Category: Cheon Seong Gyeong

Love God First, then Husband or Wife Second

When you have completed your portion of responsibility, you cross from the realm of indirect dominion into the realm of direct dominion.

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 2085

    Do you know why I have proclaimed tribal messiahship to both Korea and the world? It is because I have returned to Korea and have now connected Korea to all the nations. Imagine the mobilization of spirits in the spirit world, whose eyes are wide open in anticipation of liberation and who are saying that it’s the right time to return to earth to indemnify thousands or tens of thousands of years of history. So if I do not lay down all these bridges to connect the spirit world to earth, would that be right? Because everything has collapsed, there is no place for me to stand. In order to create a place, I had to send out Blessed Families as tribal messiahs and have them set up three-generation ancestral standards: perfection of Jesus, perfection of oneself, and perfection of Adam. This foundation created an environment upon which I could stand. This is why I have proclaimed tribal messiahship. The unification of North and South Korea does not just happen automatically. It is possible only after all these things are tied together. Since all these things are connected to the family level and the tribal level, they will then bond to the national level, and the Unification Church and the government should then become one. (219-97, 1991.8.25)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 963

    To this day, no one has been registered into the heavenly kingdom. The kingdom did not have a nation. It did not have a family or nation. When you go to the spirit world, your parents, and – if there are ten people in your family – all ten of your family members would be separated. However, from now on it will not be that way. You should know that originally, if human beings had not fallen, heaven would be the place where you enter with your mother, father and clan.
    If your grandparents, mother and father, couple, and children, become one based on true love, and inherit God’s true love that lives for others, then even God would be absolutely obedient to that. In the world that strives to live for others – a world that moves according 964 Book 6 • Our Life and the Spiritual Realm to the love that submits to the tradition of living for others – the basis for peace would surely emerge even if it resisted being formed. (210-354, 1990.12.27)

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

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity
Chapter 1

Fundamentals of Indemnification and the Principle of Restoration

Section 1. The Realms of Indirect and Direct Dominion

1.2. The realm of direct dominion

Summary:
The realm of direct dominion is absolutely necessary because it is the only place where we can connect to God’s love, which is the essential foundation required to inherit the universe from Him. True Father emphasizes that he did not invent these spiritual concepts or terms on a whim, but rather discovered them through a lifetime of extreme hardship, prison, and persecution that only God could fully understand. Once we receive the Blessing and enter this higher dimension, denying it is a terrifying sin worse than Satan’s fall, meaning members must faithfully establish a strict heavenly tradition. To cross over from the indirect dominion into this new dimension, men and women must reach spiritual maturity by loving God first above all else, which fulfills their human portion of responsibility. Ultimately, living in this direct dominion means directly sensing True Parents in daily life and bubbling over with so much joyful emotion that we can instantly feel the character of others and experience the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
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When the Perfect Love of God Is Manifested, Satan Cannot Appear

That is the fulfillment of the portion of responsibility. …There the vertical love of God and the horizontal love of Adam and Eve are connected.

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1183

    Throughout history, there have been numerous paths of suffering and hardship, but you must realize that the path of hardship of the eight stages that I have passed through never existed in past history. You must understand that it was the way of indemnity where, because of the difficulties, I still wasn’t allowed to shed tears, crying out, “God, I am not able to endure this position!” Those who are going to build the kingdom must not shed tears for themselves while walking this way. It is the heavenly principle that unless we pass through the place of tears with joy, the foothold of the heavenly kingdom will not remain in this earthly world. (161-194, 1987.2.3)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1964

    Japan was the one that divided the Korean peninsula into the North and South. For this reason, Japan should go to the source and influence it. This is why I am uniting the left-wing and right-wing to return to the position of the bridegroom. I must come back and even turn around Kim Il-sung. The leftwing and right-wing are like sons. After restoring the right of the eldest son, in order to restore the right of the parents, I even have to involve Kim Il-sung. Hence, once a unified realm unfolds here on the Korean peninsula, the Western Civilization of democracy and the Asian civilization, left and right, will become one. They will become one because communism will have disappeared completely. (228-233, 1992.4.3)

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

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity
Chapter 1

Fundamentals of Indemnification and the Principle of Restoration

Section 1. The Realms of Indirect and Direct Dominion

1.2. The realm of direct dominion

Summary:
Fulfilling your own portion of responsibility is the ultimate formula for entering the Kingdom of Heaven, as it links the realms of indirect and direct dominion, unites the physical and spirit worlds, and locks out Satan entirely. When human beings successfully mature and connect with God’s vertical love, they become the true embodiment of love, enabling them to naturally love God, their families, and the entire universe. If the original ancestors had achieved this maturity, their horizontal marriage would have allowed God to descend and dwell with them, merging vertical and horizontal love to unify heaven and earth forever. Once this portion of responsibility is met at adulthood, human beings enter into an eternal, inseparable oneness with God’s perfect love inside the realm of direct dominion.
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Do Not Taste Love During the Indirect Dominion

It means that until you reach maturity you should never have a love relationship.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1999

    Once we establish God’s nation, we will be able to see the traditions we should hand down to our descendants for thousands of generations to come. We will see the efforts we have made, shedding blood and sweat, as well as God’s monument that celebrates His victory and all traces of glory on the earth eternally. Without a nation, all our work will be in vain. The crucifix, culture and institutions of today’s Christianity, which have all been handed down from the earliest days, should be thrown in the river or burnt to ashes if they cannot create a nation desired by God. Christians should understand they are being mocked and ridiculed by Satan. Therefore, you should realize that the real issue at hand is building the nation of God. (55-339, 1972.5.9)   

    The holy wine ceremony is carried out in the reverse order of the Fall of Adam and Eve. Before you can get married, you need to be engaged. Then there is the holy wine ceremony. Only then can you attend the holy wedding ceremony. You could not become the original Adam and Eve because of the Fall. Through the engagement ceremony, you present yourselves before God and True Parents, who are trying to reclaim their children, saying, “We will become a better Adam and Eve, who are better than your fallen children.” Adam and Eve were still in the state of engagement. Through the engagement, a new world is created. You must therefore understand that the holy wine ceremony establishes the conditions that restore all these relationships. (120-167, 1982.10.13)

Receiving the holy wine is pat of the Blessing.

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

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity
Chapter 1

Fundamentals of Indemnification and the Principle of Restoration

Section 1. The Realms of Indirect and Direct Dominion
1.1. The realm of indirect dominion

Summary:
According to the Principle of the Unification Church, God created the realm of indirect dominion as a necessary boundary line for human beings to safely grow and mature from adolescence into adulthood through the stages of formation, growth, and completion. Within this realm of indirect dominion, God cannot interfere in immature love, meaning that individuals must fulfill their own portion of responsibility by remaining pure and avoiding any romantic or sexual relationships until they reach absolute spiritual maturity. Because Adam and Eve failed to follow God’s warning to wait, humanity fell into a state that is disconnected from God’s love, which has prolonged the process of restoration. Ultimately, the purpose of the Principle is to clearly define this border between immature growth and adulthood so that human beings can successfully fulfill their responsibilities, overcome the Fall, and finally enter the realm of direct dominion where they can connect fully with God’s absolute love.
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Our Departure for the Spirit World Is Not a Sad Occasion

You should raise the flag of heaven amid the trumpet call for liberation.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 668

    Such walls also arose in the family, tribe, people, nation, world, and between heaven and hell in the spirit world. Although God is on His glorious throne in heaven, we on earth cannot surmount the walls surrounding us without removing them. This is the tragedy of people living on earth. How can we do away with it? Despite the fact that people are meant to live attending God as their Parent and be guided by Him in all aspects of their lives, they either do not know He exists, or they declare that He definitely does not exist. They even say, “God is dead. We’ll have to sweep Him out of our world.” Such a tragic and historic situation is unfolding within the world in which we live. (135-267, 1985.12.15)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 405

    As soon as a baby is born, it cries, and at that instant it breathes through its nose, which connects it to its second world, that is, the world of air. In order to connect to and come out into the world of air, we have to destroy the umbilical cord and the water bag, where we lived in the womb. At the time of this death or destruction, the baby is born to mother earth. After we’re born, we eat with our mouths and breathe with our noses. But the food we eat on earth is just nutrition needed for the life of the physical body; it is not an essential element of spiritual life. The key element of life is none other than love. Therefore, we should inhale the air called love. We should breathe the air of love from our mother and father. (139-212, 1986.1.31)

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

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Section 14. Blessed Families Ceremonies


14.3. The Seunghwa Ceremony

Summary:
In the Unification movement, going to the spirit world is a joyful and glorious return to our homeland rather than a sad occasion, which is why True Father did not cry when his son Heung-jin or his mother-in-law, Grandmother Hong, passed away. Instead of traditional funerals, the church holds the Seonghwa Ceremony, which celebrates a person being transformed and moving from the horizontal earthly world into a higher stage of activity in the infinite spirit world. Because members live their lives knowing exactly where they are going, they have nothing to fear in the universe and do not shed sorrowful tears, which prevents evil spirits from approaching. Ultimately, this ceremony represents raising the flag of heaven to signal liberation, allowing a person to leave the world of sin and chaos to enter a perfect, shadowless vertical position within the absolute realm of God’s love.
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Seonghwa Means a Sacred Ascension to Heaven

You have to push the dead person to the spirit world with the power of love. Do not hold them back but push them forward.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 867

When you are in the spirit world, do you think that you have to urinate or not? Why don’t you go there and find out? I can tell you that you will have to urinate, even in the spirit world. However, those who disagree should go there and find out for themselves. Then what about bowel movements? Do you think we do that there or not? You do everything there, but it will immediately return to the elements. Scientists say that there are 107 basic elements in the universe, although the number is constantly increasing. Anyhow, urine and feces will return to their elements. That is why you do not have to wash in the spirit world. If you wave your hands with the heart of love, everything will go back to its original place. If you ask something with a heart of love, it will come out. With the heart of love, the mobilization of all kinds of things is possible. (212-30, 1991.1.1)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1183

Throughout history, there have been numerous paths of suffering and hardship, but you must realize that the path of hardship of the eight stages that I have passed through never existed in past history. You must understand that it was the way of indemnity where, because of the difficulties, I still wasn’t allowed to shed tears, crying out, “God, I am not able to endure this position!” Those who are going to build the kingdom must not shed tears for themselves while walking this way. It is the heavenly principle that unless we pass through the place of tears with joy, the foothold of the heavenly kingdom will not remain in this earthly world. (161-194, 1987.2.3)

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

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Section 14. Blessed Families Ceremonies


14.3. The Seunghwa Ceremony

Summary:
Death is not a sorrowful event, but rather a joyful, sacred transition from a lower-dimensional world to a higher one through the power of love. To reflect this reality, True Father introduced the term “Seunghwa Ceremony” to replace traditional funerals, explaining that the practice began after the passing of his son, Heung-jin, which successfully broke down the walls of death and allowed spirits to advance freely into the spirit world without being held back by the sad tears of their loved ones. He later updated the name to “Seonghwa,” changing the Chinese character to mean “holy” or “sacred” rather than just “to ascend,” to emphasize that entering the spirit world is a unique, victorious moment where a person’s earthly life bears fruit. Consequently, Unification Church members should not fear death, and those who attend a Seonghwa Ceremony should celebrate the person’s natural departure with songs of victory and tears of joy rather than dejection or despair.
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