Book 13
The Completion of Restoration and the Settlement of Cheon Il Guk

The Cosmic Nation of Peace and Unity, Cheon Il Guk, means the kingdom of heaven in heaven and on earth, realizing God’s ideal of one human family with God at the center. God was unable to realize the kingdom of heaven in the beginning due to the Fall of the first human ancestors. Instead, with a heart of bitter sorrow, He had to conduct the providence of restoration to rectify the evils of history. Yet the providence of restoration has been prolonged again and again due to the inability of central figures to fulfill their responsibilities. Even Jesus, God’s only begotten Son, due to people’s disbelief died on the cross without being able to establish God’s ideal on earth, leaving only the promise that he would return. Hence, the realization of God’s Will was delayed once again.

With the Holy Wedding, the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, True Parents appeared on earth. They have devoted all their strength to complete the providence of salvation. Notably, they brought the truth that had never been revealed to the world, they established the marriage Blessing and expanded it to the world, to bequeath true love, true life and true lineage, the highest goal of the providence of salvation, to all humankind.

Finally, on the basis of indescribable sacrifices, paying all the required indemnity and offering countless conditions of devotion, True Parents held the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship on January 13, 2001. Through this ceremony, they laid the foundation for the liberation of God and humankind. During the next 12 years until Foundation Day, True Parents lived each moment as if a day were 1,000 years. Based on their total investment, they declared the Era After the Coming of Heaven, established the heavenly calendar, and dedicated the Cheon Jeong Gung Palace. With these foundations, they built the everlasting bedrock upon which God could be securely settled on earth.

Further, True Parents were successful in their course to recover and establish their position as the Messiah, the True Parents and the King and Queen of Peace. In 2009, the 50th year of their marriage, in the presence of eyewitnesses both in heaven and on earth, they held elaborate ceremonies in both Korea and the United States for the Coronation of God, the King of All Kings, with the Authority of His Liberation, to liberate God to stand in the position in which He has full authority.

On the 8th and 15th days of the 5th month by the heavenly calendar, 2010, True Parents proclaimed that they had accomplished everything required of them as God’s substantial object partners. Upon completing, consummating and concluding all of his providential missions, True Father declared, “Everything is completed.” Soon after proclaiming these words, the 17th day of the 7th month by the heavenly calendar in 2012 (September 3), True Father ascended to heaven six months before Foundation Day. Yet his final words meant that all the conditions needed to hold Foundation Day had been completed. Hence, on the 13th day of the first month of the heavenly calendar in 2013 (February 22) True Mother on earth, in unity with True Father in heaven, proclaimed the Foundation Day of Cheon Il Guk in front of all of heaven and earth.

Furthermore, for the sake of the settlement of Cheon Il Guk, True Mother, having oneness in heart, oneness in body, oneness in thought and oneness in core with True Father, has had many achievements of note, including the compilation of the three Cheon Il Guk Holy Scriptures, enacting the Cheon Il Guk Constitution, and educating and training capable leaders around the world.

As God created heaven and earth in the beginning, True Parents have been fulfilling, step-by-step, the providential work of re-creation to inaugurate Cheon Il Guk in heaven and on earth for the sake of all humankind.

Chapter 1
The Enthronement and Coronation Ceremonies

Section 1. The Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship

Providence to recover God’s kingship

On January 13, 2001, True Parents held the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship at the Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center. The providence behind that ceremony had many steps. First, True Parents recovered the True Family, which had been lost. On that foundation they returned the realm of ownership to God by restoring the authority of the elder son, the authority of the parents, and the authority of kingship, then offering them all to God. Thereby True Parents recovered God’s kingship that had been lost due to the Fall of the first human ancestors and established the foundation upon which they could proclaim Cheon Il Guk throughout heaven and earth. Having completed all this, and with a reverent heart toward God, they prepared and held the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship. The result was that God was able to gain His sovereignty both in heaven and on earth.

1 The Old Testament Age was the age for brothers to unite. The New Testament Age was the age for children to unite with parents. The Completed Testament Age is the age for people to unite with kingship. These three ages were to restore the authority of the elder son, parents and king.

All of this, including the authority of kingship, could have been restored in Jesus’ time had the people of Israel attended Jesus as the True Parent. However, they did not do so, and the providence was prolonged. That is why the time for restoring God’s kingship has arrived now, in the Completed Testament Age. (304-011, 1999/09/05)

2 In the Old Testament Age, the priests sacrificed animals to pave the way for the Son and the Daughter to come. That Son is the Messiah. They offered the things of creation to prepare a foundation for the Messiah to come to earth. The providence has been advancing following the course of the Fall, but in reverse order.

The Son then came to earth and shed his blood. He died on the cross. If the people of Israel had united with him, Jesus would not have died. Yet the people did not believe in him; hence, he had to shed his blood. What was this Son originally supposed to accomplish? He was to pave the way for the emergence of True Parents. Jesus was to be the True Father, and the True Mother was to come later. Made ready as the Bride, she was to meet the Bridegroom, Jesus, who was to right the wrongs of the world.

For this to happen, first the Cain-Abel relationship that was lost needed to be resolved. Cain and Abel in Jesus’ day were represented on the national level by the people of Israel and Judaism. In the Last Days they are represented by communism and democracy. We must resolve this persistent Cain-Abel problem; this will be done by restoring kingship on the world level. (280-079, 1996/11/01)

3 The Old Testament Age was the age of brothers. At the time of Jesus, Judaism was in the position of Abel and the people of Israel were in the position of Cain. These two brothers were supposed to unite, and on that foundation they were to connect to the teaching of Parentism. First they had to unite centering on Mother, and after that they would have connected to Father. This is how they would have been able to establish blessed families centered on Jesus.

However, this was not accomplished, and the providence in the Old Testament Age to restore the authority of the elder son came to naught. The New Testament Age was to restore the authority of the parents and the Completed Testament Age is to restore the kingship, but this all was lost. Hence, the Old, New and Completed Testament Ages all must be brought to completion.

In the Old Testament Age, animals were sacrificed as offerings. In the New Testament Age, at the time of Jesus, the Son came to establish the nation, but when he could not, he had to become the sacrificial offering. When the age of the True Parents arrived, the path of the sacrificial offering still remained to be fulfilled before they could attend God. Thus, while True Parents were on earth, they had to follow a 40-year course of suffering in order to attend God. This was the path they had to walk in order to bring God down to earth. It was how they connected the spiritual world and the physical world together, enabling God to work freely between the two worlds. It was how they brought liberation to both worlds. (304-032, 1999/09/05)

4 If the people of Israel had united with Jesus as the Messiah, the authority of the elder son could have been restored at that time. Unity between brothers comes about when they share the same level, the same value, and the same standard. Fundamental unity cannot be achieved without the Messiah, who represents the elder son. But the people of Israel were unable to become one with the Messiah. If they had made unity with Jesus, the Messiah could have formed a family, and the Blessing could have been given to the people of Israel as the chosen people.

From this standpoint, Jesus needed to marry, to celebrate the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Through that marriage, he and his Bride were to have become the True Parents. Then, the Messiah's family would have become the elder son family, and the people of the world would have formed younger son families. This would have established the authority of the parents. If the people of the world had received the Blessing and become blessed families, then, centering on the Messiah, they would have gone beyond the national level and established a worldwide Christian cultural sphere as the Second Israel. This would have been “One Nation under God,” a nation representing the whole world.

This was meant to happen immediately after the Second World War. Even though it did not happen, we have now built a foundation of families throughout the world who have received the Blessing. Based on these families, all humanity needs to focus on one point and attend God as the King. This is the purpose for which the Lord returns. (303-097, 1999/08/08)

5 The Lord must come again because the authority of the elder son was not established in Jesus’ day. As Jesus was unable to achieve this and lost his life, the Lord must restore it when he returns. He must offer to God the authority of the elder son, the authority of the True Parents on the family level and the authority of kingship on the global level. God will take possession of all things through the True Parents.

All things originally belonged to God, so by passing through the era of indemnity, all things must be dedicated to God. Fallen human beings cannot hold on to the right of possession. Nothing belongs to you. You must unite with the Lord at his Second Advent and offer all your possessions to God by vesting them with the Lord, because the First Adam was unable to reach perfection, God could not have dominion over the world.

Accordingly, you need to offer everything back to God through the perfected Adam. Then, in the position that you have not fallen and have dissolved all of God’s bitter pain, things will be given back to you. From the day you receive the things that return to you, you will inherit royal authority over heaven and earth, as well as the authority of the Parents of Heaven and Earth and the horizontal authority of the elder son in heaven and earth.

Once True Parents establish the authority of the elder son, they will then establish the authority of the parents, and after that the authority of kingship. When all these expand on the global level, all people can also achieve the authority of the elder son, parents and king even within their own families.

When you stand on that foundation, you will be able to totally liberate the spiritual world and the physical world. God also will be liberated at that time. Hence, you will be able to attend the liberated Lord God and live forever in the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven, which will last for eternity. Families of the world that succeed in attaining all these levels of authority—the elder son, the parents and the king—will attend Jesus as the king of kings. Everyone must attend him as the king. (303-098, 1999/08/08)

6 I have to eliminate everything that is based on the sovereignty of Satan’s world, which has come down through the generations. I have to indemnify the betrayals of heaven and the betrayals of God’s Will, and restore God’s victorious dominion. I have to sweep away everything that was corrupted under Satan’s sovereignty, from the era of the individual and the era of the tribe up to the present.

To achieve that, I must restore the authority of the elder son. I must restore the authority of the elder son and then the authority of the parents. Originally, the parents were to be the owners, but Satan became the owner and king. For that reason, as the younger son and on God’s side, I am moving forward to restore the authority of the elder son, the authority of the parents and the authority of kingship. (248-082, 1993/07/01)

Foundation for the ceremony

In order to prepare the foundation for the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship, True Parents proclaimed the Return of the Oceans to God, the Return of the Land to God and the Return of the Cosmos to God. On September 26, 2000, they held the Unification Blessing Ceremony for the Registration of the Four-Position Foundation at the Transition of the Three Ages. In this, True Parents acted by the authority of kingship to set up registration into the kingdom of heaven.

Prior to this, on June 13, 1998, at the first phase of the 360 Million Couples Blessing, True Parents gave the Blessing to both the greatest saints and the worst criminals in history, treating them equally. This made a foundation for the spiritual world and the physical world to become one and for hell to be abolished. Further, on August 18, 2000, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, True Father proclaimed that national boundaries should be abolished. This meant that the foundation was prepared for people to register in the kingdom of heaven.

7 Heavenly Father, we have now come to the point in our global ocean enterprise, which we started in 1963, where we anticipate reaching the summit. In all of human history, there had never been a son or daughter who was able to embrace and love the sea from the perspective of a true owner. But True Parents appeared and with this in mind traversed the five oceans in order to fulfill true ownership.

For that purpose, in Kodiak, Alaska, which is within the oceanic realm, we conducted the Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages and proclaimed Heavenly Parentism, always placing You at the center. These are events that Unification Church members can never forget. That ceremony and the proclamation that followed was a big leap toward revolutionizing the foundations of world history and resolving the world’s chaos.

Now here in Kodiak, with today’s Proclamation of the Return of the Oceans to God, we are connecting the realms of the land and sea, so that the Lord of heaven, the Lord of the sea, and the Lord of the land will be joined as one. (324-109, 2000/06/17) RESUME

8 Heavenly Father, having declared the return of the oceans to You, today on June 24, 2000, in Korea, I decided to connect North and South America. Now from the Korean Peninsula to the southernmost part of Asia, I am able to return to You the land, connecting all six continents together. On this day, in the name of True Parents, I proclaim before heaven and earth that by returning the oceans and continents to You, the land and sea that existed in the original Garden of Eden, made according to Your original ideal, have been reconnected before the Parents of Heaven and Earth. (324-268, 2000/06/24)

9 Heavenly Father, we, True Parents, took a boat out from Jiguido Island, near Jeju Island. While looking at Mt. Halla, we connected the mountains to the plains, beyond Mt. Baekdu and Mt. Everest in the Himalayas. By so doing, we made the final condition to return to You the realms of the ocean and the land, and we have made that proclamation. It was for this purpose that I came to Korea.

Here, at Jiguido, representing Jeju Island, I proclaim before You, Heavenly Father, and before the entire universe, all these connections we have made. Please remember this day. Although I could not complete all my plans by June 2000, I established more than 80 percent of the conditions, and through this, You have gained the authority to move all things in the world to the supreme position of victory with absolutely no ties to Satan. It is a victory You long hoped to achieve, and which You pursued with resolute determination.

Upholding this based on True Parents’ relational standard, I proclaim that this world will transition into the realm of liberation on the basis of this ceremony, at this hour of returning all things in the cosmos to You. (325-077, 2000/06/29)

10 On September 26, 2000, we held an event entitled, “Unification Blessing Ceremony for the Registration of the Four-Position Foundation at the Transition of the Three Ages.” The title refers to the realm of the Blessing that opens a great transition from the past three ages of human history to a new age of oneness. In this new age you need to register your four-position foundation in God’s kingdom in order to enter the realm of oneness formed by this transition and registration. Indeed, it is the age of transition. Only when you are registered will you enter the realm of oneness. The realm of oneness created through registration in this age encompasses both the spiritual world and the physical world.

The four-position foundation must come first. God’s Will, the ideal of creation, is fulfilled through the perfection of the four-position foundation. The perfection of the four-position foundation is accomplished by loving others and attending God. The four-position foundation takes root in such a place. This is the formula. (333-281, 2000/09/27)

11 We are treating the greatest saints and the worst murderers equally by giving both the Blessing, so that the spiritual world and physical world can become one and hell can be abolished. All the divisions in the spirit world, such as between paradise and other realms, must be removed so that all can return to one even level.

As part of our earnest efforts to make the Blessing global in scope, I proclaimed at the United Nations that national borders should be dissolved. Therefore, on December 3, which was before the end of the year 2000, I issued a proclamation declaring the abolition of paradise and the opening of registration in the kingdom of heaven to all. We as True Parents declared the abolition of paradise and hell because these realms stemmed from the false parents. We made the conditions to liquidate these realms by successfully surmounting the hill of indemnity. If we had not been successful in abolishing paradise and hell, it would be impossible to enthrone God as King. (340-043, 2000/12/23)

12 Heavenly Father, beginning today, December 1 of this historic year of 2000, we are making preparations to usher in the year marking the beginning of the new millennium. On this day, having surmounted the hill of bitter sorrow in the heavenly and earthly worlds, and having completed the period for resolving everything in history, we will begin to lay the foundation for the perfection of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world and cosmos centered on love, in order to bring about the ideal world that You envisioned at the time of the creation.

We have set the date for this new beginning as January 13, 2001, 43 days from today. We designate this 43-day period as a time to make all the needed preparations to celebrate Your enthronement to the position of the King of all families, the King of all nations, the King of the world and the King of all kings. It will be the day when You can proclaim that liberation has come, because everything has been resolved, including the bitter sorrow that You have harbored in Your heart. As we have determined that the day on which we will enthrone You, Father, is 43 days from today, and as we make this proclamation about that day, may You help us step over the realm of death and leap into the world of liberation.

We would like to express our gratitude to You for the grace of allowing us to usher in this era when we can establish Your supremacy. We are grateful that we could receive this heavenly fortune based on the family-level Blessings that True Parents needed to spread throughout the world in order to fulfill the ideal of oneness before You, the Father of all humankind. From this day forth, centered on the Original Holy Ground, Root Holy Ground and Victory Holy Ground, please allow us to make all the necessary preparations during these coming 43 days to take this giant step forward for You. (338-311, 2000/12/01)

13 When the first human ancestors became the false human ancestors, they created hell, overturning God’s kingship and everything good. True Parents and the blessed families of the Unification Church need to set things straight and attend God in His rightful position as the true King. With this authority, God will bequeath to True Parents what is needed to recover the ideals of His family, His world and His cosmos. The condition to enable this is the Total Living Offering. Without making this condition, people cannot claim ownership of anything whatsoever, including their nations. So without making this condition, anyone who possesses title to anything is in violation.

For the absolute God to have the authority of kingship, He should be sovereign over everything, but He lost even love and lineage. How can we attend God in order to see to His enthronement? First we have to solve the issues of love and lineage. Then we have to enthrone Him with representatives of all nations of the world showing their support. When this happens, God will be able to exercise all His power—His omnipresent authority and power. Thus, hell, Satan’s world and Satan’s lackeys will be completely cleaned away in an instant.

Who will perform the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship? Can True Parents do it alone? We need to do it centered on the registered blessed families. (339-281, 2000/12/22)

14 Despite undergoing persecution throughout my life, I laid the foundation of victory by going through the eight stages: the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, cosmos and God. Achieving this has liberated God. My last remaining task is to save my enemies. Then the ideal of creation will be fulfilled.

Through True Parents, North Korea will be saved, and the conflict between Palestine and Israel will be resolved. The United States does not want to be involved in continual conflicts between Israel and Palestine. However, I have embraced the world of Islam. I have forgiven and saved the United States, although it acted as my enemy by sending me to prison. I embraced everyone who persecuted me. I have no enemies. Not in the realms of Christianity or Islam, not among black people or white people, not even among those in hell do I have an enemy. I stand on the foundation of the unfallen, original family in which all people are brothers and sisters.

In this way we liberated God, and God now has His overall authority. At this point, I am going to recover even His throne. This is why on January 13, 2001, we will enthrone God as the King. The false parent Satan usurped God’s throne. True Parents will recover it and create God’s kingdom on earth. It will be a world of peace.

True Parents and blessed families now have the privilege of bringing God back to His throne. Once God is on His throne, when people enter heaven, they will not find any obstacles in their path. Likewise, on earth we should be able to win over the United Nations and eliminate national boundaries to fulfill the standard of world peace, and secure that peace by giving the Blessing to couples from enemy nations. (339-156, 2000/12/10)

15 On January 13, 2001, True Parents will conduct the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship. We are going to bring God back to His throne. That is the ceremony we will carry out. We have already held two ceremonies for this purpose at the formation and growth stages. The coming ceremony will be at the completion stage. We must establish God’s kingship.

I am proud of the fact that we as human beings could do something that God has not been able to do for Himself. We declared the abolition of hell and paradise, and we dealt with other matters that God has not been able to deal with because Satan destroyed His authority as the king. That is why True Parents need to restore God to His original position and recover for Him the world where He has all authority to exercise His power, being immanent in all and present everywhere. (339-065, 2000/12/06)

16 Since I declared the abolition of paradise and hell, there is no longer any path of indemnity on the course laid out by True Parents. Now that we are free to build the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven, and now that the fallen archangel is gone, God is now the True God and King who can return to His original place on His throne.

God could not do this by Himself. The false parent expelled Him from His position; therefore according to the principle of indemnity, it has to be the True Parents who bring God back to His throne. If they do not do it, God can never assume the throne.

It is we human beings who must bring God to His throne. That we can now do so is mainly because the Savior, the True Parents, established their authority to give the Blessing to us on earth and in heaven through God’s love, life and lineage. The Blessing empowers us to establish all the new traditions of God’s nation. Those who stand in the realm of God’s blessing are tied directly to God by bloodline and have no ties with Satan. It was Satan, the false parent of humankind, who turned everything upside down; but now True Parents have removed Satan and abolished hell and paradise, so that now only the kingdom of heaven can remain. On this foundation, we shall enthrone God at the center of His kingdom. This is the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship. (339-087, 2000/12/07)

17 Heavenly Father, today, January 1, 2001, the age of the night has ended and we are heading toward the year 3000 in the age of day. In the name of True Parents, I sincerely desire that we can establish the sovereignty of love under the Great Sovereign of Heaven and Earth. I sincerely desire that we can realize the independence of Your fatherland, where everyone acts out of a heart of love without any reservations, and where everyone has the authority of freedom in both the vertical and horizontal realms.

May You guide all humankind to know the highway that we have built to take them straight to heaven, so that they can be active and advance, with minds that are free and with bodies united with their minds, and with the authority of people who have autonomy to be family kings and queens, and kings and queens of the nations and the cosmos, while in attendance of the Parents of Heaven and Earth. In the name of True Parents, I proclaim our hope and desire that You will establish Your eternal reign of peace. (341-155, 2001/01/01)

The Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship and His liberation

18 With the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship, we are ushering in the age when God can exercise His authority and power in all immanence and omnipresence. We are advancing toward the age when human beings as autonomous owners can complete building God’s kingdom on earth, which He has long desired. For this, we have mobilized the spirits in all the realms of all the religions. Especially since True Parents came with the authority of autonomous owners, we now will welcome the grand age of victory and liberation, when the earthly world and the heavenly realms will march forward in step.

Beginning in January 2001, families that received the Blessing on earth and in heaven must unite in heart and establish a firm foundation to take root on earth. To this end, those in the heavenly realms need to inherit the positions of the elder son, the parents, and the kings based on Adam’s foundation on earth, and restore to the younger son the authority of the elder son. Through this, we will usher in the revolutionary era when the authority of the younger son can replace the authority of the elder son in heaven and on earth.

The Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship returned to God everything that He had lost in the beginning due to the Fall of the first human ancestors. It was a rite to restore to God the cosmos that had come under Satan’s possession and to announce that God had recovered His kingship. This ceremony marked the moment that released God from His bitter sorrow over the Human Fall by claiming back for Him both earth and heaven, the two worlds that had fallen into Satan’s hands. For True Parents, who had completely invested their entire lives for the sake of liberating God and humankind, it was the culmination of their victories.

The Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship marked the start of the 13-year course toward the Foundation Day of Cheon Il Guk, the day for embarking on the realization of God’s ideal of creation. During the first days of that 13-year period, True Parents proclaimed four major articles of heaven's constitution: the requirement to preserve the pure lineage, the prohibition against violating people's hearts, the prohibition against misusing public funds, and a mandate to establish exemplary true families. These are the fundamental laws and goals that citizens of God’s kingdom should uphold to complete Cheon Il Guk in the new era. (342-263, 2001/01/13)

19 It is of the utmost importance that blessed families protect God’s kingship. Your primary responsibility as blessed central families is to guard His kingship. Hence, you should take the greatest pride in having supported the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship. And now that God is enthroned, supporting His throne should be your number one aim and your supreme goal in life.

You should praise God’s sovereignty and testify to it. Resolve to invest everything to uphold it. Remember always that it must be your absolute, sole, unchanging and eternal determination to protect and expand His kingship. You blessed families must protect His kingship throughout your lives. (343-120, 2001/01/21)

20 You need to carry the absolute sovereignty of God in your hearts. God’s sovereignty must be the foremost principle of your lives. This sovereignty begins from one individual—the perfected Adam—and connects to the family, tribe, people, nation and the whole world. Even all creation longs to be connected to the family of the perfected Adam. You must understand and believe in this principle. You should exalt God’s sovereignty more than anything in the world.

However, until now, God could not rejoice in His sovereignty, but instead had to undertake the sorrowful and painful task of leading the providence of restoration. In the Last Days the responsibility of religions, nations, the Messiah and the True Parents is to bring God back to His original position and status. God’s exercise of His sovereignty is the central point for redeeming all beings.

Until now God was unable to assume His sovereignty, and for that reason He could not be the absolute, almighty God. Now, however, God has reclaimed His sovereignty. Through the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship, God has become the center of all creation. Even the tiniest, seemingly insignificant creature was created by the one and only God.

After the Human Fall, God lost His throne. But now He has been returned to that original position. This was possible thanks to all the families who received the Blessing. Therefore, you ought to carry with you the thought of God’s absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal sovereignty. (343-121, 2001/01/21)

21 Even God must be liberated. He longs for liberation, yet liberation has eluded Him. Why? It is because of Adam and Eve. They followed the false parent and took a path opposite to their original path. So, we must now follow the right path, be liberated, and finally enthrone God as the King.

The false parents turned the cosmos upside down with their false lineage, but I have set it straight. Formerly, sinners were trapped in hell’s deep hole, but I filled that hole. We gave the marriage Blessing not only to saints but also to murderers. We gave the Blessing not only to Unification Church members but also to members of religions that opposed us. We granted them entry into the Unification Realm, the realm of liberation, linking all of them together even with the True Children and all saints by giving them all the same Blessing. (341-016, 2000/12/29)

22 We, as True Parents, must liberate God. God could not become the Parent of humankind, and we must secure His position as the Parent. Also, God was unable to become the Teacher or the Owner of humankind, so we must secure His positions as the Teacher and the Owner. Further, we must make sure that He can settle on this earth in His hometown, in His fatherland. To this end, we conducted the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship. (361-084, 2001/11/20)

23 Do you think that we as True Parents could hold the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship any way we wanted to? We needed to know about the protocols of God’s kingdom and had to carry out the ceremony in the proper manner. Otherwise, we could not have conducted it. The ceremony was held in accordance with the detailed protocols of God’s kingdom for an enthronement ceremony. As a result, spirits who had been like prisoners in the spirit world, whose minds and bodies were disunited, were finally liberated. Now they are free to come and go between heaven and earth. (519-291, 2006/03/06)

24 Only the True Parents can liberate God. Since the false parents ruined everything, it is up to us as True Parents to straighten everything out. We now have completed everything we needed to do. We offered the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship. What else is left to do? We have done everything humanly possible on earth. We gave the Blessing to 400 million couples to connect people to God’s lineage and create a world in which all people are members of His family. (343-190, 2001/01/29)

25 Who will take responsibility for the wretched, pathetic history of humankind? No one who remains in ignorance can take responsibility. The person who must take responsibility is the one who knows what to do. The surgeon who holds the scalpel and all the surgical tools in the operating room is the one who must take responsibility for saving his patient’s life, even at the risk of exposing himself to a fatal illness. True Parents are like that surgeon.

Individuals, families, nations, and heaven and earth are all trapped in hell, in the realm of the Fall. Who will liberate them? The Lord has returned as the True Parents. They established true kingship over the family, tribe, people and nation before finally holding the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship. (418-251, 2003/09/25)

Section 2. The Holy Marriage Blessing of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk, and the Enthronement Ceremony of the King and Queen of the Blessed Families

The Holy Marriage Blessing Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk

The Holy Marriage Blessing of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk was held at the Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center on February 6, 2003. It was True Father’s 83rd birthday and True Mother’s 60th. The purpose of the marriage Blessing ceremony, which began with True Parents’ Holy Wedding in 1960, is to realize God’s hope for the salvation of all people. In particular, through the Holy Marriage Blessing of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk, True Parents opened the path for all people of the world to be registered as citizens of Cheon Il Guk. On that day True Parents expressed their sincere desire that all humanity become citizens of Cheon Il Guk, worthy to inherit heaven and earth, and they urged us to do so.

1 Right now we have no heavenly nation. It is through the marriage Blessing that we can establish it. We must claim it back from Satan by creating an environment beyond the national level in which he and his evil forces can no longer exist anywhere in the world. Because we have been involved with false love, we must recover everything with true love based on the marriage Blessing, on all levels from the individual to the family, tribe, people and nation. This is what we have to do in order to build the heavenly nation.

However, we cannot stop only at the level of forming a nation. The fallen parents created hell in the physical world and the spiritual world. Therefore, the True Parents must recover all levels: the individual, the family, the tribe, the people, the nation, the world and the spirit world, and even the archangel in the spiritual realm. The way they must recover them is by engrafting their lineage, the lineage of the true olive trees, onto the wild olive trees of the fallen lineage. In this way they will eliminate all the wild olive trees by having them become one with the true olive trees.

Even though you have not yet gone over the national level, True Parents are now leading a movement to unite the spirit world. I have given the Blessing even to those in the spirit world. Your ancestors are in the position of the Cain angelic world, but I am now giving the Blessing to those people, who've been living like angels without the ideal of an eternal partner. Once they receive the Blessing, then as blessed families and clans they can enter Cheon Il Guk. (405-206, 2003/02/11)

2 God could not conduct the Holy Wedding, because He did not have His own nation. This is also the reason His children could not be registered in the heavenly nation. Adam’s Fall caused God to lose His nation, and because He had no nation in which to conduct the Holy Wedding, it could not be held. Because there was no Holy Wedding, God could not register His son and daughter as His true children, and there is no question that earth became Satan’s household, over which Satan could exercise virtually absolute authority.

This situation must be overcome, not by force but by digesting it and then by bringing Satan to voluntary submission. Only when such a foundation is secured can God return His original ideal—for which He had created heaven and earth with His love at the center—to its starting point and then expand it to every corner of the world. This is the way He can claim supremacy over heaven and earth.

With Adam’s Fall, everything fell away from God. Therefore, Adam, after reaching perfection, had to hold the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship. On the basis of this he conducted the Holy Marriage Blessing of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk. (408-061, 2003/05/30)

3 Heavenly Father, we the True Parents, embracing the cosmos, have joined as husband and wife in marriage through the Holy Marriage Blessing of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk. In this way, we are able to establish the tradition of True Parents, who, in realizing the original ideal of creation both in heaven and on earth, are fulfilling the hope that You have long cherished in Your heart. Having already taken steps to liberate heaven and earth, now with this ceremony we have begun building the framework of the heavenly nation, where blessed families can enter for the first time.

All blessed families on earth, having inherited true love, true life and true lineage, are in the position of Abel. The blessed families in heaven and all the human ancestors are in the position of Cain. May those in the spirit world support the blessed families on earth. May God and all the saints, sages and good spirits in heaven also support the blessed families on earth. May all blessed families on earth, in the position of the younger brother, attend all those in the spirit world as their older brother and bring the total victory of oneness between heaven and earth.

May the entire creation receive them, the blessed families bonded in lineage with the True Parents who can embrace the whole cosmos and all its creatures from the smallest to the largest, granting their ensuing generations of offspring eternal liberation and the supreme victory of love. Through them, may all creation experience the joy of original life and the abundance of original happiness!

O God, You gave us life that we could become the True Parents. May You absorb even our bodies, if that is what it takes to bring unity among all the blessed families who are centered on True Parents’ love, and bring unity between them and all others in the entire universe, that they may be as one. We thank You that we can offer ourselves as Your created beings, so that we may cross the threshold of a new age, and so that we may bind ourselves to Cheon Il Guk, the liberated realm of the Blessing.

The Holy Marriage Blessing ceremony held today is a joyous event in the spiritual world and the physical world. The Parents of Heaven and Earth rejoice in their liberation. The incorporeal Parent of the Cosmos also rejoices in this victory, for it brings Him liberation.

May all the blessed families of Cheon Il Guk, in both the spiritual world and the physical world, unite centering on the ideal of oneness in heart, oneness in body, oneness in thought and oneness in harmony, and move forward toward the ideal fatherland that You have longed for. May they all become citizens worthy of Cheon Il Guk, who can inherit the blessed heaven and earth based on the original standard of God’s ideal of creation. May they all achieve liberation and complete victory. I proclaim all these things in the name of the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth, with their special authority and power. (404-282, 2003/02/06)

4 Heavenly Father, on this day, February 6, 2003, may all the blessed families in the spiritual world and the physical world enter Cheon Il Guk, as these two worlds establish a sibling relationship, following the way of the heavenly Principle. May all ancestors in the spirit world, who stand in Cain’s position, as well as all families on earth, in Abel’s position, receive the marriage Blessing and become siblings in the True Parents’ bloodline.

Thank You for allowing us to welcome this day, when we open heaven and earth to Cheon Il Guk. It marks a new dawn of hope, the start of the recreation of heaven and earth, when the spirit world ancestors in the elder brother’s position become the descendants of those in the physical world in the younger brother’s position, while those in the physical world become the ancestors of their bloodline based upon their merit as blessed families. (404-284, 2003/02/06)

5 Heavenly Father, I truly want to open wide the gate to Cheon Il Guk, so all families will follow the True Parents’ tradition and inherit everything from them—their name, their words, their accomplishments and their victories. Those families will strive to fulfill the ways of filial children, patriots, saints and divine sons and daughters. I sincerely wish and hope that as they strive to fulfill this ideal, everything that the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth desire will be realized. I humbly ask You to make all this happen.

I ask that You give the marriage Blessing so that these children may become Your heirs and descendants, worthy to inherit the realm of the original kingship, the realm of liberation for all, and enter the heavenly nation of unity, the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven. Then finally Your single-minded desire to fulfill the ideal of creation will be liberated. I report this in the name of the True Parents. (404-285, 2003/02/06)

6 You blessed members are now like the fruit. Your marriage Blessing has been recorded in the heavenly nation. You have registered your birth in that nation, as True Parents did. Hence, you can now advance to the position of True Parents’ direct sons and daughters, become complete seeds, and bear the fruit of the heavenly nation wherever you go. Therefore, you are now the owners of Cheon Il Guk.

Due to the Fall of Adam and Eve, human beings today are fallen on every level, from the individual to the family, tribe, people, nation and world. Even so, True Parents set all the conditions necessary to reach the level that even Jesus was not able to reach. Now that you are registered in the heavenly nation and have recorded your marriage Blessing in that nation, you, like True Parents, can inherit everything from God.

Since the time has arrived when you can stand in the same position as the True Parents, if you are able to move the United Nations, then wherever you go you will be able to enter the heavenly kingdom. I am not talking about the formation-level heavenly kingdom or the growth-level heavenly kingdom. We are now in the era when we can go beyond those. This means that even apart from God and True Parents, you yourselves have been given authority, as the fruit of the true olive trees, to engraft others and transform them into perfect seeds. This is why you can claim to be the owners of Cheon Il Guk.

The heavenly nation that was vacant for thousands of years can now be filled with citizens, of the first generation, the second generation, and on and on for thousands of generations. With the emergence of the true human ancestors, the first, second and succeeding generations can emerge and continue forevermore. (410-109, 2003/07/02)

7 As blessed central families and owners of Cheon Il Guk, you are now liberated from the providence of salvation. Therefore, you can represent the True Parents and walk the path for the Will even without God’s help. You will no longer need to pray for divine assistance. You are called owners of Cheon Il Guk because you stand in a position equal to True Parents.

Thus, henceforth, even if we leave you alone and do not help you, you should be able to build the kingdom of heaven. As we the True Parents have been building it, you should do the same. You need to recover your nation and even the world by spreading the marriage Blessing. In so doing, you need to overcome the challenge of connecting them to the realm of resurrection and the realm of eternal life. We already overcame all the challenges on every level.

As True Parents’ children, you are assuredly one and the same fruit as us, a fruit that is manifesting as the owners of Cheon Il Guk. Since we have sown our seeds in your families, you naturally will be able to give birth to members of the royal family and thus build the kingdom. This is why, without a doubt, you are owners of Cheon Il Guk. (408-114, 2003/06/03)

8 The Blessing you are now receiving is your registration in Cheon Il Guk. It is only because the word “registration” is included that this Blessing makes you citizens of Cheon Il Guk. Since you fell away from the heavenly nation, you must return to it. This is what is achieved through the Registration Marriage Blessing. Through it everything can be fundamentally resolved. (464-127, 2004/08/08)

9 This is the time for all to register. It is the time to simultaneously reconnect everything that was divided—the East and the West, heaven and earth, up and down, right and left, parents and children, man and woman, and siblings. It is the time when everyone can be born again by connecting to True Parents’ lineage through the Blessing.

Even families that lived several thousand years ago can be reborn and registered. They are not reborn by their stepfather and stepmother but by their direct Father and direct Mother. Once they are reborn, they can enter the heavenly world that has been vacant and fill it all at once.

However, in order to make this happen, you need to reach the standard that you love your enemies as your own brothers and sisters, because God and True Parents love them and want you to love them on their behalf. Unless you can stand in that position, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.

The Enthronement Ceremony of the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth

On February 6, 2003, True Parents held the Enthronement Ceremony of the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth Who Reign over the Blessed Families as the King and Queen of Peace and Unity, following the True Parents’ Holy Marriage Blessing Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk. This inaugurated the True Parents as the family king and laid the foundation to advance toward their becoming the peace king, the king of kings, on every level—tribe, people, nation, world and cosmos. This ceremony was the fruit of the 6,000-year providence of restoration, and by it True Parents established the substantial foundation for the new era of Cheon Il Guk. Thereby they completed the era of the providence of salvation and restoration through indemnity. Then they totally committed themselves to substantially build Cheon Il Guk, God’s homeland. (409-183, 2003/06/25)

10 Up to now we have given the marriage Blessing to 400 million couples, even blessing multitudes of couples in the spirit world. However, entry into the kingdom of heaven also requires that you participate in the Unification Blessing Ceremony for Registering the Four-Position Foundation at the Transition of the Three Ages. That is a step of preparation.

At the time we inaugurated that ceremony, I proclaimed we must enter the age of high noon settlement. There the sun will shine directly above us, whether in the morning or the afternoon. No shadow will be cast. Nor will there be any shadow in the evening or at night. Only when you enter the age of high noon settlement and live without casting any shadow, 24 hours a day in all seasons—spring, summer, fall and winter—can you become princes and princesses in the heavenly nation. God is in the position of high noon at all times, so you also should be in that position. You will then belong to His extended family. (415-186, 2003/08/14)

11 On True Parents’ birthday, the 6th day of the 1st lunar month of 2003, we held the Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk, and then the Enthronement Ceremony of the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth Who Reign over the Blessed Families as the King and Queen of Peace and Unity. Where must we, the True Parents, go now? We still have to climb up to the summit and then go over it. If we only climb to somewhere in the middle and come down, our ascent will not have been complete.

Where did we go after completing the year 2000? The summit we reached then was the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship. However, God still had no country to call His own. As a preparation for Cheon Il Guk, on September 26, 2000, we held the Unification Blessing Ceremony for Registering the Four-Position Foundation at the Transition of the Three Ages. You have to be registered into the heavenly nation. This is why I gave the direction to make Cheon Il Guk registration cards and have you register to receive them. If you regard your registration card as you regard True Parents and cherish it as much as you cherish God, things will work out for you wherever you go. You will shine like a diamond, like a luminescent stone. (424-142, 2003/11/06)

12 The Enthronement Ceremony of the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth Who Reign over the Blessed Families as the King and Queen of Peace and Unity was a significant event. By this ceremony, God and True Parents now stand as the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, and reign over the family. Further, they have finally established the nation where God reigns as King over the tribes, peoples and nations of the world for the first time in history. This means they can all become one. In the spirit world up to now, God had no form. Messages from the Spirit World stated that the incorporeal God is not visible, but True Parents appear on the right-hand side of God, who manifests as a pillar of fire. (429-025, 2003/12/23)

13 The time will come when God will give me an award. When He does, I will pass that award to Mother. Then, all blessed families and all Unification Church members in heaven and on earth also should honor Mother by offering her an award for her victory. With the Enthronement Ceremony of the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth Who Reign over the Blessed Families as the King and Queen of Peace and Unity, the incorporeal God assumes corporeal substance as the True Parents, the image of God; also the True Parents, who live in the earthly realm, ascend to the throne of the incorporeal Parent in the heavenly world.

Originally this should have happened at the time of Adam and Eve, after they perfected their family. Now with True Parents ascending to their thrones, the blessed families of the world will become the princes and princesses of the heavenly nation, and God will be able to settle within both the spiritual world and the physical world. (429-025, 2003/12/23)

14 After the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship, and after the establishment of Cheon Il Guk, we held the Holy Marriage Blessing of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk, and later that day the Enthronement Ceremony of the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth Who Reign over the Blessed Families as the King and Queen of Peace and Unity. If I am truly the Savior, Messiah, Lord at the Second Advent and True Parent, as God says I am, then what I am doing must be right. Adam and Eve could not become the family king and queen centering on God. Hence, God also could not proclaim Himself to be the Family King. Therefore, we, the True Parents, had to do all this. (431-151, 2004/01/14)

15 We held the Holy Marriage Blessing of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk, and later that day the Enthronement Ceremony of the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth Who Reign over the Blessed Families as the King and Queen of Peace and Unity. Since the gates of Cheon Il Guk were opened, God’s family can finally go forth. All 12 gates of pearl have been opened. Based on the opening of these gates free from the Fall, the Lord at the Second Advent is able to begin as the family king. This is what happened on February 6, 2003.

Although I am now the family king, I must become the tribal king. Satan by his false love, captured the summit, centering on love, and claimed the three stages: the formation, growth and completion realms. Thus, in order for us to escape from him, the Third Adam had to come as the Lord and open those gates. However, he could not do it alone. In order to open the gates to the heavenly nation, he had to make it so that the blessed families, who received persecution throughout the world, were able to pass over 12 peaks. This is how the gates of Cheon Il Guk opened and we could hold the Enthronement Ceremony of the Family King.

From this time forth, we can live a normal family life as you do. Hence, not only should we be able to recover the world, we should be able to enjoy life with our children and grandchildren. This is necessary in order for the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth to become the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. (489-017, 2005/02/25)

16 Now that we have opened the gates of Cheon Il Guk, you have to register in that nation. Even our beloved Heung-jin in the spirit world asked me to let the spirit world be part of that registration, and I immediately granted his request. Once you are registered, you must not show any traits of your fallen nature to those who are also registered. In the spirit world you cannot hide anything. This is why I am saying that to live in the kingdom of heaven you must not demonstrate any trace of your fallen nature. You must cut it all away.

Further, you need to relinquish the right to own your possessions. This is why you must conduct the Holy Burning Ceremony. All of you must pile up your clothes, burn all of them, and then go over the hill of fallen nature. You should be able to say, “Farewell, fallen world. I have no more attachments to you.” Lot’s wife looked back due to her attachment to the world. That is why she turned into a pillar of salt, becoming a symbol of regret in history.

You must leave everything behind, put aside attachments to your brothers and sisters, and overcome every obstacle by single-mindedly thinking of others first. You need to begin a brand new life; otherwise you cannot enter the kingdom. This is why I was so serious while pursuing my path. (460-181, 2004/07/17)

17 Cheon Il Guk was formed after the establishment of the Fourth Israel. With the establishment of Cheon Il Guk, we as the True Parents could hold our Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony. That ceremony is what established God’s nation. During the ages of Adam, Jesus and the Lord at the Second Advent, Cheon Il Guk did not exist; in those ages the spirit and flesh were not united as one. In order to create Cheon Il Guk, where the physical and spiritual worlds are united, it was absolutely necessary to proclaim the Fourth Israel.

The day was October 20, 2002. We had just concluded the Holy Burning Ceremony. Through the Ceremony for the Unity of the Physical World and Spirit World, and after symbolically burning everything of the fallen world, True Parents could finally take root on earth. Then, to usher in that new age, on the day after completing the Holy Burning Ceremony I announced the Fourth Israel. Upon that foundation, we could proclaim the Nation of the Fourth Israel and then hold our Holy Marriage Blessing.

After the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship on January 13, 2001, we held the Holy Marriage Blessing of the Parents of Heaven and Earth Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk on February 6, 2003, and later that same day the Enthronement Ceremony of the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth Who Reign over the Blessed Families as the King and Queen of Peace and Unity. That is how we became the family king. (430-013, 2003/12/30)

18 If we are only the family king, we cannot proclaim God’s fatherland. In order to proclaim God’s fatherland, 1 traveled from the bottom of hell to the summit of heaven, undergoing trials and suffering almost to the point of death. This is how, on May 4, 2003, I was able to proclaim the transition from the realm of Satan’s dominion to the realm of God’s dominion based on God’s ideal of creation.

From that day on, since it was absolutely necessary for us to establish the fatherland, I mobilized everyone to work with all our strength. This is how I came to announce the abolition of the ages of restoration through indemnity, the end of the ages of indemnity. That day was July 13, 2003, in the month prior to August, the 8th month. Thus, before going over the number 7, I proclaimed the abolition of the providential age of restoration through indemnity.

This means that the nations and religions of the world will come to an end. After all, as a result of the Fall, the nations that now exist are within Satan’s domain. Also, if not for the Fall, there would be no religions. Thus, now that the providence of restoration through indemnity is abolished, the ages when people need religion and politics are coming to an end, and the age of God’s nation, the fatherland of His sovereignty, is at hand. This is a fair and logical conclusion from the standpoint of the Principle. (430-123, 2004/01/01)

Section 3. Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il and the Era After the Coming of Heaven

Proclamation of Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il

On May 5, 2004, at Cheonghae Garden in Yeosu, South Jeolla Province, True Parents proclaimed Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il (Day of the Victory of the Number 10 Combining Two 5s) and declared the end of the Era Before the Coming of Heaven and the arrival of the Era After the Coming of Heaven. True Father explained that Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il is the day when God transformed heaven and earth, top and bottom, front and back, and left and right, causing His light to shine brightly throughout time and space and causing the evil world of darkness to dissipate. The Era After the Coming of Heaven signifies the passing away of the age of indemnity and the advent of the world as it was at the time of the Creation.

Also, on April 19, prior to the proclamation of Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il , True Parents founded An Shi Il , the Day of Secure Settlement and Attendance.

1 On this day, May 5, 2004, I proclaim Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il (Day of the Victory of the Number 10 Combining Two 5s). May 5 is indicated in numbers as “5.5.” Adding the numbers 5 and 5 together makes 10. It is as if God is grabbing the Era Before the Coming of Heaven with the five fingers of the left hand and grabbing the Era After the Coming of Heaven with the five fingers of the right hand, flipping them upside-down and combining them together into ten.

The right direction for a clocks hands to turn is clockwise, but Satan made them turn counter-clockwise, in the wrong direction. Now, with the Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il, the clock's hands will turn clockwise as they should. Thus, we have now moved past the Era Before the Coming of Heaven and into the Era After the Coming of Heaven, when we can realize the ideal world of unity. We will proclaim God’s fatherland and the era of the peace kingdom. All living beings from plants and animals to human beings and spirits in the spirit world will come to the peace kingdom, God’s fatherland, and come under God’s ownership.

Satan’s world will cease to exist. Every day in the Era After the Coming of Heaven will be God’s Day. Now your ancestors and religious leaders in the spirit world will be able to handle those who oppose us or try to split us into sects or try to break up our families. The Blessing will totally uproot them. (448-016, 2004/05/05)

2 Heavenly Father, we have established this day, May 5, 2004, as Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il. On this day, heaven and earth have been turned around, switching top and bottom, left and right, and front and back. Everything that began in darkness and evil now can be recovered into the light of goodness. Today, we who attend the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind welcome the original era of victory. It is the era of high noon settlement whose bright light of victory will never be extinguished. Today also marks the last day of the era of Satan’s evil kingship. Beginning today, the conflicts caused by the Fall will be resolved and the wrongs of history will be corrected on the way to establishing the peace kingdom centered on true love.

Father, today the Era Before the Coming of Heaven is giving way to the Era After the Coming of Heaven. Now, heaven and earth will become one based upon the number 13, so that the authority of Your throne will become the center of the two realms, heaven and earth. Now we will stand in the realm of Your extended family formed by the bonds of Your true love, true life and true lineage. In this position, on this day of victory, we will enter the era in which we can proclaim Your kingdom of unity and love and Your fatherland throughout the whole world. (447-309, 2004/05/05)

3 Based upon the Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il , we are going through a transition from the old age into the new age. There are 5 fingers on your left hand and 5 fingers on your right hand. When you put them together, you get the number 10, a pair of 5s. When these two 5s become one they are victorious together, and from 10 they can fly toward infinity. Then they can become a catalyst for liberation and complete freedom, and indemnify the 4,000 years of the Old and New Testament Ages. Jesus in his day could have established the kingship through 40 years of paying indemnity, but that opportunity was lost. In order to reclaim it, the Lord at the Second Advent came at the end of World War Il .

Since his coming, the Lord has recovered the nation that was lost, the world, the spirit world, and thus the cosmos that was lost. He completed his mission by giving the Blessing to the heavenly and earthly worlds, thus fulfilling the 40-year indemnity period. And now, centering on God’s nation, he has established this Day of Victory of the Number 10. By so doing, he has recovered the Era After the Coming of Heaven with its four seasons for the first time in history. We went over the hill of indemnifying history centering on the periods of 4,000 years, 400 years, 40 years, 4 years, 40 months and 40 days. But for the liberation of all of these periods, we need Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il . Having welcomed that day, now for the first time, God can wield the authority of forgiveness and complete freedom. Now God can abolish hell and recover its people so that they can transform hell into the kingdom of heaven. (450-121, 2004/05/19)

4 On May 5, 2004, I declared Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il (The Day of the Victory of the Number 10 Combining Two 5s) and the beginning of the Era After the Coming of Heaven. I proclaimed to the whole world that this new era is the time when we must bring about perfect harmony and unity between heaven and earth, between human beings and all things of creation, between the Eras Before and After the Coming of Heaven, between male and female, and between East and West.

Although God’s providence for the Will is invisible to the eyes of people who are descendants of the Fall, it has proceeded without a single iota of error to the point where it is possible to proclaim the present time as the Era After the Coming of Heaven. It means we are ushering in an era of heavenly fortune unprecedented in history. God has now given us a heavenly decree to live our lives based on absolute values, a new set of values in accord with this new age. (450-184, 2004/05/21)

5 With 10, the returning number, we must settle everything. The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 did not belong to God. Now, as we go beyond that age, we rise one level higher to start with the number 10, which is the returning number. The significance of 10 is that we have surpassed Satan’s world and can enter God’s new world. It makes a crossing point. That is how, by setting up Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il , I could proclaim the Era After the Coming of Heaven.

Now the Cain realm will totally surrender, and we will erase all the dates whose numbers have been under Satan’s shadow. This is what it means to stand on the level of “the victory of the number 10.” Now the world of Cain has ended and the lineages that existed in the Era Before the Coming of Heaven are changed. Thus we have arrived at the Era After the Coming of Heaven, when Abel will wield victorious supremacy in the position of the elder brother. (451-199, 2004/05/29)

6 Beginning on May 5, 2004, the calendar will change from the seven-day cycle marked by the Sabbath to the eight-day cycle marked by An Shi Il . God has never owned the days of the calendar, nor could He own His spring. He could never become the owner of the four seasons—spring, summer, fall and winter.

With the celebration of the Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il on May 5, now for the first time in history we are ushering in the Era After the Coming of Heaven. Now God can hold Satan’s world of the Era Before the Coming of Heaven in His left hand and the Era After the Coming of Heaven in His right hand and turn them around in a circle, thereby bringing all into His realm of victory. This is why I named that day The Day of the Victory of the Number 10 Combining Two 5s. The two 5s becoming 10 set up the realm of victory. (450-177, 2004/05/21)

7 Heavenly Father, I set the date of An Shi Il after entering May 2004. As May 21 was the third An Shi Il , after those on May 5 and 13, we are now welcoming a new era, the Era After the Coming of Heaven. Centering on a new world of victory and centering on God’s true love—the ideal realm of oneness and its values—we are now standing before the responsibility that we are called upon to accomplish for the entire universe.

In the name of True Parents, representing the whole, I established Ssang Hab Shib Seung Il and its realm, in which are included all the dates represented by all combinations of digits below the number 10, the 4 seasons, the 4 years, the 8 years and the numbers 9 and 10. (450-158, 2004/05/21)

8 Now, Father, ushering in a new era in history and welcoming spring, summer, fall and winter, You are the owner. Everything is now arranged so that You can reign over all things with Your new days, seasons and years, based on the renewed number 10, which can expand 100 times, 1,000 times and 10,000 times, and on and on. I hope and desire that based on the establishment of An Shi Il , everything will make steady progress from this day forth by Your Will. (487-169, 2005/02/15)

Opening the Era After the Coming of Heaven

After proclaiming the Opening of the Era After the Coming of Heaven, True Father said that everything will pass beyond the era of liberation and the completion stage to enter the realm of God’s ownership. God had lost His springtime due to the Fall, but by opening this new era of the new heaven and new earth, God will be able to welcome His first real spring. True Father also revealed that God will be the owner from this time forth. In other words, the Era Before the Coming of Heaven was the era when the world was under Satan’s evil dominion, and the Era After the Coming of Heaven is the era when the world will come under the dominion of goodness.

8 On January 13, 2001, I1 held the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship, passing the second millennium and marking the third millennium as a new age. Then, on May 5, 2004, history was divided into the Eras Before and After the Coming of Heaven, indicating the beginning of a new world. That day marked both an end and a beginning, signifying the beginning of a new heaven and a new earth. (487-169, 2005/02/15)

9 Originally Jesus was supposed to stand with his family as the foremost filial son, patriot, and saint, and as the king of the unified world and, in that position, proclaim the world of liberation and complete freedom. However, there has not been a single family in history that could stand in this position. What happens when you put the content of the Family Pledge fully into practice and stand in that liberated position? That is what I actually did, and by doing it I opened the Era After the Coming of Heaven, the world where God is liberated. True Parents opened the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven. It is a restored world, different from the fallen world.

I proclaimed the Era After the Coming of Heaven in Yeosu and Suncheon. The past age had to be brought to an end for the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven to begin. Furthermore, I had to establish as a matter of heaven’s law the standard of God’s direct descendant by restoring the eight stages beginning from a servant of servants and establishing a relationship where the partners liberate each other through making a substantial foundation of love.

You too have to meet this standard; otherwise you cannot directly enter God’s nation. This formula is clearly determined by heaven’s law and the Principle. If you think that everything is all right simply because you have received the Blessing, you are ignoring heaven’s law. Just receiving the Blessing does not put you at that level. (483-245, 2005/01/19)

10 On May 5, 2004, I proclaimed the transition from the Era Before the Coming of Heaven to the Era After the Coming of Heaven, and then I announced the teaching of absolute values. Your fathers and mothers can become the owners of love only through you, their sons and daughters who received the Blessing. You must give the Blessing to your parents. When you do, it places them in the position of your younger siblings. Then you, in the position of their older brother or sister, can bring your parents, your family and other relatives with you to the kingdom of heaven. This is the path for them according to the standard of the Principle of Restoration. This is the plain conclusion.

Therefore, your ancestors in the spiritual world must come down to the physical world. They may even take some of you to the spiritual world. Why will they take you to the spiritual world? There is a Korean maxim, “First make them sick, and then give them medicine.” If you were left alone to continue your wrongdoing, you would end up destroying your entire clan. So those ancestors who received the Blessing will take you to protect their clan. They will take you to the other world where even Satan will be mobilized to train you. Actually, such a time has come. (488-302, 2005/02/23)

11 The Era Before the Coming of Heaven is the era of Cain, and the Era After the Coming of Heaven is the era of Abel. We are now entering the Era After the Coming of Heaven. This era will conclude when God’s ideal families are well established as the models of peace. Peace will begin with such families.

What do you think happened with the loss of Adam’s family? God lost His ideal family. The God-centered family structure that was to have been the basis of God’s ideal for the world of peace, the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven, was destroyed. The descendants of fallen humankind cannot repair this. So God, the subject partner of the ideal family, personally took responsibility and chose True Parents as the central beings for this work. As God is the vertical Parent, True Parents are the horizontal Parents. True peace comes when they become one and establish a family that creates the base for the four realms of heart. (534-111, 2006/08/03)

12 If the Era Before the Coming of Heaven had been perfect from the start, all individuals, couples, families, peoples, nations, the world, and the cosmos would belong to God. God would be the Owner of the heavenly kingdom. We would all be able to stand in God’s fatherland, the peace kingdom. But due to the Fall everything was turned upside down, so everything had to be put back in order.

However, now for the first time in history, God has become the Parent of all created beings in the universe. At the same time, He is completely established in the position of the Teacher and Owner. Based on the efforts of True Parents on earth, and the families of patriots and virtuous women and men in heaven, the earthly and heavenly foundations for the coming age are completely laid. The Era Before the Coming of Heaven is passing away, and the Era After the Coming of Heaven is opening. (448-011, 2004/05/05)

13 The Era After the Coming of Heaven, the age in which God is in charge, began after the passing of the Era Before the Coming of Heaven. This age does not belong to the Devil. His time is over. The Era After the Coming of Heaven belongs to God. The Messiah, who is the Savior, the Lord at the Second Advent and True Parent, is responsible to bring everyone into the Era After the Coming of Heaven.

How can the Savior save this world? It is through the Blessing, which brings people into God’s lineage. Hence, those of you who do not give the Blessing to your relatives will be held accountable. You will be challenged, “You were given the Blessing, but what of your brothers and sisters?” Therefore, you absolutely must give the Blessing to the members of your clan, even if you have to push them into it. (449-270, 2004/05/16)

14 The Era Before the Coming of Heaven and the Era After the Coming of Heaven are different. Therefore, now that the Era After the Coming of Heaven has come, you must live your life differently. But you still have a job to do before you can pass into the Era After the Coming of Heaven. You need to take my words and make them your own. Even after I am gone, you need to make my words alive and active. Otherwise, you will not be able to inherit the Era After the Coming of Heaven that I opened for you. (466-201, 2004/08/27)

15 A wild olive tree cannot yield the fruit of a true olive tree. That is why wild olive trees must be cut and receive grafts from the true olive tree. Now that we have entered the age when that can be done, God will soon be able to reign over the entire world, above any satanic authority. That time is the Era After the Coming of Heaven.

In the Era Before the Coming of Heaven, fallen human beings had to go a course of restoration through paying indemnity and free themselves from sins and crimes. It is as if our bodies were covered in filth and continually in need of washing. However, this is not God’s ideal.

That is why the Era After the Coming of Heaven had to come. As it unfolds, all the indemnity will have been paid. It will be a world where there is no crime or sin, no Satan and not even the shadow of evil authority. Then, for the first time in history, God will be able to fulfill his original role as the loving Father of all individuals, couples, families and nations. Then He will begin to govern the worlds of heaven and earth as their Owner. (542-168, 2006/10/16)

Dawn of the New Heavenly Civilization of Universal Peace

True Parents held an event announcing the new beginning of the Pacific Rim Providence at King Garden, Kona, Hawaii, on March 17, 2007. Then, on March 19 at the Marriott Resort Hotel on Waikoloa Beach, they made the Proclamation of Returning to the Civilization of Universal Peace and the Age of God’s Kingship, and Returning to the Realm of the Peace Civilization of Cheon Il Guk as Our Nation that Transcends Nations.

Then, with the participation of True Parents and True Children, in April the same year, speeches announcing the Dawn of the New Heavenly Civilization of Universal Peace were held in 200 nations around the world, with True Parents speaking in the major cities of Korea, Japan and the United States. During those events True Parents announced, “The era of this new civilization is the era of oneness between God, humankind and nature. It will be an era of free and open communication, of peace without conflict or disconnection anywhere.” They also said, “The life of all living things on earth is based on water. Therefore, the 21st century will be the era of the oceans connecting the Pacific rim, as well as the era of the new heavenly civilization of peace.”

16 The time has come to remove the lineage that seized control of the realm where God was supposed to be the Owner, and enter the original world without the Fall. You can do this by becoming one with True Parents. Through them you can restore Cain and Abel, the root of the problem in Adam’s family.

I proclaimed the foundation of the original world on earth. If you have faith in this, it becomes a condition to mobilize the saints and your ancestors in the spirit world to make ramparts to protect your way. Then evil forces no longer can block your path. We have arrived at the era when, if you pray making that condition of faith, the four great founders of religion, all people in the religious realm who gained merit by serving and sacrificing themselves throughout history, as well as your own good ancestors, will come to support you.

I am announcing the Dawn of the New Heavenly Civilization of Universal Peace. Today, April 4, 2007, we will make this announcement. Therefore, all of you need to become princes and princesses who resolve to make effort to liberate your ancestors, destroy Satan’s world, and build the peace kingdom. (559-323, 2007/04/04)

17 Today is the 48th True Parents’ Day. We have to be serious during the next seven years: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, up to January 13, 2013. During this seven-year period you need to clean up history from the individual level to the cosmic level, which has been entangled with the results of the Fall. The issue is how we can create the same environment as the one in which God hoped to welcome His first spring after He finished creating the universe. Now God’s springtime has come in the providence. That is why I am proclaiming the Dawn of the New Heavenly Civilization of Universal Peace as we enter the era of the Pacific Rim providence. (561-010, 2007/04/17)

18 The new civilization means a God-centered civilization, a heavenly civilization. This is the dawn of that new civilization. The fundamental truth of history was hidden and humankind has remained in ignorance. It is now time to disclose it to the entire world.

What humankind needs to know most of all is the parent-child relationship. The oneness of parent and child means that they exist as one body. The unity of husband and wife also means they exist as one body. The sons and daughters who were born from that couple must also exist as one body. All have to exist as one body. From each person’s perspective, above are grandfather and grandmother, and father and mother. Then comes one’s own self. All three generations need to unite as one family. If three generations live as one family, their fruits can make God’s family.

The couples in each of the three positions, or three stages, hold the same value wherever they are placed, whether in the three-dimensional spirit world or in the two-dimensional earthly world. Therefore, to form an ideal family you need your grandmother and grandfather, your father and mother, and you and your spouse. More than that, you need to bear fruit in the fourth generation. Yours ought to be a lineage that inherits the seed of your grandparents, your parents, and you and your spouse, and opens the path to be fruitful in your children. (561-146, 2007/04/21)

19 The year 2007 is very special because I announced the dawn of the new civilization of the Pacific Rim Era. To go over this final hill, all the victories that True Parents gained from the world were brought to Hawaii, and then cuttings were planted throughout the world.

Now we are entering the age of freedom and liberation for the whole of humankind. The era of the Parents of Heaven and Earth has passed, and now it is the era of freedom and liberation of the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, their own family, and all blessed families.

At the same time, we are all entering the era of the Principle, in which there will be no room for excuses for not fulfilling the Principle. This means that the era in which we need salvation is coming to an end. Once we return to the Garden of Eden, we no longer need the realms of religion or politics. We are now entering a realm higher than the religious realm or the political realm—the era of the Principle. (569-075, 2007/07/22)

Section 4. The Coronation of True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace in Heaven and on Earth, and the Coronation of God, the King of All Kings, with the Authority of His Liberation

Coronations of Jesus and True Parents

The Coronation of Jesus as the King of Peace of the First Israel was held on December 22, 2003, in Jerusalem's Independence Park. Thousands of people--representing all the world's religions were present. True Parents viewed a live webcast of the event at the Hannam-dong house in Seoul. The ceremony, by having representatives of Judaism, Christianity and Islam come together as one to attend Jesus as the King of Peace of the First Israel, was held to symbolically resolve the interreligious enmity that had endured for 2,000 years.

Next, this victory in the realm of the First Israel was connected to America, the Second Israel, and then to Korea, the Third Israel. On March 23, 2004, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, the Coronation of True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace of the Third Israel was held. More than 450 dignitaries from around the world, including members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives and UN ambassadors, were in attendance. On August 20 of the same year, the Coronation of True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace of the Fourth Israel was held in the National Assembly Library in Korea. On the same day, True Parents held the Blessing Ceremony for Registration in Cheon Il Guk for the Revolution of True Heart and for True Liberation and Complete Freedom.

Thus, this series of events culminated with True Parents being crowned the King and Queen of Peace. After that event, each clan in Korea also held a Blessing Ceremony for Registration in Cheon Il Guk and a Coronation of the King of Peace, as representatives of each clan offered crowns of peace to True Parents.

1 Jesus was not able to establish his kingship during his lifetime. As Jesus is in the position of Heung-jin’s older brother, Heung-jin invited him to the ceremony to crown him king. This took place on December 22, 2003. This ceremony could not have been conducted without Heung-jin’s initiative. It was the first time for any ascended True Child to lead an event on earth.

After Heung-jin held the coronation of Jesus in Israel, he conducted another coronation of Jesus in America, the Second Israel. Until that time, the spiritual world and the physical world had been divided. However, as a result of Heung-jin’s active participation in the crowning of Jesus as king both in Israel and America, the spiritual world and the physical world were brought together in unity. (490-178, 2005/03/13)

2 Unless the spirit world cooperates with us in one united realm, God’s Will cannot be fulfilled. The path to unite religions requires that we establish the kingship of God’s nation upon an interreligious foundation in both the spiritual world and the physical world. This is why when we held the Coronation of Jesus as the King of Kings in Israel, we performed the ceremony not only with Jesus but also with the support of Judaism and Islam. We could not have performed the ceremony if anyone had opposed it. We performed the coronation ceremony for Jesus based on cooperation among leaders of Judaism, Islam and Christianity.

The fact that we could hold the ceremony means that a realm of unity had been created at the highest levels of the spirit world. From now on, heaven can simply ignore the authorities that control religions and nations in the fallen world. Heaven will dismantle them in the end. Religions will not be necessary. Nor will nations be necessary. Eventually religions and nations will be dismantled, the lineage of all humankind will be changed into God’s, and the entire world will be transformed into one nation having the form of one global family. This is what we must do to build the world of heart on earth. (432-191, 2004/01/23)

3 We held the Coronation of True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in the United States. We did the same at the National Assembly Building in Korea. True Parents must become the king and queen of their people, the Third Israel, who have the same blood, then the king and queen of the family of peoples with the Mongolian birthmark, and finally, the king and queen of Cain’s descendants in Adam’s family, which will make them the Saviors of the world.

Christianity is on the side of Abel. I must become the king of Christianity. Israel also exists within the realm of religion. As the Returning Lord, I must become the king of the nation of Israel. By so doing, we must eventually liberate heaven and earth, which have not yet united, making them a unified world of heart. Then we will arrive at the era of the new heaven and new earth, when peace will reign after the coming of heaven. (467-107, 2004/09/02)

4 The First, Second, Third and Fourth Israels have not made the leap into unity because of the absence of blood ties. Therefore, in order to make a connection in blood relationships, on December 22, 2003, we held the Coronation of Jesus as King of Kings in Israel, and on February 4, 2004, we held the Coronation of Jesus and Heung-jin Moon as the Kings of Peace at a US government office building. This established Cain and Abel kingships in front of True Parents. With members of the US House and Senate in attendance, it laid the foundation for True Parents to substantially establish their kingship.

Why did Heung-jin and Jesus perform these ceremonies? In Israel it was to unite the nation of Israel and the religious leaders in Israel, which had divided into two paths. Heung-jin, the commander-in-chief of the spirit world, escorted Jesus to Israel and conducted his coronation ceremony, making him the King of Kings of the nation of Israel. Then he conducted a coronation ceremony in the United States based on the realm of the Second Israel. This was to prepare the way for True Parents to inherit substantial authority in both the spiritual world and the physical world.

On this foundation, we held the Coronation of True Parents as the substantial King and Queen of Peace of the Third Israel at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 23. Then, to complete these ceremonies we held True Parents’ coronation as the substantial King and Queen of Peace of their original homeland of Korea in a fourth ceremony, on August 20. (470-043, 2004/09/23)

5 Today, August 20, 2003, marks the 18th anniversary of my release from Danbury Prison. On this anniversary of the day I was liberated from prison after carrying the cross as the representative of heaven and earth, I held a ceremony to proclaim the beginning of the Fourth Israel. What I did was proclaim the creation of the nation of the Fourth Israel.

Was there a nation that God could fully relate with in the Old Testament Age? No such nation existed in heaven or on earth. America represents the realm of the Second Israel, but is it such a nation? No, it is not. Korea represents the realm of the Third Israel. Is it such a nation? No. Thus, human beings have been wandering aimlessly without a nation that God could fully relate to. Since our nations are not God’s nation, we can be chased and driven into a corner at any time. It is because none of our existing nations is God’s nation.

However, we have now established the Fourth Israel. Whether we like it or not, we must protect this nation, investing our whole hearts and putting our lives on the line. We must cherish this nation more than our own lives. (416-043, 2003/08/20)

6 The nation of the Fourth Israel is external while Cheon Il Guk is internal. Jesus was not able to hold the Blessing with a nation. He was not able to bestow that same Blessing to others beyond the brethren of his tribe and nation. If Jesus had been able to carry out this task, he would have become the King of Kings of Israel, and Israel would not have come to ruin after his death. Because Jesus could not achieve victory on the national level and world level, the Returning Lord must be successful on those levels—and on the cosmic level as well.

This is why the issue in establishing the nation of the Fourth Israel is that it must be international, transcending all the peoples of the world. Likewise, in the spirit world, by abolishing paradise and hell, we must allow only the kingdom of heaven to remain. We need to establish the kingship of the heavenly kingdom and pave a highway there by indemnifying the positions of the parent, the teacher and the king that were taken by Satan through lineage. This is the mission of the Unification Church. All of you must race along this highway that takes you from your family to the palace of heaven. (416-067, 2003/08/20)

7 Today is February 22, 2004, the first day of spring by the lunar calendar. On this day the number 4 of the year 2004 comes together with the number 6 formed by adding the three 2s of February 22 (2/22). Thus, as of today, when we welcome the beginning of spring, we proclaim the beginning of the Era of Settlement of the Parent of the Cosmos, the Parents of Heaven and Earth, and the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. Thus, a foundation has been laid for the incorporeal God, who has been dwelling in the spirit world, to work freely not only in the spirit world but also on earth through the True Parents, His embodiments.

On this day the number 4 is indemnified and the number 6 is liberated. This is why I reported in my prayer that the settlement and liberation of the Parent of the Cosmos, the Parents of Heaven and Earth, and the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind have been accomplished. God sent His embodiments, the True Parents, to earth in order to complete restoration through indemnity and demolish all the walls that were created in what was once the Garden of Eden on the levels of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world and cosmos.

As we receive this day to indemnify the number 4 as the basic framework of the family—the four-position foundation—and to liberate the number 6, we designate it as the day to begin the settlement of the Parent of the Cosmos, the Parents of Heaven and Earth, and the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. You must be aware that you have become a family that will be secured through the settlement of the Parent of the Cosmos, the Parents of Heaven and Earth, and the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. This means that True Parents can now remain on earth and at the same time attend God even in the spirit world through their substantial bodies. Thus, heaven and earth can be liberated, and the gate to heaven is open. (439-161, 2004/02/22)

8 Many people regard me as a patriot who loves Korea. In this, position, I can lead the nation and bring about unification between North and South Korea. I now have the foundation to make a substantial impact upon the traditions of the world, starting with Asia, and I should expand it to the cosmos. I should establish the territory of God’s nation and transform the people in the physical world and in the spiritual world. I need to bring them to be the citizens of God’s nation and establish the sovereignty of God’s nation. In fact, it is based on this sovereignty that heaven and earth were created and the citizens of heaven and earth came to exist.

Therefore, now we need the kingship. This is why on August 20, 2004, we held the Coronation of True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace. That coronation ceremony was about exalting and attending the King and Queen of Peace. It was not simply a coronation ceremony but an enthronement ceremony.

Now that I have the title of king, heaven and earth come under my kingship, and its people come under my kingship. When the king’s palace, the king’s territory and the people become one, the eternal God will build the kingdom of the incorporeal Parent, the corporeal and substantial Parents, and their sons and daughters. Children born in that kingdom will enter directly into the kingdom of heaven. Hence, we are heading past the world of liberation and complete freedom toward the world where peace will reign. (466-054, 2004/08/24)

9 In Adam’s family, Cain killed Abel. This is why the older brother is on Cain’s side. The human race propagated out of Cain’s side, beginning from individuals and multiplying over the eras of history into families, tribes, peoples and nations. On the side of Abel as well, God chose Seth, the third son, and through him sought to form a nation in which He could establish His true love, true life and true lineage. To restore everything that God had lost, Seth’s descendants had to rise to a position to defeat Satan.

For Seth’s descendants to go beyond the national level, God had to personally raise them, ruling them with His love and life so they could become children who reached for a higher standard, one of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. He needed to elevate them through the levels of the family, tribe and people, to reach the national level.

Thus, after 4,000 years, Jesus was able to come to that chosen nation, to Israel, where he had to establish the lineage of the True Parents. Had he been able to do so, on the foundation of that nation he would have absorbed the Cain-type nations. This is why God divided Judaism and the nation of Israel into the positions of Abel and Cain. They were to have become one without fighting. Jesus came after 4,000 years as the prince of Seth to represent this nation. He represented Seth's kingship.

Now there have been three ages — the Old, New and Completed Testament Ages. The Lord at the Second Advent must unite Cain and Abel from each of these ages, in the spirit world and on earth. To carry out the role of the owner, he must unite Cain and Abel as manifest in the international and interreligious realms. Based on the standard paradigm of uniting Cain and Abel, the interreligious realm in the position of Abel must be victorious in winning over the international realm in the position of Cain, so that it submits to the Abel realm. Then the younger brother will stand in the position of the older brother and the older brother will stand in the position of the younger brother, and both will be lifted up to God.

This was the purpose of the events that took place on August 20, 2004. The Blessing for Registration in Cheon Il Guk for the Revolution of True Heart and for True Liberation and Complete Freedom included a special amnesty, and then the Coronation of True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace. These things could occur as a result of the passing away of the Era Before the Coming of Heaven and the advent of the Era After the Coming of Heaven. The new heaven and new earth are dawning. It is Cheon Il Guk. (477-141, 2004/11/25)

10 You must go beyond the national level. Jesus was supposed to receive the Blessing and then spread it beyond the national level, but as he was unable to marry, he could not fulfill this. Only the families who have received the Blessing can enter God’s kingdom. The kingdom of heaven is permitted only to children of God who have inherited His direct lineage through His true love, life and lineage and who have been living as families. Thus, you have responsibility to inherit God’s true love, true life and true lineage and, based on your family, pass through the levels of the family messiah, tribal messiah and national messiah.

As True Parents, we went beyond all these levels and connected them all the way up to the spirit world. Thereby, we made heaven and earth one, eliminating the boundaries between the spiritual world and the physical world. I am talking about the national level, not the family level that was formed right after the Fall of Adam and Eve. The Blessing for Registration in Cheon Il Guk for the Revolution of True Heart and for True Liberation and Complete Freedom, and the Coronation of True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace, paved the way for all of you to reach a position where you can be welcomed without opposition at the highest levels of the spiritual world and physical world, heaven and earth. (465-161, 2004/08/21)

11 By holding the Coronation of True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace, True Parents, as the owners of the Third Israel, can finally establish in the physical world the kingdom of the Parent of the Cosmos, the Parents of Heaven and Earth, and the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. This kingdom will be based on the Fourth Israel. Based on the Fourth Israel, all of you should be able to enter that realm. For this, by centering on the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, you in the First, Second and Third Israels need to change your lineage to be cleansed of the failures of the Old Testament Age, New Testament Age and Completed Testament Age.

The nation of the Fourth Israel will be a nation uniting Israel, the United States and Korea. The spiritual world and the physical world had been divided, but by holding the coronation of Jesus, the spirit world could come to earth and let go of the failures of Israel from the Old Testament Age. Thus, once the nation of Israel believes in Jesus who was crowned, they will pass into the New Testament Age. Likewise, once they believe in True Parents, who held the coronation for Jesus, they will go beyond the Completed Testament Age through them. Then they will become part of the people of the one nation and be admitted into Cheon Il Guk.

By doing the same, the entire world can for the first time become integrated into the bloodline of one great family. Once they come together and join as one great family, a new realm will be created, the realm of the Fourth Israel. When we can purify the lineage of leaders in the political world and purify the nation of Israel based on our global efforts to bring unity in the world of external affairs, we can bring about a revolution that will establish the original culture of heart.

Cheon Il Guk was opened by the Holy Marriage Blessing of the Parents of Heaven and Earth that was held on February 6, 2003, on the basis of the Registration Ceremony that was held on September 26, 2000. When all people join it, and when the people of the three ages are rooted in God’s love, they can enter the kingdom of heaven for the first time. Once they are admitted into Cheon Il Guk, all of God’s providence of restoration will come to an end, Satan will be willing to completely submit to every human being, and the realm of liberation and complete freedom envisioned at the time of creation will be completed. Then there will be lines of cars on the highway as everyone rushes to enter the kingdom of heaven and form a unified world centering on the one universal family that inherits God’s true love, true life and true lineage. (430-252, 2004/01/03)

The Cheon Jeong Gung Palace Entrance Ceremony

The process of installing True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace that began in Korea and the United States continued with ceremonies in 190 nations during the latter half of 2004. On True Parents’ birthday, February 14, 2005, the Coronation of the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind as the King and Queen of Peace for Uniting Heaven and Earth was held at the Heaven and Earth Training Center in Cheongpyeong.

Then on June 13, 2006, at a week-long festival celebrating the opening of Cheon Jeong Gung Palace, the Coronation of True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace in Heaven and Earth was held. The evening before the entrance ceremony, True Parents lit a ceremonial flame with a torch that had been carried to Cheongpyeong from the Beomnaetgol Holy Ground in Busan. They mixed together soil and water brought from each nation of the world as part of a ceremony to create a new heaven and earth. True Parents gave leaders from the nations of the world a rose and a lily, the national flowers of Cheon Il Guk.

The coronation was held in the plaza in front of the Cheon Jeong Gung Palace in a festive atmosphere, with lines of flag bearers holding the flags of 194 nations of the world. Each nation sent the crown it had offered at its ceremony to install True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace, and these were displayed on each side of the stage. After True Parents consecrated the Cheon Jeong Gung Palace, they entered the stage as the King and Queen of Peace in Heaven and Earth and proclaimed, “Cheon Il Guk is the ideal kingdom where eternal peace will reign.”

12 If the commemorative events for True Parents’ birthday and the Coronation of the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind as the King and Queen of Peace for Uniting Heaven and Earth were simply onetime events for us as individuals, they would not be of much value. In fact, however, todays events carry a significant meaning because they are public events for God’s ideal of creation and the providence to save all humankind.

I have walked the path of the Savior, Messiah and True Parent, carrying God, the spiritual world, the physical world and all of humanity on my back. It has been a path of thorns, on which I lost the members of my family who were dearest to me, my own flesh and blood. This has been my yoke that no one, not my brothers, not my children, not even my beloved wife, could carry on my behalf. My journey brooked no delays; I had to attend to each day. The Messiah has to receive the approval of the spirit world and the Seal of God. Otherwise he cannot be the Messiah. (487-151, 2005/02/14)

13 God wanted to fulfill the ideal of true love in the family of Adam and Eve, and establish the kingdom of peace and unity in heaven and on earth through their prosperous descendants. From Adam and Eve as the starting point, the pure, true love, true life and true lineage of God were supposed to spread out horizontally in their descendants from the family to the nation, world and cosmos. Then Adam and Eve would have naturally become the True Parents, true teachers, true owners and true king and queen, creating the kingdom of peace and unity based upon the true lineage.

In 2001 I offered up the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship, and in 2004 I proclaimed the Era of God’s Fatherland, the Peace Kingdom, as well as the Era After the Coming of Heaven. The Era Before the Coming of Heaven was full of discord, conflict, strife and disharmony, but the Era After the Coming of Heaven is an age of harmony, cooperation, reconciliation, peace and unity. In the Era Before the Coming of Heaven, conflicts often flared up and division ruled. Yet now, in the Era After the Coming of Heaven, such things shall no longer take place. (487-152, 2005/02/14)

14 Through the Cheon Jeong Gung Entrance Ceremony and Coronation of True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace in Heaven and on Earth, we will be able to stand in the position of victorious Abel as the King and Queen of Peace. Henceforth, instead of following us as True Parents, you must go forward by attending us and bringing us honor.

Before, you just followed us, but now the time has changed. As the king and queen, we now represent all creation. Therefore, to continue your relationship with us in our positions as the king and queen, you too must become people who can represent all creation. Only then can you participate in this era as people united with the king and queen. Hence, you can no longer relate with us casually or live your lives carelessly. This era is now unfolding at this moment. (524-181, 2006/04/12)

15 When the Third Adam comes, fulfills the Old, New and Completed Testament Ages, and enters into the liberated world based on the heart of the Fourth Adam, the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven will become one. God will no longer need to seek out the era of Adam based on His hope for the Lord at the Second Advent. Instead, for the first time, the Returning Lord will attend God in the position of the victor and will open the paths that formerly were blocked by the false parent. By bringing about the era of settlement, the age of total liberation and complete freedom will come to pass.

God is the origin of love, life and lineage. Thus, you must become the substantial fruit of the lineage that arose from God the Origin's love and life. If you are one in heart with True Parents based on a strong bond of unity with them, you should be able to overcome any situation and still remain strong. Then you will come to stand in a position where God can come to you and relate directly with you. (573-034, 2007/08/20)

Coronation of God, the King of All Kings

On January 15 and 31, 2009, in Korea and the United States, True Parents on three separate occasions held the Coronation of God, the King of All Kings, with the Authority of His Liberation.

During the eight years after the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship, True Parents carried out the providence at the risk of their lives. Its ultimate purpose was to liberate the realm of God’s heart filled with bitter sorrow and pain. On the foundation of the realm of cosmic victory that they established with their blood, sweat and tears, True Parents brought an end to the sinful Era Before the Coming of Heaven and ushered in the Era After the Coming of Heaven.

They then established the Universal Peace Federation, whose purpose is to create a unified world by the renewal of the United Nations. They also toured 180 nations to deliver their message and blessings to open the revolutionary Era After the Coming of Heaven.

True Parents continued their journey to fulfill the providence, not sparing even a second. However, on July 19, 2008, on a return trip from a visit to Seoul, True Parents’ helicopter crashed during a failed emergency landing on Mt. Jangnak (which Father named Mt. Cheonseong) near the Cheongpyeong Training Center. True Parents, their family members and members of their staff managed to escape from the downed helicopter minutes before it burst into flames. Despite this terrible attack of evil forces, heaven's grace enabled True Parents to survive without serious injury. Forty days later they bestowed upon all humanity the blessing of rebirth, resurrection and eternal life.

Then, in early 2009, on the occasion of True Father’s 90th birthday, they held the Coronation of God, the King of All Kings, with the Authority of His Liberation. With this cosmic and historic event, the realm of God’s heart finally was liberated and God was crowned in both the East and the West as the King of kings.

16 Based on the helicopter accident that occurred at 4:43 p.m. on July 19, 2008, I brought every being into the unfallen realm where they can have liberation and complete freedom. You can imagine how much all things in the universe have longed to be in God’s embrace, waiting to attend True Parents by being used and absorbed by them as one of their molecules to realize the world of glory.

True Parents, as the first true ancestors of the human race, have sacrificed and served humanity. Likewise, all things of creation want to be part of the process of completing and sustaining the physical bodies of True Parents, even if it means sacrificing themselves hundreds of thousands of times. Even every cell of each thing desires to resemble True Parents and seeks to participate in their completion and spiritual perfection. Then they can enter the realm of singing praises for True Parents’ glory and nobility. (595-165, 2008/08/07)

17 Satanic forces attempted to destroy the True Parents and the Unification Church through the helicopter accident; yet we survived, and we seized this incident as an opportunity to give rebirth, resurrection and eternal life to all people.

In English, “hell” is a word that signifies the worst place we can be. Indeed, this “hell”-icopter accident was hellish. It was an attempt to gather all those on the side of heaven’s ideal in one container and knock them down with one blow. It seemed as if Satan finally had been able to achieve his ultimate goal and assume control of all the authority and power of heaven and earth, yet heaven and the ideal world of all Abel-type beings did not disappear; instead all were led to rebirth, resurrection and eternal life. (596-036, 2008/08/16)

18 Heaven and earth have been completely separated because the forces of the devil controlled the spiritual realm. The responsibility to connect these two worlds is not on God’s shoulders. Even God cannot do that. It is human beings who must make that connection by establishing the way of true love, never losing sight of God’s ideal of creation.

Therefore, I had to remove evil from the origin and root. I had to do that because human beings originally began from true love. You do not know how much hardship I had to go through to do that. While yearning and longing for God and His ideal, I practiced true love over and over in order to fill up this huge pit.

There are still many things I experienced in the past that I cannot share with you. It was while I was unable to reveal them to the human world, yet still held on to hope for God’s ideal in my heart, that this helicopter accident took place. It was Satan’s attempt to destroy, on the cosmic level, even the hope that I cherished in my heart.

Satan executed this final attack, but God blocked it. Everyone in the helicopter survived, escaping that fiery pit without any serious injuries. The people on earth and the people in the spirit world shouted out to protect the holy bodies of True Parents. I am truly, truly, truly grateful to be here today thanks to their cries.

All beings of creation, small and large, must manifest themselves as True Parents’ perfect second selves. God has now emerged with His True Son and Daughter, and families, nations, the world and the cosmos are welcoming God’s embodiments as the horizontal subject partner. His object partners form a beautiful garden of love where buds are sprouting, with new stems, new branches, new leaves, putting out new blossoms and bearing fruit. Satanic forces tried to knock us down at the final stage, when God as the only Lord is supposed to shout cheers of joy. All manner of evil forces were mobilized in the spiritual world and the physical world for this attack. The devil’s world was brimming with total confidence that victory was theirs. However, God protected True Parents. (595-055, 2008/08/01)

19 Heavenly Father, this morning on July 22, 2008, we have passed a critical point. At the time of Jesus, Satan wanted to marshal the entire universe to prevent him from establishing his family, and he placed a hill of indemnity in front of Jesus that he could not go over. Now, in my time, we and our family have survived this hill of Golgotha, and everyone with us also came through alive. As a result we have now entered the era to complete the providence of spirits returning to earth. I now pledge to advance toward establishing a nation of victory and supremacy under Your dominion.

All the spirits in heaven and on earth can now receive the Blessing within the realm of True Parents’ merit and return to You as heaven’s family. I leave behind the Blessing as our greatest legacy to all of heaven and earth. I bestow and proclaim the Blessing to all these spirits so they can return to Your embrace. (595-009, 2008/07/22)

20 Jesus resurrected and worked with his disciples for 40 days after his death and then ascended into heaven. Forty days after my helicopter accident I am completing the process of rebirth, resurrection and eternal life. I completed the process of rebirth, resurrection and eternal life for the entire cosmos during this 40-day period, setting a new record. (604-194, 2008/12/24)

21 Wherever you go with your clan and tribe, you should be prepared to attend God on behalf of your nation and the world. Then God can adjust Himself to the level of the world that was created in the very beginning, and this will enable Him to exert His power as the King of kings. This will be how God can finally establish the kingdom of heaven on earth, that is, God’s unified nation that fulfills His ideal of creation with love.

It is not a matter of proclaiming God’s fatherland, the era of the peace kingdom, but completing it. It is about uniting God’s fatherland and the fatherland of human beings on earth through love. The kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven is a unified world where mothers and fathers are united in attending God on behalf of their nation and world. This will lead to the family’s liberation, and more than that, to its complete freedom. (435-328, 2004/02/06)

22 On January 15, 2009, I held the Coronation of God, the King of All Kings, with the Authority of His Liberation. You should not think that everything will be completed just by following True Parents’ teachings. The lineage did not start from True Parents. It started from God. Therefore, unless we liberate God, we cannot ultimately connect to His lineage.

God’s fatherland and God’s hometown never could have come into being without having formed a family based on God’s love. That is the Principle and a law of heaven. And being a law of heaven, it is also a law of nature. It is humankind’s greatest hope. Now that we have this world based on a new purpose, we must harvest its fruits and place them in the storehouse. (607-037, 2009/01/29)

Section 5. Cosmic Assemblies for the Settlement of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind Who, as God’s Embodiment, Proclaim the Word

The Heavenly Calendar and the Golden Wedding Anniversary

True Parents celebrated True God’s Day on lunar New Year’s Day for the first time in 2010 (February 14). Prior to that, we had celebrated True God’s Day on New Year’s Day by the solar calendar. On that 43rd True God’s Day, True Parents also announced the heavenly calendar. True Father said, as a preparation for the Foundation Day of Cheon Il Guk, that the existing solar calendar and the lunar calendar would now stand in the positions of Cain and Abel. They would perform the role of assisting the heavenly calendar, by which the work of the providence will be remembered and recorded.

The Holy Wedding of True Parents in 1960 was the new beginning for the realization of God’s ideal for the creation and the starting point of salvation for humankind. The Golden Wedding Anniversary of True Parents was celebrated in two consecutive years, 2009 and 2010, which marked respectively the 50th year and the 50th anniversary of their Holy Wedding. Because their Holy Wedding has such cosmic and historic significance, it was celebrated both years, and each was accompanied by an important providential event. Specifically, on the 16th day of the 3rd lunar month in 2009 (April 19), along with the golden wedding anniversary celebration marking the beginning of the 50th year since the Holy Wedding, True Parents held the Rally for the Secure Settlement of Peace between Cain and Abel at the Cosmic Level for the Parents of Heaven and Earth. The following year, on the 16lh day of the 3rd lunar month in 2010 (April 29), they held the Coronation for the Settlement of the Abel UN at the congratulatory luncheon on the golden anniversary of their Holy Wedding.

1 People live without knowing that the world can change in one second. They have no idea that individuals can be divided in a matter of one second, according to their absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience. Likewise, two worlds were divided according to whether people used the lunar calendar or the solar calendar. In short, the East and the West were divided. Although all humankind came from the same ancestors, people do not know how we came to be divided into the West and the East, how we came to be divided into different countries, and even how brothers and sisters came to be divided. (613-197, 2009/07/07)

2 The solar calendar and the lunar calendar should not be divided. The lunar calendar year has 11 fewer days than the solar calendar year. That is why every three years, another month is added to the year in the lunar calendar to make up the difference. That 3rd year has 13 months in all. Only the lunar calendar can inherit the origin of the number 13. In the solar calendar, there is never a situation where the 12-month year must be adjusted by adding another month, making a year based on the number 13. However, in the lunar calendar the whole adjusts to accommodate a smaller part. In other words, by adding one small number, it is able to digest the whole. This means it can swallow the Devil’s world all in one gulp. (613-208, 2009/07/07)

3 The Golden Wedding Anniversary of the True Parents, the Golden Wedding Anniversary of the True Teacher and the True Owner, can take place only once in eternal history. The Golden Wedding Anniversary of True Parents cannot take place twice. Hence, our Golden Wedding Anniversary will be celebrated from 2009 through 2010. It is an important period, during which time we need to finish everything and then move forward. It is reckoned as one event. (611-074, 2009/05/06)

4 During the year 2009, when we are celebrating our Golden Wedding Anniversary, everything must be completed, concluded and consummated. In short, we need to see the fruit, the completion and the finish of everything. We are completing, concluding and consummating everything. We need to conclude the three stages of formation, growth and completion and march forward into the world of eternal life and eternal happiness. (611-142, 2009/05/08)

Cosmic Assemblies for the Settlement of the True Parents

The “Cosmic Assembly for the Settlement of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind Who, as God’s Embodiment, Proclaim the Word” was held on a number of occasions, including on July 8, 2010, at the Cheon Jeong Gung Palace and on July 24 at the Manhattan Center in New York. The following year, on April 24 ,2011, an event was also held at Songdo Convensia Convention Center in Incheon, and attended by more than 12,000 people including church leaders, members, and ambassadors for peace from all parts of Korea. At this assembly, True Parents declared before heaven that Korea is the father-land and homeland of God.

True Parents had departed from the United States in the early morning on the day of the event and arrived at Incheon Airport after a long flight. Yet they held this event only a few hours after their arrival without taking any rest. The very next day, they took another long flight to Europe to begin their speaking tour in Europe. In this effort, True Parents forgot about the limitations of their physical bodies. With single-minded determination to conclude the entire providence of restoration and give rebirth to humanity, they went on their world speaking tour of 10 nations: 8 nations in Europe, Las Vegas in the United States and Nigeria.

Through the “Cosmic Assembly for the Settlement of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind Who, as God’s Embodiment, Proclaim the Word,” True Parents achieved ultimate oneness and completed, concluded and consummated the providence of restoration. They proclaimed the completion of all the responsibilities and missions for which they had come to earth. On the foundation of having accomplished everything, they could settle with the stature and authority of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, the king of kings. In short, through these speaking events they proclaimed the arrival of the age when the original Eden is restored, returning to the age before the Fall and the age before Satan came into existence.

5 Which is more important, the Word or the substance of the Word? Religions today are not sure of the substance, and thus place more importance on the Word. Therefore, it is difficult for them to place the two as one. In the Unification Church however, we do not prioritize the Word. Since we have the substance or embodiment of God, the actions of the substance are testified to by the Word. We have the content that unites the internal and the external. The assemblies at which God’s embodiments proclaim the Word have begun. They are to lead those in religious and academic circles to the solutions to the main issues they encounter in their search for the truth. (2010/07/08)

6 The Cosmic Assemblies for the Settlement of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind Who, as God’s Embodiment, Proclaim the Word are events to proclaim God’s Word. For the name of the event, the term “embodiment” was placed in front of the term “Word.” Heaven and earth must be connected. This started with the individual, and it must be concluded on the final level, with these Cosmic Assemblies for the Settlement of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind Who, as God’s Embodiment, Proclaim the Word. Connecting heaven and earth means achieving harmony and unity.

Which comes first, harmony or unity? Harmony comes first. Without harmony, unity cannot come about, as everyone will act in their own way. That is why we need to unite in harmony. A person whose mind and body are not united cannot become a unified subject partner. Only when two people—husband and wife—become one, can they unite to make daughters and sons who can then become one with them. If the two are not first united, the third or the fourth person cannot come into being. (2011/04/03)

7 We, the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, have now settled. Since we are the substance of the Word, we need to proclaim the Word. The Word spoken by the substance of Truth, that is by the settled substantial beings of Truth, can liberate the universe. This is the meaning of the proclamation that True Parents are the substance of the Word. The settlement of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind signifies the settlement of the substance of the Word. That is why what we are proclaiming is that we are the substantial Word. (2011/11/27)

8 The things that True Parents pray and wish for do not just fall into our laps. Heavenly Parent watches over us from a position of liberation, and no one can stand in His way. Therefore, our prayers and wishes will be fulfilled in due course.

Understanding this, I hope that you will not become a pitiable group of people who are hesitant to follow the path of the Will. I am speaking these words as the person who has fulfilled the responsibility of the world-level Messiah and whose prayers and wishes extend far beyond the tribal level. These words are to proclaim the glory of the world prior to the Fall, when the first human beings did not have their own self-centered views, but lived in heaven and on earth full of freedom where God is free, victorious and supreme. The words that I am proclaiming now represent the fruits of my entire life. They bring everything to a conclusion, from the first to the last. Such is the meaning of the Cosmic Assembly for the Settlement of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind Who, as God’s Embodiment, Proclaim the Word. (2011/02/03)

9 The Parent of the Cosmos is the incorporeal God, and the Parents of Heaven and Earth are the substantial Parents. Only when these two sets of parents unite as one, can they become the personal Parents and then go on to become the Parent of the Cosmos, the Parents of Heaven and Earth, and the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. Unless God becomes a personal God, He cannot become the True Parent. God needs to become a personal God so that He can assume a body and give birth to sons and daughters. (450-175, 2004/05/21)

10 The Parent of the Cosmos, the Parents of Heaven and Earth, and the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind are, to put it simply, the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind throughout the cosmos. God, the Parent of the Cosmos, needs to become human beings — man and woman, and this man and woman need to become the True Parents of humankind. In other words, these human beings need to become God’s body, become the visible God, God in visible substantial form. Likewise, God also needs to assume the bodies of these human beings. That is why the True Parents naturally inherit the names of the incorporeal Parent of the Cosmos and the corporeal Parents of Heaven and Earth. By emerging victorious from battles with the spirit world and going through the process of restoration to be in accord with God, the Parents of Heaven and Earth can become one with the Parent of the Cosmos and become the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind throughout the cosmos. (436-136, 2004/02/07)

11 The Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind are the union of the incorporeal substantial form of the Parent of the Cosmos and corporeal substantial forms of the Parents of Heaven and Earth, living together in joy centering on love. The husband and wife who attend the spiritual God and the God of substance become the ancestors of humankind. There cannot be two sets of ancestors. There cannot be two sets of parents. No matter what, there can be only one. There is one father, one mother, one set of ancestors, one set of grandchildren.

Human beings are to resemble God and manifest God’s mind and body. It is for this that they were given substantial forms. Only by having physical bodies can they procreate. Having physical bodies, the family of the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind has the mission to bequeath everything they achieved to the citizens of heaven’s nation, giving birth to them and raising them as sons and daughters free of the flaws of the Fall and restoration. They must secure the foundation for these children to build the kingdom of heaven here on earth. Then everyone can enter the kingdom of heaven in heaven directly from earth. (436-138, 2004/02/07)

12 Blessed families need to go through eight stages, revolutionizing themselves by paying indemnity, revolutionizing themselves through their conscience, and entering the realm of one heart. You need to attain the positions of the king and queen on the levels of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world and cosmos to become the object partners of God in substantial form, giving and receiving with Him both horizontally and vertically.

I am scattering you as seeds here on earth to bear fruit in the heavenly world. You are sown as seeds to grow in this world so that you can become fruit in the heavenly world. You will be the fruit of love, stored in the barn of the kingdom of heaven in heaven. The earthly world is the place where you make preparations to enter this barn. Therefore, unless the earthly world is perfected, the heavenly world cannot be perfected.

I am saying that this is what you must do as owners of Cheon Il Guk. This is how you can inherit everything that the Parent of the Cosmos and the Parents of Heaven and Earth have fulfilled. You need to become the kings and queens among filial children and the kings and queens among patriots. Heaven is expecting you to attain such a position. You need to stay firmly in that position to achieve the eternal age of peace and prosperity. You have to liberate the fatherland. Only then can the era of liberation come. (438-091, 2004/02/15)

13 All beings resemble God. They were created in order to realize the substantial realm of God’s love with True Parents. That is why God, who is spirit, and the embodiments of God need to become one.

To establish this substantial realm of God’s love, I have worked so hard and for so long. I faced opposition at each of the eight levels, including the individual, family, tribe, people and nation, but I did not break. Instead, my opponents were broken. They stepped forward to oppose me in the realm based on self-centered awareness, but I advanced in the realm based on awareness of others. I totally invested myself without thinking of myself. That is how I could sever all bonds with the fallen world and bring God to settle in my body.

Therefore, you need to go through the eight levels, from the individual to the family, tribe, people, nation, world and cosmos, and bring God to settle in your body. You need to resemble God centering on the family of the holy Son and Daughter. Moreover, you need to inherit the form of True Parents’ family by re-experiencing everything from the womb to marriage and inheriting God’s realm of heart. In this way you can complete the form of True Parents’ family and enter God’s kingdom. (414-284, 2003/08/04)

14 In the age of God’s embodiments, it is not enough for you to know only about the body. You also need to know how your body embodies God Himself. The age of God’s embodiments is the age after the original Garden of Eden is restored. It is the age free from the Fall that recovers the age before Satan came into existence. It is the age when the angelic world moves at Adam and Eve’s command. It is the age in which everything moves as God wills. You just cannot go against His desires. Only when you become sons and daughters who live as His object partners, can you form an eternal parent-child relationship with Him. (2009/10/13)

15 Heavenly Father, we need to indemnify the age of restoration of the Garden of Eden on the family level by 2012 and guide people to be registered in the kingdom of heaven. By centering on the Fourth Israel, may You unite the realms of nations and religions. By centering on True Parents, may the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind settle, and the incorporeal substantial world and the corporeal substantial world unite as one. Through this, may the settlement of heaven, earth and humankind take place, whereby human beings in the liberated worlds of heaven and earth bring everything to perfection and fruition.

Now we can realize the ideal of the kingdom of heaven, where people living in the kingdom on earth can go directly to the kingdom in heaven. The time when all this can be achieved has come. Now we can march forward to the world of harmony and unity, where everything we have proclaimed is in accord with Your Will, Heavenly Father. It is all being realized; in particular the teaching of the oneness of the Parent of the Cosmos, the Parents of Heaven and Earth, and the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. (429-264, 2003/12/28)

16 In a God-centered family there is secure settlement for everyone. In such a family, everyone will be peaceful and happy. They will have no concerns or worries. People will no longer talk about utopia as an unreachable ideal. All you will need to do is to live your life, and you will achieve everything. Therefore, in your prayer from now on, you will be able to confidently report, “The time for gaining liberation and complete freedom is over. From now on, I will live in peace and prosperity in a time of secure settlement.” (462-243, 2004/07/28)

17 Secure settlement means to be peaceful and happy forever without conflict. It signifies the age of peace and prosperity, a utopian world. Can the age of peace and prosperity come when our body and mind are struggling with each other? No, it cannot.

So, returning to the basics, you need to believe unconditionally that my words are right, stand firm where you are, and say, “This is how I am. Even if heaven and earth change and the sun falls out of the sky, I will not change.” You have to say, “Even if natural catastrophes take place in heaven and on earth, I will not change.” Shooting stars streak through the sky. Even the suns fall would be very rapid, but you, unchanging, have to stand above all such phenomena. The age of peace and prosperity can come only when you are securely settled. It is not a realm of personal existence. It is a realm that transcends history. The ideal world of happiness comes about only when all people usher in the age of peace and prosperity on behalf of God. It will be a utopian world. There is nothing better. (462-244, 2004/07/28)

Chapter 2
Foundation Day and the Inheritance of True Parents’ Tradition

Section 1. Opening the Age of Cheon Il Guk

Background

Cheon Il Guk is the abbreviation of Cheonju Pyeonghwa Tongil Guk (Cosmic Nation of Peace and Unity). On January 13, 2001, on the basis of their authority gained through victory in the history of restoration through indemnity, True Parents held the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship. On October 3 of that same year, on the occasion of the Foundation Day of the Nation of the Unified World, they spoke about the significance of Cheon Il Guk.

Cheon Il Guk is God’s nation, the fruit of True Parents’ vision of one family under God, for which they have devoted their entire lives. True Parents explained that Cheon Il Guk is “the nation where two persons become one.” It is the ideal world of interdependence, mutual prosperity and universally shared values, where all people live as brothers and sisters attending God as the vertical True Parent and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind as the horizontal True Parents.

1 Have you ever heard of the Cosmic Nation of Peace and Unity? Have you ever heard that there is a nation of God? I'm asking whether you have heard about heaven on earth, the ideal world and the utopia for which God longs. No one has ever heard these words before, but everyone longs for such a nation. It is not a delusion. It is reality. Men and women, young and old, regardless of background, place and time, whether living in the physical world or the spiritual world, will all agree that the nation of peace, the nation longed for by God, is nothing other than the Cosmic Nation of Peace and Unity, Cheon Il Guk.

Who can bring this nation to fruition? God created us as His sons and daughters. Thus, we are the ones who are responsible to realize this nation. When this is done, the country will belong not only to God but to His sons and daughters. It will be a nation that the sons and daughters can be proud of for eternity with God at the center. It is also the ideal nation of God’s dream. In that nation, the individual, family, tribe, people, nation and world can truly be happy. (359-080, 2001/11/06)

2 Before we die, we must unite our mind and body. The wife must come to love God more than she loves her husband, and the husband must love God more than he loves his wife. You must also become a family that can love God’s sons and daughters just as God loves them. Families like that come together to form a tribe and such tribes come together to form a nation. Then these nations come together to form the world, and the world unites to form heaven and earth, the Cosmic Nation of Peace and Unity. God will be the ruler of that nation, we will be His subjects, and the whole world will be its territory. (357-195, 2001/10/30)

3 All of you need to enter the Cosmic Nation of Peace and Unity. This nation has no ties to Satan. All ties with Satan must be cut off and you have to stand in the position of a messiah. You must stand in the position of individual, family, tribal and national messiah. To live in this liberated heavenly nation, mind and body need to become one. Through achieving such oneness in heart, the new cosmic nation on earth, the nation of Cheon Il Guk, becomes my nation. After the nation of the individual, there is the nation of the husband and wife. In this nation, husband and wife need to become one based on their mind and body having become one. You as an individual must be united, and you and your spouse have to be united. This is the distinctive standard by which you can represent the perfected Blessing. This distinctive standard is the realm of the Blessing that encompasses both parent and child. It is the realm of the Blessing of heaven and of earth. (360-266, 2001/11/17)

4 The Cosmic Nation of Peace and Unity is where we can go beyond national boundaries and expand to the world stage. After resolving everything through the law of indemnity, Cheon Il Guk is the nation that leads us to the kingdom of heaven. It is the united nation of the heavenly and earthly worlds. The heavenly and earthly worlds are two. Cheon Il Guk is the nation where these two become one. How can they become one? Through true love. What kind of peace does Cheon Il Guk embody? It is the peace that embraces heaven and earth. (365-106, 2002/01/05)

5 Centering on the original, innate love of God, I was able to love even Satan and lay a solid foundation to enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, Satan has no choice but to bless me, saying, “You are headed to the world of liberation. Your wishes shall absolutely be fulfilled. Wherever you go, your wishes shall be granted, and you shall have everything you desire.” When the words, “The world is now liberated in the name of God, the True Parents and the True Family,” are uttered, he will say, “Amen!”

Spring has come. No matter how much the snow has piled up, no matter how thick the ice is, now that spring has come everything will melt. Seeds must be sown in the spring. The seeds of goodness must be planted to the ends of the earth, displacing the seeds of evil planted by Satan. The family is the seed of goodness. Satan planted only the seeds of the fallen Adam and Eve. We must now plant the seeds of the new family. (189-065, 1989/03/12)

6 The Cosmic Nation of Peace and Unity is not a nation meant solely for the Korean people. It is God’s desire to liberate all humankind, including hundreds of billions of ancestors in the spirit world, and even the world of angels. Therefore, even though the road that leads to this is arduous and miserable, we must travel it. We must invest with the heart of a parent, of a husband or wife, of an elder sibling or a younger sibling who has lost the person they love the most. We must go forward, investing and forgetting that we have invested. Whoever lives like this, even if someone tells them not to, will naturally end up in heaven. (358-062, 2001/11/01)

7 The reason I have received so much persecution is because I have no nation. This is also the reason God has undergone so much persecution. Therefore, I am always thinking about how to find the nation, the homeland that is God’s. This is why I perform the mass marriage ceremonies, bringing together all five races of the world, even as the world curses me. Through this, we are creating one united tribe and people throughout the world. Do you know how difficult this is? But isn’t the work that the incorporeal God must do to bring the world to this point even more difficult? The work I am doing is less difficult than God’s. This is why I said I would find a nation. This is why I have walked this path. (133-307, 1985/01/01)

8 Now all I have to do is organize a movement that can establish a new family, a new tribe and a new nation. If I am able to accomplish this, not only Korea but also the United Nations and the whole world will come to follow me and understand the direction they need to take. The formation of the new family, a family that Satan has not defiled, starts with True Parents.

The mission that remains is to expand the sanctified, unfallen nation. This is re-creation. God cannot give His love where the traces of Satan’s filthy love remain. You must fulfill your mission. Only then can you go to the heavenly nation and restore your honor as the perfected descendant of Adam. The Israelites went through the 40-year wilderness course but could not build the homeland. However, I have lived through the 40-year wilderness course on the worldwide level and have re-created the people of Israel, making it possible to build the world-level kingdom. (268-120, 1995/03/31)

9 Moses was 80 years old when he sought the hometown and nation in preparation for the age of Jesus. The failures that came about then are being restored centering on the blessed families. This is why there was a 40-year course to restore Canaan centering on the blessed families. It refers to the period when heaven and earth are to become one.

In the blessed families’ course of establishing Canaan, heaven and earth were turned upside down. To create one people, I had the blessed families unite with one another in Jardim, Brazil. Now that they have become one, doing the work to settle with one mind and one body, even with heaven and earth upside down, they will be able to return to Canaan without any resistance. Because they have completed these preparations, they are passing over the boundary line and landing in a new dimension.

Moses sought the hometown and nation on the level of a people. He was unable to accomplish that. But today, on my 80th birthday, I have overcome all impediments and realized the completion of the ideal family and the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven. (314-266, 2000/01/09)

10 Christianity did not unite after World War Il and, centered on the United States, even went so far as to chase me away. We came to be just like the Israelites, cast out into the wilderness for 40 years. Centering on the 4,300 years of Korean history, the course to establish Canaan and to complete the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven was prolonged. To finish this, the First, Second and Third Israels and the Old, New and Completed Testament Ages must be brought to a conclusion. (428-152, 2003/12/18)

11 Cheon Il Guk can begin only if this is completed and it stands on the foundation of settlement. (396-149, 2002/11/05)

11 The term Cheon Il Guk came into existence thanks to True Parents. After we successfully completed God’s kingship, we passed through the Settlement in the Realm of Life of the Parents of Heaven and Earth, and then the gatherings for the Harmony and Unity of Heaven and Earth, and finally the Ascension (Seunghwa) Ceremonies for Peace, Unification and the Liberation of Heaven and Earth. With these completed, a new nation was necessary. True Parents declared Cheon Il Guk. The goal of the Family Pledge is to complete Cheon Il Guk. We must fulfill the Family Pledge for the sake of our mothers, our fathers, our siblings, our nation, our world, and the saints and sages and the entire heavenly world.

The conclusion is simple. Why did we hold the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship? We did it for Cheon Il Guk. Why did we hold the rallies for the Settlement in the Realm of Life of the Parents of Heaven and Earth? We did it so that the citizens of Cheon Il Guk can settle and live. Right now, all citizens of heaven and earth are making a resolution. Together they are setting conditions for a united world from the level of the individual resolution through all eight stages. On the worldwide level they are making resolutions to gain success, focusing on a common purpose. (396-149, 2002/11/05)

Foundation Day

Foundation Day, which is the beginning of the substantial Cheon Il Guk, took place 13 years after the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship. True Parents stood in the position of servants with a parental heart to establish Cheon Il Guk. They shed sweat for earth, tears for humanity and blood for heaven, and walked a course of progress as pilgrims. After the Holy Wedding in 1960, True Parents became victorious in following the course of the true parents, true teacher and true owner. Through the Blessing they searched for and established millions of couples in the physical and spirit worlds. To realize a peaceful world, they inaugurated many organizations in all fields worldwide. Through these countless internal and external foundations, they proclaimed the Foundation Day of Cheon Il Guk.

12 I am setting up the 13 years following the Foundation Day of the Nation of the Unified World holy day on October 3, 2001 as a general summation of my life, and it is emerging accordingly. With 6,000 years as a foundation, the year 2001 launched the lead-up to the year 3000, at which point we can greet the 7,000th year. If you calculate the length of human history as expressed in the Bible, it comes to 6,000 years. I must complete in just 13 years the responsibility that all men and women ought to have accomplished throughout the entirety of human history. Within 13 years, I have to complete everything that Adam was unable to fulfill. I have to seek out the lineage that Satan stole from God. January 13, 2013, is our D-Day. I will wipe everything clean in just these 13 years. (2010/02/01)

13 The fallen world is not a world of O’s (representing good) but of X’s (representing bad). Within a world of X’s, there is no space for O’s , but even one O can embrace millions of X’s. January 13, 2013, is to be the D-Day proclaimed by heaven. What must we accomplish before this D-Day? We must offer to heaven all the things that Satan stole. How can we gather and return all these things? Even God cannot complete this task by Himself. This is why True Parents have taken it on. Satan became the false parent, false owner and false king, spreading his false lineage. This is why no one knows about God or the spirit world. We are living without truly knowing our starting point, our root; no one truly knows where they are heading. Certainly that which we call the result, which comes from the Origin, defines the one path which we must go. There are not two paths. There is only one. (611-046, 2009/05/05)

14 For 12 months to become a year there must be a center, a point of focus, which itself becomes the number 13. Generally speaking, the number 13 becomes the center for the number 12. As the number 13, Jesus was supposed to become the center of the 12 disciples, but he was unable to do so. This is why he died. We need to seek such a center. I understood this concept even as a child. I am seeking the nucleus, the position of the number 13. That is why Foundation Day is on January 13, 2013. We need to align with the number 13. (611-313, 2009/05/20)

15 There is a new providence for heaven until Foundation Day. We must resolve all issues surrounding the ideal of heaven and the ideal of liberation, according to God’s wishes. We must complete all our educational efforts in our providential and worldly missions during this time before entering the era of one world. Starting from today, January 19, 2010, and centering on God, we must bring to fruition all our programs and resolve all problems, including those of Cain and Abel and those relating to Satan’s lineage. To enter the world of liberation, we need to complete all the education desired by heaven. Centering on our D-Day, we must dedicate ourselves to finishing that work. We need to resolve United Nations issues, national issues and all related issues. To complete God’s agenda, all people gathered here today must make a determination and labor to fulfill it. If you work hard, the world will not fall into ruin. My challenge now is to tie up the loose ends and bring the providence to a conclusion. (2010/01/19)

16 Foundation Day marks the beginning of a new history; it is a genesis, an origin. It is a day that was absolutely necessary throughout all of human history and is a day that had to come to pass. This day did not come about easily. God created the heavens and earth because of true love. It is recorded in the Bible that He created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. But Foundation Day was established as the 13th day, meaning that God created and guided the world during a period of 12 days and established the 13th day as the day when His dreams were fulfilled. He created everything from the tiniest amoeba to the largest animal, and finally He created Adam and Eve. He then said, “It is good. It is beautiful.” God then waited for the 13th day, when a new world would begin. That was to have been the day when God’s dreams were fulfilled. (True Mother, 2013/02/23)

17 God cannot rest in ultimate perfection with only an incorporeal body. The incorporeal God needs to settle and become the substantial Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. However, there has been no perfect couple on earth able to fulfill this role for God. Adam and Eve were unable to fulfill their portion of responsibility. Because there were no Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, there was no one who had met the standard to be called True Parents. The ideal of True Parents remained unrealized.

When the Parents of Heaven and Earth unite in conjugal love, they will make a home where God can dwell peacefully. In their home untouched by the Fall, they will realize absolute sex. Now that I have reached the level of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, I am speaking more freely about absolute sex. When I speak about absolute sex, I am not referring to self-centered, individualistic sex.

Half of humanity consists of women, but they are only one of the two sexes that must be harmonized. If there is disharmony between the two, it is as if ones eyes don’t look in the same direction, or one’s nose is out of place, or the limbs are not coordinated with each other. A woman and a man who have reached perfection must harmonize and become totally one. Marriage signifies the total oneness of man and woman—as one body.

For the Realm of the Cosmic Sabbath for the Parents of Heaven and Earth to come about, we must pass through the first era, that of Adam; the second era, that of Jesus; the third era, that of the Returning Lord; and the fourth era, that of the realm of Adam’s heart. There must be a foundation of harmony. One can fulfill the Blessing when one is in harmony with one’s partner and there is no conflict. By January 13, 2013, which is D-Day, we must enter through the great door, centering on the Blessing. (610-012, 2009/04/10)

18 Now a new era has opened. You are extraordinarily lucky and blessed. Out of all humankind, only you have been able to usher in Foundation Day which is absolutely unprecedented in history. It is like a dream. People who are blessed in this way must share their blessing with those around them. This is your responsibility. The blessed families owe a tremendous debt to the Heavenly Parent and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. You received the Blessing without payment. How do you think fallen people will be able to attend the Heavenly Parent? All of our ancestors who have been going back and forth between the physical world and the spiritual world have been waiting impatiently for this day. There are many people who shed more blood and offered more sincere devotion than we have for the sake of fulfilling the providential Will. If we compare ourselves to those people, we are severely lacking. (True Mother, 2013/02/24)

The Enthronement Ceremony and the Blessing for Registration

For the first time in 6,000 years, a new heaven and new earth nave opened and a new day has dawned. On the 13lh day of the first month by the heavenly calendar (February 22) in 2013, the Foundation Day of Cheon Il Guk was proclaimed. On that day a joyous fanfare praising the glory of heaven and the Blessing on earth resounded at the Cheongshim Peace World Center. The True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind officiated the Enthronement Ceremony of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind in Cheon Il Guk, which could be viewed live from anywhere in the world on the Internet. They completed, concluded and consummated the entire providence of restoration.

The holy vestments and holy crown of True Father, who resides in the spirit world and has realized complete oneness with God, were enshrined. Soon after, True Mother, wearing blue vestments and a holy crown, entered the stage amid celebration in heaven and on earth, escorted by four of her grandchildren, carrying roses and lilies. The heavenly king’s scepter symbolizes the power and authority of God and of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, and the Cheon Seong Gyeong and Pyeong Hwa Gyeong, the Holy scriptures of Cheon Il Guk, symbolize rule by the Word. These, along with the Royal Seal, were presented to True Mother. The climax of the ceremony was True Mother proclaiming the Cheon Il Guk symbols and the Cheon Il Guk Foundation Day. Foundation Day holds deep significance as the substantial beginning of Cheon Il Guk, and also marked the beginning of its founding year.

Following the Enthronement Ceremony of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind in Cheon Il Guk, True Parents bestowed the grace of the Blessing, which allows all people in heaven and on earth to register as citizens of Cheon Il Guk. True Mother ’s sincere prayer and the affirmation of vows constituted resolutions toward completing Cheon Il Guk and a plea invoking God’s grace. The Marriage Blessing for Registration in Cheon Il Guk concluded successfully in joyous acclaim, ushering in a new era in which heaven and earth are one.

The Foundation Day celebratory banquet was a precious time to extol the victory of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind and inherit heavenly fortune and heavenly blessing. True Mother awarded a special prize to 1,200 representative blessed families. This prize, which consists of a silken wrapping cloth embossed on every corner with True Father and True Mother’s royal seals, embodies True Parents’ will and desire for us to share our heavenly fortune and heavenly blessing with all people.

Diverse events were held during the week, mainly in Cheongpyeong, to commemorate the Foundation Day beginning the first year of Cheon Il Guk. Among them were the founding of the Wonmo Pyeongae Foundation and the hosting of a Summit Council for World Peace conference, in which leaders from Korea and around the world, including Unification Church leaders, participated.

At the service marking forty days after True Father’s Holy Ascension, True Mother had granted holy wine to all the regional presidents so that they could distribute it to members around the world, cleansing all past sins and bestowing special grace with which to usher in Foundation Day.

19 Cheon Il Guk Proclamation: Most esteemed Heavenly Parent, You are the King of Kings, the King of Peace and the True Parent of the Cosmos. Your benevolence is immeasurable. We want to offer to You the name of the nation, Cheon Il Guk, the national flower, the lily, and the national bird, the crane. In front of heaven, we want to dedicate the national flag and national anthem of Cheon Il Guk to You. On this day, January 13, 2013, I proclaim the first year of Cheon Il Guk. (True Mother, 2013/02/22)

20 Pledge for the Marriage Blessing for Registration: Offering glory and gratitude to the loving Heavenly Parent and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, and representing all blessed families in heaven and on earth, and all of humankind, do you, blessed families gathered here today, pledge to usher in the new history of Cheon Il Guk, inherit the tradition of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, and establish the tradition of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience in the Unificationist family, embracing the world and all of humanity, advancing forward with all your strength? (True Mother, 2013/02/22)

21 Proclamation of the Marriage Blessing for Registration: Our Heavenly Parent, I pray that glory will fill heaven, and that praise and exaltation for You will overflow on earth. The True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, thank You so much. You have worked so tirelessly. We know that we are unworthy to stand in this position before this tremendous blessing and grace, and yet heaven, so great and expansive, has embraced us once again. How can we be worthy to receive this grace, this overwhelming blessing?

We promise and pledge to You once more, Heavenly Parent, that until the day we perish we will march forward tirelessly toward the completion of Cheon Il Guk. Please help us. We sincerely wish to stand before You as Your beloved sons and daughters who make You proud. O Heavenly Parent, assist us in this place. Since we earnestly request Your protection, please help us. Please spread Your Will throughout the whole world. Aju! (True Mother, 2/01/30222)

Section 2. True Father’s Seonghwa (Holy Ascension) and Inheriting the Tradition

True Father’s Holy Ascension

As if True Father were preparing for his Holy Ascension, during the last three years of his life, beginning in 2010 when he proclaimed the heavenly calendar, he pushed himself relentlessly, to the point of being ciuel to his own body. At his advanced age, traveling even once a year would be difficult. Nevertheless, he traveled overseas on more than ten occasions to speak at locations throughout the world. He maintained his schedule of daily hoondokhae and personally educated members, speaking about the urgency of advancing the providence.

For the sake of world restoration, True Father wanted to complete the unfinished providence for the United Nations. So on the 27th day of the 5th month by the heavenly calendar (July 16) in 2012, True Father inaugurated the Abel Womens UN. This was the last providential organization he established in his lifetime.

A month before his Holy Ascension, on the 15th day of the 6th month by the heavenly calendar (August 2), True Father suddenly visited the Osan School, which had been relocated to Seoul from his hometown of Jeongju in North Korea. There he took some time to reminisce over his life. The following week, on the 25th day of the 6th month (August 12) at the Cheon Jeong Gung Palace he prayed, “Dear God, blessed are You. Please allow me to offer my life for You.” The next day, on the 26th day of the 6th month (August 13), he offered his final prayer on earth in which he proclaimed in the presence of True Mother, “I have finished all of my mission for the providence of restoration.” At 1:54 a.m. on the 17th day of the 7th month by the heavenly calendar (September 3) in 2012, at the age of 93 by Korean counting, True Father ascended to heaven.

During the 13-day period following his Holy Ascension, countless people from virtually every nation came to pay their respects at memorial altars that were set up throughout the world. Leaders from around the world, including many heads of state, sent floral tributes and messages of condolence. A message of condolence from the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North Korea) via telegram stated, “Although Reverend Sun Myung Moon has passed on, all of his efforts and achievements to bring harmony and unity to the Korean people, to unify the Korean Peninsula, and to realize world peace, will be known forever.” North Korea also conferred on True Father a special “Unification of the Fatherland Award.”

Media outlets in Korea and throughout the world, including the Associated Press and CNN, treated the story of True Father’s passing as headline news. They published and broadcast special reports about his life and achievements, which highlighted that True Father’s entire life was one of true love and dedicated to world peace. In this way, people around the world expressed their condolences over the passing of True Father.

During this time, members from across the world gathered every morning at the Cheongshim Peace World Center, where they offered prayers, devotion and hoondokhae. At Cheon Jeong Gung Palace, where True Father’s body lay in state, current and former heads of state, leaders from throughout the world, and an endless line of members paid their respects.

At the lpjeon Ceremony (when the body is placed in the coffin) on the day before True Father’s Seonghwa (Holy Ascension Ceremony), True Mother declared her determination, saying, “As long as I remain alive, I will devote myself completely to the establishment of Cheon Il Guk here on earth.”

On the following day, the 29th day of the 7th month by the heavenly calendar (September 15), True Mother officiated the Holy Ascension Ceremony at the Cheongshim Peace World Center. An enormous crowd attended, including 31 religious leaders representing different religions and denominations from Korea and around the world, current and former heads of state, and more than 30,000 blessed members of the church. They crowded inside and outside the Peace World Center as well as in the meeting halls of the Cheong-pyeong Training Center.

On the day of the Holy Ascension Ceremony, the funeral procession bearing True Father’s casket departed from Cheon Jeong Gung Palace at 10:00 a.m. and, proceeding slowly, arrived at the Peace World Center 40 minutes later. With two True Children in the lead and True Mother and the rest of the True Family following behind, 12 pallbearers bore True Father’s casket into the Peace Center, where it was placed atop a platform covered in roses and lilies.

Amid outpourings of emotion from the crowd, distinguished guests from Korea and overseas offered messages of tribute praising True Father’s legacy. One said, “Reverend Moon, you have left behind many accomplishments that we must continue to develop. You are the victor who led the way for interreligious harmony and taught all of us to follow the Will of God. Your life accomplishments will always be remembered.” The ceremony, which lasted two hours, was webcast by Internet to members around the world. It was an opportunity for all to unite with the teaching and love of True Father and make a new determination to work toward the settlement of Cheon Il Guk.

As True Father’s casket left the Peace Center and headed back to Cheon Jeong Gung Palace, shouts of “We love you! You worked so hard! We will attend you forever!” rang out. As the funeral procession climbed the road to Mt. Cheon-seong, members holding flags, roses and lilies pledged with shouts and tears, “True Father, we will fulfill your will without fail! We will unceasingly move forward with True Mother, and we will be victorious!”

True Father’s casket arrived at the burial site, called the Bon Hyang Won (Original Home Garden), and there the Wonjeon Ceremony took place. After a reading about the reality of the spirit world, members of the True Family and other representatives each offered a rose, then a shovelful of soil. The ceremony closed with everyone joining in three cheers of Eog-mansei, “Eog-man-sei for the true, holy and virtuous Lord of Cheon Il Guk, who reigns over myriad peoples, is triumphant on all levels and inaugurates the era of peace and prosperity!” “Eog-mansei for the Wonjeon Ceremony for the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind!” This concluded the 13 days during which True Father was sent off to the next world, filled with tributes and heartfelt love from all over the world.

1 You do not understand God’s situation. I am sitting here in front of you because I know about it. What do you think I want at the age of 92? I don’t want anything. I am trying to give whatever I have to others. Even as I speak to you, I am choking up. If you had eyes in the back of your head to see all your shameful past, all you could do would be to cover your face and run away.

I would like to go with you and protect you; however, the responsibility of the Son and the Daughter whose mission is to pioneer the way of heaven is a fearful one. Korea could vanish. Asia could vanish. The entire world could vanish. Until you die, you may not understand what I am saying.

Where do you think I want to go right now? It is a place I miss so much, where when I was a boy, I came to know the Will and wept countless tears. Whenever I had a chance, I would hold onto one particular tree and weep so bitterly, thinking that no one before me ever understood God’s situation. When 1 went to North Korea I visited that place, but the tree was gone; someone had cut it down. I am thinking of restoring that place to its original form.

When you can follow in my footsteps, shedding tears of gratitude, and move together with me, that fatherland of my birth will begin to revive. That is how you can liberate me. I will leave this world with such a hope in my heart, but it is you, who actually live in this world, who can do it. I will have to pass away, and when I do, I will entrust this world into your hands.

I suffered in the prime of my youth. Because of the course of suffering that I passed through during all the younger years of my life, I could not give my own sons and daughters and their children all the blessings that I wanted to give them. My only wish now is to become the ancestor who can bequeath all of them to your future descendants. I have no other wish. That is my only desire. (2011/09/02)

2 In order to take responsibility for God’s bitter pain and sorrow, I think that I should go to the spirit world quickly. When I go there, I will appear before God as a devoted son. He will invest me with a royal robe. Then, I will make a new start.

When God sees me, He will kiss me and tell me that ever since I was a little baby, He has loved me more than any prince or princess in the world. I already know His heart as my Parent. He would want to hold onto me and promise me in tears over and over again, “I will not let you suffer anymore, not for thousands of years, not for all of eternity.” Because God has such a heart, when I stand before Him I cannot say, “Heavenly Father, look at all that I have done for You.” I already know the love the Father has for me. I know that as soon as I arrive in the spirit world and say, “Heavenly Father, here I am,” even if He is sitting on a throne thousands of stories above, He will rush to be with me, shedding tears. (463-216, 2004/08/02)

3 Now the time has come for me to send you out. It means that you need to have your own foundation. When I am in the spirit world, do you think that I should make your foundation? Should I go to the spirit world or not? Should I go to the spirit world soon, or later?

We have not yet opened the age when the ideal that God harbored in His heart is fully realized. Those in the spirit world have not been fully educated either. I should educate them. The time has come for me to assemble all the spirits, even if I have to compel them to come. When I say something there, it will instantly take effect, like a constitutional decree. People do not realize how polluted the vast spirit world has become. I am the only one who can straighten it out, so the spirit world is waiting for me. Our life on this earth is like a transit station. That is why I must go to the original homeland and help the people there secure their place. (564-289, 2007/06/04)

4 During the 40 days after Father’s Seonghwa, he visited many places in the spirit world. He met the providential figures in history, and he personally experienced the situation that existed when God created heaven and earth. Throughout those 40 days, Father visited me at Cheon Jeong Gung Palace, and I spoke with him heart to heart. Father’s thoughts were my thoughts, and my thoughts were his. True Father and I resolved that we will complete the final phase of God’s providential work with oneness in heart, oneness in mind, oneness in thought and oneness in harmony. In particular, True Father agreed with me 120 percent when I told him I would revive the Korean church with Spirit and Truth.

Today, having concluded that 40-day period, we are at the starting point of a new providence. True Father is making a new start in the spirit world. Hence, in order to return glory to heaven and bring settlement to Cheon Il Guk on earth, we also will have to make a life-and-death determination and totally invest ourselves. We must walk in step with True Father. (True Mother, 2012/10/25)

5 The 40 days after True Father’s Seonghwa is a special period when Father and I, with one accord, are preparing for a new start in the providence. Suppose you buy a new house. What is the first thing you do when you enter your new house? First, you turn on the lights. Next, you place your belongings in the right places. Only when everything is in order do you start living in your new house. That is what we are doing during these 40 days after Father’s Seonghwa. It is a very important period for Father and me. When I told Father, “I will bring the church back to the spirit of the church in the early days, making it live and breathe with Spirit and Truth,” Father replied, “Mother, thank you very, very much!” (True Mother, 201/21/005)

6 Now the time of Father’s Seonghwa is over. During that time we had to take care of so many things. Since you did not know everything from A to Z, you could not do everything that was required. However, now, when it comes to the work of the church, you know what you must do. Hence I am asking that you assist one another in each area of responsibility to complete your tasks with unchanging love and devotion, and also that you fulfill your given responsibilities.

You are the people who directly attended True Father in this age. As members who received the Blessing, you grew up personally listening to True Father’s words. Although you were unable to fulfill everything according to his direction, I urge you that even now, you compress ten years into one. Make a life-or-death determination and invest yourselves completely. You need to live such a life every day. (True Mother, 2012/09/17)

Inheriting True Father’s tradition

On the 2nd day of the 8th month by the heavenly calendar (September 17), in 2012, two days after True Father’s Seonghwa Ceremony, a Third Day Memorial Service was held at the Cheongshim Peace World Center. True Mother gave a special address to leaders gathered from around the world, in which she exhorted them to “move forward unceasingly.” Her direction to Unificationists included several points: inherit and pass on True Parents’ traditions, realize the blessed family ideal, fulfill the responsibility of tribal messiahs, and substantiate the culture of heart in your community.

From the day of the Seonghwa Ceremony until the 40th Day Memorial Service, True Mother offered True Father three meals every day. She spent time united with True Father in spirit and offered sincere devotions for the substantiation of Cheon Il Guk.

Immediately after the 40th Day Memorial Service, True Mother traveled to Las Vegas, arriving on October 26. Then she began a seven-day cross-country pilgrimage, covering 3,480 miles, which retraced in reverse the steps of one of True Father’s US tours in the 1970s. She visited the holy grounds along the route and ended her journey in New York. Then she returned to Korea to direct the preparations for Foundation Day, the compilation and publication of the Cheon Il Guk Scriptures, the establishment of the Cheon Il Guk Constitution, and education for global leaders.

7 It will not be easy for you to go to the kingdom of heaven. I cannot take responsibility for you getting there. However, I will teach you how to go there, and then I will depart. Also, before 1 depart this world, I am going to give out all my belongings—my clothes and other things. What I will bequeath to you are some artifacts and my teachings. My spiritual substance will go to the spirit world.

How will you follow me? The artifacts and my teachings I leave behind will be like a ladder for you. You should love any mementos you receive more than I loved them; you should love my words; then you will be able to love my substance. Also, you must love your family, your nation, and heaven and earth. (399-072, 2002/12/19)

8 As I started my life course in suffering, so I am resolved to finish my life in suffering. I will leave behind all the fortune and blessings that I could have enjoyed, and that my sons and daughters could have enjoyed, for the Unification Church. I pray that this love will be the root tradition for hundreds and thousands of years of history continuing into the future. I believe that as long as this tradition continues, as long as the blessing of this grace continues, the Unification Church will not perish.

I am a man who takes responsibility for history 1,000 years from now. Therefore, as long as I can move around, I do not ever think of dying comfortably in bed. I think that I will die while traveling somewhere, or collapse at a podium while giving a speech. That place will become my base to return to the heavenly realm. I am ready to die like that. (264-185, 1994/10/09)

9 I made a promise to Father that no matter how difficult it is to fulfill the Will, I will bring it to a conclusion in my lifetime. I told him that I will accomplish God’s purpose of creation and the ideal world of creation. I said that I will accomplish this by all means. To do that, I am determined not to change. The day when Father went to the hospital, he told me how very thankful he was to me. He said he was so sorry and so thankful to me.

I want to accomplish the Will that he left for us to fulfill, together with all of you. I hope that as we go along the path, none of you become sons and daughters who fall away. That is my wish, and it is also Father’s hope.

My heart was in pain as I sent Father off to the spirit world, because he was not meant to depart the world amid so many difficulties. He is the Savior, the Messiah, the Lord at the Second Advent and the True Parent. He should not have started his course from prison. God had prepared everything for him, but he had to start at the very bottom of hell. Due to people being blind and deaf, everything that had been prepared for him was lost. In history, no one has ever accomplished as much as Father did. Our dream is to have one world with one culture of heart, one unified world. We must build such a world, no matter what. (True Mother, 2012/09/03)

10 What do you have that you can be proud of? Can you be proud of your money or your education? What can you be proud of? Since True Father’s Seonghwa, he has lain in the Bon Hyang Won, and I go there every day to offer devotion.

In Korean cultural tradition, when a parent of a noble family passes away, the children mourn at their parents’ graves for three years. You do not go back and forth from yoi^r home; rather, you live in the mountains, by the tomb. You do not eat decent meals, nor do you wear decent clothes. You cannot light a fire, even during the cold of winter. In Korea, a lot of snow falls in the winter. Yet for three years you live by the side of your parent who is buried there. After doing this, you can be called a filial child.

What about you? You should be doing hoondokhae every day, reading Father’s words with this heart of attending him every day. It is for you to inherit the tradition that True Parents want you to uphold. (True Mother, 2012/10/27)

11 Unless we are determined to risk our lives, how can we fulfill the Will? Thus far, many of you wanted Father to treat you well. Yet you have returned so little to Father. You should put on hemp clothes and offer prayers of repentance. Today I hope that all of you once again will make a pledge to Father. While Father is making a new start in the spirit world, we must become his partners here on earth. Jesus said that what is bound on earth is bound in heaven, and what is loosed on earth is loosed in heaven. This is the time for you to return all the love that you received from Father. (True Mother, 2012/10/25)

12 As disciples and blessed families who have lived at the same time as True Parents, it is important that you complete your responsibilities before the end of your lives. We need to build a museum, which I have named the Cheonji Sunhak Won (Sunhak Garden of Heaven and Earth), that will show clearly the life course of True Parents, long awaited by heaven and humanity-how they appeared, how they completed, concluded and consummated providential history, and how they opened a new age. I already have made a resolution to do this.

You have been so blessed and privileged to stand as new ancestors of your tribes in Cheon Il Guk. It is the beginning of a brand-new age and a brand-new history. Standing in such a position, you should leave an exemplary record of how you lived on earth. That is why, with absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, you need to establish a vertical standard like that of True Parents. If you do, that record will remain on earth and in the spirit world as well.

While True Father was here on earth, he started a new history in everything; he pioneered in every field. As long as I live on this earth, I will carry on Father’s will and work, establish his tradition, and improve everything so that it will shine into the future. In particular, I will thoroughly organize True Father’s words. That is True Father’s will and my will. (True Mother, 2013/05/13)

13 After True Father’s Seonghwa, I announced that I will make a museum about True Parents’ life course. I named it the Cheonju Sunhak Won. This museum should be a cultural center with exhibits that are so state-of-the-art that by the time visitors reach the end of the exhibits, even after their first time through, they will want to sign an application to join the church. The exhibits must be moving and compelling. The museum should be filled with so much material that visitors cannot possibly cover it all in just one day.

Our Heavenly Parents wish is to establish one world of peace and unity centered on Heavenly Parent—the substantial kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven. True Parents have opened the new age when it is now possible. The basis upon which we can build the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven is their victorious foundation of restoration through indemnity.

Blessed families! Now you have to give your very best to bring all of humanity back to God. You need to have the seriousness of a mother in labor, who struggles through pain for nine months to bring a new life into the world. You must gather all of your heart and energy to nurture all those people who will be newly born into life once they visit the Cheonji Sunhak Won. (True Mother, 2014/11/12)

14 We must establish heaven’s tradition. You should become people who study True Parents’ words every day at hoondokhae and live accordingly. You need to understand that the result of your life will depend on how absolutely you attend True Parents, whether in your workplace or in your daily life. If you live your life with absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, heaven will give you great blessings. (True Mother, 2013/03/22)

15 In the future you will be able to experience that Father is with you in spirit. True Father promised that. So, if you want to see Father, please bring substantial results. I hope you can see him that way.

During his lifetime, Father did not expose his arms and legs to anyone. He said that he took great care to protect his body, even in prison. Do you think he will appear to anyone anytime and perform spiritual works? So I am saying, “Let’s move forward with one accord, totally focused on the Will and centered on the Principle.” All of our blessed families must recommit themselves in preparation for Foundation Day. (True Mother, 2012/10/25)

Section 3. The Three Cheon Il Guk Scriptures

Compiling the Cheon Il Guk scriptures

A set of three Cheon Il Guk scriptures are being compiled: the Cheon Seong Gyeong (Heavenly Scripture) containing topical selections from True Parents’ words essential for the citizens of Cheon Il Guk; the Chambumo Gyeong (True Parents’ Scripture) covering True Parents’ life course and accomplishments as told in their own words; and the Pyeong Hwa Gyeong (Peace Scripture) containing the key addresses and proclamations that True Parents made in various places around the world throughout their lives, to love all humankind and build a world of peace.

Right after True Father’s Holy Ascension, True Mother directed that the scriptures be compiled and organized by topic, in order to preserve and pass on True Father’s legacy and tradition. She directed these scriptures be used as the textbooks by future generations. True Mother has been guiding the providence, with oneness in heart, oneness in body, oneness in thought, oneness in harmony and oneness in core with True Father in the spirit world. She is totally committed and gives her utmost devotion to establishing the tradition of God and True Parents. In directing the compilation of the Cheon Il Guk scriptures, she was preparing the conditions for this tradition to take root in generations to come.

1 It is urgent that Father’s words be gathered and organized. We have many volumes of Father’s words, but they are not properly organized. The same is true of many of the books of his words that have been published.

When we look at the 2,000 years of Christian history, we can see that Jesus’ teachings were spread throughout the world with just one book—the Bible. Unless Father’s words are organized similarly, the situation in the future will be chaotic. People in the future must be presented with Father’s words as the eternal Word. Since the root is one, the trunk is one, and the fruit is one, when people read them, there will be no arguing or disputing about the Principle and its rules.

The Word must be the standard and guideline for all people in their daily lives. Yet, Father’s words currently are not organized in good order. This greatly concerns me. Compare them to a gemstone. No matter how precious the gemstone is, it will not shine unless it is cut, shaped and polished. Father’s words are like the gemstone of all gemstones, but they are like a gemstone that has not been cut and polished. If I were to leave it the way it is now, who will cut it, shape it and polish it? You will not be able to do it. No one else but I can do it.

I want to bring glory to heaven by ensuring that Father’s words will remain eternally. I am doing this so that no one, not even a person of great ability who may appear many generations later, will alter them. I am the only one who can undertake this task. (True Mother, 2013/01/07)

2 Do you know providential history as well as I do? You only know about what has been accomplished. Do you know the Principle as much as I do? That’s why I want you to follow me and accept what I am doing. What I am doing is all for the sake of future generations. A new version of the Cheon Seong Gyeong has been compiled. I hope that it will be your guide to living a full life on earth, so that when the end comes and you go to the spirit world, you will leave holding it in your arms. Then I hope that you will say to True Father, “Thanks to the education I received from True Mother, I loved your words during my life, so much so that I carried your book with me in my arms.” I am determined to complete, conclude and consummate all my responsibilities during my lifetime. (True Mother, 2013/01/07)

3 You should be grateful to True Parents. Through their teachings, you came to understand the law of indemnity. You learned that you could not advance unless you go through the principle of restoration through indemnity. That is what you need to do in order to stand in the same realm of heart as True Parents and live within it. From True Parents’ perspective, when it comes to this point, True Children are in the same shoes. Therefore, as long as I remain alive, I shall work to establish heaven’s tradition, so that all of you, True Family members included, can stand upright within the same realm of heart as True Parents. The Cheon Il Guk scriptures are being compiled and published in order to establish that tradition. (True Mother, 2013/04/20)

4 True Father’s words are the truth. They are the Principle. You must study them and live by them in order to be able to build the world of love based on the culture of heart and offer it to True Parents. I hope that you will do your utmost to accomplish this. I am sure that all of you know what it means to live according to the teachings of True Father, who is now in the spirit world. Please make a pledge before True Father that you will stand as mature sons and daughters. (True Mother, 2012/09/03)

Purpose and process

There are three main purposes for compiling and publishing the Cheon Il Guk scriptures. The first is to preserve the life and words of True Parents, who have walked the course of restoration through indemnity, and leave them as a legacy for all humankind. The second is to present the vision of Cheon Il Guk and guidelines for the citizens of Cheon Il Guk. Finally, it is to cultivate everyone’s spirituality and character, by studying the scriptures during hoon-dokhae all throughout the world and even in the spirit world.

Among the three scriptures, Cheon Seong Gyeong and Pyeong Hwa Gyeong were presented on Foundation Day in 2013. The Japanese translations of these books were presented at the first anniversary of True Father’s Holy Ascension. The English translations took 15 months to complete, and they were presented at the second anniversary of True Father’s Holy Ascension. The volumes are being translated into many other languages. The Korean edition of Chambumo Gyeong was presented at the 3rd Foundation Day in 2015.

5 One of True Father’s achievements was to set before fallen humanity his precious words of truth. They are like gemstones. His words should not be left in disarray, but rather formed into beautiful jewelry such as the Cheon Seong Gyeong. It makes me very happy and grateful to think of the Cheon Seong Gyeong, where all those precious jewels are threaded together in one book.

With the publication of the Cheon Seong Gyeong, we are now in a position to accelerate our efforts toward the age of Cheon Il Guk. These words will become the actual center. As the fruit of True Fath er’s life, they will be the pillars of Cheon Il Guk. How happy will God be if you unite with these words and fulfill your responsibility and mission in your own position? We are still responsible to fulfill the Will that heaven expects of us. It is our responsibility to guide all people in the world as quickly as possible to become citizens of Cheon Il Guk. I am saying that since we are the first citizens of Cheon Il Guk, we have this responsibility.

You can all stand in the position of devoted children and be the owners of Cheon Il Guk. However, if you are lazy, heaven will not wait for you. You need to think of how you will fulfill your responsibility and make a determination to fulfill it.

Today, as we mark the publication of the Cheon Seong Gyeong and Pyeong Hwa Gyeong, I hope that you will take these jewels of truth that heaven has given you and use them to invest yourself totally to save humanity. (True Mother, 2013/06/10)

6 The Word is our root. Speaking of the human body, it is like the spine. If something happens to the spine, all the organs will become twisted and you will get sick. That is how important the Word is.

Through the Cheon Il Guk scriptures, we are able to live with True Father. We can breathe in oneness with his divine spirit and his truth. That being the case, what incredible words of life these are to all of you! No one should have to thirst for the eternal truth. These words must live and breathe inside you, not only for you but for the sake of your descendants. They must not benefit you alone, but as I said, we must re-create our environment. If we expand the domain of goodness, the shadows of darkness will naturally fade away. They are bound to disappear. (True Mother, 2013/08/24)

7 While you are still alive, you must let people know about True Parents. The reason we remain alive today is to teach people about the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. You should not forget this. If you don’t do this, it is as if you have no life in you. When I think about this, I feel that one day is like 1,000 years. It is important for me to preserve Father’s work and his entire life history for future generations.

I want you to carry the Cheon Il Guk scriptures, in which Father’s teachings are organized, every day and wherever you go. Just as Christians carry the Bible around with them, I want you to carry these scriptures of Father’s words—the Cheon Seong Gyeong, Pyeong Hwa Gyeong and Chambumo Gyeong—and never let them leave your side. They will be important tools that will help you save many lives. You have no idea what precious tools these books are. Now that the texts that can save humankind have appeared, you must make the best use of them to save many lives. (True Mother, 2013/04/15)

8 You all must liberate your ancestors. After you liberate your ancestors, you must create an environment for them to be free from all indemnity and then invest yourself in outreach work. You need to make a life-or-death determination to do so. In order for you to do this, I made the Cheon Seong Gyeong and Pyeong Hwa Gyeong, containing the extract or essence of True Father’s words.

Now you must become people who make the utmost effort to save even one more life by telling them about True Parents, even giving up sleep to do so. You need to put this into practice. You need to take action. (True Mother, 2013/06/23)

Section 4. Establishment of the Cheon Il Guk Constitution

Background of the constitution

After True Parents proclaimed Cheon Il Guk in 2001, True Father emphasized the necessity of a constitution to guide its governance. He explained in detail how to establish the constitution, saying that it must center on God and True Parents, and that its core spirit is that of the Family Pledge, which contains the most central teachings from True Parents’ countless sermons and public speeches. True Father said that the Family Pledge goes beyond the Completed Testament Age and that it is the absolute standard for establishing Cheon Il Guk. He emphasized again and again that it is like a constitution. Accordingly, the Family Pledge, which contains good guidelines for living with God’s love and summarizes True Parents’ words, is the basis upon which the Cheon Il Guk Constitution was established.

1 The laws of any nation tell us not to do this and that. When we violate a particular law, we can be punished pursuant to the criminal law of that nation. Goodness upholds freedom and liberation, while evil faces opposition. The universe protects and promotes goodness, sustaining the world with its authority and power. Public righteousness repels evil, a just nation repels it, and societies with ethical norms repel it. Nothing welcomes evil. For this reason, evil cannot survive in the world of goodness.

Today the world’s laws restrict us from doing this and that. Laws in the fallen world do not always reward people for being good or doing good deeds. However, in the Last Days it will come to pass that people will be judged by their public righteousness. God will have people eliminate evil laws and establish good laws by which good people will be recognized. Thus, even though you are rejected in the evil world or suffer in sorrow, you must work centering on good laws and values.

Some day, laws will be enacted that reward those who are good without fail, centering on the law of heaven, that is, heaven’s constitution. Such laws must emerge according to the righteousness of heaven’s Principle. That world is the kingdom of heaven on earth. When the kingdom of heaven on earth comes, you will be rewarded. (016-134, 1966/01/02)

2 In the future, the Unification Church should lead a movement for the creation of good laws. All good people should gather together and make good international laws. The era must come when people are selected and recognized for their good deeds and rewarded. On the other nand, those who have committed evil must face some type of punishment. These laws must always protect and nurture goodness, where liberation and complete freedom dwell. Good laws bring hope to all people, facilitate the building of the kingdom of heaven, and enable us to relate to God and dwell together with Him. (016-135, 1966/01/02)

3 Goodness means to return to the Principle; it is based on the Principle. The Principle exists as the standard that applies in the relationship between God and human beings. In the same way, a constitution is the standard by which we know good and evil.

First, Adam is supposed to become one with God; next he is supposed to become one with Eve. After the united Adam and Eve become one with God, their family must become one. That is what we call a law. A law is the way by which human beings must live.

God and Adam must become one, then Adam and Eve must become one, and then they and their sons and daughters must become one. The three object partners purpose, as explained in the Divine Principle, is God’s law. It is a principle. Whatever does not fit this principle is evil. (073-085, 1974/08/04)

4 God’s Will proceeds by His laws in accordance with His providence. We are supposed to be under the governance of those laws; we are not to do things randomly. Heaven’s law applies to everyone universally. Since this law is applicable to the world as a whole, everyone is governed by this law. That is why, regardless of how much opposition I receive, I am working to expand the foundation of heaven’s law.

Suppose you stop working to expand the foundation of heaven’s law but nonetheless you say, “I love God.” That will never work. After promising True Parents that you are committed to expanding heaven’s law, how can you think, “It does not matter whether I do it or not; let me take it easy” ? Having such an attitude will never work with God. The greater the scope of God’s Will for you, the higher the law that will be applied to you.

You should always think of heaven’s law. You are called by heaven’s command. If, in spite of this, you think in terms of gaining honor, saving face or protecting your dignity, it will come to nothing. You have to live only for heaven’s command.

People do not complain about returning to God. When they return to Him, they praise Him and agree with His guidance, saying, “Yes, You are right.” This is principled and in keeping with the ideal. Are you now returning to God? If God were to have a wish, what do you think it would be? It would be, “Just return to the original state, to the original principles.” For this reason, you need to live up to the original principles. (103-240, 1979/03/01)

5 In the fallen world there is no family law that has been passed down from our Heavenly Parent. All traditions in each and every family are of the fallen world. The world’s countless peoples have passed down their stained cultures, with tainted customs and traditions. Thus, we now need to establish a tradition that can please God in history and can be the basis of a single cultural sphere. Once we have established it as the family law, when you have your family, your family members must live by it.

In such a world, there will not be multiple languages. We need a revolution even in the realm of language. If Adam and Eve had been God’s children, they would have spoken the language that they heard and learned from God. Then their children would have learned their parents’ language, that of Adam and Eve. Their language naturally would have come to be the only language of this world; and hence culture and history would have been one, not divided. There would have been only one language and one history. (065-196, 1972/11/19)

6 My words will become the constitution. I do not speak my personal words; I give you these words according to God’s direction. I have not done even a single thing as I have wanted to. God has even been merciless with me. In order to establish heaven’s law as the eternal law, those in the spirit world have watched me very carefully. If I as their representative had committed anything, even one iota, unforgivable during my course, God would not have maintained me with this mission to fulfill. Even after fulfilling what I was asked to do 10 times, I would be tested 100 times. This is the kind of path I have been walking. (360-174, 2001/11/15)

7 What is heaven’s law, the law that God desires? It is God’s law within the ideal of creation. To realize the ideal of God, we need to complete the four-position foundation. When we accomplish this, love will emerge. Words based on the ideal of God’s creation teach us how to accomplish the ideal. Those words are the truth.

The words of the Divine Principle in the Unification Church are expressions of the absolute God’s law for the fallen world. To know the law, refer to the words. Refer to the words in its chapters and sections; these are the law. By this law, we are judged as to whether we have become good people, whether we are living the Word, and whether we have become embodiments of the Word. If this law leads you to become such people, you will be able to travel anywhere freely and have a relationship with anyone in God’s nation, where the Principle is the law. (103-234, 1979/03/01)

8 We have laws in the Unification Church. The first law is the Word that we teach in the church, the Word of the Principle. Do you observe our church laws? We have many laws, ranging from fasting to a three-year separation period after engagement to a 40-day purification period after the marriage Blessing. You need to understand that, just as you are caught and put in jail if you violate the laws of a nation, there will be consequences if you violate Unification Church laws. There are also rules that we need to follow when doii^g home church in order to progress from the individual level to the next level, the family. If you ignore these, or if you pick and choose, doing what you like and avoiding what you do not like, it does not work. (103-235, 1979/03/01)

9 God taught me only two things: first, love travels by the shortest path; and second, the root origin of the universe is the parent-child relationship; and based on those two points I had to answer all the other questions that arose. This parent-child relationship does not refer to the parent-child relationship that is based on the blood lineage of this world. It has to be solved from a new starting point. If you do not know about the Fall, you cannot understand it. I have disclosed everything about the origin. This is a law of the universe. It is a law of heaven. I did not invent the concept of the blessed family. That is originally part of the law of the universe. When you are in accord with that law, you can go in front of the God of heaven. You must prepare a foundation by absolutely practicing and abiding by my words. (376-315, 2002/04/29)

Why the constitution is needed

In accordance with True Parents’ direction, foundational work to establish the constitution commenced at the beginning of the year 2000. Then in 2013, immediately after the opening of Cheon Il Guk on Foundation Day, True Mother directed that work to prepare the Cheon Il Guk Constitution begin in earnest.

True Parents’ words include their reports of victory on the cosmic level, and their life course is the model course that all human beings will have to follow. Accordingly, the criteria for establishing the Cheon Il Guk Constitution were decided in nine areas. These criteria include: the Cheon Il Guk ideal is to be realized on earth; it centers on the words of True Parents; it secures and presents a vision for the life of faith for Cheon Il Guk citizens; it is universal, which means it is international, interracial, in-tercultural and inter-religious; it pursues unanimous agreement; and service at the highest echelon is unpaid.

Based on these criteria, the concept and structure of the Cheon 11 Guk Constitution were prepared. The guidelines and norms of life for Cheon Il Guk citizens were distilled through researching The Sermons of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the Family Pledge, and other available texts.

True Parents addressed the need for the constitution from different perspectives. First, since God now owns the authority of the king through the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship, the world must be governed based on God’s law, which is based on the Principle. Second, since Cheon Il Guk has been proclaimed, the time has come to establish its constitution to secure the sovereignty of the nation. Third, we need the constitution in order to settle and govern Cheon Il Guk. A constitution and its laws are required to realize the ideal of the new nation.

10 In the 20th century, civilization developed based on knowledge, ideas and moral laws. The last of these will endure the longest. One cannot gain salvation by faith alone. The founding of nations requires laws for the various branches of government, and these center on a constitution. Also, without laws, trials cannot proceed.

In the ideal there is God’s constitution, but as yet we have no constitution for heaven’s nation, much less for each branch of its government. Lacking this, we cannot judge the nations of Satan’s world. Currently, God’s sons and daughters living on earth do not know the constitution of heaven’s nation, nor do they know the laws for its branches of government. So they just act as they please. They are making battlegrounds everywhere, creating divisions. How are we going to solve this problem? We will do so by establishing the constitution of heaven’s nation, with clear laws for how the nation is structured. These laws should expand from the family to the tribe, the people and so forth. (456-166, 2004/06/28)

11 What is it that the Lord brings to earth on his return? One thing that he brings is the law, based on the Principle. He comes with the authority to judge evil, and with that authority he brings judgment. Unless we establish a God-centered constitution that surpasses the constitutions of the nations that Satan takes pride in, we cannot establish God’s nation. As the countries of the world have constitutions, God’s nation must have a constitution. (065-195, 1972/11/19)

12 The constitution that can govern heaven’s nation must be established on earth. We have to set up conditions for liberation that can be completed on earth. We need to prepare a substantial system of law that can protect the family, tribe and nation within the physical realm. It is the same as the substantial being coming from the Word. As God’s Word becomes the center, God’s law becomes the center. We must now enter the world in which we absolutely unite with and live by God’s law. We must reject all laws and artifacts that Satan left behind in heaven and on earth throughout history and return to the one spherical harmony. (325-160, 2000/07/01)

13 Once a constitution is enacted, even a president cannot act just as he or she pleases. Anyone who revokes in the evening the constitution that was enacted in the morning is not qualified to be president. A person who wants to be a king who will be honored for 1,000 years first needs to establish laws that will be followed for 1,000 years, and he should personally practice those laws. If he selects which laws to follow according to his situation or preference, he is nothing but a dictator. He will last only a day. Can the person who is to unite heaven and earth and establish the fundamental law, change a law simply because it does not suit him that day? He has to act in accordance with heaven’s law, which is the great Way and the great Will. (074-234, 1974/12/31)

14 We should restructure our movement based on the constitution of heaven’s nation and set dp laws for each of its branches of government. We must establish the absolute authority of these laws. Law is the foundation on which the family and nation stand. Therefore, we have to transition into a world where the law is absolutely upheld and practiced. A judge rules according to law. If someone holding the power of government does something wrong in the eyes of the law, he or she must be tried pursuant to the law. There should be books of statutes outlining the laws for each body and institution of government. Based on the law, good and evil in that body are decided. When something goes awry, we will find a way to resolve it through the courts. It is absolutely necessary to uphold the law. We need to absolutely protect the words of the Principle, the law of all laws. (324-140, 2000/06/18)

15 A family will find contentment when its members absolutely follow the constitution of true love. This is the formula, and it will not change just because someone wants to go another way. Since the formula is set, the political system of the future will become simply a system for management. It will be a system that enables all people to attain an equal standard of living. Individuals and families will manage themselves by centering on love, as will tribes, peoples, nations and the world. Regardless of the level, all levels are expansions of the family. The eight levels of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, cosmos and God advance based on the family. This is the formula, so it has to be clear. By it we can officially transition to a natural system of management that no longer fosters political struggle and conflict. (303-194, 1999/08/25)

16 In God’s nation, there is a law of the palace. I tell you that a law of the palace serves as the vertical standard. The constitution of heaven’s nation must be established centering on the law of the palace, which sets out the ideal vertical standard. Divine sons and daughters are those who observe the law of the nation’s palace. When this law is established for the realm of the royal family, the populace can connect directly to it and observe it, centering on God. (168-184, 1987/09/20)

17 The constitution of heaven’s nation will set out laws for each of the branches of government. It will connect the laws of each branch together. In the future, the constitution will be established based on the essential core of the Word. In the construction industry, there are building codes and regulations. Electrical work has its codes and regulations, as does manufacturing. In the same way, the offices of government cannot come into existence without laws. Laws distinguish right from wrong. But no law will be officially recognized, whether on the national level or the world level, until it is ratified pursuant to the highest standard of law.

Until now, people lived in ignorance of heaven’s law. However, we are now entering the era of the law that is based on God’s Will. God set up the law based on His ideal of creation, and human beings fell because they did not follow that law. The original era will be the era in which the law is absolute. It will not cater to individual purposes. The law is centered on the ideal of peace, and it will make heaven and earth one for the sake of world peace. Laws by which one individual benefits over another will cease to exist. (515-032, 2006/01/21)

18 If you receive the marriage Blessing that moves you from the national era into the world era, you should start a journal. Doing so is a necessary criterion for registering to enter the kingdom of heaven. Even in the family of True Parents, everyone will gather and, based on their discussion, decide who actually lived in accordance with the Principle. A life not lived at personal sacrifice for the sake of the entire family is unrighteous.

We must not be self-centered. Everyone in the Unification Church knows this; everyone in my family and clan knows this as well. Once this point is clear, the world will enter the era of heaven’s law. As we enter the era of the constitution of heavens nation, no matter how close you are to God, you will be punished if you violate His law. God will continue working, even if it takes an eternity, to find and designate who do not violate His law. (128-112, 1983/06/05)

19 You are in the era when God’s king-ship has been achieved. Therefore, it is time for you who are national messiahs to establish kingship on the level of your nation. That can be your kingship, recognized by your nation. God’s kingdom is the cosmos, beyond the world level. Therefore, you have to make a connection between your national foundation and God’s level. That is why, no matter what, you must recover your nation.

Now is the time to register. To register, there must be unity, both within and without. The nation must be registered to heaven. Its president, cabinet members, and those who have leadership responsibilities must be registered in order for you to transcend the national level.

Now, whatever you do, you must attain mind-body unity. Even if you have to push yourself, you must do it. We are now entering the age when you have to push the body to unite with the mind.

The constitution was established at God’s enthronement; now we have the constitution with its three fundamental laws. Prior to that, God could not rule. When God created the world He set up only the law of creation; he did not have a law to deal with the situation of destruction after the Fall. Hence, God could not really govern the world of fallen people. However, now that the law has been proclaimed, a truly fearful time is approaching. You will be held accountable for all you do. (356-056, 2001/10/08)

20 The providence, based on the Will, is to restore God’s fatherland centering on Korea. God’s fatherland and hometown, which He initiated in this land, will be liberated. We are marking a new beginning for God’s fatherland and His providence to liberate it. When we connect to this new beginnir^ of the Garden of Eden, all of history will be cleared up and everything will be reorganized. Then the era of the providence of salvation will end and we will enter the era of the law.

Even after having toiled for thousands upon thousands of years, now as we enter the era of the law of God’s nation, God’s work is not off by one minute, not even one second. The era of the providence of salvation is passing, and a new beginning is coming. We are entering the original world according to the ideal of creation, the era of God’s law, centering upon the constitution of God’s nation. (611-024, 2009/05/04)

21 We are now entering the era in which we will live under the jurisdiction of God’s law. This is different from the past age when we depended on forgiveness. We are entering the era of natural justice, just as it was for Adam and Eve, who suffered the consequences of their wrongdoing immediately.

You new members respect the laws of this world, but each of, you needs to understand that abiding by the constitution of the kingdom of heaven is hundreds of times more serious than keeping the laws of this world. You represent your ancestors who were loyal to their nations, and you must be hundreds, even thousands of times more loyal to God’s nation. For this reason, please understand that from now on you should not consider that your possessions belong just to you or to your nation, or even to your sons and daughters. We are now entering the era when God will directly oversee His sons and daughters, just as He oversaw Adam and Eve. So if you raise your children to follow their private purposes, their path will be blocked. Such a fearful time is coming. (511-286, 2005/10/14)

22 True Parents have untangled the fundamental problems in the spirit world and liberated people from them. Hence, spirits should have no problem descending to earth. Many of them have already received the marriage Blessing. Families that used to belong to the angelic realm are coming down and taking responsibility for people on earth in one-on-one relationships. They should have no problem dealing with their families on earth. If you do not heed those spirits, they might simply take you away. Such a time of great change is coming.

Until now, I have protected you, but I will no longer do so. Now that these three fundamental points of God’s law have been promulgated, heaven and earth, hell and heaven, should no longer be divided according to the law of indemnity. They should be divided centering on God’s law—the constitution and its laws. We are now in the era of the founding of God’s nation with its new laws. Now that we have entered the era of kingship, we need to establish God’s nation. We need to establish the one nation that transcends peoples, nations and even the world. (346-204, 2001/07/01)

The purpose of the constitution

The Cheon Il Guk Constitution was written to present the goals and purposes for which Cheon Il Guk was founded. It contains the laws, norms and guidelines by which citizens of Cheon Il Guk will fulfill the words that the substantial True Parents taught and exemplified throughout their lives.

The constitution was inaugurated to provide a lawful basis for our daily life and family life, and for building the structures and systems of God’s nation and God’s world. It is intended to take root in the culture of heart and to blossom splendidly in the world where ideal families, transcending all barriers connected to nation, race, gender, culture, religion and so forth, attend God and True Parents.

23 When the Will of God is fulfilled, the law will apply to both the physical world and the spiritual world. That is, the constitution we use on earth will also be used in heaven, and the constitution that is used in heaven will also be used on earth. God has such a law, but He has not been able to rule according to it. Hence, He became the God of sorrow.

When shall we hold a ceremony to proclaim this constitution? That goal is pending now. First, we must bring the world to the stage at which we can recover heaven’s nation. We do not yet have God’s nation.

Although we occupy just a small place, we are not the only ones here. Countless myriads of spirits from the spirit world are watching this place attentively. You must always be mindful that numerous societies and myriads of meritorious people throughout history are constantly measuring you against the standards of heaven. Seen from this viewpoint, it is apparent that every single thing you do matters. For instance, even your manner of sitting should be prescribed as a protocol of conduct. (066-298, 1973/05/16)

24 When Adam and Eve violated heaven’s eternal and unchanging law, they were punished under the law. Anyone who violates the law will be likewise accountable, and cannot escape falling under the rule of punishment. A fearful era is at hand. When this era comes, your current relationship with the false parent, Satan, cannot continue; it must be clearly severed. Anything that Satan can own must be burned away. We must purge ourselves of and eliminate all things that relate to Satan. We do not just reorganize them, we eliminate them. After burning them, we have to discard even the ashes. There should not be as much as a shadow of Satan. By so doing, and securing the realm of the Sabbath, we can connect to the lineage of true love, at the core of which is absolute sex.

To become the sons and daughters of heaven’s nation, you must be born again through True Mother’s body. When you do so, you can be harvested as the fruit of history. We must build God’s nation with such sons and daughters. We must build a world free of the shadows of the Fall. Only then can the Parents be seated and fulfill the Will, sharing everything with God, all His joys and sorrows. Then fhe position of the True Parents can be totally secured. Then you too can inherit the kingship of liberation and complete freedom, in which all things can go well. Then everything will be free-flowing. You will not need to explain what the kingdom of heaven is all about. (606-224, 2009/01/13)

25 Together with the power of love, the power of law is necessary for the purpose of protecting love’s life force. The universe is inclined to unite in order to protect the right of existence. Heaven’s law serves to protect all things so that they will unite in harmony.

The world of goodness does not change, and that is the realm where God can dwell. God can dwell there because it is a world with a strong life force springing from love. We need to understand that the word “love” means to live for the sake of others, not for our own sake. God’s purpose of creating the universe was not for His own sake; it was to establish relationships between counterparts. We are the beings who can become God’s complete partners. Thus, He created the universe for us. (111-171, 1981/02/15)

26 The final destination of heavenly fortune is the world where the Will is fulfilled. That world, where perfected people live, has to be secured based on God’s law. In order to do so, the good sovereignty should be able to connect to you, your family, your people, the nation and the world, all the way to the cosmos. In that world, you should be able to say, “I am a person who is entitled to be under the governance of universal law.” You should be able to extend this affirmation to the levels of your family, tribe, people, nation and world.

God’s providence will head for such a place, and heavenly fortune will take the same direction. Heavenly fortune will head for the world of the one sovereignty of goodness. But we cannot jump there directly. We must first pass through the individual, then the family, the tribe, the people, the nation and the world. Finally, we must unite the physical world and the spiritual world and proclaim the establishment of the good constitution, centering on the good sovereignty. On that basis, future generations will be able to go from the individual level to the family level naturally, without any struggle. That will be known as the era of the kingdom of heaven on earth. (078-139, 1975/05/08)

27 God is the sovereign and king of the heavenly and earthly realms; all worlds and all nations cannot but be under the reign of God. Logically we can conclude that every place should be the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven. Had this happened, humankind would not have suffered through a miserable history. Nor would we be divided by race or nationality. There would have been no breakdown or divisions between black, white and yellow, or Koreans and Americans. Instead, as the descendants of Adam, we would be one homogeneous people, a single culture and a single world. That world would be neither democratic nor communist; it would be ruled eternally by the eternal sovereign God, through His constitution. (074-173, 1974/12/09)

28 In the course of God’s providence of salvation, human beings have been governed by many laws, such as those of the Old Testament. However, until now there has been no law by which God could govern the world of goodness, the world in which God’s Will and purpose are fulfilled and His providence is completed, beyond the world of the providence of salvation.

The era will arrive when God’s law will become manifest. When that happens, individuals, families, nations and the entire world will need to accommodate to God’s law. It will take effect not only on earth but also in the eternal, heavenly world. Those who have been trained in His law will be protected naturally in their living environment and also when they pass into the spirit world. I am saying that such an era is approaching. The age in which God’s law is established will be the age m of good sovereignty, a world of a higher dimension. This law will not look at the world from a two-dimensional perspective of the physical world; it will have a three-dimensional perspective that includes the spirit world. We must rise up to greet such a world. (078-136, 1975/05/08)

29 If you take a position to pursue your self-interests, you will be in violation of the law, but if you take action to seek the benefit of the whole, no one can cast accusations about that. Even God, heaven and earth will have to recognize it, and the public recognition you receive will not change even after thousands of years. If you live to establish righteousness based on the absolute law, such things as restoration through indemnity or hell no longer will exist. You will be entirely within the realm of liberation and complete freedom. If you, or anyone, acts from this foundation, you will be eternally protected and raised by God and the cosmos. God will bequeath to you the right to inherit from Him, the right to live together with Him and the right to share joy with Him; and He will grant you everything that is recognized to have universal value. You will inherit it all. (545-050, 2006/11/18)

30 If the sovereign and the people together set the standard of good and evil for the nation, who sets the standard of good and evil for the universe? It will be God, who is the Sovereign Lord of this universe, and next it will be the global citizens of the world. Just as they represent their own people in their nations now, they will come to represent the world as global citizens. That is why it makes sense that the constitution that must emerge in order to distinguish good and evil in the universe should be made jointly by God and human beings.

Although there exist laws of nations decided by national governments and the people, the unchanging constitution of the universe, reflecting both the views and opinions of the Sovereign and the global citizens, has not yet been established. Nevertheless, the conscience, the ideal a^d the hope of human beings are unchanging. Therefore, a constitution will have to emerge that is in agreement with them. It will secure life, and both God and human beings will rejoice over it. (079-175, 1975/07/27)

31 Each of you should be able to stand tall, feeling no shame before your ancestors and clan. When you face the judgment of God, you should be people whom God can love and praise. In front of God, there should be testimonies about you, of your endurance through unbearable situations, of your victories in difficult positions, of your self-sacrifice to resolve some circumstances in other peoples’ lives, and so forth. You should do whatever it takes to achieve something that you can be proud of before God.

You have no place to hide in the universe. You cannot flee to a place you like. A human being cannot escape from the realm that is arranged according to the law of the universe. You must follow that path.

Please understand that you are living under the governance of universal law, centered on the standard that in the future will be established in a formal constitution. This constitution will be connected to the central teaching, the order and principle of love for the family, society, nation, world, cosmos and God Himself. The only way you can be protected and supported by all laws, including the law of nature, and have the right of freedom, is to love others and live for the sake of others. (117-313, 1982/04/11)

32 You are not going to live in the eternal homeland, the eternal nation, for just one day. Therefore, you need to learn the protocols of life in the eternal world. Even if you were to live there for just a month, you would not be exempted from them. You need to learn the traditions that have been passed down for man and woman, father and mother, children, grandchildren, tribe, people and nation. You want to live in that nation together with your family, yet you may face restrictions wherever you go. There are national boundaries, and you may not be able to go beyond them. You may be stopped everywhere you try to go. If you committed sins or crimes here on earth, you will not be able to find a way out; entanglements from all directions will block you. That is why you first need thorough training on earth for a life centered on the original homeland. (310-112, 1999/06/15)

33 The reason you can call yourselves owners of Cheon Il Guk in the Family Pledge is that we, the True Parents, as the central root, pioneered every field and level and settled everything in our generation, transcending all peoples, all nations, and even the boundary between the spiritual world and the physical world, throughout the past, present and future.

Adam and Eve brought about destruction in their generation, and we, the True Parents, resolved this in our generation. Further, centered on the fundamentals of the constitution of heavens nation, we established the foundation necessary to turn everything around 180 degrees and build the family and nation heading in a new direction. Therefore, this new world that we have established cannot be judged by any conventional constitution, sovereignty or tradition. It must be built on the basis of a new culture, tradition and history. (493-021, 2005/04/18)

The directive to establish the constitution

The Cheon Il Guk Constitution articulates the rights and responsibilities of Cheon Il Guk citizens, contains the norms of life required for Cheon Il Guk to take root and be completed, and outlines the process by which Cheon Il Guk will be managed.

During the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship in 2001, True Parents emphasized three points: lineage, human rights, and public money. They said that these three points are so important that they will be the foundation of the Cheon Il Guk Constitution.

Further, the Cheon Il Guk Constitution outlines five autonomous organs (branches of government) with separation of powers: the Cheon Jeong Won (Cheon Il Guk Executive Branch), responsible for administration; the Cheon Eui Won (Cheon Il Guk Universal Assembly), responsible for legislation; the Cheon Beob Won (Cheon 11 Guk Judiciary), responsible for legal matters; the Cheon Jae Won (Cheon Il Guk Foundation), responsible for finances; and the Cheon Gong Won (Cheon Il Guk Office of Communications), responsible for public affairs and mass media.

34 Now that God has attained king-ship, He needs to rule according to the law. At the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship, I announced the three major points of the constitution of heaven’s nation. At that time, the constitution of the family came into effect. If you live according to this law, you will have no need for religion. What was the consequence of the Fall in the Garden of Eden? It was that human beings were unable to live with God in their family. They could not attend God as their Heavenly Parent. That is why we must become filial children in front of the Heavenly Parent and fulfill our responsibilities as patriots in the nation, saints in the world and divine sons and daughters in heaven and on earth, as God desires. This should have occurred naturally. (349-100, 2001/07/14)

35 Henceforth you have ironclad rules to follow. The first rule is to absolutely keep your lineage pure, even if threatened by death.

The second rule is to never violate the human rights of others. Whether a man or a woman, black or white, all human beings are equal. You must not discriminate or violate others’ human rights. You have no right to make personnel changes by whim, simply because you do not like somebody personally. You must not make such changes thoughtlessly. Among those personnel may be people whose ancestors are better than yours. If you happen^to remove someone whose descendant may become a nation’s president, your ancestors will suffer. When you educate people about human rights, you need a heart of true love, of living for the sake of others. Those who live that way are the mainstream. God’s creation of heaven and earth began with this. It is unforgivable if you dismantle this mainstream teaching. This is the second of the three sins.

The third rule is not to steal public money. I tell you: never use public money as you please. These are the three ironclad rules. (342-298, 2001/01/13)

36 The first condition you must meet is not to be ashamed of yourself in your heart. We need the constitution of heaven’s nation, laws for particular nations, and laws for families, but you must first master yourself. If you fail to do so, the world cannot stand upright. This is the biggest issue. Thus, you must keep your heart level. If you can keep it so, then wherever your heart travels, you can stand at the center. From that point as an individual you should climb up through the eight stages. (516-236, 2006/02/07)

37 Now that I have taught you about God and the spirit world, the time has come for me to implement the laws of Cheon Il Guk. In Cheon Il Guk, the providence of salvation no longer applies. Once I have finished teaching you, I cannot hold onto you and live with you. Since I have clearly shown and taught you all that you need to know, I can no longer take responsibility for you. On this earth, we, the True Parents, have established the way to heaven, set all of the indemnity conditions for you, and educated you. If, despite this, you do not believe everything, what are you going to do when you go to the spirit world? We even thoroughly revealed the reality of the spirit world from written messages. Both God, the spiritual True Parent, and we, the substantial True Parents, have fulfilled our responsibility. On that foundation we proclaimed Cheon Il Guk. We even told you about its constitution. (365-196, 2002/01/08)

38 Your family needs to substantially manifest and represent God, who presents Himself to you as the True Parent, True Teacher and True King. Then you can enter the kingdom of heaven and realize His ideal of creation fully. This is why we, the True Parents, established the new constitution of heaven’s nation.

Everything that I said accords with the reality of the spirit world. Therefore, your family needs to bear fruit on earth that can be harvested for heaven. You need to become God’s embodiments who can store many blessings from heaven in your barn. Put aside everything but these words. Once you establish a family that manifests God as His embodiments, you can enter the era in which God is omnipresent and immanent on earth and in heaven, and reigns with full authority and power everywhere. I am speaking of a world where everything is done according to what God thinks and desires. (602-257, 2008/11/16)

39 I would like the United Nations to amend its constitution so that it consists of five branches: the legislature, judiciary, executive, public affairs and finance. After the legislature, judiciary and executive, the fourth branch is public affairs, including mass media. The fifth branch deals with finance. The UN should make a constitution like that.

The most fearful branch is public affairs. I expose every hair on my scalp and face; I hide nothing that I am doing from the world. Likewise, the world must become transparent, like a fine-cut hexagonal crystal. It will be a world where lies do not work, where everything is disclosed and nothing is hidden. (426-107, 2003/11/19)

40 Once I proclaim the opening of the gates of the unified world of peace, we will establish the constitution of heaven’s nation, whose government will be divided into five branches. We are now preparing the draff of that constitution. Ultimately, that draff should be presented at the United Nations, with supporting testimonies so that they will accept it. In our draft constitution we took the Cain worlds reality into consideration, but we also added content that we alone can present. This is how we should write the constitution of heaven’s nation.

Once we present it, the UN General Assembly should convene for 40 days to review its contents and prepare to ratify it. Once the General Assembly promulgates the constitution of heaven’s nation, then it will be possible to implement it. We will have 40 days to integrate the various agendas within the UN and complete it. Once the one and only constitution of heaven’s nation is proclaimed, opening the era in which there is separation between the five branches, we will be in a position to usher in a world of peace. (606-091, 2009/01/07)

41 Once we inaugurate the Abel UN and establish its constitution, we will be able to move the world without obstruction. If we establish a substantial structure with five branches in accordance with this constitution, the world will have to officially recognize it. We have now entered this stage. Therefore, we need to meet all the constitutional requirements for the separation of the three powers. Then we need to include public affairs and finance, and so welcome the era of the five branches. Once we enter the era of the fyve branches, we can serve the whole world. With this structure for managing heaven’s nation, we can serve as lords of all things in God’s garden, embracing the world. This is not a dream. We are now arriving at the era when we can make this come true. (588-073, 2008/04/12)

Chapter 3
True Parents’ Philosophy of Life and Their Public Life

Section 1. True Parents’ Philosophy of Life

A philosophy based on true love

True Parents walked the model course that all people will have to go. More than anything, they demonstrated their philosophy of life, of true love centered on God. True Parents set the example that we should emulate in the age of Cheon Il Guk.

Out of their love for God, they took on the course of restoration through indemnity. They did not avoid a life of suffering. True Parents had to pioneer that path, which no one had gone before, even going to the very bottom of hell. Even when they were in situations that others would have tried to avoid, True Parents practiced true love in order to liberate God and all people. Moreover, they even forgave and embraced their enemies who had wanted to kill them, and the incomparable suffering they endured moved even the heart of God.

True Father gave and gave again. He invested completely and forgot about it. Even while undergoing forced labor at the Heungnam fertilizer plant, where starvation and the menace of death hovered constantly, he shared his meager ration, which was as life itself, with other inmates. He always shouldered the heaviest burdens and carried other people’s burdens on their behalf. True Mother, also, when she encountered members in difficult circumstances, always loved them and offered help. True Parents consistently gave away what was most precious to them; this has been their way of life.

1 My philosophy of life is to live for the sake of others. Wherever I go, I go there to live for the sake of others. And I totally invest with sincere devotion to create oneness. When I invest more than 100 percent, oneness comes. When people experience the love of heaven more intensely than the love of their parents or siblings, they are bound to leave the realm of Satan’s love and advance to the side of heaven.

Whatever your actual stage of life, you can double the principled power you can draw on when you connect to the providential view of God’s process of re-creation. That way you can inherit everything with the authority of God’s sons and daughters. As God invested in creating, you need to invest to bring oneness.

Furthermore, anyone who receives should never cause any harm to the one who gave. As an expression of gratitude, you must always return more than you received. Then perpetual circular motion is possible, making a relationship between you and the great universe. (417-137, 2003/09/06)

2 If you have two things, do not give the inferior one to your parents and keep the better one for yourself. After comparing, if you take the better one, you will descend following the tradition of the fallen world; however, if you take the lesser one, you will be elevated without fail.

Thus you need to love God first and then love your sons and daughters. If you do so, hell will disappear. The world where you give the better one to your parents and the next one to your children is filled with the hope for high-noon settlement. This should be the basis of your philosophy of life. The same principle applies to me. When I have something precious, I do not think of keeping it for myself. Instead, I first think of offering it to God and then of bequeathing it to future descendants. (409-225, 2003/06/28)

3 I understand that you love me. I also love you. Yet my love for you is centered on God. I love you through His love. His love is for all humanity; it is not love that should dwell only within the Unification Church. Hence, in order to plant that love and spread it throughout the world, I cannot help but send you out to the world. The reason why I want you Unification Church members to go a sacrificial way is to make you people who can contribute to bearing the fruit of love that represents a global standard, and thereby be loved by all humanity as well as God.

The goal of the Unification Church is to create people who are loved by God and by humankind. You are not supposed to be loved and respected only within the Unification Church. That is why, rather than loving you only in the realm of the Unification Church, I want to love you in the realm of love of all humanity and God. That is the kind of teacher I am trying to be. Religions until now have not presented this viewpoint. To lead like this, I must become the example and substantiate my philosophy of life. (082-053, 1975/12/30)

4 I do not like to wear a suit. Ordinarily, I do not wear a tie. Why is that? By not wearing suits and ties, I can save up to 10 percent of my household budget. I want to save that money. I am striving day and night to save countless people who are dying of starvation. The fact that a person with this philosophy exists on earth, even if I am the only such person, should be a hopeful sign for humanity living on earth. That is how I think.

When I go to a hotel, the room is well set up and has a bathroom. There are a lot of towels in the bathroom, but if I use one it is always the smallest one. I never once used the largest, fluffy towel, the one the size of a rug. It is because I want to save the expense of laundering that towel. I think that saving even one penny will help people who are dying of starvation.

When I am in my house, I do not put on socks. Saving money on socks is an expression of my sincere desire to help people who do not have money to buy clothes. By investing my sincere heart like this, I am trying to pioneer the path to save people who live in misery. Truly, to live up to the name of True Parents is fearful. (240-279, 1992/12/13)

5 Throughout the course of my life I have been thinking, “How do I become a person who is able to shed tears of a totally new kind, totally different from the tears of others, tears that no one has ever before shed in front of God? How do I become the man whom God feels sympathy for, the man whom God hopes for, the man who walks the path that human beings should have originally gone?” My philosophy of life is that before I die I will shed tears of a new kind, tears that no one has ever been able to shed.

Some people die for the sake of other human beings, but if a person dies for the sake of God, God will never be able to forget that person even after the flow of thousands upon thousands of years. When I die, I must die in that position, having that content of heart. If I die while being whipped and vomiting blood for God, the pain and distress that God will feel and the tears of sorrow He will shed over me will be far greater than anything I suffered. Nevertheless, I want to survive and triumph over my suffering, in order that God will be able to come out of His painful circumstances. For this, I am willing to suffer more than anyone else in history.

Up to the present day, this has been my lifetime wish and hope. I hope that many people in the world are going this path. But I have not yet found anyone among them who has a heart with my kind of intensity. (031-326, 1970/06/07)

6 Ours is a world of infinite potential for development. But when people live only for themselves, not knowing how to respect the people and things in their environment, they encounter a limit. The way to break through that limit is to first establish God as the center of our life and as our guide. Then we will be able to rise above the level where we are limited, and enter the world of infinite development. Otherwise, we will not be able to go beyond that limitation.

Sometimes it seems that everything has reached its limit. With what are we going to live? It is with love. With love, we can create our own environment. If we do not love so as to create our own foundation in the environment, we will not find a place to settle. It is the path of self-destruction. It does not generate any energy. People in the surrounding environment will not like us, and we will have no energy to do anything about it. Hence, the people in our environment will gradually withdraw and become distant. Even those who used to like us will come to dislike us. They should like us more, but they will find nothing to like about us. This will be because we have set up a self-centered boundary line.

People who say, “I am going to put myself first,” who live on a self-centered level, cannot go over that hill and settle. They are unable to enter a space of mutuality in which they can make relationships and be welcomed by the universe. People are created to live in relationships, but when they are not aligned with the Principle they will come to nothing. I live with this philosophy of life. (596-213, 2008/08/29)

7 Heavenly law protects the perfect object partner who has become one with the perfect subject partner. The ups and downs of history and human circumstances cannot alter this. Even people who use the sovereign power of the Republic of Korea cannot knock down the person who, as the perfect object partner, maintains vertical alignment with the perfect subject partner. They may use all the power at their disposal to strike him, but because heaven and earth firmly hold the root and trunk, they cannot knock him down. However mighty, those attackers will be broken. That is my philosophy of life.

As long as we attend God while maintaining a vertical axis, the people who attack us will be the ones who end up coming to grief. When we attend God in this way, we become the pillar that represents the family, tribe, people, nation, world and cosmos. Heavenly fortune will protect that pillar, while the people who attack it will certainly be broken. (305-285, 1998/08/27)

8 If I obtain money, I do not think of spending it on myself. I may be hungry, but I know there must be someone hungrier than I, and I want to set that money aside for him or her. So I endure my hunger for one hour, two hours, three hours, and on and on, thinking of someone else who may be hungry. When I finally find someone who is hungrier than I am, I give that person my food and pray for that individual to be blessed. When I see that person eating, I am eating with him or her in spirit. When I pray for someone to receive the blessing of being able to eat, I am partaking of that blessing with that person.

The person who lives for the sake of Cain inherits Cain’s blessings. Cain changes, but because I do not change, I am ascending continuously. The person who lives for the sake of the Will ascends higher than Mt. Everest. He or she puts down roots into a place deeper than the 10,000-meter depths of the Pacific Ocean. (338-322, 2000/12/01)

9 Whenever Mother has things that she likes, she gives them away to family members. So when she has to go out, she often has no appropriate attire to wear because she gave away all her best clothes. She thinks that she should not be the only one to enjoy the things that she likes the most.

There are three points about Mother for which I am grateful to God: First, she is insightful. Second, she is absolutely obedient for the sake of the Will. Third, she does not think that her things belong to her but belong to the world. So without hesitation she wants to give them to others. In this respect, God does not need to be concerned. On the contrary, she is too giving, so much so that I become concerned.

The fact that Mother was born with such a nature is an indication that she was destined to become True Mother. When I think about it, I am grateful that God sent such as blessing as her to my family, not only because she gave birth to so many children but also because of her many good qualities. So I am saying that you should not think of yourself first. (092-329, 1977/05/03)

10 To this day, I have not been indebted to anyone. Even when it comes to investing devotion, for instance in prayer, I am in no ones debt. My philosophy is that I will not be indebted to others. I do not intend to live a comfortable life either. I am very careful about this, more than anyone. For the sake of the Will, I invest more than any member in the church, both in the quantity and quality of devotion. Because of that, I am not indebted to you. (027-124, 1969/11/30)

11 The person who incurs debt while going the path of the Will is gouging out our Heavenly Parent’s flesh and chipping away His bones. I try not to be indebted before heaven. Whatever I do, I always try to be at the place where God would appear to me and say, “My goodness, please take a little rest!” I know that God, my Father, has not been able to rest. Yet seeing that I keep on pushing myself without resting, He weeps silently to Himself over me. Attending Him with this heart is my philosophy of life and guiding principle.

I am not doing this because anyone taught me. I live this way simply because I have a father-son relationship with God. I pour everything into my relationship with Him. Therefore, He too truly appreciates our relationship from the bottom of His heart, saying to me, “I love you so much. I know you are so busy for the Will, but I wish we could spend time only for each other.” Because I live for this relationship, I receive heaven’s protection. That is why I have not perished. Still, I do not say I am great. The more I know about Him, the more I must keep humbling myself. (226-042, 1992/02/01)

12 If you want to become a central figure, you must pay back any debts you have incurred. In addition, the central figure must bear the responsibility. That is why, even though I cannot take care of each of you, when I run into any of you on the street while you are doing missionary work, I take out my wallet and give you all the money in it. I give not sparing even one penny. I view that recipient not merely as an individual. Since I cannot give to every member of the Unification Church, I give everything I have to that one person, considering him or her as the representative of all members of the church. I want those who strive to help me while I am going the path of devotion for God to receive at least as much blessing as I do. This is my philosophy. Whoever lives like this will not perish.

I have lived my whole life that way for the sake of the Will. When I was a student, whenever my parents sent me money, I gave it away to people less fortunate than me, and then I walked. At that time, the streetcar fare was five jeon. Whenever I would go from the Hwashin Department Store in downtown Seoul to the south side of the Han River near the Noryangjin fish market, I always gave my fare to beggars on the street and walked instead of taking the streetcar.

I cannot forget the life I used to live with tears flowing from my eyes, touched by the bitter grief of those miserable people. I would pray, “Father, now I cannot give much to these people who are living homeless on the street, but in the future may this country be blessed with liberation and prosperity for everyone. Please enable it to become a nation that all humankind will honor and respect, a nation that dwells in the midst of Your heart.” (227-288, 1992/02/14)

13 I do not ever forget anyone who treated me with sympathy for God’s sake, and I do my very best to repay that person by giving the maximum return. I know that I made you suffer on the path of following the Will, but I am not irresponsible. If I drove you on a path to suffer, I will bear the responsibility. If I cannot bear it on earth, I will bear it after I go to the spirit world. Hence, those who go forward having made an oath to follow me are blessed.

I am a person who absolutely does not know how to betray others. I am also a person who cannot live if I incur even a small debt. Such is my nature. God is like that. God is a being who cannot endure incurring a debt. If someone gives Him ten, He will give back hundreds or thousands. You too must have that kind of trait. (049-076, 1971/10/03)

The family life ot true owners

True Father often compared his solitary and difficult life to the Dokdo Islands that are mentioned in the lyrics of the song Hollo Arirang. The Dokdo Islands, also called the Liancourt Rocks, are isolated islands in the East Sea. They greet the morning sun while being pounded by the sea’s rough waves. Like those islands, True Parents have been fighting and winning victory all by themselves. Whether searching for the Principle or pioneering each course in the providence of restoration, they have been advancing step by step as if each was the critical battle that could be their last.

True Father’s love for all creation was unbounded. This is because he understood the creation’s sorrow and bitter grief at not meeting its true owners. He resonated with the creation and felt joy when giving and receiving its untainted and essential love and beauty.

True Parents understand that God’s ideal of creation is realized on the foundation of the family, so the family is more important to them than anything. Hence, True Parents always held hands everywhere they went. They were together whether in private or at public events. Although the continual demands of public life meant that they had little time to be with their children, they nevertheless prayed for them every day.

14 Even at digging in a mine I am a champion. I know how to set the buttresses in place inside a mine. I thought to myself: suppose I am hounded and end up in prison, and as a prisoner I am put to work as a coal miner. I must be able to gain experiences from all I go through that will enable me to turn the world around and complete the Will before I die. With such a mind-set, I learned how to do many things, even how to make charcoal out of wood. I am a jack of all trades, and I can be successful at anything.

Even if I am carried by helicopter and parachuted into an uninhabited gorge, I will not die of starvation. Where wild animals dwell, there is plenty to eat. I know which mushrooms are poisonous and which plants are edible. If there is water I can fish, because I know how to make a hook, line and rod to fish with. A person needs to catch only three fish a day to live. Because I've trained myself in this way, I can survive in any situation. So I have no fear whatsoever about survival. That is why my philosophy of life is that Unificationists should experience all kinds of harsh situations before they are 30 years old. (213-136, 1991/01/16)

15 With the sky as my blanket, no matter where I go I can live happily. I have many friends. All things are God’s creations; I can live with them and make them my friends, so I am not lonely. Hence, I can live happily anywhere, and wherever I go I can live on my own. That is why I could become the ancestor of happiness and the ancestor of lineage. That is why I can tell you to inherit my lineage and follow my way of life. If you do not, you cannot go to the kingdom of heaven. Since this conclusion is based on my own experimentation and personal experiences, I believe it is correct. (2009/09/19)

16 I went empty-handed to South America. Everyone told me not to go. There are many people who love me in the United States. Many of them warned me not to go, thinking that if I went I would give up and return. Even some scholars spoke to me like that. So I knew that I might perish, but I went anyway. Did I perish or prosper? If you go determined to do the mission even if you perish, you will not perish. The individual who owns that universal thought and applies it as a personal philosophy of life is a wise person.

This has been my philosophy of life. I never entertain the thought that I will fail. When I throw myself into projects that others say will not work, within three years I make them successful. I tell you, the people who think that things will not work have not actually done them. That is why I can go to a fishing spot and set a world record; it is why when I try a sport I can become a champion. (281-306, 1997/03/09)

17 At home when I enter my room, I take off my socks. If it is not a special day, I do not put on a tie. It is to save money to help people around the world who are dying of hunger.

When the air is clear, after I wear a shirt for a day the collar does not become dirty. So I do not want a shirt that I have worn for only one day to be washed. Nonetheless, after I take it off someone takes it away and washes it. So I hide the shirt after I take it off so that no one does that. If they put it in the hamper to be washed, I take it out and wear it again. You need to live such a life. I am always thinking of how to save and conserve, and with the money I save, to help those who are dying of starvation. (575-152, 2007/09/18)

18 Today I came to speak at this public gathering wearing a white shirt and a tie, but the tie is nylon and was inexpensive. I live like this. I bought this jacket for $13 and these pants for $7. All together that is $20. Even the belt that I am wearing is an inexpensive one, but it is stronger than an alligator-skin belt. You might not have imagined even in a dream that I wear inexpensive clothes like these. I am telling you this because I know that you want to know about my personal life. I live a simple life. With regard to myself, I am a miser. (227-159, 1992/02/11)

19 I have no possessions whatsoever to my name. Whatever I have I use as resources for the church. There is no miser comparable to me. You will not be able to find anyone as ruthlessly stingy toward himself as I am. Today, because I told you to come, I am wearing a suit, but I am not wearing a tie. How much am I saving by wearing simply a jacket and not a tie? The jacket and pants together cost $50. I go around dressed like that. I do not mind going anywhere like that. Why? As the person who carries the name of True Parents, I will not live in debt.

I am living day and night transcending time. On rainy days, Unification Church missionaries must be looking at the water running off the eaves of the houses and shedding^ tears. They may not have decent food to eat. They pass sleepless nights while praying for me to have a long life. How, then, can I live a comfortable life, eating three meals a day and sleeping soundly with my limbs stretched out?

You need to understand that having the enormous responsibility of True Parents, we cannot escape the feeling that we could not do enough to care for them, so inevitably we feel like sinners before them. Thinking like that is precious. So you also need to have such a mind-set, and invest yourself to save your relatives. Invest for them and then forget about what you have given. If you do that, you will without fail become the central person in your tribe. The central person is the one who takes responsibility for others. (227-290, 1992/02/14)

20 A human being should speak good words and should behave well. Both your words and your behavior should be proper. Also, your thoughts must be upright, and you should do your work well. Whatever you do, you need to become a good example. Then you can adapt yourself to any environment.

Everyone passes through all kinds of situations. I am giving you these guidelines because I think that you need to value every aspect of your life: as an individual, as a member of society, and as a church member. Now the time we are living in is different from the past. The time has arrived for us to keep a high standard in every aspect of our life. (131-312, 1984/05/04)

21 You should organize all your things in their proper places so that you can locate them whenever you need to use them. You should know how to put them in order and take care of them so that your things are clean and beautiful.

I once thought of why Japan was given the blessing of wealth. I think one reason is because Japanese people keep their environment well organized and clean. Evil spirits want things to be in disarray, and good spirits want things to be cared for in divine and clean conditions. It seems that in the case of Japan, because of those conditions, good spirits have come and helped the nation, and therefore Japan has developed quickly. Following their example, even if you are busy, you need to keep your things clean and well organized. (131-303, 1984/05/04)

22 I always think it is fun to observe people who live as husband and wife. When I see two people living together while loving each other, giving birth to children, and encouraging each other to overcome their difficulties and carry on through the marathon of life, I wonder, “What enables them to do that?” It is certainly not money, nor the ability of either the man or the woman individually. It is the great power of love that makes it possible.

Love is like a sleeping baby who purses his lips, wanting to suck his mother’s breast, or like a baby who cries even as he drinks his mothers milk, needing his mother’s embrace. This is precious. (183-053, 1988/10/29)

23 No matter how busy I am, every day without fail I go to my sleeping children’s bedside and pray. Fulfilling the role of a father or mother in front of these precious ones is not easy. I whisper to them, “What will I be able to give you? I cannot be in your debt. Although you are sleeping, I will ask God to bless you as I hug you tightly and kiss you on the cheek. I feel so sorry that I do not have time to go places with you, holding your hands. Still, with my kisses I will make this eternal.” This is how I am living. (085-136, 1976/03/02)

24 You should not make a scene in front of your children, fighting or showing angry or weeping faces that cause your little children to cry out loud. That is not a proper thing for parents to do. It is a shameful thing to do in front of the children. Your children represent the God of the future. They should be your successors who will step forth and inherit God’s ideal and become FLis substantial object partners. Being so, you should regard them as your greatest teachers.

You cannot deceive your children. It just does not work. They may not say anything to you, but if you are not being truthful with them, they already know it. Because of this, parents must become the best teachers. You, as their parents, should stand in the position to represent God to them and be their best teachers. You should be the mainstay for their emotional growth. As parents, you should be able to raise your children to say, “I will become a husband like my father, and I will meet a wife like my mother. Even if it means I have to raise up my wife, I want a wife who is like my mother.” You should be able to provide them with such an education of heart. (165-095, 1987/05/20)

25 Mother and I always try to compose ourselves in front of our children. Likewise, even though you have a squabble, you should not show tears in front of them. You need to regard them as God. As their mom and dad, you should never let your children see you in tears.

When children are young, their mom and dad are number one. They are the greatest people in the world. To children, their mom and dad represent God. They are the greatest—greater than the president, greater than Jesus or Buddha, greater than anyone. Families must advance on that basis of heart.

We have stepped forward to build the kingdom of heaven. A nation can never build the kingdom of heaven; it can be realized only through families. The family is where we, the True Parents, always want to come and dwell, and the family is where God wants to dwell. It is where even the nation’s leader wants to live. (115-217, 1981/11/15)

26 Parents are happy to wash their baby’s diapers despite the smell, because all the while they are thinking of their baby’s plump, happy face smiling at them. Just thinking of the image of their baby’s face flickering in front of their eyes fills them with joy. Such is the heart of parents who love their children.

By the same tokerj, if you love God, how much do you love Him? If you truly love Him, there should be nothing that you do not like. No matter how difficult the task, you will not find it difficult. Even in a deep gorge there is a rope of love buried there; finding it, you will resonate with God’s love, which gives you motivation. It is like a mother who comes home after working hard in the field. She is happy to nurse her baby lovingly and does not notice the pain when the infant bites down on her breast to suck. (025-264, 1969/10/05)

Section 2. True Parents’ Public Life and Devotion

True Parents'attitude toward public life

God’s Will is to complete His purpose of creation, which is the ideal of creation. In his lifetime, True Father lived for the Will and was ready to die for it at any time. He thought only of God’s Will and acted only for its realization. To him there was no distinction between night and day, and even at night he was not able to sleep comfortably. True Mother is the same, having led such a life with Father for more than five decades. Since Father’s passing, she has become even more serious about fulfilling God’s Will within her lifetime.

True Parents’ dedication could be seen during their speaking tours around the world, when they traveled from country to country without a break in order to encourage the members. True Parents have led public lives for the liberation of God and the salvation of humankind. Without caring about their own living situation, they have sacrificed everything for the public purpose.

1 When I travel, I sanctify every place I go. Wherever I sit, I sanctify that place before taking my seat, and when I depart, I take some measures for protection: I say, “Having sat in the highest position in this place, I am now leaving.” Then, Satan cannot follow me. Also, rather than looking for the most comfortable seat, I look for a good place from which to observe my surroundings.

In order to live like this, I need to keep myself in a state of keen sensitivity. If I step into a bad place, I immediately feel my hair stand on end. I quickly notice what kind of place it is, and, feeling that sensation, I know I must leave. This is how I protect my life. If after I know I stay there anyway, I am exposing myself to danger.

That’s why I always travel with my spiritual lantern on. In terms of electric light, if daylight is 1,000 watts, I need to emit a light greater than 1,000 watts. Unless my light is brighter than the daytime sunlight, I will cast a shadow. That is why we absolutely need to lead a life of love. Then hundreds of thousands of watts of light directly connect from God to us. Our light comes directly from God’s powerhouse. You always have to think like this. (335-252, 2000/10/05)

2 If I had thought of myself first, I would not have been able to come this far. I would have been swept away with the current.

Because I do not think of myself, I yearn for other people. You have no idea how strong my yearning is. As the head of the church, even when it is approaching midnight I do not want to be parted from the members. Although we said goodbye, if one of my members returns to the church before I leave for my home, I am delighted to stay with him or her even into the morning hours. I will not interrupt the flow of love from the heart. I yearn for people to that degree. When they are absent, I miss them so much that I shed tears when I meet them.

You cannot go to God’s kingdom without shedding tears for people. The path to the kingdom is not to eat well and live a comfortable life. God wants to give everything, even His secrets, to the person who lives a life of shedding tears for others.

As True Parents, we are doing our best to liberate God. You have to think how to unite with the Will. (308-210, 1999/01/05)

3 I do not think about how hard I have been working. Salmon die after they spawn in order to feed their own bodies to their young. By dying, they want to give their young absolutely everything they have, all the way to the end. They keep nothing for themselves.

I too will not keep anything in my possession. Whatever belongs to me, I want it to belong to my future descendants in all nations. I have no concept of holding on to some secret funds. When someone makes a donation, I never use it for myself. I do not touch it. Instead, I add to it from what I have and use it all for the world. (322-018, 2000/05/11)

4 Even if I have money, it has never been my dream to use it to build a nice house for myself filled with bodily comforts. However, if I need to use money for people, I am willing to even borrow money. This is my conviction, and this is how I live. Why? Because I am the Unification Church leader, and my mission is to make conditions to love the Will of God, who loves the world. As the leader, unless I make such conditions in my daily life, I cannot leave behind the textbook to teach you to do the same. I am responsible to make my life that textbook and leave it behind for you when I go.

Because I am carrying out the mission of a pioneer, I cannot reveal my sadness when I am sad, or my feelings of having been wronged when I am unfairly treated. (032-274, 1970/07/19)

5 So many people are going hungry throughout the world. Who is going to take responsibility for that? So many children are not able to receive an education. When they live that way, many people end up leading meaningless lives, of less value than even kindling for burning the garbage. I want to give them ample opportunities to study, more than what is available to children from rich families.

Some of the most critical problems we have to solve in the Last Days are to prevent people from starving to death and providing education for children who cannot study because their families cannot afford tuition. We, True Parents, want to take ownership and solve this problem. We will do what is needed to save them, even if we have to create a special task force. This is my philosophy of life, and I am constantly working on it. No one wants to take responsibility for this task, but as the True Parents, we are striving to find ways to help them. (600-105, 2008/10/27)

6 Donated money is a fearsome thing, more fearsome than poison. If you use it for your family and children, you will come to ruin. The offering you received is what others offered for God’s kingdom; heaven remembers how they prepared it with blood, sweat and tears.

Hence, when I receive money that was donated, I think first about whom I should give it to. As long as I use it for a greater purpose, for the world, or for the nation, I will not be trapped by it. Yet, many people go to ruin because they do not know the right way to use money. (273-203, 1995/10/22)

7 I never use even one cent of public money for myself. I accurately report my use of money, so these days even the IRS auditors testify that I never use public money for my personal purpose. They confirm my integrity when it comes to money.

I do not covet the money that you earn through your hard work. I, the man with the title of True Father, am not that kind of person.

When I received a report that a Japanese sister had been wearing the same underwear for seven years while doing church activity, it made me weep bitterly. I cannot forget the Japanese people who made such conditions. Because they made such conditions, I want to save them. I know very well how much they are suffering. (307-244, 1998/11/21)

8 Do not become dependent on the Unification Church after you join it. You have to be a plus, not a minus, in relation to this movement and the church. You have no idea how much it hinders God’s providence when, instead of being helpful to God’s Will, you cause heaven to worry about you. So I determined that I would maintain the standard of being a plus throughout my life. Until the Will is fulfilled on the world level, I have resolved not to appoint as leaders people who might obstruct its advancement. I will not appoint them, even though they may be my countrymen or even my own relatives. (337-043, 2000/10/21)

9 There has not been a day when we, True Parents, did not shed tears. This remains true to this day. As people in a public position, we cannot put our feet up or sleep comfortably. We cannot even eat a bowl of rice with our hearts at ease. Yet, even though we are living that kind of life, I hear all kinds of derogatory remarks, but I have never made excuses.

If God had made excuses for the last 6,000 years, there would be nothing left of heaven and earth. When we look into God’s inner heart, our own trials and suffering seem so trivial. They do not justify you making excuses in front of God. On the contrary, you have to comfort God, bowing your head before Him and repenting for how little you have done. You should not expose the difficulties you encounter in your situation or make excuses for them; rather, you should keep them to yourselves while feeling ashamed that you have not done enough. Still, most people first make excuses for themselves. You should not do that. (026-019, 1969/10/14)

10 The greater our difficulties, the more we need to be centered on God with absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. We have to center on the Absolute Subject Partner and go to the zero position. The zero position means that when the sun shines down vertically, no shadows are cast. At noontime if you stand under the sun, you cast no shadow. When the sun is at its zenith, your shadow disappears. When there is no shadow because everything reaches the zero position, something new appears.

That is the point where those who live in worries end up failing. But even if you fail, as long as you do not worry, you will go to a higher position. Even if everyone else retreats, perishes and disappears, you will advance on a different, higher level if you do not worry. That’s my philosophy of life.

The Unification Church has been treated unrighteously, but whatever was brought down by mistreatment was eventually re-established on a higher level. That’s what it means to move forward centering on the principle that an absolute subject partner creates its absolute object partner. (292-017, 1998/03/22)

11 I have no time to sleep. Even on Sunday which for most people is a day off, I continuously push myself. Once I start speaking I do not stop. I have taken very few naps in my life. Since 1990,1 may nap when I feel very tired, but it is never for more than an hour. If I nap for more than an hour, I cannot sleep at night. So no matter how tired I am, I do not take a nap. That has become my habit. I usually wake up at 3:30 in the morning. I may be getting older, but I will not be outdone by young people, because I know how to look after my health. (247-052, 1993/04/21)

12 In heaven, you do not live with money. You cannot live on your knowledge either. You need to shed lots of tears of love. Especially religious leaders will have to shed many tears. I have been living my whole life with a heart that will burst into a river of tears if anyone says just one poignant word to me. Such is the sorrow that I harbor in my heart. If I cannot completely dissolve it while I am on earth, I will have to continue working without rest in the next world.

Because I know there are mountains of work to be done, I complete my day’s work even if I have to work late into the night. I do so in order to preserve the next day as a full one. Tomorrow I will try to do greater work than today, and greater and greater wjprk with each passing day.

We are building heaven’s tower, a tower for God. I always think that someone should lay at least one more brick for the construction of heaven’s tower. Having lived my whole life in this way, forgetting myself, I have reached the pinnacle on the world level. (208-143, 1990/11/17)

13 You should know that there are many who shed their blood and give up their sleep in order to connect the developments in the Unification Church to their countries and peoples. I know this. And because I am the person who gives them their instructions, I keep going day and night in order not to be indebted to them. When midnight comes around I do not sleep; instead I think “Oh, it’s their prayer time!” In this way I try hard not to be indebted to them. That is why the Unification Church is advancing. (231-066, 1992/05/31)

Devotion and a life of prayer

True Father said that if he were to choose just one word, it would be seong (IS), meaning “sincerity.” Father always emphasized the importance of sincere devotion. Sincere devotion refers to conditions to actualize the Word in daily life. It is the basic activity of a life of faith, which can move the heart of God and the hearts of people.

True Parents always think that people who offer sincere devotion, and the things that come as a result of sincere devotion, are more important than anything else. Moreover, they emphasize that if we pray with faith, God will work to make our prayers come true, and that before we pray we should act.

14 When I was put in prison, I became a parent to my fellow inmates. When I went to a construction site, I became a parent to the laborers. When I spent seven years in Gloucester, in the United States, going out on boats, I went out with that heart. When I went out on the New Hope boat, even when everyone else was napping, I did not rest. In the morning when I had to go out to sea, I would be at the dockside even if the captain was still sleeping. As long as I was on the boat, I would remain awake. There was a bed in the cabin, but I lay down there only once when I had a bad headache. That is how hard I pushed myself. I had the responsibility to establish the tradition, like the captain of the boat does for his crew. More than that, I should take responsibility as the parent.

When I established Tongil Industries, it took three or four hours to travel from Cheongpa-dong to Sutaek-ri. I cannot count how many times I went back and forth, sometimes twice a day and even three times a day. For three years I went back and forth like that to the Unification Theological Seminary in Barrytown. Whenever I felt I needed to make some special condition, I went there every day. If I had to go somewhere and come back late, the next day I would go again in the early morning. I did this to offer sincere devotion. (117-022, 1982/01/30)

15 Sincere devotion enables God to lower His anchor to a place where there is no anchor line. By offering sincere devotion, the anchor chain is lowered link by link. When it reaches you and you grasp hold of that chain, you can be freely lifted up to God’s kingdom. If you do not make conditions of devotion, you cannot go up. Therefore, you should offer devotion so you can tie yourself to the anchor. If you make a strong tie, you can go to heaven freely. A door will open in your prayer life.

As you offer more sincere devotion, that door will open wider on the earth plane and draw you up on God’s anchor. If you pray often, little by little the doorway of your prayer will become larger. As it gradually widens, the chain will become a ladder. Then as you continually offer more devotion, the ladder will become a mountain, and high on the summit of that mountain you can connect to the kingdom of heaven.

At that point, either you will go higher or heaven will come down. You then extend the ladder, and all the people in the spirit world will work hard for you. Your conditions of sincere devotion bring them down to earth. Also, if you offer devotion for other people on earth, a mountain will appear before them, showing them a path to ascend to a realm where they can receive benefit. (169-223, 1987/10/31)

16 Those who do not offer conditions of devotion make many excuses for not doing so. People who offer devotion do not make excuses, because they have so many goals for which they need to offer devotion. That is why God does not say even one word by way of an excuse. From the time of the creation to this day, God has hardly spoken; rather, He is occupied with offering His own sincere devotions. He offers them for the sake of the whole, in order to stand in the position where He can relate with all beings. God is offering ever more devotion, still with the same heart of loyalty, to elevate the lower realms to a higher state.

True Parents are going that same way. We are always making new beginnings. That means we have to keep offering additional devotion. We will not imitate the sorrow of those who have lost out; rather, we will connect to the joy of victors. (276-143, 1996/02/18)

17 I should offer an incredible amount of devotion, numerous conditions of devotion, in order to create a strong economic foundation for the liberation of all peoples of the world. Afterward, God and Satan will have to acknowledge what I did. That is why I live my life the way I do. That is why I have been going to Cheongpyeong every day. I may return home around midnight, but desiring to see that land again I will go back there the following morning.

I am investing my sincere devotion all the time. In fact, I need to continue offering devotion. I must gather all the bundles of devotion and offer them to God along with our blood and sweat. Then God the Subject Partner will not be hesitant to provide us with the materials necessary to re-create the nation and the world. This is living in accordance with the Principle. (109-182, 1980/11/01)

18 The Unification Church’s teaching is fearful. When we went to South America, we had no intention of causing anyone loss. So we had to start everything on our own and build with our own hands. Nevertheless, we never succumbed to fatigue. I could not afford to become tired, because I wanted to resurrect South America to become a continent that can help the world. I resolved that as long as God does not abandon His hope to help the world, I cannot abandon South America. I tell you that as long as there are people who are investing devotion for this, it will work.

I am now approaching the age of 80, but I am adding something more every day. I do not retreat. I should shed one more drop of sweat today than I shed yesterday, take one more step, do one more thing. This is how I can advance. The word “stop” is not in my vocabulary. The word “stop” connects with retreat and death. The word “advance” is connected with flourishing and with the kingdom of heaven. (276-146, 1996/02/18)

19 When I give a sermon, I never decide on the title or do research for it in advance. This is because when I begin to speak, I stand in relationship to the vertical realm. Water flows quickest when it falls straight down vertically, at a 90-degree angle to the level surface, and then flows horizontally. With people listening to me, many stories flow out of my mouth as if opening a water faucet. It’s because there are people who need to hear them. As I have many things to say to different people in the audience, it requires much time. A good number of people are revived by my sermons. Knowing this, I am able to speak for more than ten hours. For what purpose do I do this? It is to revive my children. (247-032, 1993/04/21)

20 If it takes others one hour and 30 minutes to walk to a destination, I can walk it in one hour and 10 minutes. I save 20 minutes. Others may stroll along, but when I walk I raise my foot only an inch, three inches at the most, above the ground. My stride is 7 to 15 centimeters longer than that of most people. So I can walk much faster than others. I can complete a distance of 8 kilometers 25 or 30 minutes faster than other people. I need to walk at a high speed to align with this busy time. Now things are moving much faster than before. If I were to move slowly in such a fast-paced era, it would be as if I were paddling backward. (600-140, 2008/10/29)

21 God sincerely prepared wonderful educational materials, without omitting anything, but you did not know that. I also prepared educational materials. It took great effort to discover the truth about restoration, about death, about the spirit world and so on. I have experienced praying continuously for more than 17 hours without taking a break to eat. For me, 10 or 12 hours in prayer is not out of the ordinary. That is why my knees are calloused. Now, even if I do not pray for long, because God is very close, we can immediately communicate.

If we do not make the truth known to the world, how can we liberate all the people, all humankind? Through such effort and hardships, I finally discovered the truth and revealed it. But I realized that God had prepared all of it long ago. (250-318, 1993/10/15)

22 The force of my prayer is strong enough to pull a pine tree out of the ground, or dislodge a boulder so that it rolls down a mountain slope. In the past, when I prayed in the sweltering months of May and June in cotton-lined pants, I shed so much sweat and tears laced with blood that often I had to wring the sweat and tears from my clothes. When I prayed with all of my devotion, struggling to accomplish God’s Will even in circumstances that fractured my bones and battered my flesh, God visited me and comforted my heart. (212-039, 1991/01/01)

23 When I pray, I am holding onto the top of the world, fighting to make it turn the right way. Within five minutes I am sweating. That is the hardest battle. When Jesus prayed, knowing he would go to the cross, he shed his sweat and blood. That was a battle. I can say it was the ultimate fight.

Do you know how necessary prayer is? Have you experienced the effects of prayer? You need to have those experiences. You should have the conviction that prayer never fails to accomplish things. I am saying that, after you pray, do not doubt. Do not question, “Did God listen to my prayer?” Believe what I told you, and think, “It will be accomplished!” If you continue praying like this over the next 10 years, the next 100 years, you will go up; you will never go down. And if you tell God that you will never give up on the way, then God will definitely help you. He will help you every time.

The Will that God is working toward cannot be completed after just a few years’ work. The Will that He is working toward is certain to be achieved; however, it may require several hundred million years. So if you are going to uphold God’s Will, you must have the conviction that you will not change even over hundreds of millions of years. God wants to see such people, because that is the very Will He wants to see fulfilled. (066-213, 1973/05/07)

24 God does not want to be indebted to you. He wants to give you all that He can, and He will try to give you even more. However, you may have to wait, which could be tiresome. If you still do not receive it, your sons and daughters will receive it. That is why I ask you to have a heart to pray continuously, even for tens of thousands of years.

True Parents are now praying for things that can happen 1,000 years from now. We are offering serious prayers about how the world should be 10,000 years from now. If we, the founders of the Unification Church, together with the members, offer prayers in all seriousness, then as long as the standard for our prayer rests with heaven, the Unification Church will never perish. Even if everyone wishes us to come to ruin, we will absolute^ prevail.

So many people have prayed for us to perish, haven’t they? Nevertheless, if we pray in the way I have been speaking of, which brings forth predictions about what kind of age is to come, we should strive to qualify to take responsibility for that age. To do this, we should invest ourselves, forget we invested, and invest ourselves again. This is what God does, and we should do the same. It is the only way. Be aware of this. This way is the one secret for resolving everything. (212-272, 1991/01/06)

25 To this day there have been three things for which I have prayed, based on the mottoes that I have established. The first has to do with faith. When I stand in front of God, I have to believe things that the people of the world cannot believe. There is nothing God can say that I cannot believe.

Second, I have prayed for wisdom. I cannot take charge unless I can show clear leadership quality in my judgment of situations. That is why I asked God, “Please give me wisdom greater than the wisdom of Solomon.”

Finally, I have prayed for love. I have gone beyond the level of the Korean people. Now when I appear with love in front of all peoples, however I do it, my mind-set is that there will be no one, irrespective of nationality or ethnicity, who will not desire to receive love from me. I believe that whoever they are, they will all be attracted to me because of this love that I prayed for. Such love is what is needed the most to carry out a new movement in the Last Days, which is an era when love has dried up.

These are the three things I have been praying for. Ever since I began praying this way, everything I asked for has been realized, despite my not knowing when it would be accomplished. (077-063, 1975/03/30)

Section 3. A Healthy Lifestyle

True Father’s health

All life follows natural law. True Parents maintained their health by active living and exercise following natural law. Thus, True Father controlled the amount of water he consumed in relation to his salt intake. He ate very few snacks and dined sparingly. He taught us that if we maintain the lifestyle God intended for us at the creation, we will be free of illness. Even when True Father felt unwell, he recovered his health through the protection of heavenly fortune by devoting himself to God’s Will and immersing himself in God’s heart. True Mother is also taking care of her health by managing her diet. She exercises by taking walks.

1 I know myself. I know my physical condition as well. For whom do I eat, sleep and live? I believe that if I live for the sake of others, any sickness will pack its bags and leave. Why is this? It is because heavenly fortune will seek me out. That is how I think, and that is how I have lived my whole life until now. (367-018, 2002/01/19)

2 I need only seven minutes of exercise in the morning. Other people exercise for three or four hours, but I need only seven minutes. I have done the same exercises every day for decades. I never missed my exercise, even when I was in prison or when I was a student. This is the reason I am maintaining my health now. I exercise from my eyes to my shoulders to every part of my body. You need to take care of your body.

The Principle is great. Because I know the Principle, even when I had very little to eat in prison I could maintain my health with my breathing technique. Oxygen is a precious life element. My technique involves inhaling fresh air, absorbing sunshine and drinking water. Even in the labor camp, when the sun rose I would go to the toilet and gaze at the sunlight. Again, we need to drink fresh water, breathe fresh air and absorb the sunshine. These are the three life elements: sunlight, water and air. (439-016, 2004/02/17)

3 As much as possible, I try not to eat snacks. Eating snacks is not good for your health for several reasons. First, it makes you eat more than you need. Second, it prevents you from enjoying your food to the maximum at mealtimes.

The food you eat should taste sweet to you. If you chew food for a long time, it starts to taste sweet. In prison, people ate everything quickly, all at once, because they were so hungry. But when you do that, the food is digested almost instantly and about one-third of the nutrition is excreted in the feces. This is why I am telling you to chew as long as you can. Then you will find that your food tastes sweet like baby food that little infants like. Again, do not eat your food in a rush, but chew it slowly until you can taste sweetness in it. Sweet food is delicious, and you can get more nutrition out of it. Also, if you chew for a long time you liquify the food, and this also will improve the body’s absorption of nutrition. (541-325, 2006/10/10)

4 I do not let my thoughts dwell on my fatigue. Because I do not think of myself as being tired, I am not tired. I can remain standing for 12 or even 24 hours. I do not flinch at standing for 20 hours. This is not only because I am healthy physically; it is because I have strong willpower.

If you think you are old, then that’s the end. Such thinking will really make you old. I always have the mind-set that, even as I age, I must keep busy so my mind does not wither. Since my mentality is strong and robust, I can overcome any difficulty while maintaining my health. It is great to have strength of mind. (205-090, 1990/07/07)

5 I engaged in every conceivable type of sports before my twenties. Since I was always involved in sports, when I hurt some part of my body, I learned how to treat it. With that knowledge I have the confidence to maintain good health today. Next is mental conviction. When I go to a high mountain, I do not think of it as high. And when I go to a deep valley, I do not think of it as low. I create that state of calmness in my mind. (121-009, 1982/10/21)

6 When I am tired, I release the tension in my shoulder muscles. If I find a railing nearby, I go there and massage my shoulder against lit to release the tension. When I feel sleepy, if I go to the bathroom and do this massage for just five minutes, my sleepiness disappears. I invest energy that is stronger than my sleepiness. It is like the wind driving the clouds away. I use my willpower to maintain balance.

I do not eat snacks, because they interrupt my metabolism. I also do not drink water or eat fruit thoughtlessly, even when they are served to me. You need to enjoy your meal, whatever food you are eating. You do not need many side dishes, not more than three.

When people get older, they have a problem of feeling heaviness in their lower legs. They find it especially difficult to stand up after sitting down. That’s why you need to do this exercise: Stand up straight, bend your legs and squat down as low as you can while keeping your torso straight, and then stand up again. (322-140, 2000/05/15)

7 I have many ways to exercise. I vary them according to the season of the year. The exercises I do in the spring are different than the exercises I do in the other seasons. I vary them because of the changes in weather and humidity.

If germs have infiltrated your body, they will die off if you exercise on a regular basis. I survived prison by doing the exercises I developed. I do them even now. My exercises do not take very long. Even though some people exercise three or four hours a day, they cannot compete with me in maintaining their health.

My exercises start from the top of the medulla at the back of my head. They are based on a mental approach. Suppose you have eye pain. If you give out energy that is many times greater than the eye pain, the pain will leave, even be cured. That works for me even today. It is because I use mental energy that no one can beat me in the challenge of staying awake for 24 hours. I do my exercises even while riding in a car. I do them no matter how sick I am. (610-110, 2009/04/14)

Insights about health

True Father went through many grueling periods of physical suffering, including six incarcerations, yet he overcame them with the help of his special exercises. Notably, while in prison, he developed various techniques such as breathing and certain exercises based on give and receive action. He was born with a robust physical body. Moreover, his unique health management approach helped him thrive despite an often herculean workload.

8 When you inhale, you need to take a deep breath. When you exhale, do it slowly and deeply—"phe-e-u-w"—until you totally empty yourself. By breathing this way you can stay healthy.

Some people really enjoy walking as a way to stay healthy, but I know another way to strengthen my health even without walking. I do a breathing exercise that is the equivalent of pouring into a 10-mile walk all the energy that one would use to walk 1,000 miles. It involves taking in a lot when you inhale, and exhaling completely. If you do this, your lungs will filter your blood better so that the freshest blood can enter your heart. If your breathing is shallow, then the freshest blood will not have a chance to reach your heart. I do this special breathing exercise; it is something I did even when I was in prison.

Focusing all your energy, hold your breath tightly and then release it slowly—"phe-e-u-w.” Doing this over and over will benefit you many more times than other exercises. There is no exercise better than this. Just 7 to 13 minutes is enough. When you do this, you must hold your breath. Hold it as long as you can. This exercise is for the lungs. (499-115, 2005/07/02)

9 If you hold your nose, close your mouth tightly and breathe out strongly, the air will go out through your eyes, mouth and ears. It is a way to clean out blockages and prevent your hearing and eyesight from weakening as you grow old. This will keep you healthy as long as you live. The exercise naturally includes exercising your neck, making those muscles strong. In this way you will not get a stuffy nose and you will be able to breathe smoothly. Try this exercise in the morning, holding your nose. Those who do it will avoid colds. I owe my own good health to knowing how to do this exercise. (332-309, 2000/09/24)

10 Once you breathe in, how long can you hold your breath? Go into the water, hold your breath as long as you can underwater and then come up for air. Repeat this again and again, and you will increase your lung capacity. Or you can run 100 meters, morning and night, keeping a balanced pace. These exercises that increase your lung capacity can maintain your health. This is a secret to improving your health. If your lung capacity is great, you can take in more oxygen, and you will naturally be able to hold your breath for a long time. This is all scientific.

When you walk, do you habitually look down or far ahead? When you walk, stick out your chest.

The most important part of your face is the nose. The nose is the center. Whatever exercise you do, you have to align it with your nose. (576-196, 2007/09/30)

11 Do the belly button exercise. Every vital point in your body is hidden. They are set in deep. If you press those points, you can connect to your body’s original and strong qi energy. The navel is the most deeply set point on your body. That’s why all the important nerves are connected there. When you wake up in the morning, before you do other exercises, first flex your abdomen strongly. Push your navel outward so your deeply set abdomen protrudes. When you do so, you can revitalize all the cells that are blocked by germs. (206-172, 1990/10/07)

12 You need to exercise not only for good breathing but also for the peripheral nerves. As people age, they do not breathe properly, and this dulls the peripheral nervous system. When this occurs, you may start to lose your balance. To maintain good balance, you need to exercise to keep your body stable. Dancing, singing and martial arts are all forms of exercise that help with balance. Practice any one of them to maintain a healthy lifestyle, and for mental and emotional well-being. Do not exclude martial arts techniques, because they are absolutely necessary for self-defense in many situations. (569-120, 2007/07/22)

13 When I wash my face, I begin with my eyes. I wash my hands first and then my eyes. After washing my eyes I exercise them by gently pressing around them. Then I am more refreshed than I was when I first woke up. This exercise also clears my mind. After doing this exercise for my eyes, if I look here and there, I feel the difference. My eyes are more focused. Next I do an exercise for my nose. After washing my eyes I wash my nose. Then I hold my nose like this and blow air through it.

Next, I exercise my throat. I need to do so, because I have spoken so much during my lifetime. The eyes, nose and throat are connected. So I need to clean them with these exercises. I need to do the throat exercise while breathing. Even by this simple exercise, like this, I can relieve the hoarseness in my voice.

Next I exercise my shoulders. Where plus and minus energy come together from side to side, high pressure will go down and low pressure will go up. It is an exercise that is based on natural law. You have to do this exercise.

Why do we exercise? When you breathe properly, the body’s metabolism runs smoothly, in cycles, your fatigue disappears and your health improves. I have an exercise where I flex the various parts of my body; it maintains my body’s balance centered on the peripheral nervous system. If you stand like this, you can support your body well. (565-269, 2007/06/12)

Chapter 4
The Settlement of Cheon Il Guk and Our Path

Section 1. The Faith and Environment of the Early Days

The faith of the early days

In the early days our church was always crowded with members longing to see True Parents. Divine Principle was taught day and night to guests and new members. Sunday service was filled with the Spirit, and people were constantly witnessing to the truth. The church was filled with love.

True Mother often encourages members to work to revive the faith and zeal of the early days of the church. She speaks about creating a living and breathing church to spur the establishment of Cheon Il Guk. She emphasizes that believers should move beyond the wilderness era into the era of the settlement of Cheon Il Guk.

1 We need to revive our church. How wonderful it would be if all people had truly known that Father is the True Parent while he was still on earth. Because they did not know this, my pain and grief are so, so deej^. The only way to create a path for these people is through the teachings of the Principle. The Principle teachings are medicine for all humanity. Whether or not we bring revival to our church and advance the settlement of Cheon Il Guk depends on our actions. (True Mother, 2012/10/27)

2 In the early years of the church Father raised the members through his words, his love and with the strong bonds of the realm of heart. From now on, the church in Korea and throughout the world must become like that. Overall I will lead the Korean church in that direction. The same goes for the rest of the world. Even without explaining it in words, we all can feel the bonds of heart we have with each other, forged with God at the center. When we unite, we can be totally interconnected. You are blessed families who are connected to one another with a strong bond of heart, and based upon this, you need to cooperate fully with one another. To build a church based on heart, whether you have a public mission or not, gear your every action, word and attitude first for other people and the environment. You must be considerate of those around you. (True Mother, 2012/09/03)

3 Most pressingly, the question is how we can return to the spirit of the early days in our church. We need to fill our church with life and spirit, in unity with the words of truth and the Holy Spirit. Our task is to share the words of the Principle unceasingly every day with new people, and inspire them to attend seven-day, 21-day and 40-day workshops and then receive the marriage Blessing. We need to find many new members and make our Unification Church vibrant and full of life and spirit. (True Mother, 2012/09/30)

4 What is truly important is not just the number of people that come to Sunday service, but the number of people we can call Unification Church members, that is, people who know the Principle properly. We need to continue giving Divine Principle lectures in our churches. People need to be reborn through these teachings. When, through being born again through the Word, every individual, family, tribe, society and nation practices true love, Cheon Il Guk naturally will come about. That is the kingdom of heaven on earth. When this happens, people will find peace in their hearts. (True Mother, 2012/10/01)

5 Our Unification Church originated from God’s spirit and truth. But when I look at the current reality in the church, I cannot say that either our church or its members have matured in heart. In the early days, once members came to the church they never wanted to leave. When Father stayed up late into the night, they wanted to stay with him. And if there was anything Father wanted done, they wanted to do it for him, voluntarily and willingly. Such was the life of faith in the early days of our church. Although our church was small, it was overflowing with true love and we were united in that love. This allowed us to go through many difficult times together.

The Korean church produced many blessed families and came to have many unforgettable stories. In the early days the Korean church sisters went out to do pioneer outreach. Some had no one to take care of their children, and they had no choice but to leave their children temporarily in orphanages. In this way, from the time of the 36 Couples Blessing until the 430 Couples Blessing, Korean church members made many sacrifices in order to advance God’s providence. (True Mother, 2012/10/01)

6 In those early days, our church president Rev. Eu Hyo-won gave lectures all day long, even though he suffered physical disabilities. Even healthy people find it difficult to lecture for an hour or two, let alone all day long. Not only that—we were too poor to have proper food at that time, so he was malnourished. Despite such difficulties people joined the church and we blessed the 36 Couples.

We need to cherish the 36 Couples because they are the root of heart; membership multiplied based on the foundation of the 36 Couples. That is why I say that whether you are from Korea, Japan or the United States, we need to start anew, filled with the fire, spirit and overflowing love we had in the early days. We must build a church where Divine Principle lectures are taught continuously, a church where workshops are always in progress. (True Mother, 2012/10/01)

7 You all need to be reborn through the Word. In the early days of the church no one complained about conditions. Members were happy and thankful just to see True Parents. Whenever they went out from the church, they missed us; very soon they longed to see us and they were anxious to hear Father’s words. They did not measure everything against their own needs. They did not think about how much they would be paid or whether or not they would be praised if they did this or that. We must regain that spirit. I am saying let’s make our church a place that is alive, breathing, and overflowing with love. (True Mother, 2012/10/18)

8 If you wish to quickly restore the people in your town, make sure the lights are always on in the church. Please make a strong determination. As living people who attended True Father, do not do anything that brings you dishonor. Shouldn’t you become people whom True Father will remember in the spirit world? Then what do you think you should do? Do not take it easy. Create a church that is alive and breathing with ongoing activities. We are alive, and being alive means being active. Those who remain still and inactive are dead. (True Mother, 2012/10/16)

9 It is important to make a plan, but more important to take action. Be a person who practices. We are living in the era when achievements must be tangible. Your church should be a place where the lights are always on because you are awake at night. Wouldn’t Father be drawn to the churches that have the lights on while he tours around the world? I am saying that you should make yours a place that True Father would not pass by without stopping. (True Mother, 2012/10/16)

10 I should accomplish all that Father left incomplete and all that he desired to achieve. Our most urgent task is to establish the true order and tradition both internally and externally. Also, as soon as possible we need to show the world that the Unification Church is going strong, growing and developing so that we can inspire those in the wider world to come to us of their own free will. It is important for you to witness hard, but we also need people to come on their own based on our providential achievements and guided by a voice in their heart that says, “Oh! This is my ultimate destination!” Then we must guide them to become blessed families. (True Mother, 2012/10/01)

11 We are living in a time when we can actually be one with and experience the spirit world in daily life. If you have the standard that enables you to relate with the spirit world, it will work with you 100 percent. Take ownership and do activities that are alive and breathing. Then the spirit world will assist you without reservation. What is the hope of those in the spirit world? What is our hope? It is to build the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven. That is Cheon Il Guk. How exciting and elevating it would be to realize that in our lifetime! How grateful we should feel! If you actually feel that in your daily life, how can you sit calmly and quietly? How can you not be moved to devote your efforts? (True Mother, 2012/10/18)

The witnessing environment

Witnessing is transforming God’s children into citizens in His kingdom. As the number of heavenly citizens increases, heaven’s sovereignty expands and the environment is created for the settlement of Cheon Il Guk. It is with God’s spirit and truth that we can witness to humanity. God’s spirit and truth are our breastplate and sword. Only by setting forth with the breastplate of the spirit and the sword of truth can we win over the fallen world and create the environment that allows True Parents’ glory to shine throughout the world.

12 We have True Parents and the truth. We have the Principle. We now should let the world know about True Father and his life. Our future is bright. I am going to revive all the churches in the provinces and outlying areas. Our churches in Korea must come to life and breathe. You blessed family members need to heed my directions and take action. In doing so you need to help your neighbors and clan members to follow you. (True Mother, 2012/10/01)

13 Many of you must have joined the church 50 or 60 years ago. No matter where you joined, you surely miss the time you first met the Unification Church. Whenever you saw Father and whenever you heard him, did you ever experience not being delighted or grateful in your heart? You were all excited, feeling, “Oh my, I have met the Lord who gave me new life and brought me to a brand-new world! There are many Christians in the world and many believers of other religions as well, but I came to know of heaven’s providence and met the Lord before others did. How can I ever be grateful enough?” Rather than keeping this to yourself, you wanted to share it with everyone. You wanted to witness. Truthfully, you have received incredible grace and blessings from heaven. As fallen people you received unimaginable blessings. The fact that you separated from Satan is an awesome blessing in itself. Our environment 50 or 60 years ago was very different from that of today. In my heart I would like to rekindle the heart and spirit as it was in the early days of our church, when you worked so hard, yearning for the original homeland. Then you can bear fruit. (True Mother, 2013/02/19)

14 If we were to attend True Father truly as the Lord at his Second Advent, Messiah, king of kings, and emperor of truth, holiness and virtue, what do you think you could do? Can there be an emperor or king without his people? Do you think it is sufficient for him to have only us as his people? All the people in the world should attend him. That is why, from now on you need to testify to Father; you need to explain his achievements and let the world know who and what he truly is. This is what is meant by outreach work. (True Mother, 2012/09/30)

15 We must bring all people to the Blessing and guide them to become Cheon Il Guk citizens. In order to do that, what should you do? Those in the spirit world will not be able to help people who do only what they are told, who live from one day to the next, blurring them together. The expressions “life-or-death resolve” and “total investment” must be real to you. That is why I am telling you to take action. That is why I am asking you to report to heaven every day and work together with heaven. (True Mother, 2012/10/18)

16 You are all blessed members and you all probably have children, so you know how wondrous it is to receive the gift of a new life and how much you anticipate the birth of a child. I am sure that you felt the indescribable blessings of heaven at that moment. I tell you that you can have that blessing of giving birth to a new life even every day, depending on the effort you make. Will you sit still and remain idle? The number of people whom you save through your outreach activities will determine your reward. That reward is created by you. I hope that you will not miss such a marvelous opportunity. (True Mother, 2012/12/14)

17 The spirit world is a place where people breathe love, where they breathe in the air of love. Witnessing reveals the love we have planted. When you witness a lot, it is imperative to restore all things, that is, to raise funds. You need to do this to attain the position from which you can give and receive blessings. How you establish a foundation to increase your blessing and bequeath them to your descendants is up to you. It requires your own investment, and you need to make conditions of devotion for that. No one can do it for you. True Parents taught you everything you need to know, and now it is time for you to act. (True Mother, 2012/12/25)

18 We can create the world of peace and happiness that heaven and humanity desire. Father took the lead; he showed you how to do this through his example. He also said that there is no perfection in ignorance. That is why we first need to educate people. We need to help them understand the Word and show them through our actions how to fulfill it. We have been pushing ourselves to realize this grand dream since the population of the world was three billion, and now it is more than seven billion, isn’t it? We are responsible to let the seven billion people of this world know God’s Will as soon as possible. (True Mother, 2013/02/20)

19 The Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parents have carried out their providential work throughout the world. Yet because of our shortcomings we have not reached the entire world and brought everyone to know True Father and his achievements. This remains such a bitter sorrow in my heart. It is natural that our descendants will face a difficult time if we do not fulfill our responsibility. That is why you as the first generation must do whatever it takes to let people know that the Returning Lord, Messiah and True Parents for whom they have been yearning has come.

How much effort have you made during this time to find people and give them new life? Our time remaining on earth until we pass on to the next world is shorter than the time we have lived so far. What if those people who are living in the same era that we are living in go to the spirit world without knowing True Parents and the truth? In the other world they will wail and accuse you, saying, “When I was alive on earth, why didn’t you tell me about this?” If you do not fulfill your responsibility, your descendants will have to indemnify that. As you have heard the Principle teachings, you must understand what I am saying. Henceforth, you should be serious about fulfilling your responsibility. (True Mother, 2013/03/22)

20 How will we restore this nation, God’s homeland? There is no way except through witnessing. We must turn people around through witnessing. All our businesses and organizations need to move in one direction. To welcome the new age that is upon us, you need to have a clear attitude of mind.

For this day, I have opened all the doors. I am contemplating many plans for the future global providence. We have to bring tangible results that are visible to the eyes. I know that this is possible, because God will definitely work.

God welcomes this time when He can directly govern us. He is manifesting Himself as the King of all kings. Therefore, we cannot let Him remain a king without a people. That is why I want you to be among those who demonstrate loyalty, filial piety and fidelity. This time in history will come only once. If you want to participate, then you must change in every respect. (True Mother, 2013/01/07)

21 What type of wealth am I talking about? I have told you, “Witness with great effort.” The physical body has limits. Even if you live a long and healthy life, you will probably not live for more than 100 years. We know about the spirit world. When you witness like this to 1 person, 10 people, 100 people, then you are connecting to their eternal life. You are becoming wealthy. You are becoming someone who will be remembered in the eternal world. The wealth of this world ends when you die, but the wealth of the spirit world is eternal. Then which path will you young people take? It is all right to be greedy with regard to this kind of wealth. (True Mother, 2013/10/15)

22 There is no one who dislikes being wealthy. The fastest way to become wealthy is by witnessing. The fallen world is desolate. However, we who attend True Parents are joyful. By witnessing, especially if you can make this world into a world where everyone knows True Parents, you will become the richest person in the world. How much you would live with gratitude and peace in both spirit and flesh!

The world is very complicated. In it people have to calculate in order to stay ahead of their competitors, and they fight. What a difference! So your mission is to reach out to many people in the world and bring them to our Heavenly Parent and to True Father who is now in the spirit world. Therefore, what the blessed families sitting here in front of me right now should do is to witness a lot so that God and True Parents can attain what they desire. I am saying you are people who have found the path to happiness. (True Mother, 2013/10/17)

23 I have said that we should create a good environment. Once a good environment is created, even if I say only one thing, people will be able to figure out its meaning from ten different angles. When God created Adam and Eve in the beginning, could they communicate with God or not? They could ask Him questions and receive answers. It can be the same now. If the blessed families can create such an environment, there is no reason you cannot successfully witness with even a little effort. (True Mother, 2013/02/10)

24 It is most pressing that we let all the people of the world know that the True Parents have come to this earth. Telling all humankind that they are here is our great responsibility for the sake of the future. Christians are still waiting for the Returning Lord, the Messiah. We already have gone beyond the Completed Testament Age and opened the era of Cheon Il Guk, but people do not know the providential time in which they live. We must not remain passive. We must mobilize every means to let people know that the True Parents have come. We must let people know that the Messiah has arrived. True Parents came to this world to save all people. For the sake of the salvation of humankind, we must let the world know the legacy True Parents achieved during their lives. Such things do not come about just by talking or by making proclamations. Through taking action and putting things in motion, your efforts must bear fruit. (True Mother, 2013/04/20)

25 Now you should confidently reveal who the True Parents are. It must be made known, and shown, that both the unification of North and South Korea and world peace can be achieved through the True Parents, and you must become people who live to accomplish that. That is why you must be different today than yesterday. Think that you are saving one life every day. You can go out in the position of the ancestors, and the citizens will become your people. You all started in the same position when you were given the Blessing, but the extent to which you fulfilled your responsibilities is different. As the people living in this era in front of your ancestors and future descendants, you are standing here after having received an incredible blessing. But the question is in what position you are standing now, and how do you appear? That is what is important. True Parents are always in the midst of you. You are not alone. (True Mother, 2013/05/13)

26 In Hawaii you can find banyan trees. They are huge and leafy, so they provide shade in the strong sun. People can rest under their branches. This tree does not grow toward the sky, but its branches extend down to the ground and it produces numerous roots, which expand more and more horizontally. I have self-realizations when I look at the natural world our Heavenly Parent created. Like that tree, True Father explored wild and remote areas around the world and he expanded his roots of love with numerous conditions of devotion. In the name of our Heavenly Parent he laid the foundation of many historic victories for the sake of all people.

Yet, when looking around the world as a whole, we see there is still so much more we must accomplish through our devotions and efforts. The world today is in a state of chaos and confusion, not knowing which direction to go. Mindful of every minute that passes, we need to find a way to save even one more life. God has made much preparation. He is waiting for us.

Throughout the world, many people are striving to live good lives. They do not know God’s providence, but they are trying to be good. How grateful they will be when we convey Father s words to them!

As I was looking at the banyan tree, I thought, “Ah, this is a tree that is fulfilling its purpose as God intended!” Like this tree, you young people need to understand the precious Will of God and share His blessings with the world as blessed family members. You should not let the remaining years of your life flow by meaninglessly, leaving your name unknown to the world and your light not shining out to the world. All of us are the fulfillment of the dreams and hope of all humankind. (True Mother, 2014/05/11)

27 In the world today, things are happening at incredible speed. This moment as I am speaking to you, my words can be conveyed throughout the world in the blink of an eye. God allowed the development of civilization with such technology for the sake of all humanity. You need to utilize what is available in our present civilization to fulfill the mission of the tribal messiah. In so doing, you must lead the way in the restoration of your nation and the world. That is the purpose of your life. If you do so, your children, grandchildren—your descendants—will live in joy and happiness. (True Mother, 2014/03/31)

28 Thanks to the development of the Internet and mobile phones, the entire world can connect. If your senses are tuned to wherever True Parents are, you will be able to know everything about what they are doing. I have trained you, and I have established a system through which we can share all our materials and achievements with the entire world, so that you can fulfill your responsibility.

You became blessed families through the True Parents. And as blessed families you have a responsibility. No one will be able to say that they did not fulfill their responsibility because they were not informed or taught. As True Parents we have opened up every possible way for you to completely fulfill your responsibility. By the results you bring through your own effort you will be able to establish a tradition as a good and noble family. (True Mother, 2014/03/07)

29 National messiahs, regional presidents and special emissaries, you have to have a strong sense of mission and responsibility and focus on how to turn your region and nation around toward God. Is this possible? It is. We know this based on Christian history. When the head of the Roman Empire accepted Christianity, Christianity became the peoples religion.

Currently the entire world is in chaos. It does not know which way to turn. We must step forward. Sparing not one minute, even one second, we must seek ways to save even one more human life. Without our awareness heaven has made many preparations for us. We have to grasp hold of the hands of God who has prepared all of this for us. Our great contribution to help God and humanity shall determine the destiny and future of the world. From this perspective, I am saying please do not squander your time. (True Mother, 2014/05/11)

30 Even at this moment, do you know how many people around the world are dying without receiving True Parents? We need to think of our fellow human beings living in misery, not knowing the providence and not having received the amazing Blessing of heaven, even though they live in the same age as the True Parents. We need to be aware that this Blessing has been bestowed for the first time after 6,000 years.

Firmly planting your feet on the ground, you must roll up your sleeves and boldly proclaim True Parents are here on earth, and you must testify that without them, this nation and world have no hope. I believe that it is time for all of you to thank God, who has guided you to be here at this moment, and fulfill your responsibility to return His love for you.

I have appointed special emissaries and reorganized the world into regions based on language. I would like to be able to reach all the people in the world within one second, giving everyone the chance to participate in God’s providence. Those who stand on the front line should share and testify about True Parents. (True Mother, 2014/05/11)

31 I studied the world map, thinking about how, during the course of my lifetime, I might be able to offer our Heavenly Parent the one united world that He so longs to see. So I organized the world map based on language and cultural spheres. The world is not just an English-language sphere. In addition to English, there are other regional languages, such as Spanish, French and Arabic. Furthermore, two- thirds of the world’s population lives in Asia. Dividing the world simply into regions of equal population does more harm than good. We must focus on Asia.

I ask that current regional presidents focus fully on developing the church by increasing membership. Special emissaries will strengthen relationships with social leaders based on the existing foundations of the Universal Peace Federation, the Womens Federation, and other organizations. They need to help heads of state understand God’s Will as an essential step to restore nations. Given our present era, you should not say that you cannot accomplish this. Special emissaries need to unite with the regional presidents and walk hand in hand, inside and out. (True Mother, 2014/05/08)

32 I have moved the International Headquarters to the Cheon Jeong Gung Palace. Henceforth our Heavenly Parent will directly guide everything. Even offering your small strength or a small condition of devotion, you must not miss the chance to unite with True Parents moment by moment. I am saying that you must not let the remainder of your life pass by without leaving your mark, without shining like the sun. We alone represent the hopes and dreams of the people of the world. Wherever you go, you must create a joyful environment. Let True Parents be the center of that environment. (True Mother, 2014/05/11)

Section 2. Blessed Families and the Education of Future Leaders

Blessed families and the future of Cheon Il Guk

True Parents have bequeathed the realm of their cosmic victory freely to blessed families and emphasized that Korea should be returned to God as His homeland. Since the ascension of True Father, True Mother has emphasized that testifying to True Parents and spreading their teachings to all people on earth as soon as possible is central to our responsibility and to enabling us to settle the ultimate kingdom of heaven on earth. Blessed families should stand at the front line of God’s providence. True Parents placed the blessed families in the position of tribal messiahs and urged them to take the lead in realizing the Cheon Il Guk ideal of one human family under God.

1 The deadline for the 2,000 years of providential history is getting very close, so everything must be revealed now. That is why for the past 12 years, starting from the year 2000, Father has led the providence and said, “Korea must become God’s homeland.” Many of you think, “Since Father said that, it will happen” ; but you should not just take it so lightly. Since Father said it, we here on earth absolutely must accomplish it. We must make it come true. We have this mission. (True Mother, 2013/06/23)

2 Our hope is a world of freedom, peace, unity and happiness. God also wants this. It has taken this long because throughout thousands of years of history the perfect True Parents, those who could complete the providence of restoration through indemnity, did not appear. Now, having attended True Parents, we have entered a new era, but is this enough to make us happy? Isn’t our goal to open a happy kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven, and attend True Parents and our Heavenly Parent together with our neighbors, our nations and the world? To achieve this, you have to stand in the position of proud filial sons and daughters, loyal patriots and divine sons and daughters. Please pray that you will become blessed families that will accomplish your entire responsibility in this era by proudly informing the whole world about True Parents. (True Mother, 2013/10/18)

3 We have met the True Parents who can liberate us. We need to be reborn through True Parents. This comes through the marriage Blessing. True Parents have freely given this precious grace to many, and that is why all of you must make a solid resolution to live up to your faith. I want you to bear this in mind: it is time to attend True Parents in your family and act as blessed families and Cheon Il Guk citizens. (True Mother, 2013/05/24)

4 Because of True Parents, you are the first group of blessed families in history. Because of True Parents, you welcomed Foundation Day and registered as citizens of Cheon Il Guk. Even though there are seven billion people in the world, you are the only ones who know of this amazing universal and cosmic secret. You can stand joyfully in the position of an ancestor. You must share the things that you know with others. You should reveal the True Parents to them. If you do not take part in the providence 1 am conducting now, you will have nowhere to stand. You should not think, “I will go to the kingdom of heaven since I have received the Blessing.” The place we must go is the eternal world. If you are wise people, what kind of decision should you make and how should you act? As blessed families, you should be able to create results you are proud of while True Parents are alive on earth. (True Mother, 2014/03/31)

5 Why has human history unfolded through such difficulties? Throughout this long history, people have moved forward in the pursuit of goodness by acting according to their conscience. However, todays world is in a confusing situation rife with racial, religious, ideological and territorial problems. We cannot remain quiet. God has worked through providential history without rest. Human beings deviated, so the providence unfolded as a history of indemnity required to get us back on track.

The Messiah is the one who straightens out things that are wrong. The Messiah must come as the True Parents. This means that True Parents must give rebirth to humanity. Without this process, there is no way to resolve the confusing history of humankind. However, to our amazement and gratitude, True Parents have appeared on earth. You all must become true filial sons and daughters of True Parents. (True Mother, 2013/12/15)

6 We must find the hometown that our Heavenly Parent hopes for. Where is Heavenly Parents hometown? It is True Parents’ hometown. Japan and Korea must become one to support the path toward the unification of the fatherland, that is, the unification of North and South Korea. They must do this without fail. When this happens, True Parents will stand in the central position before humankind, and all things will arrange themselves naturally. Human dilemmas over the problems of religion, politics, ideology and borders will be resolved. You have to stand at the forefront on this path, so that Asia will respect all the citizens of Japan, including the public dignitaries. Then you must show them the path toward unity. You cannot cling to small matters. In this era, all historical truth will be revealed. (True Mother, 2013/10/22)

7 Have you all made a resolution to become filial sons and daughters who will find the hometown? We have such a big responsibility and mission, and the time left for us to handle this is so short. So what must we do? The sight of Father working so hard and tirelessly for heaven, doing everything possible to save at least one more lost child, is vivid in my memory. I cannot erase it from my mind. It was such a miserable thing to see. If he were alive here on earth right now, he would be traveling ceaselessly from east to west, carrying out activities in every location. We on earth must fulfill those responsibilities for him.

In the Bible it says that Jesus gave the keys to the gates of heaven to Peter. Why were they given to him? It is because the kingdom of heaven must be realized on earth. Our responsibilities are tremendous. We know how we are supposed to live after having received the marriage Blessing. Living in a fallen world, however, you get stained with a self-centered lifestyle and it is difficult to escape your surroundings. (True Mother, 2013/12/01)

8 Just because some country is rich and powerful does not mean that it can unite the world. Attaining oneness comes from shared pursuits. There is no one in all of history who has worked harder than True Parents for the sake of world peace based on heaven’s providence. There is no one who has been more victorious than True Parents in leading the providence. That is why first of all you must know the Divine Principle and its teachings. You should live attending True Parents all the time and regardless of where you are. (True Mother, 2013/10/14)

9 Father said that Korea is God’s homeland. I would like to dedicate this country to him, and do so together with you. To do that you must obey my direction regardless of your rank. If I were to say, “Come down from your high position and start working from the very bottom,” would you be able to do it? That would be the mark of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. You must be able to do that for the sake of God, humanity and the Will. That would be the work of completing Father’s will. Father said that this is God’s homeland, but in reality it is not so. You who have breathed the same air as Father and worked with him during this era must bear the fruit. You just cannot leave it to future generations. We must do it. (True Mother, 2012/12/25)

10 We are at the starting point of Cheon Il Guk. Cheon Il Guk is the nation where we attend the Heavenly Parent and become His children. God is our Parent and King of kings. He who is the King of kings has embraced us as Cheon Il Guk citizens. The people in the world do not know this. You are truly blessed people. How is it that you have come to participate in the providence of history? True Father always said, “There is no perfection in ignorance.” He educated all people the same way regardless of their status in their field of endeavor. He made sure they knew. We have to do the same. There is no path other than this to unite the individual, family, tribe, people, nation and world. (True Mother, 2013/02/23)

11 lam going to establish the Heavenly Parents and True Parents’ tradition on a solid foundation. When we fulfill our responsibility we will come to stand in a position of reverence eternally as citizens of Cheon Il Guk. For this cause we must advance. We must not waste a single moment. By mobilizing everything and using our wisdom, we must make it so that heaven can embrace all human beings as Cheon Il Guk citizens as soon as possible. (True Mother, 2013/02/28)

12 What is God’s wish and the wish of True Parents? The heart and mind of Heavenly Parent is to find the children whom He lost 6,000 years ago. Through the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, many blessed families have been established throughout the world. There is nothing that cannot be accomplished if these blessed families follow True Parents’ teachings and unite as one in their country and throughout the world. As soon as possible, you must fulfill the hope of the True Parents, which is to find God’s homeland and God’s nation. (True Mother, 2013/10/20)

13 You have no idea how important this time is. Use every moment carefully. You are alive at this time, but how are you going to use your time and your life? For whom are you going to use them? If you use them well, you could become a hero or heroine who can go down in history. You can become a filial child, or even a divine son and daughter. God is giving you everything freely; therefore you should become a useful vessel for His desire.

Instead of just sitting and listening to words, you should take action. If we want to restore this nation, we must establish a goal and execute it. Shouldn’t we establish a plan? Although you feel you must eat three meals a day, you have to work with such dedication that you even forget to eat.

You need to know that the results determine whether you will be given eternal life. You have to create the environment where your descendants will say, “Our ancestors who lived during this time were truly great. We must become worthy of our ancestors.” If that happens, your children will naturally grow well before the Will. In that way, you should be different. So, more than trying to make lots of money, I hope you will do your utmost to meet many people and save them. The most precious thing is to save people’s lives. (True Mother, 2013/04/15)

14 Spring is the season of hope. It is a precious season during which our dreams can rise higher and spread wider. But despite the beauty of the season, we hear horrific and indescribably painful news from this country and from the world. This situation can be compared to the people of the world being on a ship without sailors, a captain or even a compass. They experience deep anxiety, not knowing how well the ship will contend with strong winds and high waves, or when it will sink by ramming into a rock.

As we watch these incidents take place, blessed members of the Unification Church around the world should stand up as heavenly soldiers. We can no longer just look on and wait. We should not keep the Blessing that has been bestowed upon us to ourselves. We must let the people of the world, who are like orphans, know that our Heavenly Parent and True Parents are carrying out great works. You must confidently proclaim True Parents, who are the only ones who can give hope to this nation and the world. The world cannot live without True Parents. I believe that these efforts will bring about new days of spring for all humanity. Now is the time for all members around the world to rise and take action until the day we bear fruit. (True Mother, 2014/05/11)

15 Presently, if we compare you to farmers before the Will, then the mission that was assigned to you, that of the tribal messiah, is to fertilize the soil. Making this barren ground into fertile soil depends solely on you. If you are lazy during the coming of this wonderful season, your harvest in the autumn will be meager. The position of receiving the Blessing cannot be fulfilled by sitting still.

What kind of life would you all have lived had you not met the True Parents? You would probably have lived in your own country, within your own family, eating and being attached to your environment. Few of you would have thought about living for the sake of the nation and world. What do you all think, those of you who have met True Parents? If you have large thoughts, then how large are they, and how must you act? How you work, offer devotions and grow during the springtime will determine how you will appear when the autumn of providential history comes, and with what results you will stand before the True Parents. (True Mother, 2013/04/25)

16 All blessed families have heard Father’s words on how to move forward. Now everything depends on how you fulfill your responsibility. If you fulfill your responsibility, then your tribes and descendants will live in a free and happy world. You must prepare the environment. How you create the environment surrounding you during the remaining years of your life will determine the path to advance national restoration and world restoration.

Do not just chew over these words, for now is the time to give shape to your faith through your actions. A new era has opened. The words spoken by Father must be made into reality in your surroundings and your families, so that your descendants will have less indemnity to pay. If the responsibility is not fulfilled, it is natural that indemnity must be paid.

You have your personal life and your lives as individual blessed families. True Parents cannot get involved in all of that. True Parents have shown you the example, so you must follow it. Everybody should strive to live according to the Word.

Some miserable people distort the Word and live self-centered lives. I hope that you will all be wise. I am preparing everything so that you can go on the expressway of a perfectly established tradition. If you can just fulfill the responsibilities given you, there is no doubt that a free, peaceful and united world that attends the Heavenly Parent will be achieved. (True Mother, 2013/08/15)

17 During your short life, you must always think, “How can I achieve oneness in heart, oneness in body and oneness in thought with True Parents?” If you live a life of practicing this, then not only you but also your descendants will receive many blessings. There is no parent who wants to pass on 30 percent of their indemnity to their beloved children and descendants because they could fulfill only 70 percent.

The world has no choice but to gradually become one. We are the only ones who can properly educate the people of the world. Father established the ambassadors for peace, the peace kingdom corps and the peace kingdom police. The peace kingdom corps and the peace kingdom police will bring order to this world of disarray and confusion. They will fight not with weapons but with the Word.

All of you need to offer many prayer conditions. The blessed families and providential organizations must unite as one and make sure that heaven’s words, True Parents’ words, do not fall on stony ground but instead bear fruit. This is the responsibility of you who are living on earth today. (True Mother, 2013/12/01)

18 True Parents’ vision of one family under God, in other words, the fact that we are all God’s children is at the core of the initiatives we carried out, based on the unification of the North and South American regions. We dedicated all our efforts and the numerous peace organizations that we founded over many years entirely to the fulfillment of that vision. By the grace of God, this vision is now becoming a reality.

This new flower of hdpe must blossom and bear fruit here in South America as well. All the people on this great continent have dreamt of a new world where they can live freely and peacefully in nature, become one family that attends God as their Parent, and live in happiness. This ideal has been God’s cherished hope and the desire of humankind throughout the ages.

I believe that the challenge to make this dream a reality is a great one. The entire world is suffering due to everything from climate change and poverty to geopolitical tension and conflict. North and South America also face difficult problems of their own in different respects. Nevertheless, North and South America have enormous potential to build a new world. Heavenly fortune is now gathering in these continents. All eyes are focusing on South America. Ladies and gentlemen, you must open your ears and listen to the heavenly calling. You must open your closed ears. (True Mother, 2014/04/22)

19 1 would like to offer some proposals for the mutual development of North and South America and the realization of world peace. First, I would like to challenge all of you to take the lead in protecting the natural environment. The world today is heading toward calamity due to climate change and rapid destruction of the environment. God gave us the natural world to serve as our home, an environment within which we can flourish. We should love nature and treat all things of creation with care. Nature, in turn, will give us what we need. We should remember that people and nature are part of one ecosystem created by God.

Second, let us take the lead in realizing the ideal of one family under God by overcoming barriers of race, religion and nationality. The Family Federation for World Peace has been working for the realization of ideal families through the cross-cultural marriage Blessing. The marriage Blessing is the only way to reconcile enemies and bring about world unity. Millions of couples from around the world have participated in the marriage Blessing, affirming their marriage with a commitment to build a world of peace by creating God-centered, ideal families. In this way, we are bringing down the great walls that divide the human family.

Third, I ask that you take the lead in promoting reconciliation and unity among all the religious traditions in North and South America. A peaceful world begins with reconciliation and unity among religions. God has guided humanity throughout history through religion. At this time when heavenly fortune is pouring in, harmony and cooperation among the religions of North and South America are necessary more than ever. I hope that you and all the religious leaders of North and South America can take the lead in promoting interfaith dialogue and cooperation.

Fourth, I sincerely request that all the leaders here today help bring to fruition the ideal village projects that we have developed in Jardim in Brazil and Puerto Leda in Paraguay.

The new nation and new world envisioned by God is a world that goes beyond the divisions of religion, race, ethnicity and nationality. It is a world of freedom, peace, unity and happiness, with no barriers. God exists, and in the end it is for this reason that your efforts for North and South America will not be in vain. It is up to each of us to make this heavenly ideal a historical reality in the shortest time possible. I sincerely ask you to work with me to carry out this action plan to realize an ideal community and build a new world. (True Mother, 2014/04/22)

The role of women

Women have an important responsibility in the providence of restoration, playing core roles on the providential frontier in each period. Women of the Unification family have shed their tears and sweat and conveyed true love in every corner of the world, in accordance with the words of True Parents, to fulfill the responsibility of true daughters, true wives and true mothers attending God. The role of women became larger and more important with the beginning of the Era After the Coming of Heaven. For the completion of Cheon Il Guk, True Parents have urged that women stand at the forefront of the tribal messiah mission, in order to restore the Cain realm by bringing Cain and Abel into unity.

20 It is time for women to take the lead. With maternal love, women should help our underprivileged neighbors on the individual, tribal, national and world levels, showing the world that we can fulfill our purpose together as heaven’s true sons and daughters.

What must we do for this to happen? People must hear the Divine Principle. Through hearing it, we should all be born anew and I, my neighbors, my nation and world gain inspiration to invest completely with life-or-death determination for the sake of God’s Will. Women have to stand at the forefront for this to happen.

There is a saying, “Behind every great man, there is a great woman.” I am not saying that men have not fulfilled their responsibility. Father said that a woman should help a man become whole. Without a wife, a man cannot become whole. He cannot be perfected. A wife makes her husband handsome. Therefore for a man, a wife is absolutely necessary. The same goes for every woman. However, women love peace more than men. For this reason, women must lead the way. (True Mother, 2012/10/17)

21 How important is the role of women? This is the era to fulfill the mission of mothers. Mothers give birth to and nurture life. Father has built a large home for us, and we must arrange and organize the internal aspects of the house. That is our responsibility. (True Mother, 2013/01/09)

22 As Father proclaimed the coming of the women’s era, he emphasized the importance of women. You probably remember that Father spoke of how a child born of a woman inherits 99.999 percent from the mother and only 0.001 percent from the father. Father spoke of this on many occasions, and I shared those words on many speaking tours worldwide. However, do you think women have been treated properly by their children and husbands? There are many women who will say that they have not been treated well. From now on, I want to raise woman leaders who will fulfill the mother’s mission, so that all women can live free of prejudice. (True Mother, 2013/01/09)

23 A core part of the Principle involves the teaching of yang and yin. From a temporal perspective, this can be divided into the Era Before the Coming of Heaven and the Era After the Coming of Heaven. Until now, in the Era Before the Coming of Heaven, we were in the era of yang, and therefore men took the lead most of the time. Now is the Era After the Coming of Heaven, the era of yin. In other words, it is the start of the women’s era.

God created heaven and earth as yang and yin, plus and minus, but until now everything has been one-sided. Due to the Fall of the first human ancestors, yang and yin could not move forward equally, side by side. Since then, until this era, yang dominated the world. However, now is the time for the era of yin to begin.

The time has come for women to take the lead. Heaven knew of this amazing providence, and now we must also become aware of God’s profound providence to open a new path in 2013. God’s original plan was for a balance to be made, and that is exactly how the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven are to be realized. (True Mother, 2013/04/15)

24 Whether you are sitting down or standing up, asleep or awake, you should invest every ounce of your energy to raise up citizens of Cheon Il Guk, so much so that you feel that 24 hours is not enough time. You must become soldiers who can dedicate this nation substantially before heaven in order to advance God’s providence in the world.

Let’s take the example of the Israelites, whom you know very well. The Israelites did not know of God’s providential history or about indemnity. They maintained just one thought, “We are the chosen people blessed by God.” In the end, they had to pay indemnity as a people after Jesus ended his life sorrowfully. For 2,000 years, they were an unsettled people without a nation. Despite this, it was due to the influence of the mothers among them that they could survive. That is why I am emphasizing the role of mothers and the maternal heart in the creation of the environment for the sake of the providence. (True Mother, 2013/01/09)

25 By studying history we have seen the model courses of victory and failure. Look at Israel today: women join the army and fight equally alongside men in order to protect their nation. It is time for women to lead the way in saving the nation and the world. You must all know that the responsibility of women is serious and important. We must create a miracle. If you cannot participate with me in this providential march, your descendants will accuse you. You cannot say that you did not do it because you did not know. You have been taught everything. (True Mother, 2013/04/20)

26 The role of women in the church is important. In Korean history it has been the mothers, wives and daughters-in-law who passed on the important traditions. It is the same for our FFWPU. From now on, the wives should stand on the front lines. The successful completion of Cheon Il Guk depends on how much we live up to our faith and work and invest ourselves to realize the goals that we have established. The woman’s role is important in realizing these goals. As women who stand at the forefront to realize the providential goals, it is time to make a life-or-death determination. (True Mother, 2013/04/20)

Educating future leaders

If opening the gates of Cheon Il Guk was the mission of True Parents and the first generation of blessed families, the settlement of Cheon Il Guk is the task of the second generation of blessed families and their children. God’s Will and heart and True Parents’ tradition are passed on when you learn about True Parents’ teachings and life course, testify to True Parents, and live a life of true love. Since True Father’s ascension, True Mother has been pouring much devotion and effort into establishing the Universal Peace Academy and holding special training workshops for members of the second generation, in order to raise them as outstanding figures who will lead Cheon Il Guk.

27 The world we live in is still Satan’s world, and therefore we need to raise the members of our second generation so that first they learn the quality of heart at the core of the Divine Principle. Therefore, we need to adhere to a center that values purity even while it allows music and dance. You must watch over the second generation members well until they are fully mature and have received the Blessing. I have emphasized a revival in the church and education for the second generation. I said that I would grant scholarships to second generation blessed families and other young people of the world in order to raise leaders. (True Mother, 2012/10/01)

28 I am very worried when I look at the second generation of our membership, the future leaders of the Unification family. The conclusion is that none of us have fulfilled our responsibility. I am taking full responsibility for this reality. Do you realize how difficult this is for me? Putting internal and external matters in order is not an easy task. It would be easier to build a new house than to fix, repair and renovate an already existing one. It takes a lot more effort and money. Yet I am taking on this task. You must fulfill your individual responsibilities and thereby help me. (True Mother, 2012/10/18)

29 Our church has a 60-year history, but we did not create an environment for our second generation. We must ensure that members of the second generation take on a great role in fulfilling the Will. The parents must create an environment in which the children can grow within the Will. In this era of Cheon Il Guk, when a new history is beginning, we must protect the second generation of our membership from the secular world and train them to be leaders who can take charge of the future of Cheon Il Guk. (True Mother, 2013/05/08)

30 I am planning to sell the helicopter that Father used. Therefore, I reported this to Father. I told him that I would sell it and use the money for scholarships to raise future leaders by educating members of the second generation. When I told him that, he said, “Do what you think is best, Mother.” When I reflected on having to give up the helicopter, I felt so bad about not permanently preserving it. Nonetheless, I want to let this nation and the entire world know about True Father. I want to show all humankind and heaven that the Unification Church is moving forward vigorously and prosperously. (True Mother, 2012/09/30)

31 All you members of the second generation must confidently show that you are True Parents’ children, whether at school or anywhere else. This is witnessing. You should be the number one students in school. You should be the best. No matter what environment you are in, become the best. The people of the world are looking at the members of our second generation. So what must you do? You must study hard, develop well and become prominent figures before heaven. When you young people stand together and realize the Will that True Parents are trying to accomplish, what do you think the people of the world will say? You will become victors! (True Mother, 2013/08/03)

32 Human life is finite. However, you must bear in mind that when we honor the Parents’ will and practice our faith, we will come to stand in the position of receiving blessings and love as central figures in the eternal world. From this point of view, you members of the second generation are hopeful and happy people. If you work hard and put the Principle into action, many new people will be saved through you. When this happens, True Parents will say that everything has been accomplished.

Secular laws are not needed in a God-centered world overflowing with freedom, peace, unity and happiness. It will be a world where lawyers, prosecutors and judges are superfluous. So, what is it that we must do? We must introduce True Parents and educate all the people of the world about them, so that they can be a part of this world of happiness. Only on this path can we become proud blessed families and proud leaders of the Unification community. (True Mother, 2013/10/27)

33 Now the entire emphasis will be put on education. I will start by educating leaders from all walks of life and, of course, by nurturing future leaders. This is the fastest path to world peace. This work is for the sake of creating a God-centered world. By gathering our strength, we must build a world of true love where there is freedom, peace, unity and happiness, and where all things are done by individual initiative. This must start with each of us taking the initiative to unite our mind and body. (True Mother, 2013/02/23)

34 We have to ensure that members of our second generation grow up in a good environment. The parents need to create the environment so that these children will grow up purely and beautifully within the Will. They should be able to stand confidently and proudly as the second and third generations of the True Parents, be it at school or out in society. You should raise them to be proud. They are our hope. (True Mother, 2013/10/17)

35 During their day-to-day lives, leaders should always keep in mind, “Before you try to have dominion over the universe, first gain dominion over yourself.” Based on this, I gathered a group of second-generation members and organized a special education workshop. When you are young, you make decisions based on your passions, and those can easily become clouded. That is why Father offered many prayer conditions to discipline his physical body as he walked the path of the Will.

You probably have heard about the times he offered over ten hours of prayer, pouring out sweat. On top of that, Father is like fire, and he cannot stand by when he witnesses injustice. However, he endured it all in order to bring Satan’s world to surrender. This kind of patience is needed. Sincere devotion is needed. For this reason, you need dominion over yourself.

In the future, we cannot separate members of the first and second generations. Even though we have said that the second generation will be the center, they should attend the first generation and move forward together. (True Mother, 2013/10/15)

36 The students here at the Universal Peace Academy have to work very hard in order to inscribe their names in providential history. When you realize how much heaven has anticipated this day and longed for a restored humankind, I truly hope that you will study hard. Heaven will help each of you. Please do not allow yourselves to be indebted before heaven or humankind. Your youth and spirit will become the foundation and pillars for the settlement of Cheon 11 Guk.

Our purpose has become clear. Until the end of our lives we have to move forward to complete this providence. That is why I have established all of you in this position. You are the first fruits gathered for the sake of completing the new era and new history of Cheon Il Guk. Isn’t this something to be grateful for? Please act diligently and uphold the vows and pledges you've made. Then True Parents will always be with you. You will shine. Through you, this dark world will become brighter. (True Mother, 2013/03/04)

37 As the people of Cheon Il Guk, you must save all the people of the world. To do so, you must raise your next generation. You should form noble families. Noble families strive to raise up descendants who are better than themselves. You have to raise many sons and daughters of filial piety, men and women who are more outstanding, more trustworthy and more loyal than yourselves. Only then will there be hope for the future. (True Mother, 2014/07/27)

Section 3. The Life of Cheon Il Guk Citizens

Gratitude

Cheon Il Guk is a world where, based on true love, heaven and earth unite, the body and mind unite, and one lives in harmony with nature. Citizens of Cheon Il Guk should live according to the original ideal of creation. They should be able to feel that God is always with them, even while Cheon Il Guk is being built, and that He shares the pleasures and pains of life with them. To sustain this, they should live with joy, prayer and gratitude for everything at all times. A life of gratitude is always accompanied by heavenly blessings and heavenly fortune. True Mother teaches that this life of gratitude starts when we completely empty our minds.

1 My motto in life is “How can I live today with more gratitude than yesterday?” I have tried to live a life in which I am more grateful today than I was yesterday, and in which I will be even more grateful tomorrow than I am today. It has been my life’s goal to have gratitude in my heart every day. Right before True Father left for Danbury, he said, “Please never complain. You should be grateful for the position you have been placed in, for when you become completely one through your gratitude, great miracles can take place.” (True Mother, 1984/07/31)

2 We all need to empty our hearts and repent. Those who are in high positions should become all the more humble in heart and grateful to God for being alive each day. And when they look back on their lives, they should express their gratitude for having been allowed to make a new beginning. When you ask for help to make this a day on which you fulfill the providential work that you have not yet been able to accomplish, and on which you live your life with gratitude, your surroundings will look beautiful to you. Then you will be happy, and because you cannot keep this happiness to yourself, you naturally will witness to others. (True Mother, 2012/10/27)

3 Your mind and body unite when you are truly 100 percent grateful. When this happens, those around you become happier. If you live your life with a heart of gratitude for the blessings heaven has given you, I think you will be able to create even more joy among those around you, and you will be able to spread these blessings to your family, society, nation and world. You are truly happy people to be able to work with the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. True Parents exist only once in history. (True Mother, 2012/11/24)

4 When you fail to fulfill your responsibility, you have to pay indemnity. It is inevitable. This is why I have told you not to be arrogant, but to live with a grateful heart. When you find it in your heart to be truly grateful in front of heaven and your brothers and sisters, you find peace. You become free. You break free of your chains. (True Mother, 2012/12/14)

5 We should always be grateful. First, we should be grateful to God, then to our husband or wife, then to our neighbors. The more gratitude you have, the deeper the love that flows into you. The more you share it, the more of God’s love you will receive. You receive it in proportion to the gratitude you share.

This is why when the time comes for me to pass on, I will leave behind words of gratitude to this world and return to the Father with only love. And when I return to Him, He and I will live forevermore in love. When that time comes, the only thing that will matter to me is how much I can revere God and live in gratitude. This is my dream.

In order to receive love and blessings, we need to live a life of gratitude. When we encounter misfortunes, God knows about it. When we find ourselves in the most wretched of situations in the world, He cannot help but be aware of it. And when we are in such a position and we are still able to deal with it and digest it with gratitude, God will count us as trustworthy. When we are able to overcome even such situations, we will receive blessings that cannot be found anywhere else. This principle is at work in the world. (093-195, 1977/05/29)

6 When we think about the fact that God has labored for us until this day, and that He is fulfilling 95 percent of the mission of paving the world-level pioneer course that we need to follow, we cannot but be grateful to Him. In fact, the very essence of a life of faith is to be grateful to God. When you have such a heart, it can be the basis on which you can form a relationship with Him. Should we be grateful only when we find ourselves in good situations? Of course not. God has not labored for us until this day only when things were going well for Him. The more difficult the situation, the harder and more resolutely He has worked. This is why in order for us to attend God as our Father, we should be grateful to Him for having worked and fought His way through on our behalf. We should not do so only when we are well off, but all the more when we are in difficult situations. (029-338, 1970/03/14)

Forgiveness and love

True Parents have forgiven the unforgivable for the sake of God and have loved their enemies for the sake of humankind. Forgiveness and love have great power. Forgiveness opens the hearts of people and love moves people. Miracles have been accomplished through True Parents’ forgiveness and love. They have said that, when you forgive and love, fighting can turn to reconciliation, conflict can turn to harmony, and war can turn to peace.

7 I make it a point to never remember the name of an enemy. After a day, I forget it just like that. I have forgotten them all. This is why I do not have any enemies. When I learned that the sons and daughters of my enemies were starving, I took them rice I had bought for myself, and if they could not afford to go to school, I paid their school tuition. Because I have lived my life in such a manner, I have not perished.

This is why when Satan so much as sees my name, he turns the other way. This is the reason the Unification Church is growing and developing. If you were to ask how the Unification Church could develop as it has despite all the opposition it has endured, the answer is that it stayed true to its principles of righteousness, forgiveness and love, so God protected it. In short, Satan was not able to destroy us, and we continue to grow and develop, because God protected us. (309-303, 1999/06/06)

8 When Korea was under Japanese rule, True Father was caught working for the Korean independence movement and was tortured nearly to death. Yet he still prayed for Japan more than anyone else did and loved the Japanese people. This is why there are now many Japanese members in our church. Moreover, our Japanese members are spread out in many nations across the world pursuing NGO activities.

After Korea’s liberation, True Father went to communist-ruled Pyongyang to propagate the Word, and while doing so he was unjustly imprisoned twice. It did not deter him, and he earned the nickname “saint of the prison” at the Heungnam death camp, which they called a fertilizer factory. October 14, 1950, was the day on which the North Korean army had decided to execute True Father before retreating, but miraculously he was able to escape just before his scheduled execution.

Forty years later, in 1991 my husband and I passed the Heungnam Prison site on our way to meet President Kim Il-sung at his presidential residence in Hamheung. Our hearts were filled with all kinds of mixed feelings. At that moment we laid a new cornerstone for the unification of North and South Korea. We were reminded once again that our Heavenly Parent works miracles in the places where we forgive and love.

True Father had to suffer unjustly in a South Korean prison, nonetheless, True Parents taught the world the spirit and culture of loving heaven, loving humankind and loving one’s country, as well as the Korean language itself. I know that many times in the 1970s and 1980s, when True Father heard western members in such countries as the United States and the United Kingdom singing the Korean national anthem in Korean, he was moved to tears.

Even though the United States sent True Father to prison unjustly, in a spirit of forgiveness at Danbury he still made every effort to move the United States and save the world. As a result, American leaders and Christian pastors took the lead in bringing an end to the Cold War, and since then they have pooled their energies with us to advance our interreligious peace movement. In a word, True Father lived a life of forgiveness and love. (True Mother, 2014/08/12)

9 Through the indignities True Father had to suffer in Danbury for 13 months, he set an example of forgiving the world and embracing it with the loving heart of a parent. In the same way, Heavenly Father deals with human beings with love and always employs the strategy of being struck first and then taking back what is His. In all of history who else has been like True Father, becoming the embodiment of love and acting from love throughout his life?

We have seen with our own eyes that heaven cannot help but be moved, and that even the most evil people cannot help but melt in front of love. True Father has educated the leaders of Korean society nationwide, from the officials of the IFVOC, to neighborhood branch leaders, and even renowned professors. True Parents’ God-centered teaching of true love is echoing across the nation of Korea.

True Father said that the hope of humanity lies in this true love and nothing else. He emphasized that the only way for us to survive is to unite our mind and body based on true love, to unite husband and wife in a family based on true love, and going further, to unite all tribes, nations and the world based on true love. (True Mother, 1986/05/11)

10 During the year that True Father was in Danbury, we had many agonizing experiences both internally and externally. From the providential viewpoint, however, these incidents did not harm us at all. Through everything, True Father opened the way for humankind to receive God’s compassion, forgiveness and love. You cannot imagine how many internal struggles True Father had to go through from the time of Heung-jin’s Seunghwa and the declaration of the Day of Victory of Love until the time in Danbury when he established the Day of the Opening of the Gates of Heaven. You cannot imagine how much he poured himself out and how much he suffered to conclude this work with a providential victory. I thought to myself thousands of times that I would like to be in Danbury Prison with True Father, and share even a little of the suffering he was going through. (True Mother, 1986/08/20)

11 You must understand how precious is this very moment in time. Joshua and Caleb were both descendants of noble families. They were loyal to heaven to the end of their years. Caleb lacked for nothing, yet he united with Joshua. Instead of acting in arrogance, he placed Joshua before himself. Thus, because they were able to establish the foundation to restore Cain and Abel, the Messiah could come through the people of Israel.

I think about things like this when I look at our leaders. I feel that we have not established a leadership culture based on love for and pride in each other. Our heart of loving and caring for one another should be stronger than it is in any other organization. You should be different because you are True Parents’ children. From now on, I wish to create a new environment through you.

When you stop trying to elevate yourself, and instead live for the sake of one another, nurture one another, and take pride in one another, then the organization as a whole can grow. On the other hand, when an individual or group selfishly thinks they are better than others, there is no development. If you live selfishly, you will shrink, but if you live for the sake of others, you will grow and develop. There should be absolutely no one who suffers pain because of you. We are people who save lives. Therefore, we should embrace with love all our brothers and sisters, all our members, and all people. (True Mother, 2013/09/23)

12 When True Father went to the United States in 1971, he said, “I came as a doctor and as a firefighter.” Although heaven had thoroughly prepared the United States as a stronghold for the free world, the nation had deviated from its original direction of upholding God’s Will and instead stood at a crossroads of life and death because of its decadent culture, family breakdown and communist infiltration. True Father knew how hard God had worked to nurture the United States, which was facing threats to its religious and philosophical underpinnings from communism and immorality. He was compelled to go to the front line by himself once more to save that country.

True Father left behind accomplishments beyond what any ordinary human being can achieve. He tried to save the United States. This was a step essential to his mission to save all of humanity by upholding our Heavenly Parent’s Will. This is why Father called the free world and the United States, where democracy was wavering, to “Forgive, Love, and Unite.” He awakened the good people of the United States. He himself thoroughly practiced the love he preached. However, the United States sent this man, who lived his life for the sake of others, to Danbury. Even as he went to Danbury, Father called us to unite. He cried out, “I do not know what blessings heaven has prepared in the background where I am going. So be strong! Be confident!” The history of the global providence will record that True Parents truly saved the United States and the world. (True Mother, 2014/08/12)

13 True Father has dedicated everything to promoting harmony and understanding between the races. He loves even those who oppose him. Starting a very long time ago, True Father formed the habit of forgiving those who called him a sinner. He loves America more than anyone in history ever has. He believes God has called him as a voice to give courage to Americans who are fighting prejudice and oppression, so he is grateful to God. Internationally, True Father has continually made efforts to bring about reconciliation and unity among religions, and harmony among races. Jesus taught us to work and live as members of one great human family of love. This is also True Father’s philosophy, and this is why he has dedicated himself as a religious leader to bringing an end to all forms of religious prejudice, intolerance and racism. (True Mother, 1985/05/11)

Unity

Each human being is an individual embodiment of truth. When we become aware of how we are connected to one another, the way to unity will open up. Ignorance and fallen nature block our awareness of the reality that we are not separate beings. When with love and truth we scale the high wall of ignorance and cross the wide river of fallen nature, we meet our original human nature. At that place we feel a presence of God that makes us tremble. When we always attend God, ponder the will of True Parents, and govern our lives and the world with love and wisdom, a miracle is wrought by which all beings from the self to the great cosmos unite with oneness in heart, oneness in body and oneness in thought.

14 How can we unite as one? First and foremost, we need to meet our Heavenly Parent; but this is not an easy thing to do because our ancestors fell. Due to the Fall, all people are in ignorance and their original nature has been cloaked. For 6,000 years a wall of ignorance has been built continuously higher and thicker, and the river of fallen nature has grown wider and deeper. It is difficult to scale this wall or cross this river by human effort alone. But our Heavenly Parent who is the embodiment of love is always ready to help us.

Everything depends on our effort. We need to awaken our conscience. Our conscience is the second Heavenly Parent. When it is fully awakened, we can live a life of continual enlightenment through spirit and truth, a life of prayer and of gratitude for everything. We can hear the voice of our Heavenly Parent thrill us and resonate within us.

Going a step further, every person needs to meet the representative of our Heavenly Parent. Human history is the history of the providence of restoration in which God worked to establish one central figure. Two thousand years ago God established Jesus as the only begotten Son of Heaven, but due to the Israelites’ disbelief, he was nailed to the cross. Therefore, heaven’s providence was prolonged to the time of the Second Advent. Now we are ushering in the blessed age in which the Lord at His Second Advent has come to this earth and has found the Bride of heaven, the only begotten Daughter. Together they have manifested as True Parents. Humankind needs to meet, attend and follow True Parents, who are the representatives of our Heavenly Parent. Only then can we rid ourselves of original sin, which has been passed down to us through 6,000 years. Then we can be reborn as people full of love and wisdom, fulfilling God’s original purpose of creation. (True Mother, 2014/08/12)

15 History has shown us that when chosen peoples, leaders or countries failed to fulfill their responsibility, they had to pay great indemnity. When you are appointed to a position of great blessing you need to fulfill your responsibility. You should not treat your position as being for yourself. It exists to generate progress toward the unity of the entire world.

From a geopolitical and providential viewpoint, Japan has to unite with Korea. Even though that one country is better off than other Asian nations, if it cannot become one with them, it will not endure. In the long run, unity is the only way to resolve aggravating problems, such as environmental pollution, and be able to survive. Japan in fact has a lot of problems. But once we become one and attend True Parents they all can be resolved one after the other. I hope that all blessed families and citizens of Japan will become one with True Parents and take the lead in saving Asia and the world. (True Mother, 2013/10/16)

16 A while ago, I climbed 12 mountains in the Alps to pray and try once again to forgive and embrace you. True Father said that once this world is united there will be no need for judges, prosecutors or lawyers. But we are the ones who must build such a world. True Father is the king of kings. It was up to us to create an environment for people to receive him, but we let him down. Even now we should repent that we fell short, and we should make a new determination to do our utmost to return glory to God and fulfill His expectations.

Henceforth, our church should never make so much as a crack through which Satan can enter. We need to unite absolutely. I am saying that there should not be “my voice” and “your voice.” We need to speak with one voice. By doing so we can be a model for this nation and world.

We need to uphold the dignity of the living Heavenly Parent and True Parents. We need to become one with True Parents. All our leaders and members should be of one mind and one heart, and we all should stand up once again with new resolve to accomplish God’s Will. (True Mother, 2014/07/01)

17 Many countries have their own dreams, and the leaders of those nations have a vision for how their people can prosper. However, at this point in time it is morally unacceptable to pursue one’s own national interest and push for one’s own nation’s happiness, freedom and peace. There are many divisive national boundaries in the world today and many agonizing racial and religious conflicts. To surmount these, we need to lead humankind to the path of attendance to our Heavenly Parent, the Creator. We need to lead people to follow the way True Parents have taught. When all countries become one, as brother and sister nations through True Parents, the entire world will move with one heart and one will. Then we can easily resolve the problems that plague us today. (True Mother, 2014/08/12)

18 The most urgent item on your agenda should be to join in a “let’s unite” movement. Yes it is important for you as an individual to work toward God-centered mind-body unity. From your experience as children you may think it difficult to strive for God-centered brother-sister unity. Nonetheless, I believe that this is something you need to achieve at all costs.

When three people become one with True Parents at the center, and you expand that foundation, you will achieve the Will of God. In the four-position foundation, which can be seen as a microcosm of the world, the horizontal number is three people, with God in the vertical, 4th position. I believe that when three people on the horizontal plane are united as one in the four-position foundation, focused on True Parents, it will be easy to unite the world as one.

Consider this on the wider scale of the world, with the world as an expanded version of the four-position foundation formed through the unity of three people with God as the center. This world has three key groups: people with intellectual power, people with political power, and people with financial power. It could even be said that these three powers rule the world. If you were to scale down these types of power, you can reduce them into three individuals. So as long as we understand, love and cooperate with one another through sincere communication, there is no reason for us not to be united. (True Mother, 1981/10/24)

19 You absolutely need to become filial sons and daughters before True Parents. And brothers and sisters need to become one through true love. Parents tend to show more concern for their children who are lacking in some way than for those who are doing well. Raising children leads us to experience this in our heart. If you love those of your brothers and sisters who are in need like that, and live for their sake more than for your own, our foundation will continue to grow and expand.

We are connected by strong, true family ties, with True Parents at the center. Depending on how much wider, deeper and higher you can build the environment of goodness based on God’s Will, our foundation will grow that much larger. We have only one goal: to create a unified world, one world with our Heavenly Parent and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind at the center. (True Mother, 2013/10/01)

20 Fights break out among siblings because they do not know their parents’ will and cannot fathom their deep hearts. You can understand your parents’ will only when you connect to them in heart through true love. When you achieve oneness in mind, oneness in body, oneness in heart and oneness in harmony with True Parents, your thoughts, your feelings, your words and your actions all will come into one accord.

When you live in this way as true children resembling True Parents, you will realize that you are not separate, but you are brothers and sisters of one bloodline. Then you can establish the joyous world of peace desired by all. We need to unite as one for the sake of world peace by loving our neighbors as ourselves and even forgiving our enemies. We need to march forward bravely and boldly until the day when all people can form one great family as. brothers and sisters, and thus construct the one world of harmony under our Heavenly Parent. (True Mother, 2014/08/12)

21 The marriage Blessing gives fallen people new life through True Parents. The fallen world is a polluted and murky place, and blessed families are like clear water, the water of life. But even the clearest water will turn bad if it stagnates. It needs to flow toward the great sea. In the place where living water flows, living creatures revive. Tribal messiahs are responsible to clean this polluted world with pure living water.

Now the tribal messiah movement has become a giant wave sweeping across Thailand and the Philippines and through other nations in Asia as well. After having passed through the continents of Europe, North and South America, Africa and Oceania, it is moving across the ocean. And wherever this wave passes, countless people are born anew. We can expect nothing from the world as it is.

The only way is for us to tell the world about True Parents. When our families, tribes, nations and the world become one with True Parents, bound together in the providential Will, and form a great wave that sweeps across the five oceans and six continents, we will realize one world under God—the kingdom of heaven on earth longed for by our Heavenly Parent and long awaited by all people.

For this day to come, all blessed families in the world should achieve oneness in heart, oneness in body, oneness in thought and oneness in harmony, not only with the Heavenly Parent but also with True Parents. And they should proudly tell the world the good news of True Parents with a heart of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, so they can become beautiful, filial sons and daughters and loyal patriots who can guide the world’s people to become citizens of Cheon 11 Guk. (True Mother, 2014/10/26)

Section 4. The Path to the Settlement of Cheon Il Guk

Path to true love and peace

Love and peace have been constant topics for True Parents throughout their lives. They have presented the vision that we achieve everlasting peace by making this world one family. They began the process toward its fulfillment by initiating activities involving participants of all races, religions and nations. Thus they have removed the barriers that plague individuals, families, tribes, peoples, nations and the entire world. Once everyone follows the path of true love and peace that True Parents have walked, Cheon Il Guk, which God and all people desire, will be established.

1 I have walked the path of love for God. For love, I have stayed up all night. For love, I have wept. For love, I have traveled thousands of miles. For love, I have crossed oceans. For love, I have been striving to embrace people of all races and colors. How difficult a road is that? You may think it is easy, but it is a really difficult path. I was often at a loss for words. Often I wanted to pack my bags and leave right away. I am doing this because if I do not do it, someone else will have to. (108-288, 1980/10/16)

2 The path of true love is the path of pioneering, of personally opening a way. Each of you must go the path that Mother and I have walked. Our vertical first ancestors should have walked the path that God followed hundreds of millions of years ago. That is the way of Principle.

The first human beings fell due to ignorance, and we had to search for the path of restoration. You do not know how much effort I had to make in order to discover the Principle and find that path. You cannot imagine how much hardship and accusation we endured from individuals and families in Satan’s world.

Nevertheless, I followed the path of the Principle, and so I overcame Satan’s accusations against me on the individual level. In time, Satan’s accusations could no longer touch me. I have been following the path of the Principle on the levels of the family, tribe, people, nation, world and cosmos. (215-059, 1991/02/06)

3 True love begins from investing your life and forgetting that you invested. God is present in such a life. That is the love of parents. Over and over you invest and forget. God has continued doing this since the Fall. He will do this until all human beings are saved. How miserable God is! In my life I went to prison and people slandered me. But I never changed, because I knew I had to attend such a God as my Parent. (337-077, 2000/10/22)

4 After the first human ancestors fell, so many walls came to exist. Barriers appeared at the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world and cosmic levels. These barriers are blocking your path on seven levels. How can we tear them down? The body is the basis of these walls. The body is always the problem. The walls of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world and cosmos all are attached to the body. The body cannot remove these countless walls. Remove one, and there is always another wall susceptible to Satan’s influence. Can you deny that?

Because we True Parents know this reality, receiving persecution is not a problem for us. One cannot walk God’s way in zigzags. The path of true love is a direct path, walked on a straight line. Therefore, we have received Satan’s persecution throughout our entire lifetime. (239-261, 1992/12/06)

5 More action does not cause true love to diminish. In the natural world, output is smaller than the input, but with true love, the output is greater than the input. Accordingly True love can persist forever. Throughout our lives, we True Parents have invested everything and never kept track. What will be the result of our love? The world will gather together. You will shed copious tears in spite of yourself when you remember that we made our way through history while enduring a lifetime of hardships, walking the public way as your representatives. What would move you to tears? True love has the power to inspire and encompass all people and the universe. (224-153, 1991/11/24)

6 True love lets us overcome any misery without complaint so that only completion, success and achievements remain. We are intelligent people who fully understand this and follow accordingly. In this way heaven shall open. While carrying out this work, we True Parents had to go through an environment of intense persecution at the levels of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation and world. Today, we stand at the summit of the worlds of government, religion, culture and all other fields. We are carving out a victorious territory as individuals, as a family, tribe, people, nation and world. Although we received more persecution than anyone in history, despite all this, we alone stand at the highest position in history. (230-162, 1992/05/01)

7 Restoration is re-creation, but salvation is repair. A sick person needs to be cured. That is salvation. Re-creation and restoration by indemnity are required due to the Fall. You cannot be saved as you are. You must go through a process of re-creation.

Therefore, you must absolutely trust True Parents. In the course of understanding God, I did not rely on my own thought. I examined closely the fundamental principles, which must begin with a motive of true love. Because I understood true love, I investigated everything. True love proceeds along a direct path.

You do not know how much I struggled in order to find this Principle. I have gone through such an agonizing path. I soaked my thick cotton-padded winter trousers with my tears. To save human beings as my children, I must go on, even while tearing off my skin, ripping off my flesh, chipping my bones and extracting my bone marrow. Because I understand the heart of God, I am merciless with myself. I should not let the blood lineage of Satan remain. I must completely deny myself. (423-226, 2003/10/30)

8 Love is mysterious and endless. Because it has no end, if you follow it continuously you arrive at its true, original place. The person who continues on this path will succeed. With that as one’s motive, one can continue for hundreds, even millions of years. No matter how much you invest, you never become tired of it.

That’s how I am. Throughout my life I never slept the regular hours that others do. I did not have regular meals like others. I did not live comfortably like others. I am living an incredibly busy life, but I am not tired. A loving heart is always young. The mind does not age. The more hardship I suffer in my lifetime based on love, the more explosive is my power. Seen that way, it is only logical that God is the youngest, most handsome person, and next to Him will be Father. (186-092, 1989/01/29)

9 In Danbury, I did not forget the way of love for even one minute. No matter how difficult my situation, I desired the path of greatest love. Just as our ancestors of faith did, and just as Jesus was ready to die, I am doing the same at the risk of my life. It is because love is more than life. Life begins from love. Therefore, finding the way of love takes more than investing one’s life. Without investing more than your life, you cannot find the way of true love.

I chose the way of love even when it meant going the way of death. This is absolute. I lived like this. I put this kind of content into practice. For 40 years, despite all kinds of persecution and humiliation, I did not desert this way, even when facing certain death. I understood the absolute treasure of true love. Since I lived like this, I have become famous globally. I was not motivated by glory or success, but since I survived even in the places where others said I would perish, a worldwide foundation was successfully completed, even without my noticing it. (135-171, 1985/11/12)

10 Religion and politics are not separate endeavors. A peaceful world cannot be realized when religion and politics are divided; the peaceful world is one. The ideal world is not divided. Because it is one, we should gather and move in one direction. There is no one besides True Parents who can gather the representatives of the religions and the nations of the world as one. Therefore, if you follow us, you can go on the fastest way to a peaceful world. We are now looking forward to the new ideal world, a unified world. No one else understands the path that can bring the communist world and the democratic world together into an ideal world of oneness. (229-056, 1992/04/09)

Path of a filial child, patriot, saint and divine son or daughter

True Parents emphasized loyalty and filial piety as the basic precepts of human morality. They said that filial piety is the cardinal virtue for children. It means to attend one’s parents in the family, and then expand that sphere of love to all parents in the world. At the same time, they stressed that the person who goes beyond the nation to love the world is a saint, and if that person’s love goes beyond the world and reaches God, he or she is a divine child.

Jesus walked the way of a divine son, and 2,000 years later, True Parents showed humankind the life of a divine son and daughter by inheriting the way Jesus walked. While fulfilling the way of filial children, patriots, saints and divine sons and daughters attending God as the center, True Parents received God’s testimony that they are “bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh and heart of my heart.” While passing through the thorny path of indescribable suffering and concluding the providence of salvation, they received the title, divine son and daughter.

11 We must become filial sons, loyal patriots and virtuous women of fidelity. Filial sons emerge amid difficulties. In the same way loyal patriots do not emerge in times of peace, stability, and national prosperity. When a nation confronts a dire crisis, when all are facing suffering and death, patriots are those who invest and risk their lives to change the national destiny. It is because of their investment during hard times that patriots, filial children and women of virtue are recorded in history. (151-245, 1962/12/15)

12 To become a part of God’s royal family, you must become a filial child, patriot, saint and divine son or daughter. The training ground for this is the family. When perfected families expand, they become the ideal kingdom. Always, the family is the center.

Therefore the issue is two people, a man and a woman. If an ideal man and woman become husband and wife and form a family, all is completed. If ideal families are extended, they become a country and the world. Just as you become a filial son by serving your parents at home, if you live for and serve the king of your country, you become a patriot, and if you live for the sake of all people, you become a saint.

However a divine child is different. A divine child lives fully by the laws of the kingdom of heaven in heaven and on earth. No one can accuse such a person who fulfills perfectly the laws of the spirit world. It is not a problem for them to govern the spirit world. It is not a problem for them to govern this world. Every country welcomes such a person. There is no obstacle. There is freedom. That kind of person is a divine child. (293-211, 1998/05/26)

13 A righteous person is willing to die in the miserable position as a servant of servants for the sake of the nation. A patriot is a person who willingly gives his or her life for the country. The person who gratefully serves and thanks his or her parents even in the position of servant of servants is called a filial child.

This is the core of human morality. Being a servant who lives a public life for God is the way to become a righteous person, and being a servant more zealous than any other servant for the sake of the nation is the path to become a patriot. Sacrificing from the position of servant for the parents is the way to become a filial son. (088-295, 1976/10/03)

14 A patriot is always a filial child in the sense that even if he did not live as a filial child, when he became a patriot for the sake of the nation, he was by that deed caring for his parents. Patriots are great, but they are not at the level of saints. A saint does not live just for his or her nation. He or she lives for all people, even trying to love the enemy nation. Thus a saint has authority over a patriot.

In the Unification Church we say there is one more stage, that of the divine child. A divine child knows the laws of heaven as a child of God. He or she must observe not only the laws of the human world, but the palace laws of the heaven’s nation. Saints do not know the palace laws of heaven’s nation. In that sense, when you advance to the position of a divine child you will have authority over the saints. (196-125, 1989/12/31)

15 It is absolutely necessary for each human being to fulfill the duties of filial child, loyal patriot, saint, and divine child. You must not focus on yourself. First you must be proud of your mother and father. You must be proud of the leader of your nation, and you must be proud of God. It is not good if your focus is on yourself.

This is why all citizens with families want to be near the king or president of their nation, of whom they are proud. The whole family wants to go. For the same reason they all want to appear before God, where they will possess absolute love, the eternal love of God. If they possess the love of God, they can have eternal life.

Because God is vertical, He absolutely needs the family, the nation and the world. After that, He needs the kingdom of heaven. If, in spite of all of this you put the emphasis on yourself, everything will be blocked.

By loving your parents, you become the embodiment of your parents’ love. By loving the nation, you embody the nation with a status and authority equal to its leader. You focus on heaven, become the object of heaven’s love and become one with heaven in order to become the embodiment of heaven, become the one who represents heaven. In this way, through you, all of God’s authority in relationships can be connected from heaven to the world, the nation and finally to the family. That is the path human beings need to complete during their lifetime. That is the road to perfection. (285-092, 1997/04/21)

16 The person who loves his or her parents is called a filial child. For that person, the beginning, process and final conclusion is love. Therefore, at the core of the family is the duty of filial piety. The nation can exist only on the foundation of the family. At the core of a country are loyal patriots who love the country. Patriots of a nation must follow the way of saints. A saint is a person who loves the world. Divine children are sons and daughters of God. These four, the filial child, patriot, saint and divine child, are the core, because love is the basis of their commitment. Human beings did not grasp this fully, but had only some vague idea.

In the Last Days, the point of stability where human life can be put in order can only be the place of love. Therefore only husbands and wives who love each other can be recognized as filial children. After becoming a filial child, you become a patriot. After becoming a patriot, you become a saint. After becoming a saint, you become a divine child. After becoming a divine child, you possess the right to all that God wants to bequeath to you. (206-176, 1990/10/07)

17 True divine children, God’s sons and daughters, are people who live for the sake of all that belongs to God, just as they live for the sake of God. I am a person who is walking the path of that kind of divine child. I love God, and I also love humankind. Accordingly, God says, “My son!” Just as the person to whom God is able to say “You are my son” lives for the sake of God, that person also lives for the sake of humanity. That person is the Son of God. Because God is one who forgets Himself and lives for the sake of humanity, the filial child also forgets himself and lives for the sake of humanity.

Next we seek the path of a patriot and the path of a divine child. If people go the way of a filial child, then the way of a patriot, finally completing the way of a divine child, their nation will be the kingdom of heaven on earth. This can be transferred as it is to the kingdom of heaven in heaven. This transfer was always envisioned in God’s ideal of creation. (133-243, 1984/07/19)

18 Nobody can equal the path True Parents walk. If I compare it to mountains, it is the peak of Mt. Everest in the Himalayas. From the beginning, I walked the way of the filial son, patriot, saint and divine child, each connected to the heart of God. Other than Parents, there has been no one able to perfect God’s love.

Only when God sheds tears of gratitude and says, “Even though I lost everything, you whom I have found have a value hundreds of times greater than everything in the world,” can you liberate God from the nails that have been driven into His heart. This is a tremendously profound and serious conviction to have. (308-149, 1998/11/29)

19 There is no country whose loyal patriots and virtuous women have gone beyond the lineal relations of Satan’s world. All have been blocked. You are walking on the road where God and True Parents, centered on God’s true love flowing from His heart, have worked hard for the providence of restoration. You can inherit the tradition only by becoming someone who fulfills the duties of a filial child, patriot, saint and divine son or daughter based on the heart of the Parents of Heaven and Earth. God taught filial piety, and those who became the filial children of God are called True Parents. Because I walked as a patriot, and after that as a substantial saint, and then as a substantial divine son, God says that all of this is established as our tradition. (312-261, 1999/11/07)

20 Conscience takes precedence over parents, over teachers, over the ruler of the nation, and even over the entire universe. This is because it is the home base of love that God desires. God is the Parent of parents, Teacher of teachers and King of kings. The person who is always mindful of his or her precious conscience shall become a righteous person, saint and divine child. If you deviate from that mind-set there is no way to become a filial son, patriot, saint and a divine child.

After all my suffering I found that the conclusion is simple: It all exists in me. I felt ashamed before God. After realizing this, I felt emptiness. If you know how hard I worked to find that place, you too must find your original self where you cannot but shed tears. You must become husbands and wives who are able to face each other with tears, and become patriots who face your people with tears. Please know that we cannot walk the path of restoration without tears. (295-020, 1998/08/16)

21 I have taken a lonely path until now. Even now I am still lonely. It is not because I have not met people I love. I have a wife and children. I have companions like you. However, until I am able to love God fully and liberate Him totally, until I have fully accomplished my dutiful way as a filial son and patriot, I cannot but go this lonely way. I am still going that way. What if the road still remains after my life is over? I still have to go.

If you follow the path until you become old and still have not fulfilled the mission, and then you die, you still have to keep going. Since it is the path for the sake of the world, it goes on eternally. God is everlasting; therefore, the path of the Will centered on God has no end. Even after death, still you should keep going. The spirit world transcends time and space, and a period of 1,000 years is like one day in the spirit world. Therefore I must go on, thinking that accomplishing a work over a period of 1,000 years in this world is the same as accomplishing it in one year. That is the road of true love. (034-358, 1970/09/20)

22 If you want to become a victor in heaven and on earth, you must liberate God. We must liberate God. Therefore, we must not pray to God based on our own wishes. I never pray for the sake of my will. I pray for the sake of God’s Will. God does not want my individual salvation; He wants only liberation. Only after accomplishing God’s liberation will the way of my own salvation open up. This is the fundamental issue. (227-326, 1992/02/16)

23 I lived my life for the liberation of the Will. The Messiah is born for the liberation of the Will, goes through life founded on the Will, and after completing the Will must achieve the realm of liberation. The realm of liberation means the liberation of the kingdom of heaven and at the same time the liberation of God. Next he must liberate humanity from the prison of Satan’s world. We became prisoners because we inherited the lineage of Satan from the fallen parents. Then he must also liberate all of creation that is lamenting in grief.

I fished in the Pantanal. I walked through mountains. It was to make a bond of heart with nature. I have reached this point centering on the Will. Here, after binding everything to the destination point with a heart that loves God, that loves humanity and that loves creation, I have to complete the historical indemnity and economic restoration. (302-239, 1999/06/14)

A world that attends God

Were there scrolls as wide as the skies and ink as vast as the oceans, they could not record all the teachings and life achievements of True Parents. True Parents found the new expression of the Word, the Divine Principle, and prepared the start of the providence before their Holy Wedding. And after their Holy Wedding they worked to complete the way of restoration before the Cheon Il Guk Foundation Day; Finally they were able to restore and return to God all that had been lost since the Fall at the beginning of human history. After entering the Era After the Coming of Heaven, on the occasion of the Foundation Day ofCheon Il Guk, they proclaimed a new heaven and earth. Overcoming suffering beyond description, they perfected, concluded and completed the providence of restoration.

Since Foundation Day, True Father in the heavenly world and True Mother on earth have been working hard to bring about the settlement of Cheon Il Guk on this earth through activities such as compiling the Cheon Il Guk scriptures, enacting the Cheon Il Guk Constitution, raising up globally equipped leaders, and calling forth new tribal messiah activities.

The achievements and vision of peace that True Parents established are the foundation stones for one world of peace beyond nations. The words of truth that they bequeathed to humanity trace the path of new life that clarify the way of God, humanity and the cosmos. The course of true love that they showed during their lives is the model for filial children, loyal patriots, saints and divine sons and daughters. As the bright sun and moon of Cheon Il Guk, True Parents cast eternal light upon the ideal world of creation that attends God.

24 With absolute faith, you blessed children of the global Unificationist family must receive instruction on the traditions that the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind lived, and then fulfill the tribal messiah mission. After completing this responsibility in the tribe, the society, nation and world, you will embrace all humanity as the people of Cheon Il Guk. This is the hope of the Heavenly Parent and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. This is the way that you who are living in this age will be able to stand, without shame, in the position of ancestors to future generations.

After 6,000 years, our Heavenly Parent and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind completed, concluded and consummated the providential history of restoration through indemnity and opened a new era and new history of Cheon Il Guk. The founding of Cheon Il Guk, which has been the hope of the Heavenly Parent and the desire of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, has been accomplished.

How will you thank and welcome our Heavenly Parent and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind? Do you understand the great significance that God places upon you by installing you as the ancestors of Cheon Il Guk? You have the responsibility to testify to True Parents. You have to make this nation and all the people of the world understand that True Parents have come to this earth, proclaimed the words of life, and opened Cheon Il Guk. You must promise that without fail you will open the kingdom of heaven on earth and the kingdom of heaven in heaven in front of the Heavenly Parent and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. The mission and responsibility of those living in the present age is to invest all we have to advance along this road without stopping, keeping an attitude of life-or-death determination. (True Mother, 2013/05/05)

25 Our pride, joy and happiness are meaningless without True Parents. The hope of blessed families is the establishment of the kingdom of heaven on earth, where we live together with and attend God and True Parents. If we are not able to do that in our age, then our descendants will have to do it. It is the responsibility of we who are parents to make sure that day will come with certainty to this earth. The Unification movement must absolutely accomplish the Will together with True Parents. Accordingly, I sincerely hope that we ourselves and our families become the ones in whom future generations will take pride. We already stepped forward and pledged our hearts. We must work to completely realize, in this age, the Will of heaven that Father worked to accomplish. (True Mother, 1983/03/13)

26 Even if Father goes to bed late, he rises early in the morning and prays seriously. Even if the wind is blowing or if it is raining, night and day he is praying for you, the children of the Unification Church. When I see the face of Father meditating deeply on how to fulfill God’s Will, I think he is someone whom God cannot help but love. I hope that you empower yourselves as much as you can with the Divine Principle. I hope that you can be unchanging in a world of heart that is firmly connected, not in a master-servant relationship, but in a father-son relationship. When you are suffering, please think about True Father. (True Mother, 1967/08/03)

27 Since the start of human history, all human beings have sought a world of peace and happiness. However, that ideal world was never realized. The True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind discovered and resolved the fundamental problems in providential history. For his 90 years of life, Father held on to heavens providence and worked globally.

True Father designated the 13th day of the first month in 2013 as Foundation Day, and for the 12 years before his Holy Ascension he completely invested himself for this cause. First of all he established the position of Heavenly Parent. True Father became a beacon of hope for a world that is still wandering through a miserable history of suffering and war. To accomplish this on the spiritual level he led a religious group through God’s spirit and truth, and externally he developed many activities as expressions of love. (True Mother, 2013/02/20)

28 My life has been like an ocean. The ocean can generously embrace and unite with the sky and resemble its color. It is in the lowest place, where it accepts all the water of the world. The ocean embraces everything and conceives all life. In the ocean all varieties of living things are born and raised in abundance. Its tides ebb and flow in response to the pull of the moon and the changing seasons. It responds to the rays of the sun, creates water vapor and influences the weather. A calm ocean is peaceful on the surface, but deep inside enormous currents that move the ocean are constantly surging. When waves of a tsunami rage, they can swallow everything.

People cannot see the whirlpool beneath the surface, heaven’s providence has surged like a typhoon, and my life has unfolded in the midst of it. There are so many circumstances that cannot be spoken of, which only I understand from the center of the providence. Crossing over that whirlpool, not allowing it to pull me down, I joined Father in the work to complete the providential hisy of restoration. (True Mother, 2013/12/06)

29 Heavenly Parent, You raised me as your only begotten Daughter, and You protected me throughout countless adversities and hardships until I came to the position of True Parent. You are the only one who knows and remembers the circumstances and countless challenges that I had to overcome at each twist and turn of this historic course as a True Parent. Heavenly Parent, I am grateful. For the sake of accomplishing the ideal of creation that You originally hoped for, we are aware of how difficult, lonely and painful Your course was as You sought for the True Parents. We offer infinite gratitude to You, our Heavenly Parent who endured until Cheon Il Guk could be proclaimed on earth. (True Mother, 2014/09/12)