Ladies and Gentlemen:
I
would like to express my sincere gratitude to you
this evening for having made it possible for me to
meet such distinguished personalities in this
welcoming banquet. I am Reverend Moon, whom you no
doubt already know through many rumors and stories.
I have stirred up a number of problems in the world.
At the same time I have realized a number of events
and accomplishments of worldwide consequences. I
must add that these things are the result of the
historical reality of having served God until today.
This evening in this brief encounter and in the
midst of a jubilant atmosphere, I would like to
speak to you for a time on the subject "The True
Family and I", because the world's problems stem
from the family. Let us ask what we mean by a True
Family.
Today if we ask whether the world in which we live
is good or evil, we must answer that it is evil. Why
then is it evil? Because whether we consider world
history, this nation's history or the history of any
other country, there have constantly been conflicts.
Conflict or struggle implies that the parties
involved will not develop but will necessarily
decline. To say that the world is evil implies that
the nation is evil, that its inhabitants are evil
and that we ourselves are evil. If we study our own
selves, we cannot deny that within ourselves there
is a struggle between our mind and our body.
For
that reason, the origin or the cause of struggle
remains a problem which must be solved. If an
individual does not possess within himself a
foundation for peace, then no matter how peaceful
his family, his nation or the world might be, he
will not be happy because that individual is the
true battlefield. As you know, World War I, World
War II and the Cold War have already ended. In the
midst of any other future conflicts, it will be
possible to have truces. However, the struggle
between our mind and body has existed from
antiquity. It has continued throughout the course of
history and, of course, it continues today and we do
not know how much longer it will continue into the
future.
When we think of this and, furthermore, if we
consider that God exists, it is a major problem that
God permitted the historical struggle between mind
and body to continue until now. If we concur that
the human being committed a sin, we can understand
that it is the human being who must indemnify it.
God cannot take that responsibility upon himself nor
can He interfere in it.
Where then does the struggle between mind and body
originate? We inherit life from our parents and from
the parents of their parents. If we continue going
back this way, we eventually arrive at the first
generation that is the first human ancestors. The
origin of the struggle between mind and body results
from a problem in the conjugal love of Adam and Eve.
The origin of our life is the love of our parents.
If this struggle had begun before we were even born,
we have to conclude the problem related to the
circumstances in which our first parents entered
into a love relationship with each other.
The
love of Adam and Eve did not become a love of true
happiness. Instead it was conflict-ridden love.
Because we have the roots of our life in such love,
we must conclude that the conflicts in the inner
self of the human being originate there. The Bible
teaches us that because of having sinned, Adam and
Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden. Once they
had been driven out of the Garden, they began to
multiply children. God could not follow behind them
and bless them in marriage because He Himself had
driven them from the Garden. Thus we must ask under
whom did they marry and we must concur that, because
of having fallen into sin, they married in the hands
of Satan.
The
fall consists of Eve being tempted by Satan and
later she tempted Adam. Therefore, when our
ancestors Adam and Eve established a relationship of
conjugal love, that relationship was not a happy
one. Instead it was conflict-ridden. Today humanity,
because of having its roots in that relationship,
cannot separate itself from the origin of that
struggle between mind and body. This reality is very
clear and logical. The fall began with immoral love.
Due to a love relationship which God did not desire,
Adam and Eve became united with Satan. They became
not the ancestors of goodness but the ancestors of
evil, thus acquiring the roots of evil love, and
evil life, and an evil blood lineage.
If
this is true, what began with one fallen family grew
to encompass tribes, nations and a world. It is a
world where the five billion people which make up
present humanity are descendants of Satan, incapable
of denying that we inherited the lineage of evil
parents. No one knew Satan's blood was present
within our body and that this was so displeasing to
God. This is the essential problem.
And
how are we going to eliminate those roots within us?
Satan dug his roots into our physical body, our
flesh body.
God
cannot avoid working to separate good from evil and
thus reverse this situation. God is public-minded
and continues on the path of living for the whole
and going toward the goal of love and peace. On the
other hand, Satan is selfish and individualistic.
Satan is always trying to destroy the good side
through hate, evil and war. His intent is to prevent
earth from returning eternally to God's side.
God
cannot severely punish humanity after having gone
with Satan. God's strategy for regaining humanity to
His side is to allow that evil to attack Him. Later
then He can claim indemnity for damages and abuses.
Satan's strategy is to strike first but in the end
loses everything. Satan has come throughout history
wishing to ruin God's plan with hate, with evil and
war while on the contrary God has been working to
recreate love and peace.
In
the Last days humanity will return to God's side and
evil will lose support and respect. For that reason,
Satan introduced atheistic materialism, humanism and
communism to stop that from happening. That was the
essence of the Cold War between right and left.
After the Second World War with the victory of the
Christian world, there began an era of transition
towards a world of peace.
The
present era is the era of the realm of
individualism, the era of free sex, the era of
children denying parents, the era of parents denying
children, the era of denying the couple. Through
lesbianism and homosexuality, an attempt is being
made to completely destroy the family ideal which
the Messiah in his Second Coming intends to
establish in order to change this hell into the
Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
The
Messiah as the True Father desires the unification
of mind and body, the unification of husband and
wife, and the unification of children.
Problems must still be solved on a world wide level.
They include:
-
What came first,
matter or spirit?
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Is the materialist
theory correct or is the idealist theory
correct?
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Which comes first,
reality or concept?
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Is evolution or
creation correct?
Let
us attempt to answer this by way of an example. When
we observe the animal kingdom we discover that the
first thing that is formed in a new animal which is
born is the eyes. The eyes are pure matter. Would
those eyes know prior to birth that the sun existed
or not?
Being purely matter the eyes did not know. However
something or someone before matter knew that the
eyes were created to see the sunlight. Someone knew.
Being purely matter the eyes did not know that the
atmosphere existed and yet the eyes were formed with
eyelashes to assure that the dust in the air does
not damage the eye.
The
eyes, being purely matter, did not know that steam
and other heat radiations could dry the eyes and
damage them, but someone knew and for that reason we
blink so that our eyes can be lubricated and not dry
up.
The
conclusion which we can derive from this is that
through the simple example of the eye we can solve
the great debate of whether thought precedes
existence, whether spirit precedes matter or whether
concept precedes reality. We can answer the debate
of spirit versus matter, of creation versus
evolution.
Given this, we have no way to deny that everything
was created by God. Therefore, we must return to the
original world of creation, knowing the kind of
self, the kind of family, the kind of world which
God desires.
If
Adam and Eve had not fallen, it would have been
logical and normal for their minds and bodies to be
one just as God is one. Due to the fall there
emerged another positive in the body, opposed to the
positive of the conscience which relates to God. The
repulsion between these two positives resulted in a
history of struggles and we must be conscious of
this.
The
body became the base of operations for Hell and the
conscience the base of operation for Heaven. The
human being did not know that within himself he
contained the division of two worlds. From this
perspective we should ask ourselves if our body
leads our mind or our mind leads our body. In
reality, throughout history the body has been
completely free to lead the mind. If the conscience
were strengthened, we would automatically return to
God and already for some time the world would have
been with God.
The
fact that the physical body leads the conscience
shows us that the problem stems from the moment of
the fall.
The
force of false love, which tied the first ancestors
to Satan, was stronger than the force of the
conscience. God who knows very well the situation of
human beings cannot abandon fallen humanity. Instead
he must establish a strategy to weaken the
body-centered force which dominates our conscience.
Religion is the historical system for salvation
which was created and driven by God. Yes, religion,
religion. God established several religions.
According to their different circumstances and
antecedents, the world cultural spheres were formed.
Until now religious people did not know that the
purpose of religion is to prevent the body from
continuing to lead the mind. If there had not been a
fall, religion would not have been necessary.
Something bad happened and religion became necessary
to correct it. What does God intend to do through
religion? He intends to discipline the body.
Probably you think that by believing in religion you
will be saved, that by believing in Christianity you
will go to Heaven. Adam's family should have been a
family whose center was the love of God, a family
which had a blood relationship with God. Until now
no one knew that the place where such families dwell
is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Therefore, to strengthen the power of conscience, we
must dominate the body. We must liberate our
conscience, so that it can lead our body with will.
We can then return to the bosom of God's love as
original beings free from sin.
Therefore if we ask what religion should do, the
answer is that it should motivate our body to do
everything that it hates to do. What does the body
hate most? To fast! To serve! To sacrifice!
Furthermore religion asks us to be an offering. The
offering is destined to shed blood and must be
capable of sacrificing its life. Therefore, the
Bible tells us that he who is willing to lose his
life shall gain it and he who wishes to save his
life shall lose it. What this paradox teaches us is
that if we live according to the flesh we are going
to hell. If we win over the flesh and liberate our
conscience, we go to Heaven. If we completely
subjugate this body and our conscience stands in a
totally subjective position, the conscience will
have unlimited desires and infinite hope.
In
the course of history, there have been numerous
religions and numerous religious leaders. Yet those
who believed in those religions and in those leaders
were not able to get total control over the body and
could not deny themselves completely. They could not
liberate the conscience and place it in a position
to relate with God on the original basis. We sinful
people did not become true olive trees. Instead we
became wild olive trees with our roots in a false
love. The human being should have had roots in God's
true love yet we established roots in Satan's love.
How are we going to solve the problem of being wild
olive trees instead of true ones? This remains as an
inevitable and extremely crucial task which we must
fulfill. If you study yourselves, you will notice
that the conscience knows everything about you. The
conscience is closer to you than your own parents.
It desires to possess eternal love and be embraced
eternally in God's bosom. When we marry we separate
from our earthly parents. Yet the conscience exists
with me prior to my birth on earth. It loves us and
its mission is to transform us into eternal sons and
daughters of God. The conscience does not need a
teacher. Have you ever heard of a Minister of
Education in some country announcing a plan to
educate the conscience? If the conscience had gone
the original way, we would have known clearly the
course to follow in life. It would have taught us
and guided us to return to God's bosom. Because your
conscience knows everything about your life, when
you go to the spiritual world you will discover that
there is a computer there which fully registered
everything which you did on earth. Until today we
did not know that the mission of the conscience was
to convert us into unblemished, true sons and
daughters of God.
Is
there anyone here who is convinced that he or she
will never die? We will all go to the spiritual
world someday. When you enter the spirit world, they
will immediately know you by your name. They will
know about your entire life. They will also know
about your ancestors because the spiritual world
transcends time and space.
We
should not bring anything with us into that world
which would stain our conscience. For that reason,
know that the conscience is above all other
teachers.
Today we have gathered here distinguished
personalities. Among them there are professors.
Honestly there has never been a professor who
possessed a teaching which is superior to that of
the conscience. It fulfills the same role which a
compass fulfills for a ship's captain.
This evening there are many distinguished people
gathered here. To them I would like to ask, "When
you married, did anyone want to have a spouse
inferior to him or her?" The answer is no. And if I
asked you whether you wanted a spouse ten times
better than you or one hundred times better than
you, no doubt you would reply that if it were
possible you would prefer that he or she be one
thousand, ten thousand, one million times better
than you. The conscience's ambition demands the
maximum amount of love. It wishes to possess the
absolute being. The same was true for our ancestors.
And the same will be true for our descendants. If we
asked God, he would respond in the same way. Is it
not true that it is impossible for all of our
desires to be fulfilled? A Senator will want to be
President. Later he will want to be an important
person in world affairs. Ultimately, he will want to
achieve the highest position in the world. That is
the measure of ambition of the conscience. From the
beginning of history until the present time, the
general thinking of people is that the conscience's
ambition cannot be completely satisfied. But Rev.
Moon, the person who is standing here, arrived at
the conclusion that it is possible to satisfy it.
How
big is the conscience? How can the conscience be
measured? Do you think that the day will come when
the conscience will possess God? Do you think that
if there exists something bigger than God that the
conscience will have the ambition of possessing it?
Then what is it that the conscience's ambition is
seeking? If there existed something which had the
maximum value in the cosmos, the conscience would
desire to possess that as well. How big would God's
conscience be? If we compared the human conscience
with God's conscience, which would be bigger? If
God's conscience is bigger than a human being's what
would He do with it? The conclusion is that what God
wants to possess is also the immense ambition of the
human being...True Love.
What do you think? We know that God is absolute, but
doesn't He feel lonely or do you think that He feels
happy? Ladies and gentlemen, even if a person
becomes President of the Nation but lives alone
without a spouse, that person will feel unfortunate.
If we do not have an object of love, we are
unfortunate.
Does God need someone or not? How do you feel about
this? Even if God is God, he feels very lonely. The
human being feels empty when he or she lacks money
or knowledge or authority. But God does not need
money, knowledge or power.
The
question is what does God need most? We call God the
"King of Love" or the "Owner of Love". But if God is
the King of Love, this means that God needs a Queen.
This is an absolute principle. Then who can be the
absolute God's object of love? A true human being!
Ladies and gentlemen, you need money. You need
knowledge. You need power. But if you do not have a
spouse, all of that will be useless. A husband needs
a wife and children. A wife needs a husband and
children. The place where those objects of love are
found is the family.
I
serve God, the subject of love, in the position of
an object of love who completely satisfies the
ambition of God's conscience. The family where man
and woman unite as objects of God's love and where
children live happily should be the initial
foundation of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth,
centered on the true love of God.
Thus just as human beings want their object of love
to be infinitely more valuable than them, God also
wants the human being, His object of love, to have
infinite value. A person of that value is a true
human being. Yet we did not know that Adam and Eve
were meant to be that kind of man and woman.
Until now no one knew that we were created with such
value. If we were given such a high aspiration in
our conscience, it is because God is subject and He
wanted man to be in the position of object. He did
not want him simply to be a part of Him, but a
completely different personality. God allowed us as
human beings to have the action of conscience at
such an elevated level simply because He hoped that
man would be one thousand or ten thousand times more
valuable than He Himself. You must understand this
very well.
If
at the beginning of creation, a family could have
been realized in which God and man could have united
in a relationship of True Love, today we would not
have to worry about Hell or Heaven because we would
have automatically entered the Kingdom of God.
The
problem here is that God's true love and true man's
love did not begin at a common point, united as a
subjective and objective love. God's love and man's
love began in two different directions with two
different goals. Therefore, it has been impossible
to realize the ideal world which God and man long
for. God's ideal of beginning in a common point was
completely frustrated.
False parents arose centered on Satan's love. By
being their descendants, we inherited that false
love, that false life and that false lineage and are
thus destined for Hell. We have nothing to do with
the Kingdom of Heaven.
We
did not know that we were supposed to conquer God's
love through our conscience by being people whose
spirit dominated our body through willpower. Have
you heard the expression "love-sick"? If someone is
"love-sick", when we can solve the cause of his
sickness, all of his problems will be solved. The
human being is a sinner but there remains within him
a part of Adam's original nature. This is what
causes man to miss God's love like someone who is
love-sick.
What does the conscience do to win the true love
God? Even if a person has money, knowledge or power,
and she loses the love of her life, none of those
things have any meaning.
If
you unburden and liberate your mind completely, your
conscience will automatically connect with the True
Love of God. If we compare the conscience's size to
love's size, we will see that the size of love is
greater. We can know this due to the fact that the
conscience begins from love.
The
Kingdom of Heaven is the place where we go to live
in unity with God's True Love and a free conscience.
It is the place we go after having lived centered on
love and after preparing ourselves to be the lineage
of God's love. Without winning this love, we can
never enter the Kingdom of God. We will have to wait
thousands of years until that day comes. Due to the
fall, there will not be a connection with the
Kingdom of Heaven so long as man is not illuminated
by God's true thought and sustained by God's True
Love.
The
person who lives in unity, with a true conscience
and true love, will automatically enter the Kingdom
of Heaven. No matter how much a person believes in
Jesus, he cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven if he
is not linked to the love of God. The fact that our
mind and body are struggling prevents us from
entering the Kingdom. The person who inherited
Satan's lineage cannot enter the Kingdom. The
religions which have the mission of opening the way
are struggling amongst themselves and will have a
sad ending in the Last Days.
God
cannot be found where there is conflict. Religion is
a movement to subjugate the body and liberate the
conscience. It is not a key to open the doors to
salvation. We have to know that the key which opens
that door will not be received if we fail to inherit
the love, the life and the true lineage of God.
By
believing in religion, we will not receive
salvation. In reality, religion exists to discipline
the body. When our conscience is liberated, its
ambition can be raised up to God. How does this seem
to you? Think first about what you are doing. Will
you try to find out more about this?
Who
will know first what someone is doing? Who will know
first? The conscience or God? The conscience will
know first. Man is a distinct person from God
because he occupies the object position. In the same
sense, husband and wife are different. The
characteristics of each are clearly different. If we
were to conclude that God could know everything
prior to it happening, we could say that we are a
part of God, as if we are a single body. But in such
a case, we could not be God's objects of love.
An
ideal cannot be perfected when it is alone. After
Adam and Eve sinned, God asked, "Adam, where are
you?" Adam hid himself behind a fig tree and
answered, "I am here." God understood and said, "You
hid yourself because you have sinned." Man comes
from God's love and returns to God. We must return
to God.
Ladies and gentlemen, when sons and daughters age
and when parents reach the age of 100 and their
children reach the age of 80, the relationship of
father and son also becomes a relationship of
friends. Friends!
We
cannot compare the physical strength of a woman with
that of a man. She can never defeat him. But through
love, wife and husband are attracted to one another
and follow each other. If Adam and Eve had been the
objects of God's love, would that have been pleasing
to Him or not? God created the universe before Adam
and Eve would have perfected themselves as His
objects of love. God had the ambitious hope that in
the future they would be His ideal object. If, after
having perfected themselves as the object of God's
love, they had asked God to create something greater
than what He had already created, do you think He
could have done so or not?
As
infinite as the ambition of our conscience is, we
should know that God can create everything that we
desire. God created us with the value of True Love
objects. Because this value was lost, it must be
restored. This restoration is the purpose of human
life and history. God established religions and
promised that some day each of the founders of those
religions would return.
Christianity has taught that Jesus will return. In
Buddhism they speak of the return of Buddha.
Confucianism alludes to a new Confucius. Likewise in
Islam, believers await the return of Mohammed. What
would be the reason that God established the
different religions? We need to understand that the
will of God is accomplished centered on his beloved
children, children who are like God's flesh and
blood. With that type of son and daughter, God wants
to form families, tribes, races, and nations.
We
need to understand what kind of person the Messiah
is. In his Second Coming, the Lord is the person who
perfects the ideal which has been longed for by all
the religions, coming to the earth for the first
time in the eternal love of God.
He
will become a TRUE FATHER and centered on that lost
True Love, He will work to establish an ideal family
on earth on the foundation of true life and true
lineage.
That is the purpose of the providence of salvation.
Due to the fall, God lost the true Mother as well as
the children of Adam's family. This means that God
could not have true children. There was no family
which was connected to the blood lineage which was
to come from God's love.
The
providence of salvation is the providence of
restoration which God has been leading to restore
His lost sons and daughters and restore the unity of
mind and body, the absolute unity of husband and
wife, and the absolute unity of parents and children
in the True Love of God. This true family which is
qualified to live eternally with God should be
connected to Christianity which is in the position
of bride to the Lord. By establishing such a blood
relationship with God, we can realize united
families, tribes, races, nations and united nations
which would thus conform to the united world which
is the culmination of the providence of salvation.
Distinguished leaders of this nation, is it not true
that this nation would like to receive God's
blessing? To do so, you must become a people whose
mind and body are united in God's true Love. You
must also unite as absolute husbands and wives. When
the number of families in any nation which can unite
as absolute children of God grows, then God will
come to live in that nation. If this happens, then
automatically that nation will become the central
nation of the world.
Human beings have this kind of nature. If his
beloved one lives in the countryside, in poverty, he
wants to live there with her. In the same way, if
there is a place where God's beloved sons and
daughters dwell, that place, if poor, will be the
Kingdom of Heaven. If rich, it will be the Kingdom
of Heaven as well.
Today the Founder of the Unification Church is here
speaking to you. If you ask me, "What is the mission
of the Unification Church?" I will say that it is a
place where God's True Love is present. It is the
place where we want our mind and body to unite in
true love. It is the place where we want to form
ideal marriages with absolute unity between husband
and wife. By means of an ideology which can make all
people into inseparable brothers and sisters, we are
carrying out the mission which God has given us.
With the love of the True God and the love of the
True Parents, we are cleaning everything that was
dirtied by false love, false life and false lineage.
Our marriage has achieved the True Parents position.
The large international marriage ceremonies which we
conduct are the ceremonies to sow the seed of true
love, true life and true lineage which results from
the unity of God's love and man's love.
The
blessing marriage is a ceremony to restore families
formed in false marriage which, due to the fall,
received the seed of false love, false life, and
false lineage. Having families participate in these
marriage ceremonies from around the world will
connect them to God's great blessing. It is my
fervent desire that all people receive that great
blessing and become families and a people which can
establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
The
purpose of the Unification Church is to succeed
through this means to establish relationships of
brotherhood which transcend nations. Through this
means we want to realize the ideal of one great
universal family centered on God and thus proclaim
the ideal of True Parents. True spouses, and True
brothers and sisters. In this way we will begin the
world heart culture. From earth to Heaven, we will
be liberated to fulfill the world of the Kingdom of
Heaven on earth.
Since the end of the Second World War and during the
past fifty years, Reverend Moon has been persecuted
and criticized by the entire world. The time has
come that you should know that such persecution was
not because he committed any crime. Instead it was
to save you. And unlike in the past people now think
that I am the most admirable man.
By
the hand of Reverend Moon, communism collapsed. It
was Reverend Moon who awakened Mikhail Gorbachev and
Kim Il Sung. To save the United States which is
going towards a collapse, I established a foundation
which leads Americans to feel that Reverend Moon is
the hope. Also behind the difficult political
context of North and South Korea, Reverend Moon is
involved. The same is true for the Middle East.
You
need to know that after 40 years, the Republican
party triumphed in the United States, thanks to the
influence of Reverend Moon. Perhaps you are unaware
of these facts. But you should know that if any
nation precedes the United States in receiving and
absolutely embracing Reverend Moon, that nation will
become the first nation in the world.
Everything which Reverend Moon has said has been
fulfilled. The entire world did everything it could
to put an end to me yet I did not die and I am
firmly standing on the top of the world. If today I
can speak to you out loud, it is because God loves
me. You need to know that if I survived, it is
because God absolutely protected me. For that
reason, I believe that you should seriously study
about the Unification Church.
We
have met together today and this is a day of deep
significance. I have shared a very important message
with you and I have placed my trust in you. I kindly
ask that you not forget this. I also ask that to
follow the proper path, you make a redetermination
based on this new awakening to bring God's blessing
to your families and your nation. In that way ideal
families will begin to appear on this earth.
As
you probably know, Reverend Moon and his spouse are
known throughout the world as the True Parents. If
it is true that as True Parents we are connected to
God in True Love, True Life and True Lineage, I
would like you to remember that beginning from a
true family and from you a realm of liberation,
liberty, unification and happiness will begin. It
will allow the hope of peace to sprout upon the
earth. Thank you very much.
