Category: Cheon Seong Gyeong

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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Do Not Deviate after Becoming a Blessed Couple

If you commit any acts that defile your body, you will be worse off than Satan himself

Cheon Seong Gyeong 503

    Where does love come from? Never from the self, but rather from one’s partner. Without a partner, love cannot arise. Within humankind, woman complements man, and children complement their parents. Love is not realized without partners. This is called “the love of three object partners.” Those who have not experienced the love of three object partners cannot stand in a position of having substantially experienced God’s perfect love.
    “Let us give birth to sons and daughters and rejoice to the same extent that God rejoiced after having created Adam and Eve.” This is taught in the Unification Church’s Divine Principle.
    Having created Adam and Eve, God said, “From now on, you will rule over the world. Our family will be the central family of the world. Please grow up quickly, grow up quickly.” He felt joy and satisfaction while protecting and nurturing them with hope, desiring to see the day of their marriage upon their coming of age. By the same token, fathers and mothers want to raise their children well, and find good partners for them to become good husbands and wives. When that happens, the family prospers. (57-119, 1972.5.29)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1310

    After the blessing of the international holy grounds, I performed the Blessing of the 430 Couples. This number corresponds to the 430 years of captivity of the Israelites in Egypt, and also the 4,300 years of Korean history. This Blessing signifies the beginning of a new history. Moreover, the 430 Couples also represent all families in the world. Afterwards, while I was carrying out my second world tour, I blessed 43 couples in the United States, Europe and Japan. I could then connect those 43 couples to the 430 Couples on the world level. By doing this, I was able to connect the victorious foundation I had established in Korea to the world, including the Western world.
    By accomplishing all this, all the families in the world, not just the members of the Unification Church, could now stand in a position to receive heavenly fortune right then and there. That is why the gates of heaven are now open to all families on earth. (52-131, 1971.12.26)

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

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Section 14. Blessed Families Ceremonies

14.2. The Blessing

Summary:
The holy wine contains elements of creation that Satan cannot touch, meaning that if you defile your body after drinking it and becoming one with True Parents, you commit an unforgivable sin worse than Satan’s original fall. True Father explains that the holy wedding ceremony officially passes down God’s love so that couples can live as parents themselves, and it creates an eternal bond where True Parents take full responsibility to guide and lead the blessed spouses even into the spirit world. However, because the Blessing occurs at the ultimate completion stage, deviating or breaking heavenly law carries severe spiritual consequences, offers no forgiveness, and passes a heavy burden of sin down through dozens of generations. Ultimately, the value of a blessed person is far greater than anyone who has already passed into the spirit world, but abandoning this immense heavenly grace means facing terrifying judgment and accusation from Satan himself.
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You Need to Convert the Lineage that was Defiled by the Fall

Without accomplishing this, you cannot remove Original Sin.

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1063

    Concerning the process of re-creation, to give and give again for the sake of others is the same as God expending Himself in the act of creation. To invest oneself is the act of creating one’s second self; it is the same as God investing Himself for the sake of Creation. The works of re-creation follow the course of restoration through indemnity; indemnity is carried out through the works of recreation. Therefore, re-creation can only come about when you invest yourself. For this reason, it is a reasonable conclusion to say that sacrifice is inevitable. (82-240, 1976.1.31)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1277

    The holy wine is not simply made like ordinary wine. You cannot bring forth wine and claim it to be holy wine. It is made in the presence of God and Satan, and the angels in the spirit world. There are twenty-one elements within it that you do not know about. The wine contains all the elements that are formed in the process of restoring the physical world and humankind. When making the holy wine, spirits from the spirit world come and implore me to pour a glass for them so that they can partake of it. It is because they know that by drinking the holy wine they can be restored. That is why they come to me in a group and ask to share in the benefit. They know that I can bestow on them this benefit. However, I am not here for the spirit world. I am here for the physical world. That is why I tell the spirits, “Wait!” and give the wine to you, for all the suffering you have been through. (46‑233, 1971.8.15)

The Holy Wine Ceremony is part of the process of receiving the Blessing.  Also, see today’s reading, below. Continue reading “You Need to Convert the Lineage that was Defiled by the Fall”