Author: Richard Urban

Offer Devotion Alongside the Children of True Parents’ Family

You should all become proud sons and daughters before True Parents and children who can bear fruit on the earth.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1865

    I fought with the mosquitoes in the Pantanal to the extent that my entire body has been scarred by mosquito bites. In the mosquito world, the mosquitoes are saying, “Who has tasted the blood of the True Parents? Come here quickly!” That is why mosquitoes come to me the most. When I drop my fishhook into the water, the big fish bite first on my hook. Then many other fish follow. It is strange. Even God thinks it’s a mystery. (278-97, 1996.5.1)

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 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Section 11. A Life of Sanctification

11.2. Holy Candles

11.2.4. Tongil (Unification) Candle

Summary:
The Unification Candle originated from a special 120-day prayer condition offered by True Mother and the True Children from September 5, 1995, to January 2, 1996, to support True Father’s crucial speaking tour in America. During this period, the children united without objection and lit this candle every night at midnight to pray and offer deep spiritual devotion from their various locations. By bequeathing this unique candle—which is physically one but spiritually represents three candles infused with the True Children’s love—True Mother encourages all members to connect with this flame of loyalty and fulfill their own responsibilities. Ultimately, lighting the Unification Candle serves as an eternal promise to maintain an unchanging heart of love, helping to expand a holy foundation until all of humankind is purified and can enter heaven together.
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God’s Love and Light Is Symbolized by Holy Candles

A candle sacrifices itself to give off light. In this way, it symbolizes the need for sacrifice in order to unite humanity centered on God.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1826

    Where will people go? They will go to the mountains in search of nature. Yet, it will become boring just living in a mountain area. That is why people will go to the sea. In the future, people should go into the sea and eventually live there. I have already asked various scholars to carry out research on submarines, and their work is almost done. They say that if a submarine goes down just thirty meters into the water, it will be calm underneath, even if there is a storm above. No matter how hard the wind blows or how rough the waves are, there is no disturbance thirty meters below the water surface. There are no winds or waves thirty meters below. That is why if you press a button and go down thirty or a hundred meters, you will immediately be able to enjoy the scenery of the ocean using a periscope. (236-309, 1992.11.9)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1438

    Only by receiving the Blessing will it be possible to register into the Kingdom of Heaven. Through this, humankind can finally inherit the Kingdom of God. They can form heavenly families, tribes, a people, nations, world, and cosmos. Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven is formed, and they become citizens of that kingdom by being registered in it. Originally, the relatives of the first parents should have been registered in the kingdom. However, because those parents fell, we had to pass through numerous periods in history, and gather those to be registered from the entire world. That is why you need to restore through indemnity the unfulfilled mission of Jesus, by accomplishing your duties as tribal messiahs. In order to do so, you need to take responsibility for each nation in the world and dedicate that nation to the Kingdom of Heaven. (269‑303, 1995.5.1)

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

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Section 11. A Life of Sanctification

11.2. Holy Candles

Summary:
The Unification movement utilizes sacred candles to bless and protect families, beginning with the Shimjung Candle, created on January 5, 1961, which symbolizes True Parents and is lit during prayer to comfort God’s sorrowful heart and reinforce human determination during this time of restoration. Next, the Birth Candle originated with the birth of True Parents’ first daughter and is lit specifically during childbirth to completely sanctify the spiritual atmosphere and block Satan from approaching the newborn baby. The Ae Cheon Candles, or Love of God Candles, were created on May 16, 1984, and are used in pairs to symbolize how a husband and wife must sacrifice for each other—just like a candle and wick combining to produce light—in order to bring divine peace and unity to humanity. Ultimately, lighting these candles creates a powerful realm of unified heart that blocks out all evil, discord, and injustice, bringing God’s eternal protection and sovereign power over both the spirit and physical worlds.

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Our Church Members Should Sanctify Everything

From now on you, standing as a substantial being of life, need to blow on things before you eat or drink them.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 600

    People living on earth today do not desire the path of suffering and sorrow. The passing of joyous occasions evokes nostalgia in them. Such is human nature.
    This world we live in is mixed with sadness and joy. All the happiness we are experiencing will disappear with death and cannot remain beyond it.
    Our heart seeks happiness, longs for better things, and yearns for the eternal world. If sorrow and joy disappear with death, then does our heart also finish with death? No. The fact that our hearts and minds move in that direction is proof that such a world actually exists.
    People are spiritual beings and their lives are eternal. People who have loyally walked the way of death for heaven, embracing hope as they followed a path repulsive to many people, have done so because they felt something ordinary people could not feel and appreciated something ordinary people could not appreciate. It was for that reason that they could tread even the path of death.
    Unless your longing becomes stronger than any adversity, hardship, sadness, or death that you may encounter in your actual life, you will become people who feel regretful before death and draw back from pain and sorrow. As Jesus surmounted the summit of death, entered the eternal world, and built the sphere of resurrection, we today are also destined to surmount the summit of death.
    Then what type of people live with heavenly hope? They are those who can joyfully surmount the summit of death that grieves humanity. Such people are the ones who cherish Heaven’s hopes. So, do not become people who covet and grieve after all the things of this world before death. Become those who can stand before heaven and be proud of the value of their death. God seeks such sons and daughters of hope.
    If there were people who felt Heaven’s joy in such a position, God could not but love them. If there were a throng of people that cried out to Heaven from such a position, Heaven could not but answer that cry. (6-52, 1959.3.22)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1452   

    Since True Father knows the heart of God very deeply, just one word from anyone will restart the flow of tears from his eyes. The fact that God, who should rule freely over the whole universe and govern all the nations, had His ideal trampled upon, the ideal of His being the sovereign of all sovereigns and reigning over all of humanity in the parent-child relationship with the authority and power of the king of all ages is a truly mortifying reality. At this time, the day of glory on which we will rise up, defeat all the evil powers of this world, and restore the sovereignty longed for by God is now right before our eyes. (164-216, 1987.5.16)

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

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Section 11. A Life of Sanctification

11.1. Holy salt

Summary:
Holy salt was first created on March 16, 1960, during True Parents’ Holy Wedding, to allow families to purify and protect their daily belongings and environments from the satanic world. Church members are instructed to use holy salt like yeast to sanctify newly purchased items and themselves when entering their homes, sprinkling it in the shape of a cross while praying in the name of the Trinity, True Parents, and themselves. If a member must give a sanctified item back to the outside world, they should use their left hand. When physically sprinkling salt is impossible—such as when eating food, drinking water, or sitting down in public—members should instead establish a spiritual condition by blowing “whew, whew, whew” three times. Ultimately, this traditional practice of blowing three times symbolizes receiving the Holy Spirit and acts as a continuous, internal way for members to clear away a long history of spiritual defilement wherever they go.
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What Will Make God Most Happy?

The sacred foundation on which God can bind together men and women of pure love like you is where the bride and bridegroom are to meet.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1574

    By concluding the ceremony of Chil Il Jeol, we inaugurate the era in which the True Parents can do as they please. Until this time, I was not free to do as I pleased. If I could have done all that I wanted to do, why would I have suffered? Why would I have acted so powerlessly before the world? There is a time for everything. Without fulfilling my responsibility with regard to time, I cannot lift up my face and lead others. (218- 16, 1991.7.1)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 426

    Genesis 1:27 says, “So God created man in His own image, male and female He created them.” We can deduce from this that God has both male and female qualities. God needs an object because He cannot live alone. Therefore, He had no choice but to create this world. As a result, a man and a woman were created. (Blessed Family – 307)

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

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Summary:
To fulfill our highest purpose, we must become true sons and daughters of God by connecting our hearts directly to His, making His path, situation, and will our very own. It is especially vital for young people in their twenties to keep their bodies and minds completely clean, unstained, and pure so they can bring a holy heart to the altar where God can joyfully unite men and women of pure love. Because human blood lines were originally stained, individuals must practice total obedience and accept guidance from the Unification Movement to change their lineage and allow God’s overflowing love to become the absolute center of their lives. Earthly life is deeply precious, and staying faithful to this pure, unchanging first love—even risking your life for it—is the exact standard required to escape Satan’s realm of death, act with true filial piety, and ultimately claim the highest possible position in the kingdom of heaven.
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Do Not Be Crushed before You Bloom

Do not be flowers whose leaves have fallen off and whose pollen has been shaken out. It is the same for men.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1986

    Before the Fall of Adam and Eve, there was God and the three archangels centering on Adam and Eve. In regards to Adam, Eve should have followed him, as well as the three archangels who were also to follow Adam. The ideal was to have Eve and the three archangels enter Heaven after becoming one with God, centering on Adam. That is why I, as the representative of Adam, am now influencing Japan, the Eve nation, the United States, China, and the Soviet Union. Thus, we have returned to the position of receiving the three archangels and the realm of Eve. (199-84, 1990.2.15)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1191

    What is the secret method to restore the right of the eldest son? Satan claims, “God is a perfect God and the Adam and Eve He is seeking must also be perfect. Had they not fallen, it would have been the Principled standard that Adam and Eve have to love me as the original archangel. Thus, even though I have fallen and I found myself in the position of a bad one, if you all are in a position to be called good and true, you must set up the condition of having loved me. Without this, You, God, cannot be in the position of God in front of me.” This is the problem. Satan stops everything dead, saying, “If there is a secret method of uniting with you, what is it? The person You send must love me. Unless he stands together with You in the position of loving me, and makes the condition enabling him to say that he loved me, he will not be able to regain the birthright of the firstborn son that I have been holding on to.” That is why Jesus exhorted us to love our enemies. (131-182, 1984.5.1)

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

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Summary
The teenage years are a dangerous and volatile time of transition when young people often want to wander aimlessly and rebel against their parents, which can cause self-destruction and ruin the order of society. Because making the wrong choices during adolescence can destroy a person’s entire life and family, youth must strictly follow a principled way and resist the urge to act out irresponsible or thrilling fantasies until they have the maturity and self-control to manage themselves. Young people are like flower buds. Both young men and women should grow naturally and stay pure, rather than getting trapped in the wicked and damaging cycle of illicit love relationships. Ultimately, by maintaining their absolute purity and virtue, young people can blossom fully and naturally into valuable individuals who bring great hope to God, allowing them to rise above the fallen world rather than being crushed by the valleys of sorrow.
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