Excerpts from Father’s words at Hoondokhae in Recent Months of 2011
June 9, Cheong Hae Garden in Yeosu
We need to take the initiative before others, even if it is by a small degree. This is important. The issue is how we can follow our traditions in our lives in the right way. The question is how we can live righteously….
That’s how the Principle works. It won’t do if you don’t follow the Principle. Because I know about this, I have lived accordingly, haven’t I? Those of you who say, “Rev. Moon’s actions do not concern me!” will not be able to form a connection with the sunlight, water, air, earth, or fruits of this world, and thus they will not be able to partake of anything in it. They won’t be included in the line waiting for distribution. Everyone is entitled to receive something that is being given out, but they will become fools who are unable to claim what they are entitled to, and such fools will be pushed all the way back to the end of the line.
If you know about this principle, do you think you will live well or poorly? How will your attitude affect your life? Whether a married couple can establish this tradition or not will determine whether they will live well and prosper, or live poorly and be ruined. Therefore, this principle is inevitably the rule that determines someone’s rise and fall. There is such a thing as the heavenly principle, which governs Heaven. That law remains the same whether it is night or day, or whether it is dealing with the world within the womb, the physical world, the spiritual world or the eternal world. This is not difficult to understand.
How important is your true nature? It is even more important than God Himself. What determines whether you live well or poorly? When you follow what your true nature tells you to do, you will go to the kingdom of heaven….
That’s how the Principle works. Why am I telling you these things now? I need to teach you these principles. How have I managed to come as far as I have? The title of this speech is ”The Settlement of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind and the Proclamation of the Word by God’s Substantial Self.” It was given at the cosmic assemblies for the proclamation of the word, and I too need to follow the protocol of the cosmic assemblies….
Why am I teaching you now? Now you can understand what I teach you right away. You can understand whether you are in the bottommost pits of hell or in the heart of heaven. You will be subjected to a fair trial at the court, so when judgment is passed, you will not be able to complain that it was unfair; it will be a fair ruling.
When I was sentenced to prison, I did not complain. I thought to myself, I should go and seek the path I need to find. I should go forward, even if it is even more difficult than imprisonment. The prison I went to was above ground, but you are unaware of the prison below ground. You don’t understand the spirit world. I have gone up by way of this vertical column and there are these horizontal results. Yet they have roots that reach all corners.
The subject–object, higher–lower, front–back relationships! I need to be in the subject-partner position when I guide you, because if I am not, no matter how I try to nurture you, you will only become my servants and nothing more. You need to be better than Father, Mother, or even your own nations. That is the only way you can be educated.
July 12, Cheon Hwa Gung
In terms of the Principle, the inspirational and internal spherical form of God as He brings the providence to its conclusion can be expressed more simply as a being of dual characteristics in harmonious union. Those who do not know about the being of dual characteristics in harmonious union will disappear in the end. If a woman does not know a man, and vice versa, they too will disappear. There will be no children, no family and no nation. The fundamental being of dual characteristics in harmonious union … Isn’t the Principle and the Unification Church faith truly wonderful? Since God is a being of dual characteristics in harmonious union, can a man and a woman be the same? No, they are different.
July 17, Hilton Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria
The first shall be last and the last shall be first. Only in a world where each being can yield to its partner, which it loves more than itself, despite the fact that their positions can be changed at any time, can a sphere be created; in that world, north, south, east and west align with the realm of oneness centering on the core. …
North, south, east and west existed at the starting point. From the center of this starting point there is a trumpet hole from which the realm of resonance begins. This is how you come to hear the phrase “mind and body in harmonious union.” Which comes first, the word or the substantial self? [The substantial self.] At the final station, I am speaking about the settlement of the substantial self of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind.
I am talking about responsibility today. Where do the responsibilities of men and women come together, and where do they end?…
Since people cannot keep in rhythm, how can there be a world of peace? Unity comes about on the foundation of harmony. West, east, north and south can be united through the power of harmony. The world exists in pairs. When things go wrong, life can become an everlasting struggle. Peace is the only standard that can rectify this. This is a logically appropriate conclusion….You have to become a person who knows how to adapt to the environment, even if things turn around 180 degrees, even if north, south, east and west are rearranged, and even if north and south are turned upside down. Without becoming such a person, you cannot enter God’s family and be guaranteed eternal life.
I came to a southern nation and find myself in Nigeria. I have found a place where a person can profit as a younger brother. Nigeria [pronounced in Korean] sounds like the statement, “I am now visiting the place that is beneficial to my younger brother.” That person can come here after packing up his belongings from the right, left, south and north. I came here to pass on an inheritance to a person who has become a representative of Heaven. But what is that? There is a secret blessing hidden in my bag of blessings….
What is today’s theme? It is about our historical responsibility. The theme of this morning’s speech is ”responsibility,” isn’t it? We have formation, growth and completion; we have seven stages, eight stages….
Which comes first, harmony or unity? Anybody who only talks about the Unification Church’s Divine Principle is a fake. Before speaking about the Principle, harmony is necessary.
July 20, Cheon Hwa Gung
They were told, If you eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you will surely die. We need to go beyond that level. The conjugal standard, which was destroyed when evil parents came into existence, was restored through indemnity. Through this, parents that had been evil are restored to have the authority of true parents. Entities divided, such as the God of Night and the God of Day, Cain and Abel, and heaven and earth, are being restored to their original state based on the understanding that if you eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, you will surely die. In the position of not having eaten that fruit, they [True Parents] have ushered in the era after the coming of heaven, and related to that, through my recent visit to Nigeria, I have blessed billions of couples in the world all at once.
When you go out now and stand in front of the gates, Cain’s blood will be sprinkled on you, and thus we will restore Abel, and then all religions, organizations and nations will no longer exist. If no religious organizations remain, everyone will join in the Feast of the Lamb, in which the blood of the Lamb will be sprinkled in the world in the place of the firstborn son, on a horizontal plane where there are no walls or boundaries. The blood of the sacrifice, the ram, was sprinkled on the outside of the gates of the Garden of Eden, where the first blood was spilled. The spilled blood of the heifer, the ram, and the pigeons was the indemnity condition of an ancient, historic time. Now they are gathered outside the gates of heaven, waiting for True Parents to say that everything is finished in this era after the coming of heaven.
With the successful conclusion of the conference in Nigeria, we can enter the gates. Let us do so with a big round of applause. To fulfill all the conditions to relieve all anguish, I returned last night and held a meeting with those who had come back from Nigeria, and before we could finish the meeting I came to attend hoondokhae. Therefore, the title of today’s meeting is the path the Unification Church should follow. What does that mean? In the era after the coming of heaven, there is only one tradition and lineage for all blessed families in the world. We are now in a position where the five oceans and the six continents can unite. From Adam’s one family, we have multiplied into billions of families, and we are all gathered before the gates of God’s house, waiting to enter His kingdom, which transcends heaven and earth. Only those who have received the blessing and joined the one bloodline and have thus become His sons and daughters can enter. Those who do not resemble Him will be unable to enter.
July 26, Cheon Hwa Gung
The autobiography is not the issue. That I know. Making a movie about me is not important. What is important is the substantial self, the proclamation of the word by God’s substantial self. Do you understand? What I am saying, the declaration of the word I have made, is centered on the Substantial Self.
Because it is a book that declares the substantial self, the word, this is the True Parents. The perfection of the Principle is the True Parents, and it is the God of Night and the God of Day who are perfected through them. Fallen Adam and Eve cannot forget their memories of Heaven. I am the only person who has lived a life modeled on the Principle. Do you understand now?
The proclamation of the word by God’s substantial self is not my own words, but God’s words—the God of Night. God, the Creator, had not been present. Only when the True Parents appeared could the God of Night and the God of Day take their positions. Only then could we know that the root of human ancestors is in the king of kings of the universe.
August 1, Kodiak
I place a nation in my mind as my target, and think about how I can win over that nation by educating it. When I die, there will be no further textbooks. Tens of thousands of years in the future, even in the spirit world, the God of Night and the God of Day, who are at present divided and conflicting, will be in oneness through hoondokhae. The mistake of the false parents divided them, but through the perfection of True Parents they can now be united. You must stay away from those who turn their backs on this fact and walk away.
When the sun rises amid darkness, there is no one who doesn’t pay attention to it. Innumerable people have seen the first rays of the sun, but how many of them can claim that they met the person they had been dreaming of from the outset through that sunlight? How many of them are people that the sun has been looking for? TW