God’s Love and Light Is Symbolized by Holy Candles

A candle sacrifices itself to give off light. In this way, it symbolizes the need for sacrifice in order to unite humanity centered on God.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1826

    Where will people go? They will go to the mountains in search of nature. Yet, it will become boring just living in a mountain area. That is why people will go to the sea. In the future, people should go into the sea and eventually live there. I have already asked various scholars to carry out research on submarines, and their work is almost done. They say that if a submarine goes down just thirty meters into the water, it will be calm underneath, even if there is a storm above. No matter how hard the wind blows or how rough the waves are, there is no disturbance thirty meters below the water surface. There are no winds or waves thirty meters below. That is why if you press a button and go down thirty or a hundred meters, you will immediately be able to enjoy the scenery of the ocean using a periscope. (236-309, 1992.11.9)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1438

    Only by receiving the Blessing will it be possible to register into the Kingdom of Heaven. Through this, humankind can finally inherit the Kingdom of God. They can form heavenly families, tribes, a people, nations, world, and cosmos. Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven is formed, and they become citizens of that kingdom by being registered in it. Originally, the relatives of the first parents should have been registered in the kingdom. However, because those parents fell, we had to pass through numerous periods in history, and gather those to be registered from the entire world. That is why you need to restore through indemnity the unfulfilled mission of Jesus, by accomplishing your duties as tribal messiahs. In order to do so, you need to take responsibility for each nation in the world and dedicate that nation to the Kingdom of Heaven. (269‑303, 1995.5.1)

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Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Section 11. A Life of Sanctification

11.2. Holy Candles

Summary:
The Unification movement utilizes sacred candles to bless and protect families, beginning with the Shimjung Candle, created on January 5, 1961, which symbolizes True Parents and is lit during prayer to comfort God’s sorrowful heart and reinforce human determination during this time of restoration. Next, the Birth Candle originated with the birth of True Parents’ first daughter and is lit specifically during childbirth to completely sanctify the spiritual atmosphere and block Satan from approaching the newborn baby. The Ae Cheon Candles, or Love of God Candles, were created on May 16, 1984, and are used in pairs to symbolize how a husband and wife must sacrifice for each other—just like a candle and wick combining to produce light—in order to bring divine peace and unity to humanity. Ultimately, lighting these candles creates a powerful realm of unified heart that blocks out all evil, discord, and injustice, bringing God’s eternal protection and sovereign power over both the spirit and physical worlds.

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Our Church Members Should Sanctify Everything

From now on you, standing as a substantial being of life, need to blow on things before you eat or drink them.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 600

    People living on earth today do not desire the path of suffering and sorrow. The passing of joyous occasions evokes nostalgia in them. Such is human nature.
    This world we live in is mixed with sadness and joy. All the happiness we are experiencing will disappear with death and cannot remain beyond it.
    Our heart seeks happiness, longs for better things, and yearns for the eternal world. If sorrow and joy disappear with death, then does our heart also finish with death? No. The fact that our hearts and minds move in that direction is proof that such a world actually exists.
    People are spiritual beings and their lives are eternal. People who have loyally walked the way of death for heaven, embracing hope as they followed a path repulsive to many people, have done so because they felt something ordinary people could not feel and appreciated something ordinary people could not appreciate. It was for that reason that they could tread even the path of death.
    Unless your longing becomes stronger than any adversity, hardship, sadness, or death that you may encounter in your actual life, you will become people who feel regretful before death and draw back from pain and sorrow. As Jesus surmounted the summit of death, entered the eternal world, and built the sphere of resurrection, we today are also destined to surmount the summit of death.
    Then what type of people live with heavenly hope? They are those who can joyfully surmount the summit of death that grieves humanity. Such people are the ones who cherish Heaven’s hopes. So, do not become people who covet and grieve after all the things of this world before death. Become those who can stand before heaven and be proud of the value of their death. God seeks such sons and daughters of hope.
    If there were people who felt Heaven’s joy in such a position, God could not but love them. If there were a throng of people that cried out to Heaven from such a position, Heaven could not but answer that cry. (6-52, 1959.3.22)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1452   

    Since True Father knows the heart of God very deeply, just one word from anyone will restart the flow of tears from his eyes. The fact that God, who should rule freely over the whole universe and govern all the nations, had His ideal trampled upon, the ideal of His being the sovereign of all sovereigns and reigning over all of humanity in the parent-child relationship with the authority and power of the king of all ages is a truly mortifying reality. At this time, the day of glory on which we will rise up, defeat all the evil powers of this world, and restore the sovereignty longed for by God is now right before our eyes. (164-216, 1987.5.16)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Section 11. A Life of Sanctification

11.1. Holy salt

Summary:
Holy salt was first created on March 16, 1960, during True Parents’ Holy Wedding, to allow families to purify and protect their daily belongings and environments from the satanic world. Church members are instructed to use holy salt like yeast to sanctify newly purchased items and themselves when entering their homes, sprinkling it in the shape of a cross while praying in the name of the Trinity, True Parents, and themselves. If a member must give a sanctified item back to the outside world, they should use their left hand. When physically sprinkling salt is impossible—such as when eating food, drinking water, or sitting down in public—members should instead establish a spiritual condition by blowing “whew, whew, whew” three times. Ultimately, this traditional practice of blowing three times symbolizes receiving the Holy Spirit and acts as a continuous, internal way for members to clear away a long history of spiritual defilement wherever they go.
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What Will Make God Most Happy?

The sacred foundation on which God can bind together men and women of pure love like you is where the bride and bridegroom are to meet.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1574

    By concluding the ceremony of Chil Il Jeol, we inaugurate the era in which the True Parents can do as they please. Until this time, I was not free to do as I pleased. If I could have done all that I wanted to do, why would I have suffered? Why would I have acted so powerlessly before the world? There is a time for everything. Without fulfilling my responsibility with regard to time, I cannot lift up my face and lead others. (218- 16, 1991.7.1)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 426

    Genesis 1:27 says, “So God created man in His own image, male and female He created them.” We can deduce from this that God has both male and female qualities. God needs an object because He cannot live alone. Therefore, He had no choice but to create this world. As a result, a man and a woman were created. (Blessed Family – 307)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Summary:
To fulfill our highest purpose, we must become true sons and daughters of God by connecting our hearts directly to His, making His path, situation, and will our very own. It is especially vital for young people in their twenties to keep their bodies and minds completely clean, unstained, and pure so they can bring a holy heart to the altar where God can joyfully unite men and women of pure love. Because human blood lines were originally stained, individuals must practice total obedience and accept guidance from the Unification Movement to change their lineage and allow God’s overflowing love to become the absolute center of their lives. Earthly life is deeply precious, and staying faithful to this pure, unchanging first love—even risking your life for it—is the exact standard required to escape Satan’s realm of death, act with true filial piety, and ultimately claim the highest possible position in the kingdom of heaven.
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Do Not Be Crushed before You Bloom

Do not be flowers whose leaves have fallen off and whose pollen has been shaken out. It is the same for men.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1986

    Before the Fall of Adam and Eve, there was God and the three archangels centering on Adam and Eve. In regards to Adam, Eve should have followed him, as well as the three archangels who were also to follow Adam. The ideal was to have Eve and the three archangels enter Heaven after becoming one with God, centering on Adam. That is why I, as the representative of Adam, am now influencing Japan, the Eve nation, the United States, China, and the Soviet Union. Thus, we have returned to the position of receiving the three archangels and the realm of Eve. (199-84, 1990.2.15)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1191

    What is the secret method to restore the right of the eldest son? Satan claims, “God is a perfect God and the Adam and Eve He is seeking must also be perfect. Had they not fallen, it would have been the Principled standard that Adam and Eve have to love me as the original archangel. Thus, even though I have fallen and I found myself in the position of a bad one, if you all are in a position to be called good and true, you must set up the condition of having loved me. Without this, You, God, cannot be in the position of God in front of me.” This is the problem. Satan stops everything dead, saying, “If there is a secret method of uniting with you, what is it? The person You send must love me. Unless he stands together with You in the position of loving me, and makes the condition enabling him to say that he loved me, he will not be able to regain the birthright of the firstborn son that I have been holding on to.” That is why Jesus exhorted us to love our enemies. (131-182, 1984.5.1)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Summary
The teenage years are a dangerous and volatile time of transition when young people often want to wander aimlessly and rebel against their parents, which can cause self-destruction and ruin the order of society. Because making the wrong choices during adolescence can destroy a person’s entire life and family, youth must strictly follow a principled way and resist the urge to act out irresponsible or thrilling fantasies until they have the maturity and self-control to manage themselves. Young people are like flower buds. Both young men and women should grow naturally and stay pure, rather than getting trapped in the wicked and damaging cycle of illicit love relationships. Ultimately, by maintaining their absolute purity and virtue, young people can blossom fully and naturally into valuable individuals who bring great hope to God, allowing them to rise above the fallen world rather than being crushed by the valleys of sorrow.
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You Should Go through Adolescence in the Right Way

If you earnestly seek to overcome adolescence containing the character for death, then, turn it upside down.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1928

    We should take the path of restoring a nation. In restoring a nation, we do not need the nation called Japan. In restoring a nation, we need to do so from a supra-national standard. To do so, we need to restore one nation under the aegis of the UN. But since the UN does not listen to me, I made the Federation of Island Nations. This is the Abel-type UN. Then I made the Federation for Peninsular Nations. In addition, I created the Federation for the Nations of the Six Continents. (282-185, 1997.3.12)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 2260

    Earthly families are the production plants to re-create citizens who can be brought along into the heavenly world. We act as the owners of these factories before entering the spirit world. If Adam and Eve had set the straight path, we would not need to educate our children. It would have happened naturally. Everyone would have had God within himself. There would have been no need to educate them. We are where we are now because of the Fall. As a result of the Fall, humanity has been ignorant of all the fundamentals. (254-246, 1994.2.13)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 283

    Until now, because of the Fall, it has been difficult for the hearts of people on earth to be vertically connected to the heart of God. The appearance of True Parents will connect them. Your relatives who do not oppose True Parents at that point are not the Cain sphere. They have entered the Abel sphere on God’s side.
    Thus, from now on the realm of religion will break down. Until now, through the realm of religion centering on the chosen people, the spiritual and physical worlds have been connected in a mainstream type of relationship. Now, the Cain and Abel environment has disappeared because the Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament Ages have reached the same degree of completion. This has taken away the authority of religions. Thus, those families who are centered on you and who do not oppose you stand in the position of heavenly Abel. So things will turn around as you set them in motion and push. Today is such a period in history. That is why it will become our world.
    You should understand this era. The proclamation of True Parents will put an end to the parents with satanic lineage. True Parents have fought against the satanic world, won back everything, risen up, and reached the stage where the democratic and communist worlds will collapse. Thus, since they have created these victorious conditions, on the basis of that proclamation the satanic world will come to an end. What does it mean for the satanic world to come to an end? It means being liberated from Satan.
    Until now we have lived within the culture and environment of the satanic world. But now we are being liberated from the satanic world, satanic lifestyle, and satanic lineage. Where do we go after being liberated from Satan? We must return to God. The world today does not know God. Satan made it that way. Humanism does not recognize God, either. American humanism today has expelled God. What is the basis for humanism? It is the body.
    The body focuses on itself. It seeks pleasure. If you chase after it you will be ruined. That is reality. So we need to be liberated from Satan and liberated from a satanic lifestyle: lifestyle means culture. We need to be liberated from such a lifestyle. Next, we need to be liberated from that lineage. Then, where do we return to once we are liberated from Satan? We must return to God. Although we need to return to God, neither communism nor secular humanism knows how to return to God. More than that, where and how should we live? We are not meant to live according to our whims, like animals. Ideally our lives would begin centering on True Parents from the outset. We should live in the domain of the global ideal centered on True Parents. Thus, you cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven without believing in True Parents. Right now it is as if there were many branches that have not been engrafted. (202-275, 1990.5.25) Continue reading “You Should Go through Adolescence in the Right Way”