In this year's motto, you
may not clearly understand the meaning of the words
"internal and external." By them, I mean the internal
kingdom of God and the external kingdom of God. Cheon Il
Guk refers to a nation (guk) in which two people have
become one (il). (A combination of the Chinese
characters for "two" and "person" forms the character
for "Heaven" (cheon).) The unity of two people as one
signifies the unity of mind and body, of man and woman,
of parents and children and of heaven and earth with
God. When I say internal and external, "internal" refers
to God, and "external" refers to True Parents.
That is why the full
version of the two abbreviated words would be the
internal era of the kingdom of cosmic peace and unity.
Do you understand? That is what it mean. The internal
nation, Cheon Il Guk, is the kingdom of peace, but this
internal world cannot be perfected on its own. It can
only be perfected through Cheon Il Guk in the external
world. Since the body is the external part, and because
heaven and the earth were destroyed because of this
body, we now have to speak of it separately, by
referring to it as the internal and the external. It is
the internal and external Cheon Il Guk. Do you
understand?
So when you speak of Cheon
Il Guk, you are actually speaking of the cosmos, heaven
and earth. Heaven and earth have not been united in
peace. All that was created exists in pairs, but have
not been united as one. That is why there is lamentation
among the all created beings. They were not united as
one. Did I say something about peace and unity? The time
of the kingdom is here!
How is this going to
happen? During the past four years of the kingship of
Cheon Il Guk, you were unable to practice filial piety
toward True Parents, even after calling upon your
ancestors in the spiritual world. Not only that; you did
not become families of filial piety. Only when you
represent families of sons and daughters of filial
piety, then families of patriots of nations, then
families of saints and sages within the world, and
finally families of holy sons and daughters in heaven
and on earth, and make a clean sweep on earth of the
history of grief and resentment called indemnity, can
you establish the internal kingdom of cosmic peace and
unity and unite the two as one, turning the world around
as a result.
The spirit world is made
up of ancestors. These ancestors could never receive the
blessing because they had inherited the bloodline of the
archangel. However, through True Parents on earth, they
were able to receive the blessing. The descendants who
inherited the blood of the archangel in the time before
the coming of heaven passed into the spirit world and
became the ancestors. Originally, the blessing of
ancestors in the spirit world would never have been
possible.
True Parents then came to
earth. They have transcended nations and the world. And
they lost four of their children through the law of
indemnity. Because it was still the time of the history
of restoration through indemnity, through which the lost
children of God were to be restored-the lost Eve, the
lost Adam, the lost Jesus, and even the lost family of
the Lord of the Second Coming-Father was supposed to
complete this work within his generation, while he was
still in his forties. He was to turn heaven and earth
completely upside down and establish the unified world
of the kingship of peace. However, Father was
unsuccessful in accomplishing this, so he had to
accomplish all this forty years after the conclusion of
the World War II, after the sixtieth birthday of Mother
and before she turned sixty-two.
Centering on the number
60, at this time when we are surmounting the sixty years
and the fourth year of Cheon Il Guk, can we finally
welcome the heavenly world? The number 4 is the number
of Satan. The numbers 3 and the number 4; 3 is the
number of man, and 4 is the number of the woman. Only
when these two come together and form a family can they
achieve the number 7.
Taking Adam's family as an
example, there would be the grandfather and grandmother
couple, the father and mother couple, my spouse and I,
and the families of my sons and daughters. Therefore
there would be eight members in Adam's family and eight
members in Noah's family. Yet, since neither of them
could stand before God by themselves, the number must be
indemnified. Unless we pass from number 6 to number 7
and on to number 8, centering on the number 8, and from
number 9 to number 12 centering on number 8, there can
be no beginning of liberation.
That is why in the history
of humanity, there have been many cases of people
undergoing all kinds of hardships, and being on the
verge of death-billions of times. However, even in those
times the central figures died and were resurrected;
they were resurrected and then passed away again and
were saved right on the brink of death. You must know
this clearly. This was why there have been many such
incidences in history, including the time Abraham was
ready to kill his son Isaac with a knife in order to
offer him as a sacrifice, before God ordered him not to
kill his son.
All of you here today must
complete, in your generation, the duties of the
children. Until now you have not fulfilled your moral
obligations as children to your parents, as patriots to
the nation, as saints and sages of the world and as holy
sons and daughters before Heaven. Though all of you have
received the blessing, you are acting individually. We
are now on the world stage. This is no longer in the era
of the family. Being on the world stage, we must be
unified beyond anything else, so that we need not be
ashamed in front of anyone.
Each of you, during your
lifetime, must work hard with God to restore what was
lost in the Garden of Eden. In so doing, as
representatives connected through one bloodline, as one
family, you must form families of sons and daughters of
filial piety, patriots, saints and sages, and holy sons
and daughters, centering on the duties of sons and
daughters on my behalf, on behalf of True Parents. Then,
on the foundation of liberation and freedom, True
Parents would be able to claim as their own, heaven and
earth, in which there would be no barriers, boundaries
or borderlines between families, nations, races or
valleys-in fact, between any earthly places. The
liberated heaven and earth must then be connected
through the bloodline of love, in which your families,
nations and heaven and earth can be united as one, and
can take an active part, on the foundation of liberation
and freedom.
You must remember that
only then can the kingdom of heaven on earth and in
heaven be liberated, and from the position of not being
able to serve God, we will be able to establish the
restored and perfected reign of peace and prosperity
that will continue for ever and ever, and the time will
come when we can shout "eog mansei" and praise God in
this era of peace and tranquility. Do you understand?
[Yes.]
That is why you must keep
in mind that it is each individual that has to perfect
the kingdom of cosmic peace and unity, and it is each
individual who has to perfect the kingship of Cheon Il
Guk. It is your family. You must know this. Your
families! You and your families must all fulfill this
responsibility. That is why you must live based on the
Family Pledge. Our Family Pledge is not something that
should be recited by Rev. Moon alone. It is not God who
to say the Family Pledge. It is for you to recite, you
must understand. Since I have removed any burdens that
might hinder you from fulfilling the Family Pledge, and
bequeathed it to you, you must thoroughly reorganize
yourselves on earth through the Family Pledge so that
you are free from burden.
From East to West, if
Father were to visit twelve nations in one day,
regardless of the skin color-be it black or white-of the
citizens, he would be unable to find one place that is
like the Garden of Eden before the fall of Adam's
family. He would not be able to find a place where God
would be able to rest peacefully and which God could
claim as His own and then sleep freely. He wouldn't find
a place where the people would be ready to serve Him for
as long as He would stay, even if it were longer than
three years. The question is, will you establish such a
tradition to prepare to attend God, transcending all
nations-beyond Japan, beyond Korea and beyond the United
States? True Parents are asking you, from the bottom of
our hearts, to cherish this in your mind forever and
ever; only by doing so will you be able to fulfill this
year's motto, "Let Us Complete the Ideal of the Internal
and External Cheon Il Guk."
Let's stand up and say
good night.
[Everyone offers a bow to
True Parents]
We'll use the word
"Transcendent" for the first three days. You can leave
it out after that. What this signifies is that we have
reached a new level. After passing through the three
eras of the cosmos, heaven and earth, and heaven, earth
and humankind, we were finally able to unite in harmony,
and prepare the origin of love through which we can love
our beloved sons and daughters, and our lineage. So we
will use the word for three days, representing
formation, growth and perfection, and then leave it out.
It would be the same whether we leave it out, use it
forever or add the word a hundred times over. So keep in
mind that the word is there, it has just been left out.
All we have to do is prepare the foundation of life upon
which we can live with God, who transcends the natural
world and transcends the universe, as soon as possible,
so that we can leave out the word "transcendent"
forever! Let us say Amen! "Amen!" (Applause)
