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The Realization Of The Ideal Of Creation Through Love
If we ask God why He created this world, He will surely answer, "Because it was good," which means He created because He wanted to receive joy and happiness.
How can we attain happiness or a good situation? It is only possible through love. Therefore we can conclude that God created this world in order to receive happiness through a substantial object of love.
God created this world in order to realize love. God created all things in order to feel happiness through seeing human beings and all things uniting and realizing a harmonious love relationship centering on God's love; to feel happiness seeing human beings forming true husband and wife relationships centering on God and realizing true love families, clans, tribes and world; and to feel the happiness of love by uniting with them through love. This, indeed, was God's ideal of creation.
God's dream was just one -- to realize His ideal of love. However, the realization of the ideal of love was not possible by God Himself alone. Love, happiness and joy cannot be attained with just one being. They can never be realized without an object.
God is an absolute being; however, He needs to have a being which can become His object of love. God's object of love is man and woman. When they with perfected love come before God as His objects of love, God becomes the God of joy who has found His ideal of happiness.
We are always situated in a position to give and receive. If we are in a high position, we need to become low; if we have received, we need to give. Therefore, to experience absolute love or to be an absolute subject we must stand in the position of object.
An absolute person in the subject position cannot but seek an ideal for the sake of the reciprocal partner. No matter how great a person is, whether the person is a scholar with worldwide power, or an artist, or a politician, no person of goodness can be happy by himself or herself alone. Happiness can be attained only through having an object.
Let us imagine where God's happiness could be shown Because God is an absolute being, if He is the end, He must be the very end.
Because God is standing at the center of the borderline, He has to seek an object which becomes His reciprocal partner. Where there is sunlight, there always appears a shadow centering on a certain object. In a similar way, a person in the subject position wishes to give to a person in a lower position rather than giving to a higher person.
Therefore, the reason God created the whole universe was in order to realize His ideal. The object of the realization of His ideal would be linked from all things to animals, and from animals to man. Of course, nature would also be included. God started His creation from small things and worked toward larger things.
Therefore, even a small thing becomes an object to one part of God. Therefore, for an absolute God to love, small things became His first reciprocal objects. From that point onward, God feels an increasing degree of stimulation.
The base in the original mind where God's unlimited love can be expressed centering on His purpose is the "shim jung." The value of shim jung never changes. We must always include God's love in order to discuss the value of His existence. Something's value can only be determined when it fulfills its role as a partner in a reciprocal relationship.
Therefore, happiness originates from the heart of God. Where can this purpose be realized? It can be realized in man and woman. The invisible heart of God appears in the visible human heart. When people with this shim jung multiply horizontally and form families, then those families will expand to the world and become its center. In order to realize such a family, God gave Adam and Eve the blessings to grow and multiply. Universality is formed on the foundation of growing, multiplying and dominating all things.
Why did God create this world? God wanted to attain happiness through this world. Even if we say that God is an absolute being, He cannot feel happiness by Himself. This is because happiness can be attained only when there is an object.
What God needs is not knowledge, money or power. God Himself is absolute and almighty so He does not need anything of this sort. No matter how much science develops, it cannot catch up to, much less go beyond, God's creation. This enormous universe moves with an order according to a principle. When we think that God created and has been operating this enormous universe, we can say that God also is the absolute scientist.
Among the existing beings in this world, there are none which have the strength to stand up to God. This is because God has almighty and absolute power Also, God is unchanging and self-existing If there is something which this God desires to have, what would that be?
There is only one thing that God absolutely needs, and that is true love. True love is what both God and human beings absolutely need.
God does not need knowledge, because God Himself created knowledge. God does not need power, because God is omnipotent. God does not need money, because He can create diamonds and gold whenever He wants.
Then what is it that God needs? There is just one thing that God needs, and that is love.
Would God be able to receive love by being alone? One might ask, "Can't God handle love as He wishes?" Absolutely not. What God needs the most is an object with whom He can share true love. We just have not understood this point.
If God is an absolute being, the question is why God created man and woman. It was not in order to gain money, knowledge or power. It is because this is the only way through which God can feel happiness.
Seen from this point of view, God the Father and humankind as His sons and daughters form an axis. If this axis is linked, the unified love relationship between man and woman and God will never be broken.
Do you think that a person who is connected to God's original love and who has experienced the taste of that love could ever leave God? A bee comes to taste the nectar in spring. A bee eating nectar will not stop eating even if his rear end is pulled off.
What does God's love taste like? Its taste is such that you want to turn around and come back again to stick to it. When all existence, action and multiplication begins with this axis connected to love as the foundation, then individually perfected men and women will come together to form love-centered families.
Centering on this love axis, a clan, tribe, nation and world should appear. Why, then, has love become self-centered in America? Why are men and women making love so easily, as if they were just casually greeting each other on the street?
The reason God created man and woman was because God cannot experience any stimulation by Himself. Happiness is that which can be attained only through a relationship with an object. One cannot receive the stimulation of happiness alone. If we stand in an objective position to God, we can receive the highest level of love. Then God's internal character becomes substantialized If God feels sad. human beings too cannot but feel sad. Therefore, the relationship between us and God is impossible to break. No matter how much we research, we can come to no other conclusion.
Why does God need man and woman? When we think about why God must need us when He tries to realize His ideal, we can conclude that we are necessary in order to fulfill God's love. Then what is God's love? It must be the love with which human beings are able to love each other eternally, but it also must be the love which would make God eternally love human beings. Therefore, we are the reciprocal partners of God's eternal love.
From the very time God created Adam and Eve, God eternally wanted to love them as His objects, whom He wanted to see again and again-and again, and to be with again and again and again, and to live with again and again and again. It was God's ideal to have such an object.
With what can we compare God's love? According to the Divine Principle, it is the completion of the Four Position Foundation. Then, what is meant by the completion of the Four Position Foundation? The love of a parent is given to the child and is felt. This process can be divided into three stages of parents' love, husband and wife's love, and child's love. When we look at this horizontally, they are all united and connected to each other. Centering on parents' love, which is the center of the Four Position Foundation, the child is united and the husband and wife are united, and finally they all become united with God's love. This is the Four Position Foundation.
Adam must unite with God. Man is the horizontal representative of the existing world and God represents the three-dimensional world. Love makes this unity eternally possible.
When man and woman with physical bodies unite with God, they become intoxicated and their heart and feelings come to dwell in eternal happiness. Consequently, through love, man, woman and God unite into one. The substantialization of God's ideal world and the purpose of creation start from the point of human beings and the world becoming one through love.
Originally, we were created to live in the midst of unity with God, feeling love substantially. Satan aimed at the center of this love, making Adam and Eve fall. After that, this universe drifted away from God, with no relationship to His love, becoming chaotic.
God's ideal begins for the first time from God-centered love, love which flows according to the law of creation.
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