On August 17, 1990, our True Parents hosted a luncheon for thirty key religious leaders in attendance at the Assembly. The following is an excerpt from unofficial notes taken by Dr. Thomas Walsh during Father’s talk to them.
Our gathering was planned by God’s Divine Will. I know you have heard of me, but some of you may be meeting me for the first time. I am a person whose life has been opposed every step of the way. I am the loneliest person in the world. I create controversy for the sake of goodness. The more I create controversy, however, the more people see the need for me. My lifelong career has not been for the sake of the Unification Church, the Assembly of the World’s Religions, or the nation of Korea, but solely for the sake of the world. My foundation in all fields is powerful and strong enough now to use for the sake of the entire world. I can conclude that I can be grateful for the persecution I have received.
I feel that the Interreligious Federation for World Peace (IRFWP), whether we like it or not, is the will of God. God knows that if this project fails, there will be great tragedy in the future. So it is no simple matter. If all the religions gather, it is just like grains of sand if there is no cement. I want to play the role of the cement to combine the various grains of sand. In fact, we should each say, “I will play the role of cement for the sake of other grains of sand.” Great religious leaders cannot be just sand, but should be the cement. I ask all of you to play the role of cement. I will supply the water and mix it up.
We all have to become true parents on our own. We should all become messiahs. God does not just need one son.
As religious leaders we must make ourselves controversial for the sake of goodness. I have been in prison six times in my life. Whenever this happened I said, “Give me more” because I know God’s will would advance through persecution.
When you ride a horse you set the direction. Only God knows the true direction, so we must know God and the spirit world. I am the expert in this area. Mankind needs to prepare to unite with God and the spirit world.
We know that God exists, but why did He create the world? Was for money, power, or knowledge? No. God created for true love. Why does man exist? For knowledge or money? No, man is born for divine love.
The world is created as God’s love partner. The world exists according to a pair system, with all things formed as sub jects and objects combined into one. What power combines things to become a pair? Only love power.
As God exists having both male and female characteristics, so man and woman exist. When we marry do we want a wife who is worse than ourselves, or children who are worse than us? No, we want them to be better. This desire comes from God. God wants His children to be better than God Himself. If you are to have a spouse who is better than yourself then you must invest more than 100 percent. God does not exist for His own sake but for His love partner, the entire world. True love exists for the sake of others.
God has love, life and lineage. We all need love, life and lineage. If Adam and Eve did not sin, then the marriage place would be where God and man would dwell together. Parents are the unity of the horizontal and vertical. Our original mind resembles God’s love, and is our vertical inheritance from God.
Adam and Eve fell to Satan and God’s grandchildren were born dead, because of the misuse of love. Today the modern world duplicates the time of the fall.
The greatest commandment is: Give your very best in loving God and in loving your neighbor. But we must go beyond the world’s current level of love. You’ll see when you go to the spirit world if I am right or wrong. If you invest 100 percent, the world will be totally changed. I am investing everything, even more than 100 percent.
What are true parents? True parents sacrifice their lives for others and forget it. If husband and wife invest 100 percent, they become a true couple. Man exists not for the sake of himself but for the sake of woman. Certain religions do not give enough rights to women. Man and woman are born for the sake of divine love, with God as the vertical subject.
What is God’s strategy? Why have righteous people suffered? Since God is good He cannot attack. If one son strikes another son, who will God side with? He who strikes first loses. God reclaims the world by first being struck. If you receive persecution, the entire world will be behind you. If you go with the right teachings, you will prosper. If America strikes me, then eventually America will follow me.
Receiving persecution is the strategy for taking over Satan’s property and sovereignty. That is my strategy. Religions, you see, prosper during persecution. I sent missionaries to communist lands years ago. Some of them were killed. Now is the time the communist and the free worlds have to rely on me because I have sacrificed everything.
In conclusion, Satan in your soul tries to tell you to do everything for your own sake. God is telling you to invest for others.