May God Protect Us

No matter who you are, you are not born from an act of your own will. From birth to a certain
age you don't realize your purpose of life or your role in life. It is not until you reach your
adolescence that you begin to consider your purpose in life, think about what kind of life you are
going to lead, and learn about the nature of human society as a whole. After going through the
stage of adolescence, you enter the prime stage of youth, where your philosophy of life will
become fully developed. However, only in old age will your view of life become fully ripened,
and your understanding of what life really is become clear.
Any one individual cannot live all alone, centered on himself. In order for us to live, we need our
friends, our family and our neighbors and society around us. Broadening our scope, we can live
life on the national level, and finally on the world-wide level. Each man struggles hard to
become an important person, and at best a figure of historical importance. Only a few can attain
this high goal, while most others cannot reach this level. Most people pass into the spirit world
after their physical death without being able to attain this goal. This is the common way of life
for all men, and the destiny of humanity.
However, we see many different types of people who walk on the path of life. Some go straight
forward, some go sideways, some go backwards, while some others go in a zigzag line. The
record you make by your life is like lines which are traced behind you. Though you are still
young, when you look back to your past, there must have been happy days and unhappy days,
easy days and difficult days, meaningful days and days full of regret. From the viewpoint of your
own interest, I'm sure that you have experienced more unhappy days than happy ones because of
the unfavorable environment which exists in the world today. Very likely you are not in the
position to be proud of yourself even though you may have confidence in what you do. Nobody
can tell what will happen in the next moment. That has been the nature of our destiny as human
beings.
In other words, you may go to work in the morning with happy anticipation, but nobody can
guarantee your safety throughout the day. Even though your office may be nearby, you can never
be too confident, because even a short distance from your doorstep you may have a car accident.
Nobody can tell what our destiny holds for us. You can even meet seemingly agreeable people in
seemingly agreeable places, but the result is not necessarily good - it could even bring untold
misery to you. Passing an examination may be the goal of people who study hard. But at the very
moment that a person finds he has passed the exam, some tragedy could happen. Nobody can
tell. Suppose there are a man and a woman who dearly love each other, and they are confident
that they are going to live as the most ideal couple in the whole world. But right at the wedding
ceremony, something unexpected may come about. From this we can gather that a man can never
be too sure of having a bright future. There are many instances in the wo
But there are not too many things around us that hold such a promise for goodness. Things are
usually the other way around; we find more tragedy than goodness. Then, is there a place where
we can be relaxed and reassured? No one can be relaxed and reassured when he is all alone. You
need someone who can at least defend and protect you. Who must that someone be? Your parents
may be able to play this role externally, protecting you to a certain extent. But they cannot

guarantee your life in the face of death. Your teachers cannot take this responsibility; neither can
your friends nor your nation, with all its power. Suppose the whole world is mobilized to help
you; it cannot take responsibility for your life. Then, who can take the responsibility? We must
find someone who can do that. Otherwise we are sure to be insecure and unhappy, even though
we want to be happy and at ease.
We want someone to protect us on our way of destiny. Then, what must that someone be like?
This one must transcend history-, that is, the past, present and the future. He must transcend time
and space. unfortunately, man himself cannot transcend these no matter how great he is.
Therefore, we are badly in need of someone like that who can take responsibility for our life in
faith. If we cannot find one like that in human society, we would want to create someone in our
imagination and fancy that he would protect us. But if there really is such an entity, how happy
we would be! How eager we would be to locate him. The more difficult the environment
becomes, the more insecure we become and we ardently set off in search of him. In this situation,
unless you endeavor to confirm his existence and enter into a good relationship with him, you
can never be assured about your life.
Then, what kind of relationship would you want to have between God and yourself? There may
be teachers who are our seniors and who can protect us with their position, wealth and
knowledge. But it is more desirable that we have someone who would protect us with the
warmth of love. If we are going to be protected at all, we want to be protected not just for the
time being, but for eternity. Then, who in the world could do that? Our parents. We need our
parents. Next, we need brothers and sisters, and we also need our spouse, then our children. With
them, we enjoy the blessedness of our life. But no matter how bright a day may be with other
people rejoicing in the blessedness of our surroundings, if someone we love is on the verge of
death, we cannot enjoy all the rest. However happy we may otherwise be, if our loved one is in a
tragic situation, we, too, become unhappy.
When we look at things from this viewpoint, we can enjoy utmost happiness when we are with
our loved ones sharing with each other an ideal love to the utmost degree. We don't know where
we are bound in our life, just walking on the way not knowing our destination. We are always
insecure. Centered on our physical parents, happiness will be mortal. The same thing is true
centered on our brothers and sisters, and centered on married couples. Love with these people
may change and even become ephemeral. Then we must look for and find that ideal love which
will last for eternity. There seems to be no such love in the world, but we will never stop looking
for it. We especially look for the one who will enable the love between parents and children and
love between husband and wife to last for eternity, under his protection. That someone must be
unchangeable, unique and eternal - that is, God.
Without God as the center point or starting point, we cannot make all these relationships
unchangeable and eternal ones. There must be a person with a central mission as the agent of
God's love, around whom all these relationships will be restored to their desired form. He must
become the mediator between God and man to make that relationship a oneness between Father
and son. The relationship must be restored between the parents and the children, between
brothers and sisters, between husband and wife, to the original form which God intended at the
time of creation. We are in pursuit of this relationship and to fulfill this relationship is the

ultimate destiny of our lives. An ideal relationship of true love cannot be an ephemeral one, but
is unchanging, unique and eternal.
As I said before, any relationship of love must exist by the relationship between subject and
object -- you cannot enjoy love all by yourself. That is to say, everyone needs someone to love
and protect him in an ideal environment provided by that person. Then alone can we be really
relaxed in an environment which we trust will never change. However hard we may try, we will
not find that stability in human society. Everything in human society is temporary and
changeable. We need someone absolute and unchanging. He must be an omnipotent one.
Therefore, throughout history, man has sought to find God through religious belief. In true
religion, we should be able to restore the true relationship between parents and children, brother
and sister, and husband and wife. With this knowledge, would you want to reach God through the
mediator, the one who is the perfect object to God, the perfect Subject? Or, would you want to go
straight to God? Which would you prefer? You are far below the standard at which
In a sense, a religion is the mediator, because every religion teaches about God. You know that
God exists, but in what relationship to God would you want to put yourself? The relationship
which is primary and also the most desirable one is the parent-child relationship. So, we want to
serve God as our Parent with Him in the subject position, and with ourselves in the object
position. Sometimes we want to make God our friend; sometimes we just feel like having Him as
our brother. In an absolute love, He can be just anything to us. In that love, a father would not
complain if his son would rule over him, although he is still in the position of the father. In the
relationship of such love, a husband would never complain against his being dominated by his
wife and vice versa. Love alone and nothing else makes it possible. Love is the highest law and
the sacred bond bringing any two or more beings into harmonious oneness. However high in
authority or in knowledge or wealth we may be, we all become tend
Is there anyone who is not willing to be dominated by that kind of love? Even God is willing to
be dominated by that love, not to speak of man. Love is great. God is the very core of love,
which makes Him the greatest of all. Love is the power that motivated God to create man and
love alone is what makes God absolute. Centered on love, even the absolute and supreme Being
is willing to be at the disposal of one who is the incarnation of His love. To such a man, God is
the Father who is willing to become everything else for him. God is the Parent of all parents to
man. He has the absolute love that surpasses the love of even model parents. With that love He
can embrace all the parents of the world. In fact, God created man from His parental love.
Without that love we die.
God is always ready to give the type of love which is best suited to and most wanted by the
person seeking a relationship with Him. If we wanted parental love from God, He would be
prepared with it; if we wanted brotherly love or conjugal love, or the love of a friend from Him,
He is ready with these. He is also the symbol and reality of national love and universal love. In
our church, we allow people to understand and feel God's love in such a dimension. Isn't it
wonderful that the God of love is protecting us in every possible relationship? We, as the
incarnation of His love, can in turn protect others and even ourselves along the way of fate, with
this power of God's love.

When we pinch ourselves it hurts. But if we are assured manifold benefits after the pain, will we
not gladly endure it? With this confidence, we can dash forward on any path of misery and
hardship. Everyone is uneasy and insecure on the way of fate, without knowing what our future
has in store for us. If, in this dark situation, we find a light giving us the full and clear picture of
where we are bound, how are we going to march forward to the goal where the new world of
God-centered love and harmony waits for us? Would we not abandon our old way of life and join
the new one? Because of the evil entity, Satan, we have to make the way smooth and straight by
repelling the satanic power as we go along and by building the kingdom of God in our hearts and
sharing it with our fellow men. God is the ultimate subjective Being, and we as His objects want
to work for His sake and ours, and finally find Him and join Him in perfect oneness.
If we are confident of God's love, we can overcome any difficulty, however uneven the road may
be. The more difficult the road is, the stronger our conviction is that this is the short-cut through
which we reach the goal at the earliest possible date. There we can meet God who is anxiously
waiting for us, full of blessings to give those who dash forward with all their knowledge and
understanding. Once we do this, misery and unhappiness cannot dominate our lives. Through our
everyday experience, we know that without love we cannot overcome the miseries on our way of
fate.
Let us suppose that a man died through misfortune on the way of his search for the ultimate
subjective Being. However, his death does not mean the end, but the beginning of his life. Then,
in the spirit world, this man could tell God even that he died in order to live in the spirit world, to
more fully enjoy God's love. We must be ready to die, but to die with God's love in our hearts. If
we imagine that we are going to die in the bosom of God's love, then we do not die a miserable
death at all. In this case, a man's death could be of higher value than any other death, because he
died with the best attitude. If your wife died long ago, and after you had died this kind of
invaluable death you joined her in the spirit world, would she not respect and love you more than
she had on earth? If you died for the sake of someone, and that person later comes to the spirit
world, would he not love and serve you? Their love in the spirit world must be of higher
dimension than their love on the earth.
In the Bible we read many paradoxical things. Jesus said, "If you love me, you must deny
yourself and bear the cross and follow me." (Luke 17:33) He also said that, "Those who want to
gain their lives will lose them." These words encourage us to win the love of highest dimension
at the cost of everything else. If you loved me so much as to die for me, and I met you later in the
spirit world, how happy we would be to see each other! If you truly love someone, you will
always gladly die for him. Even though you might die, it would not mean the end, but it means
new life. By this kind of sacrificial death, we pass through the toll gate to reach the world of
love, which is eternal and of a higher dimension. Then we are not afraid of love. Are you willing
to die that kind of death? When we know what is coming after death, we are happy people, even
though we may have to die.
We have all discovered great things. I have gone through untold difficulties, but I am sure I am
the happiest man in the whole world - am I not? I am a happy man because I know how to
overcome unhappiness with love. I am the type of person who hates to be sympathized with, but
I love to sympathize with others, and I feel immense happiness in making others happy. When I

want to sympathize with others out of my own accord, can I complain about what I have to do?
In this way, I can enjoy the real taste of love. When I am sympathized with, I can only taste
passive love, which is not what I want.
Some may think that our faith forces us or drives us on the painful way. But I hope most of you
can overcome the pain by digesting it with the power of love, because happiness and love are
promised at the end of hardships. As our subject indicates, we want someone to protect us on the
way of fate. That someone must be God. But even God cannot protect or love us when we don't
deserve it - that is, when we don't set up the condition to receive that love. God is not in need of
money, position or knowledge. What He needs is love. And we need that love too, because by
true love we can enjoy the privilege of controlling Him. If we can do that, we can control our
own fate, because we can control God who controls our fate. God would not leave those who
truly love Him on the path of unhappiness and misery. God will help His people to overcome the
miseries caused by Satan.
Those who are ardently in love with God can easily overcome unhappiness, because the way of
unhappiness will lead them to happiness. When I was in prison in North Korea, I went through
severe torture; the more severe the torture was, the stronger I would become. Every cell of mine
was mobilized to fight against the pain. I would fancy that with every blow God's blessing would
be multiplied. Because of this, I was not afraid of the torture, and I could easily endure it. If we
have this attitude, we can make the crooked way straight and the bumpy road smooth. Even
though our path of life may be an uneasy, insecure, ephemeral one, full of misery which is more
than death, we know that through God's love for us and our love of God, we can go through the
path without difficulty. When we are ready to live and die in the love of God, we deserve God's
protection. This is the way every human being has to go. May God protect us on our way of
destiny.

GOD'S WILL
AND CHRISTMAS
December 25, 1976
Manhattan Center
Translator -- Bo Hi Pak

Today is Christmas, 1976, and people around the world are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.
In the history of the Unification Church the year of 1976 was a most critical and extraordinary
year and today we have ample reason to be grateful, especially as we gather together for the first
service in this holy place, our Manhattan Center.
We are not an ordinary group. There are many Christians in the world but the Unification Church
and this particular gathering have a special meaning and purpose in God's dispensation. It is most
important in celebrating this day of Christmas to know the purpose of the coming of Jesus Christ
2,000 years ago. Without knowing that purpose clearly this celebration is meaningless, so this
morning I would like to deliver a message on the topic, "God's Will and Christmas."

When we ask if God's original intention for this world has been completely fulfilled, the obvious
answer is no. The will of God was thwarted because of the fall of man. Through history fallen
mankind has been searching for the ultimate fulfillment of the will of God and the purpose of
creation. As this providence has been advancing on many different levels of the individual,
family, society, nation and world, God's original will or blueprint has never| changed. All the
while that unchanging goal has been there for man to accomplish, waiting for man to catch up.
God is eternal, unchanging, absolute and unique; therefore, the will of God is also eternal,
unchanging, absolute and unique. God cannot yield His original standard or give up His principle
because of the failure of men. He cannot compromise or deviate from His original goal no matter
how much sacrifice we men have to pay. He cannot come down to the level of men; men must go
up to the level of God.
Realization of the ideal hinges
upon the perfection of one man

As soon as the fall of man took place, God's will focused on the goal of restoration. God Himself
is destined to save mankind, to show people how to get out of the fallen state and into the
original ideal of creation. That is the providence of God's salvation,
or restoration. Throughout history men have not been in a position to save themselves; salvation
comes instead from a higher place. This is why a savior must come to save mankind. As yet no
individual has successfully showed God's original ideal of creation to the world.
Without having individual perfection or salvation there can be no family salvation, no social,
national or world salvation. God has been thinking about how to establish one central champion
who will give mankind His clear message and show the way to salvation. In the mind and heart
of God that one man is the key because that one man's victory will bring not only his own
individual perfection, 'out will open the way for family perfection, social, national and world
perfection.
God knows this world is evil, and He cannot abruptly send His champion without having
prepared some foundation. God's first task is to prepare the foundation on the individual level by
working through central individuals, and then to prepare the family, social and national levels.
This is how God came to prepare the nation of Israel. The chosen nation of Israel had the mission
of receiving the Messiah and had been expecting his coming for 2,000 years before Jesus came.
Jesus Christ came for the will of God, to transmit God's will to the chosen nation of Israel. God
was moving in a certain direction and Jesus Christ was moving parallel to that direction, so
certainly the people of Israel were supposed to move in a way parallel to Jesus. If all three had
been moving parallel in one direction, God's ultimate will could have been fulfilled in that
nation. God and Jesus were united and all that was needed was to have the people of Israel unite
with Jesus. After man's having fulfilled on the national level, expansion of that fulfillment to the
worldwide level would have been assured.

As you know from the Principle of Creation, the perfection of Adam would not only have been
the perfection of an individual but would have brought the perfection of the family. That would
have expanded into the perfection of the clan, society, nation and the world. Therefore, one man
of perfection could have brought world perfection. Then there would be only one ism necessary
for all man kind-Adamism. Under Adamism the individual would prosper, the family would
prosper, and the society, nation and world would prosper.
The true forefather of mankind is that individual whose perfection represents not only his own
success, but the perfection of the family, nation, world and cosmos. Today's world would be
entirely different if that had been accomplished by Adam. We would not see all the disgusting
sights that we witness every day. Neither would we see the language barriers and the national
barriers separating people. Furthermore, every individual would understand the perfection of
man and would also live in complete unity between spirit world and this world. Every individual
could clearly map out his own way of life to reach the ultimate Kingdom of Heaven. The
problem today is that man does not possess the living God and no one has given him true
direction. Mankind lives random, wandering lives. In the original ideal this would never be;
everyone would be guided into perfection in a way perfectly parallel with the will of God and no
one could live outside that will.
The realization of the Kingdom of God hinges upon the perfection of one man. That one man
will bring the perfection of the Kingdom of God here on earth, and thereafter will erect the
Kingdom of God in Heaven. The citizens of the Kingdom of God will start their lives here on
earth and after they consummate their lives here will automatically be elevated into the Kingdom
of God in Heaven, where they will continue as families.
God's work begins here on earth

If there had been no fall the situations here on earth and in heaven would have been perfectly
parallel. On earth there would be the individual, family, society, nation and world under God and
the same would be seen in the spirit world. One united world would have occurred. It is God's
will to see perfection come first here on earth; God never intended to have His Kingdom
established in spirit world and then copied here on earth. Christians commonly think that the
heavenly kingdom in spirit world is the perfected kingdom but that is not true.
Without perfection here on earth no perfection can be obtained there. There was always a
blueprint in the mind of God, the original plan that always has been and will always remain
perfect, even though the physical realization of these plans has never yet been seen. Jesus prayed,
"Thy will be done here on earth as it is in heaven." Jesus knew the perfection of God's will in
Heaven and he brought that will to earth, coming to establish perfection here so that mankind
would bring the kingdom into heaven. That was God's plan.
God has not yet seen the perfection of His original plan here on earth, however, even after the
coming of Jesus Christ. Because of the crucifixion Jesus could not accomplish the full purpose of
his coming, the perfection of Adam's level. It was not at all God's original plan to fulfill the ideal
by killing the Messiah. If that was indeed God's method then just sending him to a nation that
was unprepared to understand him would have been sufficient. Sacrifice is sometimes necessary,

but God did not intend the sacrifice of human life as the key to complete salvation. Because of
the crucifixion Jesus Christ was not allowed to reach the fullest degree of perfection and no
family, social or national perfection was obtained. Therefore, it is most logical that the Messiah
must come a second time.
What will Jesus do when he comes? Will he come to wipe out the world? The word "judgment"
is frequently misunderstood to mean that God will wipe out everything in anger. That is not the
purpose of the Messiah's coming a second time. The whole purpose is to fulfill the mission that
was left undone 2,000 years ago, to work for individual, family, social, national and world
perfection. Judgment is the constructive work of God to see the fulfillment of the Kingdom of
God here on earth.
Because the work of God is realistic and physical, the Messiah's coming on the clouds in the sky
does not make sense. By interpreting the Bible literally many Christians anticipate Jesus'
appearance in the sky, but that could not be so. People perceive God as being supernatural,
someone who could perform even the miracle of bringing Jesus on the clouds. Why would
Christianity be necessary in that case? Why would faith be necessary? Why didn't God use
supernatural power to build up the Kingdom of God in the first place? Why has He had to wait
for 6,000 years to accomplish this?
I want you to know that God's will in sending Jesus Christ 2,000 years ago perfectly parallels the
coming of Adam in the garden of Eden. The Lord of the Second Advent will come for the same
purpose. In other words, God's will, Adam's purpose, Jesus' purpose and the purpose of the
Second Coming are all the same. Truth is unchanging, being the beginning and the end. The will
of God cannot be changed or tarnished by time but will be the same forever. God has a formula
and when it is fulfilled God will seal it. That particular formula is still there, unfulfilled; God is
waiting for man to fulfill that pure, unadulterated standard.
God never detours

God has been working tirelessly for 6,000 years to accomplish one thing: the perfected Adam.
God has been working to see that man as a model for mankind. Out of all the multitudes of men,
the world has still not met that one man who is perfect in the sight of God. Yet no matter what,
God's will is marching on. God promised a Messiah when Adam failed and if that Messiah
cannot fulfill in the fullest degree then God will send another Messiah. That is the messianic
concept. The Messiah's ideal is perfectly parallel with the ideal of God and therefore we can say
that God and the Messiah are one.
For God and the Messiah to become one, what must the Messiah do? To answer that you must
know why God created man. Was man created for himself or for someone else-for woman? If
any man thinks he was born for self-glory, he is absolutely wrong. God created man for the sake
of woman.
What kind of man was Jesus? Was he man or woman or in between? What is a true man? Is the
President of the United States automatically a true man? The true man is one who perfectly fits
God's framework, meaning that if God is round, that true man is perfectly round and if God is

square, that true man is perfectly square. From day to night, from eternity to eternity he will not
deviate from that standard.
Once he becomes a true man in the sight of God, will he waver and change or will he stick to
God's one principle goal? Will the true man say, "Well, I will try this for ten years and if it
doesn't work I will change"? Or will that man not change for ten years or one hundred years or
for eternity? When there is danger to his life will he exclaim, "I definitely don't want to be in this
situation. I must take cover"? Why not? If he deviates in any way then he is no longer like God
because God never changes. Paralleling this, will you try first for a year or so and then see what
happens? Would a true member of the Unification Church give up or change?
I want you to know that God is straightforward. He will not detour but will go ahead regardless
of what happens. When God moves and there is an enemy roadblock, God knows that His
advance will ultimately smash all opposition. God knows that it is the other side which will be
shattered. Therefore, the true man and the true member is fearless, having the courage to clash
with opposition and knowing the other side will eventually fall away. He will always take the
adventurous way, not avoiding anything in order to seize the advantage. You must live that way
every day. God is eternal; therefore, I am an eternal being. God is unique; therefore, I am unique.
God is unchanging; therefore, I will never change. God is absolute so I am going to be absolute.
That is the way you must think every day.
How do we know Jesus was a true man? He didn't write a big sign on his forehead or get a Ph.D.
He didn't have any extraordinary size or power. Why do we know him to be a true man? We
know Jesus was a true man because his way of life was parallel with the will of God and fit
perfectly the description of God's way of life. We know that Jesus Christ was born solely for the
will of God, that he lived solely for the will of God and that he died solely for the will of God. At
the critical moment of Jesus' death on the cross he died as a Messiah and with the dignity of a
Messiah, not as an ordinary man, a sad man or a man taking cover. He deeply felt, "Even though
the Roman Empire opposes me now, it shall receive my mercy. Even though the Israelites oppose
me, they shall receive my mercy." Therefore, Jesus had room to forgive them, room to pray for
them and to embrace them.
Jesus could not give up the will of God by resenting their adamant opposition to his efforts to
save them. Jesus certainly could not abandon his mission at that moment by hating the people.
He was a true man because he perfectly lived the life of God. He was a walking God. There was
no separation between God and Jesus, and because no one can destroy God no one can destroy
Jesus Christ. The crucifixion was not his destruction; God manifested the power of resurrection
so that the world could see that Jesus was never destroyed.
What attitude is needed
in order to receive the Messiah?

Since the fulfillment of perfection was not obtained in Israel, God prepared the second Israel as
the foundation upon which the second Messiah could come. That foundation is the work of
Christianity. We must know that Christianity is the second Israel in the sight of God. The
ultimate goal of Christians the world over is to receive the Messiah. They talk about this, but the

most critical question for them is how they are going to meet the Messiah. Many Christians think
that the Messiah will command extraordinary miracles to happen which will solve all the world's
problems in one moment, instantly making the world the Kingdom of God. This is their
ambiguous understanding but this could not possibly be so.
When the Messiah comes the second time he will start from the very bottom of man's situation
and advance step by step to the height of the Kingdom. He brings the pattern which the rest of
the world should follow and he will not compromise with the world. He will initiate the final
showdown between good and evil. According to that standard, are modern day Christians ready
to be lifted up to the Kingdom of God in heaven as perfected men and women? Not at all. They
must transform themselves and change to fit into the pattern that the Messiah will bring; as the
second Israel, Christians are to be the first people to change themselves into that model.
Even today there are people who think that the fall of man was in the plan of God. How
ridiculous! If God had planned for evil and sin, He could never be a good God. God never
intended the work of salvation to be needed; He originally intended only the garden of Eden,
with Adam and Eve becoming the embodiment of perfection. A man of perfection does not
require salvation. God would far more prefer to have man without any need for the dispensation
of salvation.
How well do you know the will of God? Many Christians are convinced that God's will for them
is to seek only their own chunk of heaven, and they could care less about the fate of the rest of
the world. Meanwhile the nation and the world are crumbling and instead of feeling responsible,
they expect God to handle everything. That is not true Christianity.
After the fall of man God's efforts focused on the work of salvation. I want you to know clearly
that His target is the world, not just one man, one race, one people or one nation. God intended
the Messiah to accomplish the fulfillment of perfection, not to create a multitude of
denominations. He still is determined to achieve that one ultimate goal of perfection and unity
between men, even if this may mean the sacrifice of the churches.
I have seen what the Kingdom of God is like in the spirit world and ultimately you too will see
that God's Kingdom is not organized in the same divided way that religions are here. Such
separation is truly contrary to the will of God. The conflict and division between religious people
has been carried over into spirit world and brings grief to God. Yet that has been conventional
faith.
How can you become true sons
and daughters of Christ?

We believe in Jesus Christ as the savior and Messiah simply because we want to become the son
or daughter who can fulfill the will of God. Jesus died for the sake of his mission, not just to
acquire his own chunk of heaven. Don't ever worry about your own heaven, but worry about
bringing down the Kingdom of God to your society and to this world. If you are like that, when
you say to God, "I don't want to go to the Kingdom of God," God will chase after you and
personally install you in the highest position in His Kingdom.

Jesus never complained to God about the rebelliousness of the very people he had been sent to
save and never ceased caring about them. That was not Jesus' heart. Jesus knew clearly that his
mission was not just the salvation of Israel but of the world. God would be most pleased to hear
Jesus pray, "God, Your goal is world salvation. Please use me and Your chosen nation as Your
sacrifice to fulfill Your work." Jesus became a son of God simply because he was perfectly
united with God in will and in heart. Because of that oneness Jesus Christ could willingly die for
the rest of the world.
How can you become the true sons and daughters of Christ? By becoming perfectly one with
Christ, one with his spirit and one with his heart. If you are perfectly united with Jesus Christ you
can be a willing sacrifice for-the salvation of the rest of the world. The true Christians are those
who are willing to sacrifice themselves, their own church and their denomination for the
fulfillment of the will of God for world salvation.
A true Christian could not pray for God's help and blessing for only his family. After knowing the
truth of God's situation we can only pray, "God, I am ready to be Your sacrifice. Use me as Your
instrument; fulfill Your will for world salvation through me. If necessary please sacrifice my
family, church and nation." Such people will create the Kingdom of God.
Those who pray only for their own chunk of God's blessing will end up in hell. If you search
closely you will discover that this is true. If God's sole concern is world salvation, do you think
He would support the person who was interested only in himself, his family and his church, or
would He side with the people who were most involved in world salvation?
Put yourself in God's position for a moment and look at the American churches. Not only are
there a great many churches, but they are pursuing very different purposes and goals. White
people organize together, black people organize their churches and yellow people organize their
churches. Do you think this is a very beautiful thing for God to behold?
Absolutely not! If any Christian leader would call for his people to unite with other races then he
could be considered a true Christian leader among his people.
Since we know the overall will of God, we can understand the world which can meet that
standard. Could a perfected man be influenced by Satan? Even if Satan is standing right next to
that man he is completely powerless to influence him. Satan could sneakily flip him over in his
sleep, but upon awakening that man would realize what had happened and just flip back to his
right position. It is a waste of Satan's energy to meddle with a perfected man.
Can Satan test God? God never told Satan that he could not try to test God, but Satan is not that
dumb. He knows very well that no matter how much effort he makes, testing God is a waste of
his time and energy. A man of perfection is just like God and Satan knows that testing him is a
waste of time. When you become a man of perfection, Satan is powerless to influence you. You
stand aloof of Satan's temptations.
Are you Unification Church members such men and women? How can you become that kind of
person? The solution is simple: don't worry about yourself but think 100% of God. Decide that

you will be as unchanging as God and cultivate that quality. Then you will graduate from
temptation and Satan will have to testify that you have graduated out his sphere of influence.
Satan will grudgingly acknowledge you.
Satan even tried to tempt Jesus Christ. After offering three temptations to Jesus, Satan came to
the conclusion that he had no power over him. If even a little bit of selfishness, a little bit of ego,
remained in Jesus' heart, Satan could have hooked it and pulled Jesus down to his dungeon.
Satan cannot grab any nation
or person who serves the world

Which is the majority in the Unification Church, those who have graduated from the temptation
of Satan, or those who are still susceptible? That is the key question of our Church. There are
many ways for you to be tempted, but you must remember that while I certainly push you and
send you out, I am having you do it not for me or for yourself, but for the sake of God, humanity
and the world. I have never asked you to earn money for me. Wait and see who will be the
winner in the sight of God, the Unification Church or our opposition.
I know very well that there are terrorist groups who think that by eliminating me they can
destroy the Unification Church. How wrong and ridiculous their thinking is! If I were killed, God
would raise up millions more like me to continue in His work. How are you members different
from conventional Christians? Why are you here? You are handpicked by God and you joined
this church to give yourself for the sake of God and humanity. The Unification Church sign at the
door is insignificant and unnecessary. The significant thing is our purpose for being here. If there
were no church at all under the sun but every person was eager to live for God and humanity
then the Kingdom of Heaven would quickly come. No churches would be needed. That is the
kind of world God wanted to build in the beginning. Adam failed so the coming of the Messiah
became necessary. Jesus was not given a chance to succeed so the Second Coming became
necessary. No one else in the world accepted the job so God raised the Unification Church to
take up the task.
If you find something good, don't put it in your own pocket but think of God and humanity. Go
to school to become champions for God and humanity. Go out and even fight for that purpose;
that is the fight of righteousness. You do not have to know all 66 books of the Bible to know that
God wanted to erect such a world and that you are chosen to help do that. If you give yourself for
the sake of God and humanity then you already know the Bible to the fullest extent. You know
more of God than anybody else.
If you become that kind of person you have already transcended the Old and New Testaments
and Satan will not find any handle to grab you. There is only one way Satan could hook you; he
must say, "1 love God more than you do. I love humanity more than you do and you must follow
me." If that were the case then Satan would no longer be Satan but would already be working for
God. When you worry about a thousand things before you concentrate on
God, Satan has many hooks to manipulate you with on every level. How foolish to expose
yourself in such a way to Satan's manipulation!

The nation will also be tested. For example, at one time America was trying to serve the world,
but America has again become isolationist, giving its own domestic interests priority. Can Satan
hook this nation or not? If America's 220 million people were united together to give themselves
for the sake of the world, how great America would be. God has poured down the power and
material blessing America needs to do just that. All this country lacks is the determination to do
the job. America is in a position to lead, like a locomotive pulling a train, but if the locomotive is
damaged then all the cars behind will be helpless. If one passenger foresees the danger to the
locomotive, should he pull the emergency brake, even over the protests of other passengers? As
long as the others do not know about the problem they will oppose and persecute him.
That is the job I have been doing in America. I know that danger is coming to America and that
this locomotive should be kept intact at any cost. Even if there are repercussions locally from
stopping the train so abruptly, such as disruption or fire, the greater tragedy still has to be
averted. We are the champions to apply the brakes to stop the train and prevent the tragedy. If
someone on the train pulled out a pistol and shot you, would you still pursue that mission or
would you give up? If you were literally dying, what would your last words be? Would you just
feel miserable, or would you shout, "Brother, sister, take my mission and go on"?
By inheriting the heart of Jesus
you can do anything

In this world there are so many churches which are celebrating the birth of Christ right at this
moment. They are having services and celebrations, and we are the only group representing the
true heart of Jesus which was filled with grief. This is the only group dedicating itself to go on
with the mission of Jesus until it is fulfilled. I want you to know that under God's grace
Christianity has been prospering for 2,000 years, but in less than two decades world Christianity
has declined. Do you know why? Because of you; because of the Unification Church.
God is now raising this group up as His new champion, and in order to minimize opposition God
is withdrawing His spiritual power from other groups. No matter how glorious the external
church building is, with stained glass windows, plush carpets and a beautiful organ, the very
important spiritual element is missing. No matter how great a theologian or evangelist emerges to
revitalize the spirit of Christianity, it is not there because God has already shifted to another
dispensation, centering on a new ideology and revelation. Any movement or church or individual
who opposes this ideology will decline.
Before arriving at this particular level of achievement I had to go through certain courses to
indemnify history. I am certainly an individual with my own will and naturally have the human
desire to take care of myself. By understanding that kind of human tendency I evaluated all the
many kinds of human desires and interests surrounding me. Then when I must make a decision
about how to do the will of God, there is no kind of situation which I am unfamiliar with. I have
evaluated every possible situation.
With all that experience I came to one ultimate truth; the more you seek after your own benefit,
the more your future will be blocked and will finally crumble. No matter how difficult it seems,

when you are absolutely centered upon God and humanity nothing can block you. Any opponent
will be shattered in any confrontation. I know this through my own experience.
Some people think, "Oh, Reverend Moon is a successful man; he has lots of money and lots of
young people follow him. He receives tremendous respect so he must be very happy." Whoever
says that truly does not know me at all. Every day I receive reports from all over the world. Do
you think most of the reports are happy reports of success or are most of them heartbreaking?
Every day I hear about someone who was arrested or who was tortured by communists, or about
some extraordinary persecution, some church which has fallen apart or some nation or some
missionary who is in trouble. If I were an ordinary man I just couldn't take the
burden. I would have run away a long time ago.
Even America is not friendly. The press scrutinizes me with a biased outlook and parents are
suspicious. We are in a fish bowl with everyone staring. If I were an ordinary man who had my
temper-and I am a man of temper, no question about it-I would have lashed out at them long ago,
or else shriveled into nothing. But that is not the kind of person I am.
You seem to be doing a most difficult job, going out fund raising and witnessing, but at least you
have no overwhelming responsibility there. If other people respond then you have achieved
something for God. If they don't respond, however, it's still all right and you can go on to another
person. But I cannot take that position.
Ten years ago I was known as being penniless and today I am called a millionaire. But honestly
speaking, I personally have no more money than I had ten years ago. Ten years ago the scope of
the movement was smaller than today and so the scale of concern and worry was smaller. Today
I can't put off critical work for lack of money because our movement has come to the stage
where unless we take emergency measures a whole nation might crumble or Asia might
disintegrate. I can't avoid tackling problems just because I don't think I have the physical, mental
or financial capability. Regardless of what my capability is, once the problem comes I will never
avoid it. I will grab it and solve it! That's why God needs me and that's why the world and
America need me.
My secret comfort

I always have one secret comfort in any adverse and difficult position. I always remember that
my Father in heaven has felt much greater suffering than I do and His is a much greater burden
than mine. He has been weeping as he has faced a thousand times more emergencies than I have
had. He is my Father and I must be like my Father. That is my secret and comfort.
God has come to me many times, saying, "You are my son. I thank you." God's comfort is sweet
and nothing in this world can deter the power that comes from such comfort. Since I am being
comforted by Heavenly Father I can go on. Anyone among you who can follow this way with
100% public-minded dedication shall also be comforted and I shall always stand side by side
with you in spirit.

Since I cannot know everyone's situation I am praying to God, "Heavenly Father, please listen to
them and help them. You must comfort them as much as you have comforted me. Father, you
must do this for me!" This is why many extraordinary spiritual situations develop in the
Unification Church. I am sure that in prayer many of you see visions and hear voices and receive
special inspiration in your hearts. That is because God is directly reaching you as He reaches me.
The nation of America was created primarily by the Protestant movement. We're closely
watching the direction in which America is moving. I will give you this prophecy about the
Papacy and the gigantic nation of America: As long as they are parallel with God's will they will
prosper, but as soon as they separate themselves from the will of God they will be shattered. If
they don't understand the will of God but oppose it out of ignorance then a great tragedy will
come to this country and all the Christian communities of the world.
God is a living God and His goal is world salvation. Certainly God must be doing something to
gather a group of people whose hearts can be ignited, who can become God's new champions
and undertake the mission to save the world.
God's three headaches

The evil power of communism is creeping into the churches. The communists' most vicious
tactic is to infiltrate in the disguise of priests, pastors and ministers. The propaganda of the
communist ideology is being spoken in many churches today. These priests are proclaiming that
Jesus Christ was the first communist because he blessed the poor and chastised the rich. The
communists are wolves in sheep's clothing. If this is the world of reality then God needs you and
the movement of the Unification Church in order to liberate all the churches of America and to
eventually liberate the communists themselves. The living God and the living Jesus want to see
this.
Many Roman Catholics misunderstand me so much that they want to destroy me and many
church leaders have called me a heretic. But at the same time I desire to reach out and embrace
them, not only to liberate them but to give salvation to all. God's greatest headache today is
communism and God is looking for the people who will be responsible for defeating
communism. Who is going to rebuild the Christian churches? After all, God has chosen them to
be the foundation, the champions of the Kingdom. Who is going to re-ignite them?
A third headache of God is the moral degradation of the youth of the world, particularly the
youth of America. Many of them are dependent on drugs and have become morally degraded by
their practice of free sex. Who is going to rededicate these young people to the righteous cause?
Do you think the Carter administration can be responsible for God's three headaches? No! The
present government may very well be deceived by the communists and certainly they have no
determination to stop communism. The American government cannot elevate American
Christianity to heightened prosperity. The entire free world, the Papacy and all the churches
together cannot unite to bring the necessary spiritual prosperity. Unless some champion can solve
the three headaches of God, this world is facing doomsday.

You and I are here to tackle the three major headaches of God. The will of God is the liberation
of the world. Our God-given solution to these problems has been working, and all we have to do
is reach the rest of the world. The communist elements are focusing their attack on me and
church-goers who want to enjoy the prosperity and luxury of their churches don't like me either.
Those who want to see the young people corrupted also don't like me.
No matter how strong our opposition may be, God's determination is stronger. As long as that is
true you have nothing to worry abut. We members of the Unification Church solemnly declare
that we will tackle this mission of being champions of God. We are joining in the spiritual
revolution and will heal the corrupted youth; we will bring the solutions to the Christian
community. We certainly have the answer to communism. We join together for the liberation of
the world and the liberation of mankind, but that's not all. We are gathered together to liberate the
heart of Jesus and of God Himself. No Christian churches today are proclaiming this goal.
Nobody outside our church is teaching this purpose. As long as we continue on our march, we
are the only hope of the world, the hope of Jesus and the hope of God, and no one can destroy
this movement. We can only win and prosper in due course.
We are gathered together to participate in the historic mission in which Jesus and God will take
delight. That is truly the spirit of Christmas and we are celebrating in that spirit. We are not in
darkness. We know the truth and we have already begun the march toward the goal. The only
remaining question is how far you can march. Can you march from the east coast of the United
States to the west coast toward Asia, the Middle East, Europe, across the Atlantic Ocean and
back to the United States? Can you march around the world? As members of the Unification
Church, you must pray, "Heavenly Father, give me longer arms so I can embrace the world, so I
can lift up the world to Your throne. I know that Your goal is world salvation and my arms are
reaching out to the world, but they are not long enough, Father. Please lengthen my arms and
strengthen my feet so I can lift up the world. I am taking Your responsibility." Anyone who tells
God, "You know that I have given myself; I cannot reserve anything. Everything is for You.
Please accept it and do Your will" knows that God's eyes will fill with tears and that God will
come down and embrace such a person.
I am trying to live up to that every day. I know the embrace of God, but how much will I feel
closer to Him when I've completed my mission! How much delight God will take after the world
is His again. This is my goal and direction and you are here to join me in that pursuit. If you die
in such a struggle then your death is never in vain because you are not living for your own sake.
As long as the Unification Church has that goal we will never be destroyed. Rest assured, no
power can destroy you. If you are always busy with your mission then God is always behind you,
pushing like a tailwind. Don't turn around to face God because He will not want to see your face
until the final victory. This is the true Christmas.
In the name of God and in the name of Jesus Christ we are celebrating the true Christmas. The
year of 1976 is over and our determination is that the true spirit of Christmas will go on through
the third century of America, from 1977 to the ultimate fulfillment of the glory of God. Let us
join together on this Christmas day to pledge ourselves to God by raising both hands. Thank you.
Let us pray.

In One Battle We Want to Liquidate the Failures of the

Past

Sun Myung Moon

January 12, 1976
Excerpts
The Total Accomplishment of the Providence of God
Belvedere
As you know, today is the first Sunday of 1976. The total accomplishment of the work of God in
the providential history has to he done in a certain time, and this morning I intend to speak on
this particular subject because I feel that this is the time. As we know through the Divine
Principle, because of the Fall of man the original ideal of the providence of God has not been the
reality. All things are divided. Actually heaven and earth were supposed to become one. This
oneness has been broken and heaven and earth separated. Man apposed to be the center of
heaven and earth and this universe; however, man is also divided between mind and body.
At the same time, our mind was supposed to be high, noble and sacred. Even without any
particular education and indoctrination, our mind was supposed to know the clear direction to go;
between mind and body there is supposed to be oneness, just like heaven and earth should be in
oneness. However, as heaven and earth separated because of the fall of man, the mind and body
also are separated. God always dwells in unity. There1fore in the divided world since the fall of
man, God cannot find His place to dwell and to be in peace. Then how can we make this unity
become reality?
For unity, there should be one controlled direction so that everyone joins together for that one
direction. Man has been the key element to bring the divisiveness in this universe; therefore we
have to find a key to return to man.
What is peace? Peace means the unity between subject and object. Peace can he found when
there is effort to make one, effort to make a reconciliation. Before we even dream of the unity of
the universe, or between heaven and earth, we must initiate a movement of unity between mind
and body. Therefore we have to originate the movement of unity from man. Today we talk about
world peace and world unity, fur this is a big world. Where can this world peace and world unity
be started? From one man.
Then where can we find such a man of perfection or man who has the key? The very thing that
Jesus Christ testified that he will come back for a return second time, shows there is more
guidance needed in the world. Otherwise he would not make such a statement. This world still
needs a savior, which shows that our fundamental question has not been solved. Who is he? That
man has the inherent key of the problem of the individual, family, tribe, nation, world and

cosmos. The savior is a basic scale or the measurement by which this world can be measured or
straightened up. That one central point serves as a common center a for all levels: universal,
national, tribe, and family. The Messiah is coming as savior to this world to present the pattern or
the model so that it can become a show case, so that every way of life in this world can be
measured by such pattern and model.
So when you find the Messiah, you become completely one with him, imitating his model. Then
whatever he is, you are. If he is individually perfect, you are in the position to be also as perfect
as he is. The Messiah is coming to bring everybody to the position where he does not need the
Messiah.
What is the definition of value? Value must be eternal as well a unchanging. Gold has
unchanging quality. Gold never rusts. No matter how roughly you treat gold, it still shines out in
the same quality.
What kind of man must we become to be valuable? We must become a man with eternal quality.
The conflict and confrontation within you cannot make you eternal; you must have harmony
within you. Are you that type of man?
Then why do we need the Messiah? So that we also can become like the Messiah. When you
meet the Messiah you will be like the Messiah, so you will be perfected on the individual level.
Then what about the family level? The Messiah is the center of the family. Jesus in order to show
the pattern of the family, what should he have done? He should have organized his own family
first. Why wouldn't God want more children of His own, His grandchildren, and great
grandchildren? Put yourself in God's position: He wants Jesus to have direct descendants, like
the sand in the ocean and the stars in the sky. Let's say Jesus not only got married but had his
own descendants. Then all Christianity would have a central point to rally around. God certainly
ted that.
This is the time for harvest. All of the leaves will fall so that we can see clearly the branches and
trunk. The winter of human history has arrived. That winter will wipe our all the lies.
All will fall like leaves. There is a branch remaining in wintertime. That branch will bear the
fruit. In that fruit there is hidden inside a seed. The seed is the possessor of life. The seed
contains the strength and energy of new life. Therefore even though winter comes, this particular
seed will not be affected the leaves and branches and roots and the trunk exist condensed within
the one seed.
The seed is the beginning point of everything, so therefore the fruit bears seed. The seed will be
like the one God has started in the very beginning.
God has been like a father, He is farming in order to harvest that one truthful seed on the last day.
The man who is coming as the seed of the universe is the Messiah. Within that one seed there is
the potential perfection of all levels. So in the last days that seed is corresponding to the first
seed God sowed in the beginning of history. The Messiah is coming as a perfected Adam. So

when the Messiah comes, he will present himself in the True Parent's position. He is going to
give rebirth to the old fallen generation, so that they tie themselves into the direct lineage of God.
Where is the central point going to be? There should be two central things. One is the central
religion, and then a central nation. What is the central religion of the modem day dispensation?
Should we evaluate the same way God evaluates? What is the characteristic of God? Power?
Money? Sovereignty? God is love. So then which religion is centered on the love of God? That
religion has to be in the central role.
Two principal things make Christianity unique and central: one, Jesus as the son of God. Second,
the theory of bride and bridegroom and also of world brotherhood. We are all brothers and
sisters. Jesus did not preach white is superior to black. He pronounced the equality of man. So
Christianity has all the components to build God's ideal reality here on earth.
What is the power that brings America into unity? The origin of America is the Christian faith.
Persecuted Protestants in Europe founded a land of freedom of religious worship and they came
to this new world because God was more valuable to them than anything else. It is truly a
miracle that during the Revolution, George Washington's army, feeble, untrained, well out
surpassed won the war. This was impossible without the help of God. If we remove Christianity
from America, nothing remains behind to hold this nation together. Without God, this whole
continent of America would have been divided into many different nations like Europe, and the
200 year history we are celebrating would have been nothing but a continuation of struggle and
strife.
America is in the position of the spiritual second Israel. Now which should have central role, the
nation or religion? Religion. Religion is equivalent to the mind, and the nation is equivalent to
the body. Therefore, religion, which is in a real place to serve this world, should he in a position
to lead.
So when the central religion is united with the central nation to create a foundation, then you will
know God's day of fulfillment of providential history is near. And that is America. A new
spiritual movement is inevitable. In that new spiritual movement the Unification Church was
born for the goal of world unification of the cosmos, heaven and earth, men and women and
mind and body. That goal must be more valuable than our own lives, than this nation, than the
world and all the existing Christianity. So we have to transcend all things, united together upon
this one goal unification.
We are longing for what God is longing for, and we have the God-designed family. We have
God-designed religion, and we are preparing the God-designed national background. Now we are
preparing to have the God-designed world foundation. That is our project in 1976.
1976 is America's bicentennial year. When you celebrate the 210th American birthday, the world
showdown will be over. America must he awakened by that time. If after 210 years of America's
birthday, America is still going a route of apathy and complacency, then the Communist era will
come. 2,000 years of Christian history are indemnified by 200 years of American history. That
2,000 years and 200 years of American history and Christian history indemnified by the

Unification Church in 20 years. So therefore the 20-year dispensation -- the most critical period
is divided into three seven-year courses. We are in the third seven-year course, and the first three
years are the most critical. It is not by accident that the bicentennial celebration of America is
where we can make a visible, dramatic showdown. The showdown is coming at Yankee Stadium.
At Yankee Stadium we are going to indemnify and restore the failure of Cain, the failure of
Abraham, the failure of Jacob, the failure of Moses, and the failure of Jesus.
This is a victory on a worldwide level which will absorb all other elements. When we bring this
spectacular and triumphant victory at Yankee Stadium, it will become a phenomenon of the
world, not just of the United States.
The failure of the central figures in the past: Noah, Moses, Abraham, and Jacob and Isaac, was
because they did nor have a serious attitude in meeting every instance: cutting a dove for
example, and striking the rock. Because they did not think they were the central figures of
dispensation, that awareness was lacking. Are you serious enough to think that Yankee Stadium
is the cross-junction of human history?
God knows the seriousness of this battle of Yankee Stadium, and I know the seriousness. Now
you must respond to the seriousness in the same strength.
We are the resurrected body of Moses, the resurrected body of Noah, the resurrected body of all
those saints in the past, the resurrected body of Jesus Christ. For the sake of all the dispensational
history we must bring this great victory together.
So in one battle we want to liquidate all the failures of the past so that we can bring only victory.
This is a very critical moment of human history. Like Noah after the flood judgment. Like when
Abraham took his son to the Mount of Moriah to offer his son as a hurried offering. This is the
time Moses is leading the troops to the Sinai desert. And Jesus Christ at the Mount of
Gethsemane praying so desperately for his destiny. We are at the same moment of human history.
So in the first week of 1976, I am giving this particular message. I want you to take it seriously.
You must become men of conviction. You must possess the conviction that when you strike the
earth, it will split. When you push, the mountains wall go away. You are like canes of Moses.
You are like Isaac in relationship to Abraham.
We must be more serious than the saints and prophets in history. We should become more serious
than Noah, Abraham, Moses, John the Baptist, more serious than Jesus Christ praying at the
Mount of Gethsemane. Because this is the final battle, the cosmic battle. This battle will decide
the entire destiny. No one in the past has borne such a burden in one event. God's wishes, then
your blessing in the future. We must he serious just like Jesus Christ bearing his own cross to the
Mount of Calvary to be nailed down. We must be serious like that.

Victory Or Defeat

Sun Myung Moon

March 31, 1973
First 100-Day Training Session
Master Speaks
Translated by Mrs. Won Pok Choi
Good evening! We just had a telephone call from Korea; that is why we were delayed. Welcome
home to Belvedere. I thank God that you are safely back. I can imagine that you have such long
stories to tell each other, to tell me; I will be hearing from the State Representatives, Itinerary
Workers and Mobile Team Commanders. But in case I don't have enough time for all of you, you
must excuse me. I want you to feel my heart, and feel that my heart is reflected on your mirror;
and God's concern for you, love for you, will be felt on this occasion, and I hope you will be able
to go back refreshed, strengthened and revitalized. Some may have thought, "What a man!
Master is stirring up the whole thing, and I cannot go on like this." In that case, excuse me. This
is the last day of March, spring is here, and I hope the spring is everywhere, in every part of the
earth.
Youth have so much to do with spring, and I am very regretful that you cannot enjoy the spring
of your age; but in another sense, I can imagine that you are enjoying spring in the ultimate
sense. I have to use my interpreter, and I am apt to look this way -- but don't you misunderstand,
I keep sending my mind to that side.
This evening my subject is "Victory or Defeat in Accordance with the Time Element." Now is the
time when we must conclude whether it will be victory or defeat, on the individual level, on the
group level (like ours), on the national level and on the worldwide level. The situation in the
whole world is like this. More so with the providence of God -- but in the outside world, also, the
time has come for a final decision on serious matters. We who claim to be sons and daughters of
God are grieved over the fact that our first human ancestors fell to darkness. We must solve this
problem because we are God-loving people. A defeat or fall can come about when we are vague
in our sense of purpose, in our sense of the direction or goal.
If our first human ancestors, Adam and Eve, had known the purpose of God's creating them and
what their goal was, and if they had had the sense of responsibility to carry out their mission
according to that, they could not have fallen. We are the descendants of fallen ancestors, and we
have the hope of restoring ourselves to the original position. But to do that, we must be
enlightened by an understanding of what God's purpose was in creating man, and what our part
or mission is in realizing that, or making it an actuality. We are here for the restoration of that
which, in the beginning, our first human ancestors failed to carry out and our forefathers,
including all the saints and prophets, left unaccomplished; it is for us to accomplish those things.
We have to make right what was turned upside down; return those things turned upside down to
their original position like this. But we feel this is no easy job at all. Unless we excel Adam and
Eve in carrying out our responsibility and attaining the goal -- carrying out or realizing the
purpose of God's creating man -- we cannot accomplish our mission.
In the providential history of mankind, Adam fell on the individual level; Noah fell on the family
level; Abraham on the tribal level (clan level); Moses, on the national level; and Jesus, both on

the national and worldwide levels. All those things are not a history of victory at all. But when
we think of centering on the man Noah -- he kept his faith, trying to carry out his mission for 120
long years -- but we have to excel his faith. Abraham was the father of faith, Moses was a man of
faith, Jesus was the son of man, trying to carry out his mission at the cost of his life. But they are,
in a way, failures. So, in order for us to accomplish our mission, our whole-sided mission, we
must excel them in many ways. It makes it difficult for us to carry out our mission; but when we
pour out our whole energy, our whole being, into this providence project, we can get the
cooperation of the spirit world, making it possible. We must turn all things upside down like this,
making it a reality, and making it a success. Jesus had a strong sense of purpose in his mission,
but ours must be even stronger than that.
When you closely examine what you are and what you are doing, are you on that standard, and
do you have a stronger will power to carry out your mission, with the strongest sense of purpose
and responsibility? We must be able to elevate the standard of our mission, of what we have
carried on, ever higher and higher. Some of you are State Representatives, some are Mobile Unit
Commanders, and others are I.W.'s. You are not doing things on the individual level, you are
representing so many people under you.
God is here, watching your work, and He expects something great out of you. But His heart is
agonized to see the possibility that you might fail your mission. In watching over what you are
doing, He always compares you with Adam, with Noah, with Abraham, with Moses, with Jesus
and He is anxious to have you carry out your mission in a greater way than they did. If He finds
you unqualified for that, He will be agonized to see you, grieved, sad. First of all, we must have a
clear, strong sense of the purpose stronger than Abraham had; stronger than Moses, Noah or
Adam had. Ours must be greater and stronger and clearer than theirs. What can make it greater?
We can say that our faith determines it; but faith can fade away along the course. God cannot
trust you unless you have gone through those things for several years, until you have gone
through your mission for several years at least. He wants you, as the leaders of groups, to be able
to animate the power in the people under you. He wants you to be really dynamic, to arouse
people's attention, to emit the light of love and life, and Heaven wants to be stimulated by you.
Sometimes He feels: "I must wait and see if they can carry out their missions," and He is more or
less disappointed.
In the olden days, as in the time of Moses, God could actually work a miracle in leading the
people under Moses -- but why is it not so with us? Unless God can find one stronger or more
dedicated than Moses, God cannot do that. This being the close of the age, the Latter Days, God
is anxious to help us more than ever; so, if He finds you greater than Jesus, greater than Moses,
greater than all those passed away saints, He will surely be working with you. Thus, Satan, who
caused Adam to fall, is still here and would accuse you, saying to God, "Well, let me see how
faithful, how dedicated your children are. They are here, claiming that they are going to restore
the whole world back to Your bosom. How strong are they? ... I will wait and see." And, every
minute, he is ready to accuse you. In that case, would God be confident enough to let him accuse
with all his might, with all his colleagues mobilized, accuse you of anything with your having no
condition for which to be accused? Is God confident about you? Are any of you here confident
enough to make God strong before Satan able to say that? If there is anyone here who can readily
say, "I am such a person," raise up your hands.

I could assign you to do something of one third the importance of what Noah, Moses or Abraham
went through and you would shrink back and feel so burdened, and feel that it is almost
impossible, and that you want to escape. How can God trust you in that case? As time goes by,
up to the present moment, God wanted to trust Noah; He wanted to trust Abraham more than He
did Noah; to trust Jesus more than He did Abraham; and He would like to trust us more than He
did all of those people. Yes ... trust us. We must be so trustworthy to Him; and can we keep
asking God, "'Give us strength, give us faith"? Can we ask that? We are the fruit of all those
people, so we must excel them in many ways, as I said. Then, in what sense are we greater than
they are? We can be different from them and greater than they are, when we pray to console
God's heart -- instead of praying for help like those passed-away saints did.
In praying to God, we want to console Him, we want to even encourage Him from our part, we
want to stimulate Him and make Him happy. I want to ask you if you have been doing that. If
you have been in despair, shrinking back to a confined place in your heart, grumbling and
complaining, you are a failure there; instead of doing that, you must be able to encourage God,
console God's heart, stimulate Him. You must be able to do that. You must be confident enough
to be able to carry out your mission without God's help. You must have a clear sense of purpose
and strong sense of responsibility to be able to carry out your mission in place of the passed
away saints who failed to do so. In taking the responsibility, don't try to leave your responsibility
on someone else's shoulders; try to win it out, try to carry out your own mission, and day and
night be thinking of that. Every minute, you must be able to try hard to carry out your own
mission without leaving it to someone else.
We can safely conclude that if you are like that, God is ready to help you any moment -- even if
you don't want His help. So God is on your side, working more than ever with you. If you have
that strength, that faith, that dedication -- then without your asking, God will be there to work
with you, to work through you, and you will have the strength and confidence that you can make
your mission a success. Each State Representative here, population wise, represents some four
million people. With that in mind, have you felt a deep sense of responsibility from them? Have
you ever felt that you are responsible for those people and that your every action, every thought,
every word will determine whether or not they will be saved? That is the great problem/question.
If, with that attitude, you have been struggling hard, day and night, waking or sleeping for this
mission, the whole spirit world cannot but be mobilized in your aid. What makes it that way? In
that case, you are in the position of Adam or Eve before the fall. You are in accordance with
God's will; so those who are in the position of the Archangel must help you and minister to you.
In other words, you are in the position of Adam and Eve, sons and daughters of God, having
nothing to do with sin, conforming entirely with God's will.
Then, since those passed away people on the spirit side are in the position of the Archangel, they
are compelled to minister to you and help you -- or else they are not carrying out their mission
and will be punished. Among the vast numbers of spirit-men, those who are on the side of good
are compelled to help our movement; and they are, even in the spirit world, fighting against the
Satanic power. So they will be helping us and our group cannot but have success and victory.
So, whenever you feel that you have not quite ... that you have failed in bringing in people, don't
blame God, don't blame the nature of the people, don't blame the nature of the city blame

yourself. In that case, have you ever repented and bowed down before God, begging His
forgiveness, begging like a sinner before Him -- have you ever felt that way? In that case, you
must be ashamed to even look at the nature around you, to see the people around you. You must
be ashamed of yourself, ashamed of your being able to eat, ashamed of your being able to wash
your face. Every minute of your life, you must be feeling that. If you focus your attention on one
point, and if you pour out your whole being into your nation, you can even sense what is to come
and in what way you can approach people and witness to them, how you can convince and
persuade people. You must re-examine yourself, analyze yourself, criticize yourself and recruit
yourself re-educate yourself.
You must be more than a poet in communicating with the things of nature. When you visit a
place of scenic beauty, you can talk to them, saying, "I am sorry you are still in travail, waiting
for the perfected sons and daughters of God to have dominion over you. I am going to do that for
you. I am going to be a real son, to be able to soothe you and love you and know your value.
Well, I am spiritually low now, ragged like this; but when I come to see you the second time, I
will be elevated like this, and you will rejoice to see me, and I will communicate with you from
the highest level." You must be able to talk back and forth with nature. Sometimes, when you see
the sunrise, the glory of the sunrise, you can cry out to the sun, saying, "I will make you glorious,
because I am the son of God! And once I carry out my mission I will be able to really appreciate
you and make you really glorious, to shine over all human beings, like I do, in the spiritual sense.
I will make you glorious because of me." Could you say that to the sun, to nature?
During the night, in deep nocturnal meditation, did you ever try to resolve, to be determined in
your mind, to succeed in carrying out your mission and accomplishing what was left
unaccomplished by the passed-away saints and becoming the dominator of light, eliminating or
erasing the darkness? Well, were you confident enough to claim that, and cry it out to the
darkness? When you look at the chains of mountains, can you cry out, "I am the son of man; I am
the first one to be able to really appreciate you. You are there always meditating over things of
beauty, but I am here to create beauty and to restore all human beings with beauty, love and
everything." When you hear the chirping birds, when you see the reflecting ribbons of river, have
you been able to face God, have you been able to sing the glory of God, saying, "This is my
garden, from my Father, who created it for me; and I will beautify this place and I will beautify
myself. And by perfecting myself, I will glorify God and bring all the children of God back to
His bosom." Have you ever felt that? If you don't have that kind of experience, you are not
qualified to be State Representatives, or I.W.'s, or Commanders on the mobile teams. If you have
been grumbling, saying, "'Well, I am forced to do this, I want to escape from this. I am reluctant
to do this," and you can barely drag yourself on then you are already a failure.
Once you are assigned this great mission, why don't you be qualified for your mission? ... and
after carrying out your mission and glorifying your ancestors, glorifying the passed-away saints
and glorifying God, seek another place where you can help out people with other missions? If
you are like this, would God not love you and look for you, to console your heart? In that case,
God would confide His heart to you and everything of value, which has been stored away, will
be taken out by God and given to you. Unless you are a person God needs, you prayers will not
be answered. Those who really feel that they are needed by God, will you hold up your hands? Is
it true -- are you really so? Are you imagining it, or are you really so? Is God really in need, is

our Master absolutely in need of you? Are you the people needed by the Unification Church, are
you the people needed by the people of this world?...does the state need you? [YES!] I can see
that you are not too confident, because your "'yes" is not strong enough. You must reawaken
yourself to the fact, and you must recruit your strength.
You must be confident enough to feel that you can crush the people with both hands like this, and
you can be responsible for those four million people under you, in your state. You must feel that,
once you kick at them, they will be crushed under your foot; kick at the mountain, and the
mountain will be crushed into pieces. You must be able to say, "Once everybody, anybody,
appears before me, you cannot leave me without being defeated or being absorbed by me."
I said that my subject was going to be "Victory or Defeat." Then who will be the victors, and
who will be the defeated? Who are going to be the victors? [WE ARE!] And who is going to be
the defeated? [SATAN!] Yes, Satan. And the whole population of each state represents the
Satan's side. Isn't that true? [YES!] Well, your answer, as I see, is in the affirmative but after one
year work in some of the states, there is only a handful of people, and in some places, I find that
only the State Representative remains. You have taken three meals a day, for one year -- that is
1,080 meals you have taken -- but some of you have done practically nothing. What can I say to
you? The very food can accuse you. So, this must be a grave question. You must be more serious
than God; you must be more anxious to carry out your mission than God is to have you do it. You
must hate yourself for that more than God would. Have you gone through that feeling? You take
things for granted and no change can come about ' and no difference is there from yesterday,
today and the days to come. If you have not been able to bring in members, you must at least be
able to leave something that no one else could do. If you are a failure in that state, when we next
send someone as State Representative to the people there, they will be scornful of the newcomer,
the new State Representative, and say, "I am afraid he is going to be a duplication of his
predecessor." Well, before leaving your post, you must be able to at least leave something that
could never be done by other people. You can do that at ,least. If you fail to move the hearts of
the people, try to move the rocks, move nature, praying the whole night on a mountainside,
talking with God. Always, the question comes to your own self: you must have a strong sense of
being a warrior and soldier, fighting for the sake of the state for which you are responsible. Then,
after the battle, after each war, you must be able to cry out, "My battle today was a victory!"
While the people of the state are in utter darkness, in despair, in the dungeon of hell -- you must
be able to let the people think there is light, and once the light shines out it will be warmed up,
and they will be animated. Have you left that kind of thing to the state? Yes or no!
You must be able to find yourself always improving, better every day, every moment. And you
must have been changed a lot for the better. Are you like that? Do you have that ambition? In my
prayer, I can sense that for the first few weeks the mobile team members were so anxious and
even fearful before God as to whether or not they would be able to carry out their missions and
they were so anxious to carry out what was assigned to them -- but after a few weeks they have
become somehow settled, not in the good sense, but in such a way that they have become lax and
do things in a habitual way. That is not the way you should be. That being the battlefield, every
moment is so precious, so important and you must be well armed, first of all, with a sense of
responsibility. Every minute, a new sense, a stronger sense of responsibility. You must be
stronger in your ambition, sense of responsibility and sense of purpose, because there is Satan --

who can come and attack you at any moment. Anything alive has to grow; cessation is the eve of
retreat. You must go on, advance forward -- you must be able to find yourself ever increasing,
ever progressing. You must be able to say to yourself, "I was a failure last year, but it was not in
vain -- it taught me a lesson, and this year I must plan to do this and that." And after this year, if
you find it is still a failure, you have learned another lesson from this, and you can grow in that
way, and you can finally make your mission or project a success. You have learned the principle
that where there is a perfect subject there is sure to appear a perfect object. If you are really
aggressive and ambitious in carrying out your purpose -- which is God's then the ground for you
to work on will be provided. And it's natural for the object to come about for you as the subject.
And, since you are a better self than what you were yesterday, then you are entitled to more
things. Since you have improved, and you are better than what you were last month, you can
hope for something greater. Then, have you been lending attentive ears, attentive eyes, looking
for something greater, some greater project for which you can be responsible? You must be so
attentive and so anxious to carry out your mission that when you see, for instance, a yellow car
coming from a distance, you will imagine, "There must be someone whom I can witness to, and
bring into the movement. God must be sending at least one in that car; will it be a woman, will it
be a man, will it be a girl or a boy?" In anxiety, you are waiting for someone to come -- and a
miracle will happen, and the car will happen to stop before you, and a prepared person will come
out and you can speak to him. And he is the very person for our movement. Have you ever done
that? Suppose, on the contrary, the car passes by, and your heart is saddened; and without your
being conscious of it, tears run down your cheeks, and in deep prayer you console God's heart
and say, "Oh, Father, I know that You have gone through when You have failed to restore Your
children," and to that prayer God will surely respond or answer. You would say, "Oh, Father, I
feel so discouraged, I feel so dark, so low -- but have You not gone through all these things all
throughout human history, for 6,000 years? Well, I can recruit my strength." And before the
table, eating your supper, you can be in utter devotedness; and you can eat your supper, and God
will be with you, strengthening you, and you will feel God's love there.
If you are intoxicated in doing things, if you are almost crazy over the joy of bringing in
members, the spirit world will work for you, people will see visions, will see you in their dreams
and wait for you to come. If you have the attitude that you are waiting for a lost child to come
back to you, and you set out in search of lost children, and you set aside a portion of your candy
or any delicate edibles -- with a waiting heart you set something like that aside for your spiritual
children to come and relish -- if you are in such a mood, with such an attitude, with a parent's
heart, waiting for lost children to come back to you, God will be with you and you will be able to
find at least one. From my experience, I can readily tell you that if you are in that mood, you
cannot fail to find your children, spiritual ones. All through the night you would stay up the
whole night in meditation before God and the tick-tock of the clock would have a strange
influence on your ears. You can fancy or imagine that every second there are new lives coming
into the world. You can say that at every second there are so many people dying away, and you
can cry out to the clock, "Don't you ever feel, don't you ever sense that there are many lives
dying away?" And you can even listen to your own heartbeat, and every moment you are so
anxious to bring to life the "dead" people -- and you will be really serious. Every morning, when
you wake up, try to count your pulse: one, two, three, four, until you count your age. In
proportion to your graveness, seriousness, your pulse will say something to you.

Well, every moment, the more numbers you count, the more you are nearing the end of your life
-- have you ever imagined that? But if you have joy, happiness and courage, the beating or
pulsation will encourage you more and more. In every pulsation, you can feel God, and you can
feel that your life is here -- and with that animation, you can work the whole day and turn the
whole world upside down. If you are conscious of your eyes blinking, twinkling every moment,
then you will feel God or life there. When you walk, pace by pace, you want to pound against the
earth; you can feel courage and you can feel you can crush the earth and all people under your
feet. If you are powerless, your pace will be that of the defeated -- so you don't want to be that.
You must be able to encourage yourself every moment. A moment, a second may decide whether
you are the victor or the defeated. You must not forget that. We can never know which moment
will determine whether we are going to be the victor or the defeated. Sometime, a burglar may
come to you, pointing a pistol at you -- but after a moment, you are going to be the victor.
Sometimes something great is happening -- but the next moment you are going to be defeated.
You are very happy, with broad daylight smiles, really laughing but who knows but that you are
going to be defeated in the next moment? You are very hungry like this, and you can think of
nothing else but eating; and then, at that very moment, who knows, you may determine whether
you are going to be the victor or the defeated. How anxious have you been to achieve victory?
How long have you been waiting for victory? How long have you been struggling to attain or
gain the victory? Have you been doing things at the risk of your own life, risks on the verge of
life or death for that victory? Have you ever tried to gather your strength and get cooperation of
your parents, your brothers and sisters, your relatives and friends, to make your mission a
success, a victory? Have you been able to get the people around you to come to your rescue, or
to aid you in that mission? Have you been able to love the people around you, and miss them as
you would miss a bowl of food when you are hungry? Have you been forgetting to sleep and eat,
in your search for people? Have you been losing weight in your anxiety to find spiritual
children? Have you ever experienced loving your spiritual children in such a way that you would
hate to see them leave you, so that you would stop them and give them everything you have, and
tell them interesting stories to stop them from leaving -- and would do just anything for them, to
draw them to yourself? Have you ever slept with your clothing on, in meditation, thinking of the
people you miss, your spiritual children? In that case, when you wake up in the morning, you
don't feel rested, but you are so anxious to find out about your lost children -- so that you even
forget your fatigue. You would fall asleep just as you are, clad, and then find yourself in a vision,
all illuminated, all turned into white, glorious, as though you are in the palace of God. You can
have that kind of experience. Then you would weep and sob in gratitude before God and all
through the night; even though you sit up the whole night, you will never feel fatigued, never
feel tired, and you would be only grateful toward God.
If you have that attitude, in that mood, the whole spirit world will be mobilized, and will go in
advance to reach people and get their minds prepared for you. You must have that kind of
experience; you must be rich in those things. You must have that kind of experience, so that in
missing your spiritual children you would weep (that is a typical expression) ... you must have
three types of fluid coming out: tears, mucus and spittle. When you are utterly sad, when you are
intoxicated with love, something like that, then you will experience those three kinds of fluid
coming out. Have you ever loved someone, missed someone, with that experience? When you
are in that mood, it is more than something you experience when you are in love with some girl
or boy. He has the experience of loving one of his spiritual children so much that, upon his

leaving, he would hate to let him go alone, so he would escort him, walk him half way to his
home -- and then he would come back. That person would miss him again and he would walk
him back, and all through the night they would walk back and forth on the way. Well, there is
nothing to laugh at -- it is really a serious moment. In that case, you are intoxicated with love.
You must have that kind of experience. You should not be just like so many other cases, in
America -- once you say goodbye to someone you forget about them -- that's not the way it
should be among our group.
In searching for people, you must be able to do so in tearfulness, missing them with an attitude
such as I have spoken about. Then you must go beyond the level of the individual thing. After
you have found one person, you must be able to find a family, a whole neighborhood, a clan, a
nation, and the whole world; in that way, we advance forward. These are going to be the foothold
for God to work on, the foundation on which God can perform His part. So you must not feel
that you are all alone; God is always with you. If you are a perfect object to God, He will be
working with you. God is ready to give us the most precious things; we must resemble God, and
be ready to give out all we have, our most precious things, to others. Then your foothold will be
widened, your environment will be smoothed out, and you can pave the way -- not only for
yourself -- but for other people to follow you.
Last year, I was able to meet many senators and congressmen; and this year, I have met more of
such people. After my conversation with them, I could determine or figure out what is going to
happen in this nation. More than anything else, I tried to find out how many people they have
around them, and how broad a foothold or foundation they have built. I wanted to know how
anxious they were to meet people; and when I found one who was really nonchalant and
indifferent about people, in meeting me or other people, I could determine his fate. It means they
must be attentive in searching for anyone, to provide greater things for him; he doesn't know if
one who is seemingly nobody will come to visit him, and through this person he will be destined
to success or victory. There are quite a few people who left a good impression, a wonderful
impression, on me. Among them, I counted first level: first one, second, third. And the next time
I meet them, the second time, I can compare what they are at that time to what they are now.
Well, if I find a certain one never changing in that attitude, or who wants to receive people even
more, I can work with him -- I can make him world famous, with God's help. They can never
dream of my thinking of them like that. Sometimes I deliberately do impolite things in front of
them. Let those who have ears to hear, hear; let those who have eyes to see, see. You never know
who will be for you and who will make your fate different; there may be a sick man, an old man,
coming leaning on a stick, and he may be the very person to help you -- you can never tell.
Whenever you meet a person, you must now think that he may be a savior, he may be a great
help to you and a judge over what you are; if you have that attitude, you can never fail. Don't be
a slave to your mood; when you are cross or mad at someone, if you say a harsh thing to him,
that might determine your defeat. If you are cross at someone, unkind to someone, that may
determine your fate, an ill fate. I want you to be always humble, kind, loving and understanding
of others, even though the person visiting you may be a cross or evil person -- even unforgivably
evil. God can then turn him and use him to help you, to make you a success. When you go out to
witness to people, an old person may come along, like this...you may hate the idea of having to
speak to that person, and will simply pass by. That is not the attitude you should have. Who

knows ... his son may become the president of a nation, his grandson or great-grandson may be
the most famous leader. You must be such a person that that old man will speak to his children
about you: "Well, all through my life, being a crippled person, I have been ill-treated, and faced
with so much agony and sadness in my heart; but once in my lifetime, I met a gloriously
wonderful youth, and this person is so-and-so, and you must remember him for my sake, and do
your best to do everything possible for him." He may leave a will before his death -- who knows.
From that you may be able to become associated with his grandson, and you can -- who knows -you might even marry him in the holy blessing. Well, that kind of thing could happen. The
children of those old folks may be your future husband or future wife -- nobody can tell. So, you
can never mistreat anyone, however shabby or ragged-looking that person may be; and you must
think that whomever you meet, whomever you run across, has something to do with your fate.
You must not mistreat them; more than anything else, you must not be nonchalant, you must not
treat them as if they had nothing to do with you.
Let's consider the case of Joseph, Mary's husband. He was a righteous man, you know that -- but
could he believe what he was told in his dream by an angel. His fiance was pregnant, and he
was agonized in heart. If he were an ordinary person, he would have forgotten what he received
in the dream, would have been nonchalant about it, and would have denied its being the truth.
But he believed in that, and did as he was told in the dream -- to take Mary as his wife. You have
dreams, and some dreams will come true may be one out of a hundred, one out of ten might
come true -- how could you believe in what you had in your dream? But Joseph was a man of
faith, and he believed that God would instruct him, teach him what to do, how to do things; he
believed in his dreams, and he was serious enough to do things as he was told. John the Baptist
was a great person, prepared to receive Jesus. There had been so many prophets and saints who
had received revelation from God, but John the Baptist saw, not in a dream, but with his very
eyes, a dove descending from heaven and alighting on Jesus. And a voice came from heaven,
saying, "This is my glorious son with whom I am well pleased." And he believed in that. I can
see some dozing off like this ... but who knows...at this moment your fate might be decided.
Out of the thousands of words from Master, this one word might be planted in your heart like a
seed, to flourish and to make you a victor ... who knows? Well, if you are sleepy, go ahead and
fall asleep. I know you are tired, I understand that; but I am all the more so. Because I have gone
through so much fatigue and so much sleepiness, I can understand you. It is because we are tired
that we need this moment.
The time element is so important that, if you can grasp a moment, you can be a victor; on the
other hand ' if you let it go, you will be defeated. I warn you not to be overjoyed when happiness
comes to you; and don't try to escape when misery and heartbreak come. All of it is for you.
Please be aware of the fact that you are responsible for everything that comes to you; and if you
can meet with it and win over it or conquer it, you are going to be the victor. You will at least
learn a lesson from the experience. You are responsible for the occasion; and if you are victorious
over the difficulty, you must be able to pass it on to others, and you must be able to link it to your
goal. If you are deeply sympathetic with a person in need of that, then it can turn his fate upside
down like this, and you will have won the truest friend.

I will tell you one of my experiences In prison. Someone beside me knew -- I don't know how
but somehow knew my birthday. I am greatly indebted to him, as to many others. You can never
imagine how miserable life is in Korean prisons, under the Communist or Japanese regimes. For
example, people are so hungry there ... and some die eating, with their mouths full of rice, and do
you know what happens?...he has still a mouthful of rice, and the prisoners around him hurry to
get that rice out of his mouth, and would relish that rice. You can never imagine. And some
would have visitors give them a handful of rice powder -- they would never take anything in the
whole world for this, they would never let it go for the whole world. But if Master received some
of that rice powder from his visitors, he would give it out handfuls or spoonfuls to everyone
there. And out of all those people, one, after eating a portion of it, would save a tiny bit, put a
tiny amount aside. And when that had accumulated to this much, he remembered Master's
birthday; and on that day, he did something with the powder. He made a dough out of it, molded
it like a cake or pudding, and celebrated Master's birthday right there in the dungeon. Master can
never forget this person; he wants to meet him in his lifetime. Master is going to repay him.
When I remember him doing such a thing for me, I repent, I feel regret, and say to myself, "Why
did I not give him more? He was doing this for me, even though he did not have enough out of
that small portion I gave him. Why did I not give him more?" I always recollect that scene.
When I think back on that experience, I always imagine that God must be feeling the same. If I
receive so much blessing from God, in such abundance, I must put aside some portion to be
returned to Him and He will be all the more anxious to give to me and to bless me with more
abundance. If you are ready to return some portion, at least, out of what you have received, to
God; and if you can do that in a miserable condition, not in a blessed involvement, but in a
miserable condition; if you can return joy and gratitude to God; then you are going to be blessed
all the more, and God will miss you, will never forget you, will be ready to help you at any
moment and you are going to be a success. My topic this evening is "Victory or Defeat in
Accordance with the Time Element." When is the time? The time and the hour are here. Now is
the time, now is the hour. What you hear at this moment, what you see at this moment, what you
think or say or do at this moment will determine whether you are going to be victorious or
defeated. So be awakened to this fact, and be aware of the fact that what you are doing at this
moment will determine your fate. Our victory, unlike others, will be connected with God; and
our defeat will belong to hell. So I warn you to be clearly oriented, in this thing, to be a victor in
the end, and return glory to God. You are here, and you all look alike. But in God's sight, there
are people who are going to be victors, other who are going to be defeated and there are some to
whom God will say, "It would have been better if you had not come at all." You must remember
the purpose, the responsibility and the time element which can determine your victory or defeat.
Shall we pray.
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ONE AGE,
ONE GENERATION
September 3, 1978
London, England
Translator - Sang Kil Han

We find in the world that some people are born as men and others as women. A person may have
an image of being someone else and wish he could have that life instead. For instance, some
women wish they were born men and some men wish they were born women. Some Africans
wish they were born as white men somewhere else. But no matter what we wish to be born as,
we must live through one generation of life and the path of life that one generation experiences.
There are as many different life experiences as there are different faces.
In every life there are many ups and downs but mostly we like to stay in the mainstream and live
an adequate life. What is the horizontal line or path that a so-called right kind of life would
follow? Everyone tends to find a standard of conduct for his life and thinking through the law of
his nation or the standard of his society. We can only develop and improve, however, if we have
a higher vision than the requirements of the law. It is not enough to just follow the do's and don'ts
of the law; you must have some ideal.
Are there more don'ts or more do's? Are there more things you want to do but can't, or more
things you don't want to do but must because they are your responsibility? Why? Obviously it is
easier to do whatever we are not supposed to do, and people have a tendency to do those things
all the time. There are more don'ts because good things are more difficult to do. As a result, the
one who has a high ideal and who lives a good life doesn't have much to do with the law or need
to worry too much about whether he is following it.
In this situation it is relatively easy to lead a bad life but not too easy to lead a good life. If you
ask people if they want to lead a good life or a bad life, however, obviously no one will say he
wants to live a bad life. From grammar school through college everyone encourages you to do
good things, and as your education increases you are encouraged to do higher-level things. It is
like climbing a tree; the higher you go the more difficult it becomes. This is the kind of life we
are living on earth now.
Once you are born and finish your span of life, you cannot get a second life or try again. If you
cannot accomplish today, perhaps you will have one more chance tomorrow, but once you die
there is no second life or second chance. We must make the best of one life.
Can anyone control the meaning
and destiny of his life?

Does anyone volunteer to be born? We simply find ourselves born in spite of ourselves. Some
unthinking people say, "Well, 1 am born. That's that" and never think about anything else. Of
course, no one can hold you responsible for being born, but once you are here more and more
regulations and demands and responsibilities are bestowed upon you.

For example, in every country when you reach a certain age you must go to school for a certain
number of years. Not everyone wants to go to school but they must nevertheless. Why? Whether
voluntarily or because we are compelled to, we go to school so that we can better perform our
responsibility to society. Whether we like it or not, we have responsibilities as human beings, and
in order to perform them better we must go to school.
Can anyone control the timing of his death? No one can plan ahead that he will die at a certain
time and then die on schedule; there is no one like that. Nevertheless, even though each person is
destined to die he keeps thinking, "I won't die. I won't die" and then one morning he is dead.
Like birth, death has nothing to do with desire. lt. is human nature that even on his deathbed a
person will believe he will still live a while longer. lt. is human nature that just as we can'' help
being born, we can't help dying. We are each responsible for managing our one generation of life,
however. Once he is born, a person has ambition and wants to do this and that thing, but there are
also some things that are given to us to do by our circumstances.
What should a man do while he is alive? Is hi; responsibility just to keep eating and living?
Without exception animals eat to keep alive and naturally the, fight when there is a scarcity of
food. This seems tc be the natural law. Men think they are better than the animals, but what's
different? Animals give birth to offspring and care for them as much as some people care for
theirs, and even more. The nation of England has existed for hundreds of years, but if you look
a~ the bees you see that their world is more harmonious; than England's. The bees and ants
cherish their queer more than the British people do. The working bees and ants labor much
harder than British subjects.
Do bees and ants cheat while working? Do they go some place else to nap, or pause to hide from
the rain under the shelter of a tree? They work as their instinct commands them, and there is
never even the slightest irregularity among them. When we think of the standard of the bees and
ants as compared to the human standard, are we any better than the animal world? We can only
conclude that we aren't. Men often fight each other but in the long run there is no gain from it.
But animals gain something even when they fight because they give birth to better offspring.
There is more conflict in the human world but no gain from it. I gather that every one of you
likes to eat good food. Would animals like tasty food, too? Then what difference is there between
you and them? You like to sleep when you are tired and animals also take a rest when their
bodies demand it. You like to play and so do the animals.
How can you live thinking that you are born to struggle and have contradiction with other
beings? Is that a happy man or a man doomed to misery? Think how miserable you would be
believing you were born to be defeated. When we think about these things, what do we find in
man's world that is any better than the animals?
What is man born to do in his life? A woman would say, "I am born so that eventually I can
marry a man." A man says, ''I am born so that when I grow up I will be married to a woman."
When you list the important events in your life surely making the right marriage is one of them,
but when you go to school are you taught that your purpose is marriage? Even though it is
important, no woman studies about man or man about woman.

Once we are married, another important thing is giving birth to children. Everyone wants to have
safe childbirth, but does every man study gynecology so that he can assure his child's safe
delivery, or take a month or a year to study about children? We don't study about children, even
though they are very important.
How can a husband and wife live together harmoniously? After getting married and having
children, the next stage is to have a happy life. Happiness becomes a very important element, but
where is it found" Does it come when a man and woman are connected together? Even though a
man and woman get together, each has all different levels and specifications. A woman might
want a husband with a round rather than a long face and one who is not too skinny but a little fat.
She might even have specifications about the color of his eyes and the shape of his ears and nose.
By the time she rules out this and that, what is left in this whole wide universe might be one tiny
spot! When she really finds out the chances for fulfilling her specifications are that small. she alpost suffocates wondering how she is going to find such a man.
Having such a limited view is like living in a small one-room apartment that you can barely fit
into. Maybe you enjoy it today, but how do you know you will like it ten years from now?
Probably you will hate it by then. Each person knows that his own standard of beauty or
desirability goes up and down from year to year. Last year he thought that one thing was the best;
this year he thinks the reverse is better. A woman married to a shorter man might wish all
throughout her life that she were married to a taller' man. E Even action goes in cycles of up and
down. You can't really establish what you like because you don't really know. In your mind, do
you think you will be different from my general description?
If there is an ever-changing standard within each person then what can we say that happiness is?
Where does happiness really lie? Between man and woman? No, we cannot say that. Suppose a
woman is really lucky and finds a mate who matches her ideal, thinking this man is what all the
women in her lineage have looked for over the generations but never found. Can anyone
guarantee that her happiness will last one full lifetime? Usually such an "ideal'' marriage doesn't
last long; often the husband dies after a few months. He may go out in the morning healthy and
happy but be brought back dead. This is not difficult to imagine. Every day people are killed by
war, but more people are killed by car accidents, so how can we be sure that, even though we
may find a happy marriage, it will last? Is there any guarantee?
When you look at life realistically, even to think about happiness is insane, and to search for
happiness and the ideal is irrational. Life is so capricious that there no guarantee in this world.
When we really think seriously we know that there are many things we cannot change. Even
though we may have good marriages, there is no guarantee we will have good offspring. I have
seen that many seemingly good marriages in this world have produced bad children. Although
there is hope and an ideal at the beginning of a match, ultimately the partners may wish they had
not married at all. Many women feel they should have stayed single and wish they had never had
children. We said we go to school to become responsible, but if we can't be responsible for our
own happy marriage and for the best children, what can we be responsible for? Why should we
go to school for fourteen years?

The governments of nations are the same. Of course, officials try their best according to their
consciences, working very hard and patriotically dedicating their lives to the country, but when a
country goes in the wrong direction how can they help it? A country's destiny, as with an
individual's, is not controllable. There are no guarantees.
Everyone values that which is unchanging

Now we come to think more clearly about what is good and what is bad. How can you look for
what is permanent, unchanging good and what is definitely bad at all times? Take the example of
my house. In order for my house to be a good one what should it have? What if it is a good house
now but it may not last very long? It has to have a good foundation and be made of durable
materials because whether or not a house will last must be the first requirement. Even if a house
is beautiful, if it shakes when you kick it then no one can say it is a good house. When you check
for quality you also look for good paint and other material that won't fade away in a year. Even if
the roof is nice, if it begins to leak in five or ten years then it is no good. The best roof is the one
that will never leak as long as the house lasts.
If you find a good man and analyze him, he will be one who won't always change from one
mood to another. In that one respect he will be different from other people, and you can say, "I
like him. His face has a distinct character." That characteristic of goodness in a man comes
most]y from upholding a standard of morality and a uniqueness of character. Then why is this
also the description of a good house? Why is it good for a house to be lasting and unchanging
and unique? Because then that one house can serve as a standard to measure all other houses.
When you have a standard you can measure, but without it you will never be more than vague in
your understanding.
If you were light, would it be better to be light from an e electric bulb or light from the sun? The
sun has unique characteristics. Does everyone respect the sun because it acts capriciously and
may shine today but not tomorrow? We are sure the sun will stay this year, but next year will it
hide some place else'.' We can depend on the sun because it doesn't change. Therefor`, we can
say it is good. We could go on and on with a variety of examples. The sun doesn't reflect
anything but gives away its own light. What about you? Car you give away light on your own?
Even if you did, are you guaranteed never to change? Will you remain the same through eternity?
What seems good at one time can be bad at another, so what is goodness anyway? When we
consider this we know that unchangeability is necessary for something to be good. Let us
consider jewels. The nature of treasure is such that it doesn't change. Why is gold a treasure and
why does everyone value it? It is unchanging and its unique color lasts. Science has discovered
that diamonds are made of common carbon, so what is precious about diamonds? '-heir hardness
is unique and no one can match it. They also reflect light in the most brilliant way we know of.
The smallest light reflects brilliantly in a diamond and that property will last for millions of
years. We can come to the conclusion that men like diamonds and gold because their
characteristics are unchanging and eternally unique, and humans are looking for something that
resembles their own characteristics. People have not analyzed this, but this is the reason they
value gold and jewels.

A pearl is not even hard, and if it is scratched once it retains a permanent mark. A pearl has a
unique characteristic in that it shines with the most noble assortment of colors. You want to look
at it again and again and never get tired of it. There is a reason why mankind has cherished these
articles as treasure for thousands of years.
We often talk about what is real and what is false. If w say something is genuine, what does that
mean? We are referring not only to its external form, will come ;o like me and center on me as a
focal point. Recently I have come to be a center of world attention and everyone wonders what I
am doing. As the leader of the Unification Church I have unique characteristics. I don't change
because of rain or snow. Let the rain come and the snow blow once in a while; they are supposed
to. But that has nothing to do with me. I don't change.
Now you know that this is the secret. If you gather your unique characteristics and try to perfect
them then you will last and last and never change, even when you go to spirit world. If you are
like this, you've got it made.
Compare yourself to diamonds, gold and pearls. Do treasures exist for themselves or for others to
appreciate? Gold does not exist for its own sake but for others. Iron is a rather soft metal, but if
you have a diamond on the tip of an iron drill there is no material you cannot penetrate. Each
treasure has its own characteristics.
What is the precious characteristic within ourselves? What is the treasure within a man? Is it his
eyes or ears? Is it life? Is it knowledge or influential power? These are only relative and you can
live without them and still be happy. Life and love are most important, and love is more precious
than life. Life is just as eternal and both seem to be just as important but love is definitely more
valuable. When you say "happy" the sound is very good, but when you analyze the things that
seem to bring happiness you usually find they are not worthwhile.
Why is love much more precious than life? You must know that love is very precious because
men and women have value only when they have love. Love can make a treasure out of a man
and a woman. No one can argue that diamonds and gold and pearls but to the uniqueness of its
characteristics. When these are there, you can be sure something is real. A fake article may look
the same as the real one, but it will lack one of its essential characteristics.
Who is a good person? Take Doris Orme, for example. She has her own characteristics and no
one can be exactly like her. That feature is very attractive and should last without ever changing.
If she is one way in the morning but different in the evening, however, then her attraction is not
one of genuineness. Then she needs to further develop her characteristics.
Are you a good man, a good woman? Why do you pause so long and make such a face, as if this
were a painful question? These qualities of goodness have existed all along and are the center of
man's spirituality. Now we know what the standard is. Knowing this standard is a more important
thing than life and death, but why don't people think about it and try to explain it? Do you
understand clearly what is good? So far people have thought of goodness only in vague terms.
Are your eyes good eyes or bad eyes? Eyes have their own ability to see and if the eye is healthy
its perception never changes. Ears have the unchanging characteristic of hearing. The mouth and

the hands also have their own unchanging characteristics. I want you to know how to see what
the good is in everything.
How can I know what I am supposed to become? I must choose one way of life but what is it? I
must retain the uniqueness which I and other people recognize in me and it should not change.
This sister happens to be an English woman now, but if she were to go to Korea would she
change into a Korean? Certainly not. Deep inside she still retains her uniqueness and does not
have to change. Likewise, the gold mined in England might be different from the gold found in
Korea, but if the gold from England is exported to Korea, does it change? It stays the same, and
the Koreans will value it as much as the English do.
What about me? I started in Korea and went to America. Did I change in America? No, I stayed
the same. Even though I go to other countries I do not change according to what country I am in.
One look isn't enough to tell, but if people begin to study me they will see deeper and deeper and
people of all races are very precious, but in the presence of love a person becomes more precious
than any of them. Would you prefer to have the man you love or have the most precious jewels in
the world? You would choose a loving husband because once you and he become completely,
ideally one, the whole universe will move around you and God will surround you. All the objects
of the universe will pay attention to you. Love is a million times more precious than diamonds
and it certainly has the energy to move everything, even God and the whole universe. That
means that if two people in love spin around and around, God will be drawn to them in spite of
Himself.
Love has an immense, immeasurable value and this explains why everyone is struggling to find
love. Is love nice, but just a temporary thing, or does it last? True love is eternal and unchanging.
It is unique because only love can make a treasure out of everything. Because love has these
three essences, it is good.
After we are born we have to pursue something in life. Is accumulating diamonds the most
important thing for us? Is happiness finding the most productive gold mine so that we can have
more and more gold? Is it going to sea so that you can collect endless varieties of pearls? You
know that pursuing love rather than these treasures is true happiness.
How do you pursue happiness? You are born to love. We clearly have responsibility for love and
we spend even half of our lives educating ourselves in order to be able to bear that responsibility.
How fantastic and wonderful it is that man is born to be responsible for love. How do you feel to
hear this? Exhilarated, or sad and miserable? I can tell by seeing your faces.
Can anyone agree with a man who says that his responsibility in life is to study and study to gain
a Ph.D.? You would rather live in a cave than in that kind of ideal because study alone is
suffocating. Let me ask a question of the sisters who have an education. Suppose there were two
candidates to be your husband-one a respected Ph. D. who is just like a stone statue, and a
factory laborer who looks just like a potato but who really burns with love and would dedicate
everything for the sake of ideal love. Whom would you choose?

Only with love can we

measure the value of our lives

Now you definitely know that love is the center of your life. If you invest everything into love,
will you regret it some day? When you decide to give yourself to love, even the most difficult
road is a happy road. If you are assured that you will eventually have true love, even your life no
longer matters. You can risk your life over and over again and still want to do even more.
Would you ultimately be happy or unhappy if you pursued that love with all of your time and
energy? If you have found real love and then someone comes along and tries to seduce you,
would you give even your life to preserve your true love? You would want to die first because
true love is eternal and unchanging.
Is God good? Why? He is absolute, unchanging and unique. Once God sets His goal He will not
give up or change but will endure and endure. Since God does not change, once man makes a
promise to God then even his life should not matter. Even if our lives are gone but our promise is
fulfilled, we gain everything.
Are Unification Church members good people or bad people? Even if the rain pours down on
you and you receive much persecution, you don't change but go on and on, and like the pearl you
shine with some unexplainable and noble light. Some people say you have the clearest eyes they
have ever seen and such a peace and joy within yourselves that they just can't understand where
it comes from. There is one sister who has such an incredible look that people can't believe she
has suffered for ten years. Yet she is ready to go even stronger each successive day in search of
persecution.
This is the one thing people have difficulty understanding about us. They look at the Unification
Church style of life and say, "Oh, in ten years he will definitely be finished." But no, we go on
and on and are never exhausted and even gain more power. Why? Because we are finding the
path of true love under God.
Love is the only force that can put everything in order both vertically and horizontally, and not
only that, it makes a big circle and penetrates everywhere. We must realize that everyone wants
to be dominated by the most perfect love. Do lovers embrace each other from a distance or as
closely as possible? Why do they move around rather than standing still? Since the universe is
revolving, they also revolve. When you are blessed you will experience how a husband will
embrace his wife so hard that if he is a strong man he might even break a couple of her ribs and
then she will have to go to the hospital! W~11 she say her husband is a bad man? No, she will
have no regrets even if her bones are broken.
When I practice this way of life of love I look like a crazy man and people call me insane, but I
have no regrets and I am the happiest man in the world. I am a man of success too. The world has
been here for thousands of years but I am the first one who truly cultivated it. If you set out to
love God and mankind in a crazy way, take no heed of what people think. I have loved Koreans
and Americans and Japanese without any reservations and now I am loving Europeans the same
way. I live the way I do for God because this is the happiest way, the worthiest and most valuable

way I know. What is your evaluation? Do you think it was wise or foolish of me to take this
way?
If we are truly following this way of love then why does God not lift the persecution from us?
God lets persecution continue to make sure that His people won't change no matter what happens
to them and that they will go on for eternity and retain their love for Him and humanity. God has
been disappointed by many, many people. Since God is only good He doesn't know any evil and
so He has trusted everyone, but He has been betrayed every time. Even though I have proven
myself many times, God still wants to make completely sure that I will never change. The people
outside our Church see only the persecution that comes to me, but at the same time God is
constantly giving more blessings to me. While I am persecuted God continues to give His
blessings and love, and when I realize this then there is nothing to fear.
You may think that gold is precious, but the best way to really know this is to put it into the fire.
Only then will you know it is unchanging, for when the fire is out the gold is still the same.
Though people persecute me, when they see that I never change they will understand how
precious I am.
We must come back to the value of our own lives, for the possibility of being born is only a small
one. We must make the best of being born and dedicate ourselves accordingly, and then
everything, including God, will recognize that we have lived wisely. This is the best way of life
possible. Many people seek happiness and the ideal, but we are in happiness and the ideal
because we live to be responsible for real, true love. Is it stylish or not, nice or not?
What about asking Adam, the first ancestor who failed, "'this is our lifestyle. Do you approve of
it or not?" Do you think Adam would say yes or no? Imagine that thousands of generations from
now we ask one of our descendants whether someone who lived as we do now was wise or
foolish. He will answer just as Adam did. What about God? Will He say He knows of a better life
than that? If you can ask anyone, including God, whether the best way of life and the most
precious thing to pursue is this love, his answer will be yes.
Mankind must be taught that
all people are brothers and sisters

Why are you born? To be responsible for true love. Only in true love can you find true value.
Nothing else, not money, possessions, power or knowledge, is of value. We talk very much about
heaven, but heaven comes only after we experience this love in the physical world. Then the
spirit goes to heaven.
How do we apply this to our lives in a practical way? We must know for sure. A woman has her
husband, who is in the position of God for her. Then who is the king of all the universe and all
creation? In the Second Coming the lord will be the king of the world, and similarly, the husband
is in the position of the lord himself. In everyday life English wives should consider their
husbands as kings and they will be queens to their kings. Would such a wife be unhappy living
with a husband in the place of God Himself and of the lord himself?

God's love travels around the universe through this relationship. Your husband stands in the
position of God, lord and king and you are his queen. What more could you wish for? When your
see your husband you can rejoice as if you were seeing almighty and all-loving God, as much as
though you had been waiting generation after generation to see him. A wife will be the only
queen to her husband and he must try at her like the queen that the whole country cherish s. Each
of you is like the spouse of God and should regard your spouse as king and queen. Just as
everyone wants to get close to God, so should you keep this love and desire in your life.
This love is the starting point and the ending, and both look the same. What is the difference? If a
man loves his wife this much he will love his country, the world and also God like that. If you
reduce a large crystal to a smaller size it still retains the same shape and characteristics. If you
reduce the size of the world of love, its shape is still the same. If we live in the physical body like
that on earth then when we go to spirit world will we become completely one with God or not?
We will become one with God because love has no boundary. It cannot be stopped but can go
anywhere it wants to go.
When you meet your husband and ask where he came from, he can actually say he was sent by
the lord to meet you with a load of love. God said, "You go to your wife," so he went with a
knapsack full of love. When that emissary of love comes with his knapsack, you welcome him
no matter how he looks because you know you are never worthy of him. The person who doesn't
feel that way isn't qualified to marry anyone.
If you preserve this mainstay of love then all kinds of associations of love will develop: You will
love your country just as the king of that country would love it. As the lord would love the
creation, so would you as the king love your own people. If we love just that way then wherever
we go is the world of love.
We find that God, the lord, and a king are not three separate entities, but one, a trinity. Parents
are synonymous with God and the king, as Jesus was supposed to be. If Adam and Eve hadn't
fallen, they would have been our parents, our king and queen, our lords, even our God. We must
find those real parents, real lord, real king and real God now, within our lifetimes. This is why
we say that the child of filial piety, who loves his parents more than his own life, is worthy of
going to heaven. Because of this principle the royal citizen can go straight to heaven if he loves
his country as God does.
If the human ancestors hadn't fallen then all mankind would have automatically lived like this
and not needed to learn it in school. But because of the fall, everything was shattered and God
has had to restore everything to the original position. Therefore, you have been hearing that in
order to go to heaven you must love your parents and country, the world and the universe. The
family cultivates on a smaller scale the same type of love which is expanded to the national level,
world level and universal level. If we are determined to go the straight way in that direction then
we don't have to worry about the other things because they will all be included. Unification
Church members c re not living even for the sake of the family and the country but for the world
and the universe.

Where does our inner power come from? By loving our' parents as much as we can we become
more and more capable of loving the world and God. Everything, I have been doing is designed
to show everyone :hat this is the way for mankind to live. Each person must love his parents and
be a son or daughter of filial piety. Once you gain this new knowledge you c an go witness
knowing that you have a real connection with parents, and then you can love your brother with
the attitude, "My brother, I am coming because God wants me to." The whole universe and every
person is your brother and sister, not just in idea but in reality. You must feel that love as the real
reason why you go out to witness.
When you white members meet a black person you must think how long he has been lost and in
search of God and parents. Seeing the color of the black man's skin, you can feel as though it was
burned by the sun's rays as he wandered, searching for parents. You must feel he must have gone
without food and ~ he right kind of treatment for many days. You can teach him what life is
about so that he can be responsible for love.
Mankind does not know that all people are brothers and sisters, so how can they love each other?
We have to teach them and prove that they are brothers and sister). This is why we teach the
Divine Principle. When each of you knows this deeply enough you will one day burst into tears,
embracing each other, crying, "I did not know you were my brother. " You can F 'ray to
experience that.
Teaching this is actually the True Parents' responsibility, but since they physically cannot reach
all the billions of people in the world you are going out to tea, h in their place. If your supreme
purpose is love, can you give up when you meet with persecution? With the right point of view,
resistance will only intensify your desire to bring your brother. Let persecution work to
encourage you even more to bring your true brother and sister to the bosom of their Parents.
This is what Christianity is all about, teaching everyone to gather all their brothers and sisters
together as though they were their own physical family. Even if a son leaves his father alone to
go out and search for his brothers and sisters, his father will not blame him and say he has done
wrong. Likewise, if a husband and wife are happily married but the husband feels he must go out
to find his lost brothers and sisters, will the wife say, "No, you must stay with me and forget
about them"? She cannot say that.
Even if they sacrifice their own married life, when each one goes out to meet his own brother
and sister God will find more that is precious in their home. There is a good reason for this: Once
a husband and wife are blessed and consummate their marriage they are inseparable, even if one
dies and they don't meet again until both are in spirit world. But if they don't find their brothers
and sisters here on earth, there is no way for them to find them once they go to spirit world.
This is why you go in search of brothers and sisters more than trying to stay together as husband
and wife. If you don't then when you go to spirit world and your brothers and sisters say, "Where
were you when l was astray," you will be without any explanation.
This is not a one-time thing we are talking about; it is simply the way we each must live and the
purpose of happiness will be found there. Once everyone understands that this way of life must

prevail in the husband and wife relationship and the vertical relationship between God and man,
then we will have heaven on earth.
Why do I push you constantly?

Why is everyone in the Unification Church chased out? It is so that each of you can develop your
uniqueness to the point where you can go on and on without changing. To insure this, I give you
internal persecution and you are chased out. In order to be unchanging you must confront a
situation where you can easily be changed. If you go through that without changing then it will
be because you have become like forged iron that has become steel.
If universities had originally existed with this ultimate purpose then their students wouldn't be
going the wrong way. What good does it do to have ten Ph.D.'s? Would it help you as a basic
human being? Certainly we must learn a more essential knowledge, which is the Divine
Principle.
If all sorts of people, from the nobility to the beggars, scorn and persecute you but you ask them
why they do that, they will reply that they don't know. If you were doing this for your own sake,
you would quit, saying, "I would rather be miserable than go through this.'' But since you are
doing it for their sake, you can't quit. This is still the best way of life imaginable regardless. Even
if you don't physically succeed 100%, you will have established enough condition SD that later
in spirit world God can say, " While he was on earth he lived for the sake of others and not for
himself."
Each of you must look around and find the right course for your life so it can be said later that
you lived not for yourself but for the sake of other people. If there is such a way, then we must
plunge into it. Single girl' who are over thirty, are you exhausted? Even though you think you are
living the way of sacrifice, some stranger must be willing to testify that you did it. This country
must recognize that the Unification Church is a selfless entity, and that the members worked for
everything except the selfish cause. If England says that, it is notarizing us. I have told you how
to live and work in home churches, and if you do that then people will say you really did good
things.
Nowadays mayors are coming to meetings in the evening to testify about us and say that this
Unification movement is very necessary in England. Even if we don't finish heaven on earth
physically, their testimony will later be taken in heaven to liberate all of us. There are plenty of
internal reasons why we are doing this 'work. Now London has no reason to object to us and
soon all of England will say the Unification Church is a good church. Then Germany, France and
Holland will all hear about it.
Satan has gotten the first word and convinced many people that I am a bad man. To worldly
people are Reverend Moon and the Unification Church good or bad? It really doesn't make so
much difference what other people say. Just because they say we are bad doesn't mean we will
become bad. Are we absolutely good or maybe bad?

This is a cynical and ironic world. People accept their doctor's word as truth when they are sick,
but perhaps when he was in medical school he was on the verge of flunking because he had a
part-time job, or he wasn't so smart or even wasn't so healthy. His teachers might have thought
that he would never be a doctor, but once he passed his medical examination no one questioned
his ability. In the same way, no one thinks now that Unification Church members will be kings,
but God will make sure you are kings in the future. Even people who see that my standard is high
often think I don't know the real world. Certainly to God's ears it makes no difference what they
think. When the peoples' minds change like the weather that melts snow overnight, they will say,
"When did I persecute you?" It's typical human behavior.
We are planting true love and as long as God supports that effort, true love will always be
harvested. It can never be taken away because God won't allow it. What is our desire and our
ambition? No matter how difficult the reaping is, are you going to be true men or false men? The
true man is the one whom God can approve of. How can God trust anyone when all throughout
history He has been betrayed? He will test you for many years and if you remain faithful then he
will say He can trust you.
I would like to be sure that each one of you can be trusted even if you have to go through a fierce
war a thousand times before being given blessing. When all the women have genuine love and
faith, those qualities can never be mistreated but will be passed on to some noble man. In the
same way, when the men deeply love the True Parents they could never be given worthless
women as wives.
First I want to make you into public figures and people who love the world. That is the proper
qualification to get married. My only wish before you are married is for the world to persecute
you more. Are you sad when I also persecute you, thinking, "Oh, Father, isn't it enough that the
world persecutes me?" Once you realize that this is the road to true love, then you have all the
more reason to be grateful.
Up until today you were inclined to complain, but after you have been educated should you
continue to complain? Once you understand, you are burning with hope and your only regret
comes if you don't have enough power to follow through. You can sacrifice everything for this
love because it's worth more once you get to the goal. Those who welcome this, raise your hands.
As if all this previous testing wasn't enough, once a couple is married they are separated for three
years. Who ever heard of this? Is God so cruel as to make you suffer like that because He gets
enjoyment out of it'' God would keep people separated even after they are blessed in order to
have them learn even more about unchanging love. When you think in that way, is it good or is it
bad? When feelings of love emerge they can be channeled into love for the world. You can think,
"I will love the world first, but I will never forget the urge of love I had and I will go back to my
spouse."
We can see how this was so even in Jesus' time. Jesus loved the world first, was persecuted and
died on the cross, and then later came down in search of a bride. As a personal qualification he
wanted to love the world first, and after he became successful he planned to search for his own
family. In this fallen world do you think it is necessary first to go through tests and persecution to

be sure you love the world and then go back to your eternal family? If there was a way to avoid
this I would, but it is absolutely necessary. Through this course you will be in a better position :o
love your wife as a queen and your husband as a king. Only after going through this will you feel
that way toward your spouse.
A million people will live in a million different styles, but some are better than others. Which
would be more valuable: occupying the peak of love, the peak of money or the peak of power?
Love is a simple word but it includes everything. Love means longing too. Unification Church
members are really in a very longing state. A wife may be in one place and her husband at the
opposite end of the world, and for three years they are longing for each other. You say love is
simple but often everyone forgets it.
Will your life provide a brighter
future for your children?

My walk this morning is about one age or one life span. During our one lifespan we've got to do
something, so what goal would we like to be proud of reaching? Money? Power? Knowledge?
We want to reach higher than that to true love: That is the position of king and queen. Was Jesus
a smart man or a foolish man to pursue this? How about God? We can be no smarter than God
and Jesus. The smartest ones said they want to pursue love. You say you are smart if you feel the
same as Jesus and God and love is your ultimate goal.
Let us consider what happens in the life of the average man or woman. They are born and their
parents have to change their diapers while they are young. When they are about three they can go
to the toilet by themselves. At six they start school, and by the time they graduate from college
they are 21 or 22. Usually a person is not sure about what he is going to do or where he is going
to get a job that is adequate. Sometimes he has a moment of ambition and idealism but it doesn't
last long. Usually he feels insecure. He may even try to kill himself or he may turn to drugs. I
was told yesterday that when a boy and girl reach the age of twelve but they aren't interested in
kissing, they are considered abnormal by today's standards. Even teenagers feel pressure to keep
up with their neighbors and friends and date even if they don't want to. Once they reach their
twenties they are expected to think about marriage.
They want to look happy but they know very well that they are only miserable. It's a dreadful
thing. At one time or another it feels as though marrying would be like going straight to hell.
Some intuition warns them, but nevertheless everyone does it. Then they have a baby or two and
are oppressed with the burden of supporting them. Each man feels some ambition, but after forty
or fifty years go by he no longer feels that. He feels crushed instead. The peak of the average
person's life is forty and after that it is impossible to think about the world or the nation very
much. If there is one exception it is highly unusual.
What about the Unification Church? We give up school and our families in order to join, even
though in their own way our parents really love us. We are trying to reach the fantastic goal of
loving the world before settling down. How different this is from the worldly way of thinking. In
the everyday world, girls and boys can hold hands and no one will question it, but here in the
Unification Church you don't hold

even one hand for three to ten years. Then you might feel, "Why do we have to resist human
nature?"
We don't just follow this lifestyle mechanically; we have an ultimate objective which is very
strong in our minds and keeps us going. We have a definite purpose for living this way and we
are confident we will win. .\re we nation-minded or world-minded? That doesn't mean that we
aren't nationalistic; it is because we love the nation that we become world minded. B fore
nationalism we are for familyism and we respect the family very much. If we didn't love the
family very much we could never love the nation or the world. Man must have an ideal and
direction to live by, like the rudder on a ship. If we didn't have this ideal then the best we could
do would be to love only this one nation of England.
Do you understand how precious and advanced you are? Our goal is nothing short of heaven.
There are thousands of universities but they have never seen worldism of this quality. Since the
world has no apparent hope or happiness, sooner or later everything will conclude in despair.
Life is interesting when thin ~s are going well, as when a man meets a pretty girl and gets
married, when he is happy in his job and he has a couple of children, but as time goes on even
couples who seem happy encounter conflict in their lives and when they die they are in despair.
Life is on y one scene of a spring dream, they say.
What about us? We go along these same paths but do we lie in despair or with faces upturned,
much closer to the goal? We stay on the main road of true love all our lives and during this time
we will have families too. Even though the process is difficult, once we reach the goal all those
hardships become a precious memory. Then we are living in the ideal, having reached it in the
world of love, and we will live eternally in that established area of love which is centered around
God.
This is the pride and the value of a human being, the ideal of creation we talk about in Divine
Principle terms. Without this quality in man, how are we different from the animals? What kind
of life would you have led ii you had not joined the Unification Church and the path of love?
You c an imagine what my life was about. I have the same life span as the rest of mankind; I
won't live two or three hundred years. What have I achieved from my childhood until now? The
world is witness to the fact that no young man in any country will obey another man. Does he
listen to his parents or teachers or pastor or king? Does anyone obey or understand anyone else?
But regardless of their country or color, when young people come to the Unification Church they
learn the deepest truths about history and their own lives. When couples in our Church get
married they may never have seen each other before, but once they are married they know their
future is absolutely secure. They may not even speak the same language, but they know a deeper
communication. We are happy but when other people try to understand us it doesn't make sense
to them. Then they say it must be brainwashing. That is painful to hear and if it weren't for love
we could never continue this way, could we?
No matter how difficult our work is, we keep on doing it. The Church doesn't pay salaries or
even give much praise. Usually I tell you to work harder and endure more persecution. You don't
even get one holiday out of the year, yet still you stay and follow because you have felt love here

and that's better than living an easy life. Even after you change drastically and come nearer to
God, you don't realize it unless you remind yourself how you've changed over the years. We talk
about heartistic revolution but you don't always perceive how you have improved. Imagine a
person who is in a most precious position but doesn't know it. How can he see that he is good?
You may have had reasonable happiness in your life, but what about your offspring? The world is
getting more and more wicked. What makes you sure that our children will live even as good a
life as we did? It's very obvious that our second generation will suffer more than we have unless
something is done. We are in the historical time that comes only once. Are we only superficially
happy, or are we grateful enough to try continually to understand more and more deeply?
Am I a smart or a foolish man? Thinking or unthinking? I speak only after I have consistently
thought everything out. The longer you observe me, the more clearly you can see how consistent
I am. If I had applied that same principle of consistency to a Ph.D. course, I am quite confident I
would have acquired a dozen Ph.D.'s. If I had put all my effort into becoming president, 1 could
have done that too.
This is my confidence.

Evaluating the work I have done according to worldly standards, I feel I have accomplished a
hundred times more than any Ph.D. course could have prepared me for. I weighed what would be
the best way of life, the shortest way to happiness, and I chose this way You are not being told to
go this way haphazardly. This is what I have realized after many tests and much thought. I never
had peaceful days, but ever, year faced persecution to an intense degree. Why wouldn't I have
gone an easier way if there were one? Ease or difficulty is of no consequence; this is by far the
best way compared to all others. It was not difficult to choose this way.
If there had been a better way, I would have packed up a long time ago and left the Unification
Church. Now you judge: was my decision wise or foolish? Can you explain why? I have heard
members say, "What a good road this must be if a person like myself could find such potential
for loving parents so much." ''hat you are so inspired to love parents so directly and deeply, more
than you ever imagined before, if' one indication that you are on the path of true love. What
transformed you? When you think about that, then you know that what I did and what I
pioneered was absolutely the best way of life.
Do 1 move your mind directly? No, millions of people in spirit world come down to help set
your thoughts right. With so many people on earth, why is it that when I set a certain direction
spirit world helps with that direction? Why doesn't it listen to the President of America or the
Queen of England or to the Pope' It is because I live in unison with God's direction. You are in
search of the world of love and so is God. That is His whole purpose of being.
When the two poles of a magnet meet each other they cannot help but be attracted to each other.
In the same way there is definitely a link between the spirit world and Unification Church life. It
is completely rational because both are connected to the path of love. Every creation, and God as
well, has to come in the same direction and help this love to become established.

The more you reflect the mind and heart of the True Parents, the faster everyone will respond to
us. If you keep going, you will bear the same fruit as the True Parents' tree, smaller perhaps, but
nevertheless of the same quality. No matter how much we suffer, we are not the unfortunate
ones. Even if we drop dead on the street, no one can say we were unhappy. This is not an analogy
but reality.
Think about the people who are 80 years of age and who come to understand this will of God on
earth, but have only a few years before going to spirit world. Compared to them you have a
brand new life. What can they do that is worthwhile? The majority of you are unmarried. Once
you marry and have a family your span of activity greatly decreases, but now you are in your
prime and free as the birds. This is the best time for you, and if you continue on the path of love
no one can diminish the value of the life you have led. All historical credit is with you. Old men
often look back and say, "If only I had known that when I was young." Now we know how
precious this age is and how to achieve what we are supposed to accomplish. You must keep
realizing your value.
God knows best and this is why He sent young people to the Unification Church. He knew that
once they realized their own value they had the greatest potential. You don't have to worry about
your past or about children; all you have to do is think about the True Parents and the mission.
We have been talking about many precious things, but actually the most precious thing of all is to
dedicate the prime time of your life, all the energy of your youth, for the sake of true love. Once
you turn that way, even your flesh and blood will become enriched and you will become a
beautiful person. You will be the incarnation of love and will be blessed with your ideal spouse.
The chance for my life and yours to overlap is one in a billion and yet you have now been
together with me for 120 days. The fact that we are persecuted and even beaten up will become a
matter of greatest pride. It is never a source of regret.
In light of this would you complain or think about old boyfriends or girlfriends? Even though
you are inspired while I am speaking, will you forget your inspiration as soon as you go out to
witness? Hasn't it been that way in the past? While I am in view your
aspiration is great, but when you don't see me you are easily tire,) because you don't know
enough. From now on don't think that you are independent from God, from me or from mankind.
This is a joint effort and God s very much involved with you, as am 1. No matter where I am or
what I am doing, I am doing the same things you are doing. If two people go together they can
help each other, but spirit world doesn't help so much. If you go alone you have no one working
together with you, but many spirit men will be helping you. Often it's better to be alone and this
is why we have to be brave and daring to do anything. Love can never go wrong.
When you are desperate and shout out in search of love then I will appear beside you in a vision
and talk to you. Why do I have to come if you call out for me? I go this same way and I have
done the same thing toward God. This can happen all the time and this is why the Unification
Church is a religion that no one can eradicate. As long as your line of love is attached to me then
the frequency of your love is the same as mine. This is not only a dream but the reality of the
very age in which we are living.

You know how fast electricity travels. I happen to be in London now and at least 300 people can
benefit every Sunday like this, but when members everywhere meet for Sunday service they are
spiritually connected to me because of love. Then God can come to them and listen. This is the
way the spirit world operates.
Do we have reason to feel that? That's our power. When. you are charged with this confidence
and the power of love, you can shoot yourself out to the world like a cannonball and hit
someone. No matter how high he may be, even if he is the president of a college, bump into him
spiritually and he'll capitulate. The stronger you shoot the arrow of love the deeper the point goes
in. If you aim properly then it will be more effective and you won't lose. Think deeply about this
and try it. Those who will do so, raise your hands. God bless you.