Category: Eight Great Textbooks

We Should All Like Indemnity the Most

Without indemnity, there can be no blessing. Indemnity is the invaluable nugget of gold in the Unification Church.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 345

    What should True Parents do? They should correct the false lineage that is the root of the satanic world, reverse the false life, and open the true path away from the path of false love. The Bible says that those who wish to die will live, and those who wish to live will die. Why must this kind of paradox appear? It is because you must die to the satanic world. (169-37, 1987.10.4)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1436

    Now your roots need to be corrected. What happened to your roots? Through the Fall, the first father and mother went along the wrong path. That is why, centering on the True Parents, we have to pass through the positions of true sons and daughters, eldest son and the original parent. Your roots need to be turned upside down. They cannot connect as they are. Only when they are turned around 180 degrees and connected, can you begin anew. What this means is that you still have a destiny to fulfill, which is to return to your hometowns to change your ancestry. (178-99, 1988.6.1)

Through the Blessing you change your lineage to God’s lineage.  Then you can also invite your relatives and tribe to change their lineage to God’s lineage.

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selected Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon 

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 3

Worship Service and Etiquette in Church Life

Summary:
This text teaches that “indemnity,” which means making up for past wrongs through effort and sacrifice, is the only way to achieve spiritual restoration and receive God’s blessings. While people naturally want the benefits of restoration without the hard work of indemnity, God views them as inseparable, like two legs needed for walking. You must take personal responsibility for this process by acting with intense focus and a proactive heart, treating the difficult challenges like “bitter medicine” that is necessary for healing. Ultimately, because indemnity involves reversing the mistakes of the past, it is a serious and unavoidable requirement for anyone who wants to move away from a fallen state and return to a true relationship with God.

Section 8. Indemnity, Service, and a Life of Dedication

8.1. The course of indemnity

    Members of the Unification Church today do not like the path of indemnity. This means they do not like restoration. There is no such thing as, “I like restoration, but I don’t like indemnity.” So, which comes first? Does restoration come first or indemnity come first? You like restoration but not indemnity. Yet, it is the opposite for God. Which side are you on? Are you on the side of God or on the side of Satan? You have to be clear about this. You like restoration. However, God’s side cannot just like restoration. Only after going through indemnity can restoration occur. (116-127, 1981.12.27) Continue reading “We Should All Like Indemnity the Most”

You Must Strike the Body

You ought to say, “This body, my enemy. You lump of flesh! Evil blood is flowing through you”.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1594

    Because everything which arose from the false parents comes under the number nine, the numbers one to nine are loathed by Heaven. You persevered in providential history to clear up Satan’s number, the number nine, through the practice of tithing, in the Old Testament Age.
   The path that leads directly from earth to Your kingdom in heaven can be laid down based on true love. This requires bringing to submission this number nine, the greatest of all satanic numbers, on the levels of the individual, tribe, people, nation, and world. Also the physical world must be remedied centering on the True Parents of Heaven and Earth. At the same time the barriers in hell on earth and in spirit world which have been erected vertically and horizontally by Satan must be shattered through the achievement of complete unity with God, the vertical True Parent of heaven. This path, which has been connected through the tears of the True Parents, will spread out physically and spiritually and pass beyond the era of the individual and break down the limitations of the family, tribe, people, nation and world. Thus Your paramount ideal of the family can be disseminated throughout the earth to welcome an era wherein You can be liberated and have autonomous dominion over the whole world. Based on this, the declaration of the Realm of the Cosmic Sabbath for the Parents of Heaven and Earth was made two years ago, centering on Chil Pal Jeol. Now that we are in the third year since the declaration, we cannot cross over to the year 2000 without first clearing away the number nine which is blocking everything in the satanic world….
    From this day henceforth, in obedience to the name of Jehovah, we will absolutely obey and submit to this declaration made on Your behalf. By so doing we will turn 180 degrees to face the direction of goodness. We will forge the bonds of absolute faith, love and obedience, thereby restoring through indemnity the fallen act of the archangel committed in Eden. This evil ancestor absolutely opposed the great sovereign Parent of heavenly principle, and His object partners, the Parents of Heaven and Earth. When we stand in the absolute position of achieving absolute faith, love and obedience that conforms to absolute liberation, then not only humanity and the whole creation but even the fallen archangel and hell itself can be liberated. In the name of the True Parents, I proclaim this day as 9.9. Jeol and reveal this truth and make it known across the cosmos. Therefore, I am asking You to allow us to welcome the era of liberation and heavenly fortune, the era of Your ideal kingdom on earth and in heaven. Therein, the good and evil worlds will become as one with You and the True Parents, and only goodness will remain and flourish! Amen! Amen! Amen! (303-253, 1999.9.9)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 830

    Since the first love relationship is the starting point for establishing the ideal heaven, it is the royal place of love. It is the royal palace. The sexual organs are the royal place of love. In order for it to become a royal palace, you have to be married centered on God. Through married life, the royal palace of love is created. How is a couple united? Are they united through the lips when a man kisses a woman? They are united through the concave and convex organs. This is a tremendous discovery. Through this love relationship, the entire being of a man and the entire being of a woman are completely united. From here, the lineages of man and woman are brought together and, for the first time, amid a vortex, a new history is connected and established based on a new life. It does not end with one generation. The eternal history is connected. The Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in the spirit world begins from this place. (263-122, 1994.8.21) Continue reading “You Must Strike the Body”

Witnessing Should be Done Effectively

Now you should go fully prepared. You should offer devotion when you go witnessing. You must be different from the past.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 553

    People in today’s world who flaunt their pedigrees and parade their degrees as marks of social distinction, are unaware that their births were spiritually sullied. They do not know that they were born with the love, life and lineage of Satan; God’s enemy. This is a serious problem.
    Due to the Fall, people have been born from Satan’s love which was passed down to their parents. Satan’s blood has made its way down through the lives of our mothers and fathers to us in the present day. The fruit of those three then, is you. As such, you all belong to the satanic lineage. In other words, Satan’s blood is running through your veins. Therefore, he automatically bears his ideal fruit while God strives to redeem those very men and women and transform them into originally pure and perfect people. You all began from Satan’s love and are born from his lineage.
    Since your start was all wrong, you must return to the original point. As we originated from false parents, we need to return and start anew from true parents. How serious is this? It is imperative to inherit God’s love, life and lineage afresh.
    That is why, when you receive the Blessing, you undergo the ceremony for changing the lineage. You must believe in this more than your own life. Just because it is a Unification Church ceremony, you should not think of it as some ordinary ritual. It is like a wonder drug, an antidote, to restore the dead back to life.
    Our ancestors committed an error so grave that countless people fell victim to its aftereffects throughout the course of human history. Knowing this, we cannot tread that same path again ever again! We paid a ghastly price throughout history for having perpetuated illicit love in the fallen spiritual and physical worlds, with far-reaching consequences for individuals, families, societies, nations and the world. (216-109, 1991.3.9) Continue reading “Witnessing Should be Done Effectively”

Witnessing Is Creating My Second Self

When you have the living experience that God is alive, then you will go out witnessing even if people tell you not to do so.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 380

    There are three kinds of birds’ songs. First, there is a song expressing hunger; second, a song sung in expressing love for a mate; and third, a song sung in time of danger. These are all different. We ordinary people do not know this, but they know in their own world. When they call out of hunger, all of the other birds already know. But around what does their daily life revolve? Hunger is taken care of simply by eating, and they are not facing danger every day, either. Most of their singing goes back and forth in the give and take relationship with their partner. (137-211, 1986.1.3)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1542

    Christ at his Second Advent is coming to save humanity. Once the heavenly standard has been established, God is ready to strike. He takes the offensive. That does not mean that He kills His foes by executing them in the style of Stalin; instead, He makes them surrender at once. He must make Satan submit to Him, firstly through His ideology, secondly through His citizenry, thirdly through His sovereignty, and fourthly through His territory. Everyone desires to have ideals, friends, power, and money, and these four items represent the four that have been listed above. (12-169, 1963.3.16)

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 3

Worship Service and Etiquette in Church Life

Summary:
Witnessing is the act of showing others how to return to God, which is the most important task a person can do. It requires hard work and sacrifice, but by eliminating evil and loving God above all else, you open yourself up to receiving His love in return. This practice isn’t just a temporary job; it is a way to grow spiritually and find true joy, even when life is difficult. Ultimately, the people you help lead to God are your only real “assets” because, in the afterlife, your earthly money and power won’t matter—only the lives you changed will last forever. Continue reading “Witnessing Is Creating My Second Self”

Blessed Families Report in Their Own Names

The blessed families who received the Blessing from True Parents are not just regular families. They are different from those in the satanic world.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1474   

As an absolute being with an absolute ideal for His creation, God pursues beings who can relate to Him with absolute value. This is something that cannot be exchanged for anything in this world. A being that can relate to God has a value that is greater than that of God Himself. The term “the value of one’s counterpart” seems difficult to comprehend. The value of a partner, of any being as a counterpart, is so great that it cannot be exchanged for anything or anyone, even for God. God cannot exchange it with Himself, for if He did, He would be left alone as a result. He would be left all by Himself.
    This is why God invests Himself and exhausts His own strength and His own energy. He is engaged in a war of attrition. The forms of existence thus created with relational value that cannot be exchanged for God Himself are human beings. The form of existence with absolute value is none other than humankind. God created people as beings of value with such an idea. (68-134, 1973.7.29)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 783

    What kinds of people live with the hope of God? They are those who can cross joyfully over the valley of death that brings sorrow to humankind. Those are the people who hold on to the hope of God. Therefore, you should not become someone who, in the face of death, resents and laments over all the affairs of this world. Instead, you should become someone who can stand before Heaven with joy and be proud of the value of your death. We should know that God is looking for those sons and daughters of hope. God cannot help loving a person who feels the joy of Heaven in such a situation. He cannot help answering the cry of the group of people who cry out to Him from such a position. (6-54, 1959.3.22)

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 3

Worship Service and Etiquette in Church Life

Section 6. God Accepts Prayers for the Public Purpose

6.2. Praying in the name of the True Parent

Summary
This text explains that in the Unification movement, the way people pray has changed over time to reflect different stages of spiritual growth. Originally, followers moved away from praying in the name of Jesus to praying in the name of the “True Parents,” who represent a holy, restored version of the original parents of humanity. However, as of 2001, followers are instructed to pray in their own names as members of a “blessed central family.” This change signifies that these families have successfully separated themselves from a fallen world and have reached a high level of spiritual maturity where they no longer need to ask for things through a middleman. Instead of traditional prayer, they are encouraged to “report” their daily actions directly to God, living as perfected families who understand God’s heart and goals.

    When you pray, you pray in the name of the True Parents. What are the parents? Do not think of this word only with regard to myself and True Mother; rather, think of the level of the True Parents in terms of the mother and father who can embrace the world at a higher level and truly love all people as one by transcending racial or national feelings. This is why I also pray in the name of the True Parents. (33-143, 1970.8.11) Continue reading “Blessed Families Report in Their Own Names”