Happy True Day of All Things!
Happy 64th Anniversary of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (now World Peace and Unification Sanctuary)
Fourth True Day of All Things Prayer
June 19, 1966
Father! Today at this time we dare attempt to comprehend Your heart as You were creating all the things of creation. It is the original purpose and hope of creation that the bonds of one family be formed throughout the entire universe on the foundation of Your heart, which is the center of joy, happiness and all things. When we consider this, we realize that today this earth has not achieved harmony with Your wishes, Your circumstances and Your heart, thereby repeating the Fall. Please guide us to become people who can contemplate all this and repent again for all our historical inadequacies.
Please have compassion, Father, for the many people who must dash into battle for the sake of tomorrow’s hope, having been unable to escape from the world of death. We earnestly hope for Your compassion toward the many believers who, transcending the present age, are rushing forward today in the direction of the original homeland, the land of the ideal of creation that You want to accomplish.
Father, as You have endured the responsibility for the past, present and future, You have withstood the greatest of hardships, and we know that Your heart is filled with sorrow. When we consider the sorrowful past in which people pounded nails into Your heart — when they should have been singing songs praising Your eternal truth and heart while standing in the presence of Your heart and ideal — we realize that we must bow our heads, kneel before You and raise an altar of atonement, while feeling the deep sorrow You have had to endure.
Father, as You look upon this reality, where no children have been able to raise the altar of victory before You, but are fulfilling the mission of high priest, we know You desire that at least we may become Your devoted envoys who can bear the cross of Heaven in Your stead. Father, though we have raised our hands and pledged to become Your true, filial sons and daughters and loyal subjects to appease Your sorrow and grief — even if it means giving up our lives after we have fulfilled our responsibility — we cannot help but lament that we have failed to practice filial piety and loyalty in a position that can bring You joy.
Nevertheless, Heavenly Father, please do not abandon us. We earnestly hope and pray that You work through us so we can become true children who can fulfill our mission and duties until the promised day of final victory.
Father! So many days have passed by during the long course of history, yet was there ever a single day when You could be happy? In spite of such a history, You found and instituted the Day of True Parents as well as the Day of All Things. Father, today is the Day of All Things You established after so much sacrifice. Father! We cannot help being filled with deep emotion as we greet this day, while reflecting once again on the providence You have carried out so laboriously.
Today is a historic day that marks the fourth anniversary of the day You established the Day of All Things. Throughout Your long course, You have walked forward through miserable adversity filled with sorrow and anguish. Yet we come to feel once again that You have prepared these days while promising the one day of absolute victory in accordance with the Will of Your great providence. Father! We earnestly hope and desire that You awaken us to the reality that we must be grateful, thousands and hundreds of thousands of times, when we consider that the greater the adversity in the past, the more it appears as a condition for greater gratitude today.
Your sons and daughters who were scattered in all directions have now gathered here at Cheongpa-dong Church. Therefore please have dominion over them and allow them to remember this day. Furthermore, we earnestly hope and pray, Father, that through this day You allow them to establish the day of blessing You have prepared. Many members of the Unification Church spread out in all parts of South Korea are on their knees offering devotions and bows for this day. Therefore we sincerely hope Your touch of mercy will be with them wherever these children are gathered.
Moreover, there are many children all over the world who are upholding Your name and offering devotion. We earnestly hope and pray that You be with each of them. In addition, many of Your sons and daughters are struggling amidst the sorrow of pioneering a lonely path, unknown to others, with this amazing, cosmic, historic mission on their shoulders. Father, please remember them.
Father, we know only too well how exhausting is the path of adversity trod by a pioneer. Since You have also fought and advanced from such a position, You are fully aware of these circumstances. Therefore, Father, we earnestly hope and pray for Your efforts, that You may raise people who can resonate with Your circumstances and become laborers, lacking in nothing, who can fulfill the global and historical responsibility, realize the pledge to be victorious, and raise aloft the shield of victory in Your stead.
The time has now come for the first, second and third churches to take responsibility for the new mission locations and march in line toward the capital city of Seoul. Therefore please be with them and command them. By doing so, we earnestly hope and pray that You allow them to become Your children who, for the one day of triumph, can more than fulfill the responsibility of the high priest while holding high the shield of eternal victory.
Father, the more that time passes, the more we come to feel that our astounding responsibility and mission are unavoidable. As we go forward while taking responsibility for the destiny of this people, we can see that the time when we must devote ourselves completely to repay You, and make the final decision for this people, is drawing near. We hope You allow us to make a new resolution and a new vow before the Father, with a grateful heart and an inspired mind. Father, we also hope and pray that You work through us so we can become Your children, who can realize this vow and share with everyone the accomplishments we have achieved.
We know that innumerable spirits in the spirit world are hoping for this day and are waiting for the time when they can be indemnified. Father, we are aware that You have chosen us and placed on our shoulders the great responsibility of forging the connection between the spirit world and the physical world, even if it costs our lives. We are truly grateful that You have allowed us this hour to gather here. Please embrace and protect the many children who, even at this hour, are calling You from near and far with hearts of adoration, and please understand all the circumstances of the children who are walking lonely paths. We pray that today, on this day of joy and glory, You fill everyone with abundant grace. I humbly pray all these things in the holy name of True Parents. Aju!
Rev. Sun Myung Moon
June 7, 1986
True Day of All Things Excerpt
Men and women are like two complementary tuning forks. A man can only vibrate in response to the woman’s love, and vice versa. Thus we say that love doesn’t really belong to you; it is not yours. It doesn’t even come from you. It comes to you from the other side, your object.
The man has his male sexual organs and the woman has her female sexual organs. Your organs do not belong to you. You are the custodian of those organs and they exist for the sake of your mate, who has the true ownership. You have no freedom with those instruments. A major problem with American society today, particularly among young people, is in this area. People think their love instrument is theirs, so they use it according to their whim. All kinds of moral degradation occur because they think their sexual instrument is their own.
How many owners of your love should there be? Some people say, “The more the better!” Is that correct? Ultimately speaking, your love doesn’t even belong to your mate but to the original owner, God. When you say “God” you also mean “absolute:’ Absolute God created for an absolute purpose. Therefore, in love centered on the absolute God you only need one person, not dozens of extras, to be the owner of your love. An absolute doesn’t need a spare because it cannot go wrong.
One of the greatest truths taught in the Unification Church is that God has dual essentialities, that He has Sung Sang and Hyung Sang. That is the greatest declaration to the world about the substance of God. The creation is the place where the invisible God planted His character into visible form. Also, two different kinds of people came from God’s planted seed — men and women. God cannot be represented through men or women alone. Centered upon love, men and women represent the total image of God. In the harmony of men and women the image of God becomes real.
Men and women grow in two ways. First, their individual love for God grows. They realize that love comes from God and their desire to love Him becomes stronger and stronger. In the meantime, as they mature, they begin to desire love from each other — men from women and women from men. A man’s and a woman’s body structures change as their capacity for love grows. An amazing thing is that there is a kind of “homing device” within people that always draws a man and a woman together, never pushing them in the opposite direction.
The Dwelling of God Comes Closer
When love grows within men and women, the dwelling of God comes closer and closer to them. In other words, the time when the love between a man and a woman can be consummated is the same time when their love for God can be consummated and completed. So when God- centered men and women consummate their love, God also feels the fulfillment of His love.
When we say, “Here is a woman,” we already denote the existence of a man. When we say, “Here is a man” we already include the existence of a woman. The two opposite positions must exist in relationship, never separately. Therefore, the words “man” “woman,” and “love” can be said only within a complementary context. We assume the existence of the other two when we say any one of those words.
When you are in love, each of your cells almost explodes. Of course, that kind of explosion does not produce chaos; there is always a certain discipline. Within this discipline there is great flexibility and harmony in the expanding and contracting of love. The movement of love is always one of circular motion. But men and women must have an anchor, some center to their love.
The motion of love between a man and a woman joins together with the vertical line of the love of God and creates a gigantic circle. The love of God always returns to men and women in a flow of give and take. In other words, the vertical line is always circling. At the same time, men and women are also making a circular motion in their love. These three directions move apart and then come together; there is always a returning. This points out another universal principle: There is no straight-line movement in God’s creation; there is only circling motion.
Your horizontal love line should always cross the vertical line of God at a 90-degree angle. This is the evidence of true love. You must both have absolute love toward God. The woman must love her husband absolutely; the man must love his wife absolutely. The father and mother’s love toward the children must be absolute. If any deviation exists, a 90-degree angle is not possible.
The Qualification to Enter Heaven
In the circling motion of love the heavenly four position foundation is created. God, on the vertical line, is connected with the children; the father and mother are connected on the horizontal line. When millions of these heavenly four position foundations fill the earth, that will be what we call the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
In this heavenly four position foundation, you can experience the love of children, the love of parents, the love of husband or wife, and the love of God. Learning these things qualifies you to enter the Kingdom of Heaven; without them you cannot dwell there, neither here on earth nor in the spirit world. What is the Kingdom of Heaven? It is like a storehouse of all these loves — the place where love goes after being harvested. Such love can only come through living within a heavenly four position foundation here on earth.
What is the purpose of a tree? There are many different types — such as the chestnut, fir, and olive — and each tree’s goal is to create the most perfect fruit, which is always identical to the fruit that bore the seeds that created the original chestnut, fir, or olive. That is the goal of all trees: They don’t want to produce anything different from the seed that started them. Later on, the seeds from that fruit will be planted and multiplication can take place a hundred-fold, a thousand-fold, and even a million-fold — with each seed bringing identical results. That is the way Heaven grows. Do you follow?
The woman, as the mother, is to live for the sake of the other three elements — for God, her husband, and her children. When she does that, she can stimulate her husband’s love toward God, toward the children, and toward herself. You cannot inspire anyone to love you unless you live for that person’s sake first. For this reason, anyone who lives for his or her own sake alone will not bring forth good fruit. Results come only when you live for others — particularly for God, your spouse, and your children. Then you can engender reciprocation.
When there is 100-percent commitment in love, there is no consciousness of day and night. You don’t say, “Wait until tomorrow morning. This is a bad time” Any time is the right moment. You can expand all the way to the ends of the world from the center point; it doesn’t matter. You will never stray. If you originated in the center, you will always come back there. God doesn’t have to go chasing around all over the place; He can sit at the center, knowing that everyone will inevitably come back to Him.