Cheon Seong Gyeong 715
Once born, we must eventually die. That is the formula. Then after death, where do we go? All Unification Church members know they have a spirit self. This spirit self must grow.
What will become an issue for you in the future is that one day you will have to write your autobiography. Such a time will come. The question is what you have done since joining the Unification Church and what will be contained in that record. If you worked at a company as an employee, it is not a valuable condition and such a record will not be helpful at all. It will be shameful to have worked at a company after joining the church. Such a time will come.
In the future, a process known as registration will be established. When North and South Korea are reunified, you must be registered. The term tribal messiah is not the issue. The contents and facts associated with that term are what matters. From now on, the content of the term will become indemnity conditions for you to walk on your own eternal path of life. When you go to the other world, what matters is how much effort you made to have experiences in your heart, walking such paths, and even more so, to what extent you brought substantial results.
Cheon Seong Gyeong
Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon
Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 3
Worship Service and Etiquette in Church Life
Summary:
The most important foundation of the Unification Church is the deep bond of love between its members, which must be stronger and more supportive than anything found in the outside world. You are encouraged to love one another so much that you cannot bear to be apart, while strictly avoiding criticism or attacks on your fellow members. By staying united and determined, you become people that God and the spirit world truly admire, and your ancestors will even help and protect you as you work. Ultimately, your goal is to stay strong in your faith even during difficult times—like a fruit that refuses to fall from a tree—so that you can solve life’s deepest questions and be recognized by God.
Section 9. Rules and Etiquette among Members
9.1. Members relate through heavenly love
I cannot tolerate such a thing as someone criticizing and deliberately attacking other members. If we wish to love the world, where should we begin to love? We should begin to love by loving each other. We have gathered here from north, south, east, and west under the same connections, and therefore we should love each other. It should be unbearable to live if we cannot see or meet each other. Since we are connected by such a bond, the Unification Church is proud of having something that the evil world does not have. If we lose this bond, we are nothing at all. (49-62, 1971.10.3)
We are wonderful people. We are wonderful people who are walking on the road of a proud life that the world envies, heaven and earth envy, and all the saints and sages in the spirit world envy. We are people whom God cannot abandon, who have the background and content for which God will not just praise us but also come and tell us that He loves us. (171-29, 1987.12.5)
If there is someone who has good ancestors here, those ancestors will actively cooperate with him. You are standing in such a position. The spirit world will be eternally happy if you, who are in such a position, fight with excitement and good technique, and win all the time wherever you go. Evil spirits will fall back with surprise even before they show up. It works out like that. So these ancestors will attend you as though attending a king. You should feel this kind of feeling. (14-21, 1964.4.19)
Would it be alright for this substantial fruit of six thousand years to fall without being ripened, like a fruit that falls from the tree? Would it do to worry that the wind might blow and to say, “Oh no, it looks like I might fall. If the wind blows a bit more, I am going to fall. True Father, don’t shake me. Just let me be still.” There are some people here like that. On the other hand, there are those who say, “Even if True Father takes an axe and shakes the branches as he pleases, my branches will never fall until they have been cut.” Which side are you on? Are you the ones who worry whether the wind will blow? Or are you the group that won’t fall even if you are shaken? (46-155, 1971.8.13)
What is the purpose for which you came here? You did not come to solve some external problem. You came here to clarify the fundamental problem of humankind, to stand in front of the Absolute Being and to be recognized and confirmed by the Absolute Being. (11-224, 1961.9.20)
pgs. 1046-1047
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