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OF THE TRUE PARENTS' LOVEGENERATION RECORD
April 22, 1984
Belvedere
People today want to know how the True Parent was born, how he was
raised, and how he is fulfilling his responsibility for the
dispensation. These are fundamental things.
Words such as "I," "we," and "you," are the most common words in any
language. These are the words that specifically center upon people.
When we say people, we include both men and women. Likewise, when we
speak of an individual, we could mean either a man or a woman.
As men and women, we always want to know how we came into this world.
That is a most fundamental question. Some women might say, "I was born
for myself and for my own purpose." But could that be possible, a
world that exists only for women? No matter how great you may be as an
individual woman, just a woman alone in the world could not go
anywhere. Thus even if you achieved a certain success, with wealth and
the ability to live quite well, if the world were composed of only
single women, everything would end up in failure.
You may want to do well and make a tremendous accomplishment, but if
your life is only for "I" or "myself' alone, that would not be
possible. Even if a woman has beauty that shines out to the world,
that shine will fade away in just a matter of years. No matter how
much glory you might receive, with people treating you like a queen
and virtually worshipping you, still a woman alone is incomplete,
incapable of progressing in the world.
Suppose there is a woman who owns an automobile studded with diamonds;
or flies in a diamond-studded airplane. That woman might say, "I don't
need anything else; I have accomplished everything in this world that
matters." But is that true? Suppose she says, "I am the most powerful
woman in the world; therefore, I don't need anything else. I am
perfectly fulfilled." Can that be possible? Why not?
If that single woman thinks she can be fulfilled by those things
alone, no matter how much she may proclaim her success, she is still a
failure. In order to fulfill life, there must be something else. What
is that particular thing which you would want, even at the expense of
your whole self? It is not some big chunk of diamond, or a golden
nugget, is it? What a woman needs more than anything else is the true
love of a man.
Imagine if all the four billion people on the earth were women! What
would you do? Wouldn't you want to trade 3.99 billion women for just
one crazy man? This is a very logical conclusion: without men, the
world cannot go on. The same thing can be said about women.
What do you think, between "we" and "I ' which is the better word? But
you changed your mind, didn't you? Up till now, you have always
thought, "I am the most important." But we must chop down that "I"
tree. This is the simplest kind of example but it shows a great deal
of truth.
Everything is reciprocal and complementary. How about the way you
walk? It must be with both legs in order to be complementary. You have
to move with a certain amount of rhythm when you walk. What about God,
then? Can God say only "I" or does He say "we"? Is there only one God
or are there many Gods? You say there is just one, so He just says "I"
all the time? Can it be that human beings like to say "we," while God
just likes to say "I"? What does God like? He also likes "we."
Even though God is almighty, omnipresent and so forth, if He must
remain alone, a solitary "I," then He will be terribly unhappy. Thus
God would even give up Himself in order to obtain the status of "we."
He really wants to be in the position to say "we." If God could sell
Himself, what would He buy in return? He would buy love. Thus the true
meaning of the word "we" includes love. That is why "we" is so
important.
"We" always means more than one person; thus it connotes the
relationship of love. When you say "I live for the relationship of
'we'," you automatically mean you live for the sake of love. Even God
is looking forward to love, which is the supreme value in the
universe. That means He is looking forward to that "we" relationship,
not merely the position of "I." When God says "we,' who can be
entitled to participate in that relationship?
The simplest way to say it is that human beings are the only ones
capable of participating in God's "we." People alone have the capacity
to be included in such a relationship with God, certainly not monkeys,
cows, lions and tigers. Those are beasts who crawl the earth on four
legs, but human beings have the special privilege to stand straight up
on two legs. When you really think about it, it is amazing that among
all the creatures of the earth, human beings alone have the capacity
to walk on two legs. Thus man is clearly different from the rest of
the animals.
When God says "we," what kind of value are we talking about? Is it a
relative value or an absolute one? There is only one thing that can
satisfy everybody to the fullest degree-that is true love. It
satisfies "me," "you," and "we." Are you looking forward to that true
love? What about you men? You say "yes." Who decided that "yes' other
than you?
When we men say "we," we are speaking from the position of resultant
beings, but our absolute cause is beyond ourselves. For example, you
were not born into this world because of your own will. You did not
cause yourself to be born; another cause, the absolute cause, brought
you into this world. You are not the cause; therefore, you are the
result.
Only after you are born can you become conscious and aware of
yourself. Then you become aware that you need the "we" relationship.
Therefore you are certainly not in the position of cause. You exist in
a kind of trinity-there is God, you, and your object-a triangular
relationship.
What was God's purpose in creating this world? We come to the
conclusion that God created this world in order to fulfill His ideal
of true love. That is the only way we can explain it. Why did God
create human beings? For the same reason-for true love. But true love
for whom? Did man initiate the relationship of "we"? God did
everything first, then we responded to it. For instance, God made the
first laugh, then we responded to it. The first person to laugh was
God, the first person to be joyful was God, and so on, to everything
you can think of. The first word was God's.
When you dance, you follow a certain rhythm. God was the first to
initiate that rhythm. All things of beauty, joy and glory started out
from God and human beings are the respondents to His initial action.
Why were we born and why do we live? Can you answer that? We were born
simply for the fulfillment of the love of God-that is the purpose of
our life. If you have that, you don't need anything else. Even if you
have nothing to wear but a wet blanket, you can be happy if you have
the love of God.
This is entirely logical. We humans were born to fulfill the love of
God, period. Why do we live? We are living for the sake of the love of
God. Thus love is part of the "we" relationship and God dwells within
that relationship. People are born and live for the sake of that "we"
relationship. From this statement, American individualism is broken
into pieces.
Satan knew how to destroy the world of the love of God; therefore, he
initiated the most effective means- individualism, or selfishness. You
Americans like individualism, don't you? If you say no, you are
resembling God
Equality is born from the concept of "we." Unfortunately, the attitude
of most feminists is the "I" concept; likewise, many men think in the
same terms. That is not the concept of equality. When you say "we," it
includes love. When you women talk about equality, you are
automatically talking about the concept of "we." But when you only
want to talk about women and putting women first, then that is not the
concept of "we."
Therefore, we come to the conclusion that men are meant to live for
the sake of women and women for the sake of men. That is the basic
human relationship. People do not live for their own sakes but for the
sake of others.
What do you suppose a woman thinks when she puts on earrings? She
can't see those earrings herself, so she must be thinking of appealing
to somebody else's eyes.
Do you suppose she wants to attract some larger woman, since she is a
small woman? Is that the idea? Of course not. The answer is simple:
she wants to put on earrings for the sake of some man. A man doesn't
wear such things, but he will be attracted to look more closely at a
woman when she is wearing earrings.
You men were born for women, thus the parts of your body are not for
your own sake but for the sake of women. Are they for the sake of
other men? No. Women have their own special bodily areas. Why is that?
Is that for the sake of other women? No. This is the fundamental point
in discussions about men and women.
Even if a woman feels that she doesn't want anything to do with men,
her very body has something different to say. Once a month you have
your period. Why does your body react that way? Your body behaves that
way not for your own sake but for the sake of men. The body of a woman
is constantly in expectation or readiness. Universal truth is telling
women that you live for the sake of men and for the creation of
children. Your body automatically strives to fulfill the purpose for
which you were born.
Actually many women resent their biological cycles and reactions. They
don't understand why men don't have to suffer the way they do. But it
is the destiny of women to live through that monthly cycle and you
have to accept it. A woman is likewise destined to welcome a man and
have relationship with him.
Once man and woman are united completely, like a nut and bolt, even
God Himself cannot pull you apart. God will join with you at that
point. That is total, absolute unity when God joins in. In a
thunderstorm, the low pressure and the high pressure areas in the
atmosphere come together and mix. Then there is the flash of lightning
and thunder and everything is shaken.
A man and woman come together like the two different poles of
electricity. When they are united with true love, they create thunder
and lightning and it shakes the entire universe. You blessed couples
should experience this unity that is like a storm, with lightning and
thunder. God comes to you to share in your ecstatic joy.
The thunderstorm is a symbolic expression of universal love. When a
man and woman come together and resemble universal love, there is
nothing wrong with your expression of that love. Even if you shout out
to the world in your joy, it is all right. Furthermore, you give off a
shining light to the world. Love has to be total. Once you are
together in lawful love, such as the blessed couples, that action is
totally justified and dignified. Therefore, the entire expression is
acceptable.
When two animals come together in love, they make loving sounds
together. For instance, the dogs make a certain sound of love. The
sounds of loving sound good to others, including people. It is a
harbinger of springtime. That is one expression by which the universe
is teaching us how to love each other.
Even the most artistic, romantic, literary mind can only be ignited
upon the understanding of this basic truth. Therefore, it is most
important that your relationship be lawful and your object in love be
eternal. Only upon that foundation can eternal love be conceived and
imparted. Illicit or carnal love can never come to this level. Do you
understand?
God is absolute and therefore you must be absolute as well; likewise
your object must be God-given and absolute. For this reason, God
created Adam and Eve. He knew that it was only through the
relationship of men and women that the ideal of His love could be
fulfilled. That is the reason it was absolutely necessary for God to
create Adam and Eve on earth.
Moonies are the people who are clear on this point; and more than just
understanding it, we practice it. When we consider the "we"
relationship, we see that it exists on different levels. The family is
in the realm of "we;" likewise, the society, nation, and world, as
well as God and mankind.
However, the basic and most fundamental unit of "we" is husband and
wife. This is the building block to create the family, society, nation
and world. Husband and wife as the basic unit creates the family
formula. The family formula creates the basic unit of the society
formula. Then on to the national formula and the worldwide formula.
There must be a certain, basic model. The husband and wife are the
bottom line of the universal formula for society.
We talk about three fundamental forms of love: parental love, filial
love, and conjugal love. They all come together to fulfill the total
love of God. The Unification Church is the place where all these kinds
of love are being taught. All these basic types are initiated from
within God. When these three loves come together, that is the dwelling
place of God. When unchanging parental love, unchanging filial love,
and unchanging conjugal love come together, you know that the love of
God exists right there, forever.
The Unification Church Principle is centered upon the heavenly
four-position foundation, a fundamental truth. What is the family? The
components of the family are the parents, husband and wife, and the
children. Our society has basically three groups: the parental
grouping, the husband and wife grouping, and the children grouping.
For instance the elderly, the senior citizens, are the segment of
society on the parental level. Others treat them with parental
respect. Then there is the level of husband and wife, the middle-aged
or central group of people.
The love of God comes through the elders and is transmitted down to
the husband and wife level, then it comes down to the children's
level. A nation is nothing more than the extension of the family. The
world is an assemblage of nations and that, again, boils down to an
extension of the family.
Reaching God is our ultimate goal but the starting point is the
family. The society, nation and world are the steps along the way. We
have to go through these steps in order to reach God. You cannot just
leap over all these steps. Therefore, you must live for the sake of
greater things. Live for the sake of the society more than the family;
for the sake of the nation more than the society; for the world more
than the nation.
The society and the nation are nothing more than the assemblage of
many, many different families. They are bigger than your own family.
Therefore, even though you have to sacrifice your own family in order
to serve them, you are achieving a greater cause. By dispensing
unselfish love to other families, you are pushed toward God as quickly
as possible. The nation pushes you toward God; the society pushes you
toward God. When you are living for the sake of the world, the world
pushes you toward God because that is the way the world will benefit
the most. The sooner you reach God, the sooner the love of God will
flow through you and return to the nation and society.
For this reason, the Unification Church has the credo and the way of
life that the couple always sacrifices themselves for the sake of the
family; the family sacrifices itself for the sake of society; society
sacrifices itself for the sake of the nation; the nation for the sake
of the world; and the world for the sake of God. Even God sacrifices
Himself for the sake of true love. Thus no one can complain. God is
not just reaping benefits from this process. God Himself is
sacrificing for the sake of love.
In the Unification Church you say you sacrifice yourselves for the
sake of America. I am sacrificing myself for the sake of the world.
Always I must be one step ahead of you. You should never think that I
am finished with my mission and now I am relaxing and just living in a
nice home, driving in a nice car. That is not the case.
There are certain levels of responsibility in any organization.
Equality does not mean that everybody wears the same clothing or rides
in the same vehicles or eats the same food. Equality comes with the
level of the mission. Certain people have to travel fast and go all
the time by airplane. That is necessary because of their mission but
that doesn't mean everybody has to travel by airplane. However,
everybody is going the same route and is constantly elevating himself
through his mission.
I ask some of you to go out onto the streets and raise funds. Perhaps
I will even ask some elderly scholar to go out and do that. Everybody
has to start out in the same place. Those people in the leadership
caliber will elevate themselves fast because the mission demands that
person to come to a certain level as quickly as possible. I started
out from the bottom, myself.
Actually I am doing everything for your sake. Although I may be ahead
of you and giving you the directions, that is not for my sake but
yours. I am the pioneer. You don't know which direction to take by
yourself, but because I have laid down the path, you can be
unmistakably clear about which direction to go. Do you have some
complaint? Do you think that I just enjoy life and take it easy at
East Garden? Every moment of the day, I am working for the purpose of
the world.
There is a certain order in everything, for instance in the
educational process. Until you complete elementary school you cannot
go on to high school. Without finishing high school, you cannot go to
college. Without going to college, you cannot gain a PhD. By the same
token, we also have an order to our missions.
Look at the tree: it has many parts and components. Can all the parts
claim the trunk's position? If it were nothing but a trunk, it
wouldn't be a tree anymore. There must be a root, trunk, branches,
leaves, and so forth.
When I look at you blessed couples, I look at you with a certain type
of "eyeglasses." Those eyeglasses can see whether you are living for
your own sake or for the sake of the world. That is the only question
I ask of you. Those who are living only for the sake of themselves and
are thinking only of their own benefit are actually heading downward
into hell. There is no question about that.
The couple who is living for the sake of the world and for humanity
finds that every moment of the day I am pushing them toward that goal.
Why is that? Do I want them to suffer? No. It is because that is the
only way I can assure that they will end up in heaven or will make a
heavenly accomplishment. For that reason, I push everybody in East
Garden, including Mother. Sometimes I push Mother to do certain
things, even when I can see that she is exhausted and worn out. Is
that good or bad? The Kingdom of Heaven is the world in which you are
constantly pushed toward the greater public goal and mission.
Think of this: if everybody in a particular community is striving for
the betterment of the society, nation and world, will they prosper or
decline? That particular community will not have a problem with crime.
There will be no room for robbers. Those who are in need will be taken
care of by their neighbors; thus no one will have the urge to steal.
Everyone in the community is there, ready and willing to assist them.
Without this particular principle, there is no way you can achieve the
ideal of the unification of humanity. This is the only way possible to
achieve that unification. Thus I am like your commander-in chief
because I know exactly where we are all going. Therefore I will pull
this man from here to there; I will take one person from one place to
another and there is no complaint because that is a family matter. I
am like the head of the house. Because I know what is best for the
well-being of the family and what is the best for whom, I can organize
and give you direction.
I often give the leaders a hard time, and the leaders may be giving
you a hard time, but it is not for myself that I do that. I am doing
that for the sake of the public mission, in order to obtain the good
of everybody. To bring greater and greater good. That is why I push
you harder and harder. Thus you have to obey and understand and you
must not have complaint.
There are many levels of goodness in this world, such as the family or
the society goodness, as well as the national, world and God-level of
goodness. We are always elevating ourselves to the higher levels of
goodness by sacrificing the lower levels of goodness. Can you just sit
back and say, "I'm ready for the higher goodness to come to me."? It
won't ever happen that way.
That is almost like a student in the elementary school shouting out,
"I'm ready to receive my Ph.D. I'm going to do that today." That is
absolutely impossible. You have to work sacrificially to achieve such
a thing. You have to study very late many nights and reach your Ph.D.
step by step.
Compare two different kinds of teachers. One will say, "Hello, my
students. Since this is such a beautiful day, I will take you all out
on a pleasant picnic. Let's have some fun." There is another kind of
teacher who, when the students ask to take a break and go outside and
enjoy the springtime, says, "You rascals! Sit down right here and I'm
going to give you a tough exam!"
Suppose that all the students were daydreaming and looking out the
window, enjoying the beauty of the springtime. The second kind of
teacher would tell them, "Don't even look out the window! Look at me!"
Which of those two kinds of teachers will benefit the students the
most? Yes, it is the second one. But how many American students
appreciate the second type of professor? American students will
complain and say, "Oh, what a horrible teacher! He's not human! How
can any human mind work like that?"
It so happens that I am the second type of teacher. No matter what you
say to me, I don't care. I just push you out and give you the rough
way at every opportunity. Thus I am called all kinds of names, but I
don't worry about that. Furthermore people say, "We will get rid of
Reverend Moon by putting him into jail." I say, let them do it; still
I will not change my principles.
You Americans are molded into individualism, thus how very difficult
it is to re-mold yourselves into a public minded person who lives
altruistically. Can that be an easy job? No, that is a tremendously
difficult job. The work of re-molding American young people into
unselfish people is an endeavor that hurts everyone. Everyone says
"Ouch!" including the parents of those young people. They say,
"Reverend Moon is a mind-controller. I have to kidnap my own
children!"
I am telling you that if you don't like being here, then you should
pack up and go. You do have that freedom within the Unification
Church, the freedom to stay or to go.
This is springtime and I wanted to blow away all the winter attitudes
from your brain, giving you refreshing new thoughts. When some people
look at a cloudy day, they feel it is very gloomy. But that isn't
necessary. When there are a lot of clouds, nature is telling us that
the universe is trying to love. Soon there will be a thunderstorm and
that is a lesson in loving. Look at things from a positive
perspective. When you interpret things, including the worst kind of
weather, from this perspective you can see everything in the universe
as the expression of God's love.
After lightning and thunder, the rains come down. This is also like
the act of love. The rain is the moisture that gives life and allows
the grass and the flowers to bloom and grow. The universe is the
ultimate teacher for mankind to learn how to love each other.
Scientists are saying that the universe is composed of energy in
motion. Which is first, energy or motion? This is a fundamental
beginning point of a great argument- people are divided into two great
philosophical camps over the question of whether energy or motion come
first. Which do you think?
Do you think that energy can exist independently, or must it maintain
itself through motion? Yes, it needs motion. That means in the absence
of motion there is no energy. Therefore, before there is energy there
must be motion. The universe is full of energy and energy comes only
through motion, so through motion the universe is maintained. Motion
creates energy, which brings about more motion and then more energy is
created, and so on.
How about motion? Does motion just spontaneously occur all by itself?
Energy is the result of motion but what created the motion? There has
to be a circuit, a subject and object relationship. This principle
shatters the theory of evolution. Everything begins through a subject
and object relationship, in which there is a certain purpose or common
goal. Then action or motion is initiated which in turn creates energy.
By this deductive method of reasoning, we have to come to a knowledge
of God. We know that God is the source or the cause and that God must
exist within a subject/object duality.
As I said at the outset of this sermon, God initiates everything. In
order to initiate everything, God must have subject/object within
Himself, and there must be a purpose which preceded His creation. In
order for one individual to move and do things, he must have some sort
of purpose in his mind. Then his mind and body must work together in a
circuit of subject and object, together creating motion which brings
energy. Furthermore, a man becomes a man in his give and take action
between his mind and body. As a man, he is a subject to his wife, who
is the object, and together they have give and take.
There are two types of energy-internal and external. External energy
is the energy of the natural world; internal energy is the energy of
the spiritual world. Whenever you have give and take in the natural
world, energy is used up and it decreases in the process of attrition.
Matter in motion will always wear out.
When a man and woman love each other and conceive a baby, the
microscopic sperm and egg come together and create that new being.
Within that tiny organism is an incredibly complex "computer program"
which contains all the instructions for the body and mind of the
future person. Thus when that child is born into this world, there is
no other way for him to go. His particular shape of face, color of
skin, eyes and so forth were already determined. There is an invisible
will that always directs your biological life.
There is one crucial word in the Divine Principle and that is prime
energy. This is still a mystery to many people. Since natural energy
always decreases through action, there must be some source that keeps
giving energy to the universe and that is prime energy. Without that,
the universe would eventually decline into nothingness.
The universe itself is a resultant existence; it has been created.
Once give and take occurs, within the universe, attrition also occurs.
But there is one way in which attrition can be avoided and that is
when there is a connection with the Creator, God, who has prime
energy. His prime energy is always re-generating, not declining to
attrition.
God must have thought, "How can I create this physical universe
without having it wear out? What will constantly re-generate it?" He
came up with the answer- there had to be two kinds of energy. The
first would be the external, natural energy, which causes attrition
through its give and take. The second would be the internal energy
which would not be affected by attrition but would always increase.
Spiritual, internal energy never suffers from attrition but rather is
always re-creating and regenerating. When you apply 100 volts of
electricity to a certain action, it gives out only 80 or 90 volts. The
output is always smaller than what you put in. But there is one form
of energy that has the opposite effect: the output is greater than
what you put in. That is the power of love. When love is applied, the
result is greater than what was put in, thus if you put in 10 volts of
love, you can receive 100 volts.
Many people might wonder how that could possibly work. I will give you
one example. I have twelve children at this time, so each child is
receiving one twelfth of my love, according to one perspective. But
the truth is that I give 100 per cent of my love to each child. In one
sense I am giving out 1200 per cent of my love. Thus none of the
children feels that he or she is receiving only one twelfth, or one
small portion of my parental love. Not at all. This is an amazing
aspect of love. The more you give, the more you have to give. You
never run out of it.
The only power that can increase is the power of love. The universe
would decline without that power of the love of God. But because of
the power of the love of God, the universe will always increase. The
more love you give, the more love you receive. Thus as you limitlessly
give out your love, you receive a limitless supply of love in return
and you will never run out of energy. God implanted this incredible
creative power within the universe.
Therefore, energy increases according to this principle. Only when you
are linked to the power of the love of God can you create and increase
and expand. This is very important, isn't it? I don't think you will
learn these things in any philosophy course in the university.
What is prime energy? It is the creative, initiative energy and it is
the power of love. This is all very logical. Because of prime energy,
creation was possible; because of prime energy, the maintenance of the
universe is possible.
Therefore the theory of random evolution is not true. The
single-celled amoeba can never become a higher, more sophisticated
animal by just sitting around, waiting for some random process to
happen to it. The amoeba had to first attract some new creative
energy, otherwise it could not be recreated into a higher being. That
creative energy is always supplied by the prime energy, which is love
energy. The plus attracts the minus; the plus and the minus become
one; then together they become a minus to a larger plus. That is prime
energy.
Bo Hi Pak is a good example. Each cell comes together in give and take
relationship, always asking for a new plus. Then as each plus comes,
Bo Hi Pak becomes one individual. Then again when he becomes a plus,
there is a minus supplied, which is his wife, Kee Sook Pak, and they
become one together and create energy and produce children, and they
become a family. You have to take either the subjective role or the
objective role; you have to be involved in action. If you try to
isolate yourself, nothing will happen to you.
Can the Oriental world and the Occidental world stay apart and
separate? No, the east and the west must have give and take and there
must be initiation of action. For example, I have come here from the
Orient as a large plus, asking each of you to become a minus and empty
yourselves. Then a bigger creation always occurs. That is the way we
increase ourselves. In that way the entire universe becomes one and
the largest plus, which is God, can unite together with the universe.
When the United States behaves in such a way that they don't care at
all about the rest of the world, you hear, "Yankee, go home!"
everywhere. But if Americans were to empty themselves out in love,
trying to help and care for the rest of the world, incredible new
energy would be supplied and this nation would never be destroyed.
This is because of the principle we are discussing.
Think about my situation. For my entire life I have been involved in
struggles and all kinds of persecution and court battles. This has
happened in every country I have lived in. I have been brought to
court and to jail in North Korea, South Korea, Japan, and now the
United States. Yet I still don't look tired, do I? Why is that? I know
clearly how to tap into the prime energy, the love power. Therefore, I
will never decrease but I will always increase. No matter how much
persecution I may receive, I am bound to increase.
Reverend Moon has a certain taste, the taste of true love. The
American people have not yet been able to get any of that taste. Once
they do that, they will be delighted. Even though I may push you out
and speak harshly to you, I am like a mother scolding her little
child. That little child will still run after his mother, never
wanting to go away from her. The child only wants the love of his
mother. This is a very important message.
Reverend Moon has some mysterious energy so he never gets tired.
Furthermore, he is never alone; everywhere he goes, things happen and
people come to him. That is because they want to experience that
"Reverend Moon taste." Love always comes back to you, plus interest.
Therefore when you invest one hundred parts of love, you always
receive more than one hundred in return. Do you know that clearly? Do
you know that going out and giving love for the sake of others is not
a waste or a loss?
It is very common to see men and women walking together along the
streets of New York, clinging and being very passionate with each
other. But one kind of couple is concerned about something greater
than just themselves; they are united for something such as the
society, nation or the world or for God. If so, they will be a
prosperous couple. But on the other hand, if a couple is interested
only in pursuing their own carnal desires and their own selfish
interests, they are walking together right down the road to hell.
Men and women are mysterious beings. An amazing thing is that the
entire universe is like the cheering section for any couple that is
pursuing a greater cause and purpose. Therefore those people will
prosper. God created the universe in the rhythm of love. Anybody who
sings the same song and moves according to the same rhythm of love
will be supported and applauded by the universe. But anybody who moves
against the universal rhythm will be pushed away by the rest of the
universe. That kind of couple will be digging their own grave. That is
the rule of the universe and the universe has that kind of power. It
nurtures people when they are engaged in the action of love; it gives
more and more energy and inspiration.
As you teach Divine Principle workshops, this one principle must be
taught very clearly. The wisest way of life is to live altruistically,
giving oneself for the sake of others. The essence of human wisdom is
to know the truth and practice it. Does anybody here have a different
opinion from this?
The whole universe exists in the system of pairs; there are no
bachelors in the natural universe. The animal kingdom exists in pairs,
so does the vegetable world, and so does the mineral world. Do you
know why human language came into being? It is because language is
necessary to communicate. If human beings didn't need one another, why
should they need to communicate? The very reason why language exists
indicates how human beings should live: in communication. What is the
greatest message to communicate? It is love.
What are the sweetest and finest words under the sun? They are the
words that convey love. Many people criticize Reverend Moon, calling
him a "dictator" and so forth, but every word that I speak is about
love. Love is the only message I am bringing. Therefore, no matter who
opposes me or what people say about me, the universal power will
support me.
Love is everywhere, even within the mineral kingdom. When you look
from the spiritual point of view, even the rocks sing. The trees talk
and the flowers dance. The universe is craving for love, therefore our
way of life must be nothing other than that-singing and craving for
love. The universe is like a museum of God's love. Every facet of the
universe teaches us how love should be expressed. Mankind completes
that museum; man is the crowning piece within that museum.
The entire universe is waiting for the consummation of love. The
minerals, the plants, and the animal kingdom are waiting for the
consummation of love. The master who consummates the love of the
universe is man. Human beings must bind together into oneness with
God. That is the role of people in this universe. At the moment of the
consummation of the love of human beings, God consummates His love as
well.
The insects exist in pairs and they make noises of love. Those noises
are made for the sake of their mate. The birds sing love songs to
their mates every morning; and likewise all the animals make sounds of
love. How about human beings? If there are no partners in love, there
is no art, music, or dancing. You have nothing to dance about.
All things are craving a mediator to convey their love to a higher
level of accomplishment. This is even true of fish. Therefore, people
can relate to all the different aspects of creation, including the
fish, the birds, plants, animals and minerals. This is because man is
their ultimate mediator or bridge to God.
However, the channel of love for the universe has been shattered; man
has never become the bridge for their love. For that reason it is very
logical to say that the Creation is groaning in travail and grief-no
true love has been conveyed between them and their Creator. Look at
the tiny insects; even between them, there is the communication of
love. Lower animals are sacrificed and eaten by the higher animals-for
example, cows are eaten by human beings. But cows are glad of this
because in that way they become part of the human body and the human
body relates in love with God, which is the ultimate purpose of the
universe.
Love goes beyond physical death and thus all the creatures of nature
are willing to sacrifice themselves to become part of a higher love.
The only reason why humans have the right to eat all the different
forms of nature is that we are the higher beings who are capable of
relating the love of God to the rest of the universe. For that reason,
human beings should also be able to sacrifice themselves for the sake
of love. Furthermore a person without love has no real right to eat
the creation. Such a person is not a true mediator. The universe knows
what entitles someone to eat. It is not because someone can pay for
the groceries, but only because a person is sensing the love of God.
The universe is "auditing" your love. They can see whether you are a
person of love or not. They know when someone is a thief, having
consumed the universe without ever relaying God's love back to them.
What is the difference between animals, for example the birds, and
human beings? Birds only know how to love one another, but human
beings know how to harmonize with and love all the forms of creation.
Therefore, humans are the ultimate mediators between God and creation.
That is the difference. That is the special dignity and privilege of
human beings.
What is the love of the True Parents? It is the love that links
together all the generations of love of the entire creation. The whole
creation is harmonized through the True Parents. True Parents' love
here on earth is like a formula or tradition; anybody who follows that
formula or tradition is bound to succeed. Not only will you succeed
here on earth but you will also succeed in spirit world, which is the
eternal and most important world. This kind of love will be welcomed
anywhere, anytime, because this is the love of God. No one wants to
repel it.
This is the generation record, the one central theme. Everything is
linked to that center. For that reason, True Parents' love represents
all the love in the universe. This universe is the museum of love and
there has to be a center, or nucleus, of that love. That nucleus is
the True Parents' love, through which the generations are organized.
Therefore, you are trying to link your own lives to that nucleus. For
that reason, following and obeying the True Parents is the highest
virtue.
You cannot learn in any way except by following the True Parents'
tradition of love. There are so many different kinds of perverted
love, such as lesbianism, homosexuality, promiscuity and so forth. All
of these are absolutely opposite from the True Parents' tradition of
love.
Those of you who say, "Yes, Father, I am going to follow the True
Parents' tradition of love and I will fulfill that love within my own
family," raise your hands, please. Thank you and God bless you.