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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1890
What will you do with small ships? They will be used for fishing. For the most part, people are interested in fishing, but not so much interested in fishery itself, which is catching fish with nets. In the future, there will no longer be an interest in catching fish using nets, nor in riding on big boats. For this reason, I have built this New Hope. I have designed a boat that can sail on the river, as well as the sea. Now our New Hope is famous for fishing and guiding. It is not a boat that just goes out to the sea. Also, it is easily transferable to any location, simply by using an automobile. (262-240, 1994.8.1)
Cheon Seong Gyeong 1098
People today do not know what it means to die. It is not a sorrowful occasion. You should see it as a transition from a lower dimensional world to a higher dimensional world, through the bridge of love. That is why the Unification Church does not call it death but Seunghwa. It is ascending to a higher dimension. This is only possible through love. (137-316, 1986.1.5)
Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon
Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity
Chapter 3
The Formula for Indemnification and Restoration
Section 3. The Eight-Stage Indemnity Course and the Ceremony of the Settlement of the Eight Stages
3.2. Satan’s activities and the victory in the eight stages
Summary:
There is an eight-stage vertical course—progressing from a servant of servants up to God 👑—that must be systematically climbed through intense persecution and indemnity to achieve true liberation. The passage explains that leaders, religious movements, and Rev. Sun Myung Moon himself must earn victory over Satan at every horizontal level (from individual to world) before moving to the next. Ultimately, it asserts that human history and religious development naturally unfold through these stages, culminating in the Last Days with the appearance of the “True Parents” religion, which enables the ultimate unification of all religions 🕊️.
There are eight stages from the servant of servants to the servant, adopted child, child by a concubine, child of direct lineage, mother, father, and God. There are eight stages to pass through. You must know this clearly. Before you can become a leader in the Unification Church, you must become a servant of your mission country otherwise there is no way to attain liberation. You must become the servant of servants, and be treated as an adopted child. You must be treated as a child by a concubine. Then, as a child of the direct lineage… you must go up in this way. When you pass through these stages, there must always be indemnity. You have to fight with Satan so that God can award a victory to you. Without this you can’t pass the way of indemnity.
Can you successfully go through the indemnity course on the tribal level without having brought victory on the family level? There is no way for this to happen. Similarly, can you consider going to the level of the people without having dealt with your tribe? This also applies to the levels of the nation, the world, and heaven and earth. This must be very clear in your mind. (181-213, 1988.10.3)
Speaking of my situation, I am the individual Adam, but at the same time I also had to weave the history of Adam on the levels of family, tribe, people, nation, world and heaven and earth. I had to climb up through the eight vertical stages starting from the position of servant of servants. Not only did I go through these eight stages, but I also embraced all the horizontal stages of individual, family, tribe, people and the world. Therefore I had to go through the vertical and horizontal indemnity course that includes all the five billion people of the world. By doing so I created a realm of liberation free from satanic accusation. Do you think that path was easy? (194-110, 1989.10.17)
Human history until now has supposedly lasted approximately 850 thousand years. Within this period, from primitive times, religious movements have received persecution. Then, who makes history occur like that? It is God, and so, from the position of servant of servants, history developed in stages. Then, for the servant of servants (humankind), the servant (archangel) becomes the master. It is not a case of the master controlling the servant, but the servant taking control of the master. In order to become the master of servants in the heavenly kingdom, you must be persecuted by all the servants of the satanic world and become victorious. Therefore, you must be prepared to die. That is the origin of the words, “Those who seek to die, will live.”
To rise from the position of servant of servants to that of servant, or from the position of the servant to the adopted child, you will definitely face persecution. The same principle applies, through all eight stages until God. Then, who will receive this persecution? People change, but God will never change. Thus, different religions of the world are in the positions of the servant of servants, servant, adopted child, child by a concubine, child of the direct lineage, mother, father, and true parents. At the very highest level, the religion in the position of parents will appear. In the Last Days, there will appear the religion of True Parents centered on the True Parents. After its emergence the Unification Church started teaching about the unification of religions. Such unification is only possible through the doctrine of a religion that teaches about the True Parents. (124-69, 1983.1.23)
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