The Family Pledge - Chapter Two - Section 3 - 3

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3.3. Perfecting the realm of the royal family

3.3.1. The Kingdom of Heaven is the destination of the realm of the royal family of Love

The Kingdom of Heaven is the place that the royal family enters after they have become princes and princesses cen­tering on God’s love, and have received and experienced the love of the king and queen. Christians today say that they will go to heaven by believing in Jesus, don’t they? I’m very much inclined to tell them to just pass over to the spirit world and see what happens. They’ll find out quick enough whether or not Rev. Moon is right or wrong. What they say just doesn’t make sense. That’s the problem. Up until now, no religion has been able to provide an explanation that makes real sense. (237-172, 1992.11.16)

Who are Adam and Eve? If God is the king of the world of creation, then Adam and Eve are the object partners of His love, and the crown prince and princess who are supposed to inherit the realm and world of the royal family. That’s what they are – a prince and prin­cess. That’s who the unfallen Adam and Eve are. And this is important, to under­stand this: that Adam and Eve were the firstborn son and daughter of God who is the King of the entire universe. (229-57, 1992.4.9)

Those who enter the heavenly king­dom should go through the gate of the prince and princess, as the children of God’s love and direct lineage, and as the royalty of the heavenly kingdom. What, then, is the Kingdom of Heaven? The Kingdom of Heaven is the place where the scion of the royal lineage go; the place where the royal family goes. We should all become the children of God’s direct and secondary lineages on this earth, centering on the exemplary standard of true brotherly love and unity, and from a position of having accomplished and created a model clan and nation, become the embodiment of the honor and dig­nity of the royal family. The Kingdom of Heaven is the place in spirit that we nat­urally shift to after having lived this way during our earthly lives. (236-204, 1992.11.8)

All of you should now become part of the royal family centering on true love. If we think that Adam was the son of God’s direct lineage, his brothers and sisters belonged to God’s secondary lin­eage and were meant to become the cit­izens or people of God’s nation. From this perspective, we have to become full of the love of the prince and princess­es of the realm of Heaven, and have to proudly embody the dignity and honor of that position, and also our parents, too, have to proudly uphold that digni­ty all the course of their lives. Therefore, let each and every one of us fully under­stand that the original homeland is this place that we should enter after having lived this way, in other words, the King­dom of Heaven. (220-219, 1991.10.19)

You cannot enter the heavenly king­dom without having loved the world. You should love the world as your own and love all of humankind as your own family. Unless you feel the pain and suf­fering of the world in the same way that God does, you cannot become the princ­es or princesses of the heavenly realm. That’s who God is, and that’s how He feels, so you need to be able to stand in the position of the princes and prin­cesses of that kind of Father. You need to accomplish restoration of the right of the eldest son, the right of the parent and the right of kingship. After accomplish­ing this, you can restore the realm of the royal family.

Unless you pass through all these gates, you cannot meet God in the orig­inal world. So the important question is whether or not Heaven and Earth are able to greet you. You yourself have to find and become one with that original root that I’ve just described, and be wel­comed by all things, with no barriers to being welcomed at all, or to your travel­ing through every place of the great cre­ation of freedom that God has created. If you can become such a person, then no matter where you go, everyone will bow their heads in acknowledgement and respect before you as you walk by, whether you go to the highest heaven or even the deepest hell. (253-322, 1994.1.30)

Without the restoration of the right of the eldest son, there can be no resto­ration of the parents. Since the original brother and sister were lost, we can only be elevated to the position of the parents on the foundation of having found the original brother and sister once again. Restoration is done by going the reverse way. Once the parents are found again, the parents, that is, Adam and Eve, become the king and queen. Then the right of kingship centers on the tribe and a clan of the secondary lineage then emerges centering on that right of king­ship, so that finally these together form a single clan or people. Next, this develops into the realm of the royal clan or tribe. This is the final conclusion and consum­mation of the entire providence of res­toration. Because this is the conclusion, everyone needs to follow this path and fulfill these steps. Only then can we tru­ly become the sons and daughters of the True Parents. (246-146, 1993.4.7)

The Four Great Realms of Heart and the Three Great Kingships must be real­ized in our families. People who achieve perfection in this way do not need to believe in Jesus, nor do they need Rev. Moon. They can simply go directly before the throne of God. The day that this happens is the day when the realm of the royal family of God’s nation begins. So in order for the royal family to begin, you yourselves need to live this way, and then have your lineage con­nected to mine, through my sons and daughters. Do you understand what I mean? The only way to be connected to the realm of the royal family is when we become related by marriage through my sons and daughters. (238-48, 1992.11.19)

How can the family be perfected? The family can be perfected by living the life of the Four Great Realms of Heart, the Three Great Kingships and the realm of the royal family. This leads to the perfec­tion of the family ideal, and the perfec­tion of the ideal of God’s creation. And you should also become a member of the king’s family. The king’s family has to be united centered on the king. And this is what the Kingdom of Heaven is, name­ly, the place where you go after having lived within the realm of the royal fam­ily. After you have lived there, you sim­ply move or transmigrate naturally to the Kingdom of Heaven. (244-48, 1993.1.29)

Only after realizing the Four Great Realms of Heart and the Three Great Kingships, can we enter the realm of the royal family, or the Royal Clan. The position of true love that centers on these four great realms and Three Great Kingships is what we mean by the realm of the royal family. Once we achieve this level, the road to the Kingdom of Heaven is completely open. And this was God’s ideal for Adam’s family. It is in that ideal that the true son and daughter are per­fected, and that the brothers and sisters are perfected. That is where the husband and wife are perfected and where the parents are perfected. (244-310, 1993.3.1)

The restoration of the right of the eldest son leads to the restoration of the right of the parent, and the restoration of the right of the parent leads to the restoration of the right of kingship. By restoring the right of kingship, the realm of the royal family naturally comes into being. This term “royal family” refers to the living environment, that is, the stage of life in which life is carried out, and we have now entered that kind of era. So we get the victories and step over one by one in a reverse course. After we have arrived back, what will we do? Because we lost the family, we have to find the family. (235-42, 1992.8.28)

The people of the heavenly kingdom, the tribe and the citizens of the heavenly kingdom all start with the royal family. Therefore, in order for us to go back to our original position, we have to experi­ence the realm of the heart of the royal family, centering on the true love of the heavenly kingdom. This, then, is God’s pain and anguish that this content was never accomplished or completed. God’s bitter pain is that He was not able to raise up or truly love his prince and his prin­cess, and also that he was unable to have grandchildren from a royal lineage.

As Adam and Eve grew up, they failed to fulfill love in the position of a prince and princess who could inherit God’s lineage. They fell while they were still growing, in the realm of indirect dominion that is governed by the results of the principle. Accordingly, they were unable to become the counterparts with whom God could directly discuss his concerns. He was unable to discuss and share with them concerning the future course of history, and the creation of heaven and earth. These are things he wanted to discuss with them, as a father and son would naturally want to do. (220-47, 1991.10.14)

If our first human ancestors had not fallen, they would have become God’s direct children centering on the right of kingship of heaven and earth, the right of the parent of heaven and earth and the right of the eldest son of heaven and earth. Their family would have become the royal palace of earth and the royal palace of heaven. Furthermore, all the brothers and sisters born to the second­ary lineage would have received their royal tradition and expanded it out hor­izontally. All those who then became one with this central royal tradition and practiced it throughout their lives would have thus entered into the Kingdom of Heaven.

From this viewpoint, then, what is the Kingdom of Heaven? The irrefut­able conclusion is that the Kingdom of Heaven is the destination realm arrived at by the families and clans who, center­ing on God’s love, live through and pass through this royal tradition on while on earth. For this reason, if we consider that only those who live the life of the royal family, whether as God’s direct family line or as the peripheral second­ary family line, can enter the Kingdom of Heaven, we must also conclude that all the families of humankind must live, centered on love, the tradition of the royal family. (218-221, 1991.7.29)

Up to this very day, the Unifica­tion Church has been walking the path of history, the history of the age of indemnity. And the purpose for us having walked this path of the history of indemnity has been to restore the right of the eldest son, the new right of the parent, the new right of kingship, and the new realm of the royal family. Centering on what? Not centering on today’s human-centric world, but rather centering on God. These realms are not to be restored centering on any exist­ing kingship, or on any existing fam­ily. No, we are talking about the right of the eldest son centering on God, the realm of the True Parents centering on God, the right of kingship, centering on God, and the realm of the royal fam­ily, centering on God. This has been the hope that humankind has longed for, all the time up until the present day. (230-171, 1992.5.3)

The people that I am looking for are those who can be the royal family of the heavenly kingdom. You have to become seeds. You have to be seeds that can be stored in the granary, passing through the cold north winter for the following year, and in the next spring, with bright sunlight and warm spring breeze can be able to sprout, taking up the right direc­tion, and demonstrating within your­self the creative force. Only when you become such seeds – seeds that demon­strate the power of life – can you become the new buds of life. (180-62, 1988.8.20)

3.3.2. What is the realm of the royal family?

What do we mean by “the realm of the royal family’? In Adam’s fam­ily there was Cain, the older brother and Abel, the younger brother. Cain and Abel were born as the children of Adam and Eve. That’s Cain and Abel. In all environments, no matter what, there must always be a subject partner and object partner, and Cain and Abel must become one in the same way that the subject and object become one. Cen­tering on the family united in this way, other families in the fallen world should also, in turn, become one with it. This unity is what we mean by “the realm of the royal family.”

Because the elder brother is the cen­tral figure, he should stand in the center and put his direct brothers and sisters on the right and those to be restored on the left. After this, he should bring them into oneness. Because the Fall occurred, this task has to be accomplished. If the Fall had not occurred, then all that would have been needed was the uni­ty between the brothers and sisters in Adam’s family. Thus, in order to save the fallen world, the unity between Cain and Abel must be put in the Abel posi­tion with the world of Satan in the Cain position, and the standard of restoring the right of the eldest son, the right of the parent and the right of kingship then established. When those in the younger brother’s position obey and submit to this standard, then the realm of the roy­al family is established.

Thus the sons and daughters of the fallen world can stand in the position of the younger children by going through the children of direct lineage, and in this way return to the position of the eldest son, and be able to live together with them in the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven. This is what we mean by “the realm of the royal family.” (270-260, 1995.7.16)

The realm of the royal family does not belong to one’s own sons and daugh­ters. The people of the fallen world were originally meant to be the unfallen first princes and princesses. But through the Fall, they became entangled with Satan, and with the right of the eldest son in Satan’s world destroyed God’s ideal for the heavenly kingdom. To resolve this, the people in Abel’s position have to climb over the many hills of suffer­ing, heartache and bitter pain, and by pioneering the heavenly way in Satan’s world, lead Satan’s people to a volun­tary and natural surrender. By doing this, they should then bring those in the eldest son’s position in the fallen world down to the position of the sec­ond son, and rise themselves from the second son’s position up to the right of the eldest son, and centering on that bring complete and total transforma­tion to everything in heaven and earth. It was from that position that the cur­rent foundation centering on True Par­ents emerged. (264-195, 1994.10.9)

The “realm of the royal family” means dealing with fallen humanity as the second princes and princesses. As in the case of Leah, the first wife of Jacob, when she had to stand in the position of the concubine and Rachel became the first or main wife of Jacob, and Leah had to attend her as such, without going into that position of the concubine, she could not be restored to the side of God. No one knew that this kind of amazing reversal of roles had to take place; that this kind of path of exchange of positions had to be walked. Because this kind of principle is at work within the process of restoration, this kind of phenomena also took place at the time of Jesus. This kind of providential standard, which centers on the right of the eldest son, the realm of the parent, the right of king­ship and the realm of the royal family, all had to be restored through indemni­ty at the time of Jesus. Things had to be fixed exactly as they were lost. If three holes were punched in the bucket in tri­angular form, then three holes had to be blocked up in triangular form, for exam­ple. Because Satan invaded and Heaven’s side sustained damage, God’s side also has to inflict that damage on Satan’s side and restore it through indemnity. That is what restoration through indemnity is referring to. (262-203, 1994.7.23)

When we get to Pledge Number three, it talks about the Four Great Realms of Heart, the Three Great Kingships, and the realm of the royal family. This is like a textbook, and shows the pattern that should be fulfilled by everyone. So what is this “realm of the royal family”? “The realm of the royal family” express­es the intention to save all the people of the satanic world who, in the position of the eldest son, have been striving to destroy God. After restoring the right of the eldest son, we should love those people like our own younger brothers and enter the Kingdom of Heaven tak­ing them along with us. What we have to remember here is that we have to bring them along with us. We cannot go alone. That is why we have to restore the right of the eldest son. So that Cain in the satanic world becomes our younger brother. Of course, those are to be our younger brothers are much greater in number than we ourselves.

All of humankind is included in that number. They will stand in the position of the younger son, once the right of the eldest son is reversed.

So, all of you, that is, your sons and daughters, have to bring all the people of Satan’s world along with them into the Kingdom of Heaven. You have to bring them along with you and not sep­arate them out. This is the same for your father, and this also applies to all gen­erations that follow. This must continue up until Satan himself is restored. This is what we mean when we talk about the realm of the royal family, and this is why it has been particularly included within the Family Pledge. (265-253, 1994.11.23)

Originally, the realm of the royal family was not supposed to exist, but it exists now to make the sons and daugh­ters of the fallen world, that is, to make the devil into younger brothers and sis­ters. Without standing as part of the realm of the royal family, Cain in the satanic world cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Also, Cain should not think that his losing the position of the right of the eldest son means that he is ban­ished, even though he destroyed God’s ideal from the position of the eldest son while standing in the realm of the love of Heaven, that is, the second son’s realm. Since he comes to stand in the position of the younger son, he enters an environ­ment where he can be loved by his elder siblings and by his parents and, after receiving love from them, he also can enter the unfallen realm, the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is the destination of those who experience the love of the royal family. This ideal model family has been established now, but the rest of the world still remains to be restored. (267-151, 1995.1.4)

What is the realm of the royal fam­ily? Now, we have nothing but families, so what do we mean by this “realm of the royal family’? This means Cain. We have to save Cain. Standing in the place representing the path of the true prince, we have to pull the kinship of this world, the fallen misshapen kingship, in the direction of heaven and enter with them into heaven. We have to save Cain and Abel and make them our younger broth­ers, teaching them all the traditions of the royal lineage. Once they stand in this position, we have to lead them for­ward, so that their descendants on this earth can be connected to the realm of the royal family, as the scion of the royal line. Unless the Cain world on this earth is bound together as brothers, the realm of the royal family will have to continue to remain on the earth.

Therefore, you must not forget Cain. It is not your own family that will form the realm of the royal family. Your fam­ily has to unite with the Cain families, inherit the kingship of this world, and set those families up in the younger sibling position. Then, you have to bring them to the realm together with you. That is what we are talking about. Once this is done, Cain and Abel become united and their positions are reversed. That is what we mean when we talk about the realm of the royal family. (283-80, 1997.4.8)

Your family is not the one to fulfill this role of the realm of the royal family. Absolutely, Cain and Abel have to unite. Cain and Abel together have Cain-type parents and Cain-type grandparents, don’t they? So you should educate them, and in doing so, bring that family of three generations to a natural and voluntary surrender, centering on the sons of the Cain realm. And when your own fam­ily goes ahead as the realm of the royal family, you can bring them to the realm in the position of your own younger sib­lings. That is what I mean by “the realm of the royal family.” (283-80, 1997.4.8)

What is the realm of the royal fam­ily? It doesn’t mean the direct children of Adam and Eve. There is still this fall­en world to be restored. Although you may have been restored yourselves, still, centering on the Blessed Families, cen­tering on your own children, the Cain realm remains to be restored, as does the tribal messiah realm, and also the Cain realm on the world level. By restoring them, you need to rise to the position of the eldest son. As Abel who was opposed by Satan, you need to restore the posi­tion of the eldest son on Heaven’s side, that is, the right of the eldest son, and put your elder brother, who previous­ly stood in the eldest son’s place, in the younger brother’s position. You do this, then take your brother along and enter heaven together. When I am talking about the realm of the royal family, I’m talking about it centering on the respon­sibility you have to do this.

Because Cain and Abel became ene­mies on the horizontal level, they have to become one on the horizontal level, too. Because the order of relationship was wrongfully reversed, Abel has to become the elder brother, Cain has to become the younger brother, so that the Cain-Abel brothers are restored center­ing on the original son and daughter of God. Once this is achieved, they must enter the Kingdom of Heaven together. That’s why you have to return to your home town, put into practice the way of filial sons and daughters, the way of loy­al patriots, the way of the saints and the way of divine sons and daughters, and complete all the formula course con­tents that God originally intended to fulfill within the first family. Once that is done, everything will be complete. (266-147, 1994.12.22)

The right of the eldest son comes first, then the right of the parent, the right of kingship, and then the realm of the royal family. What do we mean by this term “the realm of the royal family”? The situation God encountered in the Gar­den of Eden was a very serious problem. Although He wanted to fulfill His will, he saw the appearance of a woman and children who were very much other than those he wanted to see. The history of tragedy and misfortune began from this point, and because no one understood or knew about this, it has been impos­sible to resolve, up until today. On one side, we have five billion human beings, while on the other – God’s side – we have only a handful of sons and daughters.

If you consider my situation in this case, I have only thirteen children. That’s all; only thirteen. So how can I resolve the Cain-Abel problem? Where can I find the solution? The only way it can be resolved is through loving the enemy. Abel has to educate everyone through love. After restoring, through indemni­ty, the right of the eldest son, Abel has to recognize and establish everyone else as fulfilling the realm of the royal fam­ily. What I’m telling you is that you have to recognize the Cain world as your own royal family. (249-221, 1993.10.10)

I have built a way for you to rise to the position of the younger brother based on the restoration of the right of the eldest son. Even though the body of Adam – that is, humanity – became deformed and corrupted, the vertical Lord at his Second Advent comes and restores the right of the eldest son, and then, by rec­ognizing and establishing you in the position of the realm of the younger son, brings both the first Adam and the second Adam to stand in the position of one, unified body. This is the starting point and origin from which the realm of the royal family emerges.

What, then, is this “royal family”? Although all human beings have arrived in this world in the position of the elder children on the satanic side, they can all be recognized as a part of the royal fam­ily, that is, the younger siblings, if and when they are acknowledged through their desire to accomplish and support the restoration of the right of the eldest son on heaven’s side. What this all means is that they will be treated exactly as the body of unfallen Adam. In other words, they become younger siblings. The Lord at his Second Coming is the “eldest son Adam’, and the realm of the royal fam­ily is the “younger son Adam.” (253-89, 1994.1.7)

The vertical kingship is the subject partner. When this vertical right of king­ship and the horizontal realm of the roy­al family become one, they create a larg­er unified world, and this becomes the place where they connect to God. They become connected to the highest level or supreme partner. This is what the ideal world is, a place where, in the position of a minus, we can grow and develop through unity with something bigger in the position of a plus. This, then, is the formula for re-creation. It is a concept taught in the Unification Church, and frankly, it is the best explanation there is. That is why, whether they are the president of a nation or whatever, every­one has to move ahead following behind Rev. Moon. (246-263, 1993.4.18)

Even God himself was unable to experience and own this realm of the royal family. But once I achieve the right of kingship, and restore a nation, I will go forward and establish the realm of the royal family. Things will be put in order and the correct axis established by means of the heavenly constitution. At the moment, the members of the Unification Church still don’t under­stand about this. You wonder, “What on earth is he talking about?” Yet, there is no such realm of the royal family in the spirit world. That is what we mean when we say that the Kingdom of Heaven is empty. It is empty because the central core has not been established yet. That is the incredible reality of the situation. (270-279, 1995.7.16)

The five billion people of human­kind are the relatives of the royal lin­eage, the relatives who will inherit the right of kingship that flows out from the direct lineage of the eldest son. Those who experience that heart of the realm of the royal clan are those who will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. For this reason, there has to be a royal family realm that extends horizontally throughout the entire world, and through that, we have to experience a unified, global, realm of heart that substantiates that very ideal. We have to live a way of life that allows us to experience that. Once this takes place, the True Parents can stand as True Parents above the position of the eldest son, in other words, the king­ship of the True Parents. Centering on that kingship, we have to lead ahead the royal family, who stands in a peripheral position. This is what the Kingdom of Heaven is: the place entered into by the members of that family, taking along with us that royal family, and all the while attending the right of kingship, centering on the Parents, centering on the right of kingship. It is by experienc­ing that realm of heart that we enter the Kingdom of Heaven. (247-265, 1993.5.9)

You will be able to understand from my words just how far you actually are in your relationship with me. I am not simply your teacher, someone whom you can meet in a casual manner or with­out the right preparation or attitude. The only way you can enter the eternal mainstream world is if I resolve and pre­pare the core lineage of lineages, and the core heart of hearts, from the position of the core mainstream itself.

Because God is love, He wants to engraft the children of the adulterer, the descendants of the fallen lineage into the realm of inheritance of the eternal mainstream, then to store them in the storehouse of the Kingdom of Heaven, recognizing them as having the same value of the fruits of the true olive tree. When we talk about the realm of the royal family, we are talking about the people who stand in that position. (249-319, 1993.10.11)

Originally, all sons and daughters born here on earth are to become part of the realm of the royal family. Thus, once the fully completed Era of the Complet­ed Testament and the fully completed Era of the True Parents are proclaimed, God will regard the entire five-billion-children of humankind as the realm of the royal family. And although He will recognize them as the royal family, at the same time, he will not simply recog­nize them as being fully qualified. Rath­er, God will allow people to enter the realm of the royal family, but for them to actually become members of that royal family, there will need to be a record and history of them having loved Abel more than anyone, based on the principle of restoration through indemnity, from the level of the individual to the level of the entire world. (251-169, 1993.10.17)

3.3.3. The Realm of the royal family does not include the direct children

The realm of the royal family does not include the children from my direct lineage. My direct children stand in a position that has transcended indemni­ty. Up until the present day, fallen peo­ple have been using the authority of the right of the eldest son to take everybody to hell, but now, having relinquished the right of the eldest son, they stand in the position of the realm of the younger son. Originally, everyone should have been in the position of the eldest sons of the royal family. At any rate, now, because the fallen world has come to stand in the younger son’s position, God recognizes them as being equally part of the royal family on God’s side. They are included on God’s side, and because of this, any conditions through which Satan or any­one falling under Satan’s dominion can accuse God have been totally obliterated. That is why we can state that God is fair and just. The mission that stands before each of you now, then, is to achieve indi­vidually, centering on your own self and your own clan, centering on your own nation. (258-229, 1994.3.17)

What is the realm of the royal fam­ily? If you think of yourselves as the children of my direct lineage you are making a bad mistake. From the view­point of having completed restoration, there are restored women and restored Cain and Abel, and then there is Cain and Abel within my own direct lineage, Mother and the children. These are two different lines. God has been restoring the world, so once this is completed, how will he deal with the people from the Cain-realm? He cannot simply kill them off. Originally, all the people in this position would have become the royal family, the royal family of Adam. But because they were dragged towards Satan and pulled to his side, they need to now be re-engrafted into their origi­nal rights once they are restored to their original state. That’s why we have to con­nect or include the restored women and children into the realm of the royal fam­ily. What I’m explaining is that we have to bring all of humankind into creating this realm of the royal family. (256-327, 1994.3.14)

There are two sets of laws for the royal family. The royal family has to follow the law of the nation as well the laws or rules of the royal family itself. In order for the five billion descendants of Adam alive today to stand in the realm of the royal family, they have to become absolutely one with the children of my direct lin­eage in a relationship of Cain and Abel. Actually, you are not qualified to just come directly to me. The Blessed fami­lies do not belong to Satan, or to any­where else except to Heaven’s side, but they exist as Cain and Abel, the eldest son and the younger son.

The question is how many of you will be chosen. Even though the entire pop­ulation of humankind might belong to the realm of the royal family, the real question is whether they have a direct connection to me or not. By having your children marry into my direct lineage, the realm of the royal family will be uni­fied and eventually Cain and Abel will disappear. If you ask what the highest hope of all the women sitting here could be, the answer is having someone from their descendants marry into my direct lineage. (249-114, 1993.10.8)

The direct children of the Lord at his Second Coming do not have to estab­lish indemnity conditions. They are not restricted or “caught” by indemnity con­ditions. The indemnity conditions are rather left to the women and the sons of the Cain realm here on earth, not the children of my direct lineage. This also applies to Mother. In fact, the same reality applies also to Sung-jin and his mother. The entire Cain realm is actu­ally recognized as the realm of the royal family. When the Cain realm is placed in the position of the restored younger brother and regarded and treated as the royal family, Satan has no way to make accusations.

Why will Satan have to recognize and acknowledge this? Simply because there will be no condition for him to claim them as his children. If we do not acknowledge all of humankind in the position of the realm of the royal fam­ily, it means that there will remain with­in Satan’s sphere a group of people not included in that royal family realm. In this case, Satan will continue to have a base for existence. However, because we accept everyone in humankind as the realm of the royal family, Satan has no choice but to cease to exist. This, then, is a very important point, and you must not be confused about it. (260-156, 1994.5.2)

Throughout history, numerous reli­gious founders, saints and sages have emerged, up until the present day, yet none of them has had any real connec­tion with true love. Jesus Christ came to this world as the Messiah in order to resolve this problem, and he invest­ed himself to establish the foundation of “the bride” and “the bridegroom.” So what exactly then does the Messiah have to do after coming to this world? He has to establish a new realm of the royal family, all the while heading in the direction of a new family, a new clan, a new nation and a new world.

Who is the direct ancestor of the realm of the royal family? The direct ancestor is the one who comes as the unfallen, direct son of God’s original true love, standing on the foundation of true life, true love, and true lineage. He is the seed. Once a root extends out from that seed, it will be the central core root, and this will grow into the core branch and core flower bud. As the tree of this seed grows vertically, it will correspond­ingly expand in a horizontal direction, so that the family and tribe are con­nected to it, as are the ethnic group, the nation and the entire world. (263-194, 1994.10.4)

Thus far, not even one person on earth has been born through the True Parents. Those who are born to this world without a connection to the lin­eage of the True Mother and the True Father, that is, the True Parents, have no way to enter the Kingdom of Heav­en. From the viewpoint of God’s ideal of creation, we are meant to receive the lin­eage of True Parents, to attend them as the owners of the kingship of the heav­enly kingdom on earth and in heaven, and to live together with them as their relatives, centering on true love. Then, after having grown up in this way, we are meant to marry and leave our descen­dants behind, and in a very natural way pass on into the spirit world, thus enter­ing the Kingdom of Heaven. What this means is that anyone who doesn’t have real, tangible experiences of love center­ing on this realm the royal family can­not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. It’s actually quite clear. (250-49, 1993.10.11)

The process of dealing with every­thing centering on the ideal of love has formed the path of history. This is the mainstream ideology or thought of the history of God’s providence. What again are the key points of that mainstream thought? In general, we can say there are four primary aspects. The key aspects of the mainstream thought in this fallen world or the mainstream thought that preceded creation are as follows: Firstly, the restoration of the right of the eldest son, or the establishment of the right of the eldest son. Secondly, the restora­tion or the establishment of the realm of the parent, thirdly, the restoration or the establishment of the right of king­ship, and finally the restoration or estab­lishment of the realm of the royal fam­ily. Each of these is included within that mainstream thought.

Adam was meant to be the eldest son, and Adam’s brothers and sisters were meant to be the royal family. If Adam had not fallen, he would have established within his own family his position as the eldest son and his position as the king. At the same time, his younger broth­ers would have formed the royal fam­ily. His elder sister or younger siblings, etc, would have become the royal family, and this right of the eldest son, Adam’s right of the first son, would have contin­ued for hundreds and thousands of gen­eration, eventually forming a nation and the whole world, finally becoming all of humankind.

This is the reason why the main­stream kingship has to be one, and why, centering on the realm of the royal fam­ily, the right of kingship and the realm of the parent, everything needs to come together to form one world. The root for all this is one, single root. There cannot be two. (247-134, 1993.5.1)

3.3.4. Towards the era of nation-building centering on the realm of the royal family

You are meant to inherit the tradi­tion of True Parents by becoming one with them. With the subject or core tra­dition in your family, you should estab­lish a foundation through which you can guide all nations. Your family should be able to take on that kind of subject role. When you achieve this, you can be for­mally and substantially registered into the realm of the royal family of the spir­itual kingdom. The Kingdom of Heaven is the place that you enter once you have achieved all this. In fact, the Kingdom of Heaven is not somewhere where just anyone can go. Three generations should be determined together to walk that way. Grandparents, father and mother, hus­band and wife and then sons and daugh­ters; this makes four stages altogether, but within this framework it is in the third generation that the husband-wife level is achieved. (228-295, 1992.7.5)

Adam and Eve were not able to receive from God their education as His son and daughter, as His prince and princess. Nor were they able to receive full education as brother and sister. Had they received their education to be true siblings, all of the world could have been united through their establishing true brotherly and sisterly relationships with all people. Isn’t humanity in some sense God’s brethren? Centering on the first­born of the eldest son, all of the siblings of Adam could spread out horizontally to form a tribe, a nation, and eventually have expanded to cover the whole world. In this way, human beings were origi­nally meant to live in the royal palace of Heaven and experience the heart of the realm of the prince and princess, that is, the realm of the royal family, while here on earth. By living in this way, they would become naturally qualified to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The King­dom of Heaven is not a place where just anyone can go. (226-130, 1992.2.2)

We are now living in the age in which we have to establish God’s people, cen­tering on the realm of royal family of the heavenly kingdom. In the future, a time will come when everything in the fallen world will be bulldozed flat and this ideal will be established. When I go out to the world and teach God’s word and teach God’s Principle, there can­not be any Koreans or any Unification Church that stands in the way or blocks that road. That kind of resistance needs to be removed, roots and all.

When I look back on the cruel times when I had to abandon my own parents, even cut off my wife and son, I just have to close my eyes and push ahead. When the time comes to take a strong stand in order to establish the traditions of the Kingdom of Heaven, you have to have the guts to do so. (184-243, 1989.1.1)

What I am talking about seems like a dream, doesn’t it? So why don’t you go out and see. Can those who have inher­ited the devil’s life and lineage, based on his fallen love, enter into the realm of the royal family, centering on God’s true love, that realm that has been lifted up and created in unity centering on the realm of God’s life and lineage, and based upon his true love? Those who have inherited the devil’s life and lineage automatically connect to hell, and once they are in hell, can they even raise their eyes upward? They cannot even look up. Only after sev­eral decades or generations might they be able to take a look in the right direc­tion. Why is this? Because everyone has an original heart that reveres and longs for their parent, and because everyone still possesses the sense of attraction that directs them towards true love, they can look up in the right direction after sever­al years, when their own fortune or desti­ny correlates to that destiny inside them, so that their minds and bodies resonate with it. The only reason this is possible is because Adam and Eve grew to the age of fifteen or sixteen. If they had not grown that much, then there would be no hope at all. It would be utterly impossible. So we are still faced with this reality, this barrier of sorrow and grief. An impor­tant question, then, is how we can break ourselves away from this situation and establish the standard that resolves all this. (220-18, 1991.10.13)

Originally, husband and wife should speak to each other in the most respect­ful, honorific way. In aristocratic or noble families, husbands and wives do not speak rough language to each other. Korea is a nation with such a tradition, and this corresponds to heavenly law. In fact, heavenly law is even more stringent than that. The tradition within Korean aristocracy did not include or connect to God. It included the concept of “nation’, but even so, it was not connected to the law of heaven and earth. For this reason, Korea and Korean people have to learn from the Unification Church. Other­wise, they have no way to enter the realm of the royal family. (253-323, 1994.1.30)

I stand in a position to correct all of the wrongdoings and misdeeds of both men and women. Even if they bend only slightly from the Principle, Satan still tries to catch them with his net. He stakes his claim, saying “this person is flawed and malformed in such and such a way, so I have the right to take him!” That’s why True Parents have to straighten out all the misdoings of people. True Parents have to lead them in the right direction throughout the lives of these men and women. How can they do it? Through the Four Great Realms of Heart. It is at this point that you can experience the Four Great Realms of Heart, the Three Great Kingships and the realm of the royal family. (246-146, 1993.4.7)

Even if a highway has been built, it doesn’t help you any to have a driver’s license if you do not own a car, or even have money to buy gasoline. All of you should be able to take care of this by yourselves. You should try to resemble the family of Rev. Moon. Your family is like the vehicle. The vehicle needs a driver who can drive. You need to learn to drive and you have to make money to run the car, and so on. You should not be indebted to others. If you are indebt­ed, you will be ashamed of yourself in the spirit world. So instead you should think about how you can benefit oth­ers, no matter what your circumstances. Otherwise, you will not be able to enter the realm of the royal family. The King­dom of Heaven is actually a place that is quite scientifically organized. That is why each family is a micro-unit of the Kingdom of Heaven. (246-79, 1993.3.23)