As our True Mother, the mother of peace and the only begotten daughter, wishes to see the reunification of the Korean peninsula, asking the FFWPU Korea to concentrate substantially on this providential will of Heavenly Parent, we bring you a series of True Parents’ words (in 28 parts), especially for those who are seeking internal guidance from True Parents. Reading these words will help us to understand better the worldwide conflicts of today. If you wish to order the book “Way of Unification”, please click here.
Part 32 (Earlier installments are available for reading.)
Chapter 5 – Communism And The Two Wings
Section 6. Headwing Ideology for Unification (Part 2)
3. Unificationism Is Headwing Ideology
1) Headwing Ideology
You do not need to worry about how this world, entangled with complicated environments and circumstances, will become a world of goodness. In the fast-paced world where things are taking place in urgency and where the right and the left are in confrontation, your right foot is standing on the right wing, and your left foot, on the left wing. Your right hand is holding the right wing, and your left hand, the left wing. These are fighting against each other. When fighting, you do not hit the chest of your opponent, but his or her head. In such a case, you should not do so without God. We, who are looking at such a world, should clarify the purpose of the fighting. It is not because humans want to fight. The leg of a compass goes around without even knowing the one who is turning it. The head of the compass is elsewhere. Humans only see the lines that are being drawn.
Therefore, such things keep on taking place in the last days. If God is present in all of those situations, we feel relieved. On the contrary, if God is not, we feel worried. If God is there to mediate everything that is taking place, in order to achieve a certain purpose, and in order to reach a resolution, He would have to lead the meeting to suit his purpose. Otherwise, we just cannot feel safe. If God is not there, we would be concerned, but if He is there, we shall have some time to think about the situation. However, when God attempts to resolve problems, He always does it thorough people. If God could make His own plan and execute it alone, He would not have needed to create humans. God’s will can never be done alone but can be done always only through humans in the position of His object, thus connecting heaven and earth to each other. Such is the principle.
Therefore, as long as God is alive, in the last days on the worldwide level, He would need people who are intimately connected to Him. Then what kind of people will they be? The question is how to resolve the problems between the supreme good, God, and the supreme evil, Satan. (10-197)
2) The Need for Headwing Ideology
Neither left-wing ideology nor right-wing ideology will work. Both in the left-wing world and right-wing world, Cain and Abel came into being. Who can bring unity there? The left-wing cannot do it, nor can the right-wing. Therefore, we can come to a conclusion that we need a movement through which a new advanced right-wing type that can be supported by the left-wing, and a new advanced left-wing type that can be supported by the right-wing should be brought together. That is why some mysteries of the olden days are necessary for youth. Then we go over to the age in which we come to think, “Well, this humanism based on materialism is not good enough. How wonderful it would be if God could be above it.” When looking at the entire history of humankind, a God-centered ideology centering on the Vatican failed, and so did human-centered democracy.
The same is true for communism centered on materialism. Therefore, we came to think: “What about an international, inter-ideal world that combines God-centered ideology, humanism, and materialism?” We need a system of thought in which all of these are combined and at the same time, we need a way that can be harmonious with a religious system. That is, we need a thought, but we also need a religious ideology. We need something God-centered that goes beyond something human. Humans alone cannot resolve problems. Humans will only fight among themselves. Hence the worldwide political inclination is flowing towards this direction.
For this, the Unification Church researched and presented an alternative: the Headwing ideology. Humans need a spirit, a body and material. However, throughout human history, seen from a vertical perspective, by undergoing the ages of God-centered ideology led by spiritual leadership, body-centered humanism, and material-centered materialism, humans reached their limit. Then what can unify these? The body cannot unify the spirit, nor can material bring unity to the spirit through the body.
That task should be done through spirit. The mind should do that job. Then, what part of that mind can do it? The supreme mind and the supreme standard of spirit should be perfect. That mind should not be mine but should be a system of thought that can go and operate beyond history. It should be connected to God’s providential age, transcending human history, but as a non-limited thought, not belonging to a limited thought system. That thought also should not be time-limited, but should transcend time. Nor should it be a thought that seeks for an ideal centered on physical life, but should be a thought that seeks for an ideal centered on eternity. Through this, it is only logical for us to come to a conclusion that a standard that can finally bring us thinking people to settle in peace, can come about. From this view, the most serious question that we are faced with is how we can connect humanism that represents a body and God-centered ideology, such as religion, which represents the spirit.
In other words, the question is how we can connect humanism and religions. Otherwise, secular humanism or nationalism, for example, America or France which promotes its own country to be the best, cannot be overcome. Through this, what conclusion do we arrive at? Communism should absorb the idealism that accepts spirit, and humanism should also pursue world-ism or an ism that is higher than that, transcending a nation, and religions should also transcend their own denominations and participate in harmonizing all humanity, by bringing them to one religion for all humankind, not for religions them, selves. Without such content, we cannot cope with and resolve the world’s problems. That is why it will be natural to say that an ideology that can deal with and resolve such issues, being connected to the supreme spirit, that is to say, the Headwing ideology will be necessary. (162-100)
3) Left-wing, Right-wing and Headwing
These days, Father often speaks about a head due to the Headwing issue. When we talk about the Headwing, centered on God, that is, centered on the head, we are saying that it is connected to all limbs of human body through all nerve systems. Where did the right-wing and left-wing ideas originate from? They came from the right thief and the left thief with Jesus at the center. From the viewpoint of the Principle, we understand that it started from the foundation of the providence for restoration through indemnity, centered on the historical separation of Cain and Abel. Also, even if the right wing embraced the entire world of democracy, if a left-hand does not cover it or become one with it as its partner, it cannot totally embrace the left wing. This, we must understand. (162-97)
Although both the right and the left are exhausted, as long as the head is right, and the spine is straight, once normal energy is applied and a direction is set, hands and legs will start to move. It is only natural. That is why Father is talking about the new term, “Headwing” these days. We can understand this when thinking of Jesus. The term “rightwing” originated from the time of Jesus.
To start a providence of separation from the national level to worldwide level, the terms right-wing and the left-wing were created. From there, the right-wing and the left- wing came to bear fruit worldwide. They are, however, fighting, divided into the right and the left. Who comes there? It is the Lord of Second Advent. (163-168)
The Unification Church is working on a movement to unify thought. When we talk about the right-wing and the left-wing, we are talking about wings. But is the head from the Headwing a wing? No. As the left refers to left side and the right refers to right side, when we talk about “Headwing” we are talking about the head. That started with Jesus. Jesus started the providence of separation for the world on the cross. Centered on Jesus, the world was divided into three realms: the right thief, the left thief, and Barrabas. Another one that should be added is Satan’s realm. In the last days, there will be the right and the left like this, and like Jesus, a head will be here, and Barrabas will be here. What is Barrabas? It is neither the Communist world nor the democratic world, but is the Islamic world. It is not a religious group nor is it a political group. Such is the Islamic world and Barrabas civilization. Do you understand? It will benefit more, as the right-wing and the leftwing fight more aggressively. That is why the Middle East problems cannot be resolved among them. It can be resolved only through the Lord of the Second Advent.
Since the last days were to come, the world has been divided into the right and the left, and the Third World and Barrabas world also came into being. Then what is the third world? It is the foot wing. The foot-wing. People say that the feet are the ugliest. They live such a carefree life. This is the world of the dark. This cannot be resolved by humans. It cannot be either man or woman. Then, can it be done by God? It cannot be done by God alone either. Only the realization of God’s love which is His ideal can make it possible.
If God truly exists, a new religion should come with love that represents such thoughts from the right wing, the left wing, the third world, and the Barrabas world, with an ideology of love that can transcend time and space throughout human history and unify all religions of the world, even with the world of science, and should initiate a movement that can achieve the realization of such love. Only through it, there will be hope for humans in the last days. Otherwise, there will be nothing but despair and destruction to all existing beings and humanity. (166-55)
4) Headwing Ideology is that of Parents
Presently, democracy and communism are the thoughts (sa sang) of the right and the left. What are the thoughts of the right and the left? They are from Cain and Abel. But a new thought that should come from the orient is a thought of parents. Centering on parents and centering on Asia, the right and the left should be united. This is called the Headwing ideology. By so doing, if one says to both of them, “You are wrong for this,” they should be able to say, “Correct.” And if the former says, “You’d better listen to me,” the latter should be able to answer, “Yes.” That is all we need. It is simple. In other words, if they agree to follow their parents since their parents’ views are better than their own, that is all that matters.
Next, even we have the parents, we have the differences of opinion between the North and the South. Well, they are brothers. If the East and the West in the position of communism and democracy listen to the parents, the problems between the North and the South will be resolved within a short time. It is because if parents call them and give them direction as to what they need to do, it is natural for them to say, “As you please, mother and father.” (168-81)
As you are already aware, today, Western civilization is the one that is centered on the third son of Noah, Japheth among the three sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. This we should understand. Why was the third son blessed? It is because Shem failed to fulfill his mission. That is why Western culture is governing the world. This is for sure. The third son has been controlling the world. However, he took things from yellow people in Asia and black people in Africa. Thus, he failed to bring unity among them. Yet, from the providential viewpoint, Korea is, as a third child, given a mission to bring unification to the world, by forming the general cultural sphere. Brothers alone cannot bring unity among themselves. Then who can do it? It can be done when their parents come. The unification is possible only with parental love which surpasses brotherly love. For this reason, in the Unification Church, we are proud of the True Parents, of their love and of being children of the True Parents. [Applause.] Even of brotherly love. By so doing, can we resolve problems between the white and the black? The yellow are in the position of the first son, the black, (in the position of) the second son, and the white, (in the position of) the third son, and they are fighting. Yet Korea can unite them through Unification Thought. Through this, an ideal nation, the fatherland, centered on God will be established. Thereupon the world of peace, one unified world, and the world of victory will finally embark, and centered on God, the Kingdom of Heaven will be eventually built on earth and in heaven. This is the mission of the Unification Church members, and they need to live for this and fulfill this. This, we should clearly understand. Only on such a foundation, by becoming one with the Parents, life in the Kingdom of Heaven with peace on earth will begin. (79-83)
To be Continued …