What follows are excerpts from what Father said on the day True Parents blessed the new building, May 5, 2005, which was also the first anniversary of Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il. A year ago Father spoke of Ssang Hab Ship Seung Il as being based on the number 5 for the month and the number 5 for the date joined together to make 10. He pointed out that the date was significant as the transition point between the era before the coming of heaven and the time after the coming of heaven.
Shall I make my speech short or long today? I am someone who doesn’t like to speak from a written script. I speak by letting Heaven guide my mouth and body. You should know that that is what’s behind the historic publication of Cheon Seong Gyeong. This is not me speaking alone. That is why when you listen to what I’ve said again, you can hear sound waves resounding from the spirit world. Saints and sages are participating and support what is said. When you think about that, you’ll realize that the excerpts in Cheon Seong Gyeong will always go beyond history. You should know that the person standing here has known and talked about how the world will be tens of thousands of years from now; he has known about the heart embodying that which enables God to give blessings even tens of thousands of years from now. For that reason, my long speeches–all the things I have said–have already been been compiled into over 500 volumes. Some speeches were selected to be included in Cheon Seong Gyeong. This newly compiled book [Korean version] contains over 2,400 pages. The content is vast. Its name comes from the Chinese character “cheon” (Ù¸) for “heaven.” The heavenly kingdom does not consist of two kingdoms, the earthly world and the heavenly world. It is one kingdom. That is why it is called Cheon Il Guk (Ù¸ÏÈœ—). Cheon Il Guk is a kingdom where two people become one. The Chinese character “two” (Ï£) and that for “person” (Ï–) is combined to make the Chinese character “cheon” (Ù¸). The term itself could constitute a textbook in Cheon Il Guk, a kingdom where two people become one.
The path to success and to accomplishing one’s lifetime goals will be difficult to follow for those who are not aware of the times. If an individual is like that, it will be difficult for that individual; if a family is like that, it will be difficult for that family; if the society and nation are unaware of the times, it will be difficult for that society and nation. If heaven and earth are not in tune with the times… Those who are not in tune with the times will disappear into a dark world like the light from the sun in the evening. So says God! Amen!
Those who could not benefit from God’s will for salvation had to go to hell and undergo hardships for thousands of years. Even though they have experienced circulating in hell, they wish for the Lord to come again. The Lord returns, and he desires to create one kingdom out of the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven. Since I knew of this, I could not avoid having a lonely, desolate life. That is a logical and necessary standard in this environment. Consequently, please remember that I could not lead a comfortable, happy, free life.
To conclude this general overview, God cannot dwell in the world. Not only that; He cannot trust the world. God cannot live in or believe in this world. It cannot be like a friend to God or a family member. Though the world is like that, please do not forget–remember first that the master of heaven never abandoned hope of seeing a world where human beings can live with God, become God’s family and become His partners who can accomplish His desire….
No matter how great one is, it is human to desire and hope to be greater and to stand at the summit. Ideologies and thought systems that have pursued this have resulted in this world of individualism. I can understand that this mindset would inevitably arise.
Now, let me begin my speech. Is there a country that can arbitrarily give blessings and punishments? What, then, are patriots and saints who have loved their nations? Even if there isn’t anyone among ordinary people who can receive blessings from the nation, and though the realm of the saints boasts of Jesus, Confucius, Buddha, Mohammed and Socrates, it did not do anything that could bring blessings to the human world. Actually, in the spirit world, there isn’t a single person who had been successful.
Since I know of these things, alone and in solitude, I have been reshaping world history, and have dashed forward with the determination to become the flag-bearer who can reorganize and develop the course of human life that went wrong.
Looking back, I have been criticized during my entire life. I have lost the strength to endure such criticism. I have reached the point where I sometimes dread taking the podium. You cannot trust the world. It has no hope. The hopes of receiving blessings and living well are just an empty dream, embellished words, and just like passing through the length of a joint on a bamboo tree. Keep this in mind as you listen.
Do you love your mother and father, your siblings and your spouse?… No one has genuinely loved his mother and father. Has anyone actually loved his siblings? No. No one has indisputably loved his spouse. Why? The Unification Church possesses the undeniable understanding that our first ancestors did not fulfill their responsibility. What is it that our fallen ancestors failed to fulfill? This is what matters. It was the human portion of responsibility. Say it! [Portion of responsibility!] The human portion of responsibility represented the beginning point of God’s desire that we be part of His great work, the Creation, but it went unaccomplished. Adam must be perfected but God cannot perfect Adam by Himself. Even the absolute God could not have created Adam in a way that would have made it possible for God to perfect him. That is why something went wrong.
For example, God was thinking of 3 percent to be added to 97 percent to arrive at 100 percent. God satisfied His 97 percent, and the 3 percent, the important part, He left as something related to the number three so that He could say to humankind, “You fulfilled that.” One, two, three and one, two, three again….You need the number three….
No matter how great one may be, there is no way to deny that one is a resultant being, a secondary being. Though you may search for affirmation, and though you may look through books on philosophy and religion, you will not find anything that states that you are the origin of the Creation, the primary being. You are a resultant being.
What is our root? What is the root of the world and nation? I am asking what the source and root of all roots of the heavenly kingdom is. We come to this question. Consequently, we come to the question of why human beings were born. Why were we born? The first reason is so that we can take part in the great creative work of God. That is why God began to create at the outset! It was not to just add 3 percent to the already completed ninety-seven. The master began substantiating His 97 percent while concerning Himself with the 3 percent. So, this master of the 97 percent should be the master of the root, and the master of the 3 percent! When this happens, nobody could say it is wrong.
When God accomplished the 97 percent, did His doing so only show the subjectivity of the 97 percent or is there a way of looking at the relationship that makes it logical to say that people can be credited with God’s achieving subjectivity based on their 3 percent? As for perfection, God’s belief was to perfect Himself through His object, who is responsible for the remaining 3 percent. When we think about this, there is a logical way of looking at it as if the 97 percent is objective to the 3 percent, which is subjective and central. When we have established the plausibility of this idea, it will naturally be accepted.
In that case, what is the 3 percent of the great work of the creation of human beings? Knowledge? God is the king of knowledge. Power? God is the king of ability. Money? God is the master of creation. If God had created the 97 percent, wouldn’t He be able to arbitrarily do as He please with the 3 percent and even things that are many times more than that? Why wasn’t he free to do as He wished? Because He put the 3 percent in the subject position rather than the 97. That’s why He can’t do as He wishes.
What was the original standard for Adam and Eve? The theory of the original image states that the origin divides into two and then reunites…. The origin-division-union theory allows the origin to divide. If this were the subject, everything would be just fine. It would not have been a problem if God could freely have done as He pleased with the grandchildren of Adam and Eve–for example, whether He were to change a grandchild around, place him in the north or the south or in a high, central position. But why did that 3 percent become a problem?
This problem is addressed in the Principle. There is the phrase, “cataclysmic change in heaven and on earth.” What does this mean? This is the idea that the grandfather becomes the grandson, the father becomes the son, the elder brother the younger brother.
What is the number three? Is it knowledge, power or money? These things God can freely control within the realm of creation. But only for the number three, God is not free to do as He wishes. What is it? It is Cheon Il Guk, where two people combine to have three people become one. Three should become one! It was said that if two people prayed, God would answer their prayer. Why two to three people? It should have been said that it would be fulfilled if a thousand, ten thousand or thirty thousand people prayed.
Two to three people form the root. Adam and Eve–everything that was desired based on the three points that the three people represent is not found in oneself but lies in one’s partner. Consequently, the statement and biblical passages saying that God dwells and His will is fulfilled in the place where two or three people are one, is true. In that sense, this day in which we are unraveling the number three, can be a day to begin experiencing happiness in our church. This is a logical answer! [Amen]…
The representative born to solve the problems of the number three is the Savior! The Messiah! And the Lord in his Second Advent! The master of ability who can resolve the issue surrounding the number three and thereby use it as an official model for revealing all the principles of the heavenly law is a man! That is why you say Amen!
That which connects cause and effect can be only a straight line. Only a straight line shows the right direction, because it covers the shortest distance. Outside of the direction that that straight line to the goal follows, there is no perfect direction in heaven or on earth. When a husband and wife, two people, come together and take their first steps, when they begin their married life, they should focus on the goal as they do so. They should take off–not turn back–centering on the goal. The path toward this goal should be the shortest distance. Only when it mercilessly goes absolutely straight without deviation can it become the shortest distance!
What I am saying is not something that will just go away. What is that which two or three people can like? It is true love! Do you understand? To unite three as one to complete the goal of the Creation, what is the core of what is needed? It is true love. True love goes the shortest distance along the straightest route. When the cause reaches the purpose, they collide and this manifests explosive power. True love has more than enough capability to recreate. When true love is divided into dual characteristics, and when centering on true love, those dual characteristics unite into an individual truth body it explodes. Like an atomic bomb, it enlarges from the core to explode. When it does, it rattles heaven and earth.
What is marriage? You cannot find the root with just two people. I am talking about a movement to seek one’s roots. What, though, is the source of that search for the root? It can only be the owner of love.
Those who are confident that they are not fallen people, raise your hands! Those who say that they are the descendants of fallen and pitiable people, raise your hands! When will you be liberated? Can people who have mind and body struggles take part in God’s world of love? [They cannot!] If they know that they are fallen, they must do anything they can to overcome this.
It is indeed a fact that Adam and Eve fell before completing their complement part to God’s creational nature. What broke down? What caused the Fall? It was illicit love. Say it, “lasciviousness”! The god of illicit love that started all this is Satan, the devil. What do they call it in Buddhism? They call it the “evil army” or “demons,” but it refers to Satan. Satan is the god of illicit love. Shamans and similar types of people did not uphold their integrity where sexual problems are concerned.
What is it that did not fill up the number three? The sexual organ of the man and woman did not fill up the number three. What organ did it become? It became the abode in which Satan could eternally dwell that connected to the lineage, locking human beings up in an iron cage, preventing them from escaping. This is an all-too-obvious theory. God was not able to become the master of the lineage and thus could only be driven away.
In the Unification Church, we talk about the Cosmic Parent, the Parents of Heaven and Earth, and the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. In order for a person to be born, a physical man and woman are needed. Only then can they become the fruit of the heavenly kingdom. How do we describe this in the Unification Church? The incorporeal cosmic parent and the corporeal parents of heaven and earth–the invisible parent of heaven and the visible parents of the earth–should form a union. A personal God, this entity, should collide with the entities of Adam and Eve and give birth to children.
What are those children? They are the fruit, the substantial children, of a mother and father. At the same time, they are the fruit of the invisible God, the incorporeal parent. Then it would be as if half of Adam’s body were occupied by God and together they’d become the incorporeal and corporeal parent as one substantial entity. The right of inheritance comes into being only after giving the blessing to the children of Adam and Eve, who have gone through three stages. A man can relate to God only after the union of his mind and body, and the union of his spirit mind and spirit self. This union, though, has yet to happen.
A personal God has to be a God with the same basic, core qualities that we have; only when we have the same intellect, emotion and will can we enter into discussion with Him. Only then will He become our plus, coming from a perfect motive and a having us as a partner. Only when his plus and our minus combine can an explosion take place…. You do not understand because your mind and body have not reached an explosive standard.
Once you hear the Divine Principle, you should not forget it. Wherever you go, the teachings of the Principle are always correct. You cannot find solutions in books on history or philosophy in the library. By applying my teachings even in an 80 percent concentration, anyone can find solutions to problems in a moment.
The time before and the time after the coming of heaven intersected. The grandfather becomes the grandson, the father the son and the elder brother the younger brother. Everything is reversed. Heaven, which was at the bottom, rises to the top; and Satan, who was at the top, declines. In order for Heaven to rise, everything related to Satan must be rejected at the end of history. Unless you deny everything, you cannot have hope. You will not be able to have faith in the nation, individuals, central figures, the church or ancestors.
We lost the number three, the center. We lost Eve…. The numbers one, three and eight were lost. God lost these numbers. Next, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen! The center is the number thirteen. That is why I liberated God on January 13, 2001, as we emerged from the second millennium into the third. This is an amazing fact. …
People were supposed to marry at seventeen. From the time of my youth, God embraced me, raised me to cultivate my original side in the way that was done before the Fall. When I was sixteen, old men would come to me and say, “Hey, you appeared to me and taught me things. I don’t know how it happened. You taught me about where even my ancestors and the saints had failed.”
What this means is that since my youth, God has cultivated the core of my original mind, I have embraced the things that have nothing to do with Satan; that is how God has raised me. Since the age of sixteen, my mind has not changed. If it had, it would have been a problem. I have persistently gone this way without changing. As I fought to eradicate the satanic world, those in the physical world did all sorts of things. Even though they tried many things as I was bringing order to all eight stages, from that of the individual to that of the family and beyond, they were unable to bring me to submission.
Now the time has come to find the hometown by climbing over the mountain that this world represents and bringing it to submission. That’s why I had the headquarters built here. Today pertains to the number of Ssang Hab Shib Seung. This is when all the indemnity between Cain and Abel was resolved centering on the people who had Mongolian birthmarks as infants and on the official association for the finding of our roots, in the time before and the time after the coming of heaven.
I succeeded at what Adam failed to fulfill, overcame the fallen nature that came from Adam and inherited God’s great, creational nature. Centering on three generations we have reached the fourth generation through the blessing. Shin-cheol and my other grandchildren belong to the fourth generation [counting God as the first]. A new heaven and earth can come around the time when they are blessed. Therefore, God can come to our hometown, to our home, because we can bless grandchildren, which God up until now hasn’t had; three generations after God.
My own children could not be married cross-culturally. Neither Adam and Eve nor the third generation [counting God as the first] can enter into an international marriage. Within the sphere of the fourth generation, which now exists, the time has come where intercultural marriage is possible for members of my family. That is why foreign Unification Church members and families are in Korea. In the future, people of the world will try to buy a match with a Korean, even having it paid for out of the national treasury. What will become of the children of my direct lineage ten years from now? If they do not go against the way of God’s will, they will be the sons-in-law or daughters-in-law of presidents.
That is why I created the Sun Moon University Pure Love Department. You should not desecrate your lineage. It must be pure. What is next in importance after purity? [A pure lineage!] Your lineage must be pure. What follows that? [Pure love!] What comes after that? [Conjugal relations!] You should not stain your sexual organ. That is why I have blessed those between eighteen and twenty-four. I blessed people between those ages who had come to Washington and to Korea, and who were righteous.
What was the responsibility of Adam’s family? They failed to pass on God’s great, creational nature and to receive God’s blessing. Therefore, they could not inherit the position of the owner. Even though they gave birth to children, since they were fallen, there was nothing they could inherit. It was as if all that they have is stolen goods. Since they were living off stolen goods, this situation must be cleared away in the Last Days.
Can you make a heavenly family in such an environment? Is it possible or not? It is impossible. But the founder of the Unification Church has not lost the original heart he had at the age of sixteen. He has taken on the role of the root ancestor, initiated the association for finding our roots, and held an educational rally related to attending and protecting the king of peace. Where else can you find such a rally?
Nations have collaborated in killing and doing away with people chosen by Heaven. There has never been a tradition of people guarding and attending those people and even protecting them by sacrificing their own lives. We must establish such a tradition now.
I believe in such a world, and God has put it in my care. Have I or gone beyond the boundary to take charge or not? [You have!] Therefore, marriages should be international and intercultural.
The time has come to arrange international, intercultural marriages for my own living descendants, finally after four generations. Although we may grow weary as we wait for the time to come, as we might when watching the mast of a boat in the distance as it slowly comes into view, the time will come when my descendants will take as spouses the children of the heads of state and within three generations restore the inheritance of the heavenly nation. …
Two major events took place in God’s providence: one was the failure of humankind to inherit, in the Garden of Eden, God’s great creational nature, which in turn brought about the failure for humanity to be blessed and to receive what God had to bequeath to them. The second was the murder of the second son by the eldest son in Adam’s family. The effects of these events have lingered through history and have yet to be resolved. The preparations to have Eve, the mother, emerge on the earth, give birth to children and to have two brothers attend the mother and parents existed within Israel, but the Messiah, who was sent after a preparation period of four thousand years, was killed.
Consequently, the historical effect of the failure of Cain and Abel to unite centering on their parents remains. Through me, Cain and Abel can unite centering on the mother. For the mother to raise Cain and Abel, Japanese women must go through hardships around the world centering on the Eve nation for it to be in the position of a nation representing the mother that is to liberate me. For this to happen, the mother must bring an end to the lineage that is characterized by bloody warfare between Cain-type and Abel-type people.
This has expanded beyond the sphere of the individual, family, tribe and world. The Eve nation has become the mother nation. Mobilized Japanese women are now helping Korea. The Eve nation is helping Korea; and the U.S., the eldest-son nation, is helping Korea. Now centering on the mother and father, preparations are being made for the final decisive time by bringing together the global UN and the Christian cultural sphere with Cain and Abel for the sake of finding the nation.
The U.S. has the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. I have laid the foundation that can go beyond the government and nation by bringing together the grassroots of this nation. You should know that I have engaged in activities to connect the U.S. with Korea and Asia centering on aviation technology.
The portion of responsibility that Adam failed to fulfill, his three percent, alongside the ninety-seven percent, should be fulfilled to make it 100 percent. In achieving 100 percent, who should be the owner of love? God, by Himself, cannot harvest the fruit of love. Love can be perfected only through a partner. Therefore, centering on Adam, Eve and the number three, their sexual organs should become one to create a base of peace–the base of beginning family life–in the family in which God can be attended as the parent. Without doing so, the standard of eternal heaven cannot be inherited; this is the view of the Principle.
Next is fallen nature. The younger brother must guide the elder brother and bless him. The spiritual world is the son of the archangel, isn’t it? There is no blessing for the archangel. After I, on the earth, bless the ancestors first–by blessing them and giving them the rights of inheritance–those who were like brothers to the archangel can all come down to the earth again, to Korea, and attend the True Parents for at least four years in order to receive the blessing. By doing so, they can resolve their unfulfilled desire to attend the True Parents on earth and enter through the gates to the Kingdom of Heaven, where they can experience liberation. You should know that we have entered an important period of time. You should render all your assistance to them, so as to become a family, people and nation that can be remembered by Heaven. In this way, let us go forward, holding the flag of God’s hometown and fatherland.
I have told the UN about abolishing national borders. There are borderlines that have different rights of inheritance and ownership. The way to solve this is through international and intercultural marriage. National boundaries create enemies. Hence, we must have international and intercultural marriages. That which was at the bottom should go to the top and that which was at the top should go to the bottom.
The Korean national headquarters building is now open. This is not a church building for the Unification Church. It represents the church of heaven; it was built as a model of what the Kingdom of Heaven could be like for other nations. People cannot freely come and go to this place. We should make it so that only those who have been blessed can come in and out.
We should spread activities based on the blessing. We should use the Mongolian birthmark as the basis for creating a lineage. We can bind people together into one lineage in an instant.
The time has come to bless and engraft every nation. I’m not talking about individual salvation. It is time to engraft nations. No matter how vast the world is, if we bring together the global membership of the Unification Church with Christianity and the sphere of religion, we can do this in an instant. Therefore, be aware that the restoration of the heavenly nation is right in front of us, in the not so distant future.
However, we’d still have more path to travel down, even if your legs were long and had gained the strength to do triple jumps and that sort of thing. The time has come in which we can become successors to the king of the reign of peace and prosperity if we persevere through countless adventures. We should offer our loyalty and utmost sincerity in linking that task to moving heaven and having people follow us. You should be determined to become people who can do that by upholding the significance of this day’s blessing. Those who will do so, please applaud and let us conclude this ceremony.
Thank you.