Father’s speech on May 4, 1997 at belvedere international training center Tarrytown, New York
Is there any volunteer to read Father’s title this morning? Please repeat after me: Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. Chukbok kajung means blessed couple; Saegae means world or cosmos; means period or era. The Cosmic Era of Blessed Families.
Even if you become a couple, without producing children you cannot form a blessed family. Therefore, it is important that we understand the term ‘blessed family.” It does not just mean a blessed couple. In the family there should be grandparents, parents, children and grandchildren.
Ordinarily, secular people do not understand what we mean by cosmos. This is our own unique term. The cosmos includes the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven. It means the unification of both worlds.
If we use the term “cosmos” people do not understand, therefore, I use the word saegae or world. Internally, we should understand the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification to mean: the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification-the Cosmic Era of Blessed Families. This title has recently been given to you. The Family Federation for Cosmic Peace and Unification includes within it the meaning of the Unification Church as an individual entity. It includes the individual, unification, and church. What is the subject centering upon the individual? (The mind.) Where do you as an individual fit into this title: cosmos? peace? unification? Family Federation? Where? (Family.)
“I” can represent the whole. Therefore, I can say that “I” represent the entire cosmos. I represent unification. I represent the Family Federation. I represent the cosmic era. I represent the blessed family movement. Subject and object, plus and minus have equal value.
“I” can represent the cosmos, peace, unification and even God. I can represent the Kingdom of God on earth as well as in heaven. Do you follow? What about your eyes? This eye can represent me. Even your nose can represent you. Your ear, mouth, hand, foot and even a small cell in your arm can rep-resent the whole of yourself as a human being.
MAKE UNIFICATION YOUR GOAL
A man’s sexual organ can represent manhood. You can represent the universe. In love, what comes together in order to create love? (Male and female sexual organs.) Man is a big plus and woman is a big minus. [Father draws a diagram on the board.] The meeting point between husband and wife is the small plus and small minus. The whole man is a big plus and the whole woman is a big minus, but when they make love, the small plus and small minus come together and become one. There are billions of cells in your body, but this small organ represents all your cells and organs. When you make love, don’t you think that the cells in your body become active? (Yes.) Everything works towards one goal of unification. Where plus and minus come together, peace is created. When this phenomenon occurs, the base for a family is established. The extension of this is the man’s world and the woman’s world. It extends further to the cosmic level. [Father continues to draw on the board.] This is the very beginning point for building the Kingdom of God on earth. That is why love is so precious.
Please remember that there is only one vertical line. There is just one central point, never two. The horizontal and vertical lines should be perpendicular. Centering upon that central point, if this vertical line and this horizontal line begin to move around in a circular motion, then the entire universe will begin to revolve. In that center,’ we can find God as well as the family of God. That center represents everything that we can imagine. We should understand this concept clearly.
No matter how small a woman may be, she should have confidence that she is the representative of the entire female world. The same is true for a man. You can even think that you represent your grandmother and all your ancestors. As a woman, you represent all the mothers who went before you as well as all the wives in your time period. As a woman, you also represent all the elder and younger sisters in the world. Any woman has a lineage. If we are able .to pull her lineage out, don’t you think that all the female ancestors would be pulled out? Although they may stretch out like a rubber band, they are not disconnected but rather form part of the same line. In your mind, you should desire to become the representative of the entire humanity and the entire world. You should desire to become a queen of queens, grandmother, mother, wife, daughter, and sister-the representative of all female figures.
You ugly men have the same feeling don’t you? If I were to pull your lineage line out like a rubber band, then your father, grandfather, and great grandfather, all the way back to Adam would be pulled out also. Do you understand?
Therefore, you are the representatives of all the male and female figures throughout history. If God comes down here and sees what is happening, do you think He would be happy to see only one tribal lineage, or would He look for the lineage all the way back to Adam and Eve? (All the way back.) If you want to provide the road for God to travel, would you like to offer your lineage zig-zagging all the way to Adam, or a straight superhighway lineage back to Adam? (Straight superhighway.) If you want to do that, then you have to make sure that you become a good enough representative so that your entire ancestry will support you in one line. You should not live in a zig-zag fashion. Once you build this superhighway, it should be straight and wide all the way to the end. It should not be both wide and narrow. Because of the fall of man, this road is sometimes upside down and so narrow in places that one cannot pass.
FOLLOW THE STRAIGHT COURSE
In our teaching we use the term “individual truth body.” Within our body there are over 40 billion cells. If each of these cells insisted on being the best and doing whatever it wished, could we exist as a human being? (No.) If each of the cells in your eyes and nose began to insist that it is better than the others, or insist on its own way, we would have trouble. Which of the 40 billion cells could claim to be the best? The love organ cell. Repeat after me, love organ cell. (Love organ cell.) Wow! People might claim that the Unification Church is heretical because Reverend Moon always speaks about sexual organs, but in reality we are not heretics. Do you feel this is real? (Yes.) If you truly understand and believe in my message, would the cells in your sexual organ be ashamed or give a loud mansei? (Mansei!)
Even among the sexual organ cells there are plus and minus. Which kind is the mainstream cell? (Plus.) If there are only plus cells then there would be no continuation. The plus cells in your sexual organ should claim that they are living for the minus cells and that their ultimate goal is to meet the minus cells. The minus cells should claim the same thing about the plus cells. With this desire, once the plus and minus cells come together and become totally one, then as a combined being they will explode like a rocket. They will become so powerful because they want to occupy the love center, which is God. The power of love is like that. Do you think that two minus cells would unite with one plus cell, or would there be only one partner? (Only one.) Yes, only one plus and one minus, not two. One partner means an absolute, unchanging being. Love has that kind of content. Therefore, do you understand the concept I have explained?
This concept of the cosmic era of the blessed family includes all the explanations which I have just given to you. Also, the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification is included here. Now I want to pose a question to you. Have you been seeking this one-to-one cellular love life, like the egg and sperm cells, or have you deviated and entertained different thoughts? Have you followed the straight way, the highway of one cell to one cell? If you are the one plus cell and ten minus cells appear, will you welcome them or reject them? (Reject.) Among all the billions of cells within our sexual organ, there should be a kingly plus cell and a queenly minus cell, truly centered upon God. But have you supported, strengthened and widened this super-highway, or have you deviated and held back? This is the question you need to ask yourselves. If ten queenly minus cells appear, a single plus cell cannot deal with all of them. In order to deal with them, you would have to have ten sets of eyes, ten sets of ears, ten noses, etc. It would be too complicated. Absolute unification can never occur under such circumstances. Do you understand?
Blessed couples, show your hands. Amazingly, everyone is blessed! Have you blessed couples been living up to the standard of these king and queen cells, or have you lived like help-less shrimps caught in a net? What kind of life experiences have you had? Do you understand what I am trying to say? A woman’s net exists in order to catch a man. There is also a man’s net which exists to catch a woman. You end up like shrimp caught in the fishing net. Have you been caught in one of these nets and have your activities been limited because of it, or have you been totally free from these nets and lived as king and queen cells, uniting and exploding like a rocket? Have you been living like a fish in a net or like a rocket? (Rock-et.) If you pull up a shrimp net, there are usually many dead shrimp in it. Some are alive, but they are weak. How miserable people are in the world because of such nets! Even though this handsome gentleman’s hair is very ugly; still his hair desires to live like a king and queen cell. Don’t you think that the hair would think that way?
If all the 40 billion cells in your body were to complain against you, what would be your destination, heaven or hell? (Hell.) The bottom of hell. The dividing line between heaven and hell is within the sexual organ. The sexual organ is the most fearful and also the most precious place. If you follow the king and queen cell road, it will lead to the most precious place. Do you want to find the most fearful place or the most precious place? (Precious.) Those who are willing to follow the precious way; the king and queen way of life, please show your hands.
The world around us is filled with free-sex advocates. Do we find anyone like you out in the secular world? (No.) Do you have confidence in that? (Yes.) Thumbs up or thumbs down? (Thumbs up.) There may have been some zig-zag lines caused by past wrongdoing, but from this time on, since I have pro-claimed the cosmic era of blessed families, we have to straighten everything out.
TRUE PARENTS ARE LIKE TRUE LOVE CELLS
What is the meaning of “True Father” and what does it mean to you? True Father represents the true king cell, and True Mother represents the true queen cell. True Father represents plus and True Mother represents minus. Don’t you think that they should have the same direction when they unite? (Yes.) [Father draws on the board.] This upper section represents plus and minus centered upon God, and this lower section represents plus and minus centered upon True Father and True Mother. Circular movement should center upon the central meeting point of the vertical and horizontal lines. This is the central point where all the billions and billions of cells become united representing the individual, family, society, nation and world.
But if we cut this in half vertically, one side represents the big plus and the other side the big minus. Once this big plus and big minus combine into one, the entire being becomes united; therefore, circular movement occurs. Do you understand?
The meaning of “True Parents” can be traced all the way back to the cell level. The king plus cell and queen minus cell must become absolutely one. Then from that point on, individually and as a couple, True Parents should win the victory at each level-the cellular level, individual level, couple level, family level, national level, worldwide level-and eventually become totally one with God. That is why establishing our blessed family is a prerequisite in order to build the Kingdom of God. Even True Parents have to build the ideal family first.
When your body takes a certain direction for a particular purpose, your mind knows what is happening. If it is a wrong direction, your mind may say, “You, eyes, why do you look in that direction? You, nose, why do you smell in that direction?” Your mind knows what they are looking for. Is this not true? (Yes.)
I am referring to world level completion and even cosmic level completion centering upon the family. Even the Family Federation is centered upon the family-God’s family, my family, your family. If there is even one cell among the 40 billion cells of a blessed individual that is complaining and demonstrating against you, then you cannot build the original family. At the cosmic level, each family is like one cell representing the whole body. Each family represents all the families of the cosmos.
UPHOLD ABSOLUTE FAITH, LOVE AND OBEDIENCE
Each person in your family knows which direction is right. If your family is heading in the wrong direction, the minds of your family members should know. If the father and mother are doing something wrong, then the children and other family members should know about it. If the elder brother is doing something wrong, then even the younger brother would know that. Then how can we take care of these problems? God has given the motto of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience. This should be our daily motto. Our entire family should live centered upon this motto because this is the road that the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification-the Cosmic Era of Blessed Families won.
Don’t you think that God has cells? At the time of creation, don’t you think that God had cells? God wanted His creation to become totally united. Therefore, He made certain that He created upon the foundation of absolute faith, love and obedience. That was God’s aim and target. Everything was focused upon that goal. That was the first concept. [Father writes on the board.] The substantial creation is in the position of minus. God’s focus, His mental unity, was in the position of plus. This was displayed in His creation from the mineral kingdom, to the plant kingdom, animal kingdom and so forth. We can find plus/ minus relationships within all of these kingdoms. Since God created on the basis of absolute faith, love and obedience, our life must be centered upon this standard also. As plus and minus, we should uphold the absolute standard. The absolute standard of plus and minus also applies to the relationship between the spiritual world and physical world. The vertical oneness between the spiritual and physical worlds should be manifested horizontally within ourselves. Then we can see plus and minus in a vertical way, and plus and minus in a horizontal way. These two relationships meet at the core. In this center we can find God, Adam, Eve and the entire creation. Do you understand? Therefore, in order to solve any problems that might occur, God gave us this daily motto of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. Unless we strictly follow this commandment, our lives will become more complicated.
This is why God gave His commandment to Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. What does the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil mean? The woman’s sexual organ. The woman’s fruit is good or evil, depending on her partner. If you have a relationship with the boss of the Mafia then you will produce the son of the Mafia. If you have a relationship with your king, then you will produce a prince. That is why God told them not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
How many male figures existed in the Garden of Eden? God, Adam, and three archangels. How many female figures were there? (One.) This was the problem. Originally God and Adam were to become totally united and then Adam was to become one with Eve. But instead, Eve became one with one of the archangel figures.
God wanted to take Eve as His bride once she grew to maturity. But God also realized that there were four other male figures besides Himself. Therefore, wasn’t it natural for God to give the warning to Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil? (Yes.) What is it then? The fruit meant woman’s sexual organ. What kind of warning did God intend to give? Do you think that God would be concerned about a literal fruit in the Garden of Eden, or Eve’s sexual organ? (Eve’s sexual organ.)
In the secular world, inventions are usually created by one person and then utilized by others. For example, Great Britain came up with many inventions, but Germany took them and utilized them more than England did. Whoever utilizes something usually becomes the owner. Even though I may invent something, if you truly take this invention and utilize it more fully than I do, then you can become the owner. Don’t you want to see your children become greater than yourself? (Yes.) Yes, every parent feels this way. Likewise, everyone wants to be greater than their ancestors.
The five main figures in the Garden of Eden all paid attention to one woman. Therefore, a literal fruit has no place in this story. Even Adam had to wait until that fruit became ripe. If he took that fruit before it was ripened it would rot. There-fore, Adam had to wait until God gave him permission to take that fruit. When the fruit of good and evil ripened, God wanted to enter Adam and dwell within him, becoming totally one with him, and then take that ripened fruit. That was God’s desire. As a big plus, God wanted to meet a big minus and build a relationship of marriage with a big minus as a big plus. Don’t you think that God wanted to have this kind of vertical and horizontal explosion through taking His bride in a love relationship?
Once that kind of explosion took place in Adam’s mind and heart, it would go around in all directions centered upon God. Would that kind of explosion zig-zag or would it explode centered upon God and Adam? Because absolute settlement should be one vertical settlement, it cannot be swayed. It is centered upon one dot. Without establishing this absolute vertical settlement, there will always be a zig-zag line swaying in different directions. If this absolute settlement does not take place, there is room for free sex. Also incest will occur between grand-parents and grandchildren and even mother and son. Far too many complications would occur without this absolute settlement. However, there is a loss of direction and many complicated phenomena in America today. Is the world around us a peaceful world centered upon God, or is it all confused? (Confused.) That is what is called free sex.
What is the meaning of lesbian and homosexual? We have to end that behavior. Actually, once man’s sexual organ is cut off then woman’s sexual organ has no use. When this kind of dirty relationship is taking place between human beings, God cannot be happy. The secular world is like a dung heap. As the lord of all creation, are we seeking that kind of world? (No.) As human beings, we should mobilize our 40 billion cells and clean up these dirty places. Would you women want sewage water to be poured over you? (No.) What about men, do you want to be soaked in that kind of dirty water? (No.) Only Satan and dung-eating dogs go after that. God created human beings and they should stay away from it.
There are certain kinds of dogs that go after dung and eat it. Therefore, the term dog, or sometimes S.O.B., is used to speak badly of human beings. People who love dung-eating dogs must have some problem. If they truly love dung-eating dogs, they become like them and produce that quality of life. Such dogs smell bad. Do you want to be dose to them or far away? (Far away.) American people want to get away in their minds, but their bodies are still being pulled by these dung-eating dogs. Free sex activity is equivalent to this.
MAKE AN ABSOLUTE COMMITMENT OF LOVE
Without the daily motto of absolute faith, love and obedience, even: God cannot solve the problems within humanity. That is why God gave us this guide. This is the first encounter between the king and queen sexual organ cells. [Father points to a diagram on the board.] At this meeting point, your mind, body and all 40 billion cells are focused, pulled in and poured in there. That is what is known as first love. Based upon first love the entire 40 billion cells begin dancing. If you reach that level through your love, then all 40 billion cells in your blood and body will become harmonized into one. This is total unification. The husband’s body belongs to the wife and the wife’s body belongs to the husband. God will come to that place of absolute partnership and become one. Absolute man and absolute woman combine into an absolute couple and then combine with God to make one body. After they become one body with God, everything belongs to that one body forever. Centering upon true love everything becomes mine; American land is mine, etc. Not all human beings have that kind of ambition. Do you understand? (Yes.)
Do you need this concept? (Yes.) You know the meaning. The first love intercourse becomes the unification place. On their wedding night just prior to the first love-making, husband and wife should ask each other if they each have absolute faith in one another. When they ask each other, “Do you believe in me?” what should be their answer? (Yes.) Do you want to do that also? (Yes.) Don’t you want to ask your spouse if he or she absolutely loves you? (Yes.) Then centering upon your absolute love, don’t you want to ask your spouse if he or she wants to give you his/her absolute obedience? (Yes.) The husband’s absolute love partner is his wife. The wife’s absolute love partner is her husband. You need unification between husband and wife. That is why the name of Unification Church emerged. Then is the name of Unification Church good or bad? (Good.) What about its contents? (They are great!)
Once you reach absolute unification as husband and wife, based upon absolute faith, love and obedience, then you will have the right to ask God if He wants to have absolute faith in you. Then God will come and bow to you and say, “Yes my son, I will have absolute faith in you.” Then you may reply, “What about absolute love and obedience; will You offer these to me?” Then God will bow His head and give you that. No matter how high God is, He absolutely needs His absolute love partner. As soon as God recognizes you as His absolute partner, He will come and embrace you and never let you go. God exists in eternity. Within God, you will have eternity as well, because you will become one with God centered upon love. That means you will become the owner of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, in oneness with God. By doing so, we can achieve the world of eternal peace and unification. Do you follow? (Yes.)
My topic today is: The Cosmic Era of Blessed Families. When all the five billion people of the world truly understand my teaching, will they want to center their family on my teaching and my love, or will they continue the secular-style family? (Father’s way.) My teaching can establish the mainstream family system for everyone to follow. Even within this audience I can see five different colors. Are you colored by my teaching or do you still maintain your own unique color? (Father’s color.) Do you white brothers and sisters welcome or reject black brothers and sisters? (Welcome.) Why do you welcome them? (Because we love them.) Even as a white race you need the color black and vice versa. If day represents the color white and night represents the color black, don’t you think that day needs night? (Yes.) What do you need more, daytime or night-time? (Both.) [Laughter] When do people ordinarily make love? During the daytime or nighttime? (Nighttime.) On Fifth Avenue in New York City people are rushing back and forth during the daytime. However, after midnight they all disappear. For what? To go home and find their love partner. To find their true love place. This means their family. The family is where love settles eternally. Then which one is more important, day time or nighttime? (Nighttime.) You black brothers and sisters should shout mansei! (Mansei!) [Father begins to draw on the board.]
In the field we see a tree growing. Does that tree exist only above the ground or does it also have an invisible part? (It has both.) Then the upper, visible section represents daytime, and the lower section deep within the earth represents nighttime. Which one is more important? (Nighttime.) [Laughter] Don’t laugh. I am giving you a very good example. If your root system is not strong enough, it makes no difference what color your face is or how proud you are, because within a few days you will collapse if your foundation is not strong enough.
SPRING HAS COME
This Western civilization is now being crushed because it represents the culture. of autumn. When the winter culture appears, the autumn culture will be completely buried. As long as you have strong roots you can expect the following spring. These are the Last Days when the Lord of the Second Advent will come to this world and give us the new spring culture. The spring culture is now on the earth.
We are now in the month of May and everything is blooming. From now on the Unification Church will prosper. Do you like that? This is the world of spring culture. After the fall, we lost the spring culture world and summer culture world. During these last forty years, I was persecuted by the cold winter wind. Do you understand? The satanic world called me bad, but from God’s perspective I am good. Which one do you choose? (Good.) Without heaven and God, you cannot connect with this good guy. Even Satan’s color is bad. How can we change that back to God’s side? Fallen people need to belong to God’s world and change this world back to God’s world. Do you understand? Otherwise, you will always be opposite to God’s side; you will belong to Satan’s side and Satan’s tribe. You have to clearly understand. this point. Do you understand?
Even after the severe winter wind and snow, I have sprung out this much [pointing to the board]. My root system is strong enough to hold a tree several thousand feet high. Now that springtime has come to the Unification Church this tree will grow infinitely and limitlessly. [Applause] When my tree is growing so rapidly, don’t you want to be a branch or twig on it? Do you want to become a branch the size of America or just a tiny branch? (A huge branch.) Compared to the cosmos, America appears no bigger than your little finger. As Unification Church blessed couples, you need to grow your minds as big as the cosmos. Since the root is big enough to hold any size of tree, then even if any persecution hits you as a small branch, because this root system is strong, you will continue to grow. The more you get hit, the bigger tree you will become, and even God will be there. Therefore, do you welcome persecution or not? (Yes.)
During the last forty years of my life, I didn’t even show myself above ground, but I made sure that the roots were strong and secure. No one likes nighttime; therefore, I took the night-time and made a strong enough foundation to restore the entire world. That has been my goal for these last forty years. Amen. (Amen!) I am willing to continue this for three hours but if we do so, someone might have a heart attack. [Laughter] Do you understand my message this morning? (Yes.)
EVERYTHING AIMS FOR THE CENTRAL POINT
We are incomplete beings. Isn’t that true? (Yes.) Do you think that God has hope in Reverend Moon? (Yes, absolutely.) The vertical and horizontal lines are limitless, expanding eternally. [Father draws on the board.] This is the aim and goal for all people and all creation. Here, plus and minus begin to grow and form families. Everything is aiming toward the central point. Above this line is the spiritual world.
Those in the spirit world have to come down to this central point, while men and women on earth should go up to meet this central point.
As a man grows and reaches this point, [pointing to the diagram on the board] he should realize that he needs to move in the direction of the central point, because this straight line does not have the ability to create harmony. The same principle applies to a woman. As soon as she reaches this point [pointing to the diagram], she should turn and come towards this central point. Once this minus reaches maturity, she will automatically be pulled by this mature plus figure. Do you understand?
While they remain in the immature stage their pulling strength is weak, but once they reach maturity both will have strong pulling power to pull each other towards the center. Each has to cover this much distance to become one in this central point. What kind of power does it take to bring them into absolute unity? As a human being our goal is to build this original family. As a man and worn.an we have to become an original couple. That is why we all have to come to this central point. God’s goal is to find His own ideal family.
When boys and girls become mature, they naturally find ways to come closer to one another and find each other. They don’t need instruction. Didn’t you ladies have such an experience? Girls appear to be very quiet and subtle and don’t even look at boys. However, if there are three boys, you immediate-1 y are able to select which one you would like for your ideal partner. [Laughter] You have the ability to make that kind of comparison and choice do you not? (Yes.) I don’t know because I am not a woman. [Laughter] No matter how famous a man might be, he has to learn through woman. This time I want to learn something too. [Laughter]
You men have the same experience, right? You are like thieves because you are the descendants of the archangel. Who is stronger, man or woman? Who do you think raped whom in the Garden of Eden? Do you think Eve raped Adam or did Adam pull Eve towards him and rape her? Which one? Usu-ally the crime of rape is tried in a court. Have you heard of any case where a woman forcibly took a man and raped him? (No.) I have never heard of such a case, how about you? (No.) Therefore, the conclusion is simple: men are in the wrong. When a woman pulls you for whatever purpose, do you have to follow her voluntarily with joy and happiness, or do you have to resist that pull through exerting your strength, using your foot as a brake? Even if you use your foot as a brake to resist but someone is still able to pull you away from yourself, then that person is a robber or a thief.
In the secular world, if a man seduces a woman and she voluntarily follows that man, then no crime has been commit-ted according to secular law. Suppose a woman has a true lover, but sometimes she feels lonely. Don’t you think that she will sometimes yearn for her true lover and desire that he come and take her? When you look deeply into a person’s eyes you can find out what she wants. There is a way of measuring a woman by looking into her eyes. At first she might half close her eyes in looking at you, but as soon as she feels open to you or comfortable with you, she will look fully back at you. If she becomes crazy about you, then her eyeballs will speak. [Laughter] That is the signal and the time for you to pull her towards you and she will voluntarily come. According to the standard of the secular world, that is not a crime; it is not rape.
The same principle applies to men. When you women look at a man, observe his eyes and mouth because they are in the partner position. If his eyes and mouth smile together when he looks at you, that is a good sign. Then you can confidently call him and he will follow you. Even animals have certain signals to call one another.
Everyone aims for this central point [pointing to the diagram on the board]. God, man, woman, family–everyone wants to enter this central point. The process goes through eight different stages. Yet whatever your stage, the center is the same vertical line and God will begin coming down to meet this central point. This is also God’s aim. Do you understand?
The vertical and horizontal lines represent the entire cosmos. The center point is where the vertical and horizontal lines meet. That center is your family. At the central point where God, man and woman meet, there is only one thing to be done and that is to establish a family. This is the place where God’s most favored son and daughter, our original ancestors, Adam and Eve are being restored.
RESIST TEMPTATION
Adam and Eve were supposed to go through this process of maturing and reaching the center with God. Did God create two women and one man, or two men and one woman, or one man and one woman? (One man and one woman.) Do you think that was based upon God’s eternal formula, or some-thing God established temporarily? (Eternal formula.) Adam and Eve were the representatives of the entire cosmos. Suppose we had two grandmothers and one grandfather in our ancestry, what kind of result would we have today? Would there have been peace or fighting between these two grandmothers? (Fighting.) Would the grandfather also be involved? Surely he would have trouble too. This would certainly not be a place of happiness. Instead, it would be hell.
When Eve was tempted and deceived by the archangel, do you think she voluntarily followed him or did she resist? (Voluntarily.) Imagine if you will, Adam as a young boy in the Garden of Eden, wild and running around investigating everything and leaving Eve by herself. They were both naked and unashamed originally. As Eve’s body was maturing, suddenly the archangel approached her with an evil intent in his heart. Sometimes Eve would sit on the lap of the archangel and their sexual organs would be quite close to one another. They were accustomed to seeing the animals around them mating and caring for their young. Then, in a flick of a second, a relationship easily occurred between them. The archa1,1gel took interest in such phenomena so action was taken. It is that easy to fall into an illicit relationship of love.
As a young strong man, if you had a pretty, naked woman sitting on your lap, don’t you think that you would experience the same temptation? (Yes.) In order to fulfill restoration through indemnity, no matter if a beautiful naked woman is touching your body, your love organ should not become erect. Rather, it should remain lifeless, without feeling. That is the action for indemnity. If that most beautiful woman attempts to touch your love organ and place it inside her, then you have to kick her about a thousand miles away. If you were to kick her so hard that she landed some place far away and immediately died, do you think God would punish you for that? (No.) Would God praise or punish you? (Praise.) That would be an act of self-defense. [Laughter] You are all laughing, but you should be able to do that. Those of you who have the confidence to do so, raise your hands. (Yes. We can do it.) Just because you know this truth which I have taught you this morning, you have confidence. But without knowing this, you would have no such confidence. By giving one strong kick to such a woman and sending her away, you would possess the entire universe. Heaven and earth would then belong to you. Don’t you want to do that then? (Yes, absolutely.)
If you ladies can also practice that kind of principled life, then God will come down as your husband. That is the world where you no longer need any commandment.
GAIN THE QUALIFICATION TO RECEIVE Goo’s LOVE
The center represents the ideal family which God, Adam, and Eve all long for. This original ideal family has to expand through eight stages, including the family, tribe, society, nation, world, and cosmos. No matter how much it expands, your individual family is the representative of the entire cosmos. That is how your family becomes qualified to receive God and have God dwell with you. That is where we live as God’s children and the place where God’s lineage can be found. Through the lineage, the parent/ child relationship is established. Originally God wanted to have this kind of family and cosmos, but due to the fall this entire foundation was lost. Therefore, it has taken thousands of years in order for God to re-establish this family. Finally, in the Last Days, the True Parents came and have established the original family. We now are in the time of the expansion of this True Family to the cos-mic level. Do you understand?
Not only the True Family, but also the expansion of the True Family should be free from Satan’s accusation all the way to the entire cosmos. Do you truly understand the concept of indemnity from the individual level to the worldwide level? You might think you understand the concept, but in reality, do you really understand? In order to reach that goal and travel freely vertically and horizontally from the individual level to the cosmic level, you have to inherit the victorious foundation established by True Parents. That is your only course. All the women in the Unification Church have to become like the second Mother, a branch of True Mother. All the men are branches of the archangel position.
Every human being has approximately 40 billion cells. Men, please consider yourselves to be attached to my 40 billion cells and carrying those cells. Likewise, women should consider your-selves to be carrying Mother’s 40 billion cells. In order to do that, you have to demonstrate your absolute faith, love and obedience to True Parents. By doing so, you will become qualified to carry Father and Mother’s 40 billion cells. Just like plus and minus, you have to become part of Father’s cells and Mother’s cells.
In a couple of days, Father and Mother will leave for Sao Paulo. If you truly want to be with True Parents physically, you have to transform yourself into a small fly and sit on Father’s coattails; then you can achieve your goal. That way you can even enter the airplane without showing your ticket. [Laughter] Just hang onto them. That is absolute faith, love and obedience. Once you land in Sao Paulo, you will become absolutely free because you will have reached the goal. At the stage of completion, you will no longer need the concept of absolute faith, love and obedience, because you will have become totally one with them. Again, you do not truly understand what indemnity means. However, as long as you have an invisible rope attached to me, then even when you are far away from me, you can still hang onto this rope and find your way back. That is the key. No matter how far you cast a fishing line, once the fish strikes then it is simply a matter of reeling it in. You are now in the position of fishermen holding the fishing rod. I am the king fish which you have to hook and make sure that he doesn’t get free. You just have to keep on reeling me in. Is that true? (Yes) This fishing line is ·absolute faith, love and obedience. Even if I take a big bite, you still have to hang on and keep on reeling me in. In this process, if your ideal lover, your president or physical parents call you, do not even look at them. Rather kick them away and hang onto the fishing rod.
As man and woman reach maturity, they naturally follow this angle, meet, and form the ideal family. Then they can travel freely to the Kingdom of Heaven where God dwells. They can also travel freely to the bottom of hell and still it will be the Kingdom of Heaven. In other words, you are absolutely I free. This represents man and this represents woman a big plus and big minus. Here I am drawing a double line because between the physical and spiritual worlds there is free travel. There is no limitation or boundary. God is in the position of plus and humankind is in the position of minus. The spiritual world is plus and the physical world is minus. This plus/ minus relationship operates wherever we look. Once this center starts moving, then the entire cosmos will move at the same time.
BECOME A BRANCH OF TRUE PARENTS
Once the ideal family is established it represents the entire cosmos. This is the completion point of this right-hand section and left-hand section, the upper section and the lower section. From every angle you look, this is the point of perfection and completion. Everything turns around this core point. Do you understand? We have to establish such a family. This is the road that we have to follow in this cosmic era of blessed families. True Parents are the central root, central trunk, and central bud, all connecting in one direct way. You are branches and twigs centering upon this vertical, central root, trunk and bud. Since True Parents are the central bud, trunk and root, you have to hang onto True Parents and become all different sizes of branches.
How big a branch you become is entirely up to you. Would you like to become a small American branch or a big branch? Which country is larger, America or China? (Russia.) [Laughter] The population of China is four or five times larger than that of America. Even Russia is bigger than America in that sense.
If you become one of the major branches then you will have other small branches and twigs attached to you. If you cut off that branch and plant it in the ground, it will become another-tree, which means another nation. I have given you blessings as an individual messiah, family messiah, tribal messiah, national messiah, and eventually, the world cosmic messiah. That is the goal we have to strive towards. Amen! (Amen!)
The blessed family includes true parents, or messiah. There are two meanings of the term “True Parents”: one is the family and one is True Parents. The Old Testament True Parents are the true Messiah. Do you understand? The first Messiah, representing the Old Testament, wanted that kind of point. Jesus came to the earth as the second Messiah, but Jesus was not able to make a family and lost everything as a consequence. He could not make the heavenly settlement on the earth. The third Messiah is the Lord of the Second Advent. That means the world victorious foundation beginning from the family and expanding vertically and horizontally. Do you understand me this morning?
Now you understand the meaning of True Parents. True Parents come in the position of the third Adam to restore the failure of the first Adam and second Adam. They are the True Parents of humankind. You understand that, don’t you? (Yes.) Because the original couple who were to become True Parents in the Old Testament era failed, and Jesus failed to establish the position of the True Parents in the New Testament era, in the Completed Testament era, the True Parents finally came to this world and completed this mission. That is why blessed families came into being and the blessing is taking place in this world. Since True Parents have won the victory in every direction, there is no opposition nor persecution whatsoever. Amen! (Amen!)
Everyone and every living creature is supposed to welcome True Parents. Every creature is liberated. Mansei! (Mansei!)
EXPAND THE REALM OF THE BLESSING
This is why I have given you the title this morning of: The Cosmic Era of Blessed Families. At the 3.6 Million Couples Blessing on November 29, heaven and earth will meet vertically, and the entire world will meet horizontally and become united. It will be as if the entire humanity, prior to the fall, is awaiting the Blessing time on November 29, 1997. It is equivalent to the Garden of Eden.
During this heavenly era, you can use your power to bring your parents and relatives to the Blessing without Satan’s accusation. After they receive the Blessing, they will be so grateful to you, even though you might have to pressure them somewhat to attend.
This is the place where the family is being created to receive the entire universal value as one family. As I told you earlier today, if we were to pull out the entire lineage from any one woman or man, the entire ancestry would be pulled by that string.
True Parents have appeared in the Last Days. Now, through indemnity, they have won the victory and liberated Jesus and the New Testament, as well as the Old Testament all the way back to Adam and Eve. If you truly follow my direction and bring your relatives to the Blessing, establishing this kind of foundation, then your entire ancestry will be attached to you. Then you will be able to liberate. this ancestral line.
Beginning from November 29, the new era of Blessing will be extended to include the spiritual world. Until now, even within the spiritual world there existed splits and separation. Originally, Adam and Eve were supposed to fulfill their responsibility to build the original ideal fami1y. Then together with their family, they would live together with God and enter into the Kingdom of God in the spiritual world. But due to the fall, this did not take place. In other words, the Ku1gdom of God is still empty. In these Las.t Days, as long as you are totally united with True Parents, then based upon True Parents’ victorious establishment of the True Family on the horizontal level, you will have the privilege of becoming the citizens of the Kingdom of God.
Just as in the time of Adam and the Old Testament era, and Jesus and the New Testament era, we are in the position to restore and indemnify our ancestral line so that the entire spiritual world can be liberated. Up until now, the world’s religions have focused upon individual-level salvation. But once you come out of that shell by following True Parents you enter the family level. The family level automatically extends to the nation, world and entire cosmos. Therefore, we can build the Kingdom of God on earth. As Unification Church blessed couples, if you truly fulfill the role of tribal messiahs, there is an automatic extension. That is why we can truly restore this world into the Kingdom of God.
For this purpose, I took down the HSA-UWC sign and put up a new sign, the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. Until now, unification needed Christianity, including the Old Testament era and the New Testament era. If these are cut away, the Completed Testament era cannot stand. With-out the foundation of the Old and the New Testament eras, the Completed Testament era could not ·find settlement. Now the era of Christianity is over. Now the blessing time has come to this world. Christianity can no longer persecute Reverend Moon in any way.
The members of the Family Federation for World Peace are not just Christians. They are the heads of nations and powerful leaders. Do you understand? No one can stand against this. The Christian world is following Reverend Moon. Every-thing is behind me making that highway. There are no obstacles. One Blessing can liberate all people of a nation, too. The way of salvation is not just for individuals. Do you understand? There is family and tribal salvation, national salvation and worldwide salvation, all at one time. How wonderful is the time in which we live! [Applause]
I am not speaking of concepts. This is a reality. Do you understand? Look at this secular world. Eve.rywl1ere the families are broken down. No leaders in this world are able to correct things. Only Reverend Moon can do this-only True Parents. God didn’t touch Adam’s family at the time of the fall. God could not touch them. Only True Parents are able to touch that situation. Without the power of True Parents, humanity cannot be saved eternally. Do you understand? (Yes, Father)
Remember, we are living in the cosmic era of blessed families. Therefore, your responsibility is to reach out to your immediate family members and relatives and bring them to the next Blessing. Your goal is to bring 160 to 180 families to be blessed. This is how you can begin registration in the Kingdom of God. Centering upon this number of restored families, we can then think of restoring our nation. Since we are living in this providential era, don’t you want to become tribal messiahs or national messiahs? (Yes.) The period for individual salvation is over.
This is the era when the family, tribe, nation and entire world can be transformed into the heavenly side. This is a turning point and a most serious time from God’s perspective. From humanity’s perspective, it is equally serious.
Without taking this kind of action you cannot make the connection. No matter how famous your family may be, you cannot connect to the national base. Do you understand? I understand this kind of content. America has persecuted me until now.
You HAVE ALL THE TOOLS
I have made a highway which every nation, tribe, and family can travel to the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven. I provided the Divine Principle to be your steering wheel. Are you not even able to drive a car? I have created everything for you: the automobile’s body, wheels, and steering wheel. If you cannot use that automobile, you are lost. Everything is ready for you, even the gasoline has been provided. I gave you driving lessons. Why are you unable to do it? It is all up to you now.
Do you clearly understand my message? (Yes.) Over a week ago, over 140 national messiahs came to see me. They testified to me that as they began working in their mission nations, they came to realize that I had prepared foundations there without their knowledge. Everything was ready for them. Everything was already prepared by me. Now all they have to do is give their sincere effort. If, in my place, they give the message as I do, then everyone will naturally follow.
THIS WAS THEIR TESTIMONY.
There are tens of thousands of so-called movers and shakers in the world. There are all kinds of leaders and VIPs out there. We simply have to work with them. Last night I gave a banquet and message to the board and faculty members of the Unification Theological Seminary and the University of Bridgeport. Over 140 distinguished guests gathered at East Garden. I gave them a strong message and they humbly accepted.
Behind me there are many Nobel prize winners, scientists, politicians and scholars. If I were to truly mobilize them to push America, then America would surely be pushed. No one realizes this. No one realizes the kind of mission I am doing at the worldwide level. Unification Church members think that I am a strange man. They have never understood what was behind my actions. Do you understand? Even after forty years with True Parents, leaders such as Mr. Joo and others still fail to understand what I am doing.
As precious Unificationists, do you want to follow the road of perishing or the road of prosperity? (Prosperity.) The way to prosperity means expanding the cosmic age of the family era. We have to work harder and harder. There is no time to waste. There is truly no time. We need to eliminate eating, sleeping and playtime. The secular world is sleeping and resting. However, this is the time for expansion and prosperity on the earth. Do you understand? Don’t lose this precious time. Be proud of taking this important action. Will you follow me? (Yes.) Make a big sound. Yes or no? (Yes!) Thank you.
God Bless you! Let us pray.