True Parents' Advent and the Era
of True Parents
Adam and Eve, the first human
ancestors, should have obeyed God's commandment, "Do not eat the fruit of
the knowledge of good and evil," and safely passed through the growing period.
Had they done so, they would have become perfected human beings, then received
the marriage Blessing as the first husband and wife and become the good
ancestors of humankind.
However, Adam and Eve were unable to overcome Satan's temptation. While they
were still in the growing period before they reached individual perfection,
specifically at the completion level of the growth stage, they ate the fruit of
the knowledge of good and evil and committed the original sin. In doing so,
they defiled God's lineage. As a result, Adam and Eve could not become the good
human ancestors. Instead they begat evil descendants, who formed fallen
families, fallen tribes, fallen societies, fallen nations and the fallen world.
This brought about hell on earth and in heaven. This was something that God
never intended.To save fallen humanity, God sent Jesus as the Messiah to the Jewish
people, whom He had chosen and prepared for 4,000 years. Jesus was God's only
begotten Son and the Messiah, who was to fulfill the mission of the Second
Adam. If the Jewish people had believed in Jesus and united with him, he would
have chosen a woman from among them as the Second Eve to be his Bride. Together
they would have received the marriage Blessing and become the first God-centered
husband and wife and the True Parents of humankind. Thus they would have
fulfilled the work of the providence of human salvation.Jesus came as the Messiah, and his true significance was that he was the
Second Adam. When his path was blocked midway due to the disbelief of the
chosen people, God had to carry out the dispensation to send the Messiah again,
this time as the Third Adam. The 2,000-year history of Christianity was a
providence of spiritual salvation. The resurrected Jesus and the Holy Spirit led
this providence by performing the workof rebirth. This work laid the foundation
upon which humankind would welcome the Third Adam, the Messiah at the Second
Advent.The Returning Messiah will not descend from the sky; as in the time of
Jesus, he will be born of a woman as a baby who is God's only begotten Son.
Just as the Jews were meant to attend Jesus, Christians are meant to believe in
and attend the Messiah at the Second Advent. The returning Messiah needs to
uncover and clarify every detail behind how the first human ancestors came to
commit the original sin. In so doing, he must reveal the identity of Satan and
remove the root of sin. Then, the returning Messiah must prevail over the
realms of the spirit world in a life and death struggle and finally bring Satan
to voluntary submission. Based on this accomplishment, he must be recognized by
countless leaders and founders of religious traditions as the returning
Messiah, the True Father.Moreover, the Messiah at the Second Advent needs to find the embodiment of
the Holy Spirit, God's begotten Daughter who has been prepared as the fruit of
the providence of salvation. When he receives her as his Bride, God's Will
finally can take root on earth.What has just been described is how, through the Messiah at the Second
Advent, God will fulfill the providence of inaugurating the True Parents. For
this purpose God enabled two people to be born on earth. Sun Myung Moon is the
True Father; he is the Messiah at the Second Advent and the Third Adam. Hak Ja
Han is the True Mother; she comes as the Bride of the Messiah at the Second
Advent, the Third Eve and the embodiment of the Holy Spirit.They were both born in Korea, a country with a long history, whose people
have maintained its rich culture and traditions. The country's founding
principle encompasses heaven and earth, "Benefit all humankind and
transform the world with principles." It is a country that has long
cherished peace, and its suffering people have revered God.True Father was born on the 6th day of the 1st lunar month in 1920, in
Jeongju, North Pyeongan Province. God raised him through his childhood and
youth for His special providence. Then, at Easter time, when he was 15 years
old, Jesus appeared to him and urged him to accept God's call to inherit the
mission of the Lord at the Second Advent. For the next 12 years, he set out on
a bloody path of suffering to clarify the truth. Finally he discovered the
Principle of Creation, the Human Fall and the root of sin, human beings'
portion of responsibility, and the principles underlying the providence of
restoration through indemnity. He also unraveled the tangled course of the
history of the providence of salvation.God sent the Returning Lord as the central figure of the providence of
restoration through indemnity. At the same time, He also conducted the
providence to restore the Third Eve, who is to come as the spouse of the
Returning Lord. Around the time of True Father's birth, a spiritual awakening
began in Korea. True Mother’s father and mother also joined and became part of
that movement.True Mother was born on the 6th day of the 1st lunar month in 1943, at the
home of her maternal grandparents' in Anju, South Pyeongan Province. True
Mother grew up in a family with three successive generations of only
daughters—her grandmother Jo Won-mo; her mother Hong Soon-ae (Daemonim), and
True Mother—a family that believed that the Returning Lord would be born on
earth. Spiritual recognition of True Mother included a blessing on her when she
was just six years old, that she would become Heaven’s Bride. That blessing was
given by the mother of Rev. Heo Ho-bin, of the Inside the Womb Church.Shortly after Korea recovered its independence on August 15, 1945, it was
divided into North and South. True Father began his public ministry centered on
Christianity in South Korea. Because of the disbelief of the prepared spiritual
groups, True Father had to go to Pyongyang in North Korea, where he continued
to witness. There, however, due to false accusations of the communist party and
the jealousy of the established Christian churches, he was sent to prison. True
Father ended up going twice through an indescribable path of suffering.
Nevertheless, he was able to establish a victorious foundation of restoration
through indemnity, both spiritually and physically, by the time he was released
from the Heungnam Labor Camp during the Korean War.Thereafter he headed south and finally, on May 1, 1954, founded the Holy
Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity in Seoul. In the
year in which True Father reached the age of 33, he set the condition to
indemnify Jesus' suffering life of 33 years. On that foundation, True Father
made a new beginning with an Abel-type religious organization to carry the
providence on behalf of Christianity.After the founding of the Holy Spirit Association, many Christian
believers who heard the words of the Principle that True Father introduced were
moved and flocked to him. However, other Christian denominations felt
threatened and redoubled their efforts to persecute him. Their false
accusations even caused him to be imprisoned again. Despite these troubles, his
followers came to have even firmer faith in True Father as the Messiah at the
Second Advent. Their faith enabled him to set and fulfill the condition for
success in bringing the providence of restoration to the completion level of
the growth stage.Hence, on April 11, 1960, 14 years after he began his public ministry
following the liberation of Korea, he finally received his Bride. She was True
Mother, whom God had specially raised and prepared to be the embodiment of the
Holy Spirit while protecting her and keeping her separated from evil. On that
day the Holy Wedding of the True Parents was held, which instituted the marriage
Blessing. With it, the Marriage Supper of the Lamb foretold in Chapter 19 of
the Book of Revelation finally took place. That prophecy denoted the Holy
Wedding of the Messiah at the Second Advent, when he would receive his prepared
Bride, the embodiment of the Holy Spirit, and they would become the True
Husband and True Wife.That historic day opened the gate to the realization of the ideal of
creation that God, the Creator of heaven and earth, had cherished since the
very beginning. It ushered in the day when Adam and Eve, as originally
envisioned at the time of Creation, could be manifested as True Parents.
Finally, it became possible for humankind to receive the grace of rebirth, by
which they can completely be rid of original sin.In 1994, after True Parents had worked for 40 years with the Holy Spirit
Association for the Unification of World Christianity to bring unity and
restore through indemnity all the conditions necessary to bring Satan to
submission, they founded the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification
to continue in its place.Through the Family Federation, True Parents are proclaiming that the ideal
world as originally intended at the time of creation will be built through the
expansion throughout the world of ideal families, centered on the True Parents,
who have come to earth as the true ancestors of humankind.Through the Enthronement Ceremony for God's Kingship, which was held on
January 13, 2001, and the Cheon Jeong Gung Entrance Ceremony and Coronation of
True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace in Heaven and on Earth, held on
June 13, 2006, True Parents dissolved God’s bitter sorrow by restoring His
sovereignty over the cosmos. In this way they laid the foundation for the
kingdom of God to take firm root on earth. Finally they established the 13th
day of the 1st month by the heavenly calendar, in 2013, as the Foundation Day
of the Cosmic Nation of Peace and Unity (Cheon II Guk).In the final reporting prayer of his earthly life, 21 days before his Holy
Ascension on the 17th day of the 7th month by the heavenly calendar (September
3) in 2012, True Father declared that the providence of salvation had been
concluded. He instructed all blessed members to take on the mission of tribal
messiahs who can represent their nations, and he proclaimed, "Everything
is finished."As True Father and True Mother together, True Parents perfected the dual
characteristics of the incorporeal God in corporeal form. They are the models
that humanity needs to emulate and learn from, by studying their lives, their
teachings, the traditions they established and their achievements. True Parents
are the original root. They are absolute, unique, without precedent, and they
will never come again. True Parents' light will forever illuminate the world with
the truth and love of God.
Adam and Eve’s true family would have expanded into Adam and Eve's clan.
Their clan would have prospered, expanded into a society and nation, and ultimately
built a world that fulfilled God's three great blessings to "be fruitful,
and multiply, and have dominion over all things." That world would have
been nothing less than the ideal kingdom of heaven that God intended to build
on earth.
Human beings were God's greatest masterpieces among all created beings. He
created them so that they could also stand in the position of creating such
masterpieces, human beings, as their children. God therefore expected Adam and
Eve to become completely one as husband and wife. Then, when looking at the
children born from their perfect union, Adam and Eve would have inherited the
tremendous joy that God experienced when He created them.God imbued Adam and Eve with the love that would have enabled them to give
birth to children and love them with that very love. In other words, Adam and
Eve, being God's beloved children, totally received every single thing that
God, the Absolute Being, had within Him. (053-166, 1972/02/19)Had such seeds of love been sown, their descendants, humankind, would have
borne the fruit. Then, no matter how far you dissected that seed, its core
substance would never change. However, because of the Fall, that seed needs to
be dismantled and repaired; it must be fundamentally repaired, but this is
impossible unless they bring God back into their lives and attend Him.God created heaven and earth in order to share His life and love. This is
why God, the incorporeal One, brings forth a man and a woman as the eternal
embodiments of His love. They are the True Parents, the good human ancestors,
whom He now introduces to humanity as the central substance of His love.
(038-173, 1971/01/03)Had Adam and Eve become a true son and daughter before God, had they
become a true husband and wife as the model for all human beings, and had they
become the True Parents of humankind who could attend God as their eternal
Parent, they would have been able to sing with joy and happiness throughout
their lives. No one would ever have been able to lead them away, because they
would have belonged solely to the one Lord. Their heart and their love would
have belonged to the one Lord. Their one Lord would have been God. (009-137,
1960/05/01)Throughout history, God has been seeking a family that could become His
ideal object partner. Such is the True Family. The True Family is fundamentally
different in substance from ordinary families. Unless that God-centered family
can be recovered and aligned with God's ideal, there is no way to recover the
ideal for the nation or the world. This is the reason that God must first
establish the original True Family. Similarly, salvation cannot be attained by
individuals; rather, the basic unit of salvation is a true family.Had it not been for the Fall, Adam and Eve would have become the ideal
husband and wife and, one step further, the True Parents. They would have
become the True Parents to their posterity and all humankind. Had humanity
prospered with Adam and Eve as the True Parents, they would have built one
great family and established the world of peace in the Adamic cultural sphere.
(294-067, 1998/06/11)Therefore, in the course of history, a perfect woman must emerge who is
absolutely connected to God's love. She must join with the perfect man who
lives in oneness with God's love. She is able to stand as the Bride of the
Returning Lord, who comes as the Bridegroom. That time is at hand.When they unite in this position, they are at the level of Adam and Eve
before the Fall, when they were loved by God in the Garden of Eden. They have
reached the point to receive from God the three great blessings. With them
emerges the foundational point on earth that Satan cannot invade. Had Adam and
Eve stood in this victorious position as the ancestors of humankind, the
archangel Lucifer would not have become Satan; rather, he would have attended
them as a faithful servant. This is the Principle of Creation. Because they
lost that position, since that time, human beings have been orphans. Therefore,
the True Parents of humankind, who can recover this position, must appear on
earth. (022-084, 1969/01/26)The teachings that True Parents have established as the tradition will be
central in every age. Thus far, human beings have based their hope for the
world in a vision of the future, but no longer. Rather than looking forward to
something yet to be realized, we will advance centering on the teachings that True
Parents are practicing here and now. It is based upon their teachings that
history will advance. The heavenly nation to be erected based on those
teachings will establish the center of the past, the present and the future.
Once this nation is inaugurated, its culture will not be short-lived. It will
extend to the world, and remain alive and well, becoming the source for future
cultural development. There will be total oneness. It will be the same, whether
at the beginning or the end. (050-251, 1971/11/07)God's purpose of creation is for humanity to form a single God-centered
family, in which all would be kin. Fallen human beings are wild olive trees,
stemming from wild roots. They need to receive a graft from the true olive
trees, True Parents, and be reborn as true human beings. By so doing, humanity
can realize the world according to God's ideal of creation, the eternal ideal
kingdom of heaven that should have sprouted from the Garden of Eden. The hope
of humanity is to receive the True Parents, adopt the good traditions of their
God-centered family, hand them down generation after generation, and thus build
a united world of one language, one culture and one sovereignty of God.
God could not have His third generation, His grandsons and granddaughters.
Satan has them and even has tribes of his own; they have multiplied to this day
and built numerous countries. God, on the other hand, has never had even one
perfect man or one perfect woman. The Messiah is the one who comes as the
perfect man. He must find his Bride and establish the position of the True
Parents through their marriage and by having children. On this basis, he can
restore the original family of humankind. (344-198, 2001/03/09)For this reason, to usher in the Completed Testament Age we must receive
the marriage Blessing of True Parents. That way we can restore through
indemnity the failures of the Old and New Testament Ages. You were an orchard
of false olive trees, but now you must become an orchard of true olive trees by
receiving the graft of God's true lineage, the original standard. For this, you
must achieve oneness in heart, oneness in body and oneness in thought with True
Parents, based on true love. (347-174, 2001/07/04)True Parents bequeath true love, true life and true lineage. As children,
we inherit these. The purpose of all religions is to lay the foundation on
earth to inherit True Parents' accomplishments. Salvation cannot be
accomplished without a connection to true love, true life and true lineage. The
world is fallen because the false parents bound humankind with false love, life
and lineage, with the result that human beings fell into hell. In order to turn
this around 180 degrees, True Parents must emerge and connect humankind to true
love, true life and true lineage. The marriage Blessing engrafts cuttings from
the true olive trees onto the false olive trees. (362-011, 2001/12/02)However, they fell; so in their place God sent Jesus as His only begotten
Son. According to the order in which He had created Adam and Eve, God planned
to restore Adam first and then to restore Eve through Adam. Hence, first God
sent Jesus as the Second Adam to take the place of the First Adam, and then
Jesus was supposed to find the original Second Eve and join with her, becoming
husband and wife. Had they succeeded in this, they would have become the True
Parents, the good first ancestors of humanity.
Therefore, in order for the Messiah to save humankind on earth, he must
form a model family for others to emulate. Jesus needed to have a family before
he could try to save Israel. Jesus was God's only begotten Son. I am sure that
if Jesus' wedding had taken place, God would have been its officiator. The
greatest purpose of God's providence of salvation is to build the family that
He can love. For this purpose, Jesus, God's only begotten Son, and a specially
prepared woman, God's only begotten Daughter, were to grow in God's love while
attending Him as their Father and then receive His blessing at their marriage.
In this way, they were to establish the foundation to become the true ancestors
of humankind. All of this was lost and must be recovered. (159-192, 1968/05/10)Yet, even though Jesus emerged as God's only begotten Son, the only
begotten Daughter did not appear. The emergence of God's perfected only
begotten Son after 4,000 years of the history of salvation was as if God had
created Adam again. In the Garden of Eden, God created Eve, modeling her after
Adam. He made her based on the same principle and blueprint He employed when
creating Adam, so that she could be his partner. When it states in the Bible
that the woman was made from Adam's rib, it means that God created her with the
essence of Adam. That is why perfected Adam, God's only begotten Son, can
recover Eve, the one who has been lost to this day.In Jesus, God found the Adam who could establish His direct lineage of
true love, but He was not yet able to find Eve. In order to find Eve, fallen
human history had to be rectified within a family, and a nation had to be
engrafted with that family. Preparation for this began with Jacob, from whom
emerged the 12 tribes of Israel. Based on the faith of the chosen people, their
descendants expanded the scope of God's victory in the world. Over the course of
2,000 years, they formed the nation of Israel and established Judaism, both of
which were prepared for the coming of Jesus. (347-171, 2001/07/04)What Jesus had to do next was to change the human lineage by reversing the
positions of Cain and Abel between himself and Judaism, and between himself and
the nation of Israel. However, he was not able to do that. Hence, although he
recovered the title of God's only begotten Son, he was not able to meet God's
only begotten Daughter.That woman had been prepared, but it was not possible for Jesus to meet
her without a tribal level foundation. Beginning from Jesus' family, links
connecting the individual to the family and the tribe had to be established, so
that the lineage of humankind eventually could be changed. (164-256,
1987/05/17)Now, God's only begotten Son has appeared on earth! He has come as an
intermediary for humankind, to dissolve that bitter sorrow. Had he not appeared,
it would have been a serious matter. There can be no greater blessing than his
coming. Therefore, all humankind and all of heaven and earth must be on his
side, even the Creator. Anyone who blocks his way will come to ruin, while
anyone who welcomes him will prosper. The appearance of the only begotten Son
is a joyful day for all humanity. God sends him first because history has been
led by men. Once the only begotten Son arrives, the only begotten Daughter then
must come. (023-149, 1969/05/18)The Messiah, who comes as the only begotten Son, must find the only
begotten Daughter. Finding her is not a casual matter. Since God created Eve
from the body of Adam, when the Messiah comes into the world he must find his
Eve. He is the one who must recover Eve, because Eve was taken by Satan. Thus
at his return Jesus, as God's only begotten Son, must receive God's only
begotten Daughter and establish a way for man and woman to meet at a 90-degree
angle. Otherwise, the fundamental problems in heaven and on earth will never be
solved. God has dual characteristics, and He can dwell only where the Son and
Daughter are one. (185-186, 1989/01/08)Finally Jesus came. If the people of Israel had only united with Jesus,
God's only begotten Son, they could have reached beyond Rome and out to the
world. Then Jesus could have become the True Parent. Instead, because Judaism
and the people of Israel were unable to fulfill their responsibility, Jesus
departed with the promise that he would return.Tragically, although after 4,000 years God had found and established His
only begotten Son, He could not similarly establish His only begotten Daughter
at that time. Nevertheless, since the only begotten Son exists, the only
begotten Daughter must also exist. The providence led by Jesus and the Holy
Spirit was for this purpose.We learned from the Divine Principle that whenever the central persons or
central nations fail to fulfill their responsibility, God finds another
representative to complete the task. Thus, when God was unable to send His only
begotten Daughter to Israel on account of its not fulfilling its
responsibility, God raised His only begotten Daughter elsewhere. (True Mother,
2014/07/01)If such an original homeland, a place that all human beings would welcome,
had emerged on earth, the world we live in would not be filled with pain and
grief. Had Adam and Eve been a son and daughter who centered on God, namely,
God's only begotten Son and Daughter, and had they become totally one with each
other and established a family in that original world, their descendants in
that lineage all would have been united in mind and body. (023-152, 1969/05/18)As God's only begotten Son whose mind and body were united, Jesus was to
receive God's only begotten Daughter, whose mind and body were also united, and
together they were to establish that family. Without that family, even if the
world had been transformed it would be lost again in the end. The family is
bound together by bloodline. Once a people is bound together in the one lineage
of God, that people will constitute the one people of God. (023-152,
1969/05/18)Based on the realm of the only begotten Son, God can claim the realm of
the only begotten Daughter. At the same time, centering on this only begotten
Son and only begotten Daughter, He can inaugurate the realm of love of the
Bridegroom and Bride. For the only begotten Son and the only begotten Daughter,
it does not matter how large their nation is, or that it has a long history or
an amazing cultural background. What matters is that their standard of conjugal
love is such that they unite as husband and wife centering on God.The first human beings lost this standard due to the Fall. Hence, without
recovering it, everything in the world is in vain. Therefore, the only begotten
Son and the only begotten Daughter on God's side must establish the realm of
conjugal love as husband and wife. Once the realm of conjugal love is secured,
the realm of children's love will naturally be established. (138-257,
1986/01/24)Thus, Jesus must return to meet God's only begotten Daughter, who can
totally receive God's first love. That is why the Lord at his Second Advent
must celebrate the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. That is, he is required to
marry. This man who completely receives God's first love must marry a woman who
completely receives God's first love, and they must start a family together,
thus restoring the positions of unfallen Adam and Eve. (041-311, 1971/02/17)The Messiah comes to earth with nothing of earthly value. He has no
nation. He has virtually nothing. He does not have a partner. Because Eve, Cain
and Abel were lost, he does not have a family. That is why, when he comes, he
has to recover them all.Christianity is the bride religion and is to receive the Messiah who comes
as its Bridegroom. The core truth of Christianity is amazing. Jesus called
himself God's only begotten Son. Adam was intended to be God's only begotten
Son, and Eve was intended to be God's only begotten Daughter. However, due to
the Fall, they did not become the only begotten Son and Daughter. Satan claimed
the only begotten Daughter. God's entire creation was brought to ruin and must
all be recovered. As God created Eve based on Adam, God must re-create Eve by
the seed that He sends through the new Son of God. (285-024, 1997/04/19)As people who attend True Parents, if you want your sons and daughters to
be perfected, you need to provide them with an environment in which they learn
how to live for the sake of others in the four directions. These are
represented by their grandfather, grandmother, father and mother. Children are
to live for the sake of their parents. Parents are to live for the sake of
their children and also for the sake of their own parents. Grandparents are to
live for the sake of their grandchildren, and grandchildren are to live for the
sake of their grandparents. A husband is to live for the sake of his wife, and
a wife is to live for the sake of her husband.In this kind of environment the grandfather and grandmother, husband and
wife, and all the siblings are included. Following this principled model of the
family, we should build a family in which we live for the sake of each other.
If we do so, this will indeed bring about the kingdom of heaven in our family.
(252-125, 1993/11/14)In the Bible, the Gospel of Matthew records the genealogy of Jesus Christ.
It preserves a record of how in his lineage, among the descendants of the
fallen Adam, good and evil were separated and goodness advanced. It records
how, during the 4,000-year history of the providence of restoration through
indemnity, the blood connection to Satan was severed in that lineage, in order
that Jesus could be born as God's only begotten Son.Thus, Jesus at birth had nothing to do with original sin. He came to this
world to receive his Bride and become the True Father, so that they could take
the position of True Parents. They were to give birth to children free from
original sin, and also to give rebirth to fallen human beings and remove their
original sin. Instead, however, Jesus died on the cross due to the disbelief of
the people of Israel. Still, he left with the promise that he would come again
and complete the work he had left unfinished.Therefore, the Returning Lord, who comes as the Third Adam, inherits
Jesus' foundation. This allows him to start out from the position of the
Messiah and from there to attain the position of the True Parent. When he does
so, he can fulfill the mission of completing God's ideal of creation.
Besides, in the first chapter of Matthew, we read of four women of
questionable morals: Tamar, Bathsheba, Rahab and Ruth. The Gospel of Matthew in
the New Testament is equivalent to Genesis in the Old Testament. Why do these
blemished, unholy women appear in its first chapter? There is no way to answer
these questions unless we know the Principle teaching on the human Fall. These
questions have been answered only since the time of my coming. (211-138,
1990/12/30)Mary could not take that position without risking her own life. In
accordance with the five books of Moses, at that time, an unmarried woman who
became pregnant should be stoned to death. Never-the-less, God had Mary give
birth to Jesus, because she placed God's Will above her life and her honor.
Thus, for the first time in human history, the Son of God was born. He was
Jesus, born from Mary's womb in accordance with God's Will. (035-222,
1970/10/19)Ever since the tragic history of Adam and Eve, the basis of all the
struggles of humankind had their beginning in the womb. Finally with Mary, a
child inside the womb was separated from that basis. Such was the lineage into
which Jesus was born. Therefore, at the root Jesus is different from any other
religious founder, any prophet or any world-famous religious leader. Jesus is
the world-level representative who emerged from the lineage that Satan could
not accuse. Jesus was the first man to be born in the lineage centered on God.
Further, he came on the foundation of all the conditions necessary to separate
sin from human history. This makes him the first person who was born of the
lineage centered on God. Because Mary acted with the pure motivation to attend
God's Will, Jesus was born on earth as the true Son of God. (035-223,
1970/10/19)From the moment of his conception in Mary's womb, Jesus stood on the
foundation of a lineage that was already purified through this process in
history. Hence, Satan could not claim Jesus as his son, even though Jesus was
conceived with the authority of the elder son that Satan had always coveted.
God could not establish His right of primogeniture unless His Son, who could
claim his own right as the elder son even while inside his mother's womb, was
born on earth. That Son was Jesus. He was the first person in history since the
Fall who represented God's heart. Among all people, he could inherit this most
deeply. Therefore, Jesus was able to declare, "I am God's only begotten
Son." Because he was the one who restored the authority of the elder son
centered on love, he could be the Messiah. (139-309, 1986/01/31)This is recorded in the Bible. The Bible is revelatory. It is a book of
treasures that can never be left out of the history of culture, religion or the
world. Hidden within it are the sagas and secrets of human history, and matters
to be untangled. These must be resolved. That is why we must restore the
lineage. Jesus, who was born from Mary's womb, changed the fallen lineage of
Satan's world. He came from the position where his lineage already had been
changed. Accordingly, his Bride, his partner, also had to go through the
process of changing her lineage. (140-149, 1986/02/09)Originally, God's ideal at the time of the Creation was for Adam and Eve
to reach perfection and become the True Parents. That position must be
rectified and the original ideal must be attained. I am the one who is pursuing
that ideal.In the Unification Church people call us True Father and True Mother. In
external appearance there is no difference between us and you; however, our
root, our origin, is different from yours. The True Parents emerged with God as
the root, the first such human beings in history. We have come as the central
people of the Unification Principle and we introduce it with true love.
(148-040, 1986/10/04)This means you are now in the position of small messiahs. As True Parents,
we belong to the lineage of God, not to Satan's lineage. Our root is different
from yours. Your roots are on the side of Satan, while our root, the root of
the Parents, is with God. As True Parents, we inherited God's original love,
which is true love, and we are connecting it to you. Once you are engrafted
with us, you belong to True Parents, who belong to God. (146-302, 1986/07/20)When Adam committed the original sin, he entered Satan's realm. He can
return to his original position only when that sin is removed. However, he
cannot clear original sin by himself. Only True Parents can do it, with true
love. That is what I did, clearing it on all eight stages.Adam fell at the age of 16. Before he reached that age, he was the
original Adam. Before the Fall, he was an original young man heading for
perfection, who could have inherited everything from God. I came as the Lord at
the Second Advent to inherit everything that he could not.I fought Satan at every stage—individual, family, tribe, people, nation,
world and cosmos—and expelled Satan from each. I resolved the fundamental
problem of sin. I am saying that I have uprooted original sin. Beginning at the
age of 16,1 took the position of victorious Adam, having nothing to do with the
world of the fallen Adam. Ever since then I have labored to recover all
humankind. (265-142, 1994/11/20)In order to complete the providence of salvation both spiritually and
physically, Jesus needs to come again. Therefore, Jesus at his Second Coming
needs to be born on earth in the flesh as the Lord at the Second Advent, the
Third Adam. Then he needs to receive as his Bride, the woman whom God prepared
as the embodiment of the Holy Spirit. Together they become the substantial True
Parents, who can give rebirth to humanity both spiritually and physically. The
True Parents remove original sin from humankind. They offer the grace of
rebirth—the change of lineage-opening the way to complete salvation in spirit
and flesh.
The Last Days are the time when God's True Son and True Daughter emerge to
stand in front of humankind. Human beings lost their true ancestors and became
fallen descendants, disconnected in their lineage from True Parents. Hence, the
Last Days are the time for the True Parents to recover the descendants who were
lost, by reversing the course of the Fall. (007-116, 1959/07/26)For Christians, God is the Father and Jesus is the Son. The Holy Spirit is
the mother spirit. Thus, by receiving the Holy Spirit we are reborn. We must be
given rebirth by the Holy Spirit. Human beings are born through their parents'
unity in love. This is natural law. Jesus is the father; the Holy Spirit is the
mother. In other words, Jesus is the Bridegroom and the Holy Spirit is the
Bride. When the Holy Spirit comes into your heart, if your yearning heart
unites with the Holy Spirit's yearning heart for Jesus, you will be enraptured.
The spirit of love from the spiritual True Parents—Jesus and the Holy
Spirit—will then infuse you with new life. This is what Christianity calls
rebirth. (019-202, 1968/01/07)Hence it says in the Book of Revelation, "The Spirit and the Bride
say, ‘Come.' And let him who hears say, ‘Come.' And let him who is thirsty come,
let him who desires take the water of life without price." (Rev. 22:17)
This speaks to the day when the Holy Spirit comes in the flesh at the time of
the Second Advent. That is the day when the Bride is made ready for the
wedding. It is the day of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, when children
welcome and attend the True Parents who had been lost. (007-158, 1959/08/30)Since people on earth were not able to make an adequate indemnity
condition, Jesus had to ascend to heaven prematurely. Man represents heaven and
woman represents earth. Jesus, the True Father of humankind, has been in
heaven. The Holy Spirit is the True Mother of humankind. Therefore, the Holy
Spirit must come to earth in the flesh. However, God's only begotten Daughter
was not able to emerge at the time of Jesus, and that Will could not be
fulfilled. (023-176, 1969/05/18)In the beginning, a woman first committed sin. Therefore, the Holy Spirit,
a feminine spirit, must come to the world as an actual woman and cleanse that
sin. This will happen when Jesus comes again to the world as the Bridegroom and
furnishes the new seed. Through reviving Jesus' mission, God's purpose is to
build a new God-centered world based on the lineage of the True Parents of the
new heaven and earth. When that world becomes manifest, we can say that God's
Will has been fulfilled as planned. (021-199, 1968/11/20)If we find a hole in a wall, we have to fill it in. If we lose something,
we have to look for it where we lost it. Likewise, since it is because of Eve
that all human beings on earth entered the realm of death, we need the Holy
Spirit to come to earth and labor to give birth to us again. In the Bible, we
read that women can be saved through giving birth. (ITim. 2:15) This does not
refer to women living on earth today, but to Eve.Had Eve not fallen but become the true ancestor of humankind, she would
have given birth to good children. Instead, she fell and gave birth to Satan's
children. Therefore, the Holy Spirit embraces humankind and labors to give them
rebirth. Only when that labor is finished will Eve be saved and the mission of
the Holy Spirit come to an end. (009-138, 1960/05/01)The Holy Spirit, the mother spirit, has no form, yet can be likened to an
anointing with oil, water, or the wind, which comes to people and moves their
hearts. By doing so, the Holy Spirit has been working to create the Bride, who
will come in the flesh. It is on that foundation that in my time I was able to
establish Mother on the world level. Through this, True Parents can achieve the
liberation of the physical realm. (407-180, 2003/05/15)In accordance with the law of restoration through indemnity, having gone
through that course, Mother was responsible to stand on that victorious
foundation and attend the Returning Lord. The reason Jesus could not marry was
because the proper condition had not been established according to the law of
restoration through indemnity. (265-153, 1994/11/20)Jesus' mother, Mary, and John the Baptist's mother, Elizabeth, did not
cooperate with each other; this was a contributing cause of Jesus' death. At
that time, the entire nation of Israel and all the leaders of Judaism should
have joined together to support Jesus, and in particular, they should have
found Jesus' Bride. Then, Jesus and his Bride could have given rebirth to
humankind.What could not be done in Jesus' time on the national level must be
indemnified, this time on the world-level stage. It is True Mother's work to
reach the world level; then the work must be expanded horizontally. That is why
Mother is traveling and being proclaimed throughout the world. It is because
every human being must return to True Mother's womb and become one with True
Father, like the joining of ovum and sperm, and be reborn. (235-252,
1992/09/20)You need to stand in the position of having been reborn as sons and
daughters of True Father. By this, I mean that you need to even enter Adam's
bone marrow before Adam and Eve were married, and exist there as if you are his
seed. Then you, as that seed, must connect to Mother through their true love
for each other. The spark of that connection is like the electricity flowing
from a disused power station when its power is switched on again. That is why I
say that you need to be reborn through true love. Mother is the embodiment of
the Holy Spirit. (243-224, 1993/01/10)True Parents come to build the original world. In that world, people will
establish a new culture by inheriting the tradition of families that are
centered on True Parents. Since they will be united with God and engage with
one another by giving and receiving perfect love, people will not need a
savior. Since they do not have original sin, every family—parents, husband and
wife, and children—will be able to live eternally with God. This is the
ultimate destination toward which God has been leading the providence through
history. When it comes to pass, the purpose of God's providence of restoration
will be fulfilled and the ideal world that humankind desires will be realized.
Jesus came to fulfill the Old Testament Age, and if he had, all could have
been united. This unity should have occurred in the New Testament Age with
Jesus as the center. However, because it did not happen, the fulfillment was
prolonged to the era of the Second Coming. That is why the Completed Testament
Age that begins with the Second Coming must fulfill the Old and New Testament
Ages. The Lord at the Second Advent will fulfill everything. His coming
inaugurates the fulfillment of the historical eras—the Old Testament, the New
Testament and the Completed Testament Ages. (250-325, 1993/10/15)To enable this to happen, God is proclaiming, "Sun Myung Moon is the
Savior! He is the Messiah! He is the Lord at the Second Advent!" Once you
meet the True Parents, you do not need a Savior, a Messiah, or a Lord at the
Second Advent. They are all included in the True Parents. (471-213, 2004/10/03)All religions are advancing to bring about peace, which comes from unity.
Furthermore, the First Israel, which is the Jewish nation, and the Second Israel,
which is Christianity, must pass beyond the First Adam and the Second Adam and
advance centering on the Third Adam, in order to rectify all of their failures
on the family level, the national level and the world level. Once the True
Parents stand firmly on that foundation, they will finally recover all that was
lost in the earthly world, as well as what was lost in the spirit world.The True Parents are the king and queen among those who can save the
world. They are the king and queen among messiahs. They are the king and queen
of the Old Testament Age, the New Testament Age and the Completed Testament Age
and the representatives and the embodiments of the invisible God. The True
Parents were born for the sake of God, not for themselves. That is why even God
exists for the True Parents. God and True Parents are one in true love.
(399-178, 2002/12/23)People are suffering because their lineage has changed from God's to
Satan's. If all of humankind had the same lineage, stemming from God, everyone
would be siblings, loving one another centered on God. However, their lineage
was changed. Thus, the core mission of the one who comes as the Messiah and
Savior is to liberate all people by changing their lineage. (194-011,
1989/10/15)
I endured numerous ordeals and difficulties as I strove to establish a
foundation on which I could stand and be recognized as the Messiah and True
Parent in both heaven and on earth. I had to lay such a foundation so that
people would acknowledge me as the Messiah and the True Parent throughout the
entire cosmos. Unless I could do that, I could not make that claim. That is why
1 have done so many things in my lifetime. I did things that no individual
could dream of doing. I did what even nations cannot do. (396-265, 2002/11/10)I could not meet the standard of the Messiah just by words. Nor could I
meet it just because God blessed me to be the one. Although God had blessed me,
I still had to establish the necessary foundation by substantiating His
blessing. This meant that I had to reach the level where I could live with God
and be in the realm where God and I were relating as equals. When I had secured
this in reality, I could receive the inheritance and the title of
"Messiah." I could inherit everything from God by reaching the level
of equal participation, equal position, and living together with Him. He had to
recognize me by saying, "Certainly you are the True Parent; certainly you
are the Messiah."I had to become like a lighthouse that gives out light to ships in the
night. As a lighthouse lights up the darkness so that ships can find their way
with certainty, the Messiah must be able to shine a bright light into a world
engulfed in darkness, a light that shines no matter how dark it is. (396-023,
2002/11/02)There was no way God could liberate Himself from this situation. Nor could
anyone else liberate Him, even after the passing of thousands of biblical
years. That is why God underwent so many hardships in order to restore human
beings to the standard that He had envisioned for the original family.With my birth, for the first time in human history everything in God's
environment that Satan had defiled could be cleaned up. I cleaned up that
environment front and rear, and right and left, and by establishing the
measures and formulas to defend God from Satan's realm. Consequently Satan had
no choice but to retreat. Anyone who objects to this will meet with
difficulties. I am saying that True Parents have succeeded in doing all of
this. We have established a victorious realm on the individual level and on the
family level. (290-103, 1998/02/03)There can be plenty of messiahs, true parents and saviors on the
individual level, but the individual level alone is not sufficient. Heaven and
earth should publicly recognize that I am the Messiah on the cosmic level. The spirit
world should testify, "He is the Messiah and our True Parent." True
Parents should stand on the victorious foundation of uniting the spirit world.
(396-265, 2002/11/10)Had those of the Jewish faith and nation united to support Jesus and to
establish the national foundation by rectifying the history in which Cain
murdered Abel, Jesus could have stood in the position of the True Parent. In
the history of restoration, after siblings become one, the Parents can emerge.On the national level, Judaism and the people of Israel should have become
one to support Jesus, and the leaders of Judaism and the chief priests should
have united to support Jesus. Then they would have restored the Cain-Abel
relationship on the national level, and on that national foundation the Messiah
could have emerged. That was Jesus. Had the people of Israel united with the
Messiah, it would have resolved on the national level the division between Cain
and Abel that stemmed from Adam in the Garden of Eden. Then the Messiah could
have married and become the True Parent and, with the new, God-centered family
structure, emerged on the world level. (074-083, 1974/11/14)In order to restore God's kingship, the United States must attend the Lord
at his Second Advent, the True Parents. That is why One Nation under God is not
enough. Now that the True Parents have come, we have to build One World under
God, One Universe under God and One Cosmos under God. When such a world
emerges, the kingdom of heaven on earth will be realized.In the free world, people do not have the concepts One World under God,
One Universe under God and One Cosmos under God. In the Last Days, when God's
Will is to be realized, True Parents will come to earth and establish one
world, one universe and one cosmos under God by restoring the authority of God
as the Parent and God as the King.Jesus was unable to complete restoration on the national level in Israel
and to realize the ideal of One Nation under God. Therefore, I came to the
United States, the summit of the world, in order to restore his ideal of one
nation under God. However, this ideal does not include the spirit world. It
does not include even the whole of the physical universe, not to mention the
cosmos. It is not One Unified Spiritual World and Physical World under God.
That is why the Lord at the Second Advent must come to realize that world. Had
Jesus established One Nation under God and united even the Roman Empire, he
could have established one world. And had he united also the spirit world, he
could have established One Cosmos under God. Since this work was not completed,
it remains to be fulfilled. No one has known about this; only God and the
Returning Lord know it. (311-116, 1999/08/29)
continueTrue Parents never existed in the past, nor will there ever be another set
of True Parents. What joyful news it is that the one and only True Parents to
ever exist in history have emerged at this time! There can be no greater news
than this, ever! It is especially great when you enter a parent-child
relationship with True Parents and bond with their lineage; this enables you to
inherit their authority without any sense of shame. They will guide you beyond
yourselves to the infinite world.You have no idea how remarkable it is that you know the name "True
Parents." God created human beings with this as His vision for them. True
Parents' love makes the connection from true families to the true world, the
true kingdom of heaven on earth and the true kingdom of heaven in heaven.
(266-250, 1995/01/01)That is why the spiritual world and the physical world will have to unite.
Unless you know the spirit world, you will fall away. God, together with all
the world-level religious founders, saints and sages, and great people in the
spirit world have resolved to work for the unity of these two worlds. Those
dwelling in paradise and even in hell have resolved to support this and they
have declared this Liberation.I therefore am working to bring this same understanding and determination
to people on earth. With the coming of earth's true owner, the one who is the
Savior, Messiah and Returning Lord, everything is completed. Centering on the
name of the True Parents, everyone can cross over into the new world of
liberation and live together with God, united in love. We have entered the era
in which God can descend from His throne and live with His children on earth,
where He will personally involve Himself with their lives.Completion of the providence
Looking at all the efforts of the True Parents, we see that they have
rectified historical failures, are uniting a divided world into one and based
on this, are building the kingdom of heaven. True Parents are the supreme and
ultimate hope of humankind who complete the providence of restoration. Thus,
when they emerge and are welcomed by the world, the hope of history can be
fulfilled. The era when True Parents emerge in the world is the starting point
for concluding fallen history. (574-187, 2007/09/04)By centering on the perfected Adam, God wanted to establish the foundation
of His object partners and expand it to every level on earth. However, because
of Satan, everything was frustrated. Therefore, when the True Parents come,
they must build their foundation on every level, from the individual to the
family, tribe, people, nation, world and cosmos. Then, once there is unity with
True Parents on every level, all human beings can be one with God in the
kingdom of heaven. This is the purpose of the providential history of
salvation. (268-163, 1995/03/31)The Savior is the central person who represents God to human beings and
reconciles human beings to God. He comes to correct all the mistakes of
history. What he must do is eliminate Satan. God cannot do it Himself. Satan is
the archangel who was supposed to be under Adam's dominion, but he subjugated
Adam instead. Therefore, it is up to Adam to recover his original position, and
it is for this purpose that the Savior must come. By presenting the Principle
and attending God, the Savior must make Satan surrender voluntarily and return
to his original position. That is the only way to achieve a foundation for
peace that accords with God's ideal of creation. (214-260, 1991/02/03)To fulfill this, God has sought to recover the one man, Adam. Yet until
now He could not. From the day of the Fall to this day, God has worked through
religion to seek for Adam according to the principles of re-creation. That is
why the world-level religions need to uphold the teaching that their lord, who
possesses the true way, will come to earth again and guide all of humankind to
the world of peace, the ideal world. This is not accomplished by a group of
people; the standard is one central person, perfected Adam. (195-130,
1989/11/07)Multitudes of religious believers have been making indemnity conditions in
their efforts to escape the realm of the Fall. However, since they themselves
are descendants of the Fall, it is impossible for them to escape on their own.
Adam and Eve, the first human ancestors, caused this situation when they fell.
Therefore, it is necessary that good first ancestors come and pioneer a path to
escape the situation. Unless these new key figures succeed in overcoming the
Fall, no one will be able to escape from it.It is the Returning Lord and his Bride, the True Parents, who can accomplish
this. True Parents must also bring perfection on all levels, from the
individual to the family, tribe, people, nation, world and cosmos. And finally
they must liberate God. (251-019, 1993/10/15)True Parents know all the secrets of God, Satan and humankind. Satan's
world is full of chaos. Above and below, right and left, and front and rear,
nothing is in its proper order. At the Second Advent, True Parents will come to
earth and begin to clean this up.
Starting from themselves as individuals, they will clear the way to recover the
family, tribe, people, nation, world and even the spirit world. Then God's
ideal of creation, which humankind has long awaited, will appear in the
mainstream of history. Hence, the challenge faced by the Unification Church is
how to establish ourselves as the mainstream. We must build the highway, so
that everyone can travel along it and arrive at the ideal world, the kingdom of
heaven. In that ideal world nothing can hinder anyone on the path; even Satan
cannot be there. It is simply a clean and pure world. It is a world where all
people can fulfill their purpose of life. It is a world where all are free,
both in the spiritual world and in the physical world. That world is our
original homeland.Due to the Fall, people have been in misery. Until the True Parents
appeared on earth, no one has been able to solve this problem. Only through
their coming can everything be set straight again. (315-139, 2000/01/30)Jesus' disciples and Christian believers are supposed to take
responsibility for the bitter sorrow that our Heavenly Parent has been carrying
for tens of thousands of years, as well as for the pain of Jesus, who should
have become the True Parent by finding his Bride on earth. Yet none of these
believers are determined to liberate our Heavenly Parent, or even Jesus, who
was to have been the Parent on earth. Most of them just want to receive
blessings by believing in Jesus. When they go to the next world, they will find
themselves in trouble.All the while, God has shed tears like a waterfall. Knowing this, we, the
True Parents, undertook the work of liberating God as our mission. (357-055,
2001/10/26)The True Parents of Heaven and Earth must begin with a family in which
they, as God's filial son and daughter, attend God, honor Him and glorify Him,
even better than the family of Adam and Eve would have done had they reached
perfection.The True Father, the Messiah, who is centered on true love, is the head of
the family, which is the ideal core of humankind. He is to begin history anew
by connecting human beings to true life and true lineage as they form blessed
families, thus establishing the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven.
(315-213, 2000/02/02)Yet, reaching the position of a bride and groom was not their ultimate
goal as the original human beings. It is just one position on their course to
perfection. Parents are the beginning of life. The life of the original human
beings began in the presence of the Heavenly Parent, and all human beings must
find a way to return to their Parent, God.Those who start out as parents, the root of new life, must start from the
same position in which God stood when He gave life to the first human beings.
From that position they should grow in the realm of God's protection and then
emerge as the Bridegroom and Bride. After that, by becoming parents they can
return to the Heavenly Parent.That is why I am saying that the positions of the Bridegroom and Bride are
not the ultimate ideal. Likewise, your final destination as human beings is the
place where you attend God as your Parent and become His true sons and
daughters. Certainly that should be the summit of your hope, the place you all
should desire to reach.Based on this view, the Unification Church presents the ideal of True
Parents. By going through the process of becoming bridegrooms and brides, you
also can arrive at the position of original sons and daughters. God created
human beings, but they fell. So you should be restored and reach perfection,
and by attending God as the True Parent you should attain oneness with Him in
eternal value, in eternal life and in eternal love. All of you need to start
anew. This is the reason it is necessary for True Parents to come to earth and
guide humankind toward this goal following the path of restoration. God's
purpose for leading the providence of salvation for humankind thus far has been
to arrive at this destination. (068-133, 1973/07/29)True Parents are God's true Son and true Daughter. They are to be the
center of humanity and the universe. A nation that centers on them will become
a central nation. On the other hand, a nation that lacks that center will come
to ruin, and a world that lacks that center will drift into oblivion. For this
reason, the culture that is centered on the True Parents will advance
throughout the world. The culture that starts from that center will never
perish.Therefore, all families should make True Parents their center and attend
God as True Parents do. All the people of the world should live by the example
of True Parents, by their value system, and in line with their views on
national and world affairs. The values they present will become widely held
throughout the nation and the world, and eventually all humankind will share
these values and adopt them as their own.Humankind has proceeded in hope for the time of the Last Days and is now
heading for that one gate. True Parents' hope is to establish the God-centered
true family, tribe, people, nation, world and cosmos. If we all do this
together, we can restore even God's love. (019-205, 1968/01/07)In the beginning, when He created the first human beings, one man and one
woman, His purpose was to assume a body, which He needed in order to relate
with the substantial world. God wanted to freely communicate and interact with
the substantial world through the bodies of the two human beings, Adam and Eve.
This was because as long as God was an incorporeal being without a body, He was
limited in relating to the corporeal, substantial world.Therefore, had Adam and Eve, on the foundation of reaching perfection by
attending God and becoming one with Him, married and had children to form a
family, they would have become the external, horizontal True Parents, and God
would have become the internal, vertical True Parent.
How can we human beings who were born in the flesh become the body of God,
who exists as an incorporeal being? God has four fundamental attributes: He is
absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal. God created human beings as His ultimate
masterpieces, to whom He could bequeath these attributes. However, the flesh
cannot be eternal, because it is made with finite material substances based on
the principles of the physical world. Therefore, when Adam and Eve attained
perfection in the flesh, God wanted to live within them in total oneness and
maintain that oneness in spirit as an eternal relationship of true love—God
within them and they within God.Had Adam and Eve not fallen but kept God's commandment, they would have
attained individual perfection and married with God's blessing. Then their
children also could have become embodiments of God, and all human beings would
have inherited God's attributes from generation to generation into eternity.
(501-032, 2005/07/14)God created human beings because He needed object partners with whom to
share His love on earth. It is for this reason that He endowed human beings,
whom He created as His absolute object partners, with the ability to procreate,
so that they could continue their life on earth forever. Love, life and lineage
are the three elements of God's creation of human beings. God is the root of
love, the root of life and the root of lineage. He is also the root of the
kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven.Had the Fall not occurred, God would have entered the hearts of Adam and
Eve at the time of their marriage and He would have experienced the union of
love through their bodies. Thereby He would have become thevertical True
Parent, and Adam and Eve would have become the horizontal True Parents. Thus,
human beings would have possessed a mind that stemmed from two sets of parents:
God, as well as Adam and Eve. That mind would be the vertical self, and the
body, the horizontal self. They would have lived their lives in oneness in
heart, oneness in body, oneness in thought and oneness in harmony. (565-315,
2007/06/13)The heavenly realms are represented by the central family of the cosmos.
When this family appears on earth, a vertical axis is formed; and centered on
that axis, concentric circles expand through eight levels. (565-307,
2007/06/13)In time they would have become husband and wife, and later, by giving
birth to children, they would have become parents and ascended to a position
next to God. By giving birth to children and then loving them, Adam and Eve
would have inherited everything from God, who rejoiced after creating human
beings, His children. Because they had received divine love, they would have
loved their children more than themselves and treasured them so much that they
would never have exchanged them for all of heaven and earth. (223-267,
1991/11/12)Thus, as God's sons and daughters, human beings must inherit this kingdom
in two realms. Through the Blessing you have inherited the lineage of the
kingdom in heaven and the kingdom on earth, the vertical kingdom and the
horizontal kingdom, and the vertical Parent and the horizontal Parents. You
have become children who can inherit all that is internal and external from
both the vertical Parent and the horizontal Parents.Royal family members are those who actually live their lives based on this
twofold inheritance—from the kingdom in heaven and the kingdom on earth. Once
you become members of the royal family, you stand on the foundation to be
accepted by both kingdoms at any time. Then, based on this way of life, you
should expand children's love, siblings' love, love between husband and wife,
and parents' love. Once your family is officially recognized for living by this
standard of love, it will become a perfect family on earth and in heaven that
receives the vertical kingdom and the horizontal kingdom as its inheritance.Those who have experienced God's internal heart and all the elements of
Adam and Eve's external substance come to belong to the realm of the royal
family. Centering on true love, God is their vertical Parent and Adam and Eve
are their horizontal Parents. Their children are Adam and Eve's blood
relations, who inherit the ideal of both worlds. (240-017, 1992/12/10)God is our vertical Father; He can connect us to the infinite spirit
world. We also have a physical person as our horizontal father. Our vertical
Father is God, and our horizontal father and mother are the True Parents. In
love, God meets True Parents at a 90-degree angle at the point where they unite
as husband and wife. The place where a husband and wife become one is their
reproductive organs. Except by means of the reproductive organs, their lives
cannot become one. Becoming one through that union makes the connection of
lineage.After inheriting true life centered on God's love, perfected Adam and Eve
relate to each other as subject partner and object partner. Their marriage is,
at the same time, a marriage of God, the incorporeal substantial being, and
Adam and Eve, the corporeal substantial beings. Hence, on their wedding night
they will experience God's love. Thus, the marriage of the perfected Adam and
Eve is not simply the union of two human beings. Their wedding is the core
event in the universe.That is why you must seek for nothing but God and True Parents. You should
seek nothing else but the love, life and lineage of God and the love, life and
lineage of True Parents. (363-073, 2001/12/16)Love means to attain oneness. Without love, the phrases "oneness
between parents and children," "oneness between husband and
wife," and "oneness between brothers and sisters" would not
exist.The bodies of man and woman are God's substantial forms. I mean that their
bodies are God's body. In their physical union they seek to ascend in pursuit
of God, the vertical standard, but in fact, it first connects to them. The
vertical standard descends quickly, as if pulled by gravity. It comes down more
quickly than the horizontal comes together. In their physical union, revolving
around the vertical standard, everything together creates a spherical form of
love. The vertical becomes the core, and Adam and Eve revolve around it like
satellites to complete the spherical form of love. That is where Adam and Eve,
God's son and daughter, are perfected as God's loving embodiments. (262-189,
1994/07/23)When there is perpendicularity between the vertical and the horizontal, no
one complains even if east-west turns to above-below. In other words, whether
the wife leads her husband, or the children lead their parents, or the
grandchildren lead their grandparents, no one complains because everyone feels
connected. Right there, the realm of unity is formed. Once we have such family
relationships structured around a 90-degree angle, this creates the foundation
for total oneness. There is no waste, no struggle, only peace, for all
eternity. (204-105, 1990/07/01)Once this had come to pass, Adam and Eve, as the perfected human
ancestors, would have connected the spiritual world and the physical world. Had
they become True Parents with perfect spirit selves, God then would have become
manifest in the image of Adam and Eve, the True Parents. God would then dwell
with the True Parents, perfected Adam and Eve, and His manifestation through
them would continue forever. Therefore, now that True Parents are transforming
the fallen, sinful world, restoring the original world of creation, and
establishing the nucleus of the ideal world, they have become the eternal image
of God, on earth and in the spirit world.
God is a being of dual characteristics in harmony. In terms of position
and status, He is the subject partner and in the male position.When God enters the True Parents, who become His embodiments, God and the
True Parents then become one in lineage, love and life. In the position of
total oneness with God, as families of the heavenly kingdom, as inheritors of
the world where God is transcendent over all, immanent in all, and omnipotent,
where the ideal of creation has been completed, each of you must occupy the
position of families that are owners in the heavenly kingdom of eternal life.
God wants that world, the world that achieves substantial victory both
spiritually and physically. (602-258, 2008/11/16)In order for you to go to this kingdom in the other world, you must meet
the original qualifications. You need to have people whom you can lead on God's
behalf. Also, you need to have your object partner whom you can love on God's
behalf. You need to perfect your husband-wife relationship on earth.When convex and concave finally become one, it means that heaven and earth
become one. Man symbolizes heaven; woman symbolizes earth. Whether you are a
man or a woman, you must have your own object partner in eternal love.Next, you must become God's image.You must become like God. Human beings
and God have the same attributes; therefore, be assured that each of you is a
little god. Because the world of human beings is eternal, when you go to your
place of glory, we can say that you have returned.Using the word "return" to describe death is revelatory. It
indicates that the purpose of one's life on earth before shedding the physical
form is to prepare for one's return to the other world. We need to become God's
object partners on the levels of the family, tribe, people and nation, and then
live forever in the infinite world as the embodiment of all glory. This is our
ideal. (264-153, 1994/10/09)God, the world of beings who are in His image and the world of all things
as symbolic expressions of God are not separated from each other; they are
actually one. Although I describe them using different words—symbol, image and
substance—they have a common center. Since they have only one center, they
cannot help but dwell at that place of oneness. Each desires oneness with Him,
whether they are entities that resemble God in symbol, beings in His image, or
the Substantial Being Himself.In this world, all things of the creation are beings in symbol, human
beings are beings in God's image, and God Himself is the Substantial Being. God
is invisible and incorporeal. The ideal of creation is for the incorporeal God
to manifest as the corporeal God.God is already the substantial reality of the invisible world, but He also
wants to be substantiated in the visible world. This is the reason He created
human beings; they are His substantial selves in the visible world.The starting basis for human beings to become God's substantial selves is
the True Parents. In the visible world, the True Parents are the center of
entities in symbol, the center of beings in image, and the central focus of the
Substantial Being. The central focus of the True Parents, who represent this
visible world, is to be united with the reality of God's invisible world.The same applies in the spirit world. In the spirit world as well, there
is a world of beings in symbol, a world of beings in image, and the world of
the Substantial Reality. We cannot see such beings with our physical eyes, but
just as in the visible world, each consists of an inward nature and an outward
form. Nevertheless, the center of everything is the One. Whether it is in the
visible world or the invisible world, the center is the One. This invisible
substantial center is where we will settle in the spirit world. (298-106,
1999/01/01)Although the mind is invisible, it does not mean that the mind does not
know things. It does know. In original human beings, the mind leads and guides
everything in the position of subject partner. Adam and Eve were not to live as
their bodies wanted them to; they were to live in unity with God centering on
their minds.That is why we all have to absolutely center on the mind. The mind knows
before our parents know, before our teachers know, and even before God knows.
Upholding the ideal of love, it wants to benefit us a hundredfold, a
thousandfold.Thus, had Adam and Eve reached perfection, they would have been able to
feel God Himself. They would have been unable to do anything against Him. They
would have been able to feel His presence and know Him. They would have been
able to sense, "God and I are one!" (270-271, 1995/07/16)God created human beings because He was in need of object partners. Unless
you have an object partner, you cannot feel love. Thus, God created human
beings for the perfection of love; that is why He wanted to assume substantial
form. Further, He created them to multiply Himself. Without a substantial body
that can procreate on earth, it is impossible for God to multiply Himself. God
created for these three reasons.God needs to assume bodily form, and in order to do so, He needs His
object partners. It was Adam and Eve whom God created as His object partners,
in and through whom He was to assume substantial form. Therefore, to see Adam
and Eve would be to see God. (270-272, 1995/07/16)God's most precious object partners are Adam and Eve. Centering on His
love, they are to totally harmonize and unite with God as parent and children,
as subject partner and object partners, as the incorporeal Creator and His
corporeal embodiments in the substantial world. In this way, they are to
realize the ideals of eternal love and eternal life. This is God's Will.People up to now have generally asserted that created beings cannot stand
in a position equal to the Creator. However, if that were true, it would be
impossible for the Creator to realize His ideal of love. God's ideal of love is
to relate to His children, Adam and Eve, as His corporeal substantial object
partners and attain oneness with them for eternity. God wants to dwell in human
beings. The moment that those human beings reach perfection as His object
partners is the starting point for the incorporeal God to realize His ideal of
love through substantial human beings. (135-011, 1985/08/20)Therefore, the focal point, the most precious things in the world, are the
reproductive organs of man and woman. They are the original palace. Only one
person can own that palace—only one man for the woman's reproductive organ and
only one woman for the man's. That palace is the palace of life and of lineage.
There can be only one king for that palace in the kingdom of heaven on earth
and for that palace in the kingdom of heaven in heaven.Hence, the wedding day of Adam and Eve is God's wedding day. When they
enter into loving union, they can finally perfect God and place Him in the
position in which He is liberated. (253-213, 1994/01/23)Accordingly, the most blessed people are parents who give birth to many
children. Parents with many children can establish the foundation to receive
many blessings. When their children manifest their value as individuals, they
are bound to inherit their family's foundation. When they marry, they will
unite front and rear, and right and left. This is the point of perfection; that
is where God dwells. This is where the perfection of children, the perfection of
siblings, the perfection of husband and wife, and the perfection of parents is
realized. This is the point where everyone can connect to the invisible God.This family is everything that we human beings truly desire. This is the
family that everyone seeks to achieve. It is where God can fully manifest
Himself in visible form. The love of brothers and sisters, the love of husband
and wife, and the love of parents and children are all included here. Such love
is something parents can bequeath to their children.When the invisible God began His creation, it was as if He were making an
appearance in the visible world. In creating human beings, God has four ideals:
the ideal of parents, the ideal of husband and wife, the ideal of brothers and
sisters, and the ideal of sons and daughters. As God is the Parent of all
humankind, all parents have these same ideals. That is why parents want to give
birth to children. As children grow, they relate to their siblings. Later, they
marry and become husbands or wives and look forward to becoming parents. A
husband and wife perfect their relationship when they are in total unity,
revolving around each other in all directions. At that point another creation
comes into being. The invisible God, the Creator, is manifest in a husband and
wife. This is how they can become an ideal couple. God comes and shares their
first wedding night with them. (248-109, 1993/08/01)The Messiah is the Returning Lord whom God sent to earth in the Last Days
of human history as the Third Adam, along with the spouse God had found for
him, who is the Third Eve and the embodiment of the Holy Spirit. The Holy
Wedding of True Parents was the ceremony in which God blessed them as true
husband and wife and as the true ancestors of humankind. Because human beings
were born wrongfully, they need to be reborn; for this, they absolutely need
True Parents.On the basis of the Holy Wedding of the True Parents, restoration through
indemnity could proceed beyond the top of the growth stage in the growing
period—the level at which Adam and Eve fell and became the false parents—going
beyond the point at which Jesus faced the disbelief of the chosen people of
Israel and was made to shoulder the cross.
For this we need the Marriage Supper of the Lamb at which we welcome the
Bridegroom and the Bride. This means that the Lord who is to return must come
to earth as the Bridegroom. He must find the Bride and engraft her onto the
standard of Jesus, the standard that Christianity upholds.Christianity is the religion that firmly pursues its purpose based on the
standard of Jesus. This is why the democratic world is advancing on the basis
of Christian values. The democratic world is advancing in this way in order to
receive the True Parents. Religion to this day has been toiling to establish
the one true Son. This means that God has been endeavoring to find the one true
Son. (041-028, 1971/02/12)Another point is that the Bible introduces the concept of the Bride.
Jesus, God's only begotten Son, came as the Bridegroom. Hence, he needs his
Bride. Since there is the Bridegroom, there also must be the Bride. The
Bridegroom and Bride are a man and a woman. On the day of their wedding
banquet, God can finally appear holding the flag of love. God hoped to see such
a banquet in the Garden of Eden. This hope was shattered; hence in the Last
Days this wedding banquet must be held on earth. (135-125, 1985/10/04)They must wed; this is the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. This means that
when the Lord comes, he will have his wedding banquet and then raise a family.
This is what God has desired ever since the creation of Adam and Eve. God's
hope is for the only begotten Son and the only begotten Daughter to build a
God-centered family, a family in which He can manifest His love in a real way.
(160-272, 1969/05/17)These two people, a man and a woman who are bonded to God's lineage, are
the embodiments of God the Father and the Mother, and God's original internal
character and original external form.The True Parents of humankind are motivated by God's love and move by the
power of God's life. When they join together in complete union, God's love,
life and lineage will be coursing through them. Each becomes the owner of the
other with their positions constantly changing: the man in the position of the
woman and the woman in the position of the man. At that point the seeds of
life, namely, their descendants, will be connected to God.This is the ideal of creation. But due to the Fall this ideal was
shattered. In order to recover the lost ideal of creation, True Parents need to
recover all that was lost. In doing so, True Parents represent all creation,
represent humankind, and represent our Heavenly Parent. This is the essence of
the providence of salvation. (325-131, 2000/06/30)Adam and Eve should have become the good parents of humankind, but they
fell and became the evil parents of humankind. In order for us to be restored,
we need to meet the good parents whom Adam and Eve would have become had they
not fallen. Humankind absolutely needs the good parents. The purpose of the
Marriage Supper of the Lamb is for the good parents to ascend to their throne.
(036-264, 1970/12/06)The Marriage Supper of the Lamb is the banquet to which the returning
Jesus comes as the True Father to bring forth a woman as the True Mother. This
is the core truth of Christianity. The center of Christianity is Jesus, and the
center of Jesus is love. The center of the Bible is also love. The center of
love is the Bride and Bridegroom, and the center of the Bride and Bridegroom is
the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. The paramount significance of the Marriage
Supper of the Lamb is that the Returning Lord and his Bride receive the
Marriage Blessing at the time of God's choosing and in the right environment,
whereby they become the true ancestors of humankind who can inherit heaven and
earth. (009-254, 1960/06/05)The day will arrive when God and Jesus rejoice together. The day will come
when they can openly express their heart filled with 6,000 years of bitter pain
and sorrow. The day will come when the coming Lord can establish the bond of
lineage linking God to His sons and daughters.Suppose that when Jesus came to earth as God's only begotten Son, he had
not died on the cross. Since he was God's only begotten Son, God surely would
have sent His only begotten Daughter to him. God has searched for 2,000 years
to find the Bride. Jesus emerged as the true Son, but there is no mention of
the true Daughter anywhere in the Bible. That is why God's Will was not
realized.The purpose of the 2,000-year history of Christianity has therefore been
to find God's Daughter. The Holy Spirit came, but it represents this daughter
of God only in spirit. God's bitter sorrow over this matter will be dissolved
on the day that the Marriage Supper of the Lamb takes place. (007-303,
1959/10/11)The Bridegroom is the one who comes as the perfected True Father, and the
Bride is the one who appears as the True Mother, the beloved of God. If Adam
and Eve had not fallen, they would have married centered on God, but due to the
Fall they married centered on Satan. True Parents must reclaim Adam and Eve on
behalf of God, and then conduct the Holy Wedding centered on God. This is the
Marriage Supper of the Lamb that is spoken of in the Book of Revelation.
(053-037, 1972/02/06)The Marriage Supper of the Lamb is offered based on the Bridegroom and
Bride having become a true filial son and daughter, with the true Bride having
pledged herself to the Will and having understood the Will. From the day they
receive the Blessing, they become the True Parents of humankind who represent
the incorporeal God in substantial form.If the first human beings had not fallen, they would have grown up in a
good world and received the Blessing in the love of God. Adam and Eve would
have become children who could intimately know God's heart. In their loving
union they would have made a bond of heart with God that would have enabled God
to say to them, "You are My filial son and daughter, and you can represent
My heart." The new Adam and Eve cannot become God's filial son and
daughter unless they feel connected to Him in heart. Thus, they need to
understand God's inner heart and the course through which He suffered. By doing
so, they can meet the conditions required of Adam and Eve for realizing the
ideal of creation. The Marriage Supper of the Lamb is precisely the event
through which those conditions are met. (009-107, 1960/04/24)Originally, in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve should have become the
true human ancestors and should have been installed as the True Parents.
However, due to the Human Fall, it is only now in the era of the Second Coming,
after 6,000 years have passed, that God could find the true ancestors of
humankind. Finally a man emerged who prevailed over Satan's world and received
the Holy Wedding from God. Now he has re-created Eve. By attaining that
position, he has restored the standard for inaugurating the ancestors of
humankind for the first time, 6,000 years after Adam and Eve. Only after
numerous fallen children had multiplied did True Parents reverse the order and
come forth. (019-163, 1968/01/01)In the present circumstances, history is full of changes. It appears that
humankind is declining and descending into a world of death, and that the
world, beset by many divisions, is heading for destruction. But at the same
time, we can realize that the scope of historical events is moving beyond
national and regional levels and expanding to the world.Ever since we entered the providential era during which we had to expand
our foundation horizontally based on the bond of the God-centered lineage that
we have with True Parents, the world has been beset by ideological confusion.
Traditions have been falling into chaos. Things are being shaken up.
Christianity also is being totally shaken up.The Holy Wedding was held 14 years after Korea's liberation from Japan.
During that time, the Christian churches in Korea were either those that were
rebuilding after years underground or those that had survived because their
members had followed the dictates of the Japanese and offered bows at Shinto
shrines. The way began to open up by which God could lead the providence with
Korea as its base and make a leap to expand to the world.The starting point for this transition was True Parents' Holy Wedding that
took place in April 1960. After the Holy Wedding Ceremony, Parents' Day was
inaugurated. That was the day when we finally could clear up humankind's
history, a history imprisoned by bonds of defiled love, life and lineage from
the false parents. The original love, life and lineage centered on God were
newly planted and began to deepen their roots on earth. Although the world that
had received the fallen archangel's lineage had continued up to that point,
from that day in 1960, when the True Parents emerged, the lineage of the
original Adam and Eve began to take root centering on God's love. (196-218,
1990/01/01)
At the moment of that one person's coming, were the circumstances prepared
such that he could build a relationship with a nation and with the world? Did
the circumstances of that moment have a strong enough foundation to pass on to
him its relationships with history, with the present age, and with the future?
The ceremony itself may appear to have been a simple event, but once people
realize that it was the core event representing the entirety of human history,
people throughout history will study the significance of that one day.
(032-069, 1970/06/21)The re-creation of Adam and Eve marks the end of the fallen era in history
and the beginning of a new era. This is what happened in 1960. The
establishment of that bond of love centering on True Parents was truly a cosmic
event. (028-013, 1970/01/01)The formation stage of the growing period corresponds to the age of the
servant; the growth stage corresponds to the age of adopted children; and the
completion stage corresponds to the age of direct children. After history had
passed through the Old Testament Age, the age of the servant, Jesus' gospel
appeared on earth. At that point, human history entered the realm of adopted
children. The human ancestors, still in the realm of adopted children, fell at
the completion level of the growth stage. Therefore, fallen human beings must
connect to the external foundation of the Son and be re-created. Then they can
be elevated to the completion level of the growth stage in order to finally
inherit the realm of direct children.In short, since the completion level of the growth stage is the level from
which the human ancestors fell, we have to reach that level in order to be
restored. However, since the Fall took place in the process of forming their
family, we cannot reach the standard that God desires unless we establish a
family. That is why True Parents conducted the Holy Wedding in 1960 in the
Unification Church; it was in order to reach that standard. (028-012,
1970/01/01)I am the type of person who fears having my name known to the world before
I establish a strong foundation. I fear becoming famous before an adequate
foundation is laid. In such a case, it is a principle that Satan is bound to
attack. Therefore, as 1 needed to pass my 40-year milestone without dying, I
looked forward to that day while silently hoping that the time would pass by
quickly. I knew I had to establish the condition of the number 40, since
Abraham had established the number 40 and Jesus had come at the end of 4,000
years of history. Thus, I looked forward to passing that 40-year milestone.
Hoping for many long years to reach that day, I struggled fiercely to fulfill
all my responsibilities without dying so that I might stand victorious before
heaven and earth. (013-039, 1963/10/16)
So we had to indemnify that periodof history during the seven-year course
leading up to the Holy Wedding in 1960.1 am sure that you all know about 40-day
restoration periods. Since Jesus was unable to reach the age of 40, the course
to overcome the obstacle of the number 40 remained with us. Since that
indemnity course still had to be fulfilled, as the Returning Lord I had no
choice but to persevere through seven years of great tribulations. The basis of
this exists within the Principle of Restoration. (019-150, 1968/01/01)I had no friends or colleagues on this path. Even those who said they
would follow me ended up being burdens to me on the path that I had to take;
they strewed it with thorns and created obstacles for me. There was no one to
help me. (019-111, 1967/12/31)The victory I am talking about is the victory on the national level that
Jesus was not able to reach. Therefore, based on my having reached the age of
40, the Unification Church in the 1960s had to substantially indemnify and
overcome the destiny Jesus faced when he was unable to surmount the obstacles
to reaching the age of 40. That is why the Unification Church in the 1960s
received enormous persecution. If I, as the representative of humankind, had
not had the courage to make a decisive oath in front of God that I would divide
good from evil, the work of the providence would have been delayed. (075-010,
1975/01/01)Due to the Fall, Adam and Eve, the first human ancestors, were unable to
form a true conjugal relationship. The Fall occurred through the act of two
individuals, a man and a woman. Therefore, restoration cannot be completed by
one person alone. A man cannot be restored alone, nor can a woman go to heaven
alone. Nothing can be resolved without the efforts of two individuals. After
restoring the positions of unfallen Adam and Eve, these two individuals are to
establish the standard of the True Parents on earth. This requires the
betrothal of three disciples. (022-190, 1969/02/02)The position of the True Parents cannot be established without the restoration
of the three children whom Adam had lost. That is why Jesus absolutely needed
his three disciples. They also represented the three archangels. The three
archangels were not united in obedience and attendance to Adam and Eve. As a
result, the world became fallen. That iswhy Jesus had to restore three
disciples in order to stand in the position of the True Parent. Likewise, the
Lord at the Second Advent also must have three spiritual children who
absolutely obey him. Otherwise, he cannot stand in the position of the True
Parent. This is the formula. I had to have three disciples who would absolutely
follow me as filial sons, even in life-and-death situations in the midst of
persecution.In April of 1960,1 was able to establish these three disciples. Since the
course of restoration goes in reverse, the betrothal ceremony was given first
to those who stood in the children's position. Jacob's family is representative
of the family realm, so the foundation for the betrothal had to be made based
on the number 12. That standard should be established based on those three
disciples. (022-190, 1969/02/02)True Father tried to make unity with Christianity in the early days of his
course. However, when that course was frustrated due to Christians' disbelief,
he had to lay the foundation for a new providential church representing
Christianity. For this he endured great tribulations as he walked the course of
indemnity to restore the conditions for the Three Blessings. On May 1,1954 in
Seoul, he founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World
Christianity (HSA-UWC). After that he walked a seven-year course to restore
through indemnity the entire New Testament Age.Since True Father had surmounted a total of 40 years of indemnity,
counting from the time of his birth, he succeeded in separating Satan from
hiscourse. Then, on April 11,1960, he and True Mother held their glorious Holy
Wedding Ceremony. Thereby they became the first human ancestors, husband and
wife, in front of God.
In the future, the Lord will return, but he will come as the True Parent.
He will come to earth in the flesh as the Father of humanity. He will come in
the flesh as the Bridegroom, and from among the people he will find his Bride
and establish her as the True Mother of humankind in the flesh. Then, finally,
the unfallen True Parents will emerge. Because Adam and Eve fell, the True
Parents were lost. Hence, people today are descended from the fallen parents,
not the unfallen True Parents.The Lord has returned in the flesh, in accordance with the providence of
restoration, in order to complete the mission of the True Parent. He comes with
the truth about the history of the Human Fall. With this truth he mustfully
resolve this problem: when people have only the foundation of Jesus' spiritual
salvation, Jesus cannot give them birth as sons and daughters who can achieve
perfection in both spirit and flesh. (012-228, 1963/05/15)When Jesus returns to earth in the flesh, the woman whom he takes as the
Bride must meet the qualifications, as stipulated by the Principle, to be the
Bride. This requires that she knows all aspects of the heavenly way. It
requires that she looks forward to the Returning Lord's coming and prepares to
welcome him. These are the conditions she needs in order to prepare herself to
establish the one God-centered family, nation and world. This is her
responsibility as the Bride. That is also why, as we entered the 1960s, the
women's movement began and is developing throughout the world.No matter how many people there are on earth, they are all descendants of
the Fall. They were all born from the evil, fallen lineage. Therefore, a true
woman must emerge who can love them as their True Mother. As the Last Days draw
near, the time is approaching when such a woman will appear. This is why, to
prepare the environment, women's movements are springing up worldwide.We have now arrived at a time when many women can surpass men. The Last
Days is the time when women can restore the Fall, and these women in the realm
of grace are able to come forward and represent the heavenly Eve. Today it is
not just a matter of women's liberation; women can stand in such a position.
Therefore, the True Mother must appear during this time. We must be able to
attend this Mother on earth. Humankind has been trying to return to God, and as
we enter the era when this can happen, the Bride must be established on earth.
(016-182, 1966/03/22)God has been ever looking for the mother. God, the masculine subject
partner, has had no partner. He needs a female object partner. She is His
partner, and at the same time she is the queen of earth. She is the queen of
the tribes and queen of the families. She stands as the grandmother of all
ancestors, the mother of all humankind, the wife of God and the daughter of
God.Mother is such a woman, with the value of the original True Mother. She is
the queen of heaven, the queen of earth, the queen of the nation, the
grandmother to her ancestors, the mother of humankind, the wife of God and the
daughter of God. Mother's value isfound in all of these roles. (398-134,
2002/12/09)The Book of Revelation includes content concerning the work of
restoration. This is one reason the Bible is great. Because of the principle of
restoration, the core content of restoration was placed at the end of the
Bible. Revelation 22:17 reads, "The Holy Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come.'
And let everyone who hears say, ‘Come.' And let everyone who is thirsty come.
Let anyone who wishes take the water of life as a gift." Do you know whom
the Bride and the Holy Spirit refer to? The Bride refers to the Lord's wife.
The Holy Spirit is only a spiritual being. Therefore, the Mother with both
spirit and flesh needs to appear. Jesus, the Father of humankind, is a man, so
the Mother of humankind must be found among women. When she is found, together
they will save all humankind by guiding them to a new world. (021-050,
1968/09/01)From this point of view, you can see that no one more than 20 years old
could have fulfilled the position ofTrue Mother. She had to be at most 18 or 19
years old. That is why at the age of 40 I married Mother who was just 17 years
old. Just as I embarked on the path for the Will at the age of 16, a woman had
to meet that standard at around the same age. Otherwise, she would have no way
to bring about the liberation of women. (247-255, 1993/05/09)Such is the case with True Mother. At the point at which she started her
life with me, she had to pay incredible indemnity in heart. She had to avoid
having any condition to be accused, whether from above or from below. It didn't
matter that she was younger than 20 years old; if God permitted His object
partner to be someone of that age, that young woman had to be able to adapt to
whatever difficult situation she might face.That is why it was good that I found Mother among those who came from a
solitary family background. Mother came from a simple family. She had no father
or older brother. She had only one person with her: her mother, Grandmother
Hong, a woman who was willing to do anything for heaven. (121-212, 1982/10/27)Ever since I received her as Mother, I have been leading the providence
with her. So when we were engaged, I explained everything about the path I had
to follow, saying, "This is the way I must go." Mother respects me
because whatever I do is in accordance with the providential program. I also
gave her basic guidelines, saying, "If you are attacked in this way, you
need to overcome it like this. If you are attacked in that way, you must do
things that way." Mother respects me because I do what I say I will do.
Even though the path is difficult, I overcome each obstacle and move forward.
(236-109, 1992/11/03)I was born into that loyal family in remembrance of this ancestor s
devotion to the nation. My grandmother was born into that lineage, and my
mother, Daemonim, was born from her. Thus, heaven began to work from the time
of Jo Han-jun in order to prepare the environment in which I would meet the
Messiah at his Second Coming and be raised up as his partner.From this we can learn a lesson: Heaven will absolutely remember whatever
conditions we make. This is why when I met Father I already understood what
would be essential to my mission. Since I was born and grew up in the
environment that God had prepared, I knew what I had to do and the mission I
needed to accomplish.The Holy Wedding of the True ParentsAfter True Father
traveled the path of blood, sweat and tears to indemnify Jesus' course, he was
engaged to True Mother. She was the only daughter of Mrs. Hong Soon-ae
(Daemonim), who was devoting her entire life with complete dedication to serve
and attend the Lord at his Second Advent. The engagement took place at the
original Cheongpa-dong headquarters church in Seoul, at 4:00 in the morning on
March 27,1960 (1st day of the 3rd lunar month). Four days later, on March 31,
Father officially decided to hold the Holy Wedding of the True Parents and the
Blessing of three of their main disciples.On April 11,1960 (16th day of the 3rd lunar month), at 10:00 a.m. at the
former headquarters church in Seoul, the historic Holy Wedding of the True
Parents was held. More than 700 members werein attendance, invited from every
church in Korea. There were two ceremonies: The first was the Ceremony to
Restore the Parents through Indemnity, and the second, held immediately
following the first, was the Ceremony for the Parents of Glory. (True Mother,
2012/12/25)With the establishment of True Mother, God could finally settle on earth.
To achieve this, I set conditions to indemnify and resolve the problems in
providential history that occurred in the times of Adam, Noah, Abraham and
thereafter. Although the Christian cultural sphere took over and dealt with all
these issues, including establishing a nation and a people representing Israel
that was prepared to receive me, when Christianity turned against me, it was as
if the spiritual foundation that it had restored through paying indemnity for
2,000 years crumbled.Therefore, when I found Mother 14 years after God called me, I was
providentially in the same situation as whenJesus died on the cross. In other
words, the Republic of Korea stood in the same position as Israel at the time
of Jesus. Likewise, Christianity was in the same position as Judaism, and I and
the Unification Church were in the same position as Jesus and the early
Christian church. Since Jesus carried the cross on account of persecution by
the nation of Israel and Judaism, we had to battle through the same situation
and win. We had to restore everything through paying indemnity. (143-178,
1986/03/18)The date of the Holy Wedding was the 16th day of the 3th lunar month in
1960. That time marked the highest peak of opposition. I stood on the dividing
line between moving one step forward or one step back, between life and death,
between making a new start and not making one. In those circumstances, I
managed to bring a new historic result.On that day God made the greatest proclamation in human history, the
proclamation that will spread heavenly fortune to the world. It was the
historic day that Jesus spoke about—the day of welcoming the Bride. It was the
day of True Parents' Holy Wedding. From that moment on, I could go on the
offensive and take the first steps forward. Finally I could begin resolving the
problems we faced and move swiftly forward centered on God. (067-250,
1973/07/01)In this way, by 1960 I had laid a nationwide foundation and made an impact
on the nation. So, although I was opposed by the nation and by Christianity on
the national level, I could proceed with the Holy Wedding. I had to conduct the
Holy Wedding in circumstances similar to those of Jesus when he was arrested
and made to go the way of the cross. Indeed, at the time of the Holy Wedding,
the nation opposed me and Christianity opposed me. They were united against me.
(111-199, 1981/02/20)For the first ceremony, 12 attendants stood on each side of the aisle. I
wore white traditional Korean attire (chima-jeogori) and a long wedding veil.
Father and I descended the stairs from the second floor together amid the
echoing sounds of the choir singing "Song of theBanquet." We then
took our places at the front of the room. Following True Father's prayer and
proclamation, representative members offered a congratulatory address and
recited a poem of praise.Soon, the second ceremony commenced. Father and I were dressed in
traditional Korean wedding attire {samo-gwandae for the groom; hwal-ot for the
bride) and headdresses. Father offered a pledge to God, and all members bowed
four times to God and True Parents. We bowed three times facing each other.
Then we exchanged gifts and offered a final bow to each other. Representative
members presented a gift and read a congratulatory address. True Father offered
a second pledge to God, and the historic event concluded with Father raising
his hands to offer a benediction upon everyone present. (True Mother,
2013/11/30)The ceremonial table for the Holy Wedding had been prepared according to
instructions revealed by heaven. It was a large table with 40 different kinds
of food. Father and I ate together andthe wedding festivities took place.We changed out of our wedding attire and put on Korean traditional
clothes. I danced merrily with Father. After Father sang, he requested a song
from me. He then chose some members to sing, and we all sang together.The Holy Wedding was the ceremony that inaugurated the True Parents of
humankind for the first time in human history, but it was held in a humble
setting. Considering the providential value and significance of the occasion,
all people of the world should have celebrated it, offering their
congratulations and praising God. (True Mother, 2013/11/30)At the Holy Wedding, True Parents' family went beyond the completion level
of the growth stage. During the following seven years they had to go through
the completion stage while fighting against and prevailing over attacks from
the spiritual world and the physical world. At the same time, that seven-year
course was the period during which True Mother had to set the indemnity
condition of absolute obedience to God's Will and during which she was
responsible to become absolutely one with True Father. For True Father,this
seven-year course was the period to raise True Mother to the standard of
perfection and thus establish the foundation of a partnership centered on God's
Will. In short, it was the period in which True Father and True Mother had to
unite as one in faith and love, as well as substantially in body.It was also the period during which the blessed families had to go through
their first seven-year course. True Parents led their family and the blessed
families as they pioneered the seven-year course of the completion stage, a
path never before trod in human history. Finally they prevailed.As True Parents went through this seven-year course of internal indemnity,
they instituted Parents' Day, Children s Day and the Day of All Things to
recover what had been lost due to the Human Fall. The ensuing proclamation of
God's Day on January 1, 1968 completed this foundation of victory.
In order for us to accomplish this, Ihad to make the conditions to
establish my family as the representative of all families, of the nation and of
the world. For this latter purpose I set up the Day of All Things, and upon
that foundation I established holy grounds throughout the world. (017-135,
1966/12/11)Centering on the Unification tribe, I set up the first seven-year course
and worked to fulfill the mission of restoring the people of the Republic of
Korea. Now that we have laid this foundation, Korea cannot block the path of
the Unification Church. I am saying that through this condition, we now stand
in the position of having restored a realm that Jesus wanted to achieve in his
time, from which we can launch a new world with the authority of Jesus'
resurrection. By completing the first seven-year course, we set an indemnity
condition on the level of the Korean people to establish the foundation to
restore the nation, which is what Jesus had hoped to do in his time. (019-165,
1968/01/01)While she was completing that indemnity by the end of her first seven-year
course, we instituted Parents' Day, Children's Day and Day of All Things. Then,
on January 1,1968, we welcomed God's Day. Thereby, Mother finally gained the
qualification as the original woman on earth and stood in a position equal to
mine on the family level. (059-284, 1972/07/27)While pursuing this path I instituted Parents' Day, Children's Day and Day
of All Things, and when I completed it I instituted God's Day. You cannot
fathom the internal tribulations Mother and I had to face and deal with from
1960until I proclaimed God's Day on the first day of 1968. By winning a victory
in the fight against Satan, I laid the foundation to secure the family level.
(030-334, 1970/04/06)However, this did not mean that Mother could just live with me right away.
Just as you had to go through a three-year period of separation after your
marriage Blessing, we too had to do dispensational work in order to secure our
family. The path of the Principle is the same for everyone.During the first seven-year course I had to indemnify all the
complicatedproblems within the first family, that of Adam and Eve. Thus, the
first seven-year course was the period in which to establish the family-level
foundation, centering on Mother. Since Adam and Eve fell in the completion
level of the growth stage, we had to pass through that level to enter the
completion stage. (106-267, 1980/01/01)In order to do this, during the first seven-year course I had to put
Mother on a path that would enable her to break away from any condition by
which Satan's world could accuse her. This means that she does not need to
fight directly with Satan; instead, Mother just has to have absolute faith in
me and always unite with me. Then Satan cannot invade her.Adam lost Eve because he failed to fulfill his responsibility. Thus, it is
Adam who must set the standard of victory, by restoring his position in
relation to Eve as well as bringing Satan to submission. I am fulfilling this
purpose during this seven-year period. Moreover, having established this
standard, I have to raise Mother, in the position ofEve, to that standard in
heart and spirit. This is how we can reverse through indemnity the failure of
the fallen parents. This is how we will secure the foundation of the True
Parents. (017-322, 1967/04/10)In particular, this seven-year course was the time when I had to reverse
Eve's dominion over Adam and completely secure Adam's authority. For this, I
had to educate Eve. In other words, during this period I had to educate Mother
in such a way that she would set a standard of absolute obedience and
compliance before me, even at the cost of her life. (073-245, 1974/09/22)Even as she gave birth to her children, True Mother shared the same heart
as other church members who were working on the front line. She lived a humble
life, eating meager meals of steamed barley mixed with a small amount of rice,
something usually only poor people ate because they could not afford white
rice.The church members, as the Cain-type children, needed to become one in
heart with the True Children and thus set the condition to be reborn with the
same rank, as if they were twins. To have them meet this condition, at the
dedication ceremonies for Ye-jin nim and Hyo-jin nim, True Parents distributed
three kinds of gifts to the membersas three conditions of offering, and fed
them three kinds of food: rice, seaweed soup and milk.
Therefore, all women should celebrate Ye-jin's birthday as the birthday of
their Abel, and all men should celebrate Hyo-jin's birthday as the birthday of
their Abel. Then you need a conditional period in which you become one with him
or her substantially. (054-274, 1972/03/25)Ever since 1968, following the end of that first seven-year course, it was
possible for the Unification Church to begin to develop normally. The
proclamation of God's Day has the same significance as Adam and Eve reaching
the completion stage in the Garden of Eden without having fallen. (069-301,
1974/01/01)There is a principle that through Cain's complete surrender to Abel, both
can be restored. Since the True Children were born free of original sin, they
stand in the Abel position. Accordingly, you in the Cain position need to unite
completely with the True Children. By uniting with them you will become
resurrected children and receive the same benefit they receive.For this reason, when True Children without original sin are born from the
True Parents, you have to establish the condition of having shared the same
food and received the same things asthey. You should do this so that you go
through the course of participating in the True Childrens position.Through whom can you make the condition to unite with the True Children
and be reborn as a child? It is not only through True Father; that is not
enough. You absolutely must go through the True Parents. No matter how
important Father is, you cannot be reborn unless you go through both the
Parents and their children. (055-119, 1972/04/01)During that time, as they worked on the front line, Father and Mother
joined them in heart by eating the same meager food. When we ate, we did not
place our food on the table but on the floor, just as many members did. When we
did so, we had even the child inside True Mother's womb set the condition of
participating with other church members to make the condition to restore the
nation. (054-225, 1972/03/24)Do not look at this from a secular viewpoint. Actually, you have been
united with them from the time when both of you were in the womb. You should
have been born like twins. As twins you should restore the authority of the
elder son. As Perez and Zerah reversed their positions as twin sons in the womb
of Tamar, you should reverse your position with a particular True Child. As
soon as he or she is born, you should bring your blessed family to connect with
that child with absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience.These should not be just words. Since God created human beings with
absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, unless you blessed
families engraft to the True Parents by demonstrating the same elements of
absolute faith, love and obedience in your own circumstances, you cannot create
the realm of partnership with the people around you. (308-256, 1999/01/10)Centered on the three stages expressed in my mottoes, all of you must make
the condition of eating and living together with the babies in True Mother's
womb. For those three years, Mother ate barley rice, the same as you did on the
front line. When you went out to do church activities, she participated
alongside you in the same activities. Ye-jin and Hyo-jin were born when Mother
was making the same conditions you were making. In other words, Mother lived
with the same heart as all of you. (035-228, 1970/10/19)You cannot enter the kingdom of heaven with only your own children. Had
you established the indemnity condition of gaining three spiritual children
before you received the Blessing, your own children would not need to have
their lineage restored. If you are unable to achieve this condition beforeyou
go to the spirit world, it will become a stumbling block for you.In the 1960s I already had made all the required conditions of restoring
spiritual children while my children were in their mother's womb. After their
birth, you were given seaweed soup, milk and rice. That was the condition I set
up for all of you to have the same birth as the True Children. (023-316,
1969/06/08)All of you ate seaweed soup with rice after Ye-jin was born; it was as if
you were receiving blood from Mother while inside her womb. As Mother ate soup
with rice in it, you ate the same food, which was like receiving her blood. It
was the same when Hyo-jin was born. Based on this foundation, I established
Children's Day and then the Day of All Things. It was because we attained such
a standard that I had the foundation to establish these holy days of blessing.
Thereupon, when the first seven-year course came to an end and True Parents'
family was liberated, I instituted God's Day. (047-340, 1971/08/30)After True Parents had thus prevailed in the history of the providence of
restoration through indemnity, by 1992 the foundation of the True Family was
such that they finally could proclaim before the public that they were the True
Parents of humankind. On August 24,1992, at the celebration banquet of the 1st
World Culture and Sports Festival, True Father officially declared in front of
the assembled world leaders, "At the Women s Federation for World Peace
Leaders' Assemblies that were held in five major cities of Korea in early July
of this year, I proclaimed that my wife, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, and I together
are the True Parents of humanity, the Savior, the Lord of the Second Advent and
the Messiah."By holding marriage Blessings, True Parents have been carrying out the
great revolutionary work of changing the lineage of all people to the true
lineage of God. These Blessings have been interracial, interreligious and
international in scope. True Parents come with the true love, life and lineage of
heaven. They alone are aware of the providential timetable for holding these
events, and they are completing the providence of human salvation in accordance
with that timetable.
The United Nations originally was meant to represent the free world, which
had lost the foundation to receive the Bride. Mother is the Bride. Hence, when
she proclaimed True Parents throughout America and at the United Nations,
America and the free world had to unite with her. Fortunately, there was no
opposition. Although she made that bold proclamation about True Parents and the
Completed Testament Age, all audiences were moved to applaud her. (249-109, 1993/10/08)In April 1992, Mother took the first step when, as chairwoman of the
Women's Federation for World Peace, she proclaimed to the world that the True
Parents had come to earth to embrace all the families of humankind and bring
liberation to the women of the world. Then in July 1992, she proclaimed that the
True Parents had come, and that she and I are the Messiah, the Savior, the
Returning Lord and the True Parents of humankind. By making these
proclamations, Mother prepared a zone for providential settlement in which to
build the one axis in a world that lacks a center and whose families lack a
framework that gives them hope; all this was done at a time when the
international situation was chaotic. Because she made these conditions in a
manner that was acceptable to God, the era when we could proclaim the liberation
of Mother and the second generation was ushered in. (241-249, 1992/12/26)I am traveling all over the world. Don't you think I know what to say
about the current political scene? In fact, no one has deeper insight or a
better brain for dealing with this transitional era than I do. The world
recognizes this about me. That is why I must let the world know what is
happening. Unless I proclaim who I am in public, I cannot take root in the
world.It is only after their wedding that people can be officially recognized as
husband and wife. Accordingly, I traveled throughout the nation and held
banquets where I made proclamationsabout who we are. This was so that True
Parents can settle; then heaven and earth can also settle. To found a nation,
it is not enough just to select the members of the cabinet. The founder must
proclaim himself to the public. That is why I proclaimed that we are the
Messiah, the Lord at the Second Advent and the True Parents. Henceforth, we
will build our foundation. (243-168, 1993/01/03)This was an event without precedent since the beginning of history. It was
a new beginning to bring victory for heaven s side. For this reason, now that I
have returned to Korea, I am holding this Rally Welcoming True Parents, to
proclaim True Parents to the people of the Republic of Korea. (204-144,
1990/07/06)Originally, all humankind should have been the descendants of the First
Adam. Even though the First Adam failed, had Jesus not died on the cross, this
world would have been filled with Jesus' sons and daughters. The world would
have become one world by now. Had Jesus not died but married and given birth to
sons and daughters, the members of his clan, in the position of the elder son,
would have inherited the kingship on this earth for tens of thousands of years.Democracy is a siblings' ideology. It is not Parentism. Siblings compete
and fight to get what they want. They fight because they have no parents to be
centered on. That is why humankind must turn to Parentism. True Parents need to
come in order to solve the problems throughout the world that came into existence
due to the siblings' ideology. (224-054, 1991/11/21)All humankind is bewailing this reality, yet no real owner has stepped up
to take responsibility for it. Therefore, True Parents, the original owners of
creation, must come. When they do, everything that was defiled by the
falseparents can be resolved. In the Last Days, all these problems will face
judgment. Individuals, families, peoples, nations, the world and the cosmos on
God's side will establish a new viewpoint centering on True Parents. Then we
will undoubtedly recover the world where everything in heaven and on earth is
united as one. For this to happen, True Parents must emerge and bring true
love, true life and true lineage. (362-158, 2001/12/12)God cannot undo what was defiled by the false parents. The ideal of
creation is that human beings complete their portion of responsibility, inherit
God's lineage and bequeath it to their descendants. Adam and Eve destroyed the
ideal of creation. Therefore Adam and Eve must restore it. No one else can
rectify it; not even God. That is why True Parents must come and restore it
through indemnity.What went wrong must be turned around to the original state. This is
called restoration through indemnity. Restoration cannot be done by following a
natural course. It must be done by taking the reverse course in order to return
to the original state. Without going through such a course of restoration
through indemnity, there is no way for human beings to return to the original
world. Not for eternity. (334-035, 2000/09/27)As a true man, I am positioned as the mediator between God and human
beings in a world disconnected from God. I am to bring God back to them by
building God a highway. On it, God will descend from the level of the cosmos to
the world, to nations, peoples, tribes and families. The place where God
descends and dwells is the realm of the True Parents. Now I have established a
realm that Satan cannot invade. (248-037, 1993/05/30)Indeed, this is what I have done. I have finished my part. In order to
come this far, I had to deal with many complex situations behind the scenes.
They were incomparably more difficult than what a typical family has to deal
with. They were incomparably more difficult than even the ordeals that nations
have to deal with. Nevertheless, I worked patiently to deal with them and
overcame every challenge I faced along the way. (249-085, 1993/10/08)Human history does not proceed randomly; it proceeds hand in hand with
God's providence. Since my coming, the providence and history have advanced
side by side. I can testify that God is alive and working in human history. We
are now living in a time when we cannot deny the existence of God. (235-212,
1992/09/20)That is why, as the person with the mission of the Lord of the Second
Advent, I must gain victory over communism. I had no choice but to become the
premier world champion in the fight against communism and bring about its
defeat. Furthermore, I must bring unity to democracy and bring unity to the
world, even by guiding the United States of America. Also, I must unite the
worlds of religion and politics. (250-331, 1993/10/15)Satan persists in confronting God. So, standing between God and Satan, I
have been working to remove Satan. I have to advance the providence to the
position where Satan cannot accuse me. That is why I had to go the path of
indemnity, which is the human portion of responsibility. The first human beings
failed to fulfill their portion of responsibility. Satan understands that their
portion became the responsibility of the Messiah. That is why he mobilized all
his forces to attack True Parents. All the difficulties we face have come about
because we are breaking down his walls around individuals, families, tribes,
peoples, nations, the world and the spirit world. (131-070, 1984/04/16)Now that the scope of True Parents' victory has reached the world level,
in the age inaugurated by the True Parents, religion will disappear. If Adam
and Eve had not fallen but become the True Parents of humankind, religion would
not have been necessary. If they had fulfilled their responsibility from the
beginning, they would have united with heaven as one body. Then, their ideal
oneness would have been the basis for all ancestors in heaven to connect with
their descendants living on earth whenever they were needed.I have done everything necessary to restore through indemnity the realm of
the people of Israel as a chosen people, the realm of worldwide Christianity as
a chosen people, and the realm of the cosmic Unification Church as a chosen
people. With that, the age is coming when religion will be liberated from its
responsibility. Then the spirit world and the earthly world will connect
directly.Therefore, even those without religious belief can be connected to the
spirit world through the realm of the chosen people, which passes through
religion. The old era is coming to an end. Thanks to True Parents' victory,
even people who do not believe in religion will be able to grow through the Old
Testament Age, New Testament Age and Completed Testament Age, just as people do
who are situated within the realms of the major religions. Hence, the time will
come when all their ancestors will come down from the spirit world to visit
their descendants and support them. (202-255, 1990/05/24)Then, on the 17th day of the 11th month by the heavenly calendar (December
11) in 2011, True Father announced at Cheon Jeong Gung Palace, "Now that
all beings in heaven and on earth are aligned with God the Creators original
standard of creation that has now been restored, I declare the completion,
conclusion and closure of the entire providence and the final victory."
Then he proclaimed, "All is finished!"On the 17th and 18th days of the 11th month by the heavenly calendar
(December 11 and 12) in 2011 at the Ocean Cheon Jeong Gung Palace, True Parents
wrote the Proclamation of the Final Cheon II Guk Victory, "God and True
Parents are completely one. God is complete, perfected and fulfilled. Aju!
Heaven is here. Congratulations! Sun Myung Moon. Aju!""Finally, on the 26th day of the 6th month by the heavenly calendar (August
13) in 2012, 21 days before his Holy Ascension on the 17th day of the 7lh month
(September 3), True Father, during his report prayer to our Heavenly Parent
made the final official proclamation of his earthly life, with the following
words, "Today, as I have returned the conclusion of the final perfection
to You, Father, I know that up to this moment, I have offered my whole life to
You. I am spending this time now to bring my life to its conclusion, to bring
it to a close with utmost devotion, in accordance with Your Will. May the
tribal messiahs be able to fulfill the calling of national representatives. I
have accomplished everything for this. I have completed everything. Aju!""
Now there are no barriers for those on this path. There had been all sorts
of barriers, but I tore them all down. I now have gone through all eight levels,
from the individual to God, so that I can make the environment free of
barriers. The unity that I am referring to is unity of the individual, unity of
the family, unity of the tribe, unity of the people, unity of the nation, unity
of the world, and unity of heaven and earth. By tearing down the walls of
Satan's world and forming an environment of unity, I am trying to recover the
original fatherland. (241-325, 1993/01/01)Now God can be with us wherever we go. I recovered this position for
humankind. Heaven’s world is advancing, and Satan's world is retreating. Satan
cannot interfere with God's world any longer. Whenever heaven advances, Satan
has no choice but to surrender. (244-208, 1993/02/07)Numerous religions and nations opposed me, but I did not oppose them. Yet
I did not die; I am still alive. Now I have finished everything. Therefore,
even if I die now, it doesn't matter. This is because the truth I have brought
will continue to exist. The Principle will remain; it is the teaching that was
declared victorious at the trial in God's court. Even Satan cannot deny it.
(235-248, 1992/09/20)That is why we conduct proclamation ceremonies. Through these ceremonies
we plant flags to make God the owner. Once we plant a flag, God and True
Parents have the authority of dominion over that territory; it no longer
belongs to Satan's domain. That is why, when we returned to Korea after
traveling to Russia and America, we made proclamations throughout the nation.
By so doing, we drove in posts, to signify that we prepared an environment in
which the people of Korea would not oppose us but would welcome us. After we
did this, Satan had to retreat.If people believe these proclamations and come into the realm of these
proclamations, then Satan cannot take them away. It is as if a person who
formerly lived without a nationality joins a nation with a newly drawn national
boundary and lives in accordance with the laws of that new environment; then he
or she can belong to its people. (329-267, 2000/08/11)I have become the standard for perfection on all levels; my position is
above the constitution, just as the constitution is above all other laws.
Therefore, I must disclose everything, without hiding anything. 1 have not done
it yet, but by the time I leave earth I should be able to say, "I have
finished everything." I should be able to say that everything I did and
all that I connected with in my surroundings had a reason and a purpose for the
fulfillment of the Will.Then, when I go to the spirit world, 1 should be able to begin taking firm
root there. Earth also will unite in partnership with the spirit world, and
together they will form the kingdom of peace. What I am saying is serious. I
have come this far, pouring out my utmost devotion, in order to transcend the
realm of life and death, and to remove death once and for all. I am proclaiming
this now for your sake. (504-203, 2005/08/16)When I have completed my portion of responsibility, God should be able to
say, "This is My world, My heaven and My earth." When there is no
distinction between day and night, only brightness 24 hours a day, the
sovereignty will belong to God alone, not to Satan. Only after I hand over
everything to God can I declare that the indemnity has been paid and liberation
and complete freedom have been achieved. Then we will be in the realm where the
portion of responsibility is fulfilled.That realm is the realm of liberation. No longer will there be barriers in
the spirit world, such as the barriers between heaven and hell. The steep
valleys in the spirit world will be leveled into plains. All people will be
able to live with their ancestors in the spirit world as they please. If you
call out to your ancestors, they will come to you; and after listening to them,
you will be able to follow their guidance. Once I establish this original
standard, God should be able to declare, "I have finished
everything." Once I have completed the ideal of creation, it also means
that God has fulfilled His portion of responsibility.The first human beings fell due to their ignorance of the Principle and
its laws. Therefore, True Parents must teach humanity about these things and
create the realm of oneness. Then peace will dwell in the realm of liberation—
the ideal kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven, the realm of the original
homeland. Then the liberation of the fatherland, where everyone attends God,
will begin. (598-108, 2008/09/19)Early in my life, I already knew how to become a filial son, a patriot, a
saint, a divine son and a king. When it comes to the fundamental issues, there
was nothing that I did not know. That is why I know how to build the kingdom of
heaven on earth and the kingdom of heaven in heaven.I told you that the era of the Fourth Adam's realm is approaching. On Chil
Pal Jeol (7-8 Day), we took firm root as True Parents. On that basis, on Gu Gu
Jeol (9-9 Day) and Sam Shib Jeol (3-10 Day), I proclaimed the realm of
liberation. As the True Parent, I have eliminated everything by which Satan
made himself the false father, and I have recreated the entire basis for God's
dominion that Satan destroyed. I have thereby completed the restoration of
everything. By doing so, I have ushered in the era for building the unified
world, the kingdom of heaven on earth based on the ideal of the family.The original world, the realm which has nothing to do with the Fall, has
been empty for thousands of years, awaiting the Fourth Adam. Now, based on the
realm of liberation that I established, this realm will be filled all at once.
The foundation has been completed for God to be liberated, and even for Satan
to receive forgiveness and enter the kingdom of heaven.I too must be liberated. What liberates me is to rescue the people in the
dungeons at the rock bottom of hell and bring them with me to the kingdom of
heaven. (313-282, 1999/12/26)Thus, if you invest yourself with absolute faith and absolute love,
centering on the realm of heart of the Fourth Adam, you will be elevated
accordingly. It is like having a highway that takes you effortlessly to the
front gate of the palace. There is nothing to obstruct you. The only questions
are your driving skill and whether you have fuel. We are in the era when you
can drive wherever you want to go, as long as you can supply the gasoline.
(332-042, 2000/09/04)Consider that God is the first generation, Adam was the second generation,
and Cain and Abel in Adam's family were the third generation. Didn't God lose
the realm of three generations? So I had to win a victory that included the
third generation, Cain and Abel, which I did. Mother also triumphed in this,
thus bringing victory for Eve's realm. Accordingly, both True Parents, Father
and Mother, are victorious. (569-071, 2007/07/22)In the future, where should you build a memorial tower to commemorate me?
You should memorialize the places where I experienced prison life. One of those
memorials should be at Danbury, where, based on Mother's unity with me during
my incarceration, I proclaimed the realm of ideal oneness between Father and
Mother. (566-183, 2007/06/19)The hour of that proclamation is significant: three represents the three
ages of the Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament. In
particular, it signifies that this is the third age, the Completed Testament Age,
which must never fail. Thus we stated, "As we welcome the age for the
completion, conclusion and closure of the Old, New and Completed Testaments, we
offer and declare the age in which the ultimate realm of oneness between True
Father and True Mother is perfected and consummated, and the age in which God
is all-immanent, all-transcendent, all-powerful and all-capable." (True
Mother, 2010/07/01)Father, as the prince who brought You victory by enabling the family
kingdom to come by establishing the realm of total oneness between the True God
and True Parents, I have accomplished everything that You asked me to fulfill.
Based on all these victories, I proclaim that Your sovereignty is now secured.
On this morning we, the Parents of Heaven and Earth who have become one, thank
You for giving us this chance to proclaim that everything is perfected,
liberated and concluded. Aju! (True Mother, 2011/12/11)Hence, it is the hope of every human being to form a true family. A member
of a true family will grow to become an embodiment of true love, not acting
counter to God's desire, hurting others or abusing the created world. Finally,
for the first time since God's creation, True Parents have fulfilled the ideal
of the true family, and thus they have set the example for all human beings of
how to live. All people need to pattern themselves after the tradition of the
True Parents of Heaven and Earth. Throughout their lives they practiced a life
of living for the sake of others by loving God, loving people, loving their
nation and loving all created things.
My vision of the united homeland is that we all can connect to every
level— from the individual to the world. Every family should be able to forge
connections with all others. When you interconnect as new families, you can
build the original homeland. Upon building such model families, you will be
welcomed wherever you go. It will be as if God is freely traveling with you.
(247-334, 1993/06/01)The world that the Unification Church is seeking is one in which we have
restored the authority of the elder son, the authority of the parents and the
authority of the king, as well as the four great realms of heart. Then everyone
will be connected everywhere. As new families, you are responsible to become
model families. When your families connect to one another, they will constitute
the original homeland. Then God can be with them.God likes True Parents. You like True Parents as well. Because you like
True Parents as God does, He should be able to freely enter your life. Thus,
your families must be connected to True Parents and expand. This is how we can
build the original homeland. True Parents are building the model family. Based
on that family model, many families will be multiplied. (247-335, 1993/06/01)The realm of direct dominion is the world aligned with God's love. Thus,
in this realm there can be no owner other than God. This realm is absolute,
because once we become one with God's love, we do not want another owner. Even
as God does not want another owner, human beings do not want any owner but God.
God's love becomes the eternal base.This is the model True Parents have established. This foundation can be
expanded to the family, tribe, people, nation and beyond. Then heavenly fortune
will pour down centering on the axis of God's love. (149-155, 1986/11/21)However, our first ancestors did not keep faith in God's Will. Instead
they entered into an illicit relationship that defiled their lineage and they
inherited the evil seed. As a result of their illicit love relationship, these
evil parents passed down the root of evil life and evil lineage to their evil
children and thence to all humankind.This all started when they were yet in their youth. Youth is the most
important period in our life. Young people today are immersed in fallen love,
behaving just as the first ancestors did. Their value system is reckless and
confused. They deny morals and ethics as they pursue free sex and other selfish
ends. They flout the parent-child relationship; they do not value the family.
This world has indeed become a hell on earth.If we are to create the kingdom of heaven on earth based on God's standard
of absolute true love, we must turn this world around 180 degrees to God's
side. The devil destroyed the human family. In order to save human beings, God
had True Parents create the model of one true family through a reverse course.
God is yearning for the world of love and peace that He originally envisioned
at the time of creation. (271-148, 1995/08/27)This applies not only to the families in today's world; the families of
our ancestors must be called back to earth and restored. This has now become
possible. It is called restoration by returning resurrection. The same applies
to your descendants. Once you clearly understand the Principle and make it part
of your daily life, you can protect them and guide them in the right direction.
The reason you need True Parents is to make your family a true family.
(237-218, 1992/11/17)The true love, true life and true lineage of the True God are absolute,
unique, unchanging and eternal. He set up the family model, with unchanging
true love at the core, in order to bequeath His true love, true life and true
lineage to tens of thousands of future generations.In the family model, parents and children, husband and wife, and brothers
and sisters become one through true love. It is a son who makes his father an
owner of true love; it is a wife who makes her husband an owner of true love;
it is a younger brother who makes his older sibling an owner of true love.On the other hand, a couple without children cannot establish their
position as parents of true love. The same goes for women with no husband or
men with no wife: They cannot establish their positions as spouses of true
love. Likewise, people who have no siblings have no way to establish their
siblings as owners of true love.In order to become owners of true love, we must lift up others and love
them more than we love ourselves. As individuals we need to establish mind-body
unity, with true love at the center. In the family we need to build unity
between husband and wife and between brothers and sisters. Then we must unite
nations in the same way. This is how we can create the realm of love through
the eight stages and become model owners of true love. This is how we can build
ideal families and ideal nations. From that point, eternal worldwide
equalization can begin. When it does, the kingdom of heaven on earth and in
heaven naturally will arise. (316-245, 2000/02/13)Especially with regard to the international cross-cultural marriages, once
people from nations that have politically and historically been enemies
overcome their high barriers and relate to each other as in-laws within these
families of true love, they can transcend the boundaries of their national and
racial backgrounds. This is how peace can come. Truly, the high-level formula
for creating true peace is to bring the children of nations that relate to each
other as enemies into the realm of the marriage Blessing and have them wed each
other across national and cultural boundaries to build true families of true
love that heaven and earth desire. When enemies accept the cross-cultural
marriage Blessing, peace can begin to unfold.The formula is the same, whether the conflict is between families, between
nations or between ideologies. In cross-cultural blessed marriages, people can
transcend their ideologies and build a world of peace and happiness far greater
than what their ideologies ever envisioned. The eternal world of peace that
both God and humanity long for can begin from this point. (359-140, 2001/11/06)Therefore, you must live as True Parents have taught you and become one in
heart with them, with the goal of inheriting their true love, true life and
true lineage. You must become sons and daughters who are centered on my thought,
aligned with my heart and bonded to my lineage. If you are such sons and
daughters, then when your own children become husbands and wives, they will be
the substantial fruit of God's love and life.When you become couples, you unite with the realm of heart of the Original
Being of dual characteristics. As the Original Being engages in
origin-division-union action through you, the heavenly realm and the earthly
realm unite as one vertically. At the same time, east and west, or right and
left, become one centering on your conjugal love, and when you have children,
they will become one with each other in relationships of older and younger.
This is the model of the family, the standard model. There we can experience
all the types of God's love.When you experience life through your sons and daughters, it is as if you
are experiencing God's life, and when your sons and daughters expand your
lineage, you can feel it is the expansion of God's lineage. Since you are in
oneness vertically and horizontally, you become sons and daughters and couples
who can represent God's life. And through you, God's love, life and lineage can
connect everywhere on the horizontal plane. (355-277, 2001/10/06)Accordingly, if you want to become a true owner, a true parent and a true
teacher, you must know the True God clearly. Centered on the ideal of the True
God, you need to teach people how to become true human beings, how to establish
true families, how to build a true nation and how to become true citizens of
that nation. Since you have not known about all this, True Parents are here to
guide you to follow the true path. They teach you how to become true parents.
They also teach you how to become true owners. (216-057, 1991/03/09)Whether or not you fully unite with True Parents at the center will
determine the conclusion of the entire providential history before and after
Gods creation of the world. You must succeed in uniting with them in order to
receive the seal of approval from God, Jesus and True Parents. This is how you
can be truly liberated.You as individuals cannot indemnify the things I must resolve. Therefore,
instead of that, you must have absolute faith, absolute love and absolute
obedience in front of True Parents. Your priority should be True Parents; you
must place them above your own personal concepts, possessions and desires. No
matter what, you have to maintain absolute faith, absolute love and absolute
obedience toward them.You must build a model family that will never leave its position as True
Parents' partner, one that works with them not only on the levels of the
individual and the family but on every level up to the nation, the world and
even the cosmos. You need to stand as a subject partner whose blessed marriage
is of such a standard that it can be publicly recognized by all people. Only then
can you return to the original world where the Fall is unknown, the world that
manifests the ideal of creation. I mean that you can go to the united world of
all-embracing oneness. (378-173, 2002/05/11)The True Parents' family is always the model. For this reason, all of you
must unite with it. Even the world must connect with it. True Parents' family
is the model for all your families, but it is also the model for the whole,
having transcended the individual, family, tribe, people, nation and world.
Therefore, God can freely travel back and forth to True Parents' family. This
is why everyone must unite with that family.Moreover, True Parents are the ones who set the tradition from the
individual to the family, tribe, people, nation and world. Hence, from the
family to the world, all must inherit that tradition. By doing so they will be
integrated with God and True Parents as their true children. Only then can the
unified homeland be built. To be integrated means you are with them in total
harmony.The term "True Children" means the True Parents' direct
children. In modeling yourself after True Parents' family, you should have the
same bond of heart with True Parents as their direct children have. To become a
model means to represent God and True Parents. In order to represent God and
True Parents, you must unite centering on True Parents and their children. This
is the condition for unifying the homeland.The path to become true parents
True Parents not only prevailed on earth; they also endured the most
miserable circumstances to prevail in spiritual struggles in the spirit world.
Thus, in both worlds they have become the greatest examples of living for the
sake of others with absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience before
God.They allowed us to receive the marriage Blessing, thereby bequeathing
their victorious foundation to all blessed families. All people should inherit
True Parents' tradition of true love, true life and true lineage and become
second selves of True Parents. Then they should fulfill their responsibilities
as tribal messiahs and citizens of Cheon II Guk. (242-312, 1993/01/02)There will be storms on your path while attending True Parents. Yet no
matter how furiously the tempests blow, you should be able to surmount them and
even find delight in them. If you do so, you will not be just dreaming about
the restoration of the world in the future; you will be actualizing that united
world. This I why I tell you to become the families who can exemplify True
Parents' family and meet the standard of True Parents' tradition. Your families
should be the hope of the future world that all people have been hoping for.
This law does not change. If you are a family who can embody that law, then you
are of the family of True Parents. (044-136, 1971/05/06)The Unification Church teaches that we must meet True Parents and receive
their love. For you it is the blessing of all blessings. The hope of all people
is to meet the True Parents. You must meet the True Parents even if you have to
face death along the way. You may lose all of history, all the present era and
even all your future descendants, but if you can meet the True Parents it is as
if you are recovering the ages of history, the present era and the future. Such
is the value of True Parents. Throughout fallen history people have longed for
one united world. Human beings all cherished in their hearts the hope that a
world of peace would be built on earth at some point in time. (035-237,
1970/10/19)What I am saying is that all of you should inherit the heart of the
vertical Parent and horizontal True Parents, with true love at the center, and
become perfected true children. Then you yourselves can become true parents.
When you fulfill the ideal of perfect siblings that God has envisioned in His
heart, you can become husbands and wives. As married couples, you should become
the best among all couples, perfect in the sense that you are what God has desired
to see. When you become parents, you should become perfect embodiments of God's
heart.True Parents have emerged as the ones who perfectly embody God's heart at
each stage: children, siblings, spouses and parents. They are the ones whom God
has awaited and envisioned as the center of His own family. (240-204,
1992/12/13)Yet you are now too distant from this standard. You are going in the wrong
direction because of your many bad habits and worldly concepts. These things
become conditions for Satan to accuse you when God brings the judgment in the
future. That is to say, what you must fear most is what you are carrying within
yourself. From now on, you must eliminate all your bad habits and the
conditions upon which Satan could accuse you, and advance to firmly secure the
structure of your own true family. (228-023, 1992/03/01)For this, all you blessed wives must first inherit True Mother's
tradition. In order to become a true parent, you need to do so. On behalf of
True Mother, you too must experience the pain of childbirth in order to unite
everyone in your tribe at this time of making everyone into true parents. True
Mother represents the Holy Spirit; therefore, she must give birth to all of humankind,
but this time not only in terms of the spirit but also in terms of the flesh.
Accordingly, you blessed wives have the responsibility of Mother to give birth
to young adults and even older men, no matter what their age—everyone of the
first generation. You need to resurrect them all.Second, you need to liberate families and expand the realm of family
messiahs. You need to give them rebirth and liberate them. If you do not give
them rebirth, they cannot be resurrected. All human beings must be reborn. As
family messiahs, you must give birth to the families in your clan and bring
them into oneness as your tribe. Then each of you, as a tribal messiah of your
own tribe, must bring your tribe into the realm of the one tribe. Thus, in the
position of True Mother, you must give rebirth to families and tribes and bring
them into oneness. This is what is required to reverse through indemnity the
failures of Adam's family and Jesus' family. (248-159, 1993/08/01)Within our own generation, we, the True Parents, had to resolve all the
historical entanglements of Adam, who by falling had become the false parent.
Within our generation we had to resolve humankind's defilement by the blood of
death that began from Satan, a matter whose truth was unknown through all the ages
of history. We had to establish the original foundation as a family with God's
love within the world of heart and the realm of oneness and expand it to the
levels of the tribe, people, nation, world and cosmos. Because we have
completed that, we can finally settle.Starting from Adam and Eve, human beings together with God went through
the Old Testament Age, the New Testament Age and the Completed Testament Age.
Only today have we finally settled in the realm of the Fourth Adam's heart.
Your families have inherited a position of liberation that was only attained
now, tens of thousands of years after the time of Adam. Therefore, all of you
can now become the ancestors of your newly formed clans. (519-096, 2006/02/28)When Adam fell, though he was but one individual, that one moment brought
the downfall of all the billions of people in the future generations of his
family. Accordingly, when you restore people through indemnity, you need to
restore each person or family as if they represent multitudes of people. This
is the responsibility of each blessed family.Thus, with your own merit as the center, each of you blessed families will
become the starting point of new tribes. Satan's world expanded horizontally
from individuals to tribes.Now all people throughout the world should unite by developing the
mind-set of world-level individuals and world-level families and build a common
base with True Parents' standard. This is how the world can come to be
perfectly in accord with True Parents' model. On behalf of your entire family,
you need to be in accord with True Parents' example and be willing to offer
your body as a sacrifice for the sake of the world and for the sake of all
humanity; then you can receive God's Divine Seal. We as the True Parents have
been working throughout our lives to pioneer that standard and be that example
for you. (557-163, 2007/02/27)A filial child is the owner of his or her family, and a patriot is the
owner of his or her nation. These must connect together as one; they must go in
one direction on the same path. A filial child, a patriot, a saint and a divine
son or daughter all move in the same direction on the same path. There is no
other path. God wants you to follow a single path.In the very beginning, you must become a filial child. You must become a
person to whom God would say, "I absolutely need you. I am going to be
with you whether you are in hardship or in happiness." Become the person
He wants to be with, all through your life. No matter how much you are rejected
and persecuted, you must keep following this one path. Once you become a
citizen of the kingdom of heaven, no indemnity is required.Once accomplished, results will last forever. Your re-creation is the one
hope to which you should aspire. (293-209, 1998/05/26)Humanity must become tuned to God's Will for eternity. God and all people
must constantly maintain an eternal relationship as subject partner and object
partners, with true love at the core. Unless we can arrive at this goal, we
cannot maintain a life centered on true love, which is Gods ideal of creation.
This is the Principle. No one can deny it. This is why we absolutely need True
Parents. (216-320, 1991/04/15)If you leaders believe this and put it into practice, then when I pass
into the heavenly world as its governor—the True Parent, true teacher and true
king in the position of having established a parent-child relationship with God
in lineage—I will bequeath everything to you. I will consider you to be the
representatives of the family of True Parents that God established, and I will
give you the position of my representative as your inheritance. You need to
believe that this proclamation is for heaven and earth. Hence, you need to put
it into practice. (574-188, 2007/09/04)There are many individual true parents. The best among them will be
elevated to be the true parents of a tribe. They can even be elevated to be the
true parents of a people, a nation or the world. Nevertheless, you cannot even
begin unless you establish a true family.Without a true family, you cannot go to the kingdom of heaven in the next
world. It is a place that only families can enter. The structure of the
heavenly kingdom is based on gatherings of families. The formula is based on
gathering together. Thus, until you have your own family, you cannot enter the
kingdom of heaven. This is the way of thinking centered on True Parents. This
is the way you must also walk as true parents. (268-078, 1995/03/05)Then the question is how you connect to God in bonds of love, so you are
one with Him from the core of your being in your body to every thought in your
mind. You need to be able to stand before Him with the qualification to be a
lord of creation, as God desired when He created you. Such lords or owners are
the sons and daughters who take after God in everything. (345-143, 2001/06/11)To become God's children, we must resemble Him. God is united in mind and
body. Yet your mind and body are still struggling, even now. When are you going
to unite them? If you are still on the way to uniting them, it means you are
not yet perfect. This is why I am telling you to humble yourself, live for the
sake of others, and devote yourself to fulfilling the Will.If you have the conviction, "I am True Parents' representative; I am
one with God. I am His champion," then you can stand in the central
position. It means you are the second creator. Then you will have no problem
reaching perfection on the individual level. You will have no problem perfecting
your family and your tribe. Your influence can extend even beyond your nation.
You can make connections with other nations, transcending national borders.
(248-185, 1993/08/03)
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