Author: Richard Urban

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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You Should Go through Adolescence in the Right Way

If you earnestly seek to overcome adolescence containing the character for death, then, turn it upside down.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1928

    We should take the path of restoring a nation. In restoring a nation, we do not need the nation called Japan. In restoring a nation, we need to do so from a supra-national standard. To do so, we need to restore one nation under the aegis of the UN. But since the UN does not listen to me, I made the Federation of Island Nations. This is the Abel-type UN. Then I made the Federation for Peninsular Nations. In addition, I created the Federation for the Nations of the Six Continents. (282-185, 1997.3.12)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 2260

    Earthly families are the production plants to re-create citizens who can be brought along into the heavenly world. We act as the owners of these factories before entering the spirit world. If Adam and Eve had set the straight path, we would not need to educate our children. It would have happened naturally. Everyone would have had God within himself. There would have been no need to educate them. We are where we are now because of the Fall. As a result of the Fall, humanity has been ignorant of all the fundamentals. (254-246, 1994.2.13)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 283

    Until now, because of the Fall, it has been difficult for the hearts of people on earth to be vertically connected to the heart of God. The appearance of True Parents will connect them. Your relatives who do not oppose True Parents at that point are not the Cain sphere. They have entered the Abel sphere on God’s side.
    Thus, from now on the realm of religion will break down. Until now, through the realm of religion centering on the chosen people, the spiritual and physical worlds have been connected in a mainstream type of relationship. Now, the Cain and Abel environment has disappeared because the Old Testament, New Testament and Completed Testament Ages have reached the same degree of completion. This has taken away the authority of religions. Thus, those families who are centered on you and who do not oppose you stand in the position of heavenly Abel. So things will turn around as you set them in motion and push. Today is such a period in history. That is why it will become our world.
    You should understand this era. The proclamation of True Parents will put an end to the parents with satanic lineage. True Parents have fought against the satanic world, won back everything, risen up, and reached the stage where the democratic and communist worlds will collapse. Thus, since they have created these victorious conditions, on the basis of that proclamation the satanic world will come to an end. What does it mean for the satanic world to come to an end? It means being liberated from Satan.
    Until now we have lived within the culture and environment of the satanic world. But now we are being liberated from the satanic world, satanic lifestyle, and satanic lineage. Where do we go after being liberated from Satan? We must return to God. The world today does not know God. Satan made it that way. Humanism does not recognize God, either. American humanism today has expelled God. What is the basis for humanism? It is the body.
    The body focuses on itself. It seeks pleasure. If you chase after it you will be ruined. That is reality. So we need to be liberated from Satan and liberated from a satanic lifestyle: lifestyle means culture. We need to be liberated from such a lifestyle. Next, we need to be liberated from that lineage. Then, where do we return to once we are liberated from Satan? We must return to God. Although we need to return to God, neither communism nor secular humanism knows how to return to God. More than that, where and how should we live? We are not meant to live according to our whims, like animals. Ideally our lives would begin centering on True Parents from the outset. We should live in the domain of the global ideal centered on True Parents. Thus, you cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven without believing in True Parents. Right now it is as if there were many branches that have not been engrafted. (202-275, 1990.5.25) Continue reading “You Should Go through Adolescence in the Right Way”

Think Before You Speak

You may use words spontaneously, but if you make a mistake in choosing one word, its influence will last for one year.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 528

    There is a reason why I have not been building churches until now. It is because we do not need many people in the church. God’s Kingdom is realized not from the church but from the family; that is to say, it starts from bride and groom. Woman was born in order to see man, and vice versa. The first cry a baby makes when it wakes up from sleep and opens its eyes is “Mommy!” Husbands should call their wives more than babies call their mothers. Those who do not do that are wretched people. Also, wives should call their husbands even more than that. They should relate to each other as a couple who can call each other like this. They should live like that as a couple in the joy of conjugal harmony. If they live like this eternally, they will not envy youth even when they get old. (23-54, 1969.5.11)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 725

    The physical world is Satan’s sphere of activity while the spirit world is that of God. The two are constantly at cross-purposes. It is an undeniable fact that this has been an essential contributor to resentment in the age of the providence of restoration. They must not be at cross-purposes. The God-centered sphere of the mind and the sphere of the body governed by Him must be prepared. This standard for the unified foundation will be established according to how it is developed within the domain of daily life. (45-211, 1971.7.1)

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

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Summary
Maintaining physical discipline and proper habits is necessary for living a principled life, which includes keeping fingernails and toenails short so as not to appear idle or cause yourself pain. Both men and women must practice correct posture by walking carefully and sitting up straight to keep their spines healthy, though women should avoid leaning their backs against chairs to protect their future babies. Sleep should be peaceful and quiet; women should avoid snoring by adjusting their pillows and must go to bed silently without stepping over a sleeping husband. True Father emphasizes that health is vital, and you should always maintain a happy expression that hides your sickness or worries from others. Finally, speech must be carefully guarded, as a woman’s voice should remain quiet and soft rather than loud, and all words must be deeply honest and rooted in love, since making a single verbal mistake can bring a year of spiritual consequences.  Continue reading “Think Before You Speak”

There Are No Evil People Among Those Who Have a Big Smile

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)

Find out about Home Church.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 297

    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.
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