Category: Eight Great Textbooks

The Way to Heaven is Opened by Loving Your Brothers As God Does

You may feel that you are only going through hardships and gradually declining, but actually you are moving higher and higher.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1830

    Young people should develop an interest in the ocean. Someone who can take responsibility for projects in the ocean must emerge among you who are here. The reason I go out to the Atlantic Ocean and stay there for twenty-four hours is to establish a tradition of having loved the ocean. Sailors who go out to the ocean usually come back six months to a year later. Because of this, most women dislike seamen. For this reason, the global trend has seen a reduction in the numbers of mariners. That is why we should become strong in the ocean businesses. Unification Church women will not complain, even though their husbands go to sea and do not come back for half a year, right? That is why in the future we should become a leading force in the shipping industry.
    The time will come when you will concentrate your efforts upon the ocean more than the land. That is why I am taking an interest in the ocean, and that is why you should also take an interest in the ocean. (73-142, 1974.8.16)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1984

I was the one who saved Kim Ilsung from death. We are brothers, like twins. Aren’t we the twins on the Korean peninsula? That is why we shouldn’t be killing each other, but saving each other. Weren’t Esau and Jacob brothers? After 21 years, Jacob returned and offered everything he had to his elder brother. Esau was not happy to hand over the blessed rights of the eldest son, but by handing over the blessings from the position of a brother, the Israel kingship was established. The Rev. Moon, who belongs to the realm of the third Israel, must unite the nations in Asia through the reunification of North and South Korea on the Korean peninsula. The North and the South are like Cain and Abel. Consequently, the body that Jesus lost in Asia should be brought and engrafted into him. (228-239, 1992.4.3)

Cheon Seong Gyeong

Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 6
Our Life and the Spiritual Realm
Chapter 2

What Kind of Place is the Spirit World?

Section 2. Heaven and Hell

2.1. Heaven is the world of the ideal of love

    Do not worry that you have no money. Do not worry that you have no children. If you continuously follow this path for ten or twenty years, you will be able to scale very high and steep mountains. Continue reading “The Way to Heaven is Opened by Loving Your Brothers As God Does”

Heaven Is the World Where People Live for the Sake of Others

The essence of love is to live for the sake of the whole, rather than to be served.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1759

Everything resembles a sphere and needs to be in motion. In the human body, the part that most resembles a sphere is the face, and among the facial features, the eyes most resemble a sphere. Next, in men, a part of the sexual organ is spherical. I have not mentioned that, so you do not need to say it. Then next, what can be found inside the body? The kidney and bladder; these are all important organs. (214-56, 1991.2.1)

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    Some say they must witness to those who are handsome and young, but that is absurd. The church is the extension of our family. There should be grandmothers and grandfathers, aunts and uncles, and young people. If there were only young people in the Unification Church, it would be sick. This must be quickly corrected. You should know how to attend your elders. Your grandmother and grandfather represent God; your mother and father are your parents; and with you and your children this makes four stages in all. Your grandparents, your parents and you are three stages.
    Our lives are such that we cannot break away from this fate. Grandparents, parents, and children make up three stages. You need to draw four lines to make three stages. This constitutes the number seven. You cannot have three stages without connecting these four lines together. Without connecting these, one another’s paths will randomly cross. In order to have three stages, these must be connected. (70-149, 1974.2.9)

Cheon Seong Gyeong

Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 6
Our Life and the Spiritual Realm
Chapter 2

What Kind of Place is the Spirit World?

Section 2. Heaven and Hell

2.1. Heaven is the world of the ideal of love

    What kind of place is heaven? It is a place with God’s love at its core. Heaven is the realm where the environment of God’s love is established. Then what kind of person can enter and live within that realm? It should be someone who can harmonize with the essence of God’s love. Only such a person can go there. (46-36, 1971.7.18) Continue reading “Heaven Is the World Where People Live for the Sake of Others”

The Laws God Established Have to be Absolute

With what does God govern heaven and earth? He governs them through the law, a law of dominion through love.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 962

    True Parents are giving the Blessing in the physical world, going beyond racial and religious boundaries. By connecting to this, the domain of liberation for the individual, family, tribe, people and nation can be established on the earth. That liberated domain is not created in the spirit world. Since the basis to connect to the world of heaven’s love and cosmic love exists on earth, the spiritual and physical worlds can become unified around True Parents. This will eliminate all indebtedness and perfect the Blessing of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world and even the Blessing of the cosmos.
    By creating a united and harmonized sphere of Blessed families in the spiritual and physical worlds, the foundation for the ideal of heaven based on the unfallen Adam can be established. This causes all families in history to have the same value. Through the manifestation of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in spirit world, God can come down and dwell on this foundation. God is the vertical Parent. True Parents are the horizontal Parents that can equalize the earth. Therefore, on Chil Pal Jeol, the Realm of the Cosmic Sabbath of the Parents of Heaven and Earth was proclaimed, and a new age began. Furthermore, from the day of 9.9. Jeol, we enter a new era. (303-257, 1999.9.9)

Learn about Chil Pal Jeol.
Learn about The Blessing.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 869

    Words cannot express how wonderful the spirit world is. It is a place in which there are no worries about food, clothing, and shelter. There are houses, clothing, and food to eat that you can use as you please. A person will be freely supplied with the appropriate environmental conditions according to the standard of love his mature character has achieved. Even if you are asleep, your spiritual body leads you to places where you can eat breakfast and dinner. That’s how it is in the spirit world. You are free in this way. You can even eat in your sleep and go on your way according to your desire. Your spiritual body is made that way. (248-163, 1993.8.1)

Cheon Seong Gyeong

Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 6
Our Life and the Spiritual Realm
Chapter 2

What Kind of Place is the Spirit World?

Section 1. The Reality of the Spirit World and Its Laws

1.7. The spirit world is the world of God’s law and order

    The sun rotates on its axis just like the earth. The sun, whose mass is 1.3. million times greater than the earth, is constantly moving. There are vast galaxies in the universe whose mass is 200 billion times greater than the solar system. These galaxies are called microcosms. There are countless nebulae like these galaxies in the universe. Considered together we call this the macrocosm. We should broaden our minds and look at the world of this vast and boundless universe. Continue reading “The Laws God Established Have to be Absolute”

Nobody Hates Love

Everything in this universe is connected through love. The spirit world and all creation are connected by love.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1566

    Now that the vertical and horizontal eight-stage indemnity has all been completed, the Ceremony of the Settlement of the Eight Stages could be performed on August 31, 1989, in Alaska, the most northerly location in the West. It is the northernmost place. On the first day of September, I declared “the ideology centered on the Heavenly Father” at the same place. The ideology centered on the Heavenly Father is simultaneously the ideology of salvation by love as well as the ideology of parental love. This parent-centered ideology is all about a life lived by giving love. Satan cannot oppose anything based on love. If he cannot oppose the path taken by the Unification Church, we can rapidly expand worldwide. (199-157, 1990.2.16)

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    That being the case, where would you most like to live? I think you would like to live in your original hometown where you were born. Broadly speaking, ‘original hometown’ can refer to the planet Earth within the cosmos, and our homeland is wherever God dwells as its founding Father. Our hometown is the earth as God originally intended it to be – a place where parents, siblings, and children who have not fallen would live together. This was to be a place where black, yellow, and white people could live together in harmony.

Cheon Seong Gyeong

Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 6
Our Life and the Spiritual Realm
Chapter 2

What Kind of Place is the Spirit World?

Section 1. The Reality of the Spirit World and Its Laws

1.6. Love is the origin of authority in the spirit world

    Power is not necessary in that world. The spirit world is a harmonizing power based on love. It is a power of influence based on love. That world is such a world. Therefore, a person who has not acquired the power of influencing through love cannot be harmonized in essence with the original world, which is influenced by love, and is instead repelled once he enters that world. That person will go to hell. This is a serious matter. (230-28, 1992.4.15) Continue reading “Nobody Hates Love”

Do You Need a Job in the Spirit World?

It is a place in which there are no worries about food, clothing, and shelter.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 698

    I know so much about the spirit world but I seldom speak about it. Many people go insane after knowing about the spirit world. Women in particular might look at their husbands and say, “Why should I live with that person for such a long time? I should quickly go to heaven. The heaven that Father spoke about sounds so good that I cannot wait to go there.” However, she cannot go to heaven unless she educates her husband and takes him there with her. (182-59, 1988.10.14)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1403

    Unification Church members are to offer three-tenths, not tithes. Through this tradition, everyone should offer their assets, nations, and land by connecting to the offering based on the number three. The Old Testament Age is the era of material things, the New Testament Age that of children, the Completed Testament Age of parents, and what comes next is the age of liberation. The age of liberation from anguish signifies entering God’s era. In that process, the right of ownership must revert to God.
    The Communist party completely reversed that through brute force, using knives and guns. We don’t do that. The tradition of the Unification Family is to harbor gratitude towards the absolute sovereignty of God’s Love-ism forever and ever, and to be tens of times more grateful in your hearts with gratitude not forced by guns or knives but coming from your hearts voluntarily. From now on, all Blessed Families from the 36 to the 360 Million Couples should inherit this tradition, and bequeath God’s Kingdom of the ideal of love to their descendants. This is the final responsibility the Unification Church should accomplish. (302-23, 1999.5.14)

Become a Blessed Family

Cheon Seong Gyeong

Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 6
Our Life and the Spiritual Realm
Chapter 2

What Kind of Place is the Spirit World?

Section 1. The Reality of the Spirit World and Its Laws

1.5. Food, clothing and shelter are not constraints in the spirit world

    Words cannot express how wonderful the spirit world is. Continue reading “Do You Need a Job in the Spirit World?”