Ep 473 - Europe Part 1
Europe 108-33-12-40 - February 10, 2022
(Response to sharing) I am also waiting for a kind of providence of spring. Everyone is eagerly waiting for that. I hope the World Summit will open the door to how to unite North Korea and South Korea.♦
It is evening in Korea. Tomorrow I will attend the World Summit. Our American and Canadian UPF team is really doing a great job. Many … (of the) American delegation have come to Korea. I am happy to have them come even though the situation was not easy.
Today I’d like to talk about “Europe ” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Racial conflict is a problem in Europe, and religious people also fight one another. If you just allow this to continue there is no future. Are you going to just stand and watch? You must inform everyone in the world that True Parents have come. You should tell them, "Brothers, we should not fight among ourselves. Let us all become one in the shade of our True Parents.” This path alone can save the nation and the whole of Europe. The entire world will be able to live together in harmony. Somehow or another you have to know about this. These days, it is possible for everyone to be connected in a matter of seconds through the internet. Those who are getting older and do not have much energy to move around can witness through the internet. Because of their love for humanity, True Parents worked hard beginning from the very bottom to realize a future free of misery and a secure and happy world. Now that Satan’s worldwide realm has been restored to the side of goodness through indemnity, the doors have opened wide to the realization of a peaceful world. Only when everyone joins in this effort can we live. We should all live together. (2015.05.11, Hilton Hotel, Vienna, Austria)
True Mother said, “These days, it is possible for everyone to be connected in a matter of seconds through the internet. Those who are getting older and do not have much energy to move around can witness through the internet.” Now, the era has opened of making the most of the Internet and educating all people through it.
As I was preparing for Morning Devotion, Heaven instructed me to make Morning Devotion a means through which all people could be educated.
And recently, True Mother said to the Korean leaders that our Unification Church no longer has regular retirement. Even if you're older, it's time to learn the internet and educate and manage your own members through your Online Holy Community.
All educational programs are now available on the Internet. If you want, you can connect with your guests through Zoom and see and exchange as much as you want. Now you don't have to lecture. All you need to do now is to do the mission of the coordinator well.
True Father said that Heaven prolongs the lives of those who they think are needed on Earth. Then, how can you become a necessary person in the eyes of heaven? It is going on the path to save lives.
If Heaven thinks that you are an essential person who struggles to save lives and spreads love on this earth, Heaven will extend your lifespan and use you as Heaven’s tool.
Even if an older person keeps learning, they can become younger and younger, it stimulates their brains to live longer, and they can contribute to God’s Will.
True Mother said, “Now the doors have opened wide to the realization of a peaceful world by the ability of people who attend Heaven. Only when everyone joins in this effort can we live. We should all live together.” This is a fruitful period in which everyone, regardless of age or gender, should participate in saving mankind from now on.
What you must remember is that we live in a golden age with the only Begotten Daughter that will never come again.
Recently I have been so excited to hear from Miilhan’s church report.
Three guys recently joined. He showed us their photos. Miilhan is really focused on witnessing. I told him that I appointed him to be a church leader and that I can recognize his leadership by how many new members join. He really united with me and focused and united with the membership. Now I can see real potential. New guests come and are joining one by one.
Not only his church; I have heard from other areas and churches. Many new young people become candidates to become our members. This is great news. One of the greatest happinesses from heaven’s point of view is saving people. When God’s children come back to his bosom, that is not only great news; that is breaking news. To save people’s lives is the most beautiful thing. That really stimulates God’s heart. That is the way to comfort and console our Heavenly Parent’s heart.
Think about how difficult, dumbfounding and bitter God's providential history of re-creation has been. For an olive tree's roots to grow takes 15 years. However, once an olive tree has rooted itself and adjusted to the environment, it can live for more than 2,000 years. Today, we can still find trees that were alive in Jesus' time. Similarly, European members, centered on Austria, have faced all sorts of difficulties during the past 50 years, and yet we see that they have grown roots, confidently and deeply. A tree that has roots that take 50 years to grow is more likely to survive any kind of natural disaster than a tree that has roots that take 15 years to grow. Listening to the testimonies of older members, meeting them and the second- and third-generation members that are their fruit, I felt that there is hope in Europe at this point as it says farewell to the past 50 years and sets off on the road to a new 50 years. For this reason, I have emphasized the need for us to change our lives for the future, so that today and tomorrow are different from yesterday. (2015.05.24, Manhattan Center, New York)
Since I joined our movement, I have focused on salvation, witnessing. Especially when I set up jeongseong conditions with members -- sometimes on a church level, sometimes on a regional level, sometimes on a continental level and when we invest our effort and utmost sincerity, it is my substantial experience over the past 46 years when we make unity through jeongseong, always financial fortune comes. We cannot deny this. And secondly the fortune of salvation: Many new members have joined our movement.
When I started heavenly tribal messiahship in Asia, it was really difficult, but I kept on pushing and showed a model, and everybody followed that model. Later on I could see National level of heavenly tribal messiahship everywhere. Since I came to America I feel that that kind of momentum is coming. Because of covid we have some financial difficulties, but I think we can surely overcome this. As long as we make great unity and harmony, I think we can really break through in witnessing. All our second generation and third generation will rejoin our activity and will focus on witnessing. Spiritually I have that conviction because all North American brothers and sisters are supporting this and helping and praying together. Centering on Morning Devotion, I feel this kind of time has already come. I strongly encourage you to go out, and let’s witness to many people.
This is a new chapter.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 18 - The Life of Circular and Spherical Movement
We need to apply this in our daily lives. I think many people do not understand much about this. They understand it simply. When we study this and apply it to our daily life, it is very powerful. First of all, let’s study the EDP content.
The Mode Of Existence of the Four Position Foundation
• All beings which have completed the four position foundation by fulfilling the three object purpose through origin-division-union action move in circular (elliptical) or spherical paths; as a result, they exist in three dimensions.
• As the subject and object partners begin a give and take action, the object partner revolves around the subject partner in a circular motion, and thus they become harmonious and unified.
• In the same manner, the subject partner becomes an object partner to God, revolving around God and thus attaining oneness with Him. When the object partner becomes completely one with its subject partner, their union can stand before God as a new object partner resembling His dual characteristics.
• Moreover, the way for any object partner to stand as an object partner before God is by making oneness with its subject partner.
• In this union of subject and object partners, they are themselves composed of dual characteristics, and by the same principle of give and take action, they carry on their own circular motions.
• Thus, we see circular motions of give and take action within both the subject partner and object partner, which are simultaneously engaged in the greater circular motion within their union.
• Although there are moments when the two levels of circular motion among subject and object partners may happen to have orbits on the same plane, in general, because the angle of revolution around the subject partner is constantly changing, this circular movement becomes a spherical movement, and hence the union always exists in three dimensions.
• When the circular movement of the subject partner and the obiect partner on a single plane becomes a spherical movement in a three-dimensional orbit, the dynamism and creativity of the universe unfolds.
• Variations in each orbit's distance, shape, state, direction, angle, force and velocity are manifest as the beauty of creation in its infinite variety.
• Let us consider the example of human beings. As the object partner to the mind, the body establishes a common base with the mind and engages in give and take action with it. Figuratively speaking, the body then revolves about the mind and attains complete oneness with it.
• If and when the mind stands as an object partner before God and revolves around Him, resonating in oneness with Him, and when the body becomes one with this mind, the individual will resemble God's dual characteristics and thus stand as God's embodied object partner. Thereupon, the person fulfills the purpose of creation.
• Such people exist as three-dimensional beings who always lead their lives ceaselessly altering their angle of revolution in spherical relationships centered on God. This is how they can attain mastery even over the incorporeal world.
• Just as all beings have internal nature and external form, there is a type of spherical motion that corresponds to internal nature and a type that corresponds to external form. Likewise, there is a center of motion that corresponds to internal nature and a center that corresponds to external form.
• What is the ultimate center of all these spherical movements? Human beings are the center of all created things, which are embodied object partners to God's dual characteristics in symbol. God is the center of human beings, who are created as His embodied object partners in image. Consequently, the ultimate center of all spherical movements in the universe is God.
What kind of being is:
A Being Who Has Completed The Four Position Foundation
1. All beings which have completed the four position foundation move in circular (elliptical) or spherical paths.
2. The course of becoming an object partner resembling God’s dual characteristics always entails a circular and spherical movement.
3. Circular movement: Horizontal give and take action between the subject partner and object partner on a single plane
4. Spherical movement: Three-dimensional give and take action between the subject partner and object partner when they take on all four directions beyond vertical and horizontal and circular movement.
Circular motion is in a single plane. However, spherical motion is three dimensional -- … vertical and horizontal circular movement, all four directions together.
The Purpose Of Circular And Spherical Motion
1. In order to resemble God’s dual characteristics.
If the subject and the object do not (have) give and receive through circular and spherical motions, they cannot resemble God.
2. In order to fulfill the purpose of creation.
The purpose of God's creation is the completion of the three great blessings. Through circular motion and spherical motion, the three great blessings will eventually be completed.
3. In order to realize true love.
The fulfillment of God's purpose of creation is ultimately the realization of God's true love. In order to become children, brothers and sisters, couples, and parents centered on true love, we do circular and spherical motions.
How can we apply these circular and spherical movements? (What is) a lifestyle based on circular and spherical movements?
1. What type of relationship do I have with others?
a. Relationships based on circular movement: An external and formal relationship where give and take arises only in an orbit on the same plane.
b. Relationships based on spherical movement: Beyond being a flat and external relationship, this is an internal, heart-based, spiritual, and three-dimensional relationship
2. When I engage in a spherical movement with God, I can resemble God’s dual characteristics and become His object partner.
a. Do I ( have) give and take three-dimensionally with God? Am I only engaged in an external, circular movement?
b. Do I only perceive and live under reason? Is God merely conceptual?
If you do not know God and the world of heart, if you are a secular-world person, then you are very involved in circular motion, just external, formal external give and take. You are just in an orbit on the same plane. Of course, we do need to have such give and take in such external relationships centering on circular movement, but that is not the main purpose. We need to reach spherical movement which is beyond flat and external relationships. This is very internal, heart-based and spiritual. (It is) a three-dimensional relationship. We need to reflect whether my relationships are based on circular or spherical movement? What kind of relationships do we have all the time in our daily life?
3. You must move from a circular to aspherical movement. That is why, your mode of existence must become three-dimensional.
Three dimensional includes the spiritual world and heavenly parent.
4. When the circular movement becomes a spherical movement, the dynamism and creativity of the universe unfolds. If you grow not only through a flat circular movement but also through a spherical movement, the Holy Spirit will reside in you, and you will experience the spirit world at work. You will become grateful in your life of faith and experience God’s presence.
Those who have an experience of spherical movement, you can always feel God’s presence and the Holy Spirit. For fallen man it is not easy to reach spherical movement from circular movement. That is our problem. That is why without connecting with God, without focusing on your inner heart, your utmost sincerity, we cannot have an experience of three- dimensional movement, which is spherical movement. We need to have prayer and jeongseong; we need to have spiritual experiences.
5. Give and take between fallen human beings is formal, habitual, and external. Thus, harmony does not unfold within such relationships. Ultimately, they are unable to (have) give and take spiritually, and end up doing so depending on the environment.
They are always dominated by the external environment. That’s why God’s providence always starts on the external, then becomes internal and more internal.
Of course, in the beginning we need to initiate centered on circular movement. But the level of movement needs to progress becoming more and more internal, deeper and deeper, more connected internally and connected to your heart, finally reaching heaven. That is the purpose of our life. You need to reflect: am I focused on circular or spherical movement?
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: The Primary Characteristics of the Fallen Nature
1. In the Principle, fallen nature is divided into four primary characteristics. The first is failing to take God’s standpoint, the second is leaving one’s proper position, the third is reversing dominion, and the fourth is multiplying the criminal act.
The first is failing to take God’s standpoint. The archangel was well aware that he had left God's position, and knew well about God's circumstances. He knew that he was a servant of God, and that Adam and Eve were God’s sons and daughters.
Fallen nature is leaving a relationship. We are well aware of what fallen nature is like.
2. If you are a member of a family, you are well aware that you belong to your parents and that you should value your relationship with your parents. You know you should live creating relationships with people, even if no one teaches you. Even the archangel Lucifer knew that well. Eve was also well aware of her position and her relationship with God. The archangel knew well from what position he should serve Adam and Eve well. Adam and Eve knew well that they absolutely had to keep the commandments “Do” and “Do not” given by God.
The first fallen nature is what? Failing to take God’s standpoint. So, what must we do to take a position like God?
To take a position like God, you have to think from the parent’s perspective. And to take the parent’s position, you must have filial piety. Filial piety has no self-centeredness.
Filial piety keeps the standard of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience in front of parents. The filial child lives discussing every move with his parents.
Filial piety is vertical love for one's parents. It was completely self-centered that the archangel could not love Adam and Eve from the position of God-like parents, envied them, and violated Eve's love.
Therefore, in order to take God’s position, fallen human beings must undergo thorough training of self-denial. Self-denial means always thinking from the parent's point of view, that is, with filial piety.
If you think outside of filial piety as a child, you become self-centered and easily feel sad and jealous. In other words, if you leave filial piety, you become Satan.
Cain failed to love Abel from the standpoint of parents in the position of God and killed him.
Cain was angry with Abel. But he should have thought about, “What is God’s standpoint? What is the position of God?” He needed to think about God’s point of view. How should I handle this case? If he had thought about his Father, that is his Heavenly Father, he would not have killed his younger brother.
When we are upset and angry, do not think centered on your point of view; as filial sons and daughters think centered on parents point of view. Only in this way through filial piety can we overcome our first fallen nature. Here we are talking about taking God’s position.
Jacob’s sons did not love their 11th brother, Joseph, from God's point of view or from their father’s point of view. Even though they did not like Joseph, if all ten brothers had thought about their father Jacob, about his point of view, they never would have done what they did. But they felt jealousy and envy, dug a hole and tried to kill him by throwing him in, then sold him to an Egyptian merchant.
How did True Mother pick the right word (for filial piety)?! That is “Hyojeong,” filial heart. That is the point. Only through filial heart, filial piety can we overcome the first fallen nature: falling to take God’s standpoint.
3. We must live our lives taking seriously our position and who we are in relationships with. If I don't know what kind of position I'm in, and with whom I should live having relationships with, darkness will come and my life will be completely ruined. Therefore, everyone must be well aware of their position, their relationship with God, their relationship with Abel, and Abel’s circumstances, and take responsibility. If you don't, you'll end up being a miserable person. When you lose the vertical relationship between God and you, the vertical relationship between parents and you, and the vertical relationship between Abel and you in your life of faith, you lose everything. Vertical alignment is life.
People who live with filial piety centering on their parents live their life by valuing vertical alignment with their parents. Just as a child absolutely thinks about their relationship with their mother, in our life of faith, we must live with absolute respect for the vertical alignment between God and ourself.
When children fly a kite in the wind, just like the head of the kite plummets to the ground when the string breaks, my eternal life is cut off when the vertical alignment breaks. Therefore, you should always hold on to the vertical line with tension and firmness.
Our church is a church of vertical alignment. If there is no clear vertical alignment, we easily become horizontal. When you become horizontal, Satan invades you. The vertical alignment between God and myself is our lifeline. Without having a vertical alignment with God, you do not know how to build a relationship with your parents, your Abel. Right? That is why the relationship between God and me, the vertical alignment, is the most important thing.
If you leave the vertical alignment, you immediately flow horizontally and become self-centered, becoming a very humanistic being.
Filial piety is training to maintain vertical alignment. Therefore, because a person with filial piety has the experience of forming a close relationship with his parents, he always has a smooth relationship with his Abel and his superiors.
Those who have a vertical alignment with God love their parents, their boss, their Abel. Everything comes from where? From the vertical alignment between God and me. We always need to think centering on God’s point of view, on parents’ point of view, then we can solve any horizontal issue.
4. The second fallen nature is leaving one’s proper position. What does it mean to have left one’s proper position? There was no mediator. The archangel did not set up a mediator, and Eve did not set up a mediator. Therefore, Adam and Eve and the archangel became sinners. What is good and evil? Good and evil are revealed depending on how we form relationships. Moreover, what is righteousness and unrighteousness? Righteousness and unrighteousness are judged according to how you establish relationships and who you have relationships with. The Principle is very clear. All human beings are the same. But how you live in relationships is important. Its value is determined by who your mediator is. Doesn’t a woman’s value rise or fall depending on who her bridegroom is? Of course, it could also be the other way around.
The second fallen nature is leaving one’s proper position.
If you think centered on yourself, you will surely leave the central figure’s position, and envy, jealousy, and sadness will arise. Therefore, you must always stand in the central figure’s position.
If you leave your proper position and fall into self-centeredness, Satan will enter you and work without fail.
People who live according to this fallen nature, that is, arrogant people, create complaints and dissatisfaction in organized society, and as a result, the organization may be divided.
Therefore, a person who lives a life of faith should always have a humble heart. To become a humble person, you must have a mediator and go forward. You must go through Abel. If you put your mediator aside and go ahead in order to receive more love, you will leave your proper position.
That is why you always need to go through the proper channel centered on Abel. There is a heavenly order, a proper order. Don’t go to God directly. The archangel needed to go through Adam and Eve to reach heaven. The archangel needed to receive God’s love through Adam and Eve. But he wanted to receive love directly from God. Leaving the proper position always causes problems. We need to know our proper position and to have the proper channel.
I can see many spiritual groups. “I don’t want to talk with you or with the church Abel or leader. I don’t want to talk. Only God knows me. Only True Parents know me.” They want to relate to True Parents directly. How arrogant they are! Most spiritual phenomena are like that. They completely ignore the proper position, the proper channel. They want to connect (directly) to True Parents. This is already Satan. The archangel’s position is that of a servant. In order to receive love, the archangel should have served Adam and Eve, then God would (have) automatically recognized him. But without going through Adam and Eve he really wanted to get love directly from Heavenly Parent. That was the problem.
5. Fallen humans have a relationship of love with each other, even if they do not know God. They live in relationships of longing, relationships of joy, and relationships of heart. Fallen nature is ignoring relationships. Always ignoring others and thinking and judging centered on yourself is the root of great sin. If you always live aware of this, you will not commit sin. Isn’t that right? What is troublesome in our lives today is to do as one likes. The world is all about self-centeredness. Rather than centering on the relationships around them, they judge and decide everything centered on themselves. Because we have been living like this, we have become such an unbelievable family, an unbelievable nation, and an unbelievable world.
6. We must have a mediator. That is, there must be the three points of Heaven, me, and the mediator. This is what it means to live a four-position foundation life. And within the four-position foundation life realm, mediators refer to superior people centered on me. Therefore, if you leave this position, you will feel a sense of decline and sadness. If you do not set up a mediator, you will become arrogant. Self-subjectivity becomes stronger and you become hot-blooded easily.
Why is Jesus such a great man? He came as the mediator. The bible says there is one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. Jesus did an excellent job as a mediator. God is a God of absolute goodness. God cannot deal with evil. However, Jesus Christ came as the lord. He knew the situation of fallen people. He really could sympathize with, relate with and educate them because he had the same flesh as fallen man.
He always … to God, “Heavenly God, I came to understand the situation of fallen man. Please forgive them and give them an opportunity.” Finally he was crucified on the cross as a mediator. Because of Jesus, everyone can receive spiritual salvation.
To overcome that fallen nature, we always need to consider three points. Number 3 symbolizes the public. Whether you are in the position of Abel or the position of Cain, always you need some kind of agreement. If three people agree and unite together, it is a good condition. If you create that kind of beautiful unity and environment centered on the number 3 -- trinity is very important -- then God is present. God is present in the unity of the trinity.
Never decide by yourself. Always respect your junior or senior member, your Abel. At least three people should get along together when you make a decision. Maybe you feel your opinion is correct, but still you need to bring it out and discuss it with the other two centering on the number 3. Then you won’t make mistakes.
Always you need to be a good mediator between your Cain and Abel members. This kind of relationship is very important. Anything you decide by yourself, anything you want to relate to your Abel directly, sometimes to heaven directly, to the messiah directly sometimes can create so much trouble.(?) You need to always think that unity is God. If there is unity, Satan cannot invade. Centering on yourself, on your own opinion … does not work at all.♦
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