Look at the
world we are currently living in. The people of the
world are caught in the trap of extreme selfishness,
clamoring for material omnipotence. They have lost
all sense of values and have fallen into the depths
of self-gratification and degeneration. The world is
filled with alcoholics. As if drugs and free sex
were not enough, there are even those who commit
incest—an act not even seen in the animal world—and
still live with their heads held high. This world
has become one wherein beasts with human faces roam
freely even after violating women—queens,
grandmothers, mothers, wives and daughters. This
world has become one wherein the swapping of spouses
between couples is rampant. Such circumstances are
without a doubt the pinnacle of the destruction of
morality and the very last of fallen acts. This
world has become hell on earth, where the perfection
of the world embodying the ideal God envisaged at
the Creation cannot even be dreamed of.
We have come to know
that all these problems are rooted in the Fall of
Adam and Eve, our first ancestors. Adam and Eve, who
were at the perfection stage of the growth period,
had a sexual relationship before their rightful
time, due to the temptation of Satan. In this
manner, an illicit sexual union of man and woman
constituted the Fall. This is why people have
continued to commit such indecent acts—traitorous
acts that drive a sharp spike into the heart of
God—over thousands of years. They have been unable
to escape from the realm of the fallen lineage.
A 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
owners 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 are they in the position of the owner
of their spouse. In other words, irrespective of who
they are, all human beings can become perfected
individuals—and not just mere halves—only when they
have secured the position of an owner through
marriage.
The human sexual
organs are sacred. They are the palace of life,
where the seed of life is sown, the palace of love,
where the flower of love is made to bloom and the
palace of lineage, where the fruit of lineage is
borne. Through this absolute sexual organ, the
absolute lineage, absolute love and absolute life is
brought forth; and absolute harmony, absolute unity,
absolute liberation and absolute Sabbath brought
about.
For what reason, then,
are we trying to restore the position of the owner
of the reproductive organs? It is to possess God’s
love from that position. 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 are the true three great subject ideologies.
All these teachings and truths are created through
the life of a true, model family; and with its
expansion, the society, nation, the world and even
the universe will be transformed into the peace
kingdom of the model, ideal family.
However, because 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, the true parent and
the true king, inherited the lineage of Satan and
was degraded to a false teacher, false parent and
false king.
When we come to think
of it, the purpose for Jesus’ coming down to earth
did not lie elsewhere. If Jesus, who had come as the
second Adam, had not lost his life on the cross, he
would have been the source of the original lineage of God,
unrelated to the Fall, and would have reversed the
failure of the first Adam, established the true
family as the Savior of humankind and founded on
earth the original human homeland, the kingdom of
the world embodying the ideal of peace, that is, the
kingdom of heaven on earth. However, the disciples,
the Jewish leaders and the leaders of the nation of
Israel all failed to recognize the Christ, and their
disbelief caused Jesus to end his life in such a
wretched and tragic way. Has there been anyone who
knew of the grievous heart of Jesus, who had to
leave earth at an untimely moment, leaving no child
behind him? Though two thousand years of
Christianity history have passed, has there ever
been any Christian who stopped to imagine Jesus’
sorrowful circumstances? Jesus left suddenly,
leaving behind him few traces other than a promise
to return, and though his physical body has long
been buried and become dust, the will that God had
tried to fulfill through him is finally in the
process of being completed at this time, at the end
of history, through True Parents, who have received
the seal of Heaven and been manifested on earth.
If you establish
a true family on earth and lead a heavenly life,
once you die your life will be connected to the
kingdom of heaven in heaven just as you are, and you
will enjoy eternal life. Therefore, in the
framework of the family, you should serve God as the
Father in the topmost position. Everyone
should become His children, entering into a
parent–child relationship with Him and perfecting
yourselves through living together, closely linked
in blood ties. In short, you should form and live in
the realm of a true love relationship with God.
Who would be the
greatest grandfather of the universe? The first
human ancestors, Adam and Eve, call God “Father.”
Should their children call Him “Grandfather”? 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, which 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, everyone has equal value
in perfected love.
The kingdom of heaven
must first be achieved on earth. What this means is
that the kingdom of heaven being established in the
corporeal world is prerequisite to establishing the
kingdom of heaven in the incorporeal world.
Therefore, heaven is not a world found in space on
the other side of the galaxy, nor is it the
by-product of imagination existing only in the human
brain. It refers to the substantial kingdom of
heaven on earth, which can only be created when you
have led lives expressive of true love. When you
leave the physical world on that foundation, you
automatically enter the incorporeal kingdom of
heaven in heaven. This means that only when you have
led a heavenly life on earth, can you lead such a
life also in heaven.
Only the fruit that
has fully ripened on the tree is classified while in
storage as a product of the best quality. Herein
lies the reason why your lives should not be ones
bound for hell, devoured by insects on the tree. You
should never forget that you yourselves determine
whether you go to heaven or to hell through your
life on earth.
The reason we miss the
family we have left behind is that at home there is
love for one another. It is where the love of mother
and father, the love of elder brothers and sisters
and younger siblings, and the love of one’s spouse
and children and close neighbors are all deeply
embedded. It is a place of mutual affection, where
all relationships and affinities are brought
together through mutual love. This makes you want to
cherish each and every member of your family. It
would be the yearning and desire of a wanderer that
has left his family behind him to appear before his
family once again boldly as a liberated being, and
to embrace mountains, streams and trees, love his
kith and kin, and sing songs of ecstasy. However,
the lot of humankind, descended from the Fall, has
been different: banished from their hometown and
destined to wander around forever in isolation and
defeat, human beings are unable ever to go back, no
matter how much they miss their family, for they
have lost the root of the heart of their original
homeland.
However, with the
ushering in of the era of a new heaven and a new
earth after the coming of heaven, human beings have
been pulled out of the marsh that was sucking them
down, and the way has been opened for them to return
to their hometowns—hometowns that they could not
forget even for a moment—and meet with their family.
Could there ever be a day of greater blessing for
humanity? The time of heavenly power and fortune has
now come for us to reestablish the original family
that was lost through the Fall of Adam and Eve.
When seeking after the
lost original family, you should set out from the
position of the perfection of Adam, the position of
the perfected Jesus, and the perfected position
representing the Second Coming of the Lord. God will
dwell in such a family. That family would be one of
three generations—grandparents, parents and
children—living in harmony. You need to live in
service and attendance of the grandfather as the
historical root of your ancestors.
The family sets the
pattern for living together in harmony. The home
wherein parents and children love and respect each
other, husband and wife are grounded in mutual trust
and love, and brothers and sisters trust and rely on
each other, and all live together as one, is the
model ideal family. This means that you need to
establish a true family wherein the stem of true
love emerges from the root of true love and bears
the fruit of true love.
In such a family the
root of history is alive, and the root of the
Kingdom of Heaven extends into it. It is in such a
family that the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth takes
root. It is also where the everlasting root of
kingship is firmly planted. The roots of the past,
present and future are represented by the
grandparents, parents, and grandsons and
granddaughters respectively. The root of the past
represents the spirit world, the root of present is
the palace representing the world today, and the
root of future establishes the grandsons and
granddaughters as princes and princesses, and erects
the palace of peace representing the two worlds, the
spirit world and the physical world.
In such a manner, the
three generations of grandparents, parents, and
grandsons and granddaughters should live together as
one family, serving the eternally existent God. You
should know that to seek after and establish such a
family of God’s kingdom is the
desire of God.
The movement to
realize a society of mutual existence, prosperity,
and benefit, by making humanity one great family,
breaking down the walls in our hearts and
eliminating even the boundaries between nations,
begins thus from one family. Therefore, we should
bear in mind that to form and establish true
families is our providential calling, advancing the
establishment of the cosmic peace kingdom on earth.
You should form
families that God will miss and yearn to return to
after He has been away. You should raise families to
which He can come freely as a Parent visiting His
children. That is living in the service of God. To
such a family, God becomes the Subject of our
conscience, acting vertically. Following that
vertical Subject, your mind stands in the position
of the vertical subject of yourself, and brings your
mind and body into unity. That is where parental
love, conjugal love, children’s love, and siblings’
love—in short, the four realms of love or the four
realms of heart—are perfected. Only in such a family
can the upper and lower, front and behind, left and
right be connected as one and circular motion
continue.
If the world were
filled with such true families, that world would be
one governed by the heavenly way and heavenly laws,
with no need for lawyers, prosecutors or even
judges. Ponder this for a moment. Who would be most
fully aware of your good and bad deeds? It would be
your grandparents, your parents, your spouse and
your children.
Is there anything that
cannot be resolved within the family? When parents
and children, husband and wife, and elder siblings
and younger siblings set an example of living for
the sake of one another, how could they do anything
unforgivable? What chance would they have to commit
crimes? A world governed by the heavenly way and the
heavenly laws is a natural world, an unobstructed
world of truth and pure reason, and a world of the
settlement of noon, where no shadows are cast.
