Without true love there is no way we can find true lineage. To practice true love we have to give our life for the sake of others. How can we go beyond this satanic realm? It is our eternal desire. We have to realize the life course we are destined to travel. We go through eight stages, up to the grandparents’ stage and then the king-queen stage, at each stage working constantly to purify our lineage.
(To a sister in the front:) You were not born for your own sake but for a man. In Jesus’ life, there was no period of husband and wife, parents or beyond. He desired these things, but did not have them. So Father had to fulfill all this. I had to choose True Mother to fulfill the position of all women in the world. We call God “Father” and we call True Parents “Father” also. We have to distinguish between them as follows: Heavenly Father is invisible. They have an above and below relationship. True Father is our visible Father. God is in the superior position in relation to each polarity.
The blessing means that True Parents have bequeathed their victory to us; it all comes to us as an inheritance. We can follow their model on each of the eight stages, interconnecting with True Parents’ course on the stage we’re on. This inheritance comes to us through the blessing. The blessed couple represents plus and minus connecting to God. We are the effect; God is the cause. Just follow that one line through eight stages and join True Parents at the top. We don’t need to go off at a tangent. We all want to become the center of ourselves, our families, our tribes and so forth, up to the top level with True Parents as king and queen. The beginning and end should be the same. If the beginning is on the individual level, then the eighth level should be on the same axis. To make them of equal quality we have to live a life of giving. To advance from one level to another, we have to totally negate ourselves on that first level, leaving nothing behind. When the entire family invests itself fully and there is nothing left, you go to the tribal level. The same principle continues on and on.
On each level there is indemnity. Whatever we achieve has to be re-invested on the next level, individual for family, family for tribe, and so on. We have to create a broader foundation on each level, or nothing is indemnified. We are now going through the worldwide scale indemnity period. Up to this point, the history of restoration was “turning backward” because it was restoration, through the completion of the third Adam period. But from now it is the era of the fourth Adam, and the world is spinning in the correct direction. Before now, Satan was always waiting and invading between parents and children, brothers and sisters, husband and wife. There have been hundreds of religions and nations and finally the True Parents came and taught the law of indemnity and the era of the fourth Adam began and there is to be no more indemnity. So we have to come through these stages, and the shortcut is the vertical line, life for the sake of others. Once this entire world is full of this true love, Satan will be chased out and we can bring the era of the fourth Adam concept into daily life. Once the true lineage is in us and we are living the true love life, Satan cannot enter anymore. But in reality we are in the bottom of hell. But I paid enough indemnity for all these stages, so there is no concept of hell anymore.
the kingdom of god through marriage
God Himself practiced absolute faith, love and obedience when He created the universe, reaching the zero point Himself because He gave everything. But since He gave everything, everything is returning to God, even a greater amount. The output is greater than the input in the world of original love. When we say absolute faith, what is it referring to? God. Whoever lives more for the sake of others will become the center because everyone will like that person and support that person. This principle applies on every level, to the tribe, nation and world and cosmos and even to God. This is how God remains as God. This is why God is the eternal Father of humanity. We can unify the world and cosmos by living for others and giving more and forgetting. Look at my life. The entire world opposed me and Satan opposed me. But we kept growing. God’s strategy is to be hit first and then take what belongs to Him.
Most of you did not choose your partner. Father chose for you. But was it voluntary or forced? [Voluntary.] Are you becoming one as husband and wife? [Yes.] Suppose all Americans and Germans married each other. Don’t you think the two countries would become one? Then making a unified world would be no problem. International marriage will lead to the Kingdom of God on earth right there. By following God’s mandate, all should marry and become good husbands and wives. I have brought together heaven and earth. I have married people on earth with men who lived thousands of years ago. They live together at night in many cases. Who gave that direction? God could not do it; True Parents did. It is the human responsibility to get rid of the false parent. The Kingdom of God on earth is something that couples who love each other absolutely can enter. If you form a family and love each other completely, you will enter the kingdom.
Jardim educational headquarters is like the registration booth for the Heavenly Kingdom. It serves to register blessed couples in the original world, the world in which the original parents and children live together. People will go to different locations from now on. That way we will find our original hometown. We will have God, True Parents, true children and true couples. That is our original homeland, where God, parents, children and all live together happily.
Be ready to offer everything to God. The Living Offering is conditionally representing everything you have. We should be able to offer every penny to God. Wealthy people, in particular, exploited poor people so much. To indemnify this false accumulation of wealth, you are requested to fulfill this condition of offering. In addition to that, as blessed couples you should restore 180 families. Now it will become seven generations of 180 families, which comes to 1,260 families. My restoration through indemnity in the 40-year wilderness course is done, to the point at which I can mobilize the seven nations again. But if the Christians neglect to receive this blessing, then others such as Muslims will step forward and receive it. Thousands of Japanese volunteers have come here—wives and mothers—so Americans could receive the blessing, but if Americans still resist, the sisters will go elsewhere. The original blessing was lost due to failure of the mother figure in the Garden of Eden, so I have sent the mother figure to the entire world. As a result there is no one in the world that did not hear about the Unification Church blessing. All those married and single people in spirit world were matched and blessed.
My plan now is for all the blessed couples to go out to the world to give the blessing. Then the cosmos will become the heavenly kingdom. You don’t know where you will go. But shouldn’t you go? [Yes.] We have no sovereignty yet. Once a blessed couples’ nation is established, its resources will go to God’s dispensation, not the secular world.
Everything is part of the cosmos, so the cosmos is our hometown. Remember the value of the lineage, the blood lineage. As a blessed couple, how can you keep your lineage pure and intact? That’s the key. Those couples who do so will be the couples and families who will be connected directly to the True Family’s lineage through the blessing. So make sure you train yourself to be able to handle all five races in your family. In the spirit world the same organization is taking place. The time will come for you to put aside your house and cars. Before that time comes, why not voluntarily offer them so they can be used for God’s dispensation? If you offer your wealth, you will be recognized in spirit world. If you hesitate and watch and see what others do, it will be too late. Soon there will be the longest line in human history, of people lined up to offer everything and change their lineage. It will be a new world. From next year, after my 80th birthday, we will begin that providence.
Centering on the year 2000, the three years prior and three years after, altogether seven years, the world will go through a great transition. That is why the Unification Church has been rising so rapidly over the past three years. I made the various proclamations that have allowed this to happen. Right now, the blessed couples are receiving family level education at Jardim, but someday the entire tribe and also the nation will go through that. That is why I am holding these hoon dok hae conferences. Then national level registration can take place.
We have learned that we do this by living for the sake of others. Everything is finished. A beautiful world will emerge in that place of true love, the so-called Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in the spirit world. It will be a world of freedom. There will be no barriers. We can go everywhere throughout that world. We are building that Kingdom of God.