Ep 918 - God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II Part 8
God’s Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II - May 1 2023
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Sean Warden, CIGYM 21 Day Workshop, Lusaka, Zambia
Key Points
· Until now, no one could comprehend the sorrowful, painful heart of God, who lost His lineage, lost His children, and was forced to hand over the ownership of the nations and world to Satan.
· The only way to recover the realm of lineage, the right of the elder son and the right of ownership, is the path to win the natural subjugation of Satan.
· The secret to accomplish this is by the power of true love, when we love our enemies more than we love our own children.
· True love’s essence is to give, to live for the sake of others and for the sake of the whole.
· True love gives, forgets that it has given, and continues to give without ceasing.
· The quality of love in Jesus having loved his enemies and humankind is what completely changed the 2,000-year history after Jesus died.
· The spiritual and physical worlds, which are the enlargement of mind and body must also be harmonized by God’s true love.
· The spiritual world is represented by the sphere of religion and philosophy, while the physical world is represented by the sphere of politics and economics.
· The human mind and body correspond to subject partner and object partner. Likewise, religion and politics, which are also in the position of subject and object partner, must form a sphere of harmony and unity in order to bring about an ideal society based on God’s true love.
· The relationship between religion, politics, and economy, including ideology, is like a trinity relationship.
· Religion, science and philosophy should also converge into one.
· The system which is able to integrate these three spheres, centered on God, has emerged as the Unification Principle.
· We must see all things through the eyes of the heart to become people who live with God.
· Only human beings uniquely have heart (shimjeong).
· To go beyond the flesh-centered life and live an eternal life is to live a life centered on the mind, not a life centered on animal instinct.
· Although God is invisible to our eyes, if we live by the heart centering on original nature, we will feel everything as love.
· We will feel nature’s wind, flowing water, and even the scorching sun as love.
· True Parents said that all creation is the textbook of love to make people into people of love.
· If we look at the creation through eyes of love, eyes of the heart, and eyes of the spirit, a heart of gratitude towards God and all of nature will automatically well up.
· All things, such as wind, air, sunlight, and water, are related to our life and God.
· The world that lives by the heart and centered on the original mind always transcends time and space and connects to the spiritual world
· Just as becoming a butterfly is a caterpillar’s purpose, people’s purpose is to enter the spiritual world, the eternal world, be given wings of love and fly to our heart’s content and exchange love with one another.
Transcripts from November 3, 2021 to the present, personal notes from November 11, 2020 until November 2, 2021 and slides from August 29, 2021 to the present are available at MD.Hoondok.com as PDF files. ♦
God morning, Good morning, my dear brothers and sisters, clergy and Ambassadors for Peace!
Today I’d like to talk about “God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II, from True Mother’s Anthology 2”.
<This speech was given by Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon between September 1 and October 14 during a 40-nation Victory and Complete Freedom Rally to Bring Universal Peace to the Fatherland and Hometown speaking tour.>131,132
God’s Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World II
God views humanity's tragic situation with a heart full of pain. Furthermore, when, due to the Fall, Satan gained control of the realm of lineage, he also usurped the right of the elder son and the right of ownership. God is like a father who worked and sweated his entire life to accumulate assets for his children, only to have a thief steal everything in one night.
Who can comprehend the sorrowful, painful heart of God? God lost His lineage, lost His children, and was forced to hand over the ownership of the nations and world to Satan. There is only one way to recover the realm of lineage, the right of the elder son and the right of ownership.
This is the path to win the natural subjugation of Satan, to have Satan surrender voluntarily. What is the secret to accomplish this? It is only by the power of true love, when we love our enemies more than we love our own children. Then what is true love? Its essence is to give, to live for the sake of others and for the sake of the whole.
True love gives, forgets that it has given, and continues to give without ceasing. True love gives joyfully. We find it in the joyful and loving heart of a mother who cradles her baby in her arms and nurses it at her breast. True love is sacrificial love, as with a filial son who gains his greatest satisfaction in helping his parents.
Until now, no one could comprehend the sorrowful, painful heart of God, who lost His lineage, lost His children, and was forced to hand over the ownership of the nations and world to Satan. The only one way to recover the realm of lineage, the right of the elder son and the right of ownership is the path to win the natural subjugation of Satan, to have Satan surrender voluntarily.
What is the secret to accomplish this? It is only by the power of true love, when we love our enemies more than we love our own children. Then what is true love? Its essence is to give, to live for the sake of others and for the sake of the whole.
In the end, the thing that changes the individual, family, nation, and world is not some external force, capability, or money. Then what can change our selves, the nation, and the world? That is determined only by the quality of our love.
There is a limit to the quality of love of fallen man. The quality of our love actually does not have a good influence on our spouse, children, or parents and it always causes conflicts.
The quality of love of fallen people cannot overcome one’s own fallen nature and always makes us envious, jealous, arrogant, and self-centered. The quality of our love is so poor that we cannot even love three people around us. So, we know that our reality is that we have not yet been able to create three spiritual children and we have no influence on them. Our quality of love means we cannot love our wife, our husband, our own parents, cannot love our own children. What is fallen man’s quality of love? It is very low class. Even though we put in so much effort, we cannot even restore 3 spiritual children. What is our capacity and quality of love?
The quality of love in Jesus having loved his enemies and humankind is what completely changed the 2,000-year history after Jesus died. That is why True Parents are telling us that in order to raise the quality of our love, we have to rise to the level of loving even our enemies. To do that, we must live a life of ceaselessly giving and sacrificing, investing, and living for the sake of others. Sacrificing, and then completely forgetting and investing with a love that allows us to forgive and embrace even our enemies. This is the meaning of True Love, as True Parents explained.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Eschatology 6
Human History is the History of the Providence of Restoration 2 - The Progress of Religion & Science
· Second, considering the progress of religion and science.
· Although they have been working independently with little connection to each other, religion and science inevitably must converge. Today they are on the threshold of reaching this destination, where they will resolve all their problems together in one united undertaking.
· This trend shows that human history has been walking the providential course to restore the original world.
The Unification Church Can Integrate 3 Great Logics into One
<165-250> They shouldn’t be separated because there is only one God. Ultimately, religion, science and philosophy are supposed to be integrated into one centered on God. Only Unification Church Thought can do that because only the Unification Church can connect the highest religion, science and philosophy into one, and has an ideal foundation of God’s spirit and Truth based on its system of thought. Thus, we can deduce that God is able to work through the Unification Church. That is a proper conclusion, isn’t it? We must arrive at such a conclusion.
The Reason Why Unification Principle Emerged
<165-250> Humankind did not do this. Then, for what reason has God rapidly developed science including space science to this stage at the end of the 20th century? It’s because we have entered a revolutionary era of thought to unify the universe. The reason behind the rapid progress of science was to expand in scope together with the sphere of religious unification into the sphere of universal unification. Without it, there is no way that religion, science and philosophy would converge. Even if nobody realizes that these three spheres are meant to be united, it is obvious that our ultimate goal is to center on God. Therefore, there must appear a theoretical system which is able to integrate these three spheres centered on God. This has emerged as the Unification Principle.
In the Last Days, the three main reasonings are supposed to be integrated into one because there is only one God. In other words, religion, science and philosophy are supposed to be integrated into one reasoning centered on God. But only Unification Church Thought can do that.
Then, for what reason has God rapidly developed science including space science to this stage at the end of the 20th century? It’s because we have entered a revolutionary era of thought to unify the universe, centering on the coming of True Parents. In other words, it is because the age of the kingdom of heaven on earth has arrived.
The Way that an Ideal Society can be Realized
<219-109> According to the ideal of creation, mind and body are supposed to become one in heart with God’s ideal true love. Therefore, the spiritual and physical worlds which are the enlargement of mind and body must also be harmonized by God’s true love, not in conflict.
The spiritual world is represented by the sphere of religion and philosophy, while the physical world is represented by the sphere of politics and economics. Since the human mind and body correspond to subject partner and object partner, religion and politics which are also in the position of subject and object partner must form a sphere of harmony and unity in order to bring about an ideal society based on God’s true love.
According to God’s ideal of creation, mind and body are supposed to become one in heart with God’s ideal true love. The spiritual world is represented by the sphere of religion and philosophy, while the physical world is represented by the sphere of politics and economics.
Since the human mind and body correspond to subject partner and object partner, religion and politics which are also in the position of subject and object partner must form a sphere of harmony and unity in order to bring about an ideal society based on God’s true love. The relationship between religion, politics, and economy, including ideology, is like a trinity relationship.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY:
A Life Centered on the Mind is Eternal Life
If You See Through Eyes of the Heart,
Everything is Love
1. Animals do not have a mind. They have instinct, but they do not have a heart centered on the spirit. Animals physiologically know that their owners love them. If we feed dogs, cows, or birds, they are happy. However, for animals, a world of heart where they appreciate or are moved by the grace received from human beings does not exist. Animals are not thinking about the grace received from human beings, and they do not have a heart to return that grace someday.
Only human beings uniquely have heart (shimjeong). Therefore, we must see all things through the eyes of the heart to become people who live with God. Although God is invisible, we can be connected to the incorporeal world by the heart as much as we want. So, when you see through the eyes of the heart, you feel that everything is love. You should also feel that nature’s wind is also love. Think of the wind as existing to heartistically get along with people, not to disturb people. Flowing water is also water that exists to give life to people.
What is the difference between the human and animal world? Animals have instinct based on the physical body, but they do not have a heart based on the spirit. In the animal world, there is no world of heart where they have gratitude towards someone or the unforgettable grace of being moved by someone.
Therefore, to us to become beings different from animals, we cannot just be concerned about what to eat, what to drink, or what to wear centered on the flesh. We have to become people who see through the eyes of the heart, centering on our original mind. Such people can live with God eternally.
Although God is invisible to our eyes, if we live by the heart centering on original nature, we will feel everything as love. You will feel nature’s wind, flowing water, and even the scorching sun as love.
Think of the wind as existing to heartistically get along with people, not to disturb people. Think that flowing water is also water of love that exists to give life to people. And also think that the hot, scorching sun is also God’s love that embraces and loves the entire universe.
A Life Centered on Eternal Life
2. Nature is a lump of love. Sunlight releases heat of love to cultivate life. In that sense, we must be grateful to all of nature. If we think of nature centered on ourselves, there is no grateful heart, and we take everything for granted. If you do not know how to be grateful for nature, you are an animal-like person. That is why people with faith cherish the relationship with the Creator, who created all things, the most. All things, such as wind, air, sunlight, and water, are related to our life and God. But if we only live by the relationship with the physical body and without any relation to spiritual things, then we are like animals.
So, if we live, relating spiritually centering on the heart, that is eternal life. Eternal life is a life that forms a relationship with the eternal world and lives centering on the heart, regardless of whether there is a physical body or not and whether in the physical world or spiritual world. We call people who live centered on the heart “people with eternal life.” This is because people who live by spirit will live joyfully centered on eternal values, even after shedding their physical body.
True Parents said that all creation is the textbook of love to make people into people of love. In that sense, nature is a lump of God’s love. Sunlight releases heat of love to cultivate life. Wind is a messenger of love that spreads all of God’s love to all corners of the world.
If we look through eyes of love, eyes of the heart, and eyes of the spirit in this way, a heart of gratitude towards all of nature will automatically well up. The reason fallen people’s spiritual senses became so dull is because we live centered on ourselves.
If we live centered on ourselves, it becomes a violation of the universal law of living centered on the whole, we will not have a heart of gratitude even if we look at nature and we take everything for granted.
If we do not know how to be grateful for nature, we are animal-like people. People with faith cherish the relationship with the Creator, who created all things, the most. That is why when we think that all things, such as wind, air, sunlight, and water, are related to our life and God, we are overflowing with gratitude towards God.
If we only live by the relationship with the physical body and without any relation to spiritual things, then we are like animals. If we just live to eat, drink, and sleep, we are no different than animals. But human beings are entities with a spirit.
So, if we live, relating spiritually centering on the heart, that is eternal life. Eternal life is a life that forms a relationship with the eternal world and lives centering on the heart, regardless of whether there is a physical body or not and whether in the physical world or spiritual world.
We call people who live centered on the heart “people with eternal life.” This is because people who live by spirit will live joyfully centered on eternal values, even after shedding their physical body.
A Life Centered on the Mind is Eternal Life
3. Values or way of life have no change at all even after the mind leaves the body. It is not dominated by what to eat, what to drink, or what to wear. That is why a life centered on the mind is eternal life. The world where the mind goes is an eternal world that always transcends time and space. Where, then, does that eternal life come from? Our blood was from our parents and ancestors, and our first ancestors inherited it from God.
Therefore, God’s mind is in our blood. In God’s mind, there is the nature of the essence called love. Women were born with the original nature of love based on God's feminine nature, and men were born with the original nature of love based on God's masculine nature. That is why we grow our spiritual selves well with the original nature of love and enter the eternal world. Just as becoming a butterfly is a caterpillar’s purpose, people’s purpose is to enter the spiritual world, the eternal world.
People who live according to their spirit will have no change in their values or way of life even if they leave their body. They are not dominated by what to eat, what to drink, or what to wear like animals. That is why a life centered on the mind is eternal life. Why? Our mind is always connected to eternal life, but our body someday is just gone. We need to center on mind and our heart and to eternal life. That’s why our life, centered on mind, is eternal life. If we just live centered on our centered on our physical mind, there is no eternal life.
Therefore, the world that lives by the heart and centered on the original mind always transcends time and space. Connects to spiritual world, not to just the earthly world. We need to live centered on our original mind, centered on our heart, centered on love. Connection to eternal life.
Then, what must we do to live an eternal life and sustain it? And how can we go beyond the flesh-centered life and live an eternal life? That is to live a life centered on the mind, not a life centered on animal instinct.
In other words, a life of heart centered on the mind is eternal life. This is because a life of heart centered on the mind will continue even after going to the spirit world. We received this mind of eternal life from God since we were born. Therefore, God’s mind, that is, the mind of eternal life, is in our blood.
In God’s mind, there is the nature of the essence called love. Women were born with the original nature of love based on God's feminine nature, and men were born with the original nature of love based on God's masculine nature.
That is why we grow our spiritual selves well with the original nature of love and enter the eternal world. Just as becoming a butterfly is a caterpillar’s purpose, people’s purpose is to enter the spiritual world, the eternal world, be given wings of love and fly to our heart’s content and exchange love with one another.
Today I talked about “A Life Centered on the Mind is Eternal Life”. A very simple sentence, but it is giving me very incredible stimulation. If we just center on our physical mind we are like an animal. We have original mind; we have a spirit. We need to live centered on heart, on our original mind, and on internal love. Then connect to Eternity.
Thank you very much. God Bless You.
(Living Testimony, Sean Warden, CIGYM 21 Day DP Workshop, Lusaka, Zambia)¨
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