May 5, 2006 Excerpts from Father’s Speech
When I got off the plane the other day what came to my mind was “I want to go to Yeosu right now! Where am I going?” I was going to Hannamdong! Hannamdong means “the neighborhood denoting the end of bitter resentment.” [Korean pun] This is what Hannamdong can mean! I’m going to Hannamdong to release all my bitter sorrow and after that where am I going? As Hannamdong is the final place of departure to heaven, I felt that I had the responsibility and destiny from now to teach about the realm of the new spirit world.
How am I going to carry out on the earth the things of the future, which can remain from now, rather than the things of the past, before I die? My wish is to have such achievements be seen and cherished by people eternally, to be admired and remembered eternally as the fragrance of one’s hometown among all hometowns or nation among all nations, and to leave behind a homeland that can be loved eternally as the final destination. This is something that anybody regardless of who they are would wish for in their lives.
Can this Mr. Moon of the Unification Church become the first person to fulfill all such hopes? When I think about this question…When I think about how I wasn’t welcomed by the circumstances and events that occurred within the course of seventy years and the decades after I was sixteen, I do not wish to step into and go to that world again.
Well that’s how a person would think. [People think that] sorrow would only remain at the end of greater and greater suffering; yet at the end of greater suffering should come a day of greater joy. What kind of day would that be?
What if you had lost your parents a thousand years ago but were able to find and meet them again? What if you were separated by death from your beloved wife some decades, but could meet her again? Or what if you could recover the days after your son or daughter ascended to the spirit world and be reunited with him or her? Such a day would be a day of joy in which all members of a certain family could be reunited, and further, be able to meet with their ancestors from thousands of generations in the past or their descendants thousands of generations in the future. When I ask myself if there could be such a person who could bring about such a day of glory on the earth with such joy, nobody comes to mind. We’ll just have to wait and see.
If Rev. Moon is unable to do that and if God had a wish, it would be for Him to raise such a person who can carry on this task. If such a future awaits Rev. Moon, a double responsibility—a calling and destiny—to raise such a person from my children before my death or even after going to the spirit world awaits me and is pushing me to my fate. When I thought about this I was not happy.
So when I go to Hannamdong who there will be the first to meet me? I have come back without Mother who was always at my side. Since I have returned alone, I don’t feel so good entering that valley.
Shin-joon, the little toddler, is with me but he is also feeling grumpy. He was always happy to return to this place holding his grandfather and grandmother’s hand, saying “grandmother-grandfather, grandmother-grandfather.” But now he is sitting here alone with his grandfather and he does not want to be cuddled by his grandfather. He remembers the time when he was safe in the embrace of his grandmother. Seeing him so moody and taciturn I think, “Ah, these are the things that come up in life.”
When you calculate all such events and the whole of the course of your life, how many days can you say were spent in joy? I regret that such days in my life have not been many; that is why God was the Lord who could not stand in the position of the Lord for all eternity. If we were in a place where we could serve and attend God, all the things that God, who created everything, could find joy would be able to feel God’s heart of joy that He felt after creation. Furthermore, all the things that God desired and created while experiencing that joy can become His objects of love and can return glory to God while rejoicing in that glorious value that surpasses their own existence.
Not only that, just as God created over a course of tens of thousands of years, His children of tens of thousands of generations can rejoice with greater intensity than the joy He felt when creating all things; all existing beings can be joyful more than God, and the creation itself can rejoice even more than God Himself. If such a future awaits us, then I’m sure all the ancestors who lived on this earth and all of humanity living on this earth are looking forward to that day. Our descendants that are to be born in the future would also feel that way. Such a place would be a place of jubilation and joy to which we can go to at the end and a place where we can live with the Lord who exists eternally and with absolute authority.
When I think that I am headed for that world I find strength in my heart though I am old. “Wow, I’m sure such a world exists. I had better head towards that world.” I felt that the emotions that have followed me to this day and manifested themselves at this time—the emotions I harbored from yesterday and today were completely wiped away.
In that sense, people can head towards a place with greater value, a Utopia-like homeland. If such a deep, high and vast world continued into people’s lives, there would be no greater happiness or joy than that of those already living in that world! Can such a place which is but a dream within a dream—something a sleepwalker would envision in his dream—actually exist? Do you think such a place could actually exist or not? What is your answer? [Yes!] Does it exist or not? [It does!] I don’t think so! [It does!] Then you should say, “I believe it does exist!” (laughter) Who do you think is right?
A person’s dream may be infinite and even if you were to die with that dream, the world of dreams awaits you on your path with an even greater dream. When you think about this, dreams can be found in an infinitely great place, an infinitely vast place though the road leading to it may be small, and an infinitely far place though the road leading it to may be short. The realities of such dreams that are infinite beyond infinity and that are beyond imagination emerge from there to stimulate me. If it is in the distance to sing songs and dance in happiness, and if one could reach that stage where one would not only be happy but also be able to sing and dance in complete oblivion to one’s own identity, what would you say: no-men or Amen? [Amen!] Amen, no-men? [Amen!]
You all seem to be younger than me. Seeing all of you saying “Amen,” my “Amen” seems to be smaller than yours. While you gradually grow I must steadily grow small. Can you instead take hold of this old man who lost his dream, have sympathy for him and harbor a lofty dream that can inspire him?
The Unification Church and all of you have appeared in relation to Father’s dream. I had wished for many young men and women, and older women and men who can have a greater dream than Father, who can lead people to the Utopian world of Father’s dream and in such a way that people would be happy to follow them on their path. However, there aren’t that many people.
Who am I? I am the son and daughter of God the Father! Say it! [I am the son and daughter of God the Father!] Regarding the question, “Who am I?” you must know that when a man and woman form a dual structure they become God; they become God’s husband and His wife! Do you understand?
So, who are you? [We are God’s sons and daughters.] You can become God’s son. “Who am I?” I am God’s son and the lord who can create God’s family. Then what should be done in order to become such a lord? You cannot become a lord without finding the owner of the position of love! Who is the first to become the owner of the position of love? It must be God. It should be the Father. Do you understand? The person who is next in becoming the owner of love is the husband. Then after that it must become the eldest son among the children. That is how it is.
God is the first to assume the position of love, then the father and then the son. The unity of these three generations consists of formation, growth and perfection. A true olive tree can bear fruit only after it goes through three stages, three years. Before that everything is still unripe.
In the human face, the mouth corresponds to the age of the womb, this [the nose] corresponds to the age of air and what about these [eyes]? They correspond to the age of the sun. Man is born during the age of the womb, this [the nose] corresponds to the hundred years of man’s life on earth, and the eyes correspond to eternity. They are the eternal world. What has enabled all this? The life that was given to us: where did it come from? This life which was born from love must go through the three stages of life—life in the womb, life in the air, life under the sun. Only then can you fly! Your life entity must fly off.
Today I have shared good words with you! Where can absolute value be found? The absolute value of a mother or father can be found only in their children. The entity of absolute value for children is none other than their mother and father.
The mother and father are the lords who love their children. The children—not the parents—who let out their first cry at the time of their birth are the ones who create the lords, the owners of parental love. Who is the first to create an owner of love? The parents are not the first to become the owner of love. The children enable the parents to become the owner of love and from there the parents come to love their children. That is the order of things.
That is why the secondary being in the position of Abel, rather than the primary being, commences the initiation of the owner.
What about men and women? Which is quicker to mature emotionally, men or women? Was Eve quicker to mature emotionally than Adam or not? [Eve was.] Wasn’t Eve Adam’s younger sister? She was in an Abel-like position. The woman was quick to mature emotionally.
What would have happened if Adam and Eve had not had a son in the Garden of Eden? That household would have perished. Their household would have perished. You cannot be proud just because you’re the grandfather; you have to value more the wife of your grandson and son. Your household can prosper only when you value them more than your own wife. Didn’t you know that?
A man will like his mother more than he likes his grandmother; he will like his wife more than he likes his mother; and he will like his eldest daughter more than he likes his wife. Did you know that? That is how a man is, emotionally. Why? They all enable him to become the owner of love. You should be aware of this.
Who enables the mother and father to become owners of love? The mother and father by themselves can never become owners of love. The moment their son or daughter is born, the moment the baby takes its first breath, is when the mother and father become the owner of love. Because of that baby who cries, pees, poos and cries for his mother’s milk, the parents can take off as the owners of parental love. Am I right or wrong? [You are right.]
That is how it is between women and men. A man is the one who enables a woman to become the owner of true love. A woman who receives love from a man would discover the taste of love from her lord for the first time. There is nothing that exceeds the taste of one’s first love. Nothing. The taste of one’s first love is made to last for eternity. It is at the center and thus does not move about.
A true man—not a man who changes—enables a true woman to become an owner of love. A son of filial piety grows [under his parents’ care]. The more the days go by the stronger the order of love should become, never weakening.
If a married couple has been living together for ten years, the first love they felt ten years earlier through each other as the owner should enable them to feel greater love within their family life ten years later. When they love their children, their love should develop so that they even think about the other children in the world and the people in their nation. Only when they have that kind of heart can future generations emerge from that nation’s king and be connected with his lineage.
Consequently, a husband and wife cannot become owners of love by themselves. The husband, for example, who loves his wife so that he may eternally preserve that first love and nurture it to become a greater love, can become the true owner of love. If the person is a woman, she becomes the owner of her husband’s love. No other can become that owner. The owner cannot change to someone else.
I spoke about three things: the grandfather, father, husband and then the children! There are four stages. These four stages should be connected. Only then can the family establish itself.
A man and woman, the two of them, simply living together does not create the value of an owner of love. Why? Because of heaven above them and the nation below! Married life should be for the sake of serving heaven and raising a nation of Heaven’s desire. When a couple live together, they must become owners who can create the three great owners: an owner who can love his or her spouse, parents and children as if he or she were loving the nation’s king. Only then can they love and be loved by the partners of love of those three great owners.
Otherwise, these relationships will be severed away. That is what it is about. The value of absolute love begins from living for the sake of others! Say it! Living for the sake of others!
When you go back now what will you do? The lineage is the source of the life line. If you respect the lineage you cannot neglect your grandfather and grandmother. You cannot neglect your mother and father’s lineage. Isn’t that two generations? After that you cannot neglect the children born from your lineage. You must love those children more. You must love them more than your grandfather and father. Why? It is because they continue the life line of the nation. You must love beyond the three generations. Only then will this become a path for loving one’s nation.
You have the responsibility to realize the owners of love of three generations! You must create the owner of parental love. If you are somebody’s wife you should create the owner of your husband’s love. If you are somebody’s husband, you should create the owner of your wife’s love. Then you become a couple and go up. You must resemble your parents. That is why you can develop only when you love the future parents—your children—more than your grandfather and grandmother. That is how you grow.
Among the young clansmen, for example, if there are ten siblings, and you are checking to see how many children or grandchildren there are among those ten siblings, the question is who among the children of those ten siblings know God’s will and know how to love the nation the most. To be the best, the mother must be virtuous. Then where will you bring this mother? In Korea, don’t people marry based upon the other person’s family? The blood line is important! Blood line. Say it! [Blood line.]
When you come to understand the preciousness of the lineage, you will be compelled to love the grandfather and grandmother even if you are told otherwise. You cannot help loving your mother and father. Try as you might you can never become an unfilial child. As a husband you cannot help loving your wife. Yet this all went wrong; this habitual system did not take root and thus became the cause of national decay.
Once you make your mother and father the owners of love, it is eternal. You must create owners of your mother and father’s love even after going to the spirit world. That is why the children must manage their mother and father even after going to the spirit world. If a husband or wife have made each other an owner of love then they should know how to protect the value of an owner of love, the value of being the owner of one’s first love for eternity.
Once people give birth to their first son or daughter, the eldest son or eldest daughter, they will receive their parents’ love and be loved as their children. Children are the second selves of the grandfather, mother and father, and of the couple themselves. The qualifications of those who are the owners of love must always and in all fields be acknowledged. Only then can they become a family that can be registered into a peaceful and eternal heavenly nation. They can become a member of that family. That kind of nation will become the heavenly nation and the people will become the citizens of that heavenly nation without doubt! Amen! [Amen!]
Therefore, in your families you should be intent on creating the owners of love of three generations. In ten different nations create fathers and mothers on behalf of your own parents and love them more than the way you loved the husbands and wives from those ten nations. Furthermore you should lead a life through which you can be loved with a greater love than that which would be received by children. The person who leads such a life will go to the highest heaven. He will be at the center of the heavenly kingdom. He will yearn for that love and live putting that kind of love into action.
Know this, and lead a life different from that of yesterday or from the way you have lived until now. When you do so, the things you possess when you go to the spirit world and your status there will be different. On this commemorative day, know this as the absolute values…
It is a subject-object partner relationship. God’s main attributes are absolute and unique, like a plus charge; His attributes are eternal and unchanging, like a negative charge. When these two groups are combined they form the inside and outside of a complete four position foundation. The people who understand the composition of Shib Seung Il should follow it as the heavenly way! Those who obediently follow the heavenly way will become filial children, patriots, saints and divine sons or daughters in their families! Amen! [Amen!] (applause)
Those who wish to become such a family, raise your hands! Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, woooooow! (applause)
On the occasion of this day, I pray that God’s blessings be with you even more from tomorrow. This old man grows weary if he speaks too long; I shall now bid you farewell! (applause)
(Three cheers of Eog Mansei)