Author: Richard Urban

God Becomes the Internal Father, and Adam and Eve Become the External Parents

When these unite as the inner and the outer, the realm of direct dominion is established for the first time.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 2107

    Without love, oneness cannot be achieved. When uniting two into one, words alone will not work. What should there be in order for two to become united? If they became one through material things, they would separate once the material things were gone. If they became one through the introduction of a third party for a specific reason, they would separate once that person disappears. In order for two to be one eternally, there has to be love. It will not work without love. (51-75, 1971.11.1)   

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1180

    Mother had to be less than 20 years of age. Why was that? It was because Adam and Eve fell when they were teenagers; they were younger than 20 years old. Since they fell at that age, Mother had to be of a similar age. How difficult that was! Moving the Unification Church was a difficult task in itself. On top of that, when I had to choose Mother, there were a number of young ladies in the Unification Church who were university graduates and some even held doctorates. With their eyes burning they were making all kinds of maneuvers to become my mate. While keeping an eye on this situation, I actually had to look for an innocent, unworldly teenage girl. That was not a fate to be enjoyed, but I had no choice. Because of the principle of restoration through indemnity, I could not do as I pleased. (145-161, 1986.5.1)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity
Chapter 1

Fundamentals of Indemnification and the Principle of Restoration

Section 1. The Realms of Indirect and Direct Dominion

1.1. The realm of indirect dominion

Summary:
If Adam and Eve had not fallen, they would have completed their portion of responsibility in the indirect dominion and married to establish the direct dominion, creating a perfect focal point where God, humanity, and the spiritual and physical worlds harmonized in true love. Because of the Fall, a perfect photograph of love has never been taken, nobody has entered the true Kingdom of Heaven, and Satan has blocked the path to God’s love. To correct this, a marriage between a perfected Adam and his bride is absolutely necessary, as an individual cannot enter the direct dominion alone. True Parents have spent their lives establishing a global standard of indemnity to help fallen human beings overcome these spiritual barriers and fulfill their responsibilities. Ultimately, by creating families centered on true love that unite all directions, members can connect the heavenly and earthly worlds, securely leap into God’s direct dominion, and finally expand the true Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
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Do Not Taste Love During the Indirect Dominion

It means that until you reach maturity you should never have a love relationship.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1999

    Once we establish God’s nation, we will be able to see the traditions we should hand down to our descendants for thousands of generations to come. We will see the efforts we have made, shedding blood and sweat, as well as God’s monument that celebrates His victory and all traces of glory on the earth eternally. Without a nation, all our work will be in vain. The crucifix, culture and institutions of today’s Christianity, which have all been handed down from the earliest days, should be thrown in the river or burnt to ashes if they cannot create a nation desired by God. Christians should understand they are being mocked and ridiculed by Satan. Therefore, you should realize that the real issue at hand is building the nation of God. (55-339, 1972.5.9)   

    The holy wine ceremony is carried out in the reverse order of the Fall of Adam and Eve. Before you can get married, you need to be engaged. Then there is the holy wine ceremony. Only then can you attend the holy wedding ceremony. You could not become the original Adam and Eve because of the Fall. Through the engagement ceremony, you present yourselves before God and True Parents, who are trying to reclaim their children, saying, “We will become a better Adam and Eve, who are better than your fallen children.” Adam and Eve were still in the state of engagement. Through the engagement, a new world is created. You must therefore understand that the holy wine ceremony establishes the conditions that restore all these relationships. (120-167, 1982.10.13)

Receiving the holy wine is pat of the Blessing.

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity
Chapter 1

Fundamentals of Indemnification and the Principle of Restoration

Section 1. The Realms of Indirect and Direct Dominion
1.1. The realm of indirect dominion

Summary:
According to the Principle of the Unification Church, God created the realm of indirect dominion as a necessary boundary line for human beings to safely grow and mature from adolescence into adulthood through the stages of formation, growth, and completion. Within this realm of indirect dominion, God cannot interfere in immature love, meaning that individuals must fulfill their own portion of responsibility by remaining pure and avoiding any romantic or sexual relationships until they reach absolute spiritual maturity. Because Adam and Eve failed to follow God’s warning to wait, humanity fell into a state that is disconnected from God’s love, which has prolonged the process of restoration. Ultimately, the purpose of the Principle is to clearly define this border between immature growth and adulthood so that human beings can successfully fulfill their responsibilities, overcome the Fall, and finally enter the realm of direct dominion where they can connect fully with God’s absolute love.
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You Should Have a Yearning Heart for the Holy Days

Only by establishing such a tradition can you build a life of tradition for your descendants.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1884

    When you are swimming, would you say, “Hey, I am thirsty. Get me a cola or a McCol!”? If you are in the water for the entire day, you can get by without even drinking a cup of water because your cells absorb water. Last time I spoke, I talked for sixteen and a half hours. One might think, “How could he endure for such a long time without going to the restroom?” but everything that should go out as urine goes out instead as sweat. It is released as vapor because of the heat and comes out as sweat.
    That is why even if you are in the ocean for the entire day, you do not have to bring any water with you. If you are thirsty, then try swimming around like a whale in the ocean for an hour or two. Would you still be thirsty? If you were lying on a sandbank, you would drink water because of the heat. Water is essential to human beings and air is important as well! Where there is water, there is air. Is there air in the ocean or not? (217-206, 1991.6.1)

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You should live every day with the thought in your mind that you are traveling to and fro, and taking part in this great work in the evil world of today as God’s messengers, all because you were given the mission to become meritorious public servants in seeking out and founding that nation, all for the restoration of the homeland. If you don’t, you will not be able to be recognized as dignified citizens of the nation to come. (50-255, 1971.11.7)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Section 15. Attitude when Observing Holy Days

15.1. The significance of Holy Days

    You should have a yearning heart for holy days. Only by establishing such a tradition can you build a life of tradition for your descendants. Holy days should be spent in joy while sharing everything with one another amid the joy of heaven. This day is based on the family and is a day for establishing the heavenly law.
    You should know that celebration days that occurred in this world throughout the history after the Fall were not something that brought God joy but were days that brought delight to Satan. The days for commemorating the independence of a nation or holding some international event have all been celebrated within the fallen realm. (92-250, 1977.4.18)

    From a principled viewpoint, the day of celebration and hope that human beings long for the most is not the day when they were born or the day they get married, or the day you, as a citizen who lost your nation, recovered your nation, or even the day of your nation’s independence. You should know that the greatest day of hope, the day that humanity truly longs for, is God’s Day and Parents’ Day. The establishment of such a day on the earth has become our deepest wish. Once God’s Day and True Parents’ Day are established, then this naturally leads to Children’s Day and the Day of All Things. (92-252, 1977.4.18)

    No one living on earth until this time has ever seen God’s Day, True Parents’ Day, True Children’s Day, and Day of All True Things. There are 365 days in a year. You should clearly understand that the most important days among all 365 days are those days that I have just mentioned, which have now appeared in providential history. You should know that these days are the king of all days, and if a year like that existed it would be the king of all years. (92-252, 1977.4.18)

    The holy days and anniversaries we observe in the Unification Church are providential days of victory, obtained after bloody struggles against the satanic world. Since they are days commemorating the accomplishment of absolute victory, you should commemorate these days with a heart of thanks and gratitude toward God and True Parents.

There are eight Unification movement holy days; four were designated after the above writings.  Additionally, there is Foundation Day, January 13, 2013 on the Heavenly Calendar, which Rev. Moon declared before his sacred ascension (Seongwha).

15.2. Ceremonial robes

    I will be going to the highest position, to the heavenly throne, but not all of you will be able to come with me. Because you received the precious thing called the Blessing, the door is open for you, but not all of you have the proper ceremonial robes to wear. Even if you have been invited to a feast, you cannot attend unless you have the proper clothing, can you? If you have been asked to be a groomsman at a wedding, can you go dressed as if you just finished working on the farm? You have to dress appropriately before you go. Only then will you be qualified to be welcomed into that environment. If not, you will be thrown out. They will yell at you: “Get out of here, you good for nothing!”

    Similarly, not everyone can come here. You cannot just come here unprepared. You must come dressed in holy robes. (212-226, 1991.1.6)

    A sacrificial offering represents the life and belief of the person making it. When you buy the goods for a sacrificial offering, do not try to get a discount but give a little bit more. You should do the same when you buy material to make your holy robe. (37-279, 1970.12.30)
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Our Departure for the Spirit World Is Not a Sad Occasion

You should raise the flag of heaven amid the trumpet call for liberation.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 668

    Such walls also arose in the family, tribe, people, nation, world, and between heaven and hell in the spirit world. Although God is on His glorious throne in heaven, we on earth cannot surmount the walls surrounding us without removing them. This is the tragedy of people living on earth. How can we do away with it? Despite the fact that people are meant to live attending God as their Parent and be guided by Him in all aspects of their lives, they either do not know He exists, or they declare that He definitely does not exist. They even say, “God is dead. We’ll have to sweep Him out of our world.” Such a tragic and historic situation is unfolding within the world in which we live. (135-267, 1985.12.15)

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    As soon as a baby is born, it cries, and at that instant it breathes through its nose, which connects it to its second world, that is, the world of air. In order to connect to and come out into the world of air, we have to destroy the umbilical cord and the water bag, where we lived in the womb. At the time of this death or destruction, the baby is born to mother earth. After we’re born, we eat with our mouths and breathe with our noses. But the food we eat on earth is just nutrition needed for the life of the physical body; it is not an essential element of spiritual life. The key element of life is none other than love. Therefore, we should inhale the air called love. We should breathe the air of love from our mother and father. (139-212, 1986.1.31)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Section 14. Blessed Families Ceremonies


14.3. The Seunghwa Ceremony

Summary:
In the Unification movement, going to the spirit world is a joyful and glorious return to our homeland rather than a sad occasion, which is why True Father did not cry when his son Heung-jin or his mother-in-law, Grandmother Hong, passed away. Instead of traditional funerals, the church holds the Seonghwa Ceremony, which celebrates a person being transformed and moving from the horizontal earthly world into a higher stage of activity in the infinite spirit world. Because members live their lives knowing exactly where they are going, they have nothing to fear in the universe and do not shed sorrowful tears, which prevents evil spirits from approaching. Ultimately, this ceremony represents raising the flag of heaven to signal liberation, allowing a person to leave the world of sin and chaos to enter a perfect, shadowless vertical position within the absolute realm of God’s love.
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Seonghwa Means a Sacred Ascension to Heaven

You have to push the dead person to the spirit world with the power of love. Do not hold them back but push them forward.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 867

When you are in the spirit world, do you think that you have to urinate or not? Why don’t you go there and find out? I can tell you that you will have to urinate, even in the spirit world. However, those who disagree should go there and find out for themselves. Then what about bowel movements? Do you think we do that there or not? You do everything there, but it will immediately return to the elements. Scientists say that there are 107 basic elements in the universe, although the number is constantly increasing. Anyhow, urine and feces will return to their elements. That is why you do not have to wash in the spirit world. If you wave your hands with the heart of love, everything will go back to its original place. If you ask something with a heart of love, it will come out. With the heart of love, the mobilization of all kinds of things is possible. (212-30, 1991.1.1)

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Throughout history, there have been numerous paths of suffering and hardship, but you must realize that the path of hardship of the eight stages that I have passed through never existed in past history. You must understand that it was the way of indemnity where, because of the difficulties, I still wasn’t allowed to shed tears, crying out, “God, I am not able to endure this position!” Those who are going to build the kingdom must not shed tears for themselves while walking this way. It is the heavenly principle that unless we pass through the place of tears with joy, the foothold of the heavenly kingdom will not remain in this earthly world. (161-194, 1987.2.3)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Section 14. Blessed Families Ceremonies


14.3. The Seunghwa Ceremony

Summary:
Death is not a sorrowful event, but rather a joyful, sacred transition from a lower-dimensional world to a higher one through the power of love. To reflect this reality, True Father introduced the term “Seunghwa Ceremony” to replace traditional funerals, explaining that the practice began after the passing of his son, Heung-jin, which successfully broke down the walls of death and allowed spirits to advance freely into the spirit world without being held back by the sad tears of their loved ones. He later updated the name to “Seonghwa,” changing the Chinese character to mean “holy” or “sacred” rather than just “to ascend,” to emphasize that entering the spirit world is a unique, victorious moment where a person’s earthly life bears fruit. Consequently, Unification Church members should not fear death, and those who attend a Seonghwa Ceremony should celebrate the person’s natural departure with songs of victory and tears of joy rather than dejection or despair.
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