True Parents

by Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Among the words popular among our members, we have a word "True Parents." It is a simple word but has astonishing content. None of the libraries in the world ever has had such content. "True Parents" is a simple word, but is a word owned only by us and is used only among us.

Please think about it. Christianity, after 2000 years of its history, still could not announce the simple fact that since our ancestors are fallen, they are false and bad parents, and that only parents who are not fallen could be good and true parents. History has waited for this moment for the declaration of this fact.

There may have been some person who thought of true parents, but there was no way to figure out what stood behind that idea. Without being equipped with the vast content of the Divine Principle, there is no way to figure out why no one could use the word "True Parents" easily. It is a magnificent fact that we brought the clear word of the Divine Principle view of history so that we know the root of the original nature in human beings.

What can we understand through knowing the meaning of the word "True Parents"? We can understand that the fall of our first ancestors occurred through an illicit love relationship, and it left us with a blood lineage not related to God and without any true parents trying to realize the ideal of creation. This means that we are of a false lineage.

Therefore, the word "True Parents" is a word to be used centering upon the idea that we are going to cleanse the history of our false blood lineage and connect to love, life and lineage centering on God and the new root of the original nature. (201-60)

1) What "True" Is

Who among this universe is the "True" person? He is the Absolute. In the Korean language, we call this Absolute being "One and only Lord." When it is shortened, "One (hana) and only Lord" becomes "God (Hananim)." God is our one and only Lord.

Who, then, is God? God likes both good and bad persons on earth. Isn't it true that even condemned criminals cry out, "God! Please pity me. I love you, before execution? Is it true or not? (Yes it is) "God, I'm gonna die! You made me like this!" (Laugh) Are you going to say this? (No!)

Then why when he is about to die, does a person who has done bad things, pledge with a good and sacrificial heart, and hope for his restart? He hopes to comprehend God fully, trust Him, try to be with Him, share with Him his heart and difficulty more than with his parents or with his brothers or sisters. Is this because God is true or because God is false? (Because He is true!) Because He is true, we behave this way.

A true person should love not only one whom he likes, but even an enemy who tries to kill him. He should be the person whom we can trust fully, with whom we want to share our problems, and with whom we can wish everything. You now understand what a true person is, right? (Yes!)

Then, is a person who hates someone a true person or a false person? (False person) All men here: is a person who hates someone a true person or a false person? (False person) Definitely a false person. Then, do we have many true people in this world or many false people? (Many false people) Many false people right? (Yes) You must clearly realize this fact.

To be a true person, you must be true in all dimensions. If you members love a person who loves Father and hate a person who hates Father, are you good members or bad members? (Bad members).

Therefore, I love even a person who hates me. If I love a person who hates me, do you think he will feel bad? (Feet good) He feels good. If I love him three times more than he hates me, he automatically will bow his head. If I do good to him three times, he will bow his head. Try and see if it is true or not. Man has a conscience, so that he knows whether he has done right or wrong. (39-302)

Don't you think we have many good men in our country? There are many great people in the world. Who then is the great man of Korea? Whom do you recall as a great person of Korea? (General Sun Shin Lee) That is so. General Sun Shin Lee! He is a great person. Do you like general Sun Shin Lee or do you hate? (We like him) All of him? (Yes)

Then, is General Sun Shin Lee a true person or not? (I don't know) You don't know. You don't know why, but you like him. However, Father doesn't like him in this way. Because I speak this way, people think "It's strange. Why does he say that? He hates our loyal general. He may be a Communist, or is he a national traitor." Yet I hate General Sun Shin Lee. You may want to know why. Let me answer.

All Korean people recognize him as loyal to his King. But how do Japanese recognize him? Isn't he an enemy? Japanese think of him as an enemy. It is clearly written on Japanese history books. General Sun Shin Lee is an enemy to the Japanese, but at the same time a loyal general for Koreans. Therefore, Father doesn't like him.

To be true means to be true in England, to be true in Germany, to be true in USA, to be true in Korea. What about in Africa? (True!) In Japan? (True) It should be like that. Therefore, there is no enemy for a true being. There is no one who hates something "true." Someone loved by one and hated by another cannot be a perfect "true" being. Don't you think so?

If General Sun Shin Lee was a perfect "true person," Japanese should admire him as great person, along with Koreans. But from the standard of "True," General Sun Shin Lee is not a perfect "true" person. He is "true" in Korea but not in Japan. Any objection? (No) I seek for a "true" person; therefore, I don't like a person who is partially true, such as General Sun Shin Lee.

What kind of person is a true person? As I said before, he is someone loved by bad people as well as good people: should a bad person hate someone a good person loves? He should be someone loved by bad people, too. There are good people and bad people, but there is something that everyone wants the most. There is something everyone loves most. It means that it is loved by good people as well as by bad people. Isn't it true? (Yes)

Therefore, you are not "true" if you hate a person because he is bad. You should love a bad person the most as well a good person. This is the definition of a true person. He loves a bad person the most and loves a good person the most. If there is someone like that, it is he who should be the "true" one. Any objection? (No objection) (39-301)

"Trueness" is not a term limited to individuals. It transcends everything as a relation of value. "Trueness" must be everywhere because it is something which everyone loves and seeks. (63-89)

We came together not for our private purposes, but for the sake of the whole. We should exist not for ourselves, but for family, for tribe, for nation and for the world. Before trying to make yourself "true," you should first make your family "true," and the nation and the world should also become "true." We human beings are in a course of restoration in which the desire for fortune should not be the motive for anything. What then should be the motive? The "True." For man to realize his true nature, he must have a relationship with God, the origin of everything. Without having this relationship, a true structure cannot be formed within an individual self.

Trueness must be centering upon God. Man can realize trueness only when he establishes a foundation for feeling loving dominion toward everything. You must realize that unless one establishes this foundation, you cannot be a person of trueness.

The origin of trueness is God. With the existence of God, trueness can be realized. When God departs, trueness also departs. There comes into existence something not true-the origin of evil.

A true result can be realized only when there is truth. In other words, God's ideal can be realized only with the existence of God. Therefore, words such as "true" or "good" were made not centering upon man, but upon God.

From this kind of perspective, too, we can tell that trueness is not something man can think of based on himself. Trueness cannot be controlled by fallen humanity; rather, trueness should control us. Therefore we should always be obedient to the truth. We should prize it and follow it. Observing your physical life and your conscious life, you cannot deny the fact that truth does belong to heaven.

When we prayed, we very often prayed habitually, "Precious heavenly Father, our true God." But there was no real trueness before today.

Therefore, the origin, to which trueness is to be related, was not within the history of humankind but located beyond the history. Everything starts from there. The origin should be sought beyond circumstances; religions should not form beliefs through centering upon a human being.

Of course, there are people erecting a standard of faith centering on a founder, but many seek for trueness from beyond the human-religions looking to God. When we consider this fact we can say that we cannot find the origin of trueness in our substantial life and in the history of our human life.

The origin of trueness cannot be grasped in relationship to man only. Trueness must be an absolute standard. Questions of God or the Absolute must therefore come into the discussion. Why is it so? It is because there was no "True" love on this earth. Man himself seeking for the truth cannot be the motive. At each crucial turning point of the history of human beings, God intervenes. Absolute being is needed in such a situation.

The term "God," "Transcendent being," or "Absolute being" is needed when one considers philosophical questions, such as the ultimate aim of truth or the foundation of existence. Why is this? It is because one cannot solve these scholarly questions or those of the origin or value of existence without their being related to Absolute being. People have therefore been trying to find their way out of their serious difficulties through the truth.

We cannot deny these facts. Therefore, the origin of trueness is not in the hands of man but should be handled by an Absolute being, God. Religions correctly claiming to be "true" cannot exist without God. Ethics correctly identifying "trueness" cannot deny God.

Confucius therefore said, "One obedient to Heaven will prosper, but its betrayer will perish." This word was centering on Heaven. Man has always to relate himself to Heaven. The origin of rising and falling is not in a human being himself, but in Heaven. Accordingly, one cannot establish trueness unless it originates from motivation centered on God. The question then arises whether or not there is any "True" person on this earth.

Where then is trueness established? Of course, Heaven, the origin of trueness, will try to establish it on earth. This is God's Will. The next question, then, is, "Where among humankind will it be established?" It will be established within our ordinary life. Jesus therefore said, "The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand." The Kingdom of Heaven, the "true" country is within our hearts. It is in a deep valley where there are no evil motives.

When we analyze the core of our being, heart, we will find it manifesting as intellect, emotion and will. Which among them is fundamental? Fundamental among them is emotion: not intellect, not will.

Everyone, if you have something you hold most precious, where do you want to put it? You may want to put it in a place no one else knows, where no one else can touch it, and where you yourself can absolutely control it. Where is that place? It is somewhere deep within your heart -- bury it in the deepest place in your heart. Place it where you feel it's very safe, as in a drawer for valuables. Seen from this perspective, the place where trueness should settle is the deepest place in your heart. (24-317)

It is the "true" heart that does not change. This is why without it you can not make a true standard, you cannot make true judgment, you cannot have a root of content that can be certified by an absolute standard or by the core of the cosmos. If you do not have a true standard, everything valued according to that standard will be floated away.

A measurement, such as the meter, has its primary standard. We can calculate any deviation from that standard. We refer to that original standard whenever we need to settle some relevant argument. (186-66)

There is neither revolution nor change in love. Nothing that changes physically can be the most precious. Diamonds are treasured for their unchanging hardness. Gold is precious for its unchanging golden color. A pearl is precious for its unchanging harmonious elegant coloring. Why have we based the standard for the preciousness of treasures upon the unchangingness of an object? It is because that is the standard for evaluating everything.

What, then, in the cosmos is the fundamental standard for measuring the value of everything? This must be the question. Is it gold or diamonds? It is unchanging and unbreakable love. Love seems fragile, yet does not break. You may think you can handle it, yet you cannot. You belong to it. You will be evaluated by it; not the other way around.

When I asked what could be the ultimate primary standard of this cosmos, I found it was not some standard of measurement or some unchanging substance.

Man cannot change that standard. Even God cannot change it. What is the standard for absolute evaluation which transcends time, space, heaven and hell-which is eternally unchanging and has the greatest value of anything internal or external?

On earth there are zero standards for latitude and longitude. Zero longitude is located at the astronomical observatory in Greenwich, England. It is unchanging. Shouldn't there be a central standard at the point where longitude and latitude meet at 90 degrees? If not, the world of order will not be realized.

What is the standard that every measurable eternal and unchanging thing wants to have as its standard, which even God can follow and which everything must obey? Is it money? Gold? Or a diamond? God can create all of those.

We can say that love, too, is created by God; however, He cannot possess love. Love must be owned by two persons. Even God cannot realize love alone. Accordingly, the fundamental standard for evaluating everything in the universe and in the eternal world is indeed love. Love is not affected by any seasonal changes. (137-235)

Each one of you knows that there are standards for measuring distance. If the standard measurement is 1 centimeter, that is the absolute model. Everyone can agree if their measurements are based on the standard . You may claim to be the best person, but if you do not fit the original form, you do not pass.

One centimeter is 10 millimeters. Therefore, 1 millimeter is also an absolute. If you have 10 millimeters it will be a centimeter. 100 of them make 10 centimeters, and so on. Thus, they all have a common and unified element.

What, then, is such a standard for human beings? To unite the world of human beings, there should be a form, a standard not containing any struggle between mind and body, to show how man should be. (128-78)

Everyone, if we have a standard meter, it is no problem at all to have another meter or 100 meters or more. What then is the standard measurement of meters? It is 1 millimeter. It is because 1 millimeter is so small, that we usually use 1 centimeter.

Even astronomical units must be calculated based on 1 millimeter.

We will be able to use it as a standard throughout the world only when all the millions of numeric measurements are calculated from 1 millimeter. 1 millimeter in America, 1 millimeter in Korea, and 1 millimeter in England, all must be same. There must be no differences. That's the truth.

Everyone, what is the truth? "It is true." What is "true?" Certainly something is true when there is no way to evaluate things without it. There must be a Doctor of Physics among you. To study physics you must know all motions of the natural world. Things do not move aimlessly.

Think about it. How big is this earth? There is not even a minute deviation in the time this huge earth takes to revolve around the sun every year. Not even a second of deviation. If there were a deviation, there would be a big problem. If there were, the question would be whether the deviation would become larger or smaller. If that happened, the oceans and the earth would split into pieces.

We evaluate the age of the earth to be 4.6 billion years. The earth's perfect performance of motions and operations throughout this 4.6 billion years must be connected to a standard centering on some unit. For our evaluation, there had to be some unit of measurement centering on some principle, formula or axiom. The same holds for determining "trueness." Trueness must be applicable to one thing and be equally applicable to a combination of millions of things.

We call pure gold 24 carat gold. 24 carat gold is "true" gold, isn't it? Is there 25 carat gold? Is there 26 carat gold? If so, there is a problem. From this perspective, the smallest unit stands in the center and establishes balance. When we look at the smallest unit, the vertical parallel line must correspond. . . Otherwise, this is not "true."

The degrees of impurities of gold form a straight line until they reach 24 carats. Because all impure gold is in the realm of change, we can say that 24 carat gold is the "true" one. This holds whether you apply it perpendicularly or to a vertical standard. It will be parallel to both something universally vertical and something universally horizontal.

Neither movement nor fortune occurs randomly. That which causes the circular motion in a subject-object relationship centering on law is always vertical. If the vertical were to change anytime, things would fly away. They would be floated away. They would break. To have a foundation of existence by locating yourself within space, the vertical must have a firm position. This kind of words may be a little difficult for you.

What then is the standard for the measurement of us human beings? Human beings also should have some measurement, isn't it so? When you solve a mathematical problem based on a universally accepted mathematical standard, if you answer "One" the world will reply to you "One, you are right." Or, if you answer "Two" or "Three," the world will say, "You are right," repeating your numbers. When a resolution is founded on a global standard, we call it true.

What is inside the truth? There are always four directions inside the truth. Whenever there is a truth, there always is an environment. Then which is more original, the environment or the truth? This will be the question. The environment is more original.

What about in the case of man? It is a problem to find what a true man is when we observe existing human beings. He should be the standard of both vertical and horizontal, someone of whom one can say, "He looks OK vertically and looks OK horizontally too."

Only when vertical and horizontal coincide will there be no deviation whether in front or back, right or left, or up or down. They will correspond perfectly. You will say, "It is true!" when there is correspondence in the East, in the West, in the North, in the South, on earth and in the spiritual world.

On the other hand, when you measure something big in millimeters and discover a deviation of even half a millimeter from your desired measurement, it is not perfect. It must be thrown away. Don't we need such a standard? We need a standard for measuring. (180-14)

What is this word "true?" Is it round or angular? Or is it something flat? What is its definition? And centering on what can "true" be defined? That is the issue. When you say "true person," what kind of person is he? A true person would have two eyes and a nose. It's simple: it is a person who has eyes, nose, mouth, and every part of the body.

Then does "true" indicate being limited to a certain place or transcending a certain place? (Transcending.) Then how? With what? Why must it transcend that line of limitation? What does this tell us? We know that it must have a content that can represent everything.

In arithmetic, there are formulas, and in physics there are axioms. How can "formula" be defined? Is formula something small? The unit of a formula is simple, however, and should have subjectivity in comparing everything. Unless that is so, the formula and its standard of units cannot be established. If the formula and its units are wrong, calculation from the small unit will not exactly fit the enormous universe.

When we look at forms of measurement, we find systems such as decimal systems and duodecimal systems. These are small, but parts based on them all fit perfectly. If they didn't, they wouldn't revolve properly. Even if a part is correctly formed, it does not come into existence unless it coincides with the whole. If not, the whole would be lost.

This holds also in the world of humanity. What is a true person? In the life of a person, there are things such as scales and measures, which connect forces and expand them to the world. I am saying that all of them expand with balance.

It becomes evident that a human being needs such a formula for the path of his life. (133-9)

Five billion people live in this world today. But how many people have lived and died on this earth, eventually becoming the ancestors of the people living in this global village today? Have you ever thought about it? At least hundreds and thousands of times the number of people living today must have lived and died. Then, how many of them were true persons that humanity would cherish? For something to be true means that it is always true, whether a thousand years ago or today.

When we say pure gold, we are talking about 24 carat gold, right? That does not change according to geographic distance or area or time. No matter what, it is unchangeable. This gold looks the same in the hands of a king as in the hands of some crook. There is no way that it can be changed even in environments of enormous changes. Then, we say the color of gold is a true color. Do you understand? (Yes.)

You must like the color gold. To what are other colors all compared? They are compared to the color gold, isn't it so? Light colors are close to the color gold. Is the sunlight white light or does it have more color of gold in it. (Color of gold.) The sunset has even more.

Therefore, is there or was there any true man within humanity who had unchanging color that lasted for thousands, ten thousands and a hundred million years -- that is the question. Any true woman? What do you think?

Religions understand that humanity had fallen. There are religions with different backgrounds, of course, but all of them are seeking a valuable new person for the sake of salvation. They have always pursued it, for they couldn't reach the image of True Original Person, the True Original person. This was the same thousands and hundreds of millions of years ago. It is the same now, and will be in any environment. No matter the times, religions are to pursue it. You should know that.

Every one of you is also searching for that true person, for the true man and true woman. All the men and women who came into life throughout the ages of history were destined to think about it even at the risk of their lives. This way, if someone lives in a village, he will try to become the most advanced true person in that village. (177-100)

When God led the people of Israel in the wilderness, weren't there a pillar of fire and pillar of clouds? The pillar of clouds guided during the day and the pillar of fire guided during the night. What did they mean? They symbolically showed us the coming of parents in the Last Days to be attended by chosen people. People who do not follow the guidance of these pillars will all perish.

God called Moses to Mt. Sinai to give two stone tablets after his forty-day fasting because He worried that the people of Israel might all die losing their direction in the wilderness and wandering for forty years. You should know that these two stone tablets were symbolizing Adam and Eve, the True Parents. That is why they were put in the ark of the covenant. (134-174).

What is our desire? It is that we become the beloved sons and daughters in the place where God, the vertical parent, and Adam and Eve, the horizontal parents become one and rejoice. However, it is our deepest sorrow that we couldn't do so. Isn't that right? Everyone has the fervent desire to receive such a love for once. All the religions seek this.

Have there been any parents who could love within the unity with the vertical God on the horizontal plane? No, there haven't. Because of the fall, all became false parents. Since all became false parents, such loving parents never existed. True Parents need to appear. True Parents must appear in history.

Who is the being denoted by this noun "True Parent?" Who is to carry out such a historical mission? This is the being called the Savior, the being called the Messiah. When we say "save," what is to be saved? He is not coming to save the body, but rather to fulfill our desire for ideal love. To do that, what has to be done? For salvation to be accomplished, as what kind of being must the Messiah come? It is without question that they need to come as True Parents. The Messiah needs to come as True Parents. Christianity believes in Jesus as the Messiah. It believes in him as the Savior.

In order to come as True Parents, how must the Messiah come? It can't be alone. He must appear as a man who can represent "True Father." Until now, numerous religions have been searching for one man. It can be said that Confucius' teachings include searching for a man who will improve the standard of daily life, and that Buddhism includes looking for a man to make the spiritual world subject.

Then what was Christianity? Christians sought to become the children of God and establish a beloved family. Christianity brought more concrete content. Thus Jesus said, "I am the only begotten son" of God.

It would be a serious matter for the only begotten son to live alone. There must be an only begotten woman. Therefore, he must search for the only begotten woman, and they must get married in a place they mutually prefer centering on God. They must get married, becoming the bridegroom and the bride who can rejoice as horizontal parents with God rejoicing as the vertical parent, and multiply children on earth. Then their tribe starts to expand. Isn't that how it is?

Therefore, there was something Jesus most had to get, even at the risk of disobeying the nation of Israel and Judaism. What was it? And what was the subjective motivation that enabled him to seek again? It was certainly a woman. There must be a woman in front of a man.

Jesus said "I am the bridegroom, and you are the bride," as he was dying after being unable to accomplish the Will of God. This is why Christianity has been waiting for Jesus the bridegroom for two thousands of years, struggling to become the bride.

What is its standard? It is the Messiah, with the position of True Parents. That is the marriage of the lamb. (58-218)

What is "True Parents" that the Unification Church talks about? This is the question. What would have happened if the first human beings had not fallen? If there had been no fall, God would have become vertical love and Adam and Eve would have become the full incarnation of God. This would be as if they were the flesh of God; God as the bones, and Adam and Eve as the flesh. God also has mind and body. Do you understand? (Yes.)

Yes. Whom do you resemble? (We resemble God.) God and? (True Parents) True Man. You resemble God and True Man. But you know I am not talking about the president of the United States. (Laughter)

God would have become the internal parent in the internal place, and Adam and Eve the external parent in the external place. Internal and external parents become one through love. We came to attend the internal parents and have external parents. With the cooperation of love between God and humans, the True Parents, the perfected humans, were to be consummated. Without this cooperation of love, there could be no perfected person.

These were to be our original ancestors, the original persons whom God had created. We should be born from such persons. We should be born from persons with the divine nature. Then we would have God's divine nature and our parents' human nature.

The perfection of Adam and Eve turns outward only when connected to the love of God. Without the connection, it is no good. The point where God's vertical love and horizontal physical love would be connected was to be the very root of the lineage of our ancestors. Do you understand? (Yes.) That place would begin the lineage of our ancestors. All of humanity would arise from there.

The fall separated the loves of man, woman and God. Because of the fall, the love of man, the love of woman and the love of God were not connected. If there had been no fall, they would have been connected automatically. Man and woman would become tied together by love automatically. Why would man and woman try to become one? They would do it for love. What would they say they would do after uniting with love? They would say that they would receive God's blessing. That is the purpose. (184-71)

When you review the Ages in the providence, you find that the providence for restoration is completed through the Last Days. The closer to the end it comes, the nearer the time when the purpose of religion will be accomplished. The final moment, in which the purpose of religion will be accomplished, is the time when the True Parents appear.

What kind of persons are those True Parents? This is the issue. The True Parents, as our Principle teaches us, are the parents who, in the position of having completed the human portion of responsibility and having passed through the entire realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle (i.e., the realm of indirect dominion) into the realm of direct dominion, have realized the ideal union centering on the love of God. For the first time in history, God and human beings have realized the ideal union centering on love, and God's ideal of love has started landing on earth for the first time, centering on the family of True Parents.

The fall blocked the realization of this ideal of True Parents. Faced with their mission -- their portion of responsibility, Adam and Eve were to lay a bridge from the realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle (i.e., the realm of indirect dominion) into the realm of direct dominion, perfecting these; however they didn't do it. Instead, Satan started to invade the realm of indirect dominion. You must know this. If you do not, you cannot register when you go to the other world. (143-76)

So, what in the world are true parents? (The center of love.) What are they? They are the point of origination where true love, the ideal love, can spark for the first time since the emergence of this universe. That's why we call them true parents. Then, what kind of children must there be in front of the true parents? (True children.) Then, what are true children for? These children hold enough internal and external beauty to receive the first love of those true parents. (125-166)

What are true parents -- true man, and true woman? What are true children? They all must come with the word "true." Their root must be connected to and centering on God. When God above descends with love, there is only one way for Him to move since love travels in the shortest course. The conclusion is that there is only one vertical line. (189-198)

What is that word "True Parents" that the Unification Church uses? What are True Parents? (God has appointed True Parents.) What does it mean that God has appointed True Parents? It means that the love of God landed on humanity for the first time. It means that True Parents are the starting point. You should know that.

Then, if Rev. Moon is the True Father come down, did he become the True Father after coming to America? Where did he become the True Father? Where? Where? (In Korea.) What? (Korea!) Who had known Korea? However, known or unknown, desert, branch, or lump of stone, the place where God's first love landed becomes the precious place. (130-111)

What are True Parents? They are our first human ancestors who can start with the complete and absolute unity of Adam and Eve centering on the love that sets God's love as its core. You should know that clearly. Without knowing the true parents, true children cannot be understood. (135-161)

Who becomes the core of history, of generations, and of the future? In other words, what is the center of the cosmopolitan thought which, seen within the context of history, can become the historical fruit, within the context of the age can become the generational center, within the context of the future can become the origin of future. That is true man and true woman.

Then, what is the view of life held by the true man and true woman? It is to lead a life living for the sake of the world. The two love each other for the sake of the world; they bear children developing the motivation to love the world even more.

Such a thought is the one we are suggesting right now. I do not know if you all know such a content, but as I look with this knowledge, history must be clarified at that standard, whether it is viewed centering on the horizontal realm of space, or on the vertical realm of time. This conclusion is automatic. (25-147)

Where was the origin of the fall? It began from one pair, Adam and Eve. All the problems came to occur because Adam and Eve fell and became false parents. Because of this, the problems of heart, lineage, personality, language, daily life, nation and world occurred.

Then, from where can a true standard, that can simultaneously accumulate and integrate all these start? It cannot be established in some realm of religion; neither can it be at the level of society or nation. It is absolutely impossible even at the level of the world. Since all problems originated from false parents, restoration can occur only centering on the connection with true parents.

Only by centering on the noun, "True Parents," can we become one with the heart of God. The original lineage begins centering on True Parents. Original personality begins centering on True Parents. Language returns to its original position centering on True Parents. Life can be returned to its original form centering on True Parents. The formation of a nation and world according to the Ideal must be established centering on True Parents.

Then, what is the core matrix that totally epitomizes all this? It is the True Parents. By the one True Parents, everything is determined. Therefore, "I" must inherit all of their thought system. Without inheriting all their heart, personality, view of life, and view of the world, one cannot stand in a central position. (28-248)

There should be neither any education without the True Parents, nor foundation of living. Do you understand? You must completely unite with the True Parents. Uniting means to think and feel that "the True Parents' life is my life, the True Parents' idea is my idea, the True Parents' work is my work, and the True Parents' realm of love is my realm of love." (44-145)

Among saints and sages in our history, was there anyone who could say, "throughout human history, only I, as a representative of humankind, accomplished the unity of mind and body completely, free from any struggling. Therefore, you should follow me"? Although there are many professors who have responsibilities concerning the ethical life, do they know what is important?

Is the body important or the mind? The mind is important, and the body is also important. However, much more significant is unity between our mind and body. That is more important. Those who cannot accomplish this unity will be in the wrong even if the world is fully unified.

Now, bodies are different from minds, and minds are also different from bodies. Then, when can both be united? Today, and in human history, no one can declare that he has unified the conflicting body and mind.

St. Paul lamented that he found the law of his mind and the law of sin in himself conflicting. Who would rescue this wretched man from this body of death? It could be only Jesus Christ, love of God. He really felt that. We are released from our sin through God's love within Jesus Christ.

Where does the conflict between mind and body originate? To say what kind of person God is, he is the vertical subject of love, which becomes the origin of this universe. If a heavy burden has fallen on the earth, God cannot lift it simply by thinking. Even God, to pour out his love on the horizontal plane, needs power that can pull that out.

If the electricity is strong, lightning strikes when it approaches a negative charge of electricity on the earth. Is that true? It must come down. Even though it is in the higher place, it must come down. Likewise, for the higher love to come down, the love of minus (responder) must be found on the earth first. The love of minus occurs first, then the love of plus (giver) automatically occurs. These are complements.

In this active world, action and reaction must exist. When things correspond there is interaction. On the other hand, there is reaction. Generally, people regard reaction as opposing the power of action; however, it does not. Reaction operates to protect the existence of correspondence. Only this way can we understand logically all problems of good and evil. Unless we can find the theory for protection against evil by centering on goodness, there is no way to resolve the history of conflicts between good and evil.

Where does God come through? It must be through vertical love. For vertical love to have value, a horizontal foundation must be erected. Is it the same for both men and women? Until you have discretion, you do not understand anything; however, upon growing up, women want to have the world, and men do, too. Therefore, to have that kind of world, what do we do? We should not act like this. Where should we meet? We should grow up completely and become mature; then we can meet. To do so, we have to attain the stage where we can say that the world is ours.

We say that, "we must occupy this." However, we cannot do so by our own power. We can occupy it only by love. Because there is the power of love, both men and women can have ideals of and dreams of world conquest. You want to have the whole world yourself, don't you?

If there is heaven, or if there is an invisible world, you also want to have such infinity or invisible world, don't you? Why do you want to do so? Because we have vertical desires and horizontal desires.

The horizontal desire is to have the entire earth itself, which is representative of the horizontal world. On the other hand, the vertical desire is to have this cosmos itself. Do you understand? The body has limitations. It cannot go beyond the boundary of the universe. But the vertical world can always be expanded.

From this perspective, we can realize that a father, as a representative of the body, must be the ancestor of humankind centering on true love. The father, who is a representative of the body, must be the first man of humankind! Do you understand? (Yes.)

In the Unification Church, we seek the truth that was not comprehended throughout history, and we hear and use a noun, which deals with and corresponds to it. That noun is "True Parents!" (Amen!) Therefore, the horizontal position of True Parents is the position, which we consider the original ideal of creation, the position of son and daughter of God. Adam and Eve had the position of God's son and daughter. If Adam and Eve are likened to bodies, then God, standing in the father's position, is likened to mind.

What can make God as mind and a person as body unite into one? It is not power, or knowledge, or authority. What is it? (It is love.) It is love. The individual is the model for the principle for unifying internal and external characteristics. Therefore, when we seek the origin, there must be a father who is likened to the body, and there also must be a father who is likened to the mind. Then, the internal father's position is the position of God, and the external father's position is the position of the first ancestor of humankind.

In that case, in what kind of place do the first ancestor and God become one? Where do they unite? Centering on true love, they should unite in the core of the sphere of love. Man and woman meet each other centering on the vertical point.

The Word "True Parents" is a Precious Word. You should know how important and precious is the word "True Parents." Even if you cannot have trust in your nations, presidents, teachers, parents, and brothers and sisters, you ought to believe in the True Parents. Do you understand what it means? (Yes.) We should know the fact that the concept of True Parents implies the idea of salvation, which means that hell and the evil satanic world are saved.

Think about this. Although you are standing in the position of death in Satan's world, the True Parents become the power, which can be a shield against death. On account of this, if heaven and earth can recognize it officially and history can recognize it officially, then how proud it is. The True Parents are protected by God and history! Is that true? You should know how the words "True Parents" came about.

It does not mean that Rev. Moon decided to be a true parent and then started this work. It means that this work cannot be done without true parents, therefore I am compelled to do it. Do you understand?

Even if all our ancestors revive, and praise the glory of their resurrection, the praise and glory could not rise beyond the realm of the fall. However, we should be proud of the word "True Parents," which we use in the Unification Church. For this word is more valuable than any praise of glory which, no matter how miserable you are, you praise with your ancestors as the victor of liberation of a nation. We should also know that, by meeting the True Parents, the way is opened to the place where we can meet God, and that the position where you meet the Unification Church connects to the way where we can find in the near future the kingdom of God and the fatherland, for which the True Parents are longing.

Until now, humankind has had different native lands and different cultural backgrounds. Moreover, people say, "Here is our fatherland, even though its boundaries have changed, and our ancestors lived here, we are living here now, and our descendants will live here in the future." However, it is certain that all this is in the realm of the fall.

You must break through this realm of the fall and must seek the kingdom of love where we can proudly give praise with our ancestors and claim the victory in front of our descendants and where we can praise the glory of the victory. In this kingdom of love, you can have parents of love. Furthermore, if there is God as the center of the fatherland, you can say, "Here is the place to serve to God; there is no more glorious place." You must know it.

Who is the Messiah? The Messiah is Adam who fully substantiated God's love; therefore, he comes having the qualification of original father. God's original love, centering on the father and the mother, is the center of this foundation, and centering on this foundation, the rights of ownership for individual, family, tribe, people and nation become the Messiah's own by centering on true love. Then, the areas of ownership of the nation, the people, the family and of the individual's possessions are to be expanded.

Therefore, if Messianic love had been established from the individual to the nation, and if this had then been propagated rippling to Rome and the world, the idea of a Second Advent would not have been needed. From this perspective, can we say that the United States belongs to the realm of God's love? (No.) Think about it. Is there any country, which does? (No, there isn't.) No, there isn't. Can we say that a large number of Christian churches have the right of ownership coinciding with the principle of God's love? (No.) Absolutely not. The Kingdom of Heaven is not on the earth.

Based on this point, you must know, among all words in history, how great and superb the words "True Love" and "True Parents" are. These words are the only basis for breaking through the realm of the fall and the satanic world. Therefore, you should be grateful for the word "True Parents." You should also know that, apart from understanding the meaning of it, even if you hear this word hundreds and millions of times and then appreciate it, it is not enough.

What you should know is that we lost our original fatherland because of the fall. We also lost our original country and world. Furthermore, we lost even God and his love. The one starting point from which we can search for these enormous things that we lost is this amazing noun, "True Parents."

From God's view, what is the goal of the providence, for which God has had longing throughout the history? It is the standard of true parents. For what has He been bearing the history of indemnity from the human fall even until now? It is to seek true parents. Many Christians are waiting for the day of the coming of the Lord at the Second Advent, because of this goal. Many religions are longing for this day because of this goal. From this fact, you must know that the birth of true parents is a formidable and amazing event.

You want to go back to your homeland because your parents, brother and sisters are there. Your home is the place where relatives are centering on your parents. That is why you think of your home. People call the country where their hearts and relatives live their fatherlands. Generally speaking, the fatherland is that kind of place.

From this perspective of the fatherland centering on original man, there is no home and fatherland. We could not have such homes in the past and we also cannot have them now. There are fatherlands; however, they are evil lands and these have no connection with us. They are not related to the True Parents.

The word "True Parents" which is used in the Unification Church is an amazing word. False parents had false love centering on Satan's love. On the other hand, the True Parents rise up centering on God's love; therefore, they march forward to the world of love. Do you understand, or not? (Understand!)

Then, why do we try to find this love? Love is a great thing. Love is equal eternally. We just hear the name of love and we can be qualified to immediately reach any kind of higher position. A woman who does not know a letter and a man who is a great world scholar equally can do it.

In the Unification Church, we use the word "True Parents." Who are true parents? Since false parents were born, true parents have to arise. What should true parents do? They should correct the false lineage which became the root of Satan's world, restore false life, and sever the way of false love. It is said in the Bible, "Whoever seeks his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." We have to consider why this paradoxical theory had to be brought out. You should die in Satan's world.

I am not a handsome man. However, if I can say that I have an unchanging hope, it is to pursue God's Will. True Parents are the standard for and the fixing point of this ideal purpose. That is True Parents, True Parents. Do you understand? That is True Parents. Then, what is the completion of God's Will? What is the accomplishment of the ideal of creation? The ideal criterion is for Adam and Eve to complete the ideal of love and stand as parents in the realm of direct dominion. That is the completion of the Will.

You should know how amazing it is that I came to this earth with the word "True Parents." Do you follow me? The word "True Parents." That word is the most blessed word in this world, and for fallen mankind, seeking the word "True Parents" is more important than looking for a nation or world that they lost. It is more precious than any other thing in heaven and earth.

What is the one frightening teaching in the Unification Church? It is the word "True Parents." God is afraid of this word, and Satan is also afraid of it. We are human who are in the realm of Satan. Therefore, centering on the True Parents, those who follow them are judged by their words.

God may feel that he wishes I had not come to the earth. However, because I came as a person who has to judge people, God listens to my words. Why is Satan afraid of the word "True Parents"? If people believe in this word and follow it, then they destroy everything that belongs to Satan and defeat him. That is why this word is a very frightening word for Satan.

Satan always hinders True Parents' advance, and he hopes that I fall down and become evil. Therefore, it is a problem to follow this way, however much you believe in the True Parents and follow them. Once you stand at the front of this way, you should do your best for God's Will, and should go this way joyfully. You should know that this is the way that you must go.

(From Father's prayer) "I know very welt how frightening a word the name 'True Parents' is. Until today, I have fought, not seeking to live in a peaceful place, but to accomplish this mission of the Will. Looking back on the past, there were many circumstances and regrets; however, I realized that my situation could not be compared with yours.

Therefore, I know that I am the miserable one who cannot show tears on my knees. Please accept my heart which feels such things, and from this day, please open the door of heaven and earth."

What is the question? It is truth, that is, true parents. What are true parents? It is not easy to understand the meaning of the word "True Parents." This is the most terrifying word. You cannot imagine how frightening it is. Only one word, that is, "True Parents," controls history. To find this word, many of our forbears went the way of sacrifice. The name was found by hoping with writhing and shouting throughout a continuous strife of blood. This holy name is "True Parents."

There must be true children in front of true parents. Then, did you become true children? Think about it. Are you true children? The truth does not change in the past, present, or the future.