Ep 832 - True Family and True Universe Centered on True Love Part 1
True Family and True Universe Centered on True Love - February 4, 2023
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Mika Sasaki and Yoshi Okabe
Key Points
True Father encouraged us to read "View of the Principle of the Providential History of Salvation" and "In Search of the Origin of the Universe." as many times as our age.
These two speeches provide fundamental solutions to sexual immorality, family breakdown and alienation among our young people.
God commanded Joshua to do the same thing that True Parents have commanded us to do today.
Just as God told Joshua, if we keep the hoondok teachings, the eight hoondokhae textbooks, that True Parents gave us, we will be “prosperous and successful.”
Just as God also told Joshua, “Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it,” we too should read the Divine Principle and the Eight Great Textbooks out loud over and over again.
The Messiah has the absolute authority to forgive sins, including the original sin, through the Holy Blessing and the Holy Wine ceremonies.
A tribal messiah has the ability to forgive sins on behalf of True Parents as a Blessing officiator.
God can visit us “with a happy heart” if we establish the conscience vertically in the family.
Then the body and mind can unite, and parents' love, conjugal love, children's love and siblings' love – the four realms of love and heart – are perfected.
The family is the shortcut to perfecting the four great realms of heart.
We must establish God as the subject of our conscience.
If we slack off in studying the word for three days or even one day, we tend to lose our vertical standard of conscience and “flow horizontally,” particularly in the family where our fallen nature is exposed.
We must “set the standard of conscience” more seriously within the family than at work.
To do this we need to serve and respect family members as belonging to God, make the conscience the subject of our body, and practice the four great loves.
We always need to use hyojeong language which is very heartistic and respectful and which treats each other as God’s.
This is filial piety which is spherical motion.
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.♦
It is a beautiful Saturday today.
Today I’d like to talk about “True Family and True Universe Centered on True Love” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given by Reverend Sun Myung Moon at the Federation to Save the New Nation Leaders’ Banquet on May 19, 1997 in Montevideo, Uruguay, and then by Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon between July 22 and August 8, 1997 at leadership conferences and women leaders conferences for the Practice of True Family Life to Advance World Peace held throughout Korea.> Respected and honored guests from at home and abroad, distinguished ladies and gentlemen whose presence is brightening this venue! I am grateful for your coming here in spite of your very busy schedules. To express my appreciation from the bottom of my heart on this special day, the most precious thing I can offer is to introduce you to what I consider two very significant speeches that I gave during my latest world tour. I am referring to the speeches titled View of the Principle of the Providential History of Salvation and In Search of the Origin of the Universe. Today, we need a comprehensive solution to the problems of sexual immorality, family breakdown and alienation among our young people. These two speeches provide fundamental solutions to these problems.
When you return home, I hope you will take some time to reflect deeply on their contents. Reading these speeches together with the members of your family may enhance the love in your family. I believe this can help your family achieve harmony and true happiness. I suggest that you read these two speeches as many times as your age in years. If your age is more than eighty, then read them more than eighty times. The more you read these speeches, the more heavenly blessing and fortune will come to you. The more you read them, the more peace will flow into your family naturally and automatically. I invite you to read them often.
The two most significant speeches that True Parents have taught while touring the world are the speeches titled "View of the Principle of the Providential History of Salvation" and "In Search of the Origin of the Universe."
In the modern day, we need a comprehensive solution to the problems of sexual immorality, family breakdown and alienation among our young people. These two speeches provide fundamental solutions to these problems.
True Parents suggested that we read these two speeches as many times as our age in years. They emphasized that "If your age is more than eighty, then read them more than eighty times. The more you read these speeches, the more heavenly blessing and fortune will come to you."
True Mother gave us a beautiful testimony. Father is the substance of the Divine Principle, but when True Mother began her world speaking tour going here and there, True Father woke up very early in the morning. He read his speech many times early in the morning very loudly. He set the model of a champion of hoondokhae.
After Moses died, God appeared to Joshua and commanded him to do the same thing that True Parents have commanded us to do today. Then, let's study what kind of request God gave to Joshua when he first started his providence following Moses.
I read this many times. It relates to our current situation as well.
Joshua 1:1, 5-9:
1. After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ aide:
5. No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.
6. Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.
7. “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.
8. Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
9. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”
Amen! Ajou!
What was the first Word that God commanded when he chose Joseph as the central figure after Moses?
God said, "For I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you." I believe these words are what True Father left us (with) after he went to the spirit world.
God said, “ Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.” These words must be taken (to mean) if we become one with True Mother today, Cheon Il Guk will surely be realized.
Then, God told Joshua, “If you obey the law that God commanded Moses, you will be successful wherever you go.” I hope we will accept these words as saying that if we keep the hoondok teachings, the eight hoondokhae textbooks, that True Parents gave us, we can prosper wherever we go.
He said, “Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it.” This line means that we must read the Exposition of the Divine Principle and the hoondok textbooks aloud without leaving our mouths. In this way, all roads will be smooth and everything will prosper.
God directly said this to Joshua: “Keep this Book of the Law.” We have so many of Father’s words, but he chose eight textbooks. “Keep this book of the law.” “Keep these eight textbooks of True Parents always on your lips and meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do everything written in it.” Wow! God talked to Joshua directly. “If you do that, everything will propsper.”
I believe that the words God told Joseph when starting a new providence centering around him, is the commandment True Father gave us in this age of Cheon Il Guk.
God directly spoke to Joshua: “On your lips.” Speak out loud. We need to pronounce (God’s word). Then the spiritual world and our ancestors can hear whenever we read with our voice. We can educate our ancestors together. True Father has said the same thing to us again and again.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 21: Original Sin
• The original sin may be thought of as the root of all sins, hereditary sin as the trunk, collective sin as the branches, and individual sin as the leaves.
• All sins sprout from the original sin, which is their root; hence, without extirpating the original sin, there is no way to completely eradicate other sins.
• However, no man is able to unearth this root of sin. Only Christ, who comes as the root and True Parent of humanity can grasp it and uproot it.
Uprooting Sins and the Messiah
1. Only the Messiah can remove the original sin.
No one else. Even if we are saints or sages and we did a great job in the past, we have no authority to relieve(?) original sin. Only the messiah has that kind of authority.
2. Matt. 9:6: “I will prove to you that the Son of Man has the authority on earth to forgive sins.”
Wow! These words are very powerful! We need to meet the messiah. Without meeting the messiah there is no way that we can receive the forgiveness ceremony. No way! God only gives (this) authority to the messiah, the son of man. Only he can forgive sins. The Bible is amazing!
3. The Messiah has the absolute authority to forgive sins through Holy Blessing and the Holy Wine ceremonies. Satan is unable to accuse this.
Father said many times “You do not know the value of the Blessing. When you die, you will know it.” How powerful it is! This is a contract between Satan and the messiah. In order to get this kind of authority, how much indemnity True Parents needed to pay and how much Heavenly Father had to suffer throughout human history! Can you imagine that?
4. Authority of tribal messiah: Thank God we have that authority as well. It is amazing that a tribal messiah has the ability to forgive sins on behalf of True Parents as the officiator.
True Parents gave us that kind of authority to give the Blessing on their behalf. What a blessing it is! Anyone who receives a Blessing from us as tribal messiahs, then they have the same kind of quality of the Blessing. That is why Father called us a “tribal messiah.” We are not just a simple blessed family. Messiah means we can have the authority to forgive sins on behalf of True Parents.
Being Held Under Satan’s Dominion is the Result of Committing a Sin
1. Satan is the master of sin. Those that have fallen will be held under Satan’s dominion. The sin deprives one from freedom. Ever since the fall of Adam and Eve, humankind has been under Satan’s dominion.
Where there is sin, the sin belongs to Satan. Once we commit sin, we are dominated by Satan. Where there is sin, there is no freedom. We need to get out of sin. How can we do that? Without meeting the messiah, it is impossible.
2. As sin is inherited and transmitted to one’s descendants, those who were born as their descendants create a tree of sin. As a result, the world today has become a place where 8 billion trees of sin are growing on this earth.
3. The false love of sin attributes are also rights of mutual participation, inheritance, equal status, and common abode.
Centering on whom? Centering on Satan or God? We need to seriously think about the meaning of sin.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: Live a Life that Builds Your Conscience Vertically
1. True Father instructed us to live a life in which our conscience is established vertically, especially within the family. Here are some of the words from the Pyeonghwa Hun-gyeong: “Everyone, I am asking you to create a family in which God comes to visit again right after leaving because he longed for us. Just as parents visit their children's homes, we are to prepare a family where God visits us with joy and comfort. That is the life of attending God. In such a family, God is vertically the subject of conscience. Your heart is to unify your body and mind centering on God, the vertical subject. There, parents' love, conjugal love, children's love, and siblings' love—the four realms of love—the four realms of heart—are perfected.”(Pyeonghwa Hun-gyeong, 183)
True Father instructed us to live a life in which our conscience is established vertically, especially within the family. He said that if we live a life that establishes God vertically, we will become a family where God visits us with a happy heart, just (as) parents long for their children.
True Father said that only when the standard of life establishes God vertically is when the body and mind can unite, and there, parents' love, conjugal love, children's love, and siblings' love—the four realms of love—the four realms of heart—are perfected.
Because the Fall was a horizontal give and receive action that ignored the vertical standard, in order to restore this, we must always establish our conscience vertically and live a life of attending God. True Parents said that by doing so, we can find and establish the lost vertical standard and unite our body and mind. They also said that family is the shortcut to perfecting the four great realms of heart.
The Reason we Make Mistakes Within our Family
2. We were told to establish God as the vertical subject within our family. This is our responsibility. When we enter a family, the vertical standard easily collapses and we fall horizontally. Fallen people have a habit of quickly collapsing the vertical standard of conscience and falling horizontally once they enter a family. In the world, we are trying to set vertical standards, such as being our boss at work or being polite and greeting Abel in the church.
However, when you enter the family, this vertical standard collapses. Our life of faith is to establish God as the vertical subject of our conscience. In a position with such a vertical standard, the body and mind must be unified. We are told to center our vertical minds and to become one with our bodies. It is not a body-centered mind. However, people do not establish their own conscience as a vertical subject. Those kind of people, in front of others, pretend to have a good conscience and pretend to be the best, but when they enter the family, their original habits will appear as they are.
That is why we say that the family is the front line. All kinds of fallen nature comes out in the family because we relate horizontally to other family members. We refer to our husband as “My own husband” and to our wife as “my own wife” and to our children as “my own children.” There is no vertical concept. That is why when we go to (our) family, (our vertical standard) easily collapses.
The fall of human beings refer to only giving and receiving horizontally and being completely cut off (from) the vertical standard. So, what True Father emphasizes is to establish God as the vertical subject of our conscience.
When fallen human beings listen and study the word, they set the standard vertically but if they slack in their studies, that standard easily collapses and becomes horizontal.
Fallen humans cannot maintain the standard of receiving grace through the Word for more than three days. This is why 3 days after Sunday Service we attend the Wednesday service at night. Not being able to exceed this number 3 is the norm for fallen human beings.
Look at Zachariah and Elizabeth, and Joseph and Mary in the time of Jesus. When they received God's command, they were filled with the Holy Spirit, but after a certain time passed, they flowed humanistically and fell horizontally.
Seeing this, if people do not always set the standard of conscience correctly through the Word, they can always go back to having a reciprocal relationship with Satan. If we distance ourselves from the Word even for just one day, our conscience will lose its standard and flow horizontally. This is the reality of fallen humans.
We always need to study God’s word. If we miss Morning Devotion for one, two or three days, four days, what is our spiritual sense? When we do not have give-and-take with God’s word, fallen man immediately becomes horizontal. We lose the vertical standard immediately. Fallen man cannot keep God’s grace even for three days. This is human reality; we are so changeable, so horizontal, so external!
And fallen people have a habit of quickly collapsing the vertical standard of conscience and falling horizontally once they enter a family. In the world, we are trying to set vertical standards, such as being our boss at work or being polite and greeting Abel in the church. “An Yong Haseyo! Good morning!” It looks as if (we are) trying to keep a vertical standard.
However, when we enter the family, all of these vertical standards collapse.
Therefore, if we enter the family thinking that the family is the forefront, we must set the vertical standard of our conscience right without letting go of the tension in our mind. Otherwise, our own fallen nature will be exposed in the family and all will fail. That is why we must set the standard of conscience more seriously within the family than at work.
Family is the front line. Eve needed to treat Adam as God’s son, not simply horizontally: “He is my friend, my boy friend.” Without a vertical view, just horizontal give-and-take, surely Satan will invade us. In the family we always have such a humanistic concept: “My husband is like that.” “My wife is like that.” “My children are like that.” Give-and-take is always horizontal. Sometimes we use very bad words. We become easily angry and upset. All kinds of fallen nature comes out. That is why we can lose everything and everything can collapse in the family. Why? (We need to?) have a vertical standard. That is why Father says, “Treat your spouse as God,” (and) “Treat your children, not as your own children, but as God’s sons and daughters.” Without that kind of vertical concept and connection, we will collapse.
Fallen human beings pretend to have a good conscience in front of others but when they enter the family, their original habits will appear as they are.
Four Great Loves and Filial Piety
3. When we go out into the world, we keep our manners and outwardly pretend to set our conscience straight. For example, by greeting first by saying, “Hello, how are you?” But what about our true inner self? Our look is false, not real. Especially when you enter a family, your true self is revealed. Husbands treat wives, and wives treat husbands horizontally. Parents treat their children as their own children. And children know their parents only as their physical parents. This is not a life that establishes the conscience vertically. If you establish your conscience vertically, you will respect the other person and the heart to serve them like God comes out. The way of speaking is also respectful.
That is why we are told to raise our conscience vertically when we go in the family. To establish a vertical relationship, is to live a life of where the body centers around the conscience as the subject. It is to establish the vertical conscience and unite the mind and body. In this way, we should set our conscience on the vertical standard and practice the four great loves of parental love, conjugal love, children's love, and sibling love. This centering on the conscience and practicing the four great loves is called filial piety. This will result in spherical motion.
When we go out into the world, we keep our manners and outwardly pretend to set our conscience straight. We try to greet our superiors first and have a humble heart.
But what about our true inner self? Our look is false, not real. Especially when we enter a family, our true self is revealed. Husbands treat wives, and wives treat husbands horizontally. Parents treat their children as their own children. And children know their parents only as their physical parents.
Therefore, all vertical standards of conscience collapse in the family. This is not a life in which the conscience is established vertically. If we establish our conscience vertically, we will respect others and come out with a heart to serve them like God. The way or speaking is also respectful.
That is why we need to use respectful words, not just to our parents, but even to our own children and spouse. We always need to use what kind of language? Hyojeong language. Hyojeong language is very respectful and treats (others) as God’s. It is heartistic, respectful language.
To establish a vertical relationship, is to live a life of where the body centers around the conscience as the subject. In this way, we should set our conscience on the vertical standard and practice the four great loves of parental love, conjugal love, children's love, and sibling love.
Centering on the conscience and practicing the four great loves is called filial piety.
I am living with Taka and Yen. We always have breakfast together. I don’t say much, but I am careful about what kind of language I use. (I check whether I use) respectful, loving, hyojeong language or not with the closest people (to me).
We can pretend to our seniors: “Oh, I love you. I respect you.” But how do we deal with our (juniors?)? What is the fall? Adam and Eve treated each other in a horizontal way. We need to really set up a vertical concept and attitude, to set up our conscience very well. This is the way to protect ourself and have a heartistic relationship with family members.
Today I have spoken about "Live a Life that Builds Your Conscience Vertically."
(Testimony Mika Sasaki and Yoshi Okabe, Young Adult Retreat SR5)♦
NOTE: This text and the PowerPoint slides from this speech are available as a link at the top of this text. 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. Books of the transcripts and notes are available as PDFs at MDBooks.Hoondok.com.
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