Cheon Seong Gyeong 1855
Blessed families have risen up on the
vertical standard, but have not stood
on the horizontal standard in Jardim.
Therefore, from now on, families must
be established that can live together with
God on the horizontal standard. To facil-
itate this, I have made an education cen-
ter for ideal families aimed toward world
peace, and I have been re-educating the
families that have been blessed until now.
I must train them again with the con-
tents enabling them to join God’s abso-
lute glorious family. That is the family
training, taking place in Jardim. (294-319,
1998.8.9)
Richard: In the 1990’s Rev. Moon established a retreat center in the remote Pantanal area of Brazil. The training center is still there. The meaining for me is that we should assert the new ideology, as described in today’s reading, and provide family life education so youth and young adults can form successful families.
Cheon Seong Gyeong 1379
Prior to the 30,000 Couples Blessing,
Kwak Chung-hwan said, “Thirty thou-
sand couples! That is five times the num-
ber of the 6500 Couples. How can we
accomplish that?” We had had enough
trouble bringing together 6500 Couples.
On top of that, I had instructed that these
30,000 couples needed to be ready for the
Blessing not in ten but in just three years.
When I told him, “You must transcend
religion and witness to whoever you can,
whether Muslims, Buddhists or Confu-
cians!” he said he couldn’t do it. His eyes
were like cement. Do you know what I
mean by that? Cement eyes are those
that look frozen. He said we couldn’t do
it, but in fact we actually exceeded our
goal. (294-151, 1998.6.14)
God’s Will Which We Must Untangle
Rev. Sun Myung Moon
June 14, 1959
When we look at ourselves, we realize that we are not alone. There are certain families and a society which have special relationships with us. When we look at this from the perspective of conscience, we realize that all these are intertwined within the relationships that promote the larger and higher goodness.
If we want to clarify ourselves completely and stand in a perfectly secure position, then we must resolve all relationships from our old environment and make an absolute relationship with the new value. We must make an absolute relationship with the world of heartistic ideology. We must make that kind of determination while we are alive on this earth and claim it as God’s, humanity’s, and our own. That would be the greatest hope and mission of humankind.
God’s lamentation is that humanity, whom God personally created, did not unite with the heavenly value, did not harmonize with the value for cosmic existence, and did not become ones who could praise the absolute relationship from a secure position. This is the lamentation of God and of human history, and it still remains as a condition of lamentation in our minds.
Our mind unconsciously desires to sing about that absolute relationship, about that happiness and the ideology of liberty and peace. Even though that is the wish of both our mind and body, no one has fulfilled such a world with his mind and lived in such an environment with his body. This is proven by history, by your lifestyle, and by your life.
When we analyze and criticize ourselves objectively, we are certainly not a happy people. If we are miserable, we must be miserable for You, for humanity, and for society.
If we do not have the solution to our problem and a method of replenishing ourselves, then we cannot remain in a secure place from which to glorify the absolute value. In religious terms, we call this “living in the secular, sinful realm of the fallen world.”
If God exists, He would want to liberate such people, to make them the substantiation of liberty, and lead them into the garden of liberation and the world of liberating ideology. The final hope of humanity is to become the center of harmony who respects his value as the representative of all things and who can move together with the world of cosmic beings. The final hope is to achieve the absolute standard by which the Creator God is moved to be present. If God’s dispensational will exists, finding such a being would be the final purpose of His dispensation. If a stream of history exists, then its purpose would be the building of the world in which all individuals are connected. When we look at ourselves, we are connected to a certain world of relationship. Our existence today did not start from ourselves; it is connected to our past relationships and to our era. Moreover, we are destined to have future relationships.
How then would we explain the intricacies of our past relationships, of our relationship to our era, our future relationship, and our relationship to the spirit world? Philosophers should strive to explain this; religions should strive to solve this. Conscientious and heartistic persons of character should have this kind of ideology and assert it; only then are they qualified to possess new hope and a new ideology in front of past history, the present era, and the future. Only then can they represent that value.
However, ever since the beginning of human history, no one has presented himself as the substantiation of such value to humanity. No one has sung together with the cosmos and glorified the cosmic joy.
God’s purpose, hope, and the ideology of creation were to find and establish this kind of person. Why then was God unable to present the condition of such an ideology, and the experiential emotion which we long to find and connect with our heart to the human world? Why were none of the great people of history able to introduce this kind of situation? We realize it is because human history did not become the foothold that could hasten in the world of goodness in which the original essence and the original nature are harmonized. We should know that our society does not have the proper conditions for establishing the substantiation of the ideology of goodness and for praising and cultivating such a value. History and society do not harmonize with our ideological world. They are actually against it.
For that reason, a certain event, a certain new ideology, or certain assertion must come forth to resolve this contradictory and conflicting situation. Humanity cannot reach the ideological world that can only be understood by our original mind and heart as they are now; therefore, a certain new ideology must come forth to present the direction. That ideology must possess all the historical and environmental conditions if it is to change all that is contradictory and conflicting.
Reading through these earlier speeches of Father it is interesting yet not surprising how often he uses the term ‘new ideology’ and the implicit emphasis he places upon it.
Today we know that new ideology as the ‘Eight Great Sacred Texts’, foremostly the combination of the Divine Principle and Father’s words.
Combining this ‘new ideology’ understanding with Father speaking so much about Jesus as well as promoting Christian outreach from those early times, and that Father named our movement HSA-UWC, it is clear that Father was establishing a proper Christian foundation for the ‘new ideology’ to be received.
So, from those early days till now, Father had been leading ecumenical and inter-faith outreach, with the Assembly of World Religions, the God Conference, Religious Youth Service, American Clergy Leadership Conference, including many Christian Ministers going to Korea, the MEPI; Middle East Peace Initiative, and members being also encouraged to go to Christian church services. You could also include the Amici Curiae of 40 denominations supporting Father during his court case in America.
The inclusion and participation of Christians in Father’s work since the early 1950’s has been very apparent.
Why does the Messiah come? To liberate God and all humanity. Is it just the Messiah alone who does that by forgiving original sin and blessing us, or is there something else?
Yes, we have to welcome the ‘new ideology’, keep it, understand it and practise it. Man’s responsibility is to know God’s Word and embody it. That is our portion of responsibility.
Father educated us about the true understanding of Jesus’ situation, his heart and suffering, what he came to do, so that we could connect heartistically to Jesus.
On that foundation, and with True Parents’ 1960 Blessing, the Parents’ 21 year course began, to take full responsibility for the re-creation of parents, children, all things, and even God, so that he may become the ‘rightful true owner’.
In 1980 the Children’s Course began, where like Adam and Eve we take responsibility for the Word, the Commandment and achieve perfection. This was the significance and purpose of Home Church and now Tribal Messiahship.
There is no need to re-visit or re-do what Father and the movement have already victoriously secured up to and including Foundation Day.
For those in Sanctuary who say we have to make a new Christian foundation for whatever reason have just not been paying attention.
What they need is the ‘new ideology’ foundation, not to return to the superficial and false Christian precepts and theology of the Era before the Coming of Heaven. They will end up gradually ‘de-witnessing’ themselves so they no longer in reality believe in the ‘EGST’ and Father, just as Family Federation are slowly but surely doing.
We must all stand on the Word, the ‘new ideology’ as Father spoke about in this series of inspirational readings, which is ‘The Eight Great Sacred Texts’.
Do you understand?
Yes very true. We must stand on the word of the eight sacred text books.