Cheon Seong Gyeong 2024
You must inherit all the things that I have restored but you first need to do something to create a foothold. You don’t have a place to make an offering to God. If you want to transfer all the offerings from all the victorious altars throughout the world, you must build your own altar beforehand. So where is the place where you can transfer these offerings? That is the place we call Home Church! Do you understand?
Home Church is the place where you can push yourself to complete the things that Adam did not complete. This means you must go over the world and then return. You are going out to the world and passing through conditions of atonement, but on a smaller scale. You can inherit my blessings through this smaller altar. You must first build an altar and then move the offering from the bigger altar to your smaller altar. An altar is a place of offering for the shedding of blood. What is Home Church? A ‘church’ still means making an altar and having to shed blood. You have undergone worldwide level hardship on a small altar in order to inherit the altar I have erected.
How much has God suffered? How much has Jesus suffered, and how much have I suffered? Through all this suffering and effort, I possess the altar of victory. I want to hand it over to you. Home Church is for you to build up an altar and take over these things. (122-119, 1982.11.1)
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Thus I have been giving directions to the Soviet Union, the worldwide archangel, and to China, the Asian-level archangel. Then, by creating oneness between the archangel and Eve, with Japan in the position of Eve, I will bring Kim Il-sung to submission. I am bringing these people into oneness and then using that as a vehicle to move forward. If I can declare the Federation for World Peace in Pyongyang in this way, how good that would be! I will call Gorbachev, Jiang Zemin, the Japanese prime minister, President Bush, and so forth, to come. There is no one in Korea but me who says such things. Can the president do this? What will it take to do this? I have already laid that kind of foundation. (204-178, 1990.7.8)
Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon
Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4
Summary
Even though you cannot change the shape of your face, you must habitually manage your expressions to ensure you smile and laugh in a beautiful, balanced way. Women should avoid laughing loudly or with their mouths wide open if they have pointed teeth. A woman’s smile should bloom quietly and silently like a flower. When laughing fully, a person’s entire face—including the eyes, nose, and mouth—should move harmoniously together, as a bright, full smile indicates a loving heart and a generous character. Additionally, men should care for their hair as carefully as women do, following the standard of parting their hair on the left side so that there is more hair on the right half. Ultimately, these physical habits and expressions are important because a bright, well-rounded laugh reflects a good nature, whereas cold or disconnected expressions reveal a lack of inner heart.
Tradition and Daily Etiquette of Blessed Families
Section 9. Proprieties of Daily Living
9.2. Facial expression
Your face is the way it is. But what can you do with the expression on your face? You have to adjust it habitually. If your teeth are pointed inward, then you should not laugh so frequently. Why is that? If women have such teeth, they would look like a viper’s teeth. For this reason, as much as possible, such women should not laugh with their mouths open. (131-283, 1984.5.3)
Women should not laugh loudly. Women are like flowers. When flowers bloom, they do so without making any noise. They do not suddenly come into bloom; they bloom quietly. Such women are beautiful, not the ones who laugh loudly. Western people laugh loudly. Men may laugh loudly, but women should not. They appear gauche. It is unattractive. Even if you are a woman from the West, you should not laugh loudly. (131-283, 1984.5.3)
People’s laughter is a curious thing. Some people grin when they smile. What happens when you laugh? Everything becomes round. When an old man laughs, “Ho! Ho! Ho!” his mouth does not continue to go up, but starts to curve down into “He! He! He!” Why does it curve down? Do you not find it strange? It should curve upward when he laughs. Why does it curve down? Because it should be round. If you smile sweetly, your mouth curves only a little. But if you laugh, “Ha! Ha! Ha!” your mouth becomes very round. Therefore, there are no evil people among those who have a big smile. I am not talking about face reading. Isn’t that interesting? (173- 242, 1988.2.21)
When you laugh, do your eyes laugh one way and your nose another way, or do they laugh together? For people whose lips are tightly closed when their eyes and nose are laughing, it means they are poor. If your nose does not move when you laugh, you will have few children and descendants. If your eyes don’t laugh when you laugh, you are lacking in heart. You must smile brightly and have a full laugh. (96-232, 1978.1.22)
9.3. Hairstyle
Men should comb their hair as carefully as women do. They should take care when deciding the best side for parting their hair, just as women do when applying cosmetics. In the West as well as the Orient, men part their hair on the left. It is Western-style to part your hair on the left. It is good to have more hair on the right half than on the left. Women should consider this as well. (131-283, 1984.5.3)
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