The Principle and Holy Pledge v.1 — de Paulis · Following the Stories of Real People

There were 12 men whom Moses sent, in their second course into Canaan, to spy on the land (Num. 13:1-2).

Of these, only two accomplished their mission in unchanging loyalty. On the foundation of their heart- and-zeal, Joshua sent two men into Jericho to spy on the city (Josh. 2:1).

After having accomplished their mission the two men reported in faith, saying, “Truly the Lord has given all the land into our hands; and moreover all the inhabitants of the land are fainthearted because of us.” (Josh. 2:24).

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Then, all the descendants of Israel born in the wilderness believed the words of the spies. Through their faith, they could indemnify the sin of their forefathers, who had not been able to accomplish their 40-day spying in accordance with God’s will.

In this manner, the internal Israelites, having pledged at the risk of their lives to obey Joshua who stood on the foundation for the tabernacle, could also stand on the same foundation with Joshua.

Comment: By doing the Unification Holy Family Pledge the members, having pledged to obey True Parents way can stand on the same Messianic foundation together with

True Parents of Heaven Earth and Humankind.

Introduction

What did we live by before the exposition of the principle was made? It was the book, “The Way of God’s Will.” - link We lived by the teachings of this book.

I had to go through all sorts of hardships to proclaim the Exposition of the principle, and the Original copy of the Principle to the entire world.

After the Exposition and Original copy of the Principle, the Divine Principle was made.

Introduction

The Family Pledge emerged after all this as the fruits of all these words.

The Family Pledge has eight verses.

They are all a concentration of the essence extracted from providential history, and serve as the root of the family. Without knowing all the details of providence …

You have to know how precious the family is. The family is the root.

The Pledge can become the root of the family.

That pledge must be upheld in a family.

The members of the family should be raised to uphold the Family Pledge.

They should repeat it and fulfill it even if it means through their descendants.

From now, three generations should become as one and be able to pride themselves for what they practiced before God.

On that foundation God can forget about everything that caused bitter sorrow to Him in history.

He will be liberated through the Pledge which will become a foundation enabling God and His children to be liberated centering on God’s family.

Everything that is needed can be found in the first verse of the Family Pledge. Read it.

How much have you created in a world where satan does not exist, and on a foundation where everything has been set right.

You have to think that you were blessed and became a representative family by Father who had given the blessing on behalf of God to the blessed families from the position of the perfected Adam in the Garden of Eden.

If you can, then you basically have done everything said in the first verse.

There wouldn’t be anything more to be desired. If Adam had perfected himself God would have blessed Adam’s family and take the first step into joy.

Such a family should have been established. Yet, because of the blessing such a family must be recovered and offered and returned to God.

Your family should be returned.

Then your family can be accepted as a fruit that was ripened in the physical world on the foundation of God’s family in the world of the mind.

Then, there would be no need for any of the pledge verses.

I have gone beyond the positions of a patriot, saint and divine son.

The second verse begins after the first verse. What is the difference between the two?

You should become a central family representing heaven and earth, and become a family of a filial child that is desired by parents, a representative of patriots from all nations, a family that is desired by the saints and a family of the divine sons and daughters.

You should become a family of the children of the direct lineage who can directly attend God and make Him happy.

The entire history is encapsulated in this verse.

Everything can be perfected in verse two. It’s important.

If the things in verse two are fulfilled, there wouldn’t be a single place that is not needed in all of heaven and earth. You have to become a family that can perfect the contents of the second verse of the Family Pledge in the garden God created.

Pledge Three

What are the four great realms of heart? It refers to the realm of heart — the four great realms of heart that existed within God from the beginning.

Then there is the three great kingships — a kingship centered on a nation God envisioned. Then the royal family.

There is no Cain and Abel in this family. An elder brother figure from the satanic world must be placed within the realm of the royal family.

Everything can be brought to an end with this.

Eternal Goal Gods 3 Blessings

4 Great Realms Fruit of Heart/Loves = Spir. Wrld 4. Parents Love

3. Conjugal Love Roots Earth- 2. Siblings Love life 1. Childs Love

Family is the Home Base of Love

3 Great Kingships There are three great family kingships which all people desire to attain:

grandparents (representing God) are the kings of the past; parents (representing worldwide families) are kings of the present; children represent the future and are kings of the future.

When you attend your grandparents, you are attending God and the spirit world. When you attend your parents, you are loving all the families of the world. When you love and attend your children, you are loving all the future. Thus in the ideal family we find the kingship of the heavenly world, the kingship of this world, and the kingship of the future world. /SMM 1992

Royal Family of True Love Today’s topic sounds easy, but none of you really think about how difficult it is to fulfill this title — become a royal family of true love.

Is the royal family centered upon man or God? If the royal family is humanity, then what is God’s position? God is the royal family lord, owner, and subject. What is another title for God? King, kingship! Without a king there is no royalty.

Where there is a king, there should also be a queen. They are meant to be equal. The king and queen’s children constitute the royal family. / SMM July 28, 1991

Pledge Three

After Cain killed Abel, God was driven into a state of imprisonment for tens of thousands of years in history.

He must be freed and the realm of the royal family must be established in which Cain and Abel are one, without a trace of the tragedy of the killing that had occurred in the Garden of Eden.

You have to create the four great realms of heart, three great kingships and realm of the royal family.

Pledge Three

Even if the three great kingships are established through the Old, New and Completed Testament Ages you still need to create the realm of the royal family.

Even if Israel had created the realm of the royal family, there still would have been a struggle between Cain and Abel to love each other as the elder brother and younger brother.

Pledge Three

There should not conflict between the wish of God, the Creator of Adam and Eve, with that of the wish of the True Parents.

We should forget about the suffering we went through in our hearts. Once Cain and Abel are united, everybody should enter the kingdom of heaven.

All of this should be resolved on the foundation of an ideal kingship. Everything would be complete just be carrying out the contents in the third verse.

You can go to heaven with just verse three.

Pledge Three

We should by all means try to perfect the relationships in our family, since God designed it to be love’s proper school.

Rev. Moon calls the third pledge the textbook of love.

It describes the way love should be cultivated in God’s school of love, the family.

/True Family Values - link Joong Hyun Pak and Andrew Wilson

Since a firm foundation has been laid under the kingship, everything supporting the kingship should be fully utilized.

God’s ideal of creation is creating a one great family consisting of many families.

God is one. - There is one True Parent.

Even if there are billions of families in this world, they should all live centering on that single Being as if they were all like one family.

You should create one great family in heaven and earth which is God’s ideal of creation. It is where freedom, peace, unity and happiness abound. There cannot be conflict. You should be considerate.

Whenever a central point is established in a certain place you should go to it, and align yourself to the center. Families and clans should be brought together and united as one. They have to be able to align themselves to that focal point from the same angle.

There are many people — your ancestors — who went to the spirit world. The people on the earth are not aware of this. They are following different paths.

The heavenly nation now exists in the spirit world and on the earth. The basis of the merits of all your ancestors who entered the heavenly nation, and the basis of our merits on the earth must be aligned.

In verse five, you pledge to be in the subjective position every day centering on God, True Parents, their clan, and the realm of the royal family.

If people can conceptualize themselves all as a single family, then none of the numerous families could live recklessly as they have done.

God is demanding one single standard.

There should not be discrepancies from the day-to-day program you carry out centering on that single standard.

You may say that you are diligent each day but Heaven will push you to go on. Mothers and fathers can be like that.

People who are your senior drive their juniors to a narrow path so that they do not go astray. There is no freedom there.

Then wouldn’t everything be done with the end of verse five?

The Pledge would not be needed.

It talks about heaven and earth — the standard of perfection of heaven.

Wherever you go, things will turn out the way you bless them.

As the representative families of the True Parents, you have to connect Heaven’s blessings to your surroundings.

If you can move about you should expand Heaven’s blessings to your surroundings as True Parents’ representative families.

Until the kingdom of heaven on earth is created and the providence of restoration comes to an end, you cannot rest.

You should connect Heaven’s blessings to your surroundings on behalf of True Parents.

Pledge Seven

It talks about the original lineage, and what else? The “true lineage.”

God is a being that harmonizes the dual characteristics. The Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind are the substantial representatives of God.

They should become as one, multiply children and unite the three generations so that it cannot be separated.

Pledge Seven

The original lineage and blood line must be one and the same.

God’s lineage, the father’s lineage, the children’s lineage must not be stained.

There should not be any discrepancies with any of the lineages connected with the original lineage centered on God.

Pledge Seven

The grandfather and father should live for the sake of each other. ‘Living for the sake of others’ should be in the middle of the two.

The world of a culture of heart connected to the original lineage should be created.

People should live for the sake of others.

Pledge Eight

After verse seven, verse eight draws a certain conclusion.

It emphasizes on living for the sake of others.

There are no discrepancies in the original lineage whether it is placed in the grandfather, father, wife, or descendants.

Pledge Eight

Even if the sides of a circle were moved or interchanged the central core should not be moved.

A world of the culture of heart should be created through a life of living for the sake of others.

Pledge Eight

All you need to know can be found in verse eight.

It talks about the Old, New and Completed Testament Ages and even about the world of the realm of heart.

It means that you have to find a family and nation within the liberated realm in both the spiritual and physical worlds.

You have to perfect a liberated realm in the family and in the nation. It’s all in here.

In explaining the family pledge,

verse one is about standing as God’s representative;

verse two is becoming one with the True Parent;

verse three is finding the unchanging root;

verse four refers to how a single father family emerges even if twelve types of branches come from that root.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 2014 – Chapter 3:

Family Pledge

1. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to seek our original homeland and build the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven, the original ideal of creation, by centering on true love.

2. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to represent and become central to heaven and earth by attending the Heavenly Parent and True Parents; we pledge to perfect the dutiful family way of filial sons and daughters in our family, patriots in our nation, saints in the world, and divine sons and daughters in heaven and on earth, by centering on true love.

3. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to perfect the Four Great Realms of Heart, the Three Great Kingships and the Realm of the Royal Family, by centering on true love.

4. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to build the universal family encompassing heaven and earth, which is the Heavenly Parent’s ideal of creation, and perfect the world of freedom, peace, unity and happiness, by centering on true love.

5. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to strive every day to advance the unification of the spirit world and the physical world as subject and object partners, by centering on true love.

6. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to become a family that moves heavenly fortune by embodying the Heavenly Parent and True Parents, and to perfect a family that conveys Heaven’s blessing to our community by centering on true love.

7. Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges, through living for the sake of others, to perfect the world based on the culture of heart, which is rooted in the original lineage, by centering on true love.

8. Our family the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges, having entered the Era of Cheon Il Guk, to achieve the ideal of God and human beings united in love through absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, and to perfect the realm of liberation and complete freedom in the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven, by centering on true love.

Blessing Pledge Done at the time of the Blessing!

1. To become heavenly men and women by living for the sake of others.

2. To become heavenly husbands and wives by living for the sake of others.

3. To become heavenly mothers and fathers by living for the sake of others.

4. To establish your family, tribe, nation, world and cosmos by living for the sake of others.

Source: Importance of the Family Pledge - link Sun Myung Moon March 25, 2007

Ref: Cheon Seong Gyeong 2014: The Holy Scripture of Cheon Il Guk Book 12 Cheon Il Guk CHAPTER 3 The Path of Cheon Il Guk Citizens and the Family Pledge - link

True Family Values - 3rd Ed. 2006 - link Joong Hyun Pak and Andrew Wilson

The Pledge – Benny Andersson