Category: Eight Great Textbooks

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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Habits of Dressing Should Represent the Principle

Even your clothes must be hung in a principled way.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 587

    In what territory will you do your work? If you need money, make it. If you need people, work hard without eating and sleeping to raise them. Never ask anyone for help. Do not rely on the church headquarters for help; you should help them instead. Work more than three times harder than ordinary people.
    That is why, if I were to live for 70 years, my life content would actually be equivalent to 210 years. Likewise, don’t think of living for 100 years; instead, think of working three times harder than others. If you were to live that way for 70 years, it would be worth 210 years. Think this way: if you worked ten times harder, you would live 700 years; if you worked twenty times harder, you would live 1,400 years. You should work twentyfour hours a day throughout your entire life. Only when you live that way can you bear fruit and increase your ownership of love in the spirit world. Your fortune of love will grow. Your ownership will grow and your sphere of activities will expand. (102-38, 1978.11.19)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1342

    What are the 72 Couples? In order to restore the family completely, Cain and Abel families must first become one. In order for Adam and Eve to be restored before God perfectly, they must stand on the foundation of unity between Cain and Abel. The position of Adam and Eve is that of parents. In order for them to stand in front of God in perfection, the Cain-Abel foundation must be restored. Since the 36 Couples need the foundation of the united families of Cain and Abel to stand as ancestors, the 72 Couples, who were chosen as twice in number to the 36 Couples, came into being.
   The 72 Couples correspond to Jesus’ seventy-two disciples. As they succeed in laying a foundation of indemnity on earth, God’s providence can expand. Through the unity of the 72 Couples representing Cain and Abel with the 36 Couples representing Adam and Eve, all providential requirements for the family have been met, and the restoration of the family has been completed. Such is the significance of the Blessing up to the 72 Couples. With the accomplishment of the 72 Couples Blessing, a God-centered foundation was achieved on earth for the first time, both horizontally and vertically, and thereby, a central standard was set up. Thus, the vertical foothold – a central point that should be determined through God’s providence – can be established only when the 36 and 72 Couples are united as the perfected victors of history. Once that central point is determined, the victorious realm of the central ancestors desired by God will finally have been fulfilled. This perfect foundation must be developed horizontally on earth. (55-167, 1972.5.7) Continue reading “Habits of Dressing Should Represent the Principle”

Be Frugal to Create Something Good for the Coming Generation

Consequently, we are striving to acquire an ideology that can create a foundation that we can be proud of in front of the world.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1928

I am trying to get these four federations – the Women’s Federation, the Youth Federation, the Student Federation, and the Religious Federation – recognized by the UN. If that does not work, I will then create a new UN. The UN no longer has an owner. True Parents’ Day should be celebrated there, and even the UN Secretary-General… All the internal and external conditions for this have been made. Everyone knows this to be the case. (282-269, 1997.4.7)

The Universal Peace Federation is the new UN.  It was founded on September 12, 2005. Listen to the inaugural speech given in Washington, DC on September 23, 2005.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 600

    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.

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

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4
Tradition and Daily Etiquette of Blessed Families

Summary
To support God’s will and restore the nation, people must discover ways to be deeply frugal with their finances, saving every possible penny by cutting back on unnecessary things like soft drinks, expensive clothes, and food. While some mistake True Father for a wealthy millionaire, he actually owns nothing and works tirelessly without rest, carefully spreading the money he saves through his own extreme personal sacrifices to support vital missions across the entire world. This strict financial discipline is not meant for personal wealth, but is a noble sacrifice aimed at creating a proud ideological foundation that can save the nation and benefit future generations for thousands of years. Ultimately, this public-minded frugality is a universal necessity, which is why True Father urges a wasteful America to become frugal for the sake of saving the globe, firmly believing that living for the wider world is the only just path that will endure for eternity.
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