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1God, the Creator of all things in the universe, is the True Parent of all humanity. He is not a parent in the parochial sense, existing only for a certain religion or race, or the population of a certain region. You may call Him by any name, be it Jehovah, Allah or any other. What is important is that He certainly exists, lives as the True Parent of all people, and sustains the great work of creation. In accordance with the heavenly Principle that He set up at the beginning of time, He governs everything in the universe and has carried out His providence throughout history.
2Each person has a mind and body, and a spirit self that is more elevated than the mind. God resides in the world in which we live with our physical body and also in the spirit world, where our spirits are destined to go. We go there as a complete person if we are one with God in true love. Such a perfected person might be a small individual, but he or she would represent all of history and all potential future relationships. So this person can be said to possess infinite value.
3Once you are aware that you have such universal value, you realize that your original mind should guide your life. This is because your conscience knows and perceives not only every action you have performed but also every thought you have entertained. Before your own teachers, parents or even God are aware of these things, your conscience knows. Hence, if you were to live in absolute obedience to the commands of your conscience, which is your eternal teacher, you would be absolutely guaranteed to have eternal life. Such is the way of God's creation.
4Looking at the structure of a human being, we can see that God created us with dual characteristics. He created our physical body as a microcosm of the corporeal, tangible world and our spirit body as a microcosm of the incorporeal world. Accordingly, a human being is intended to live for one hundred years or so in the physical world and, once the physical body ceases functioning, to pass on naturally and automatically into the incorporeal spirit world. In this way, though the eyes in our physical body cannot perceive the spirit world, life there is the automatic and inevitable extension of life on earth. God created the spirit world as humanity's original, eternal homeland.
5The spirit world exists in actuality. It is not a world that has been fantasized or imagined into existence. We do not have the right of choice concerning its existence. It is not a world we can go to if we please or refuse to go to if we would rather not. Just as God is eternal and unchanging, the spirit world He created is also eternal and unchanging. We live in the physical world in our physical body and form all sorts of relationships within this world. Similarly, in the spirit world we are destined to continue living in our spirit body, forming and maintaining relationships with all phenomena of the spirit world.
6In the relationship between the spirit and the body of a human being, the spirit is the more important of the two. The physical body lasts for about one hundred years before it ceases to function, but the spirit lasts eternally, transcending time and space. Isn't even a person who does well in the physical world bound to die? Because this is so, before you pass on to the next world you should achieve harmony between your physical body and spirit body, by living your earthly life in such a way that you meet the standards of both the physical and spiritual worlds. In other words, you have been given the responsibility to perfect your spirit within your physical body on the basis of your finite life in the tangible, physical world. This does not mean that the perfection of your spirit self happens automatically. Only on the basis of complete unity between your mind and body during your earthly life, by expressing true love through action, can your spirit self fully mature.
7In order for fruit to ripen and be ready for storage in autumn, it must first pass through a growing process in the spring and summer and be provided with the nutrients supplied by nature and the tender loving care of its owner. Fruit grown in an orchard by a lazy and ignorant farmer will be afflicted with disease and unprotected from foul weather. Eventually it will fall from the tree before it is ripe, or become worm-infested. Though it is still fruit, it will be different from other fruit since it will be unfit for sale in a market.
8Fruit that has matured fully on the tree will automatically go into the owner's storehouse. Similarly, only when the spirit of a person has reached perfection during life in the physical world, which can be likened to the tree, can it automatically enter the kingdom of heaven in the incorporeal spirit world. In other words, a person will enter the kingdom of God in heaven automatically only when he or she has qualified for and enjoyed the kingdom of heaven on earth by living as a fully mature person in the physical body.
9During your life on earth, your spirit self records your every action and movement without exception, keeping the law of heaven in mind as a standard. Accordingly, you will enter the spirit world in the form of your spirit self, which has recorded your life on earth with total accuracy. Your spirit will show plainly whether you have led a wholesome life ripening in goodness or a wormy, rotten life of sinfulness. What this means is that God will not judge you; you will be your own judge. If you are aware of this astonishing rule of Heaven, will you spend your life on earth in selfishness and immorality, succumbing to the temptations of Satan in pursuit of nothing but pleasure? You will not; rather you will abstain from injuring and scarring your spirit body, even at the risk of your earthly life. Please bear this truth in mind: your thoughts, words and deeds in each moment determine whether you are bound for heaven or hell.
10The spirit does not lead a separate life or express true love through actions of its own. Your spirit self can grow, mature and be finally perfected only within your physical body, through an earthly lifetime of true love that brings your mind and body into a smooth relationship. Nonetheless, it is undeniable that your outer self and inner self are in a relationship of constant conflict and struggle. How much longer will you allow this fighting to continue? Ten years? One hundred years? In contrast to this, it is also undeniable that all other forms of existence in the universe function in a proper order. This indicates that God did not create human beings in this state of antagonistic disorder. You need to know that as a human being you have the duty and responsibility to dispel all temptations directed at your outer self -- your physical body -- and achieve victory in life by following the way of your inner self -- your conscience -- essentially to perfect your life according to the standard of absolute sex. Heavenly fortune will be with those who lead their life in such a way. They will attain the perfection of their spirit self.
11Ladies and gentlemen, what is the nature of heaven and hell? Who can enter heaven? If it really exists, where is it? Would it be outside the galaxy, on the other side of the universe? Or is it but a product of our imagination? At one time or another, everyone ponders this question.
12What do you think is the nature of heaven? Heaven is a world overflowing with God's true love, with true love as its axis. It is a world where true love is the external form as well as the internal content of the entire environment. It is a world where true love is present from the beginning to the end of our life. It is a world filled with people who were born through true love, who lived in the embrace of true love, and who, following the track of true love, finally passed on into that next world, the spirit world. Consequently, antagonism and envy are not to be found in that world, for it is a natural world where each person lives for the sake of others. It is not a world governed by money, honor or power. It is a world wherein the success of each person represents the success of the whole, the desire of each person represents the desire of the whole, and the joy of each person represents the joy of the whole.
13Heaven is a world filled with the air of true love, where all breathe true love. It is a world where life pulsates with love everywhere, all the time. It is a world where everyone is connected to the true God through blood ties. It is a place where the whole world and all people are linked together in an inseparable relationship, like the cells in your body. It is a world that is governed only by true love, the love that is God's essence. God exists for true love.
14Look at the world in which we are currently living. The people of the world are caught in the trap of extreme selfishness, clamoring for material gain. They have lost all sense of value, and the desire for self-gratification drags them into the depths of degradation. The world is filled with alcoholics. As if drug addiction and free sex were not enough, there are even those who commit incest, an act not even seen in the animal world, and still strut around with their heads held high. This world has become one wherein beasts with human faces roam freely, even after violating women -- grandmothers, mothers, wives and daughters. The swapping of spouses among couples is rampant. Such circumstances represent without a doubt the pinnacle of the destruction of morality and the last of fallen acts. This world has become hell on earth, in which we cannot even dream of the perfected world embodying the ideal that God envisioned at the creation.
15We have come to know that humanity's problems are rooted in the Fall of Adam and Eve, our ancestors. Adam and Eve, who were at the perfection stage of the growth period, had a sexual relationship before their rightful time, due to Satan's temptation. The Fall was an illicit sexual union of a man and woman. This is why, for over thousands of years, people continue to commit these indecent acts, perfidious acts that drive a sharp spike into the heart of God. They have been unable to escape from the realm of the fallen lineage.
16A man or woman alone can only be one half of the whole. That is how God created us. For that reason, He has interchanged the ownership of the reproductive organs, the love organs. The owner of the wife's reproductive organ is the husband, and the owner of the husband's is the wife. Only when each is rooted in true love for the sake of the other do they merit the position of the owner of their spouse. In other words, irrespective of who they are, human beings can only become complete individuals, rather than one half, when they have exchanged the positions of ownership through marriage.
17The human reproductive organ is sacred. It is the palace of life where the seed of life is sown, the palace of love where the flower of love blooms, and the palace of lineage where the lineage bears fruit. The reproductive organ is absolute. Through it, absolute lineage, absolute love and absolute life are brought forth, along with absolute harmony, unity, liberation and tranquility.
18Why are we trying to restore the ownership of the reproductive organ? It is in order to possess God's love. He is the subject of three great loves. As the Owner of the universe, He is the true Teacher, true Owner and true loving Parent. These form the basis for the three great subject partners principle. All these teachings and truths are realized through the life of a true, model ideal family. Then, through its expansion, the society, nation, world and even the universe are transformed into the peace kingdom of the model, ideal family.
19Because of the Fall the first Adam lost the original true lineage, and consequently failed to form the original couple and the original family. Adam, who should have become the true teacher, true parent and true king, inherited the lineage of Satan. He degraded himself to the position of a false teacher, false parent and false king.
20The purpose for Jesus' coming to earth was simply and only to reverse the effects of the Fall. If Jesus, who came as the second Adam, had not lost his life on the cross, he would have restored the original unfallen lineage of God. As the Savior of humankind, he would have made up for the failure of the first Adam, established the true family and founded the original homeland for all people on earth. This would have been the kingdom embodying the ideal of peace, the kingdom of heaven on earth. Tragically, the disciples, the religious leaders and the leaders of the nation of Israel failed to recognize the Christ. Their disbelief led Jesus to a wretched and tragic end on the cross. Has anyone really known the grieving heart of Jesus, whose passing from the earth was so untimely, and who left no descendants? Though two thousand years of Christian history have passed, has any Christian understood the reality of Jesus' sorrowful circumstances? Jesus departed this world suddenly, leaving little other than a promise to return. His physical body has long been buried and turned to dust, but the Will that God worked to fulfill through him continues. It is finally in the process of completion at this time, at the conclusion of history, through the True Parents, who have received the seal of Heaven and appeared on earth.
21The sinful era of restoration through indemnity, the Era before the Coming of Heaven, has passed. The era of heavenly law is upon us, the Era after the Coming of Heaven. You are now living in an era of grace in which -- after receiving the marriage Blessing from True Parents, completing the conversion of lineage, and leading a life that is vertically aligned with Heaven, such that no shadow is cast -- you can enter the kingdom of heaven automatically. That is to say, if you establish a true family on earth and lead a heavenly life, your life will be connected to the kingdom of God in heaven when you die, and you will enjoy eternal life. Therefore, within the framework of the family, you should serve God as your Father, revering Him in the highest position. Every one of you should become God's child, perfecting the parent-child relationship and sharing your life with Him, connected by blood. In short, you should form a partnership of true love with God and live together with Him.
22Who would be the greatest grandfather of the universe? The first human ancestors, Adam and Eve, called God "Father." Should their children call Him Grandfather? No, they too should call Him Father. Why is this so? From the viewpoint of God, the vertical center, all object partners of love are equal. His object partners, who are produced through the horizontal expansion and multiplication of His love, assume equal value regardless of who they are, transcending time and space. Simply put, in perfected love, everyone's value is equal.
23The kingdom of heaven has to be achieved on earth first. What this means is that the kingdom of heaven in the corporeal world comes before its establishment in the incorporeal world. Therefore, heaven is not a world found in outer space on the other side of the galaxy, nor is it the product of imagination existing only in the human brain. It refers to a substantial kingdom, heaven on earth, which can be created only when you lead a life of true love. When you leave the physical world on that foundation, you automatically enter the kingdom of heaven in the spirit world. This means that only when you have led a heavenly life on earth can you lead such a life in heaven.
24Only the fruit that has ripened fully on the tree is classified as produce of the best quality. You should not be like a worm-infested fruit on a tree, and therefore bound for hell. You should not forget for a moment that, through your life on earth, you yourself determine whether you go to heaven or to hell.
1If there were a dream common to all people regardless of gender, age, time or place, what would it be? Through all ages, human beings have yearned and waited for the realization of an ideal of world peace. However, we have never achieved the everlasting peace that brings joy to Heaven. This fact remains as our historical sorrow and anguish. What went wrong? What brought about humanity's descent into ignorance of the ideal that God had for His creation? You can try for ten thousand years, but you will never reach perfection if you remain in ignorance.
2How did human beings, created as the children of the omnipotent and omnipresent God, descend into such a state of ignorance? The first ancestors, Adam and Eve, followed the false parent, Satan, along the path of the Fall. Indeed, this was the first tragedy and the most mortifying and lamentable shame of human history. God cannot forsake humankind. Within His grand ideal of creation, we were created to be His children, His absolute counterparts in true love. Thus He has endured the long years of history with a heart full of bitter pain, grief and anguish. God is the eternal True Parent of humanity, who has had to persevere through virtual imprisonment, in the shadows of history. No one has known this reality.
3God's creation is indeed profound. Everything He prepared was to create an environment for the perfection and happiness of human beings, whom He created as His children and partners in love. Consider a flower; it is one of the masterpieces of God's creation. Hidden within a flower -- even a nameless wildflower blooming in a field -- we can easily discover the Creator's Will and purpose. To see a flower alive and growing to perfection is truly to witness a miracle.
4Flowers display beautiful colors and the harmony of yin and yang. Even human beings, the lords of creation, cannot fully replicate their beauty. Flowers continuously give off fragrances and display dazzling colors that captivate the bees and butterflies. Flowers can absorb the powerful, brilliant rays of the sun that people cannot bear to gaze upon. They diffuse this light into natural rays of harmony and peace and utilize it to create and preserve life. Flowers also do not neglect their duty to provide nectar to the bees and butterflies that busily fly to and fro and help them reproduce.
5The miracle of God's creation is infinite, transcending and defying any human description. Even a picture drawn by the greatest artist in the world cannot compare to a cluster of living wildflowers. Even in making a single insignificant flower, God created it to harmonize with and contribute to the prosperity of the whole of creation. Given that this is so, how great is the stature of human beings, whom God created as His children, His eternal partners of love and His heirs?
6Each and every one of the millions of different kinds of flowers in full bloom stands in dignity as an individual embodiment of truth, according to the Principle of Creation. Each brings harmony to Mother Nature and abides by the laws of interdependence and mutual prosperity. Likewise, each and every human being has Heavens blessing and grace to seek harmony, peace, freedom and happiness, and to pursue eternal life. Heaven has bestowed on each person a unique life and characteristics. That is to say, every human being is born with rights and privileges as an individual embodiment of truth. Every person, regardless of age, sex, rank or status, has the right and privilege to follow a destined course of life that is uniquely his or her own and that reflects his or her individual nature.
7Ladies and gentlemen, can you find anyone who resembles you one hundred percent? Think about it. Is there anyone else with the same individual qualities as you? Would the lives of identical twins be the same, though they were born on the same day, even if they died at the same time? No person can take another's individuality. One man being the world's most handsome man does not at all diminish the unique embodiment of truth within the world's least handsome man. As the king of wisdom, God continually creates eternal, individual embodiments of truth through the process of origin-division-union action, in accordance with the Principle of Creation.
8In this we discover the standard of absolute value that makes a human being human. As with the interdependent and harmonious relationship between flowers and butterflies, people are created to live for one another and share true love. This means that we establish our standard of absolute value only within a life of true love, through which the relationship between subject and object partners blossoms in harmony.
9Flowers and butterflies relate to each other as subject and object partners. They depend on one another and prosper through their give-and-receive action. In the same way, the Principle of Creation defines and predicts the course of relationships between humanity and nature, between people, and between God and people. Mother Nature is the combined body of all the individual embodiments of truth in creation, harmoniously bound together. Mother Nature stands as an absolute object partner to us, her subject partners. Her ordained role is to enable us to realize our absolute value.
10People establish families of three generations and live within that basic framework. That is where they learn and familiarize themselves with the vertical and horizontal relationships of above and below, left and right, and front and back. This means that each individual seeks a life of harmony and love through give-and-receive action within subject and object partner relationships. These relationships enable each family member to attain his or her absolute value as an individual embodiment of truth.
11What about the relationship between God and human beings? As the Creator, God's nature is absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal. However, according to the Principle of Creation, God stands in the subject position when He engages in reciprocal relationships with His creation. That is because, although we think of God as the Absolute Being, He cannot feel joy outside of give-and-receive relationships with His object partners.
12Had the first human ancestors, Adam and Eve, not fallen but instead had perfected themselves as individual embodiments of truth according to the Principle of Creation, people today would manifest absolute value. We would serve God above as our Lord with absolute obedience, and we would relate with the creation, the natural world, as our object partner, rejoicing in God's eternal kingdom of peace. We would live as the citizens of the eternal kingdom of heaven, not only on earth but also in the spirit world.
13Citizens of the kingdom of heaven, this is a precious and blessed day of victory and glory. Now, as the King of Peace in Heaven and Earth, I shall declare, on this thirteenth day of June in the sixth year of Cheon Il Guk, the fundamental duties and mission that every Cheon Il Guk citizen should understand and practice as they walk the way of Heaven.
14First, as God is the vertical True Parent and you are true children of God, you will establish the realm of three generations in your family, perfect the Four Great Realms of Heart, and attend God on the vertical axis for eternity. Further, you will inscribe in your heart the responsibility to attend the King of Peace in Heaven and Earth, who is the horizontal True Parent, and to live with absolute obedience on the horizontal axis for eternity as a citizen of Cheon Il Guk. You will make the practice of true love, which is living for the sake of others, the standard for your life. You will establish a true family and raise true children who are sinless and pure, thus protecting God's lineage and bequeathing it intact from generation to generation.
15Second, no matter what the situation, you will live with your mind and body united as one. In my case as well, from the day I first determined to follow Heaven's path, I resolved to keep this as my motto: "Before you seek to master the universe, you must first gain mastery over yourself." God has given you your conscience as your guide in accomplishing this objective. Your conscience knows everything about you. It has complete knowledge of every action and step you take; it even knows your thoughts. Your conscience knows everything about you before your teacher or pastor knows. It knows before your parents know. It knows them even better than God knows. So place your conscience in God's position over your life, and go the way of absolute obedience, of "high noon settlement" whereby your life casts no shadows. Then it is certain that your mind and body will resonate and perfect a harmonious unity.
16Third, citizens of Cheon Il Guk, we have completed the unification of the spirit world. The issue now is the 6.5 billion people living on earth today. They struggle in agony in the midst of sin and suffering, yet they are your brothers and sisters. Your third mission is to educate them and bring them home as people of Cheon Il Guk. You should educate everyone to understand that all human beings without exception are descended from the Fall and that they have to change their blood lineage by receiving the holy marriage Blessing from the True Parents. You have to continue engrafting people onto the true olive tree, by having them participate in the grace of cross-cultural marriage, until the day all humankind, numbering in the billions of souls, is restored to God's lineage.
17Fourth, you are created to spend ten months in the womb, perhaps one hundred years on earth breathing air, and then all eternity in the spirit world. You should understand that, just as proper preparation in the womb is required for a healthy life after birth, you have to devote your earthly life to proper preparation for a healthy life in spirit world. Never forget that no matter what you are doing, at all times and places, your ancestors in the spirit world are with you. Be ever mindful to live in harmony with the spirit world. Communicate in prayer with the heavenly world, with sincerity and dedication, so that you may perfect your spirit self while you are living on the earth.
18Fifth, your talents and abilities are required for the management and governance of Cheon Il Guk. Therefore, you must cut away and cast off your mask of selfish individualism. It is but a remnant of the Era before the Coming of Heaven. In order to belong to Heaven, you must participate in the Ceremony of Returning Ownership, offering God everything you own and then receiving it back from Him. In addition, all citizens of Cheon Il Guk will provide funds for the well-being and peace of humanity, not by taxation but by voluntary contributions. They will practice the model of offering the first three-tenths of their income for public purposes. This cannot be an imposed tax; it has to be a gift that citizens offer willingly to Heaven with joyful hearts.
19Sixth, beloved citizens of Cheon Il Guk, in the Era after the Coming of Heaven it is possible to recover the ideal world of creation that was lost as a result of the Fall. God created all things in the universe, our natural environment, which are absolutely necessary for human prosperity. People are meant to harmonize with nature; we as the subject partners of love and nature as the object partner, thriving under our management and perfected in beauty by our creativity. Let us not destroy nature and pollute the environment. As citizens of Cheon Il Guk, please have the wisdom to protect and love nature. Return to nature and enjoy a life of liberation and complete inner freedom. To love nature is to love God and humanity. When human life resonates with nature, human character can blossom in perfection. The flowers of a true culture of heart, a true artistic world, will bloom. It will be the Garden of Eden, the original ideal where God, people, and all creation live in complete harmony and express their original nature. If you practice such true love in your daily life, how can God do anything but bestow great blessings upon you? You will live for all eternity in blessing and happiness.
20Seventh, God and True Parents have opened the Era after the Coming of Heaven, a time of dramatic change. As registered citizens of Cheon Il Guk, you have the mission to make this era blossom and bear fruit in blessing and glory. Therefore please become Heaven's emissaries, fulfilling dual missions as the peace kingdom police force and peace kingdom corps. Serve humanity under the banner of the Universal Peace Federation, which is working to establish the Abel-type United Nations. Worthy compatriots, if not you, then who will nurture and protect the blessed families and this blessed planet Earth that God has given us? Please become true princes and princesses who live in attendance to God as your vertical True Parent, the Peace King of the multitudes. Let us build the everlasting peace kingdom by attending the King of Peace in heaven and on earth, and fulfill the way of a true filial child, a patriot, a saint, and a member of the family of God's sons and daughters.
21Citizens of God's kingdom of Cheon Il Guk who love peace as True Parents do! This is truly a precious and joyful day. Let us celebrate without reserve this historic and providential day and sing praises to God, our eternal True Parent, for His glory and nobility. On this solemn occasion, hundreds of billions of those living in the spirit world have descended and are here with us to congratulate and celebrate this blessed day.
22This is the day for which God has yearned ever since He created the universe. For the tens of thousands of years, since the day Adam and Eve, whom He created as His children, stained the heavenly lineage and concealed themselves in the dark, God has waited while enduring inexpressible pain and sorrow. He has waited eagerly for the day He could ascend the throne as the King of kings, embrace His lost children and the creation, and live in joy for all eternity in the sacred reign of peace in the peace kingdom.
23God is and has always been the King of kings, even before He initiated the creation. The heavenly way, however, dictates that after completing all aspects of the creation, God has to manifest substantially as the King of kings who reigns over the world of physical phenomena, the sphere of the object partners of God's love. That is why, motivated by true love, God sought and found the True Parents of the substantial, physical world, who were to become His representatives and heirs.
24Although we are overwhelmed by the grace of having received Heaven's seal, my wife and I truly feel joy at being able to stand here today as God's direct representatives and hold this coronation of the King of kings, and our golden wedding anniversary. At the same time, I am deeply sorry before Heaven. I have reached my ninetieth year of life, yet I have been unable to fully restore to God the 6.5 billion people of the world.
25Citizens of Cheon Il Guk who truly love God! Time is running out. Heaven will no longer wait for us. God is working with His authority as the King of kings through His representatives, the earthly True Parents, to establish a new heavenly law and restore the world. It is time to accelerate this true love revolution. Therefore, on this solemn occasion, I will proclaim to all of heaven and earth an outline of the new heavenly law, by which humankind and all the creation will regain their rightful position to govern.
26First, this era, which is taking us gradually toward the year 3000, will be the era of revolutionary change after the coming of heaven. In this new era, God will no longer be captive to the principles of restoration through indemnity. The King of kings will rule the spiritual and physical worlds with His rightful authority. It will be the era of providential protection, during which the earth will return to its original state, with the realm of the Pacific Rim serving as a central axis. People will no longer evade the influence of the era of the new way of Heaven and of the new heavenly law. Therefore, you need to lead a transparent life, with every action as clear as crystal.
27Second, we have to accomplish a revolution in education, for all people to value absolute sex, that is, the constitution of Heaven, with God as their vertical, absolute axis. This is the only way to pass on the true, good lineage to all humankind. That is the path to achieving God's ideal of true families. From now on, sexual purity, purity of lineage and purity of love will be the essence of the philosophy of education for the true human race.
28Third, we will place the Peace King's anointed representatives (boonbong-wang), ambassadors for peace, and the Parent UN at the forefront of the efforts to eliminate Satan's barriers and fortresses. Multiple layers of these barricades bind the earth, and their elimination will reinstate harmony and peace among political parties, religions, races, cultures and nations. The existing United Nations, in the position of the Cain-type UN, and the Abel-type UN should become one and ascend to a higher dimension, becoming the True Parent UN. This will be a True Peace World UN. This central union will resolve evils confronting Satan's world, including war, disease and hunger. This is surely the direction all people must go. They will have no doubts because God in heaven and True Parents will be with them. We will end individualistic and collective self-centeredness. Conscience and natural reason will govern the world, and satanic power will no longer influence elections.
29Fourth, the cross-cultural, international marriage Blessing is the optimal method of establishing the peace kingdom by building true families that will give rebirth to the lineage of the fallen human race. In the end, reconciliation and peace all come about through lineage. When blacks and whites, Eastern peoples and Western peoples, Buddhists, Christians, Jews and Muslims intermarry and carry on the blessed marriage tradition that True Parents have established, this naturally will form the realm of one family that establishes God's homeland and hometown. An ideal heavenly kingdom based on the ideal of one family under God will appear. As we beat our swords into plowshares, a new world of peace will open up before us.
30Fifth, God created us as His counterparts in love, and He prepared the natural world as a gift for us, His children. God would not leave His children in a barren desert devoid of any relief. That is why people have the duty to preserve and love the natural world as God does. I am saying that you should develop your human nature to the point that you experience resonance even with a cluster of wild flowers, as if you were sharing a heartfelt conversation with them. This is as it was originally meant to be. That is a shortcut to restoring humanity to God.
31Ladies and gentlemen chosen by Heaven! You have truly received a heavenly blessing. You are participating in the ceremony to launch the providential undertakings governed by the King of kings. You are witnessing with your own eyes the whirlwind of this historic transition point. You received an invitation to attend the coronation, golden anniversary and celebration of the autobiography of the True Parent, the King of kings on the horizontal level, who will govern all of creation as the physical representative of God, the King of kings on the vertical axis. Will you ever again in your lifetime have the chance to attend such a historic and significant occasion? Your ancestors and your descendants, numbering in the billions throughout the cosmos, will dance, cheer, and live in joy and delight over this time, shaking the very axis of the earth. I pray that you will open your mind and engrave this extraordinary and historical moment on your soul. When else during your life will you be able to witness a day of blessing and glory such as today? I hope you can heed the words of Heaven that I have shared with you today and let them be a guide for your life as you advance.
32Humankind is now entering a new providential era wherein a new heavenly way and new heavenly law will govern the earth directly. It is the new providential era of the realm of the fourth original Adam, where one can enter the newly established kingdom of heaven by inheriting God's new standard of heart based on His original nature. Through True Parents' providential coronation, golden wedding anniversary, publication celebration and the commemoration of the fifty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Holy Spirit Association in this new era, I pray that you may form new and wise families as citizens in God's kingdom, Cheon Il Guk. I pray that you will distinguish clearly between Cain and Abel and integrate them into a new Abel realm of goodness, to restore the realm of the Old, New and Completed Testament ages and the three generations of my family. I am asking you to form and live as new true families based on original human nature. Then the new true grandparents, true parents, and true grandchildren can enter, hand in hand, into the new kingdom of heaven. Please engrave in your hearts this gathering's meaning, the establishment of the truly peaceful world of the True Parent UN. This we celebrate today.
1Ladies and gentlemen, please look at the world today. Among the current leaders of the world, can we find anyone who is genuinely concerned with the future of humankind and who is making the sacrifices, beyond religion and nationality, necessary to bring harmony and peace to humanity? Human beings have become like children who have lost their parents, misdirected youths who do not recognize their teacher, and sheep who have lost their shepherd. Human beings are spiritually blind, unable to see what lies even one inch ahead.
2There are now some two hundred nations in the world, and aren't many of these nations engaged in fierce conflict, directly or indirectly? Aren't they all intent on promoting their own interests? Even the United Nations, founded with the noble ideal of protecting the welfare and peace of humankind, has met its limitations. Watching helplessly without a solution to the global crises of war, starvation and disease, isn't the United Nations an organization that exists more in name than in substance? Thinking of ourselves as lords of creation, we human beings have forged our own history. Although humanity has endured terrible massacres and suffered natural disasters, the human race has survived and continues to multiply to this day. We continue to seek a bright and happy world, albeit with only a vague concept of what that might be. Why is it that the human race is unable still to escape from the mire of sin and disease?
3On the occasion of the opening ceremony of the Peace Palace and coronation of the King and Queen of Peace on June 13, 2006, I proclaimed the basic duties and mission, based on the heavenly way, that all citizens of the kingdom of God, Cheon Il Guk, should understand and fulfill. I did so in order to fulfill God's calling, to bring humankind to live as one global family in a sacred reign of peace under God, by overcoming the tragic reality human beings are facing. Today I would like to address you on the theme, "The Three Great Subject Partners Principle from the Viewpoint of God's Providence." This message is Heaven's blessing. It will serve as an important teaching to guide humanity's future. Please open your heart and listen to these words so that you may be secure in your eternal life.
4God endowed human beings with the three great subject partners principle at the time of creation. The first great subject partner is a true parent, and you are to become one. God created us as His children. We were to become true children by perfecting our individual character after going through a period of spiritual growth, autonomously, based on the Principle God established. We were then to become a true couple, have our own children and attain the position of true parents. In this way we were to perfect ourselves by practicing and embodying the true love that God bestowed upon us when He created us. In reality, however, moral values in our world today are deteriorating rapidly. Society has rejected the moral laws governing the relationship between parents and children. We are discarding marital fidelity as an old-fashioned idea of previous generations. Familial love among siblings has become rare, buried in a swamp of selfish individualism. For these reasons, our most important task is to establish true families based on true love. This means we need to build families in which three generations live together in true love, with true parents at the center.
5The second great subject partner is a true teacher, and you are to become one. Although the world is full of evil influences, one way or another, a person enters relationships in life where he or she is in a position either to teach or to learn. Our parents are our first teachers. They should be our first and greatest teachers. As true teachers, the parents' primary responsibility is to raise true children. Children who are brought up by true parents through a true and good family education progress easily through their school education, which is the next stage. School provides an institutionalized education, but even within that framework teachers have the responsibility to guide and educate their students with the heart of true parents, to become true children. By this I mean that they need to conduct horizontal academic education on the foundation of vertical character education. A teacher's first qualification is thus to possess the heart of a true parent.
6The third great subject partner is a true owner, and you are to become one. God, the Creator of the universe, is the True Owner and Lord of all creation. God's creation is the fruit of His complete investment, carried out based on absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. From His example we can gain the wisdom that enables us to become true owner and lords. The secret is to invest true love on the basis of that absolute standard. The prerequisite for this is to possess the heart of a true parent.
7The three great subject partners principle expresses an organic interrelationship that is mutual, absolute and indivisible. This is because a true parent, true teacher and true owner can stand in the position of either a subject partner or an object partner in relation to the other two. In other words, once you attain the position of a true parent, the qualities of a true teacher and true owner emerge. Once you reach the position of a true teacher, the qualities of true parent and true owner naturally develop. Similarly, when you attain the position of a true owner, you will immediately become a true parent and true teacher as well. From the outset, human beings were born to inherit and embody God's complete three great subject partners principle. Therefore, as we become people of character, perfecting this principle, we become like God Himself. We need a heart that is like God's to love other people and all creation just as He does, on the basis of His absolute standard. In other words, we are to attain a state of loving oneness with God, wherein we can love the creation. At that point, the true parent, true teacher and true owner converge.
8The world operates through the harmony of various systems and relationships. In this complex and diverse world, the principle of becoming a true owner naturally applies to the relationships between people, but it also applies to the relationship between human beings and the creation. The question is, upon what basis can one be called a true owner? Someone who lives for others, caring for and sacrificing to serve others -- in other words, a person who practices true love in daily life -- can be called a true owner. Only someone who cares for the creation with true love, protecting and nurturing it, can become a true owner of all creation. In light of this, it is not your position or worldly status that makes you a true owner. It is determined by your character and capacity to love. The president of a company who loves and cares for all his employees with a parental heart is the true owner of that company. A nation's president can be the true owner of that nation only if he or she loves its citizens as a parent and shares the sorrows and joys of life with them.
9Ladies and gentlemen, God's creation is truly mysterious and profound. God created us as His children, to be the lords of creation. To this end, He gave each of us the highest and greatest gift: a conscience. We receive this special gift of a conscience as a compass to guide us through life in this earthly world. We can say that our lifespan may be one hundred years. Regardless of who we are, from the moment of our birth to the moment we die we cannot escape the influence of our conscience. The most elevated function of the conscience is its role as our true parent, true teacher and true owner. Our conscience acts as a true parent, true teacher and true owner on behalf of God, guiding our life and educating us from the moment of birth. Our conscience functions as a guide, keeping watch over our every action at every moment. Its awareness of our every word, thought and deed precedes that of our parents, our teachers and even God. God infused into the conscience the function of guiding and supervising life.
10Before our parents or teachers know, and even before God knows, the conscience knows everything that we do, say and think. It is because God bequeathed to us the conscience with the original function to guide and watch over our lives. However, the conscience, which should be clear as crystal, has been clouded due to the Fall. Amid all manner of sin and spiritual sickness, it now is unable to fulfill its original function fully. Knowing this, please become people who can listen to the voice of your conscience. You should cry out for liberation, for freedom from this evil world that is under Satan's dominion.
11There is no way for fallen people to restore the original function of the conscience by their own power. This is because they have not established a direct vertical relationship with God. The 6.5 billion people in the world today are all off-center, many living with the illusion that their own way of life is the best. However, until someone achieves a direct relationship with God in accordance with the absolute standard of a ninety-degree-angle, no one will be able to find the path to salvation.
12Beloved leaders from around the world, there is but one person who holds the keys to free humanity from Satan's bondage and lead them to heaven. He is the first and probably the last in history to hold such a position. That person is the one standing before you today. I never wished for or sought this position, but God anointed me and placed me in the position of the Savior, Messiah, returning Lord and True Parents of humankind. It is a position that is absolutely free of the influence of Satan's realm. It is indeed I, Rev. Moon, whom God has charged to practice and demonstrate personally a life based on the truth and submission to the conscience. The path of a True Parent, True Teacher and True Owner I am walking will allow the people of the world, who are going 6.5 billion separate ways, to reconnect to God at a ninety-degree angle.
13Billions of absolute good spirits in the spirit world are testifying in unison to this fact. The founders of the great religions, principally Jesus, as well as great philosophers and thinkers, and even some communist leaders, are shedding tears of gratitude for this amazing truth. The grace of the Blessing from the True Parents can even save the people in the spirit world, and in fact, there is no other way.
14Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come for humanity to fulfill the heavenly decree of creating one family under God through the international and cross-cultural Blessing. My teachings as the True Parents are here for you to receive now. How can the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven be created other than by becoming one family under God? What other way is there to create the ideal world that God envisioned at the time of the creation, the world in which all people are united beyond the barriers of race, culture, religion and nationality, and where war and conflict are no more? Without your being aware of it, the True Parents have proclaimed the opening of the Era after the Coming of Heaven, which will allow all humanity to be liberated. Even God will be liberated and His heart set completely free. The True Parents now are taking this revolutionary truth that we all have to become true parents, true teachers and true owners, to the ends of the earth.
15Ladies and gentlemen, the fundamental spirit of the 2007 World Culture and Sports Festival is that of fulfilling the sacred task of bringing all people together as one family. Please remember that our mission, as people of religious, cultural and athletic prowess, is to come together as one and bring the era beginning a new universal civilization of peace into fruition. Religious people, in particular, have to become the leaders of this sacred revolution of true love. Rev. Moon has completed in advance all the preparations necessary for this.
16All you have to do now is trust in and follow the True Parents. With your conscience as your compass, attain the status of a true parent, true teacher and true owner. Manifest true love in your daily life, thus shaping your eternal life in heaven. Heavenly fortune will speed you on your path, and your good ancestors who have received the marriage Blessing will actively assist you in your activities. Have courage, and strive to go forward! I pray that you may attain the true family ideal, based on the three great subject partners principle, so that you can shout three cheers for the advent of the era of the kingdom of peace under the sacred reign of peace.
Fin de True Owners of the Founding of Cheon Il Guk