God's Ideal
Family: The Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World
Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon
Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon
April 28 - August 30, 2006
120 Nations
Good evening.
I address you as leaders from around
the globe who do not hesitate to make extraordinary
efforts for the realization of world peace. I would
like to express my deepest gratitude for your being
present here to celebrate my 87th
birthday and to take part in the First World Rally
for the Universal Peace Federation in spite of your
very busy schedules.
Ladies and gentlemen, as we begin the
21st century, we find ourselves at a
truly historic turning point. We are at a point of
decision. Can everlasting world peace take root, or
are we doomed to repeat the 20th
century's dark and oppressive history of war and
conflict?
The 20th century was a period of
ceaseless struggle, including wars for colonial
dominion, the First and Second World Wars, the
Korean War, and the Cold War. Living through this
era, I have dedicated my life entirely to the
accomplishment of God's kingdom of the peaceful,
ideal world. I have always prayed sincerely that the
United Nations, founded after the Second World War,
would be an institution of peace, and that it would
uphold God's will for the realization of eternal
world peace.
The United Nations has made important
contributions for peace. Nevertheless, at its 60th
anniversary there is a broad consensus, both inside
and outside the organization, that the UN has yet to
discover the way to fulfill its founding purposes.
The number of member states
approaches 200, but the offices of these states do
little more than represent and even insist on their
own interests. They seem inherently unable to
resolve conflicts and achieve peace.
For these reasons, I declare today
before all humanity the founding of a new
international organization, the Universal Peace
Federation. Its mission is to renew the existing
United Nations and provide a new level of leadership
as the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world, that
is, a United Nations whose efforts for peace are
offered to Heaven, investing itself ceaselessly in
living for the sake of others. To commemorate this
day in its fullness, I am declaring a message from
God to humanity in this age. It is entitled,
God's Ideal Family: the Kingdom of
the Peaceful. Ideal World.
God's Ideal Family
Respected world leaders, what do you
think is
God’s ultimate purpose for creating
human beings? Simply put, it is to experience joy
through relating with ideal families filled with
true love.
What does an ideal family look like?
First. each person in such a family is an owner of
true love. When God first created human beings, He
made Adam representing all men, and Eve representing
all women, with the intention that they become
owners of true love. The quickest way for them to
cultivate a character of true love was to secure a
parent-child relationship with God, whereby they
could live in attendance to God as their Father.
They were to have followed the path of living as one
family with God.
I invite you to enter into a mystical
state and prayerfully ask God, "What is the center
of the universe'.” I am sure that the answer you
hear will be "the parent-child relationship."
Nothing is more important or more precious than the
relationship between parent and child. This is
because it defines the fundamental relationship
between the Creator, God, and human beings.
Then, what defines the parent-child
relationship? Three things define this relationship:
love. life and lineage. Without our parents' love as
a precondition, none of us would be alive today. God
created human beings out of His absolute love, to be
His partners in love. This relationship forms an
axis of love. linking God, the Father, with human
beings as His sons and daughters.
Is there anything higher or more
precious than to be a son or daughter of God'? If
anything were higher, then surely human desire would
aspire to attain it. But there is nothing higher. Do
you think that when the omniscient and almighty God
created Adam and Eve. He secretly reserved the
highest position for Himself and made Adam and Eve
to be only second best'? We cannot imagine that God
would do that to His children, to His partners who
share absolute love with Him. As our eternal True
Parent, God invested Himself 100 percent in the
creation of human beings, and endowed us with
the right to have equal status with Him, to
participate in His work as equals, to live with Him,
and to inherit from Him. God bestowed upon human
beings all of His attributes.
Though God is the absolute being, He
cannot be happy alone. .-Adjectives such as "good"
and "happy" cannot apply to any being that
lives
in isolation. They apply only where there is a
robust reciprocal relationship. Imagine a
professional singer
who finds herself exiled to an
uninhabited island. She may sing at the top of her
voice, but with no one to listen, will it bring her
happiness'? In the same way, even the self-existent
God absolutely needs a reciprocal partner of love in
order to experience joy and be happy .
Next, how shall we live to become
God's reciprocal partner and return joy to Him? In
other words, how shall we live to become children of
God, people whom God delights to call "My son," or
"My daughter," people who embody a divinity equal to
His?' How can we become God's
partners in completing the work of creation,
partners who will inherit the entire creation? I
answer: We should emulate the ideal beginning point
of God's creative process. In the beginning of
creation, God set up the principle of living for the
sake of others. God set the practice for the partner
of true love as the nucleus, and from that point He
began to create.
Therefore, to become God's children,
our first responsibility is to resemble Him. We need
to embody true love. The way to embody true love
begins by living as a devoted child. then a patriot,
a saint, and finally a divine son or daughter of
God. At that stage we can experience the innermost
emotions of God's heart and resolve the grief that
He has experienced for tens of thousands of years,
ever since the Fall of Adam and Eve. God is
almighty. It was not due to His shortcoming or lack
of ability that He has been imprisoned in great pain
and has endured immense suffering behind the scenes
of history.
It was because there are provisions
in the Principle of Restoration. which He was not
free to disclose, that called Him to wait with
forbearance until Adam and Eve's positions, lost at
the human Fall, were recovered with the appearance
of the perfected second Adam. Although God is
all-powerful. He will not set aside the eternal laws
and principles that He Himself established.
The Importance of Lineage
Do you know what has pained God's
heart most, causing Him the greatest grief over the
long history since the Fall of Adam and Eve'? God
lost His lineage. And with the loss of His lineage,
He lost His right of ownership. Let me talk about
lineage for a moment. Lineage is more important than
life and more important than love. Life and love
come together to create lineage. Lineage cannot be
established if either life or love is missing.
Therefore, among the three qualities that define the
parent-child relationship, love, life and lineage,
lineage is the fruit.
The seed of true love is embedded in
God's lineage. God's lineage provides the context
and environment for a true life. Hence, for us to
become the ideal people envisioned by God, that is,
people of ideal character. and to create ideal
families, we first need to be linked to His lineage.
To take a step further. only when we are linked to
God's lineage is it possible to create God's
homeland, the ideal nation. Only when we are linked
to God's lineage is it possible to establish the
kingdom of the peaceful. ideal world. Please
inscribe the importance of lineage in your hearts,.
I cannot emphasize this enough.
Without lineage. neither life nor
love can endure. You strive to set a good tradition.
but it will endure only through your lineage.
Lineage is the bridge allowing the parents' spirit
to carry on through .subsequent generations. In
other words, lineage is the first and final
condition necessary for parents to harvest the
fruits of their love, the fruits of their lives and
the fruits of their joy. We need to know this with
certainty.
Yet when Adam and Eve transgressed,
this lineage, more precious than life, was lost.
The fruits of true life and true love never
matured. They became the fruits of Satan, lacking
any relationship with Heaven. From them descended
the six billion people now covering the earth. God
intended for the seeds He planted to grow into a
bountiful crop to be harvested in the autumn in the
Garden of Eden. The ideal of God's creation was
that He would raise Adam and Eve. His son and
daughter to the point where they would blossom in
true love, give bloom to true life, and bear fruit
in a true lineage. God desired to harvest the
owners, families and God's kingdom of the peaceful,
ideal world of eternal life, eternal love and
eternal lineage.
God's Suffering in Search of the True
Parents
False love. false life and false
lineage infested the earth. God's love, life and
lineage fell into the hands of the adulterer Satan,
the enemy of love. Heaven and earth were suffocated
and transformed into hell. The world became a
wretched place, far from God's presence. Yet
humanity to this day lives in ignorance of this.
People are deluded into believing that the lineage
of the enemy is the lifeline upon which the world
depends. This is the wretched truth about humanity
descended from the Fall. That is why we refer to
this world as hell on earth. God views humanity's
tragic situation with a heart full of pain.
After creating Adam and Eve in the
Garden of Eden. God intended to wed them with His
Holy Blessing and bequeath to them Heaven's right of
ownership. God wanted Adam and Eve to inherit from
Him the ownership of the entire universe. Because
of the Fall, however, all this fell under Satan's
control. God is like a father who has worked and
sweated his entire life to accumulate assets for his
children, only to have a thief steal everything in
one night.
Who can comprehend the sorrowful,
painful heart of God? God lost His lineage, lost
His children, and was forced to hand over ownership
of the nations and world to Satan. There was only
one way to recover this lineage and ownership. This
was the path to win the natural subjugation of
Satan, to have Satan surrender voluntarily. What is
the secret to accomplishing this? It can only be
done by the power of true love, when we love our
enemies more than we love our own children.
Was there ever a time when God, as
their True Father and True Mother. could rejoice
with human beings, enjoying the natural bonds of
parent and child? Has God enjoyed even a year of
comfort with His children, knowing that what He
created was good? The answer is no; God has not
enjoyed this even for one hour. And has anyone been
able to comfort God in this pain? No, because no one
has known the reason for this unbridgeable gap
between God and humankind. No one has known why God
and humanity are in such a tragic circumstance.
The biblical account of Cain and Abel
reveals the beginnings of human conflict right in
Adam's family. It provides the archetype for
humankind's unending history of struggle, war and
conflict. We are conflicted on many levels,
beginning with the war between body and mind within
each individual and extending to wars between
nations and even to the global conflict between
materialism and theism. Extreme selfish
individualism threatens our prosperity even today.
We deem young people to be the hope of humanity,
holding the promise for the future, but drugs and
free sex enslave them. Advanced countries seem to
believe that material goods are all that matter.
They recognize only their own interests while
ignoring the misery of tens of thousands who die of
starvation every day.
Who can untie this ancient knot of
Cain and Abel? It has been tightened over thousands
of years and grows ever more tangled. Do you think
the United Nations can do it? The UN at its founding
proclaimed a movement for world peace, and for sixty
years it has dedicated itself to this task: yet
world peace still remains far distant. Peace among
nations can never come when those entrusted with the
task have not resolved the Cain-Abel relationship
between their own mind and body. Therefore, the time
has come to launch the ideal kingdom that will set
It, course according to God's will.
God eagerly anticipated that someone
would come and resolve these tragedies, but no such
person appeared on earth. God waited and waited,
looking for anyone who would take on the role of the
True Parent. If someone had come forward, I am
certain that God would have appeared in his dream,.
carried the sun and moon to him, and showered forth
lightning of joy and thunder
of
ecstacy
from the heavens.
In this sense, it is a miracle of'
miracles that for the first time in history a man
has succeeded in establishing the position of Adam,
securing the position of the owner of true love, and
received God’s anointing as the True Parent of
humanity. It is an amazing fact that his lifetime
coincides with yours and that you and he breathe the
same air. I gained victory in the position of the
horizontal True Parent, who comes to rescue fallen
humanity. On that foundation, on January 13, 2001 I
dedicated to Heaven the Coronation Ceremony for the
Kingship of
God.
Through that ceremony, I liberated and released
God, the vertical True Parent, who has taken
responsibility for the Providence of Restoration. In
all of history, this the highest and greatest
blessing humanity has ever received. This victory
was absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal.
Through this absolute providential victory, God's
body and mind are completely liberated!
The Way to Peace through the Holy
Blessing Ceremony
Respected leaders! Our bondage to the
lineage of Satan has caused so much suffering
throughout history. Let us now boldly step forth to
sever it and be grafted onto the root of the lineage
of the True Parents. Why should we foolishly
continue to live and die as wild olive trees? A
wild olive tree. even if it lives a thousand years,
will only continue producing the seeds of more wild
olive trees. Where can we find the path to escape
this vicious cycle? It is through the Holy
Blessing.
The Holy Blessing Ceremony offers the
grace of being grafted onto the true olive tree. It
was inaugurated through the True Parents, who bring
God's true lineage to humankind. Once you change
your lineage to God's lineage. your offspring will
belong to God's lineage naturally. The Holy Blessing
is received in three stages: resurrection, rebirth
and eternal life. Once you receive the True
Parents'
Holy
Blessing, you can give birth to pure,
sinless offspring and build an ideal family.
The best way to receive the Holy
Blessing is with someone from another race,
nationality or religion. I call this an exchange
marriage. This contributes to the enormous task of
transcending the barriers of race, culture,
ethnicity and religion and creating one family of
humankind. In God's sight, skin color makes no
difference. God does not stand behind the barriers
of religion and culture. They are nothing more than
the Devil's tricks. He has used them to rule over
humanity as a false parent for tens of thousands of
years.
Imagine two
enemy families who have cursed each
other throughout their lives, people who would never
dream of living together. What would happen if these
families were joined together through an exchange
Holy Marriage Blessing? Would the parents in two
such families curse their son and daughter who
became husband and wife, loved each other and built
a happy home? If the son were to love the beautiful
daughter of a hated enemy, and she were to become
their daughter-in-law and give birth to Heaven's
grandchildren as pure and clear as crystal, the
grandparents would smile with pleasure. In time the
lineages, once soaked with enmity, would be
transformed.
What method other than exchange
marriage will empower whites and blacks, Jews and
Muslims. Orientals and Westerners-people of all
races-to live as one human family? The ideal family
is the model for living together in peace. The ideal
family is the nest where we live and learn to become
one. There we have the foundation of love and
respect between parents and children. shared trust
and love between husband and wife. and mutual
support among siblings. For this fundamental reason,
you should receive the Holy Marriage Blessing from
the True Parents and establish Heaven's tradition of
ideal families.
A Life of True Love
Let me reiterate: To resemble God.
the original being of true love. we should become
the owners of true love. We should embody true love
and practice it in order to develop our character.
This is the way each of us can become true parents.
Then, what is a life of true love'?
True love is the spirit of public service. It brings
the peace that is at the root of happiness. Selfish
love is a mask for the desire to have one's partner
exist for one's own sake; true love is free of that
corruption. Rather, its essence is to give, to live
for the sake of others and for the sake of the
whole. True love gives, forgets that it has given,
and continues to give without ceasing. True love
gives joyfully. We find it in the joyful and loving
heart of a mother who cradles her baby in her arms
and nurses it at her breast. True love is
sacrificial
love. as with a
devoted son who gains his greatest
satisfaction in helping his parents. God created the
universe out of just such love absolute, unique,
unchanging and eternal - investing everything
without expectation or the condition of receiving
something in return.
True love is the wellspring of the
universe. Once a person possesses it, true love
makes him or her the center and the owner of the
universe. True love is the root of God and a symbol
of His will and power. When we are bound together
in true love, we can be together forever,
continually increasing in the joy of each other's
company. The attraction of true love brings all
things in the universe to our feet; even God will
come to dwell with us. Nothing can compare to the
value of true love. It has the power to dissipate
the barriers fallen human beings created including
national boundaries and the barriers of race and
even religion.
The main attributes of true love are
that it is absolute. unique. unchanging and eternal,
so whoever practices God's true love will live with
God, share His happiness and enjoy the right to
participate as an equal in His work. Therefore, a
life lived for the sake of others, a life of true
love. is the absolute prerequisite for
entering the kingdom of heaven.
Respected leaders. you are now living
in an age of Blessing Marriage. God's promises are
coming to fruition. The kingdom of heaven on earth,
the kingdom of peace that is God's ideal of
creation. is being established before
your eyes. My life of more than eighty years, this
lonely path trod solely for Heaven and stained with
blood, sweat, and tears, is now bearing victorious
fruit for the sake of the world's six billion
people. From the spirit world, the founders of the
world's religions, tens of thousands of saints and
your own good ancestors are watching your every
move. Whoever, therefore, strays from the heavenly
path will be punished accordingly.
In more than 180 countries,
Ambassadors for Peace who have inherited Heaven's
will and tradition are making serious effort, day
and night, to proclaim the values of true love and
true family. They are moving forward with full force
to establish the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal
world on this earth. In the Middle East, one of the
world's tinderboxes, Jews. Christians and Muslims
have found the resources in my philosophy of peace
to
engage in a new
dimension of dialogue. In past decades my
Unification Thought played a decisive role in ending
the Cold War. Now I am successfully leading
behind-the-scenes efforts to bring about the
reunification of my homeland of Korea.
But I am not yet satisfied, because I
began my life's work at the command of Heaven. I
have come as the True Parent of humankind with God's
anointing and I am determined to keep my promise to
Him. I am determined to obliterate all national
divisions and barriers that have poisoned the earth
and to establish the peace kingdom, where all people
everywhere can live hand in hand.
Respected Ambassadors for Peace, I
believe you have learned many things through the
message from God that I am conveying to you today.
Humanity continues to drift aimlessly and needs your
help more than ever as people representing Heaven.
Please take this opportunity to make a new
determination to be Heaven's envoys prepared to
uphold Heaven's command. With this in mind, I would
like to summarize the message I have given today, so
that we can all take the mission given to us by
Heaven and inscribe it deep within our hearts.
What did I say was lost by the Fall
of
Adam and Eve, who were created as God's children?
First, the realm of the lineage given
to us by God was lost. The bloodline is the most
special among all special rights that parents pass
on to their children. By the Fall. Adam and Eve
received the false lineage of
Satan and
descended to the level of Satan's children. We must
understand with certainty that all human beings
today, without exception, regardless of who they may
be, are the descendents of
the
Fall who have inherited the lineage of Satan. When
God created Adam and Eve, He invested His entire
being. 100 percent, and created them on the standard
of absolute love, absolute faith, and absolute
obedience. He gave them His lineage as the seed for
their love and life.
So from this moment, you are in a
different position. The path has been opened wide
for you to change your lineage through the Holy Wine
Ceremony handed down by the True Parents and be
Blessed, either as a newlywed couple or as an
already married couple, so that you may establish
true families.
Second, the realm of siblings was
lost by the Fall when, in the family of Adam, the
older brother Cain killed his younger brother Abel.
God's original structure and blessing was that
siblings in a family would lead a life of love and
harmony, but this was degraded to the level of an
enemy relationship of envy and resentment.
This is the reason that humanity
needs to complete the restoration of lineage through
the worldwide exchange marriages led by Rev. Moon.
Then Abel, who is comparatively closer to Heaven's
side, establishes the position of the older brother
in the subject-partner position. This would
establish the original family structure
Ladies and gentlemen, because I have
spent my life discovering and disclosing these
secrets of Satan, it was inevitable that I would
face persecution and suffering so intense as to be
indescribable in words. Now, however, I have been
victorious over all obstacles, and I have declared
the time after the coming of heaven, when the power
of Heaven becomes manifest. On this foundation. I am
building an Abel realm on the world
level that brings together religions and nations
representing 70 percent of the current global
population. To create a Cain realm on the world
level, I am bringing together all those born with
the Mongolian birth mark, which includes some 74
percent of the world's population.
Now these two, the worldwide Abel
realm and the worldwide Cain realm, must become one
and become as one body with the Universal Peace
Federation, which has been initiated in the position
of an Abel kingdom. To establish the kingdom of the
peaceful, ideal world on earth, all national
boundaries and other barriers must be removed on a
level that transcends religion and nationality. I
would like to remind you that this is how all
humankind will be able to enter the world of the
original ideal of creation. It is our destiny to
fulfill the responsibility of establishing the
original right of ownership lost by the Fall of Adam
and Eve.
Please remember that now is the time
when the Abel realm, which is on the side of Heaven,
must digest the Cain realm on a cosmic level. Then
we can make a new beginning toward establishing "a
new heaven and a new earth"-or the kingdom of God on
earth and in heaven-with Heaven's complete
authority.
A Project for Peace
Leaders from around the world, let me
take the opportunity provided by today's
distinguished forum to reiterate my proposal for a
truly providential and revolutionary project. For
the sake of peace and human welfare, and also for
building God's fatherland and original hometown. I
propose that we build a passage for transit across
the Bering Strait, that remnant of Satan's
historical division between east and west, and north
and
south, and where the North American
and Russian land masses are separated.
This passage, which I call the World
Peace King Bridge-Tunnel, will link an international
highway system that will allow people to travel on
land from Africa's Cape of Good Hope to Santiago,
Chile, and from London to New York, across the
Bering Strait, connecting the world as a single
community.
God is warning that He will no longer
tolerate separation and division. Carrying out this
project will bind the world together as one village.
It will tear down the manmade walls of race,
culture, religion and country, and establish the
kingdom of the peaceful. ideal world that has been
God's cherished desire.
The United States and Russia can
become as one. The European continent, China, India,
Japan, Brazil and all nations, and also all the
world's religions, can combine their energies to
succeed in this project. The success of this project
will be decisive in establishing a peace kingdom
where people will no longer make war with each
other.
Ladies and gentlemen, some may doubt
that such a project can be completed. But where
there is a will, there is always a way, especially
if it is the will of God. The science and technology
of-the 21st century render it possible to
construct a tunnel under the Bering Strait. The
construction costs are also not a problem. Think of
how much money the world is wasting on war. Humanity
needs to realize that we are committing fearful sins
in the presence of history and our descendants. Let
us take one example. How much money has the United
States spent on the war in Iraq during the past
three years? It is approaching $200 billion. That
budget would be more than enough to complete the
Bering Strait project.
War is the most primitive and
destructive means of resolving conflict and will
never lead to lasting peace. Now is the time, as
the prophet Isaiah taught, to beat our swords into
ploughshares and spears into pruning hooks.
Humankind should end the perverse cycle of
sacrificing our children's lives and squandering
astronomical sums of money to fight wars. The time
has come for the countries of the world to pool
their resources and advance toward the kingdom of
the peaceful, ideal world desired by God, the master
of this great universe.
Ladies and gentlemen, humanity is
traveling down a dead-end street. The only way to
survive is to practice the peace philosophy of true
love, true life and true lineage taught by Reverend
Moon. Now that we have entered the age after the
coming of heaven, your good ancestors are activated
and the heavenly hosts are sweeping down upon the
earth. Soon the countries and peoples that appear
strong and mighty will change course and shift in
this direction.
Our Mission
I leave you with a choice. There can
be no perfection in ignorance. The message from
Heaven that I convey to you today is both a blessing
and a warning to this generation. I, Reverend Moon.
will take the lead in establishing true families,
true societies, true nations and a true kingdom of
the peaceful, ideal world. Will you join with me as
I rise and gain strength in accordance with heavenly
fortune? Or will you remain captive behind the same
old walls, all of them Satan's handiwork - the wall
of your religion, the wall of your culture, the wall
of your nationality and the wall of your race - and
spend the remainder of your time on earth in agony
and regret? Heaven is summoning you to be the wise
leaders who will set aright this world of evil and
establish a new heaven and new earth, a new culture
and ideal kingdom.
Today we are participating in the
inauguration of the Universal Peace Federation. It
represents God's victory, the fruit of the True
Parents' blood, sweat and tears, and the world's
cherished hope. It will carry out the role of an
Abel-type kingdom in relation to the existing United
Nations. building a realm of universal peace known
as Cheon Il Guk. Think of the peacekeeping,
role of the United Nations in the past. Sometimes
it withdrew its forces even before their mission was
completed. The Korean War was a good example.
Under the banner of the Universal Peace Federation,
we will serve as the peace kingdom police force and
the peace kingdom corps to safeguard peace for the
new world. I hope that you will put on new, true
love armor in this new age and be wise and brave
activists in this peace kingdom corps for heaven and
earth, for the sake of humanity's future.
Please inscribe this warning from
Heaven deep in your hearts. Remember that the only
wav to inherit Heaven's lineage is by establishing
the realm of liberation and complete amnesty through
the Holy Marriage Blessing established by the True
Parents. Furthermore, the Holy Marriage Blessing
provides the means to establish God's ideal family
and peace kingdom.
In closing, I ask you to devote your
best efforts for the development and success of the
Universal Peace Federation. Thank you.
