The Family Pledge - Chapter Two - Section 4 - 2

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4.2. The universal family encompassing heaven and earth

4.2.1. The basis of the universal family encompassing heaven and earth: the family

Humankind, born from Adam and Eve as the true parents, would have formed an extended family and thereby a peaceful world of the Adamic cultural realm. Accordingly, at the conclusion of the history of restoration, a true family based on true parents and true love will be established as the hope of humankind and at the same time the hope of God. This true family will serve as the source of true love and true life and the start­ing point of the peace and happiness of humankind. (294-67, 1998.6.11)

The family mentioned in this, “…build the universal family encompassing heaven and earth, which is God’s ideal of creation…,” is a great family. Isn’t it formed through the establishment of the realm of the royal unfallen family? That has not been realized. Through the stan­dard of peace whereby the members of the royal family are connected, they should become a kinship possessing the friend­ship and love of the great fraternity of the cosmos. They are to form the universal family encompassing heaven and earth. Then, since that family has been formed, God will also enjoy freedom and peace. God and His sons and daughters will not be obstructed. Freedom and peace will not be obstructed. Next, unity will not be obstructed. What is next? Don’t you pledge to realize a world of happiness? Everything is there. Yet even after it has been built, the heavenly world is still left out. The fallen ancestors still do not have a connection of heart. (283-82, 1997.4.8)

What is Family Pledge number four? It pertains to the universal family encom­passing heaven and earth. All human beings are brothers and sisters – one lin­eage. We must protect it like God. Even though we are sitting in His royal pal­ace, we must fulfill pledge number four. We must form the universal family and realize the world of freedom, peace, uni­ty and happiness. I have such a heart. I am an advocate of the universal family. I must plant freedom, happiness, unity and peace. What does this mean? It is to reveal my history. It is the ultimate goal of my life. You should know it clearly. (280-35,
1996.10.13)

We need a model for grandparents and parents, a model for spouses, and a mod­el for children because we are seeking to establish the standard pursued by heaven and earth based on the family established by God. Korea follows the extended fam­ily system. You should establish a historic tradition in which seven generations live in the same house, and hundreds and thousands of people live as one family. It is amazing how this came to fit so exactly with the path of tribal messiahship in the Unification Church. The time will come, in which your families will compete, showing pride centering on the ideal of establishing extended families; a time in which all members of your family will receive blessing and awards. They will all become royal families. (276-180, 1996.2.19)

When we pledge, “…to build the universal family encompassing heaven and earth, which is God’s ideal of cre­ation…,” it means that we should real­ize an extended family conforming to God’s will. As such, we cannot exclude the satanic world. Although we may have kingship and everything else, we do not have the kingship of Adam’s family; therefore, if we are to represent the king­ship, untainted by the Fall, we must bring together everyone from the satanic world as an extended family and make them stand in the place of freedom, peace, uni­ty and happiness. There will be freedom and peace, and unity must be included there. Our ideal is peace and unity. (267-151,
1995.1.4)

We must clearly understand that peace will be realized only when human­kind commonly shares and practices God’s true love and truth: starting from individuals to families, then from fami­lies to societies, nations and to the world, and realizes that all human beings are brothers and sisters and builds the global extended family on earth. (259-47, 1994.3.27)

4.2.2. The core of a society of interdependence, mutual prosperity and universally shared values is love.

In an ideal society or nation, all people transcend nationality and race to engage in mutual cooperation, create harmony, and live in happiness. This community is that of an extended family in which peo­ple are conscious of being the sons and daughters of the one God and become a single fraternity under the True Parents. This is the place where Blessed Families, who have restored their lineage, rights of ownership and hearts, realize a world of freedom, peace and unity based on the True Parents’ language and culture. They will come to lead lives of interde­pendence, mutual prosperity and uni­versally shared values within the culture of God’s heart. (269-155, 1995.4.17)

The society of the ideal world will be characterized politically by principles of interdependence, economically by mutual prosperity and ethically by uni­versally shared values. The core content of the principle of interdependence is co-ownership based on God’s true love. The basic model of the society of inter­dependence is the family. By co-owner­ship, I do not mean ownership merely in relation to material possessions, but ownership based on God’s love.

In the family, even though all prop­erty would be legally held in the parents’ names, in practice it would be joint­ly owned by the parents and children; that is, by the whole family. At the same time, the individual family members are allocated their own rooms, cloth­ing and allowances. In this way, in the family, the whole purpose and the indi­vidual purpose are harmonized. When this ideal form of ownership of the fam­ily, based on such love, expands to the society, nation and world, it becomes the form of ownership of the ideal society. (271-76, 1995.8.22)

The original relationship between God and humankind is based on true love. There are many instances of co-ownership between God and the indi­vidual, between the whole and the indi­vidual, and between the neighborhood and the individual, but we are supposed to have a co-ownership with a grateful heart arising out of God’s true love.

In the ideal world built by the peo­ple who have actualized God’s love, the whole purpose and the individu­al purpose are naturally harmonized. Since human beings also have desires and the autonomy of love, they are per­mitted individual ownership and indi­vidual purpose. Even so, they do not pursue unlimited individual possession or an individual purpose that under­mines the whole purpose. Perfected human beings are meant to own prop­erty commensurate with their position and circumstances according to their conscience and original nature.

In particular, since the economic activity of ideal human beings – who have the character of true owners of all things by virtue of true love – would manifest love and gratitude, there can be no avarice or corruption. At the same time, there could be no emphasis on regional or national interests incon­sistent with the purpose of the whole, and economic activity will have its aim and focus not in the pursuit of prof­its but rather in overall welfare. (271-76, 1995.8.22)

The principle of interdependence is an ideal that pursues the politics of con­joint participation based on God’s true love to realize the ideals of freedom, equality and happiness. Participating in communal politics serves the pur­pose of electing representatives. Yet if we understand political units to be an expansion of love-centered family rela­tionships, then antagonistic relation­ships would not exist among candi­dates. Their candidacy would be rooted in a calling to serve, and they would be nominated by their constituents, who would relate to them as siblings serving one God as their common Parent. After due process, the final result should be determined in accordance with God’s will, in which no improper consider­ations can be involved. That is to say, it will be a method by which the winner is finally decided through a solemn pro­cess of drawing lots with prayer. As the result is determined by God’s will and heavenly fortune, everyone would come to accept it with gratitude and joyful hearts. (271-76, 1995.8.22)

The principle of universally shared values refers to an ideal of all people in society observing universal ethics and morality centered on true love and pur­suing a life of goodness and righteous­ness. It will be an ideal that seeks a moral society in which all peoples universally practice ethics and morality under the absolute values based on God’s true love. The ideal world presupposes ideal fami­lies and perfected people. The unified harmony of the ideal parents, spouses and children in accordance with true love becomes the prerequisite of the ideal family. Furthermore, a perfected person is one whose mind and body are harmoniously united through true love. The world of supreme love – the world of morality in which the people perfect­ed this way voluntarily practice good­ness and righteousness in their family life as the basis of true love and in their social life as its expansion – is the ideal world. (271-76, 1995.8.22)

The major organs and departments within a nation of the ideal world are harmonized through a smooth give and take action with one another under their common purpose. This is simi­lar to the various organs of the human body, which work together for a com­mon purpose according to the com­mands of the brain. (271-76, 1995.8.22)