Parents Day and I

Parents Day and I

Sun Myung Moon

Speech given at World Mission Center, March 27, 1990

Everything in this world exists in pairs. You have two eyes, two nostrils, two ears. In addition, there are two types of functions for each organ. Although you have only one mouth, you can use it to speak good things or bad. From the same eyes, you can watch good things or bad. You have only one body, but it is able to carry out good acts and bad.

This sort of dichotomy or opposition throughout the world must be overcome or brought into unity. Why does this separation exist? It is due to the Fall of man which was an opposing action to the ideal of creation. The core of the creation ideal is the love of God who doesn't want to dwell alone. He wants to prosper. In order to secure that prosperity, He must have His own posterity or His own blood lineage.

Our title today is "Parents Day and I," because the central problem is always that "I". If there had been no fall, then the love of God, the life of God and God's blood lineage would have been united. When you speak of yourself, your "I", you are the fruit of your entire lineage, the offspring of your ancestral tree. A large tree has numerous branches and trees, with just one main trunk. However, everything is connected--from the root to the trunk, the trunk to the branches, the branches to the leaves. When the tree blossoms with flowers and bears fruit, that fruit represents the essence of the entire tree--the root, trunk, branches and leaves.

You are like the fruit of that tree. Eventually you become a seed, too. In order to do that, you first have to bloom with flowers, then pollination of the male and female flowers must take place. In this way, you are the fruit of your own mother and father whose love created you. Those parents also had their own parents, who had their own parents, and so on, all the way back to the beginning. If you want to become a parent, you too must become part of a pair. No man or woman can become a parent all alone.

Looking at the modern-day perverted culture of the United States, we see so much homosexuality and lesbianism. If this alone continued, it would mean the end of the human species. There must be some original model or tradition that would always blossom and produce the ultimate fruit which would always represent the origin--the beginning point.

Everyone in the world should be participating in the original love, life and lineage. True love, true life and true lineage are the cause and the world should be the result. Thus through the pair system, we can become the recipient of that original love, life and lineage. That is an absolute formula with no deviation possible. The pair system is necessary for fruit to be produced, for without parents there can be no multiplication.

Love in particular is vertical; therefore, in order to be a recipient of love, you have to be standing right below that vertical line. The ideal love line is a straight, vertical line for true love always moves along the shortest path. In the Bible we read about the fall of man, which damaged the very root of the tree of mankind. In the ideal of God, there was to be no fall of man, which would allow the original true love, life and lineage to come down from generation to generation forever. The fall of man was an attack against true love through illicit love. When true love was nearly mature, illicit love invaded from the side, knocked down the tree of true love and sowed the illicit seed.

Since the tree of God's love and lineage was taken over by Satan's lineage, man's lineage has been rooted in Satan, never travelling a straight line, but creating perversions of human life and love. People who engage in illicit love want to do it in secret. This is because everyone has a conscience and, when they engage in illicit love, their conscience bothers them. But even man's conscience deviates from the straight line.

American society today is rampant with free sex, an act totally unacceptable in the eyes of God. The first seeds of illicit love were planted during the teen years. The Last Days are its harvest time, which is why we see so much free sex among teenagers. This illicit love line has to be cut and a new lineage has to be planted.

Is the Divine Principle, the teaching of the Unification Church, correct? The Divine Principle is a formula or principle for all humanity to live by. What is a formula? It is a rule, which applies to every circumstance. This is a very important statement. Without learning and following this principle, no one can become a truly perfected human being. The Divine Principle is bringing light, so that no one can remain in darkness. It teaches what went wrong and how it actually happened. With this knowledge, one's own judgment can tell right from wrong. Since people are intelligent, they will move in the right direction. The focus of the right way is true love, true life, and true lineage. These three are a unit and you cannot remove one of these elements from their trinity.

You must realize that God's love, life and lineage are going to prosper forever through you and generations of your descendants. If no fall had happened, each one of you would be able to say, "I am the result of the love of God, the life of God and the lineage of God." However you are not in that position because of the fall of man. Rather, each person is the recipient of satanic love, life and lineage. Satanic love is always self-centered. The love of God is always for the sake of the whole and for the sake of others. The United States today is a kingdom of individualism and that fact alone clearly explains why this nation belongs to the satanic lineage and why free sex has become so widespread. This is the satanic strategy to destroy God's love and truth. Free sex and all the perverted actions of satanic love are the worst deeds against God's true love.

The free world and the communist world had been moving in their own direction, but now they are coming together. Today the economic systems within the communist world are crumbling as seen in China, the Soviet Union and all her satellite nations. That doesn't mean that God has won in the world or that His work is finished. What has happened is only an external phenomenon. There must also be a true revolution within the human heart. So far, human history has been led by Satan. Where has he been leading mankind? Into hell. There are many kinds of enemies, but the very worst enemy is the enemy of love--those who deprive us of love. God has been teaching us to love our enemies. But why couldn't God love Satan? God can forgive and love satanic men and women, but God cannot love Satan himself. Satanic man can be changed to the side of God, where he is saved and there is hope for him. Instead of all human beings becoming children of God, they became the victims of Satan through the fall. Therefore, there is room for love and forgiveness by God. But Satan himself is the one who destroyed the very root of the love of God, so he cannot be forgiven. Satan is the enemy of God's love, God's life and God's lineage. Each fallen man lacks God's love, life and lineage; all he knows is Satan's love, life and lineage. Consequently, God cannot have prosperity and the whole world is controlled by Satan. Truly, we have to completely change this world.

We know the answer to the fundamental question "Why did God create this world?" God created this world for the sake of love. If God is all alone, what sort of enjoyment could He have? He is not happy. Therefore, He created in order to have a recipient of His love. Even though God is absolute and almighty, He too would like to have His own subject to whom He could be obedient. If this were not the case, then by creating others He would be doing something selfish. In His omnipotence, He would have created this world just for His own benefit. But since He created this world for the sake of love, God Himself is obedient to true love. This is why God can command His creation, including mankind, "You must absolutely obey Me in true love." Therefore, all creation exists for no other reason than for the sake of love. God's investment in the creation was total. He gave every part of Himself for He wanted His object to be even better than He. The characteristic of love is that the loving one wants his object to be even better than himself. You want to have your spouse and your children to be better than you, right? Where did that characteristic come from? We inherited it through the generations from God. This is a logical answer and follows the law of cause and effect because the cause and result have the same characteristics.

We are making an extraordinary statement today from the Divine Principle that even God, when He created His own object, made it better than Himself. God invested His totality for the sake of His object. The absolute object centered upon true love, is always the focus of love. Therefore, love is not coming from me, but from the object. If you want to receive love, you have to be humble, receiving it from a lower position. Following this principle, men and women are in the horizontal position to God's vertical love. God's love comes down and hits between them--right in the center. Because true love takes the shortest way, there is only one point where God's vertical line can connect with the horizontal. This is absolute that true love travels a vertical line and lands at one point, with no deviation. God's love landed at that one true love point, resulting in the birth of Adam and Eve. They were supposed to travel 90 degrees and, upon coming to maturity, they were to travel a horizontal line, meeting at its center. That was the original ideal.

Man represents the east, woman is the west. Men and women are travelling horizontally toward the center and collide head-on. The head-on collision of true love makes the two parties dance with joy. Vertical love hits right at the center turning this way. The earth turns from east to west. True love turns in the same direction. That kind of ideal turning involves no reservation or resistance. It is completely smooth and welcome everywhere, from the top of heaven to the bottom of the earth. In true love, all humanity is turning. God should be in the center, as the axis for this turning motion. God, enjoying the motion, says, "How wonderful. Everyone resembles Me." Then God can receive joy from humanity.

Are you in that state? True love serves as the vertical line for the sake of the universe. When you search for true love, you must think of the universe and say, "I represent the universal love, life, and lineage." When the world asks you to surrender, you give everything. True love is coming down the vertical line to connect with you. Therefore, your supply of true love is infinite because it is coming from God. So when you constantly give love, you will never cease to be replenished. Whoever lives with this vertical, universal true love, are the true sons and daughters of God. Wherever true love is, there is also true life. Wherever true life is, there is also a true lineage. This lineage comes through marriage, not through single people. When you inherit true love, true life and true lineage from the Tree of Life, then that tree becomes your tree: its root, trunk, branches and leaves are all yours. This means that people in any nation throughout the world are your brothers and sisters and we truly have become one family of man. In a tree, all the nutrients and energy flow from one part to another freely, without resistance. In the same way, the tree of the human family should be sharing energy without any boundaries or resistance. True love breaks down all the barriers of the world and the universe because it is an absolutely giving love, a love of commitment and investment in others. That is the way of life of the Unification Church, where there is no national, cultural or racial barriers in our marriages or our citizenship. We are people of the Unification country. When absolute love is in motion, infinite energy is activated and absolute power is available forever. Now you can become the greatest people!

This principle works on every level. The United States was at the apex of world power after winning World War II. God wanted the United States to adopt a universal attitude, serving the rest of the world and all of humanity. Instead, this country became very self-centered and adopted a self-serving national policy. Similarly, Israel was the chosen nation 2,000 years ago, yet Jesus Christ was crucified in their midst. Why? They had a self-serving attitude. They thought once the Messiah came to their nation, they would become the most powerful rulers in the world. However, Jesus taught the people to embrace the rest of the world and serve them. Instead, Israel became weak because they didn't follow Jesus' universal teaching. The universal power could not protect and promote the Israel nation.

By the same token, the Unification Church is not going to govern and stand above the world. The Unification Church is going to embrace the world and universe. Our entire love, heart and effort is going to be given for the sake of all humanity. That is the teaching of Reverend Moon and the way of the Unification Church. The final solution to the world's problems is the united true lineage, the united true love and the united true life. It is the only way to solve the terrible evils in the world today: racial division, moral breakdown, poverty and disease. Only by living and working for others, while centering on true love can we solve the world's problems. Centering on others will automatically bring prosperity. This is the way of creation and exactly follows the path of original love, which the universal power will protect and promote.

This concept is really rather simple to apply. It is God's strategy to take persecution and be hit, then to take over as the true owner. I am the same. All of my life I have taken the persecution of Satan's world, but God's universal power has protected me and prosperity has followed. This has been a secret until now, but now you know. You, who have been trained by me, are so precious to this country. As long as you are here, this nation will not crumble or be destroyed.

Since God began the policy of serving and living for others, every form of His creation must also follow that way. Therefore, every created being is seeking for its object of love that is better than himself. Every atom has the give and take of true love, where the horizontal and vertical lines are always crossing and existing in pairs. Molecules exist in plus and minus, ions and cations. When those two come together, a greater molecule comes into existence. Even God cannot force the union of plus and minus, it must occur naturally.

Part 2