UnionStation.love official launch:
September 18th, evening: UnionStation Social in-person event.
September 19th, 10:30 a.m. Expert panel discusses Finding Your Eternal Match in Today’s Culture, In-person and online.
September 20th, 10:30 a.m. Mountain Top Family Fellowship, In-person
All events are in Harpers Ferry, WV.
Cheon Seong Gyeong 1826
Human beings are free to go any- where. If they want to go to the ocean or mountains, they can freely do so with- out any national boundaries. They can live in the water as well. The age will come when we can build a submarine and live freely under water based on scientific advances. Otherwise, humanity will have no place to live. A submarine sinks by letting water into its tank until it becomes heavy enough to sink. With a button, you can control the inflow and outflow of water, and accordingly sub- merge or rise in the water. Therefore, we can live in the water. There is no better place in heaven and earth than what lies deeper than ten meters. If you go down thirty meters, would the wind matter? A truly serene world emerges, an under- water kingdom. If you go up in the air, you can encounter trouble with lots of wind and constant change. The air currents and atmosphere can vary, and it can suddenly rain. That is why I believe that living in the ocean is an ideal way of life. (262-272, 1994.8.1)
Cheon Seong Gyeong 1096
Do you recall how difficult it was when you were coming out of your mother’s womb? Why did God make birth like this? How easy would it be if giving birth were as simple as talking, as easy as eating good food or smelling the scent of perfume or opening your mouth and laughing “Ha ha ha.” Why is it that giving birth is not simple like that? Giving birth produces perspiration in situations that border on life- and-death. Why was it made like that? Why? It is in order for us to experience a brilliantly shining love. (107-43, 1980.1.20)
Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon
Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity
Chapter 2
The Internal Meaning of Sin and the Fall
Section 4. The Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was Eve’s Sexual Organ
4.1. Covering their sexual parts was an indication of sin
Summary:
The commandment not to eat the fruit was actually an instruction for Adam and Eve to wait until they reached spiritual maturity before experiencing love ⏳. The “fruit” was symbolic rather than a literal food because Adam and Eve covered their sexual parts after falling 🙈—instead of their eyes, hands, or mouths—demonstrating that the Fall involved the misuse of physical love. Furthermore, the Fall began when Eve prioritized self-awareness and self-assertion over divine principles, allowing Satan to invade through the body and corrupt what was meant to be sacred into something viewed as shameful 💔.
We do not know whether Eve picked and ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil or whether she ate an apple. In order to do so, she would have had to first see it with her eyes, then move her hands to pick it, and finally eat it with her mouth. In order to have taken and eaten, the eyes, hands and mouth must all have been involved. If the act of eating started with these three organs, if these organs actually performed this action, then after eating the fruit, Adam and Eve ought to have covered their eyes, hid their hands and covered their mouths; yet they actually covered their sexual parts. That is the problem. (54-62, 1972.3.11)
Human beings were born as children of the heart, but they had to grow up. In order to mature and be able to govern the universe, they had to turn around God. Thus, God has to come down to them, become one with the axis and turn the universe. According to the Principle, the commandment, “Do not eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,” actually meant, “Wait until you become mature.” That is to say, they had to wait until the central point was set, and until they were able to settle in that central point. (171-11, 1987.12.5)
What comes first: love or self-awareness? Love comes first. If that had actually happened, we would have been successful in everything. If that occurred, there would have been no walls or ravines on the path of life. Our life would have meshed with the gears of the heavenly principle and rotated smoothly. The great heavenly principle would have made this possible. However the woman abandoned this principle and started out from self-awareness. According to the Bible what did she want to eat? When she looked at the fruit it was good for food and it was said to make her eyes open; at that moment Eve realized her ego. This became the problem. Please understand that once you become aware of your own “self” and begin to assert yourself, you are already in the realm apt to be invaded by the cunning Satan, by your fallen nature! You must understand this clearly. (171-109, 1987.12.13)
Into what did Satan drive his roots? Into the body. God created Adam and Eve, but they fell when they were underage. God commanded them not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but it was not a commandment concerning a literal fruit. If they had plucked the fruit with their hands and eaten it with their mouths, then they would have hidden their hands and covered their mouths. So why did they cover their sexual parts? This is a deadly trap, the cause of the destruction of human culture. The word “love” is the most sacred word, but why have words related to love become obscene in spite of this? Why do we consider them foul words? It is because the misuse of love destroyed the great Principle of heaven and earth. (198-110, 1990.1.25)
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Daily Inspiration Discussion Forum
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