Respected guests from Washington D.C. and abroad,
dear staff of The Washington Times, eminent world
literary leaders, ladies and gentlemen. I deeply
appreciate your taking time from your busy schedules
to attend this meeting.
Today, as we celebrate The Washington Times' 15th
anniversary, I cannot help but feel deep emotion.
Fifteen years ago, when the world was adrift on the
stormy waves of the Cold War, I established The
Washington Times to fulfill God's desperate desire
to save this world. Since that time, I have devoted
myself to raising up The Washington Times, hoping
that this blessed land of America would fulfill its
world-wide mission to build a Heavenly nation.
Meanwhile, I waged a lonely struggle, facing
enormous obstacles and scorn as I dedicated my whole
heart and energy to enable The Washington Times to
grow as a righteous and responsible journalistic
institution.
Today The Washington Times Corporation can be proud
of its development into a world class global media
enterprise. Since the end of the Cold War, the world
began to realize that the direction taken by The
Washington Times was correct. History will not
forget our contribution. The efforts of The Times to
revitalize the moral and spiritual values of the
United States and the world are being recognized as
absolutely urgent and necessary at this time.
I
want to convey my warmest appreciation to all The
Washington Times staff who have worked so hard
together with me to develop The Times. I would also
like to express my deepest gratitude to the American
and world leaders who have offered their unwavering
support.
The
most precious thing that I can offer from the bottom
of my heart as a token of my appreciation on this
special day is to introduce you to what I consider
to be the two most significant lectures that I gave
during my most recent world tour.
I
refer to "View of the Principle of the
Providential History of Salvation" and "In
Search of the Origin of the Universe." Today,
we need a complete solution for the problems of
sexual immorality, family breakdown and alienation
among our young people. These two speeches provide
fundamental solutions for these problems. When each
one of you goes back to your home, I hope you will
take some time for self-reflection. Whenever you
want to bring more love into your family, read these
speeches together with your family and think deeply.
I believe this can help you and your family to
achieve harmony and real happiness.
I
suggest that you read these two speeches as many
times as the number of your age. If your age is over
80, then read them more than 80 times. The more you
read these speeches, the more heavenly blessing and
fortune will be with you. The more you read them,
the more peace will flow in your family naturally
and automatically I invite you to read more!
The
title of the first speech is "View of the
Principle of the Providential History of Salvation."
To summarize: Because of the failure and Fall in the
family of the First Adam, Jesus came as the Second
Adam to restore the failure of the first family at
the national level. The First Adam had become fallen
Adam. Thus the Messiah, Jesus, came as the Second
Adam. However, since Jesus was not able to realize a
family based on being True Parents, the Messiah
needs to come back as the Third Adam and restore the
mission of True Parents on the world level. This is
the mission of the Second Advent, who is coming as
the Third Adam. This speech also introduces the fact
that the fundamental issue of salvation is the
restoration of the original lineage.
The
title of the second speech is "In Search of the
Origin of the Universe." Since the human Fall
originated in the misuse of love, humankind lost
True Love. Thus the problem arises: How can we
recover True Love? The loss of True Love means
falling through adultery. In other words, True Love
became degraded by misusing the sexual organs, and
in order to restore it, we need to use these organs
in the right way. Just as the seed of fallen love
was planted in the Garden of Eden during the first
ancestors' youth, so in these final days, mankind
will harvest the fruit of the Fall among our young
people. That is the reason why today we find so much
chaos and contusion, centering on the issue of sex.
This problem can only be solved with what I call
"Absolute Sex." Only the concept and practice of
Absolute Sex can prevent the destruction of the
family and reverse the corruption of our youth.
This evening, because time is limited, I would like
to share a speech with a new title: "True Family
and True Universe Centering on True Love."
Everyone here has parents and teachers, and you also
have the leader of your nation. Correct? These are
things everyone undeniably needs. However, when
compared to the true standard, there are many
different levels of parents. What do you think? To
what extent have you, yourself, become True Parents?
In the same way, if a person is a professor at an
Ivy League university such as Harvard, Yale or
Columbia in the United States, or Oxford and
Cambridge in England, does this mean that he or she
can be called a True Teacher? Similarly, there are
different types of leadership in a nation compared
to the true standard of leadership. Even if someone
is the president of a superpower such as the United
States, does this mean he or she is a True
President?
In
fact, today in the family, children do not trust
parents. Between spouses, there is no complete
trust. Brothers and sisters also don't trust each
other fully. Furthermore, students do not trust the
teachers in the schools, and the people do not trust
the leaders of their nation.
So
the problem is, how can we attain the true standard
of even one of these three most important positions
of parents, teacher and leader?
When I say you should become True Parents, True
Teacher or True Leader, what do you think is the
highest standard or central model for those three
positions? That is God. God is the True Parent among
parents, True Teacher among teachers, and True King
among kings. God is the Eternal True Parent, Eternal
True Teacher, Eternal True Leader and King. If we
are children of God, we need to become True Parents
first, just like God. We should also follow the way
of the True Teacher, just like God. And we need to
follow the way of the True Leader, just like God.
This is the idea of the three primary positions. The
ultimate model is God.
Who
is the Messiah sent to the people of Israel,
promised in the Old Testament? The Messiah is the
one who comes as True Parents, True Teacher, and
True King. However, because Jesus was prevented from
establishing the True Family and uniting his people,
he needs to come again. In other words, because he
did not accomplish the national-level foundation,
the Messiah of the Second Coming will come as the
Third Adam and teach the way of the True Parents,
True Teacher and True King at the world level. This
is the messianic concept. Wherever the family,
nation, world and Heaven exist, the idea of the
three primary positions of parents, teacher and
leader should always be established.
To
exist in the spatial dimension, human beings need to
stand in relation to what is above and below, right
and left, front and back. In this way, one's
position is determined. One's shape and situation
depend upon where one stands relative to above and
below, right and left, and front and back.
This same formula that applies in the relation of
above and below, right and left, and front and back
also applies to the family, the nation and the
world. Just as there are above and below, right and
left, and front and back centering on the
individual, in the family there are parents and
children, husband and wife, and brothers and
sisters. Similarly, in the nation, centering on the
leader, families should embrace all the
civilizations of East and West and all the
civilizations of North and South. Then they can
embrace all people of the world as brothers and
sisters. Ultimately every level will form a family
pattern. All these models have the same pattern and
the individual self is the central model. In the
same manner, one's existence expands to the level of
the family, nation, world, Heaven and Earth, and
eventually reaches God. Each person has the desire
to live as the center of the cosmos and the
potential to make this a reality.
Thus, the core concept of the universe is the
concept of the family. Heaven represents parents.
Earth represents children. In the concept of East
and West, East symbolizes man, West symbolizes
woman. When a woman gets married, she usually
follows wherever the husband goes, but they have
equal value. When the West side reflects the
sunlight, it has the same value as the East side.
The relationship of brothers is the same. When the
older brother works, the younger brothers naturally
help him.
Therefore, people should exist in the relation of
parents and children, husband and wife, and elder
and younger siblings. And these three relations meet
at one central point. There can be only one center.
Above and below, right and left, and front and back
should not have different centers. If the central
point is different, then the balance of the
relationships between above and below, right and
left, and front and back will be broken. Eventually
above, below, right, left, front, back and the
central point all together comprise seven positions.
Thus, the number seven represents all elements
uniting to become one centering on God, with perfect
True Love. Together, these seven elements form a
complete sphere and eventually a family structure of
harmony and unification. So, as you can see, seven
is truly a lucky number.
When this sphere completes itself and revolves, it
becomes a new entity based on the number eight. As
long as True Love remains unchanging, the central
point can revolve without change. But because of the
human Fall, God was expelled from the central
position. Since God's True Love was expelled, the
True Family ideal collapsed.
There are many differences in lifestyle between East
and West. In many ways, they are totally opposite.
For example, when Koreans call someone to come to
them, we motion with the palm down, like this. But
if we do this in the West, people go the other way.
We often misunderstand and wonder if people don't
like us, because they go away from us when we are
actually asking them to come closer. Also Western
writing has a horizontal structure, proceeding from
left to right. Oriental writing originally is
vertically structured, starting from top to bottom
and proceeding from right to left. So Western books
open from left to right. But in the Orient we open a
book from right to left. Thus Western civilization
is more horizontally-based, while Oriental
civilization is more vertical. As another example,
shaking hands is a horizontal greeting, while bowing
is vertical. In the Orient, there is a tradition
that the ancestors are the core of the family
system. But in the West there is no strong concept
that considers the ancestors as the core. There is
mostly a concept centered on the self.
Because everything is connected through the core,
without the movement of the core, the whole entity
does not move. Therefore, all the positions of one,
two, three, four, five, six and seven, the central
core, have equal value. Once they are divided, they
comprise twelve segments. These twelve will fit
wherever they are placed. Whatever the grandfather
wants, the grandchild is not against. The children
of the grandfather also want whatever their parents
want. Ultimately all three generations become united
in one desire. All of the elements -- grandfather
and grandmother, father and mother, husband and
wife, son and daughter -- resonate with the center.
Let us look at the family, centering on love. Since
the relationship between parents and children is one
of unity, they are said to be one body. The relation
between husband and wife is also said to be one
body, as is the relation between brother and sister.
In the family, all are one body. Centered on what
are these relations called one body? They are one
body centered on God's True Love, which is the
center of all love. Centered on True Love, parents
and children become one, husband and wife become
one, and brothers and sisters become one. Through
this process, the value of each element becomes
equal.
Then what did God want for His children? To become
billionaires? To have more power than anyone else?
What God wanted for His children, Adam and Eve, was
for them to grow to become children of filial piety,
loyal citizens, saints, and a Holy Son and Daughter.
Did you ever consider that, in accordance with God's
desire, we should become children of filial piety in
the family, loyal citizens of the nation, saints in
the world, and Holy Sons and Daughters before Heaven
and Earth? In history the saints and sages have
taught that we should become children of filial
piety, loyal citizens, saints, and Holy Sons and
Daughters.
This evening do you think you have mastered the way
of filial piety, loyalty, sainthood, and Holy
Sonship which is needed to become an ideal human
being and to complete the human personality? Without
knowing this, you cannot perform the function of
True Parents in the family. True Parents need to
teach their children progressively to complete the
way of the filial child, loyal citizen, saint, Holy
Son or Daughter, and eventually even to reach God.
If there is someone who truly teaches and
exemplifies these things, then God will see that
person as the ultimate True Parent, True Teacher and
True Leader.
When you are qualified as True Parents and True
Teacher, you also will be qualified as a True
Leader; and furthermore you will be qualified to
become a True King or Queen. Fallen man lacks this
concept of filial piety, loyal citizenship,
sainthood, and of becoming Holy Sons and Daughters.
That is why this world is perishing. Who wants Holy
Sons? God does. Who wants saints? The world does.
Who wants loyal citizens? The nation does. Who wants
children of filial piety? The family does. This is
the way of truth.
The
truth centering on love continues eternally in one
direction. We did not know this, and that is why we
could not be True Parents, True Citizens, True
Saints, and Holy Sons and Daughters. When Jesus came
to this world, there was no True Parents in the
family, no True Leader in the nation and the world,
and ultimately there was no True King in all of
Heaven and Earth. People did not know how to follow
the True Way. However, now you should know.
True Parents do not tell their children, "Once you
become children of true filial piety, do not become
loyal citizens." True Parents should teach children
of filial piety to sacrifice their family by
following the way of a loyal citizen in service to
the nation, and to sacrifice the nation to fulfill
the way of saints in service to the world. And then
parents should teach their children to sacrifice the
world in service to Heaven and Earth, and to
sacrifice Heaven and Earth to come to God.
To
achieve this, individuals should sacrifice for the
sake of the family. By sacrificing for the family, a
person becomes a child of filial piety. To become a
patriot, a person will sacrifice even their entire
family to save the nation. That is the way to become
patriots. To be a saint, you will sacrifice even the
nation in service to the world. The Holy Son should
establish the Heavenly Kingdom on Earth and in
Heaven, even sacrificing the world. Therefore, among
all parents, those who live more for the sake of
their children are True Parents. Teachers who do
more for the sake of their students are True
Teachers, and the president who sacrifices more for
the nation will be the True President. We did not
know this concept of investing and sacrifice. But
without it, we will never have one eternally
peaceful and unified world.
What is the basis of individualism? One cannot claim
anything as "mine alone." When the child, through
the love of its parents, grows from an egg in the
mother's womb and is born, 99.999 percent of its
existence is from the mother's bone, blood, and
flesh, which was combined with the 0.001 percentage
from the father's sperm. There is no concept of
"myself alone" in nature. Nobody had a concept of
"myself" when they were born.
Anyone who considers that they are the best cannot
say they became so by themselves, including Reverend
Moon. Bone, blood and flesh are all received in the
mother's womb. We should recognize that the
important parts of our body are the extension of our
mother's body. All the essential elements of our
body were included in the egg and sperm. There is no
exception. Therefore, there is no basis for
self-centered individualism.
When we say the word "above," that word
automatically recognizes "below." Can individualism
stand only with the concept of "above" by itself?
There is no way that a being can be only individual.
Talking about the "right" side presupposes the
existence of "left." In the relation between front
and back, "front" presupposes "back." The word "man"
also cannot exist by itself. It presupposes "woman."
This is not just the claim of any one person, but a
cosmic fact.
Why
was man created? Usually, men say that they can live
by themselves alone, so they don't care why they
were created. But man was born for the sake of
woman. Without woman, there is absolutely no need
for man. Actually, nothing was created for man by
himself or for woman by herself alone.
Look at our five senses. Were my eyes created to
look at my eyes? Nose, ears, mouth, hands -- all of
them were created for the sake of the object. The
force that mobilizes and focuses all five senses is
True Love. Eyes, nose, ears, mouth, and hands were
created for True Love as a tool for the use of True
Love.
Nothing is created only for myself. On the contrary,
a person who says that what belongs to others is
"mine" is called a thief. When someone takes the
things of others and uses them as his own, isn't he
a thief? Therefore any man who uses his five senses
and his body as he wants for himself alone is a
thief, since these exist for the sake of woman.
What is the difference between man and woman? Their
bodies, including the sexual organs. Then to whom is
man's sexual organ absolutely necessary? Man's
sexual organ exists for the sake of woman. The human
sexual organs are shaped as concave and convex. Why
are they shaped that way? Both of them could be
pointed or both could be flat. Why are they shaped
differently? Each is for the sake of the other.
Woman absolutely wants what is man's. And man
absolutely wants what is woman's. Until now, we did
not know the fact that, absolutely, woman's sexual
organ is man's and man's sexual organ is woman's. By
owning each other's sexual organs man and woman come
to know True Love.
Only through the experience of two becoming one can
we know the highest level of love. No one can
absolutely deny these facts. Everyone should
recognize this. At the place where husband and wife
become completely one, the ideal couple will be
created. In that very place, absolute love exists.
That place of love, which is absolutely unchanging,
is the dwelling place of God.
Absolute Sex is centered on God, and free sex is
centered on Satan. Historically, world literature
and the media have often stimulated free sex. But
from now on, you literary figures and journalists
should lead the way to prevent free sex. Free sex
should completely disappear.
Now
that you have heard Reverend Moon's speech, you can
change your current position 180 degrees and become
a new person, new nation, and new world.
Definitely you are being changed. It is an absolute
necessity to change this evil world. This world must
be transformed.
People in the evil world, including Satan, don't
like people on God's side. Therefore everyone in the
world has opposed Reverend Moon; even at the level
of the nation and the world they opposed me. But
because Reverend Moon belongs to God, God has
protected me. Satan doesn't like Reverend Moon; but
God likes me. No matter how many times the world
pushed Reverend Moon down or ignored me, I did not
care. Reverend Moon never went down. Rather, he came
up to the highest position. Therefore, now nobody
can oppose me.
How
could I establish this worldwide foundation even
under all kinds of persecution? With what kind of
power could Reverend Moon create these foundations
to teach eminent world scholars and leaders? That
was possible because God gave Reverend Moon a
special kind of power. God has protected me and
directed me, and even now God continuously protects
and teaches me, so I am moving toward the way of
success all the time.
Throughout history, there have been numerous
religious leaders who could communicate with the
spiritual world. You should know there is only one,
Reverend Moon, who fully understood and unified the
spiritual world and commenced work in this world.
Since unifying the spiritual world, I received the
Heavenly seal of recognition from God. Otherwise
unification on the Earth cannot be done. You should
know that in the same way that God has trained me
and raised me in the spiritual world, He
continuously leads me on the Earth.
For
more than 20 years, since I came to the United
States, I received enormous persecution. But I knew
that God's plan for Christianity has endured through
bloody sacrifice for 2,000 years, ultimately
settling in the United States. Therefore I could not
give up on this country. Please consider, if America
had accepted Reverend Moon even 40 years ago, how
would this country be today?
Then from where does True Love begin? This is True
Love: After you sacrifice your own life and are
resurrected, you try to invest again, more than
three times. Since we have inherited fallen lineage,
even at the cost of our own lives we have to
persevere and overcome. Therefore, "whoever seeks to
gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses his
life will preserve it." (Luke 17:33) Jesus
followed this way when he came to this world. That
is why he could lead the world, not by selfish
individualism, but by altruism. Therefore, although
I have created great wealth during my life, none of
it, not even one penny, is mine. I invested
everything for the world and then I forgot what I
had done for others, and then I sacrificed and
invested again. I repeated this process again and
again.
Which do you prefer, "One Nation under God" or "One
World under God?" Among Americans, some people do
not like the concept of One World under God. Some
white people do not like black people. White
Anglo-Saxon Protestants occupy dominant positions in
the United States. America, led by this group,
should have the idea that this country exists for
the sake of the world. If America lives only for its
own sake, America will ultimately perish.
Now
the times are changing. The coming time is the age
of One World under God. God is working for this kind
of world and will always help those people who also
are working for that kind of providence. But there
is a problem with many people wanting to lead the
world but not wanting to participate in that
providence.
In
order to make one peaceful world, I have poured
myself into various efforts. Let me give a few
examples. We need to establish an ideal, world-wide
academic institution like a U.N. University,
transcending the barriers of race, religion and
language, in order to complete the foundation for
the future world. Also, to exchange knowledge
globally, we need a university system for distance
learning. We also need to develop a unified medical
science. We need not only to cure the diseases of
the body caused by the Fall, but also to end the
conflict between Orient and Occident through
harmonizing Eastern and Western culture. By uniting
Eastern and Western medicine we can cure formerly
incurable diseases, such as AIDS. In Korea, among
the people of the countryside who never had formal
medical education, there are many gifted healers who
can cure serious diseases that are incurable through
modern medicine. These healers have received
teaching from the spiritual world about special
treatments. Without recognizing certain realities of
the spiritual world, problems will continue to grow.
Already these projects are being implemented at the
University of Bridgeport and Sun Moon University. I
have also created The Washington Times and other
newspapers to cover the entire hemisphere, and I am
expanding this media foundation into 185 countries
to help all the people of the world learn from each
other and cooperate as one. Since I came to America,
I never had any debt to the American people. Rather,
America should feel indebted to me. I shared the
blessing I received from Heaven with America. I
didn't receive any blessing from America, but my
entire blessing was given to her.
Regardless of the degree of opposition, the person
who loves the most will become the owner. Those who
love more, invest more, who give more and forget
what they have given, will become central figures.
This is cosmic law.
In
the future, please follow the way that in the family
you offer filial piety to your parents, become a
loyal citizen before the nation, become a saint
before the world, and become a Holy Son or Daughter
before God. Whoever can stand without shame before
the family, nation, world, and Heaven and Earth,
will be protected in the center of the cosmos and
can then realize a family that receives God's
highest love.
Such a person shall transform this world into the
Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, being registered in the
Kingdom of Heaven in the spiritual world and
entering into an era of kingship both spiritually
and physically centered on God. Such a person shall
receive the International Ceremony of Holy Blessing,
which is to establish a world of victory, freedom,
happiness and unity. I invite each of you to
participate in this year's 3.6 million couple
Blessing Ceremony, and so become a person welcomed
by Heaven and Earth and find the way of eternal
life.
Today literary leaders from all over the world are
gathered together here. I hope the staff of The
Washington Times and all the world literary leaders
will become major figures to create a True Family
and True World (cosmic) culture centered on God's
True Love, ushering in a world of peace and
unification in the forthcoming 21st Century.
May
God bless you, your family and all your endeavors.
Thank you.
