Father’s Holy Day Celebration Address to Members On October 3, 1998 In Sao Paulo, Brazil
Are your five senses unified? What should you do, knowing that your five senses are not united? Are you in any condition for God to dwell in you?
Are we merely physical beings or do we also have a spirit body with a spirit mind? Raise your hands those who think that they are just physical beings. No one? Raise your hands those who think that they are physical and spiritual beings. [Many raise their hands.] I am surprised and grateful! This means that you understand what I am talking about. I thought that only half the audience might raise their hands because of poor translation, but it looks as if he is interpreting well.
With our physical senses we can perceive the physical world by day or night throughout our entire life. But can you see the spiritual world? Yes, or no? [No.] This is a cause of anguish, isn’t it? Everyone has a mind, an invisible mind, a spirit. We all have a spirit body, but no one can see it. Have you seen it? People say that the spirit world is so beautiful that anyone who sees it becomes ecstatic. There are so many problems in the world because we can only see each other’s physical bodies. When people become familiar with one physical body they want to change to another. Then we need religion because so many complications arise. All these problems that are making the world complicated stem from two people, one man and one woman.
Is this true, or not? These two people are the problem because, within each of them, their spiritual and physical aspects were divided. They were not united. Is there any-one who does not wish to have such unity? A man needs a woman, a woman needs a man. How much? Absolutely. God has the nature of being absolute, unique, eternal, and unchanging. Thus, a man needs a woman and a woman nee d s a man, absolutely, uniquely, eternally, and unchangingly. We can then say that a man needs y, his wife to be absolute, unique, eternal and unchanging; the same applies to the wife, the children, brothers and sisters, and the whole family. Such a home is one in which God wants to dwell.
DO YOU RESEMBLE GOD?
When two people unite in marriage, there are four “selves” involved; although there are only two physical selves that unite, they also have their spirit selves. This is the first time you have heard this, isn’t it? An ideal marriage is one in which the husband and wife are proud of their unity both from an internal and external standpoint. A married couple therefore has four aspects of life, two internal and two external. Whom do we resemble? You might say that we resemble our parents. And whom do our parents resemble? And the parents of their parents, and their parents, going back into the past? Who is the ancestor of humanity? It is God. Do you resemble God? Raise your hands those who think-they resemble God? If you truly resembled God, you would be so proud of yourself. If you resemble God, then who is God? What is God like? If He is like my father and mother, then we should say it out loud. God is the Father of humankind!
Whom does God resemble? Do we resemble God, or does God resemble us? Which is it? You are very ambitious! You want God to resemble you. Have you ever thought about that? If someone affirms with conviction that “God resembles me,” would God like that person, or hit him on the head? If he says he resembles such a loving Father, God would want to embrace him.
I have already spoken for some time so we are going to finish here. [No! No!] Do you want me to stop here, or should we continue? This morning I got up very early to come here and speak to the leaders about the future of Latin America and Brazil. I spoke to them for several hours. Now you are telling me to continue. You are tired and I am also hungry. If you are asking me to continue it means that you are not grateful that I came to talk to you as well!
THE BATTLE WITH THE BODY
Man’s ambition is to be better than God. How much of God would you like to conquer for yourself? Would you like 10 percent of God? Or would you like all of God? Raise your hands those who would like 10 percent of God. And for the second option, raise your hand. If you do not raise your hands, I will not continue speaking. [Laughter.] You must think that God likes those who say “I resemble God.” If we consider the person who says that God resembles him, could we say that, like that person, God’s mind and body are in conflict? God will never have conflict within Himself. In order for someone to say that God resembles him, he must first have harmonious unity between his mind and body ten times greater than the unity that exists within God.
It is a problem that in this satanic world-with its tremendous inclination toward selfishness, individualism, and ego-centrism-there are ambitious people who still say that God has to resemble them. This is a big problem that causes dis-unity in the family. Do you have unity of mind and body? Thus, the main question for the world now is when are we going to have unity of mind and body? Both our mind and body are the problem. It is not a problem of just the sons and daughters. It is the whole family’s problem. The fiercest war–even more so than the world wars-is the war between mind and body. From the beginning of time, from the beginning of history, this war has never ceased.
God’s mind and body are absolutely and eternally united. Then, how can He solve the problem of mind and body unity in humankind? The problem is that the mentality that “I am better than everyone” does not allow the body to follow the mind, which is always saying that we must resemble God. The body says, no, no, no. If this continues, there cannot be progress. Human beings do not know that they are facing a war. We are soldiers standing on the front line and yet do not perceive the battle. I want you to know that you are at war.
What day is today? Today is Kae-Cheon Jeol [Foundation Day (for the Nation of the Unified World)]. What does it mean to make such a declaration? What do we want to do with this? This proclamation was made to open the way for the individual, for the world, and for God to reach the people so that they can begin walking the path to unite mind and body. We have to receive the seal of approval. We have to become physical and spiritual parents who are united in mind and body. Then we can become people whom God can love, who can truly live in the Kingdom of God on earth. Such a person has direct access to the Kingdom of Heaven, because once they receive the seal of approval for resembling God internally and externally, they will follow that way eternally. They will be children of God’s direct lineage.
Why do we talk so much about True Parents in the Unification Church? Who is God? Who are True Parents? If you truly resembled God and True Parents, your mind and body would automatically be united. Do you absolutely need God? [Yes.] We absolutely need God because He is our invisible Parent, the Parent of our heart. God is the True Parent in the world of the heart. The True Parents are the visible parents, the horizontal parents. If you hold on to God and True Parents, you can eternally become filial children of God with infinite, indestructible power.
To be born as the sons and daughters of God’s direct lineage, we should have been born of a father and mother who were united in the true love of God. We should have been born without mind and body conflict, but because of the fall the mind, as a positive, unites with God and the body, as another positive, unites with Satan. This causes a tremendous conflict, a war that human beings alone find impossible to resolve. That is why religions came about. Mankind needs to learn how to discipline and dominate the body. Religions ask that we fast, that we make conditions to be humble and to serve others. We must punish and conquer the physical body. Our main task and problem is to enable our mind to lead our body eternally-to stop the rebelliousness of the body and allow our spirit to control it.
When you are going to do something wrong, doesn’t your mind or conscience tell you not to do it? Isn’t this true? It is exactly those things that the mind tells you not to do that the body often ends up doing. Religion came about so that it could eradicate this problem.
If Adam and Eve had married without having fallen they would have inherited God’s love. They would have inherited God’s original lineage. They would thus have been lineal children of God and they would have become true parents. But because of the fall, all of this was destroyed and needs to be restored. This requires a lot of sacrifice, as Jesus taught by saying that those who are willing to give up their lives would gain them and those who seek to preserve their lives would lose them. We have to subjugate this body that is Satan’s camp of activities. We have to make this body obey the directions of the mind at any cost. At the root of all the conflicts and problems in the world is the division between mind and body-the struggle within each individual. Without solving the problem within each individual we can never establish peace and harmony or end global conflict. Even if the world were quiet and in harmony, if such a struggle were to continue within human beings, it would be just a matter of time before conflict, division and war emerged again.
We cannot experience an ideal relationship if there is no subject and object. There should always be vertical unity between the mind and the body. The mind is vertical, the body is horizontal. When there is a vertical angle between a person’s mind and body, he is at peace and he sleeps in peace. If the angle is slightly off, he cannot rest peacefully. Only if true love can realize this 90 degree angle can God embrace the whole world in all directions. God enters man through his heart and comes out through his descendants. Between husband and wife, also, God circulates on a horizontal plane, and between brothers and sisters on another plane. The vertical and horizontal, plus the front and back together form a perfect sphere. The fall means that the angles deviated. All fallen people exhibit an imperfect angle. Through the fall we inherited warped love, lineage, and life. An ideal per-son is one who has good relationships in all directions-with his father, his wife, his brothers and sisters, for example. He should be rounded and his character must be ideal, spherical. He must also resemble the true invisible father, which is God.
The Unification Church was created so that people could correct their angle. Those people who perfect their angle and alter their character so that they become ideal people are the blessed families. Therefore, we have to become children of God who are absolute, unique, eternal and unchanging. We have to create families that are absolute, unique, eternal and unchanging also. Because God’s home was destroyed, the True Father, who is on earth, created the Unification Church and the Family Federation for World Peace.
SACRIFICE FOR THE LARGER LEVEL
God is absolute. When He gives, He does so absolutely. That is like the ideal relationship between husband and wife. When a man and woman give everything of themselves, and empty themselves, they will be filled up again.
Parents in the fallen world always give, don’t they? But they sometimes say that their children are not grateful because they give and give and their giving is not recognized. God on the other hand, gives and gives absolutely and will continue giving eternally. He never remembers what He has given and will never wait for you to give to Him. To be infinite, God Himself must give and give infinitely. Someone’s value is equal to however much he gives. If you give 10,000 times, that is your value. Both husband and wife desire that the other be much better than themselves. What about parents? Do they want their children to be better than them-selves? If the parents are that way, then brothers and sisters also desire the same. Peace will therefore result in the home, and consequently there will be peace in the world. Only when every family resembles God, when they give and give without ceasing, will world peace be realized.
If we live that way we can become the center of the family. The reason God is the center of the universe is because He began giving and will continue giving infinitely. This is a divine principle. For instance, the president of a country should dedicate himself for all the people-not only for the wealthy, but for the laborers, the city workers, the poor, for everyone. He should give of himself, sacrifice himself for everyone’s sake. That is the way a public person should live. What about Brazil? For Brazil to become the central nation of the world, this kind of leader and citizen who can constantly give out must appear.
Today there are many young people here-new people, parents, children, brothers and sisters. This is a message for you. If you live with this principle of giving and sacrificing for others, for your family, your country, Latin America, the world, you will be remembered. Your name will be pronounced and respected by your family, your nation and the entire world. There is one thing I want to ask of you. Forget what you give. Those who always give and give can win God over. Never stop giving. Do you know that this is true? [Yes, it’s true.] Then, a wonderful, glorious Brazil will emerge from here. This means that from this day on there is hope because of you. You are all young and there is a lot to be done. If you are of the mind to leave Brazil, to go out to all of Latin America, give out and forget, and give and sacrifice, then you will become the leaders of Latin America and of the whole world. God Himself will be like a most wonderful brother to you, and have a direct connection with you. He will be able to give you everything. Raise your hand those who would like to become a central figure, a chosen person in God’s providence. If you have ten members in your family and you sacrifice completely for them, and give everything to them, then you will be the central person in your family; you will become the heir of all that your parents and siblings own. If you live that way, your whole family will love you. You are going to become the central person among your relatives, the best among them. You will be the patriot of patriots in the nation, the saint of saints in the world and will give to others like God Himself. You will continue in that spirit for eternity.
The most precious and valuable thing that we have is true love and that is what I am. here for. I am here to give and give infinitely and without limit, and that is the purpose of the Unification Church. When I arrived here the Brazilian people wondered why I had come, but I came with the heart to rep-resent God. I am a brother, a father, a son and a friend and I want to give everything to this country. Do you understand now what I am doing in Jardim? In the beginning, everyone was against me and criticized me, but now everyone likes me.
I will never change. I will always sacrifice myself. Since I began, my mission has been always to teach unselfishness and how to overcome individualism and egocentrism. This is what I have taught so many young people. Yet, when their parents saw the drastic change in their children, they accused me of kidnapping them.
All nations want to be the world’s central country, but they have to fulfill three important conditions. If Brazil would like to become the central nation of the world, it must take responsibility for the world. Everyone wants to be the best, but you have to take responsibility. To take responsibility, Brazil has to invest more than 30 percent of its resources and land to help the people of the world who are in hunger and need. Since I came to Latin America, everyone here has been asking for something. They are asking for help. So I am incurring debts elsewhere in order to help the people here. We have to work three times longer than the normal amount of time, therefore. Are we going to advance or are we going to go backwards? [Advance!] We have the philosophy in the Unification Church that we are not people who die and consider that the end of everything. We are linked to God and eternal life; therefore, we are going to continue working for eternity.
BECOMING A CENTRAL PERSON
How long have I been speaking? [One hour.] I spoke for three hours to the leaders earlier this morning, and now one hour here. I speak like this every day. Yet I am 78 years old,
and some of you may be thinking, “How is it that this old man keeps moving and speaking, and doesn’t think of stop-ping? How can he endure? Doesn’t the old man think about dying?” Would you like to be healthy like Reverend Moon? [Amen!] If you want such health you must do exercises. I do seven minutes of exercise that has the effect of exercising for three hams. I could make a lot of money just by teaching this technique to the world. But if I were to teach all of you this, none of you would pay me anything-therefore I will not teach you anything! [Laughter.]
It is about time I used a cane for walking. I have strong legs, however, and I am full of energy. I walk as if I were young, firmly, as if I were in the prime of life. I do not wear out my shoes unevenly, and even the old people say, “Where is that young man going?” There are people who walk in strange ways, but I walk perfectly straight.
Throughout history women could not find a true brother, a true man, a true husband, a true father or a true king. Therefore, God sent the True Father as a model to teach men how they should relate with women. Those who abuse women will go directly to hell. In relating with men, I have the desire to love them also as a brother, a father, a grandfather, and an elder brother. Because Eve fell first and I have to restore Eve before men, there were many incidents that caused men to come against me. For that reason a lot of persecution began, and I had to endure a lot of suffering. Both men and women have remained in such a situation on account of the fall. I have to love women as sisters, daughters, and mothers. Women are in the position of Eve. Men are in the position of Archangel. They inherited the blood and the body itself of the Archangel. Thus they do not have the conditions or unity
with Adam to restore the Archangel. Through the blessing, the True Father authorizes a man to take the role of Adam and participate with Eve in establishing a family. It is not possible to achieve restoration with only one Adam for all women. People must become the sons and daughters who can become godly kings and queens through the blessing.
A man has the desire to form one of God’s families, a true family in which his wife is qualified as a daughter of God, the wife of God and the mother of God; that is what a man hopes for in marriage. I have the responsibility to enable the women to become true daughters of God, true sisters, wives, mothers and queens. To accomplish this, they should follow my guidance for three years so that I can educate them. The question is how are they going to take dominion over those three years.
To become a central person, or a central nation, we must first take responsibility. Second, we have to be protective. The president of a nation is there to protect the people from their difficulties. He is not there to take their money for himself and later on escape. When I had to confront the indictment of the court in the United States, which was an issue of taxes, I was in Korea. They were certain that if they indicted me I would not come back to the United States. But to stand as the central figure, I had to take responsibility to protect America. I could not abandon that nation. That is why I returned to the United States.
The third point is to raise, cultivate, educate and mold people to become better than others. There are many people in the world who want to be leaders, but if they are not thinking of taking responsibility, and of how to protect, expand and cultivate, they are cheats and liars. In order to take dominion over the environment and to become lords of the environment, we have to take responsibility to protect and expand. This principle can also be applied to the Kingdom of Heaven. If we live and work with such a mentality, assuming responsibility to protect everything, will it be a problem to build the Kingdom of Heaven or not? Then, as we said before, you must take responsibility to protect, educate and raise people. Thus, if you are sleeping but Father wakes you up at 3:00 a.m. to educate and teach you, will you listen? Are you going to accept it? We are going to work to build families that God likes. Do you welcome this? We have to resemble God internally-and also externally, through our way of life and behavior. Then we are going to become true owners representing True Parents and eternal beings. Those who would like to become a person who resembles God raise your hands and promise to do it. Raise your hands with strength!
You are blessed, aren’t you? Such a blessing is for the prosperity of Brazil. It is late, we are getting hungry and I do not have the same strength as before. Then, if someone made you miss your lunch would you think badly of him? Or would you forgive him? I am not going to delay any longer, and I ask your forgiveness if I say farewell now. I ask God for His blessing so that you can enjoy your lunch.
If I say that I will visit your home, will you prepare a meal for me? [Yes.] How many times per year? [365 days!] If you are ready to invite Father to have dinner in your home once a month, and because I do not have time to go, what you have to do is invite a homeless person-a poor person who lives nearby-as if he were rile. Please feed him once a month. In this way, God’s blessing will always be in your home. It will never perish.
May God bless you!