Pyeong Hwa Gyeong (145) Book 8. The Reunification of Korea and World Peace CHAPTER 14. The Course of Life for the Princes and Princesses of God
2. The homeland we should seek
Distinguished guests, even though we live in a nation, in truth we are like people without a nation. Has there ever been a nation that could be considered a true nation? No there has not. Is it for lack of trying to build a true nation? No.
The reason we have never had a true nation is that the people of history were never in a position to build one. They could not build one, because the age in which they lived did not possess a fully developed standard upon which to build a true nation.
The homeland we need to build should not have a history and tradition like those found in the world today. It should be of a dimension essentially different from the nations of this world. If we want to build this different kind of nation, we have to be a people who possess the ideological consciousness to make it possible.
There is an absolute Creator; therefore our ideology and teaching will need to be one with the Creator’s ideology and teaching. What kind of nation does the Absolute Being want? He would want a nation with a sovereignty that would unite its people completely with Him. Its national character and its system would have to be of such quality.
A nation is constituted by sovereignty, people and land. In God’s nation, parents represent the sovereignty, sons and daughters represent the people, and the household represents the land. This is an unbreakable rule; a nation cannot omit any of these elements.
What should be that nation’s highest value? It is living for the greater good, which extends to the nation and the world. The nation should guarantee that people who live that way cannot fall into ruin.
In today’s nations people who live for the greater good often end up suffering, but the ultimate nation is a nation where such people can only prosper. If a person dies while working for the sake of that nation, he or she will be honored as a patriot. He or she will be honored as long as the nation exists.
For a nation to be formed, it requires a land, a people and sovereignty. What is sovereignty? Sovereignty is the connection and link with God, who is the root and origin. The people who govern the nation have to first establish their connection with God ; only then can they govern.
In this way, the rulers will be one with the people. They need to become one with the people and know that whatever they own is not for their own sake; it exists for the sake of the nation. If they do so, the nation will prosper.
From this point of view, when you consider the issue of realizing the kingdom of heaven on earth, who is its owner? Who is the ruler? Without a doubt, God is the Ruler. Who are the people? The people are all the people of the world. And what is the land? The land is the planet Earth.
What does the kingdom of heaven on earth resemble? It resembles “me.” As I said, a nation consists of sovereignty, people and land. This is the same as a single human being. Who did I say that the kingdom of heaven on earth resembles? “Me.”
It resembles “me.” Individuals such as “me” gather together, and that forms the nation. Just as I have my own mind, the nation has sovereignty. Just as I have a personal identity, there is a national population. And just as I interact with the created universe, so a nation interacts with the land.
Within this basic principle, the people enable the land to bear fruit, and the sovereignty enables the people to bear fruit. This is how things are. Land, people and sovereignty are the three essential elements that comprise a nation.
Looking at human beings, the basic principle is that our mind is subject partner to our body, and our body is subject partner to the natural world. On the basis of this principle, the definitive outcome of the entire world is “a human being who encompasses heaven and earth.”
What would you say heaven is? It is the same as the human mind, so it is also the same as the sovereignty. Human beings are the nations population and the earth is the created world. In the end, what does the nation resemble? It resembles an individual person.
No matter how big the society, no matter how great the nation, it resembles a human being. This is because God likes that which resembles Him, which is in His image. Then, what things do human beings like most?
They also like what resembles them, what is in their image. So what does an ideal nation need to resemble? It needs to resemble a human being in the form of “a human being who encompasses heaven and earth.”
In Unification Church terminology, “homeland” does not refer to a single nation, such as the Republic of Korea. It refers to a global nation. Actually, this corrupted, fallen world uses the word “global” incorrectly. The “ism” or teaching that describes this homeland is called “cosmos-ism.”
Our homeland is not the Republic of Korea. God does not want the Republic of Korea or the United States or the communist nations as His homeland. God wants an original homeland.
We have to create the culture and the history of that new, original homeland. We have to define a new standard of behavior upon which to establish a new and ideal homeland. We have to change our way of life, because the ideal world is completely different from the world of today.
The words and language are different as well. Do the people of today’s world understand the meaning of such important phrases as “the realm of dominion of the Principle,” “give-and-receive action,” “common base” and "foundation for the providence of restoration”? No, the vocabulary of God’s homeland is different.
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