Ep 520 - International Conference on the Unity of The Sciences (ICUS) Part 1
International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences (ICUS) 155-40-13-40 - March 29, 2022 (End of the 13th 40-Day Condition)
Today is the 40th day of the 13th 40 day jeongseong condition. Thank you so much for your support and your beautiful dedication every day.
(Shows photos) I had a breakfast meeting with the Heavenly USA team. They had experiences in witnessing on campus and doing outreach to Christian youth.
I heard each of their reflections in Chicago and plans for the future. I encouraged them to think of how to contribute to God’s will in the future through their own interests.
It was a meaningful time. I heard each of their reflections and resolves. (We had) questions and answers. It was a good meeting.
After that, I went to IUPUI (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis). We made a holy ground at the campus and prayed to find righteous people through campus witnessing.
In the evening, I met Pastor Edward and Bishop Powell couple at the Augusta Christian Church. They completed the 40 day condition and 3 day ceremony.
Our … USA Team came and helped and created a very beautiful atmosphere. I gave very strong guidance.
Bishop Powell’s couple completed the 43-day process and recently blessed 15 couples from their congregation. They shared how the Blessing impacts and changes lives. They are so inspired about the vision that True Parents have for God and humankind. I really appreciated that.
Also, Dr. Madelene Alexander, who is the Indiana ACLC Chairwoman, came and supported us and gave a beautiful and powerful speech about True Parent and the Blessing.
We shared how to help each other. We made exciting plans. Thank you so much for your support.
I strongly felt that the Bishop Powell couple are chosen by God. I asked them to study the Divine Principle deeply and thoroughly and also have all their congregation study the Divine Principle as well.
I strongly recommended for them to listen to the Divine Principle from the Principles of Creation to the Second Coming.
Their congregation members are quite good. They promised to educate all their congregation in the Divine Principle. We were so excited. After that I suggested that their church and our church combine together to establish a united church. We can put (up) our Family Federation logo. They were really inspired.
I really appreciate our Indiana team. Our FUSA(?) team tried to mobilize young people. I really appreciated all the Indiana team members for their effort and jeongseong.
Yesterday I received so much beautiful inspiration about how we can work with ACLC ministers and how to educate them.
Today I’d like to talk again about “International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences (ICUS)” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 1.
Heavenly Parent's dream, True Parents' dream and humanity's wish is to have one family under Heavenly Parent; however, the world we live in today is filled with many problems. When we reflect on the religious conflicts, racial conflicts, territorial conflicts and all other kinds of conflicts happening today, we come to see that they all are self-centered, egoistic actions. People's standard of living may have reached a high level through the industrial revolution, and yet, with the emergence of superpowers, the industrial revolution has caused more problems than it brought benefits, raising serious concerns for the future. One example is the devastation caused to the Earth due to climate change. Light, water and air, the most precious elements that allow human beings to live, are being polluted. Observing this phenomenon, True Father felt that effective steps had to be taken toward preparing alternative solutions for a future food crisis and for climate change. That was why he invested so much in South America for so many years.
People who have been concerned about the future of humanity have identified many issues caused by climate change; however, they have not been able to provide good solutions to these problems. One of the reasons is the presence of superpowers. Many of the scientific advancements our advanced civilization has made until now have been focused on war and destruction. Therefore, I want to revive the International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences. Originally, God created a beautiful earth; hence, I am calling for a movement and for efforts to restore the earth to its pristine state. To do so, experts and scholars must take the lead. That is how they can earn the trust of all of humankind. (2016.08.19, CheongShim Peace World Center)
Today, centering on True Mother’s words, we will study True Father’s Words on the International Conference on the Unity of Sciences (ICUS).
<Chambumo Gyeong, P. 981> Scholars in each ICUS committee are experts. They are clearly influential in their own fields. Nevertheless, there was not one among them who had a vision or determination to influence the whole world through uniting scholars in the academic community. Nonetheless, this is the effort we are making, and for this the Unification Church deserves appropriate recognition.
If I continue this work, what I see happening is that I will inspire the brightest intellectuals in America to align with and assist in our activities to save America. Because scholars gather at international academic conferences restricted to their own fields or specialties, the themes of those conferences are often quite limited.
However, we hold an assembly that interconnects all fields and specialties, so I envisage that this conference will reach the world level and gather more than 70 Nobel prizewinners. Viewed in this way, these academic conferences are unprecedented.
It is my vision that the ten major universities in America will each align with a Nobel laureate, enabling them to take the lead and indicate the direction toward the future. My hope for the science conferences is that the universities will systematically select professors to show the direction, and that students will also mobilize to build their own movement. This is my hope and vision for ICUS.
The reason True Mother wants to revive the International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences established by True Father is to solve many problems caused by climate change through scientists.
Many of the scientific advancements our advanced civilization has made until now have been focused on war and destruction, but True Mother emphasizes that we must return to a movement and (make) efforts to restore the beautiful earth created by God to its pristine state.
In True Father's words today, he said that there is a need for a movement to unite and organize the intellectuals and students of universities at the same time. In that sense, I think it is very effective to combine CARP and PWPA activities that we are currently doing at university campuses.
In the future, I believe that PWPA activities will be of great help in nurturing future leaders from a parent’s standpoint if they actively support CARP activities, which is in the child's position. Therefore, I think that the establishment of PWPA in each major university should be carried out at the same time.
That is why we need to (create a relationship between) CARP and PWPA.
One major university has decided to have a launching ceremony of PWPA in their university. I think in order to raise our CARP members, we need to have a combination of CARP and PWPA. I strongly suggested to CARP members to find a John the Baptist figure in each university. Let’s carry on our beautiful activities on each campus.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: Principle of Creation 28 - Family Perfection is the Completion of the 3 Great Kingships (Centered on Dr.Lee, Sang Heon’s Unification Thought)
Today’s topic is a little different.
The Completion of the 2nd Blessing is the Completion of the 4 Great Realms of Heart
“This text is the preaching about the 4 great realms of heart and 3 great kingships given by the writer of the Unification Thought Dr. Sang Hun Lee on January 17th, 1993, at dawn in the rally of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity.”
The Four Great Realms of Heart and Three Great Kingships centering on the words of True Parents, which I am referring to you today, are the contents that Sang-heon Lee, director of the Unification Thought (Institute), has compiled based on Unification Thought under the direction of True Parents.
This content received a clear confirmation from our True Parents. Yesterday we spoke about the four great realms of heart. Today we will speak more about the three great kingships. It summarized what Father is talking about very well.
(1) Definition of 3 Great Kingships
1. King from the 3 great kingships is not a secular king that rules over one country.
2. King from the 3 great kingships is family centered, in other words, it means the patriarch of the family. The center of the family is the patriarch of the family, that is parents. The 3 great kings from 3 great kingship means the parent extending through 3 generations,
3. Concretely speaking, it means grandparents, parents, children. It talks about the three generations of grandparents, parents, and children. In this sentence, the character “dae” does not signify big, but generation.
What is important here is why the word 'king' is used when talking about the three great kingships.
The three major ideas of the Unification Principle are that God is the true parent, the true teacher, and the true owner, that is, the true king.
When we look at God centered on love, God is in the position of the true parent, but in terms of governing all things and the universe, he is ruling as the absolute being and king.
If God is the king who rules over all things, then Adam and Eve are the children of God, the prince who is the son of the king, and the princess who is the daughter of the king.
In other words, if God represents the king of the invisible world, Adam and Eve represent the king of the substantial world.
4. Then, why are there three kings in the family? There is only one parent in the family, so there should only be one king, but why are there three kings?
5. However, when looking at it through time, the past, present, future, we can come to understand there are three kings. There are parents of the past, present and future.
6. The three kings are the grandparents, parents, and children. Grandparents are the king of the past, parents the king of the present, and children king of the future.
7. Therefore, as the grandparents, parents, and children are all kings, the grandparents are granted the authority of a king, and the parents and children each also are granted the authority of a king. Thus it forms the 3 great kingships. Nevertheless, its characteristics are not the same.
What Kind Of Family Do You Desire?
<280-167> God is as the king of the spiritual kingdom, Adam is as the king of the earth, and Adam’s son grows as the king of both the spiritual kingdom and of earth.
If you ask someone “What kind of family do you desire?” they will answer, “I want my grandfather to be a king, my father to be a king, and for myself to be a king. That is the highest desire a human being can have.”
These are Father’s words directly.
The expression “king” that True Father explained is that God is the God of the highest value and position in the universe, and that Adam, Eve, and his children are also kings with the highest value and position.
<280-167, 1996.11.24> You are living your lives ignorant of the fact that you are sons and daughters of the three great kingships. To become a prince of the three great kingships, you should be capable of attending your grandparents like the king of the spiritual kingdom, and of attending your children like princes. The start of Adam’s family centering on the ideal of God was to be the start of such a family
Who is God? He is the Great King who rules over the whole universe.
The highest human desire is that everyone without exception wants to be the best. That is the highest position, right? If the supreme being is the king's position from an external point of view, all human beings want to be kings.
However, because of the Fall, humans do not know that God is our king, and we live centered on our family and do not know that the three generations are in the position of the king. If true love is viewed from the point of view of wanting others to be better than you, God wants to treat you as the king of kings higher than Himself.
Wow! Even though God is the greatest king centered on the universe, when he looks at his own children, the parents always think that the object partner should be better than themselves. When God created Adam and Eve, (he felt) they should be in a higher position than he (God). That is the heart of the parents. That is why if God is the greatest king, what is his desire? That they should be higher than God himself. That is the heart of the parent.
Fallen humans do not know that they are sons and daughters of the 3 generations of kings in their homes.
Think about it. Imagine that I am living in my home serving my parents, the king, and I am the king, and I am also serving God's prince and princess. Am I living my life serving my parents like a king? Am I living with my children as kings?
Wow! The original human value was like that. We do not treat our children as God’s prince and princesses, right? We do not treat our own father and mother as king (and queen). This is a problem because they are arguing and fighting each other. They do not respect their parents and treat their own children (badly). This is really because of the human fall.
Their original value is so precious. Are you really treating your parents as your king? Are you treating yourself as your present king? Are you treating your children as future kings? You are living with the king! Can you imagine that? You are living with God’s prince and princess. What is the original value? It is incredible and amazing!
True Father said that in order to become the 3 generation king, you must be able to treat the grandfather like a king in heaven and his sons and daughters like a prince and princess.
It is said that the beginning of such a family was the beginning of Adam's family centered on God’s ideal.
What is God’s original blueprint? Human value is incredible. I really appreciate our Heavenly God and our True Parents. My value is like that; my children’s value is like that; my parents value is like that. Our parents' position is like that. My position is like that. My children’s position is like that. How precious they are! How precious I am! How precious my parents are!
The 3 great kingships theory is so powerful!
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: What is Spiritual Sexual Immorality?
Recently we have been talking about this Bible content. I think we can learn many things actually. We are living in the last days. (These verses) very much relate to our current situation and churches.
To the Church in Pergamum (Revelation 2:12-17)
12 “To the angel of the church in Pergamum write:
These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword.
13 I know where you live—where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city—where Satan lives.
14 Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality.
They ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality!
15 Likewise, you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
(16 Therefore repent. If not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth.)
17 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.
The Lord rebuked the Church of Pergamum for two things. He said that the first is (for their) worship (of) idols and the second is (for their) obscene/immoral (behavior).
1. The Lord rebuked the church at Pergamum for sexual immorality. He said that they were spiritually sexually immoral, which means that a person who should serve only one master serves two masters. And they are people who enjoy being glorified through others, that is, people who affirms themselves. When they affirm themselves, they exalt themselves above God. What happens when they fall in love with themselves? They like to be praised by others. They like to be treated (well) by others. On the other hand, those who prefer to give back to God more are the filial sons. A person who enjoys being treated (well) in front of others loves himself and affirms himself, so he is centered on himself and tries to be happy. This is called promiscuity. That is, one who serves two masters. A person who serves himself more than God is an adulteress.
Spiritual sexual immorality is when someone who should serve only one master serves two masters.
Eve served two masters. Eve served God on the one hand and the archangel on the other.
Spiritual sexual immorality means that I have two hearts when I should only have one pure heart. All fallen human beings are sexually immoral because they have two minds.
As long as fallen humans have two spiritual minds, they can fall (in a) sexually immoral environment.
As long as you serve two minds and serve two masters, you can fall any time. Do not say, “You have committed Chapter Two sin; you are a terrible guy.” Actually … we can fall any time as long as we have two minds. We are supposed to have one mind, one pure heart, but we have two minds. We serve Satan and, at the same time, try to relate to God. We have two masters, two owners. That is why we call such a person an adulterer. Who can deny that?
That is why we emphasize self-denial in our life of faith. Self-denial means that “I will serve only one master as my father.”
I only try to serve one God, one master.
However, if you do not deny yourself, you will be serving yourself. Serving yourself is like serving another master.
Those who serve themselves enjoy being glorified. “I like to be treated (well) by others.” When you affirm yourself, you exalt yourself above God.
A person who serves himself more than God is an adulteress (/adulterer).
This is reality.
2. If you spiritually serve a master who is not your master, you become lewd. So, Adam and Eve had to bring joy to God only, and they should have a firm heart, saying that only God is their subject. However, they Fell because they had a sense of ownership and acted according to their own will. It seems that the church in Pergamum did not commit sexual immorality even though there were martyrs. However, the Bible says “Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality.” This is not talking about physical sexual immorality.
3. Those who have already become tools of Satan and commit sins cannot be directly dealt with by God. Unless they sincerely repent and return to God's side, they cannot deal with God. But when there is a great risk of committing a sin or going in the wrong direction, God rebukes them and turns them around in their own. When a person is whipped or disciplined, He disciplines them when they have a wrong heart, but God cannot touch them if their heart and actions have already committed a sin.
According to the principle of restoration, human beings have been placed in the midway position where they can face good and evil at the same time due to the fall.
In order to separate these humans from Satan, if human beings make good conditions, they go to God's side, and if he makes evil conditions, they go to Satan's side.
However, God cannot directly deal with those who have already committed sins as tools of Satan.
This is very important.
Therefore, once a person commits a sin, he cannot deal with God unless he goes through the indemnity process of repentance.
That is why anyone who has committed sin, even though God as our parent tries to embrace and love him and asks him to come back, he cannot do it immediately because sin belongs to Satan. Any human being who commits sin and makes evil conditions belongs to Satan. Without repentance, he cannot go back to God. God cannot deal with him even though he loves him because sin belongs to Satan. Without total repentance, only a little repentance, only partial repentance, not real repentance from your heart, God cannot accept it. Some part belongs to Satan already. This is an important point about why we need to repent (fully).
Of course, because God is a God of love, He forgives immediately, (but) even if He wants to embrace you, it is impossible because of Satan’s accusation. Since sin is Satan's, Satan asserts his possession over the fallen man, unless they repent.
That is why repentance is important. As long as you are serving two minds, you are not clear, no separation like midway position so Satan cannot do anything and God cannot do anything. When you are in the midway position, you need to separate. That is your portion of responsibility. If you separate from Satan, then God can deal with you. But if you cannot separate from Satan, then you belong to Satan.
How can I go back to God? According to the Divine Principle, you need to make good conditions, then God can deal with you. What kind of good condition? You need to repent from your heart. Repentance means to separate from Satan -- not (just) conditionally. You need to repent from your heart. (Do it) until God sympathizes (with you) and Satan runs away from you (saying) “You no longer belong to me; you belong to God.”
Therefore, unless (a person) sincerely repents and returns to God's side, he cannot deal with God.
God constantly warns us through the peoples’ consciences when there is a great risk of committing a sin or going in the wrong direction.
Before we commit sin, God exerts his maximum best (power) and gives a warning through his conscience: “Don’t do that. Don’t do that. Do not meet that girl. Do not meet that boy. Ok?” God uses his maximum power and mobilizes (the person’s) original heart and mind. He gives a warning.
But if our physical mind is stronger than our spiritual mind, God cannot do anything about that.
He whips or chastises (or) disciplines when the person's attitude is wrong. However, if your heart and your actions have already committed a sin, God cannot control you.
What should you do? You need to repent, seriously repent. If you conditionally repent, God cannot take it. When we repent, it does not matter if someone is looking at us or not, if it is shameful or not. That is nothing. Really confess with tears.
Why do we need to repent? (It is) not because of committing sin. What do we need to repent for? I am the one who hurt God’s heart. As an unfilial son, you need to repent. Not just because of my own sin. Because of my sin, I am the one who hurt God’s heart, hurt my parents’ heart. I am the one who really misused True Parents’ love.
If we really repent centered on God’s and True Parents’ heart, that is true repentance.
If I want to run away from my own sin because I am so troubled because of pangs of conscience (and) I want to escape from that, that is not real repentance.
Real repentance is what? (To recognize) when I commit sin when Heavenly Father looks at me, how much his heart is hurt by me! That is real repentance: I hurt God’s heart, True Parents’ heart. Even after I received the Blessing, I committed sin. How much I misused True Parents’ Blessing! You need to think of your own parents more than your pangs of conscience. Then we can offer total repentance. Without total repentance, we repeat the same problem again and again.
4. The Lord rebuked the first church for having no love, the second church for being rich, and the third church for being self-centered and enjoying glory. The reason these words are mentioned in the Book of Revelation is because the present day is the last days. Now is not the age of believing only with words, nor the age of believing only with our hearts. That is why it's time to put our first decision into action in our lives. What was your first action? After hearing these words, the actions we acted with determination in our hearts regarding the will must be realized in our lives. Now, beyond the age of belief, beyond the age of hope where we only look at the vision, it is an age in which we must realize ourselves, act and show our achievements. The reason why we do not feel God in reality is because we do not put into practice what we know in our lives.
So far we have looked at three churches. First, the church was rebuked for their lack of love. The second church was said to be rich. The third church was rebuked for being self-centered and enjoying their own glory.
The reason these words are mentioned in the Book of Revelation is because the present day is the last day. The reality of the above churches are being shown in the churches that exist today.
A church without love should not criticize brothers and sisters, but unite with one another in compassion and love, rather than criticizing people. Second, the church with a rich heart must not be content with the present life, but constantly challenge and go forward. So you must bring about multiplication, not just satisfaction based on my own situation. Third, a self-centered church that enjoys glory must exalt God above itself.
Now is not the age of believing only with words, nor the age of believing only with our hearts. It is time to show the living and working God through our lives.
Now is the completed testament era, the era of cheon il guk. It is time to show. No need to talk about the kingdom of heaven in heaven. We need to show the kingdom of heaven is here within our heart, within my family, within our community, within our church. Then (there is) no need to witness. We need to show that the kingdom of heaven is here and now, not nearby somewhere. Then I am telling you, your center will become a center of true love. Many people will come and follow usl
Let's create that kind of beautiful church. We need to show the kingdom of heaven is here and now.♦
(Response to sharing) One time Father shared that since he met Jesus, he went to the spiritual world very often and (visited) every corner of the spiritual world from the hell of hells to the formation stage, growth stage, paradise, the middle spiritual world. Also, he went into the kingdom of heaven. According to Father’s testimony, he was totally surprised when traveling in the kingdom of heaven. He asked, “How come the tradition and all the content is so similar to Korean culture in terms of heart, respecting parents and 3 generations living together?” Wow! Father realized why Heavenly Parents chose Korea as the chosen nation. God trained the Korean people from a long time ago to create a substantial model.
Sometimes I struggle with Korean culture. Some western people love it; some don’t. However, we need to really love the culture of the kingdom of heaven. In order to learn Korean culture, you need to watch Jumong(?) drama more often.
(Response to second sharing) When we are dealing with the scene(?) with second generation, third generation or any people, sometimes we only deal with outcomes. That is not the main issue. We need to teach internally. When we focus on teaching spiritual immorality, spiritual fornication, we need to teach them what fornication is, that is, to serve two masters, to have two mindsets. If we teach more internal matters, then they can really understand how to prevent themselves from falling.♦
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