Fellowship With the Saints and Our Ancestors

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1950

The completion of restoration comes
about when three people and nations
that were divided become one. This is
the Principle point of view. This kind of
theory can be applied anywhere. Where
is the Adam nation in terms of Europe?
In terms of the entire free world, it is
America. Why? Because it was born
from England. England prospered dur-
ing the age of the queen. In the sixteenth
century during Queen Elizabeth’s reign,
Book 12 • The Pacific Rim Providence 1950
England built maritime cities and began
to control the oceans of the world, lead-
ing to the colonization of America.
How did Great Britain gain control
over the oceanic rights of the world?
Britain, an oceanic nation, was the Eve
nation. Since it was a female nation and
an island nation, it opened up and con-
trolled the oceans of the world. That is
how it made America its colony. Ameri-
ca is like a son to Britain, so Eve should
be the one to give birth to an ideal hus-
band. Otherwise, an ideal husband can-
not be born. (119-241, 1982.9.13)

Cheong Seong Gyeong 917

The firstborn son of the eldest son
must drive his roots deep. No one can
uproot it. The grandfather cannot do so,
nor can the uncle. That is why when you
perform ancestral rites, you first have the
eldest son stand at the head even before
his uncle, cousin, third-cousin and even
his great-uncle. Did you know that? The
eldest son is set at the front, thus, we can
see that the Korean race was one which
attached great importance to the first
son’s position by virtue of its tradition-
al cultural background that reveres its
ancestors. Did the lowly people live with
the nobility? Did they carelessly mingle
with each other? No. It was said that the
nobility would not even light a fire made
with husks of rice, even if they were to
freeze to death. That is amazing. (197-340,
1990.1.20)

Heaven

2. Fellowship with the Saints and Our Ancestors

Where men of goodwill and good deeds rejoice,
Their bodies now made free from all disease,
Their limbs made whole from lameness or
     defect—
In that heaven may we behold our parents and
our sons!
     Atharva Veda 6.120.3 (Hinduism)

All who obey God and the Apostle are in the
company of those on whom is the grace of
God—of the Prophets who teach, the sincere
lovers of Truth, the witnesses [martyrs] who tes-
tify, and the righteous who do good: Ah! what a
beautiful fellowship!
   Qur’an 4.69

You have come to Mount Zion and to the city
of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and
to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to
the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled
in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all, and
to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to
Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant.
   Hebrews 12.22-24

When you die, you will be again with those you
love who have gone before you. Again you will
be young and strong, though you might have
been old and feeble on the day you died. In
the spirit land the corn will grow and all will
be happy, whether they were good or bad when
they were alive. So death is not something to be
afraid of.
   Yuma Tradition (Native American Religions)

And those Foremost [in faith] will be Foremost
   [in the hereafter].
These will be those nearest to God;
In Gardens of Bliss;
A number of people from those of old,
and a few from those of later times.
They will be on thrones encrusted, reclining on
   them, facing each other.
Round about them will serve youths of per-
   petual freshness,
with goblets, shining beakers, and cups filled
   out of clear-flowing fountains;
No after-ache will they receive therefrom, nor
   will they suffer intoxication;
And with fruits, any that they may select,
And the flesh of fowls, any that they may
   desire.
And there will be companions with beautiful,
   big and lustrous eyes,
Like unto pearls well-guarded:
A reward for the deeds of their past life.
   Qur’an 56.10-25

For [the ancestors] Soma is purified,
some accept the molten butter;
to the company of those, for
whom the honey flows, let him go!

To the company of those who
are invincible by spiritual discipline (tapas),
and through spiritual discipline have gone to
   heaven,
to men of great spiritual fire, let him go!

To the company of those who
fight contested battles, heroes
who cast away their lives, to those who
made a thousand gifts, let him go!

To those ancient followers
of the Law, steadfast in the Law,
who furthered the Law, to the Fathers, Yama,
great in their spiritual fire, let him go!

To the sage-poets, the leaders
of thousands, those who protect the sun,
to the Rishis of great spiritual discipline,
born of spiritual discipline, Yama! let him go!
   Rig Veda 10.154.1-5 (Hinduism)

Heaven Begins from a Heart that Overcomes the World

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Acts 20

On the first day of the week we met to break bread together. Paul spoke to the people until midnight because he was leaving the next morning. In the upstairs room where we were meeting, there were a lot of lamps. A young man by the name of Eutychus was sitting on a window sill. While Paul was speaking, the young man got very sleepy. Finally, he went to sleep and fell three floors all the way down to the ground. When they picked him up, he was dead.

10 Paul went down and bent over Eutychus. He took him in his arms and said, “Don’t worry! He’s alive.” 11 After Paul had gone back upstairs, he broke bread, and ate with us. He then spoke until dawn and left. 12 Then the followers took the young man home alive and were very happy.

Isaiah 60

60 Jerusalem, stand up! Shine!
    Your new day is dawning.
The glory of the Lord
    shines brightly on you.
The earth and its people
    are covered with darkness,
but the glory of the Lord
    is shining upon you.
Nations and kings
will come to the light
    of your dawning day.

Heaven

1. Realms of Grace

Teachings of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

How is heaven—the spirit world where God resides—organized? Its ordering principle is simple. No one who lived a self-centered life can be admitted to Paradise or the heavenly spheres. Heaven is the dwelling-place of people who lived for the sake of the whole.
You may not have experienced the spirit world, but by the grace of God, I experienced the richness of that world. If you enter heaven, you will not find a single person who lived for him or herself. Its citizens are all people who lived for God and humanity. (77:189, April 6, 1975)

Heaven is an ideal realm centered on God; it is a place where everything moves to the rhythm of God’s love, tuned to its frequency. Therefore, unless we prepare on earth the appropriate elements that can tune to God’s frequency, we will not be able to harmonize with the beings in that world. For this purpose, while on earth we should perfect three different kinds of love: children’s love, conjugal love and parental love.17 (19:335, March 29, 1968)

Heaven begins from a heart that overcomes the world. Although heaven may exist all around us, if our own mind is evil we cannot perceive it, we cannot be harmonized with it, and it would be mean-ingless to us. Therefore, the basis for receiving the Kingdom of Heaven is not the environment, but I, myself. The pillar for maintaining the Kingdom of Heaven is not my circumstances, but my own heart. (46:24, July 18, 1971)

In the Kingdom of Heaven you will see green grass everywhere. There are mountains, lakes and prairies. Birds sing, flowers bloom in profusion, and animals play happily together. The air is fresh and filled with fragrances like lilac. Bright light shines throughout, more beautiful than diamond and clear as crystal. Just standing there makes you feel comfortable and refreshed. You are naturally filled with feelings of love and happiness. Unlike in earthy life where happiness comes and goes, in heaven you feel happy continually.
In the Kingdom of Heaven there is no anxiety or suffering. All the spirits have bright and peaceful expressions; they naturally care for each other without needing to say a word. There is no fighting, no fallen nature of jealousy, hate or arrogance. Everyone is filled only with true love and lives for the sake of others. (Heung Jin Moon, Message from the Spirit World, January 1, 2002) ❖

That Place Is the Original Palace of Love, Life and Lineage

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1976

On the Korean peninsula, the Repub-
lic of Korea is destined to battle and tri-
umph over communism. When it does,
the Republic of Korea will play an active
role in the world. However, if it is defeat-
ed by communism, the Republic of Korea
will disappear without a trace. The Viet-
nam War is a prime example of the trag-
ic fate that awaits you after defeat. North
Korea represents evil, while the Repub-
lic of Korea represents good. The devil
controls North Korea, while God sides
with the Republic of Korea. In this man-
ner, the Korean peninsula is becoming
a region in which good and evil are in
the sharpest confrontation in the world.
All the evil in the world will perish
when good overruns and defeats evil in
this area. Throughout providential his-
tory, God has been eagerly waiting for
the Korean people and the free people of
the world to come together and achieve a
complete victory. (129-331, 1983.12.14)

Richard: Find out more about the aftermath of the Vietnam War here and here. Watch a video of the fall of Saigon on April 29th, 1975.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1740

God is the Creator and the vertical
Parent of true love. In other words, He
is the vertical Parent based on true love.
Perfected Adam and Eve are the horizon-
tal parents based on true love. These two
sets of parents are to unite. Vertical and
horizontal are to unite at the place where
Adam and Eve make love. That place is
the original palace of love, life and lin-
eage: the male and female organs. In this
way, God Himself will give birth to His
sons and daughters. They are indeed
His children. You were all born from
two sets of parents, with the conscience
in the reciprocal position to the vertical
Parent. In view of this, your conscience
is the vertical “you” and your body the
horizontal “you.” Through what do
vertical and horizontal unite? Uniting
through true parental love, the Creator’s
true love, body and mind would never
conflict but rather would harmonize
completely. (250-38, 1993.10.11)

Richard: We can see why absolute sexual ethics is the dividing line between good and evil.

Heaven

Conceptions of heaven and hell are found universally among the religions of the world. Descriptions of these abodes are often full of graphic and fanciful imagery, conveying in metaphor a reality that can hardly be part of the ordinary experience of mortals. are these realms objectively real? the scriptures are unanimous in affirming they are. yet they do not have any physical location: “up” or “down” is a matter of spiritual geography, not of astronomy or geology. the view found in some texts, that heaven or hell is derived from one’s state of mind, does not make it any less real. For the attitudes and desires of people’s hearts, which may be hidden by the external features of mortal life, constitute the spirit world’s “matter.”
     the world’s scriptures describe heaven as a place of rest, or as an exalted spiritual state, full of divine grace, whose inhabitants live in communion with God and in harmony with one another. a number of texts describe it as a place of fellowship with the spirits of the departed or a fellowship of saints. there are also descriptions using more graphic and materialistic imagery: gardens of delights, with riches and pleasures abounding. Father Moon’s colorful descriptions of heaven are in agreement with these themes of scripture. What’s more, he adds a distinctive note, affirming that heaven is also a place where families dwell together, enjoying perfect love.
     We conclude with visions or tours of heaven: a Buddhist description of the pure Land, Muhammad’s night Journey through the seven heavens, an Iroquois native American journey in the code of handsome Lake, as well as Father Moon’s own descriptions. they describe a paradisiacal existence, a word of eternal youth and health where every wish is granted, where the senses are flooded with vibrant colors and melodious music.

1. Realms of Grace

No one who does good deeds will ever come to
a bad end, either here or in the world to come.
When such people die, they go to other realms
where the righteous live.
   Bhagavad-Gita 6.40-41 (Hinduism)

Those who have faith and do righteous deeds,
they are the best of creatures. Their reward is
with God: Gardens of Eternity, beneath which
rivers flow; they will dwell therein for ever; God
well pleased with them, and they with Him; all
this for such as fear their Lord and Cherisher.
   Qur’an 98.7-8

Rabbi Joseph… was ill and fell into a coma.
When he recovered, his father asked him,
“What did you see?” He replied, “I beheld a
world the reverse of this one; those who are on
top here were below there, and vice versa.” He
said to him, “My son, you have seen a corrected
world.”
   Talmud, Pesahim 50a (Judaism)

Not like this world is the World to Come. In
the World to Come there is neither eating nor
drinking, nor procreation of children or busi-
ness transactions, no envy or hatred or rivalry;
but the righteous sit enthroned, their crowns
on their heads, and feast on the radiance of the
Divine Splendor (Shekhinah).
   Talmud, Berakot 17a (Judaism)

To the highest regions, in due order, to those
regions where there is no delusion, and to
those regions which are full of light where the
glorious gods dwell—who have long life, great
power, great luster, can change their shape
at will, are beautiful as on their first day, and
have the brilliance of many suns—to such
places go those who are trained in self-control
and penance, both monks and householders
who have obtained liberation by absence of
passion.
   Uttaradhyayana Sutra 5.26-28 (Jainism)

Higher than all stands the Realm of Grace—
None can have access there except heroes of
     supreme might,
Inspired by God-consciousness.
In that sphere abide numberless heroines like
     Sita of surpassing praise
And beauty indescribable.
Those to God united suffer neither mortality
     nor delusion.
In that sphere abide devotees assembled from
     the various universes,
Cherishing the holy Eternal ever in their hearts.
In everlasting bliss.
The formless Supreme Being abides in the
     Realm of Eternity.
Over His creation He casts His glance of grace.
In that realm are contained all the continents
     and universes,
Exceeding in number all count.
Of creation, worlds upon worlds abide therein—
All obedient to His Will;
He watches over them in bliss,
And has each constantly in mind.
Saith Nanak, Such is that realm’s [glory] that to
     try to describe it is to attempt the impossible.
          Adi Granth, Japuji 37 M.1, p. 8 (Sikhism)

God Does Not Decide Whether a Person’s Spirit Enters Heaven or Hell

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1 Samuel 25

24 Then she said:

Sir, please let me explain! 25 Don’t pay any attention to that good-for-nothing Nabal. His name means “fool,” and it really fits him!

I didn’t see the men you sent, 26-27 but please take this gift of food that I’ve brought and share it with your followers. The Lord has kept you from taking revenge and from killing innocent people. But I hope your enemies and anyone else who wants to harm you will end up like Nabal. I swear this by the living Lord and by your life.

28 Please forgive me if I say a little more. The Lord will always protect you and your family, because you fight for him. I pray that you won’t ever do anything evil as long as you live. 29 The Lord your God will keep you safe when your enemies try to kill you. But he will snatch away their lives quicker than you can throw a rock from a sling.

Ecclesiastes 8

16 Day and night I went without sleep, trying to understand what goes on in this world. 17 I saw everything God does, and I realized that no one can really understand what happens. We may be very wise, but no matter how much we try or how much we claim to know, we cannot understand it all.

Richard: Amen to that! Sometimes we cannot understand exactly how God is working, although we try our best.

Judgement

4. You Are Your Own Judge

The self is the maker and non-maker, and itself
makes happiness and misery, is its own friend
and its own foe, decides its own condition good
or evil, and is its own river Veyarana [the river
in which hell-beings are tormented].
     Madaghishloka (Jainism)

The sacrificers and the sorcerer princes
Have subdued mankind to the yoke of their
     dominion,
To destroy existence through evil deeds:
They shall be tortured by their own soul and
    their own conscience,
When they come to the Bridge of the
    Separator,
Forever to be inmates of the House of Evil.
     Avesta, Yasna 46.11 (Zoroastrianism)

The Good Spirit, who was born simultaneously
with you, will come now and count out your
good deeds with white pebbles, and the Evil
Spirit, who was born simultaneously with you,
will come and count out your evil deeds with
black pebbles. Thereupon you will be greatly
frightened, awed, and terrified, and will tremble;
and you will attempt to tell lies, saying, “I have
not committed any evil deed.”
     Then the Lord of Death will say, “I will
consult the Mirror of karma.” He will look in
the Mirror, wherein every good and evil act is
vividly reflected. Lying will be of no avail.
     Then one of the executive furies of the Lord
of Death will place a rope around your neck and
drag you along; he will cut off your head, extract
your heart, pull out your intestines, lick up your
brain, drink your blood, eat your flesh, and gnaw
your bones; but you will be incapable of dying.
Although your body be hacked to pieces, it will
revive again. The repeated hacking [symbolizing
the pangs of the deceased’s conscience] will
cause intense pain and torture.
     Even at the time that the pebbles are being
counted out, be not frightened; tell no lies; and
fear not the Lord of Death.
     Your body being a mental body is incapable
of dying even though beheaded and quartered.
In reality, your body is of the nature of voidness;
you need not be afraid. The Lords of Death
are your own hallucinations. Your desire-body
is a body of propensities, and void. Voidness
cannot injure voidness; the qualityless cannot
injure the qualityless. Apart from one’s own
hallucinations, in reality there are no such
things existing outside oneself as Lord of Death,
or god, or demon. Act so as to recognize this.
     Tibetan Book of the Dead (Buddhism)

Teachings of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

God does not decide whether a person’s spirit enters heaven or hell upon his death; the spirit himself decides it. Humans are created so that once they reach perfection they will fully breathe the love of God. Those who committed sinful deeds while on earth become crippled spirits who are incapable of fully breathing in the love of God. They find it agonizing to stand before God, the center of true love. Of their own will, they choose to dwell in hell, far removed from the love of God. (Exposition of the Divine Principle, Creation 6.3.2)
 
Running through each of you is the boundary line dividing heaven and hell. One step to the right and you go to heaven, one step to the left is hell. Heaven is not so far away, and neither is hell. You are the deciding factor.
     In spirit world there is no policeman directing traffic. We each find our own place. Since you go there of your own free will, you cannot complain. In hell, you cannot protest, “God, why did you send me here?” because you decided your own dwelling place. Even at this moment, each of you knows whether you should go to heaven or hell. (201:225-26, April 22, 1990)
 
How is it decided whether my journey will end at heaven or hell? I decide it. If I feel guilt-stricken in my conscience for having lived only to enjoy the pleasures of the senses, I will be in hell. However, if I lived according to my conscience, preferring a life of integrity of heart, I will dwell in the heavenly spheres. For this reason, people should abandon the aspiration for material things and deny their evil desires. The correct way is to live by one’s conscience and strive to uphold the ethics of heaven. (7:238, September 20, 1959)
 
People bound for heaven do not need to be taught the way. Having lived according to their con-science, they will arrive there automatically. When the sun rises, don’t all the buds of the trees turn to face the sun? Even plants know instinctively what direction to take. Then, as the lord of all cre-ation, how could you not know where to go? You will experience this after you enter the spirit world. (75:42, January 1, 1975) 
 
 
 

God Will Be the Judge; Satan Will be the Prosecutor

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 325

What is the difference between true
love and authority? In true love, you
give love and then forget that you have
given it. What is the line between good
and evil? Evil is where something is giv-
en with the intention of receiving all
the benefit for oneself, and goodness is
where, even though you give, you forget
that you have done so. Even in a house-
hold, those who serve others more stand
on the good side, and the one who lives for
others most becomes the master of that
family in the end. Let us say there are ten
friends. Which would be the best among
them? The one who cares for all the oth-
ers. Then the ten friends would make the
one who was taking care of them the cen-
tral figure and serve him. This is how the
universe is inherited. (141-252, 1986.2.26)

Cheong Seong Gyeong 1078

You must be exemplary in every-
thing. Eating good food, living the good
life in affluence can never be exemplary.
You should know that an exemplary life
lies in moderation and spending only
what is absolutely necessary.
     On Sundays I am forced to wear a
suit, but at other times I go without a
necktie as much as possible. When I
am at home I do not wear a jacket but
instead wear simple things like sweaters.
Think about how much neckties cost in
Western society. If you include neck-
tie pins, how much do they cost in all?
Consider two men: one thinks about the
world and lives his entire life without a
necktie and the other lives his life wear-
ing a necktie without thinking about the
world. Which one do you think will be
closer to God when they go to the spirit
world?

The Judgement

3. The Court of Judgment

Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect?
It is God who justifies; who is to condemn? Is it
Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from
the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who
indeed intercedes for us? Who shall separate us
from the love of Christ?
Romans 8.33-35

When I die my death will be a mercy and a
blessing for you: After death, your deeds will
be sent to me and I will look at them: If you
worked righteousness, I will praise God for this.
If you worked evil, I will ask God that you be
forgiven.
Hadith of Ibn Sa’d (Islam)

They that are born are destined to die; and the
dead to be brought to life again; and the living
to be judged, to know, to make known, and to be
made conscious that He is God, He the Maker,
He the Creator, He the Discerner, He the Judge,
He the Witness, He the Complainant; He it is
that will in future judge, blessed be He, with
whom there is no unrighteousness, nor forgetful-
ness, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.
Know also that everything is according to reck-
oning; and let not your imagination give you
hope that the grave will be a place of refuge
for you. For perforce you were formed, and per-
force you were born, and perforce you live, and
perforce you will die, and perforce you will in
the future have to give account and reckoning
before the King of kings, the Holy One, blessed
be He.
Mishnah, Avot 4.29 (Judaism)

Teachings of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Jesus is working as an attorney in the spirit world. He would say to God, “This person did such and such good deeds with faith in my name. Isn’t it true, based upon the agreement fixed between you and the Devil, that the Devil cannot take a person who strived to be good and who observed public righteousness?” Then, God has to agree with him. (149:98, November 17, 1986)

God brings each individual into judgment based on the degree to which he or she lived centered on the mind or centered on the body. An individual is completely restored when he or she becomes the very incarnation of the scriptures, established in truth and guiltless of every law in the book of judgment. Now, on the foundation of individual perfection, it is time to establish a family that can pass through the judgment. All the family’s records will be presented as evidence… God takes position of the judge, Satan will be the prosecutor, and Jesus will be our defense attorney. Therefore, we should establish a pure family that Satan cannot accuse of any wrong. (13:211, March 15, 1964)

Do you love Cain? Cain is in the position of Satan’s son. Satan, who is spiritual, challenges us through people who take the role of Cain. They are grinding their teeth, hating us even though we never did them any wrong. If Satan is not to hook you, you should subjugate Cain; that is, win him over. This will require you to love Cain all the way to the end; otherwise, you cannot save him.
     For this reason, in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, you need to obtain a certificate from Satan. What is Satan’s certificate? For a convicted criminal to be released he should first go through an attorney, then a prosecutor, and finally he can be released by the judge. Satan is in the position of the prosecutor, God is the judge, and Jesus is the attorney.
     If Satan accuses a defendant with convincing evidence, God cannot do anything about it. Then Jesus, the attorney, says, “Heavenly Father, since this person is accused of such and such counts, let him be given an indemnity condition proportionate to his offenses, and then liberate him.” For this reason [proving he has fulfilled the indemnity condition], he needs to procure a certificate from Satan. (48:316-17, September 26, 1971)