統一教-繼承神的真愛

Chapter Four

The Human Course

Section 1. The Purpose that We Desire

God does not have a body. So God revealed Himself through all of creation as His body, and Adam as His face. This is the ideal of creation.

Originally, God is the spiritual focal point and Adam is the physical focal point. These two focal points form a 90-degree angle. This is God’s purpose of creation and the purpose that people desire. Had Adam and Eve not fallen, they would have occupied the positions of father and mother eternally in the spirit world. Because they fell, they could not do this. Had there been no human fall, everyone could have gone to Heaven simply by attending their parents as though they were attending God. (119-109, 1982.7.4)

Section 2. Why We Are Born

This created world is round everywhere: the sun, the earth, and the stars; everything is created round. Even our mouth, if we analyze it, is round. No matter what, everything is created that way. Then, the universe makes relationships by going around and around, making circular movements. Even if one individual thing has a round shape, it does not exist by itself individually but makes a relational connection with the whole.

Then, why are we born? We are born to beat in rhythm with this vast universe. Ocean waves lapping against the shore lap against our hearts as well. Gentle breezes sighing serenely lull our hearts into serenity. Flowers in bloom release rich fragrances and stir the fragrances in our hearts. (104-122, 1979.4.22)

If we are born, raised, live and die in love, then we can be grateful for our birth, life and death. You were all born, because you participated in the place where your father and mother expressed the utmost love for each other. You were participants in that love.

Since you were born through your parents’ love, you consider yourselves born as flags planted by your parents’ love. These flags flutter to express love. We are meant to live for the sake of love throughout our lives. So you should wave the flag of love for your mother, wave the flag of love when you see your father, and wave the flag of love for your siblings. (103-258, 1979.2.25)

Section 3. The Importance of the Moment

Your living body cannot be perfected unless your entire existence becomes a foothold for absorbing nutrients. This phenomenon occurs in the natural world. The crossroads of life do not appear over a long period of time but in a single moment.

People who ignore the moment cannot obtain anything precious. Nor can they become great people, or inherit God’s throne and crown. So, to make each moment shine, you should exercise care with each word you utter, each action you take, and even each thought you have. Deal with life and solve problems, believing that the contents of your daily life will all remain as phenomena in relationship to the world. That is the only way the realm of victory is determined.

It is in the moment that the realm of victory is determined. It is the same with the historical realm of victory and the cosmic realm of victory. Those who live with unlimited values capable of making each moment shine brightly can become great people, even saints or God’s sons and daughters. In this way, the junction of life and death is crossed in a single moment. (31-218, 1970.5.31)

Today, our attitude is the problem. Of course, it is necessary to first desire the coming of the Kingdom and wish for the Will to be done. Yet, what is more important is how we ourselves can personally become one with God’s will.

If we refer to a particular hour, it is more important to ask how that hour can be spent to bring ourselves into a greater oneness with the Will than it is to desire the Kingdom of God be accomplished. So we must first create environments as individuals, families, tribes and peoples that will enable us to inherit God’s will. Only then can we establish a relationship with God’s Kingdom. Then, with God at the center, how do we make a relationship with the Will in this one hour - if you are given an hour - within the sphere of your daily living? This is a very important question.

Looking at the history of the providence of restoration, there were four thousand years from Adam’s family through Noah’s, Abraham’s and Moses’ families down to Jesus’ family. The failures that occurred during this course did not happen over the span of, say, a year. In Adam’s family, the Fall of Adam and Eve was not something planned out and put into action over the span of a year or a decade or even several decades. Their mistakes happened in a flash. When we think about how that failure of one moment has been perpetuated over eons of time, we can understand the fearfulness and dreadfulness of that instant.

Due to the failure of that one moment, so many people who walked the path of righteousness in the course of history had to undergo untold suffering, and many races that could not follow the Will fell into the abyss of destruction. All these became a source of a tremendous indemnity offering. When we understand this, we see how fearful a single hour that we just let tick by can be. Even the eternal Kingdom of Heaven does not exist apart from the single moment.

Eternity does not start when we die. It continues on from the moment we come to know God’s Will. Here, if there is a leap in the relationship of time or an abyss created for even an instant, eternity will be interrupted.

So while walking the path of faith in the course of your lives, do not procrastinate by deferring your providential responsibilities from this year to the next, and then to the year after that, or from your 20s to your 30s, your 30s to your 40s, or your youth to your 40s and to your 50s. You should not live this way. People with such a lifestyle will die without having lived even one day during their lifetimes being in oneness with the Will. They cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven.

However wonderful a country you may live in, you cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven if you were unable to live even one day by a victorious standard; you cannot enter the eternal world if you failed to live even one year victoriously. So, while it is important for believers to dream of eternity in their lives, it is even more important for them to eradicate evil and become the standard-bearers of goodness in the real world. This is what is most important.

From this perspective, Adam’s failure in the moment resulted in eons of anguish. In Adam’s family, Cain and Abel were to have dissolved the anguish of their parents, demolished the wall between the brothers and created the starting point for a family of oneness. But the death of Abel, who had been established as the representative of the providence of restoration, was also an incident that happened in a moment’s time.

Also in the course of Noah, who toiled 120 to build the ark, it was in just one brief moment that God issued the command, “Go into the ark, for the day has come to fulfill my desire.” Those who followed this order could receive the blessings of the eternal God; those who did not were buried in a realm of eternal judgment.

It was the same with Abraham. God’s promise that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sands on the seashore was bestowed in just a single moment. Abraham’s sacrificial offering did not require decades but rather a mere day’s work. The time it took him to cut the offering and place it on the altar was not more than an hour, yet that single hour historically bore the seeds of all life and death, curse and blessing.

People of faith today should not fear the coming of a day of judgment in the Last Days but worry, instead, about how to connect the time that is given them in their daily lives to the Will of God and how to form an intersection between their lives and the Will. (37-217, 1970.12.27)

Section 4. Infancy and Three Orderly Stages

If God created Adam and Eve, how did He do it? If He created them from the soil, what kind of soil was it? Where did He begin? Which part of the body did He create first? We cannot think that God created them as adults. He created them as babies. Without the notion that God went through the same process as a mother who conceives a child in her womb, gives birth to it and then nourishes it, we cannot logically explain the formation of all existence through the three orderly stages of growth. So Adam and Eve must have had a period when they were infants. Later, they went through a growth stage. This is heavenly principle. Then, there must have been a completion stage.

What was Adam and Eve’s infancy like? We must proceed from the concept that the invisible God nurtured and raised a baby that was able to go through a process extending from the world without form to the world with form. (225-198, 1992.1.20)

Section 5. Our Life Course

Since the society, nation and world in which we live are far from ideal, all manner of suffering occurs, and good and evil are at cross-purposes. If we were to look at a hundred people, we would find them all struggling against their surroundings and pushing against their environment in an effort to carry on their daily lives.

Our experience in our daily lives tells us that no one can be confident that daily tasks planned in the morning will be accomplished during that day. The wider the environment in which we work, the greater the drive and determination that is needed to bring a victorious conclusion to the life of a single day. If these are lacking, the day cannot be a day of victory. Such days turn into months and months into years.

We lack the environment to live even one month according to our plan. To bring about victory for a month, we need the drive and determination necessary to breakthrough all the complicated situations and circumstances contained within that month. Otherwise, we cannot carry out our plan for the month in victory.

Getting through a year successfully requires us to be equipped with a fighting spirit or driving force that can thrust aside all the challenges of each and every one of its 365 days. Otherwise, we cannot celebrate that year victoriously. If we live a year like that, and continue in this vein, it will eventually add up to ten, and then twenty, and then thirty years, and that eventually becomes our life course. (31-30, 1970.4.12)

People living on earth today cannot escape from the constraints of time. That has been true throughout history. Individuals, families, tribes, people, nations and the world all move within the realm of time.

Wherever people live, there are always purposes to accomplish. We need to live our lives with those purposes at the center for ten, twenty, thirty, seventy years and, indeed, our entire lives. The greater our goal, the stronger our internal commitment needs to be. Otherwise, we will not accomplish those purposes. Unless we maintain an internal determination that surpasses the goal through the process called time, the goal will be unattainable. (31-149, 1970.5.24)

Section 6. The Original Homeland

You may not know of the reality of the spirit world, but I enjoy the special benefit from God of having a clear insight into that unknown world. When I went down to the fundamental level of that world, I found it is based on simple principles. It is a world that can only be entered by those who live for the sake of others, which is God’s principle for heaven and earth. The world structured along these lines is the ideal heavenly kingdom.

That place is the original homeland that humankind must seek. Today, although we are exiles from our original homeland and live in a fallen life, we are destined to return there. God had to create a path for this in the course of history because we could not do so by our own efforts.

This is why God raised up many different religions. They are training grounds through which He has been directing all people along that path, whatever their race, cultural background, customs and traditions. Religions are the training grounds for training people to become eligible to return to the original homeland. Taking into account the diverse cultural backgrounds ranging across the four directional quadrants, God is leading humanity toward a unified world of religion that can progress upward onto higher ground.

If religions are to guide people to such a homeland, what should they teach? They must teach people to live for the sake of others. The more highly developed a religion is, the more it should emphasize this principle. So these religions teach their adherents to be gentle and meek, to stand in a position to elevate others and live for their sake, and to serve them sacrificially. All this serves to instill discipline in us to abide by the laws of the Kingdom of Heaven. (78-117, 1975.5.6)

Section 7. The Loftiest Path in Life

What should be our life path? It is the path of possessing God’s love. Possessing God’s love is life’s highest and final destination. Men must go this path, and women must go as well. Everyone must go this way.

Our life path is to seek the God of infinite love. The loftiest path for our lives is the path that seeks God’s love by crossing over the peaks of death tens and even hundreds of times, and continuing in that search even after death.

What is the endpoint of our desires? It is to possess God’s love. Even if we possess God, however, if this does not let us possess a more precious love than we already have, then we cannot say that God is our God. So we need to come to possess God’s love. If we possessed only God’s love, then it would be all right even if He were not present. Once we have His love, then what is His becomes ours and ours becomes His, and the internal and the external become as one for the first time. A nation based on such love becomes an ideal homeland without higher and lower classes.

When we lie in that place of love, we feel that there is nothing under the sun that does not appear good and that does not exist for our sake. Since God’s love is like that, the heavenly world, which is humankind’s destination, namely the Kingdom of Heaven, is a place filled with love. (39-210, 1971.1.10)

Section 8. Standards for Birth and Life

8.1. The wrong standard of birth

People in today’s world may boast that they are high and important, or tell you about their academic degrees, but they don’t realize that they were misbegotten at birth. They do not know that they were born with the love, life and lineage of Satan, God’s enemy. This is a serious problem.

Due to the human fall, people have been born from Satan’s love, which was passed down to them through their parents. Satan’s blood was flowing in the life of our mothers, and in the life of our fathers, and that blood now flows in each person. Each person is a fruit of these three.

For this reason, each of you belongs to the linage of Satan. In other words, You could say that Satan’s blood is running through your veins. So Satan bears his ideal fruit automatically, while God strives to redeem those very men and women and transform them into the pure and perfect people of the original vision. Your beginning was in Satan’s love. You were born from his lineage.

The beginning was wrong. Since the beginning was wrong, you must return to the original point. So we are going to go back, but exactly where do we go back to? We need to go back to the origin. As we originated from false parents, we need to return and start anew from true parents. How serious is this? It is imperative to inherit God’s love, life and lineage afresh.

That is why, when you receive the Blessing, you undergo a ceremony for changing your lineage. You must believe in this more than your own life. Just because it is a Unification Church ceremony, you should not think of it as some ordinary ritual. It is like a wonder drug, an antidote, to restore the dead back to life.

Our ancestors made a mistake. Because of this, countless people throughout the course of human history have suffered as a result. Knowing this, we cannot go that same path again. Never again! We paid a ghastly price throughout history for having perpetuated illicit love in the fallen spiritual and physical worlds, with far-reaching consequences for individuals, families, societies, nations and the world. (216-109, 1991.3.9)

8.2. The standard of our life course

When I say life here, I mean eternal life. I am not referring only to the spirit world, but to a life to live for eternity. Each individual was created to be an object partner of God’s love. You are the object partner of the absolute God, who is subject. You are His partner in love. God cherishes the notion of true love more than He values Himself. He is the absolute and eternal center of life. His ideal is even more eternal and the center of that ideal is true love. The partner of that love is you.

The attribute of love is that it brings subject and object partners into oneness. Such love can make a nation be as one. In this partnership, one partner can accompany the other in any position and follow unconditionally. You can inherit God’s entire fortune and even His entire heart. I went through a miserable course to discover this, and now stand on that foundation. It is sublime and lofty and cannot be exchanged for anything: it is an amazing grace.

For that reason, I stand in the same position with God. I share the eternal position of true love. The spirit world is in a different dimension from this limited earthly world. We cannot move freely within mundane confines, but as the spirit world is a higher-dimensional place, you can do anything there; you can leap across time. If your desire for something has love at its center, you can have anything at anytime and anywhere.

We were originally created as eternal beings. If we become eternal beings of true love and go to the spirit world, we will be free. The first standard of life is the standard of good and evil, the second is the original starting point, and the third is eternal life. (216-115, 1991.3.9)

Chapter 5:

The Corporeal World and Incorporeal Worlds

Section 1. Prayers Relating to the Life Course

“Beloved Heavenly Father, I thank You for the grace by which you have protected me from childhood, as I fought to prevent the possibility that Heaven might suffer the shame of humiliation.

Among all the good things on this earth, nothing can be more precious than to connect to Your original heart. We must yearn infinitely for that relationship. We must realize that those who experience Your love will find themselves in a place where they could forfeit all else in this world and feel no regret. We must prepare today on earth for the day of our birth as a liberated child endowed with the right to be free in our third life. (49-308, 1971.10.17)

Loving Father, we know that in order to greet the new spring, we must possess the relationships with which our lives can be in harmony and then let ourselves be completely absorbed into these. It is only then that we can greet the spring season and bloom as beautiful blossoms. We must not become pitiful souls who, when asked whether we have ever greeted a spring season in our lives, are unable to reply in the affirmative. (32-37, 1970.6.14)

Father, help us to understand that those who lack the heart to attend You and bow down humbly to You will be unable to have a connection to You in that eternal world. Let us open the doors of our hearts to feel Your heart; let us today hear Your voice welling up from the depths of our hearts so that we may regain our lost selves. Help us to appreciate Your historical course of toil and trouble to find each one of us, that we may humbly bow our heads before You. (4-280, 1958.9.14)

Section 2: Understanding death

On the earth we have parents, teach­ers and relatives. We have ways to estab­lish such relationships on the earth, but not in the spirit world. In the spirit world, everyone lives for the whole, with God at the center. All positions are differentiated. Thus, those in higher position cannot descend to a lower position, and it is difficult for those in lower positions to go to higher positions. Originally, we were to have gone to the spirit world only after becoming complete while on earth. Once we enter that world, there is no returning to the physical world. Everyone is destined to die

Our life course is too short. Life is too short. Even a life span of eighty years is too short. It is not even eight hours in spirit world time. In terms of the concept of time in the eternal world, it’s not even eight hours. That is why the power of true love is great. True love transcends time and space, and moves at a speed that is beyond our comprehension. (205-65, 1990.7.7)

Without a doubt, spirit world exists. It surely exists, and since we were born from the spirit world, we must return there. There is an interesting phrase in Korean. I am referring to the phrase tora-ganda (meaning “to go back,” but also meaning “to die”). Where do we go back to? Going to a cemetery cannot be considered going back. We go back to our place of origin. We didn’t start out in a cemetery. The phrase implies that we go back beyond the most distant origins of history. It means to return across the vast expanses of history, even beyond its origin.

For a person to “go back” does not mean that if he is born as a Korean he then goes back as a Korean. Although you may be a Korean when you die, this is not a path of going back as a Korean. We go back to the original world of our human ancestors. What does this mean? It means that, if there is a Creator, we will go back to the place where this Creation resides. That is where we came from, so that is where we return.

The universe is engaged in circular motion. When the snow on the mountains melts, it flows down through narrow valleys and through many streams and rivers into the ocean. Once it is in the ocean, it evaporates and returns to complete its cycle. Everything circulates. In a similar way, when we go back, where do we return to? We go back to a place where we can be higher, a place where we can be happier. No one wants to become smaller. All the laws of motion of the natural world, however, dictate that things diminish through work. Wherever there is work, things diminish. When we roll something, it will not keep rolling forever. It starts out fast, but slows down and finally stops. (141-269, 1986.3.2)

We live in this world, but it is not the only world that exists. There is also the spirit world. This earthly world and the spirit world are not two completely separate worlds. They are connected as one world. Then where is the place where we are to go, the place where we are to live? Of course, we are on earth now, living in our physical bodies, but we are moving toward the eternal world. People are born into this world, and pass through their teens, 20s, 30s, middle age, and then old age. When we pass the time of our youth and enter middle age, we pass over one hill, and then eventually we go into old age. Finally, we end our lives like the setting sun.

Those who know the existence of the spir­it world, however, realize that a lifetime is but a fleeting moment and that an eternal world awaits us after death. For this reason, these people live their lives on earth as a time to prepare themselves for that world of eternity. (140-121, 1986.2.9)

The word “death” invites under­standing of the meaning of life. Who knows the value of life well? Those who seek to live do not. This can be known only by someone who has risked his life to stand on the crossroads of life and death, as he clings to Heaven and implores that he be shown the value of life. (74-242, 1974.12.31)

That being the case, should people welcome death, or not? They should wel­come it. If you are about to die, and someone asks you what you die for, you should be able to answer: “I die for the sake of God’s true love.” We discard our physical bodies to partici­pate in the realm of activity of God’s infinite love and for the sake of God’s world of love.

To die is to be born in God’s love, and in this world, we see that people will sometimes say in exaggeration, “Oh, I think I’m going to die.” Death is a moment of joy; it is the moment when you go from a realm of limited love to a realm of infinite love. Therefore, the moment of death is the moment of your second birth.

Then, would God be joyful about the day of birth of your physical body, or would He be joyful about the hour you are born as a son who is to act for the sake of love in the second, infinite world? You might wonder why I talk about such things. You cannot establish a relationship with God without liberat­ing yourselves from the fear of death. (116-172, 1982.1.1)

Section 3: The Three Stages of Our Lives

People go through the stag­es of formation, growth, and comple­tion during the course of our lives. We go through the realm of water in our mother’s womb, then the realm of the earthly world on planet Earth, and finally the aerial realm in heaven. In other words, people go through three periods: the period of water in the womb, the period of being born and living a hundred years on this earth, and then the period of flying in the aerial world. (116-174, 1982.1.1)

People are born in the depths of water. The period in the womb is the period of existing in water. When the fetus is inside the mother’s womb, it is floating in fluid. It has to breathe in and exhale the fluid, and it lives by way of a hose con­nected to its mother’s womb. How is a fetus supplied with nutrients? It is sup­plied through the navel. The navel func­tions as its mouth. So, we should not be disdainful of our navel. Pat your navel and say, “Belly button, thanks for your hard work a long time ago.” Pat your navel often; it will be good for your health. Do it as an exercise. If you exercise this way often, it will make you healthier. Even when you sleep in a cold room, if you cover your navel, you won’t get diarrhea.

In the womb, your navel is your mouth. The breathing organ then moves upward from the navel. What’s the next mouth? It is the mouth that you use for eating. It continues to move upward. Eventually, what should we do with the umbilical cord attached to the navel? We cut it off.

In a similar way, in the world of air, the spirit self is attached to the physical self, like the embryo in the womb, and feeds off the physical body. When the physical body grows old, the spirit self discards the physical body and goes out on its own. In accordance with fundamental principles and laws, the spirit self must be reborn as a person who can relate to the eternal God, who is its spiritual Father.

By being born into the earthly world, the fetus becomes friends with is mother and father. We are born into the earthly world where we can share love with our mothers and fathers. In a similar way, we must eventually be born again into the spirit world, where we can share love with God, our Parent who connects us to the world of spirit that has no bounds. (299-69, 1999.2.4)

What will you develop after coming out of the womb? It is not air but love; you receive elements of love. You cannot just be fed food. If food is the only thing you take in, you will start to die. You should live the second stage of your life. So what do you need to fill yourself with during your life on earth? You must form a new character of love during this period. (139-214, 1986.1.31)

What you need on earth is love. Why do you call a child who lives without the love of a mother and father an “orphan”[1]? It is because the child during his lifetime does not receive the love that can connect him eternally to the spir­it world. This is also the reason we feel pity for people who live alone without marrying. (139-214, 1986.1.31)

Death means to inherit the elements of love after the destruction of the physi­cal organ through which the body has been engaging in the second type of res­piration. Love is invisible. Your internal self is growing through parental love and conjugal love. That is why, just as an embryo should develop in the womb in accordance with God’s laws and principles so that it becomes a normal baby, we must grow in the earthly world in accordance with heavenly principles. (299-69, 1999.2.4)

Dragonflies swim in the water dur­ing their larval stage at first, then come up to the earth and crawl about for a while. Then, by flying around, they prey on bugs that they never would have imagined eating when they were crawling on the surface. They flutter about freely in this universe, thinking that it is their stage.

There are many insects that go through three stages of life. Insects have wings in general. They go through their life living in the water, on land and in the air. Yet do human beings who are called the lord of creation have wings? We have a set of wings that are of a higher dimension. Death is the blessed gateway to our sec­ond birth. What is the meaning of death? Earth­ly life, the time of living in air, parallels the time of swimming in the womb. We are living in a wrapping cloth of air. Death is nothing special; it is only our rebirth into the third life. That moment of transition is what we call death. (299-71, 1999.2.4)

Section 4: The Central Point between the Two Worlds

I imagine you must be very curious about the spirit world. There are many reli­gions in the world and their path is to search out the world where we can live eternally in relation to the spirit world, a world of eternal life, a world where we can live together with God. That world is the destination of religion. However, what has become of religion today? It is on the decline and we have entered an era in which people are concluding that religion is only for the weak, and unnecessary for everyone else, or that it was created by people as a moral idea.

Even Christianity, the central reli­gion, has declined. America represents all the Christian nations of the world, yet those who grew up in American Chris­tian homes have lost their faith and are living according to their own ways. Why are Christians abandoning their reli­gion which idealizes Heaven, the dwell­ing place of God, who is the center of the world and all ideals?

There are three reasons. First, it is because they do not have a clear under­standing of the existence of the spirit world. As we have the innate capacity of comparison, we seek to abandon a bad situation in favor of a better one, ever in search of higher-dimensional realms of greater value. That is original human nature.

Second, it is because they do not know God. Our connection with God was severed as a result of the human fall, and we have lived as orphans.

Third, it is because they do not know that love is central and binds us to both God and the spirit world. They do not know these three points. Even though they might know of God and the spirit world, they do not understand that it is a world with love at its center.

In a place of love, you are happy to go up or down, and even to stay in the middle. Does a wife dislike her beloved husband if he has a higher position in society than her, or does a husband dis­like his beloved wife for being in a lower position than him? When you are one with each other, you can go anywhere, from below to above, and vice versa – you can even stay in the middle. There are no restraints. This is the reason that many people in the world are saying, “This world should become one. It should be unified. It should become a world of peace.” (91-140, 1977.2.6)

The same holds true for the spiri­tual and physical worlds and for spiri­tual and physical beings. God and His love are central to both worlds but not to the fallen people we speak of.

We have a mind and a body, and there are differences between these two. They exist in different dimensions. The mind differs from the spirit world. We speak of the spiritual and physical worlds in terms of God’s love. Accordingly, for these two to form a oneness, God must be involved. Without God’s love being involved, the spirit world cannot exist. It is linked to God.

Peo­ple may think the mind is the spirit, but they are confused about that. The mind is not a part of the spirit world. Due to the human fall, the mind does not have a relationship with the spiritual world. If may be easier for you to understand, if you think of the mind of fallen human beings as being like a person who has no bones in his body. The mind of a fallen person is in a form like a human body that has no bones.

The spirit self has a body-like element and a mind-like element. The part that is like the mind of the spirit self is the spiritual world. It always maintains a relationship with God. So the mind-like element of the spirit self does not come into being without forming a relationship with God. It is important to understand that spirit and mind are two different things. The fallen mind has no relation­ship with God. He has departed from it. God Him­self can neither relate to the fallen mind nor exercise His direct dominion over it. Your mind changes, going one way and then another, but the spiritual world and spiritual beings are not like this. They set one eternal goal, and move steadily in its direction. Why is this so? It is because they stand on God’s side. The mind that resides within us as human beings vacillates.

I’m sure you know this from the Principle, but what is the spirit mind? It is the union of mind and spirit, and it is moving toward its new goal. It is a motivational mind that can make us become our ideal selves by uniting with our conscience, with God at the center. Thus, if we did not have a spirit mind we would be unable to search for its origin which can connect us to the spirit world and true love.

When the spirit mind sprouts up in us, our body is happy and every­thing follows it. Everything starts to become as one automatically. The biggest prob­lem for human beings until now has been the separation of our mind and body. However, when spiritual ener­gy dwells within us and creates the origin of our spirit mind, our mind and body become one naturally. Unless this type of revolution occurs at the root, and unless we discover the origin that can rectify everything from the root, we have no way to find the ideal. There is no result without a motivating cause. The purpose of religion is to implant a spirit mind within us. There are many religions centered on the spirit mind. These appear in all sorts of different forms. (91-142, 1977.2.6)

Section 5: The spirit world clearly exists

God is a majestic being. Hence, the spiritual and physical worlds must become as one. It was because true love never came about that the spirit world and physical world could not become as one body. This caused separation between the mind and body. Also, because true love was not established, there was separation between religion and politics.

Everything comes together as one with true love at the cen­ter. Everything – the individual, family, society, nation, world, and cosmos – will be linked. We have to make it so with our own hands. Otherwise, we cannot inherit God’s original king­dom in heaven and on earth. How do we establish congruence between the spiritual and physical worlds? We make them as one with true love. (216-106, 1991.3.9)

Eighty percent of the world’s popu­lation does not know about the spirit world. Even believers aren’t really sure whether there is a spirit world, or if God really exists. But the spirit world does exist. Think of it this way. Imagine that there is a wealthy person, who wants to build a garden of happiness for himself, and he is willing to invest his entire fortune in this effort. How, then, do you think God, the creator of heaven and earth, went about creating His dwell­ing place?

The spirit world is a world of beauty beyond our imagination. You could stare at just one part of it for a thousand years, and never grow tired of it. The world’s most prized possessions are nothing by comparison to the spirit world. Therefore, I do not want to own things on this earth. If you were to force me to say which I would prefer, I would say this earthly world does not conform to my purpose and I would rather go back. (15-154, 1965.10.7)

Most of the general population even now does not think about the spirit world. They were born, so they live in the family serving their parents. Their thinking is that they will live just the way they were born. What is at the center of such lives? It is about how people can eat and how they can support themselves. That is why people consider food, shel­ter, and clothing to be the most impor­tant elements of life.

The issues of how to support themselves, how to feed themselves, how to clothe themselves are central to most people. Of course, there are contents of morality and morals within human relationships that enable people to improve, develop and find satisfaction together. The standard of that morality var­ies, however, as do races and nations. Moral stan­dards and social systems all vary in accordance with the world’s diverse cul­tural backgrounds.

From this perspective, we see there is a huge difference between the origi­nal standard that people should seek to attain, that is the standard of the original vision, and the standard of ethics and morality that people set for themselves today. These must be made the same. Where is it that we are supposed to go, once we are born and live our lives here based on the original world? People are not clear about this. For this reason, people do not know whether there is a spirit world and whether God exists.

However, people who have studied the Principle clearly know that the spirit world exists. They do not just believe it; they know it. Why is this? They know it through countless spiritual experi­ences. Viewed against the backdrop of the global foundation the Unification Church has established today, we have evidently undergone a process of many spiritual experiences. People who know the Principle are in a position where they cannot say that the spirit world does not exist. (140-122, 1986.2.9)

What path should people who know the Principle go? We must follow the path God desires for us. We must follow the path of God’s will. What is God’s will? There is the path of God’s will that an individual must go and a path of God’s will that a family must go. There are also paths for the society, nation, world, and spirit world. I am the expert on this. The spirit world definitely exists. (121-146, 1982.10.24)

Why is it important that there is a God and there is a spirit world? Some people may think that, even if God exists, we have nothing to do with Him, but they are wrong. For a person to say, “Even if there is a spirit world, it has nothing to do with me,” would be like a person who is the member of a family trying to claim that he doesn’t need the country and doesn’t need the world.

If there were a bigger God and a bigger spirit world, we would want to have a relationship with those greater entities. Just having a relationship is not enough. What do we do in this relationship? We need to become as one. We need to be going toward the same goal. (104-119, 1979.4.22)

The Apostle Paul’s experience of see­ing the third heaven of the spirit world became the driving force empow­ering him in his missionary activities for 14 years. Do you understand this? You need to have such experiences. The same is true for me. (27-128, 1969.11.30)

I don’t fear death. What made me this way? Love did. It doesn’t matter how many times I am put in jail, I can digest that. That is how I have digested and overcome the opposition that has surrounded me. I am overcoming all this with my own hands. (202-27, 1990.5.1)

Section 6: How the spirit world was created

The spirit world is equivalent to the angelic world. Today’s world is in the same position as that of Adam and Eve. God created the spirit world before cre­ating Adam and Eve. Since the satanic world came to exist because the spirit world went against God’s will, that world can be restored only after it welcomes God’s will. Also, the Lord cannot come to the earthly world until the spirit world is sub­jugated. That is why the Unification Church has worked until today to subju­gate the spirit world and, consequently, the spirit world must help the Unifica­tion Church. (25-233, 1969.10.4)

Where is the spirit world? It is in your bodies. Thus, you go around carrying the spirit world on your shoulders, attend­ing it. So there is no escaping it. (162-116, 1987.3.30)

The spirit world exists. It exists for this world, and this world exists for the sake of the eter­nal world. People may question, “Where in the world is God? Can there be a God in this world? Where on earth is the spirit world?” God’s dwelling place is the spirit world. (117-307, 1982.4.11)

If we could be finished with life after seventy to eighty years on earth, we would not really have any prob­lems to worry about, but as we will be living eternally, it is a different story. So if we say spirit world exists and that you will go there after death, what will you take with you when you go there? Without living a life of practicing true love, you cannot have a relationship with the spirit world. The spirit world is vast. You do not know this, but it is a vast world without boundaries.

The contemporary interest in elec­tricity and space exploration act like lubricants in creating an ideal world of love. In the same way, the spirit world is the world filled with the electricity of love. There is nothing we cannot do with the electricity of love. Hence, we can say that the spirit world is a realm we can govern through our thought structure.

Then, what is the spirit world? It is a place that desires eternal elements. It is the world of harmony, where every­thing is filled with love. Thus, this uni­verse goes into an operational mode by just a push of a love button.

What is God’s Kingdom on earth? It is the place where all the valves of love can be opened. Then what about the Kingdom of God in heaven? It is the place where all the valves of true love can be opened.

All you have to do is maintain a loving heart and tug on the rope of love, and everything will come to you. When you push it back, it goes backward; when you pull it side­ways, it moves sideways. You can steer it any way you like. It does not resist, but moves automatically.

So we arrive at the concept that the spirit world is the place filled with the air of love. If the God of love, who with the heart of love, wants to feed all humanity at once and to make them happy, says, “Let there be food,” then food will appear.

You eat the food of love in the spir­it world. People look at each other with eyes of love. There are no words to express the mystery of the spirit world. The more you hear, the more you want to hear. There is no concept there of being sleepy or tired. The spirit world is the place filled with the electricity of love. People today try to link everything to love. Why is that? This is to be in rhythm with the spirit world. Since the spirit world operates in this way, exist­ing beings cannot but respond to that. They cannot abandon that position.

When you see me in your dreams, I appear to you through the waves of God’s love. For that to happen there can be no self. You need to create a vacuum. After creating a vacuum, you have to create a realm of resonance and become like pure gold with low resistance. Gold does not contain any other elements. It is pure in itself. Why do we consider gold to be treasure? Pure gold has a low level of resistance. (112-16, 1981.3.15)

[1] The Korean term for orphan, “go-a”, can be translated literally as “isolated child.”