The Way of the Blessed Central Family

“Citizens 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 on Earth, I will declare, on this thirteenth day of June in the sixth year of Cheon Il Guk, the fundamental duties and mission that every citizen of Cheon Il Guk should understand and live by as they walk the way of Heaven.”

The Reverend Sun Myung Moon

The First Duty and Mission The First of Seven That were Declared by Rev. Sun Myung Moon on June 13, 2006

• First, 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 on your heart the need to uphold the King of Peace in Heaven and on 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 living for the sake of others, which is the practice of true love, 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.

What is the Nature of this God whom we Should Attend for Eternity? • Now leaders of religion, academia, politics and other fields, both here in America and throughout the world, recognize me as the champion in eight areas of spiritual knowledge and discipline. (CSG, Book 13, Chapter 3, Section 1, #15, pg 1411).

• The first has to do with the knowledge of God. Until now, God has been understood only as an all-knowing and all-powerful being. People envision God sitting on a throne of honor and glory as the absolute Master, having nothing to do with the created world. There is another side to this, however. From the moment I embarked on my journey to fulfill God’s providential call, I came to know that the relationship between God and human beings is that of parent and child. I learned that God has been the Parent of pain, sorrow and lamentation ever since He lost His first children, Adam and Eve. Throughout my life I have been doing my very best to dissolve God’s pain and sorrow and bring liberation and total freedom to His heart. Finally, on January 13, 2001, through the Enthronement Ceremony for God’s Kingship, I was able to restore His throne of glory and power and offer it to Him. (CSG, Book 13, Chapter 3, Section 1, #16, pg. 1411)

How Shall We Attend God on the Vertical Axis for Eternity? • You must become filial sons and daughters who can attend the God who has suffered in sorrow throughout history, who can comfort Him, and offer Him joy and glory. Even now, God laments in disappointment. Hence, you must reach the point where you can welcome the day of God’s victory; and not only you but all humankind with you. To comfort God’s heart of bitter sorrow, you must attend Him, beyond your own people and beyond the world, to advance with the full authority of the cosmos. You need to devote yourselves to becoming children of God whom God wants to bless rather than judge. You have to become a group of people who can endure. No matter what cruel situations or adverse circumstances you suffer, you should be able to say, “even if no one else remains, I will survive.” Only with this kind of heart can you connect your life to God. If you have this kind of relationship with God, even though strong winds and mighty storms may come against you, nothing can destroy that bond of heart, which holds the power of life. (CSG, Book 1, Chapter 4, Sect. 1, #6, Pp 94-95)

How Shall We Attend God on the Vertical Axis for Eternity? • The reason God continues to lead providential history, even repeating it, is to inspire people to respond to His providence. Only in this way can He stand in front of humankind as the God of the ideal. Yet to human beings who live in the realm of Satan, God appears as the fearful God of judgment. To attend God as the God of the ideal, we must be able to experience the grief that was caused Him by the human Fall. We must be able to establish a relationship in which we can abide with Him in His grief. Otherwise, God cannot appear to us as the God of the ideal and cannot appear to us as the Lord of the ideal of creation. On the way to attend the God of the ideal, our path requires that we fight the evil forces that constantly try to block us. This is the path of restoration through indemnity that is required of fallen human beings. (CSG, Book 1, Chapter 4, Sect. 1, #65, Pp 112)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - The God of Sorrow • God’s ideal of creation should have brought him boundless joy and delight in the garden of love, based on His love and truth. But God’s joy was frustrated as a result of the Fall of Adam and Eve, and He has had to toil in history for thousands of years. You Need to experience the sorrowful heart of God, who suffers to this day even as He fights Satan in order to fulfill the ideal of creation, which Adam and Eve did not fulfill due to the Fall. You must also experience God’s intense grief at the loss of Adam and Eve, when they betrayed Him and fell. Unless you first understand what God’s love is all about and experience how much God loves human beings, you can never fathom the depth of His sorrow upon losing them. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Sect. 1, #3, Pp 93-94) • God’s enemy deprived Him of His throne. Unable to become the God of glory, He was left to preside over a history of sorrow. Although God most certainly is the King of His kingdom and King of the universe, He has been treated with contempt, as if He were dead. Meanwhile, all His beloved children were violated and the planet Earth became the enemy’s play ground. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Sect. 1, #18, Pp 98)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - The God of Sorrow

• God was supposed to have emerged as a glorious being. Our joy should have been God’s joy, and God’s joy should have been our joy; this would have been the ideal of creation. But due to the Fall that ideal was lost, and God ended up miserable. God who appears to us is not the God of glory. He is incomparably more wretched and deserving of pity than anyone in all of history. God originally should have been the God of glory, but since the day of the Fall His situation has been the opposite. God should have been able to entrust everything to human beings, and we should have been able to entrust everything to God; but this sort of open relationship with God became impossible. How deeply painful it is for parents if their children see them in deep misery. Accordingly, God does not want to reveal His painful heart and situation to His children. Though He is toiling endlessly, He does not want to show His sad face. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Sect. 1, #4, Pp 94)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - The God of Sorrow • God is the most sorrowful being. He is more sorrowful than a son who weeps in front of his dying mother. He has been treated more unjustly than a person wrongfully sentenced to death as a traitor to his people when they should have recognized him as a champion of goodness. God is the Lord who holds the title as the most wronged and most miserable. Religions should be teaching this to the point that people’s hearts are deeply moved. God does not wear a robe of glory; His robe is soaked in blood and sweat. That robe was made by the bloody hands of sons and daughters who desperately tried to hold onto Him but could not. God’s feet are scarred from walking the thorny paths of His children’s struggles throughout history. When individuals sought Him and fell down on the way, God took the blows on their behalf. He chose one people even as other peoples fell away, but when even that people betrayed Him, He allowed Himself to be struck on their behalf in order to continue the fight. The God in whom we have believed is, in fact, a being deserving of sympathy. (CSG, Book 1, Chapter 4, Sect. 1, #9, Pp 95

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - The God of Sorrow • Children inherit their parents’ flesh and blood. That is why when their mother sheds tears, they should be able to connect with her and weep with her. When their father sheds tears in sorrow, they should naturally be able to sympathize with him. And yet, how difficult it has been for God to raise and nurture His children to feel that way toward Him! No matter how much God weeps, human beings ignore His tears. No matter how sorrowful He is, human beings do not feel His sorrow. This is because human beings were born from the flesh and blood of Satan. Satan rejoices to see God in sorrow and exalts when he sees His ruin. With human beings linked to such a being, God has to go through so much trouble to guide them and teach them the direction of the path they must forge! God could not have led the providence if He did not have a heart to live for the sake of others and a heart that is caring and compassionate, whether for a single individual or for a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand or more. ( CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Section 1, #52, Pp 108)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - The God of Sorrow • God is a being who truly deserves sympathy. God is in the difficult position of having to embrace sinful human beings and call them His beloved ones. God comes to the world where His sinful children are living, only to be mistreated-torn, wounded and cornered. He weeps bitterly; His heart is scarred and broken in pieces. His heart was in pain and desperation each time He raised up a people only to have them fall away. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt 4, Sect. 1, #12, Pp 96) • God’s era, in which He hoped to complete His Will, disappeared without a trace because of the Fall. The Fall brought fundamental destruction to the place where He had created all things in hope. Everything that He had planned, the realm of His ideal object partners of eternal love, was violated and destroyed at the root. How sorrowful God must have been when Adam and Eve committed the Fall and disappeared from His presence. They were to have been God’s ideal partners, embodying God’s pure original love. How bitter God’s grief must have been over losing them. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Sect. 1, #21, Pp 98-99)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - The God of Sorrow • God is not seated upon a throne, receiving praise and glory. Instead, God is weeping bitterly every day as He works to save fallen human beings. This has long been God’s situation, even as He guides humankind. God is in such pain as He tries to save people from the pit of misery into which they have fallen, to awaken them, shouting, “Come! Come to Me!” But even though he does all that, he cannot force people to come to Him. We must fulfill our portion of responsibility. God cannot do our part for us, though He may want to. How difficult this is for God! (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Section 1, #7, Pp 95)\ • To this day, we human beings have thought of God as the God of glory, not the God of suffering or pain. Many religions in history have taught this, and believers have led their lives of faith with this idea. But the truth is that God is in the situation where He has lost His family, His children, His property, His nation and His world. Our Father is in that kind of situation. We have thought that once we meet our Father, all our pain and suffering will be dissolved and all our wishes fulfilled. However, when I came to meet our Heavenly Parent after seeking Him for so long, I discovered that everything He owns-His children, His property, even the whole world-was in the hands of the enemy. (CSD, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Sect. 1, #5, Pp 94)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - The God of Sorrow • God carries bitter sorrow in His heart because of the Fall. The twists and turns in God’s story of relating with human beings are beyond description. He is out of breath, running after people and trying to save them. How miserable God is! Even a beggar on earth is better off. For God, this is what it has come to. If God could simply sit on a throne and order everyone in heaven and on earth to do as He wished, why then has He struggled to deal with sinful humankind for the past six thousand years? Truly, God is the being most deserving of sympathy. He is the Lord of all, and our Father, yet He could never assume those roles. Nothing could be more frustrating. Although God created everything, He could not do as He pleased with His creation. He could never call us His sons and daughters even though we were created as such. God has led His providence for six thousand years in order to break down these walls. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Sect. 1, #13, Pp 96-97)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - The God of Sorrow • Christians say that God is the glorious judge who consigns people to hell or to the kingdom of heaven. Yet in fact God is the most miserable being in the world. When the Fall turned the brilliance of heaven and earth into the darkness of hell, God went through the most unimaginable and bitter pain. It was as though God Himself plummeted into hell. Yet when He opened His eyes, came back to consciousness and regained His composure, He became intent on recovering His children who had died. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Sect. 1, #22, Pp 99) • God wants His partners of love to be better than Himself. His beloved partners are none other than us, human beings. Nonetheless, we lost that privileged value and instead came to struggle throughout our lives. How miserable God must feel when He looks at us! He thinks, “They were meant to be My direct children, inheriting My love, My life and My lineage. But now they are struggling as victims who moan and lament in pain and wander in despair until the end of their lives.” How miserable God must feel, looking down at this. He is such a sorrowful God. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Sect. 1, #24, Pp99)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - God’s Grief and Shock at Losing His Son and Daughter • God, the eternal being, sheds tears for us. His tears are to eliminate the way of death, the way of pain and the way of sorrow. God sheds tears to eliminate all of these paths. We need to understand that God is shedding blood, sweat and tears for us to eliminate the ways of sorrow, pain and death. Then, it is only right that we take His Will upon our shoulders so that He does not have to keep going to the point of death on our behalf. Thus far, God has placed our ancestors in positions where they had to shed tears, shed their blood and sweat, and confront death. It was not because God had no love that He did this; He did so in order to ultimately eliminate such situations. Yet God Himself experienced much greater suffering than they. How painful it is for a father and mother to see the death of their beloved child! How their heart is grieved to watch their child suffer! It is more painful than if they were to die themselves. With such a painful heart, God has been suffering throughout human history. We may have to endure pain, but it is just within our one generation; then we re done with our responsibility. But God had to endure that kind of indescribable pain every time our ancestors went the way of death, the way of tears, the way of blood and sweat, and the way of sorrow and suffering. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Section 1, #16, Pp 97-98)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - A God Confined and Incarcerated God exists in a state of confinement. He has been living with a painful heart as the Parent who long ago lost His only children, His son and daughter Adam and Eve. He is the God of bitter sorrow. He has been endlessly shedding tears, beating His chest. God, while following after human beings, has experienced countless deaths. He has endured this over and over again, even to this day. There are so many nails driven into His heart that they could cover the whole world. Nowhere in the world can there be found a sorrow as profound as His. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Sect. 1, #10, Pp 96)

The Fall took away God’s freedom. I am saying that the Fall put God in shackles and chains. The Fall also put the first ancestors of the human race in shackles, and the realm of angels as well. Not only that, countless religious people in history lived a fettered existence, struggling against these shackles. Such is the case for all humankind. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Sect. 3 #10, Pp 130)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - The Sorrowful Path of Restoration for God and Humankind • Since human beings were born from the fall, that is, false parents, they cannot relate directly with God, no matter how great their effort. That is to say, they have no base upon which to build an internal relationship with the Creator of heaven and earth. However, we human beings have a bond with God, who created us not to fall, but to attain perfection according to the standard of the Principle of Creation. Based on this bond, God had us fulfill our responsibility again through a second course, the providence of restoration. Its purpose is to raise us up to the position we had prior to the Fall. As a result of the Fall, human beings had plummeted into a realm devoid of the Principle. In other words, we fell into a world outside of the Principle where God, even though He wanted to, could not intervene. (CSG, Book 1, Chapter 4, Section 1, #34, Pp 102) • I am trying to liberate God by my own efforts. God is not free; He is in confinement. He is the Parent who has lost His sons and daughters. When a filial child dies, even if another child is ten times more devoted than the deceased child and does everything to ease his or her parents’ hearts, still that child cannot liberate them to the point of restoring their hearts to their original state. I am like that second devoted child, trying nevertheless to liberate God who is in that situation. Meanwhile, Christians today mistakenly believe that God is omnipotent and therefore can do anything He pleases. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Section 3, #21, Pp 133)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - The Sorrowful Path of Restoration for God and Humankind • In the Old Testament Age, the things of creation were sacrificed to pave the way for the Son and, in the New Testament Age, the Son offered himself as a sacrifice to pave the way for the Lord of the Second Advent, the True Parents. In the Completed Testament Age, True Parents sacrifice themselves in order to bring God’s vertical love to the earth. In relation to humankind, God is the vertical Parent of true love. True Parents are the horizontal Parents, whose love is aligned at a ninety-degree angle with the vertical Parent. On the foundation of this vertical and horizontal love, God’s love and life will be able to burst forth for the first time. With the virtuous union of husband and wife with God, new blood ties between them will expand, based on the love of True Parents. In this way, the seed of life that began in God’s love based on the standard of the original Principle will appear on earth for the first time in human history. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Sect. 2, #36, Pp 127)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - The Liberation of God and the Way of the Filial Child • When parents have lost a child, to whom can they appeal about their miserable situation? Unless that child comes back to life and assuages his or her parents’ grief, the bitter sorrow embedded in their hearts cannot be dissolved. Nor can they remove the nail that pierced their heart. Who will take out that nail from God’s bitter heart and liberate it with tears of love? Who can pull that nail out of the flesh and blood of God’s heart and heal it with restored flesh? Who can give God release from His sorrow? It is we who must liberate God, and we should do so before tending to our own liberation. You should know that this is the path to the ultimate liberation that religious people are seeking. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Sect. 3, #18, Pp 132)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - The Liberation of God and the Way of the Filial Child • God has been the God of sorrow throughout history, in every age. God was sorrowful in the past and remains so in the present. Those who do not recognize and respond to our grieving God will face judgment. If you truly love God, how can you ask Him to take away your pain and sorrow? God has taken responsibility for all the pain and sorrow throughout history, and we should feel indebted and grateful that He has done so. Yet without recognizing this fact, we bring our own pain and sadness to God. For this, we are bound to face judgment. God will recognize the person who weeps alone over his or her own sorrow, unable to pray to God about such personal pain, knowing that God has already endured so much pain and sorrow through all the ages of history. We must be the sons and daughters who can say, “God, Your pain is so great compared to mine! I will manage my own situation. Please let me do Your work, even if I have to face death.” If you constantly ask God for blessings, you will not be able to raise your head before God. You should recognize how sinful that attitude is. The more deeply you go into the realm of God’s love, which is full of grace, the more you will realize that you are a sinner who cannot lift your head in front of God. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Sect. 1, #15, Pp 97)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - The Liberation of God and the Way of the Filial Child When you are comforted by someone who has more reason to be upset than you, you can find some consolation in that. However, God has no one to comfort Him, because he has more grievances than anyone in the world. God is the alpha and the omega. A knot of bitterness remains in the depths of His heart. How can He resolve it? This has been God’s deep, inner anguish. Under these circumstances God has carried out the providence of restoration to this day. The spirit world transcends time and space; hence, even the sorrow of six thousand years ago can persist forever throughout the realms formed by the ages of history. If you have ever experienced the joy of devoting yourself as a true offering, you will never forget that experience for the rest of your life. With the passage of time, more and more people will recognize and respect you for your offering. The breadth and depth of your offering will increase, and you will be even more deeply connected with the infinite Origin. When you have such mystical experiences, you will recognize that God’s sorrow has not been merely momentary, but has continued up to the present day. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Sect. 1, #25, Pp 99-100)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God – The Liberation of God and the Way of the Filial Child • Tears are flowing from God’s eyes; red blood is surging in His heart. Yet the blood vessels through which His blood should be flowing are clogged, and He is brought low as if at the point of death. I am resolved to liberate this suffering God by following the way of a filial son, patriot, world saint and divine son. And after I have done all that, and God comes and embraces me and says with tears, “You have worked hard,” still I will have to say, “I have done nothing.” I turn away to shed my own tears only after I have dried God’s tears. I am going such a way according to Heaven’s law. It is the path that I must go as the True Father. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Sect. 3, #20, Pp 133) • God is in the process of restoration. He is not in His original state as God. Rather, He is a God of sorrows, a God who deserves to be consoled. He is not the God of joy, but of despair. For God to return to His original state, we must liberate Him. We cannot do it with money or power. Human capacity falls short. It is possible only by true love. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Sect 3, #25, Pp 134)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - The Liberation of God and the Way of the Filial Child • We need to save the nation and world. Yet in order to save the world, we first must liberate God. Only after God is liberated can the world be liberated. What I am saying is that we have to liberate God first and then liberate the world. For this, we Unification Church members have to reach out to the ends of the earth. The bonds of heart we establish with people should be like stakes of love sunk deep into the earth. In this way we will melt the world with love. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt 4, Section 3, #17, Pp 132) • Some people pray, “O God of glory! Please give me blessings.” But God is not in that position. On the contrary, He is in misery, suffering in confinement. God is in such a sorrowful situation because He has no true sons and daughters, and only through their birth can He be liberated. That is why we must become true sons and daughters-in order to liberate God. Unless we do so, the way of Heaven cannot be properly secured and the ideal world cannot be established on earth. This has been the mission of the Unification Church during the course of its history. That mission is to correct what went wrong. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Section 3, #24, Pp 133-134)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - The Liberation of God and the Way of the Filial Child • Unification Church members are working as a unit for God’s liberation. We are not talking about liberating the world. Liberating the world is rather easy. Liberating the world merely requires bringing peoples and nations together, but liberating God requires unity of heart. For this we need the Principle, which is a system of thought that can unite the realm of love. We have to untangle the entangled relationships in the spirit world and build bridges of heart on earth. It is a revolution more fearsome and difficult than any other. This is why I say that liberating humanity is easy compared to liberating God. It simply amazes me that I have become the standard- bearer for tackling a task unprecedented in this world. It is remarkable that I have been able to provide answers to the fundamental issues of providential history. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Sect. 3, #26, Pp 134)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - The Liberation of God and the Way of the Filial Child • God is the Absolute Being. Therefore, He must accomplish what He has purposed, and He must bring His Will to pass. In order to rectify the situation that arose after the Fall, God must put Adam and Eve into a repair shop, remake them into people who can receive God’s original love, and place them in the ideal positions they had prior to the Fall. Then, having restored them as the Parents, God must connect all His children to them. Because God is in the situation where He must do all this, He had to begin the providence of salvation. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Sect. 1, #27, Pp 100) • Christianity teaches the idea of the returning Christ. But when Jesus returns, what will he do? God has not been able to evade Satan’s incessant demands. Only the Messiah can cut off Satan; only he can stop Satan; only he can stop Satan from making demands on God and making claims for his unrighteous cause. That is why the Lord of the Second Advent has to come to earth and liberate God. The Lord of the Second Advent must carry out the central role, to stand for public righteousness and take responsibility for liberating God. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt 4, Sect. 3, #19, Pp 132)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - The Liberation of God and the Way of the Filial Child • We should not thoughtlessly insist on our own desires, putting ourselves first. How can we simply assert our own views if we understand even a little about the heart of God? God is immersed in bitter sorrow as He labors behind the scenes of history to lead the providence of restoration, trying to find His lost children who can express their true selves. Day and night, we have to live to build the ideal family that God has awaited for six thousand years, that is precisely where the original peaceful world will begin. The ideal family is the starting point of the kingdom of heaven on earth. It is from that point that God’s bitter sorrow will begin to dissolve. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Sect. 1, #26, Pp 100)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - The Liberation of God and the Way of the Filial Child • Throughout human history, it was by paying indemnity that a separation was made between good and evil, a separation was made between happiness and sadness and a separation was made between the way that brings blessings and the way that brings punishment. It is the same throughout the world. Therefore, God’s providence of restoration must also proceed by indemnity. There are no exceptions. Indemnity became necessary as a result of the Fall. Those who live their lives without realizing that they are fallen people are living as though they are on the path of the Fall every day. Because of the Fall, God became the God of sorrow, even as He leads the course of the providence of restoration. And God became the God of pain. Yet sorrow and pain were not the end of it; He lost every precious thing that He cherished. To restore that which He lost, God must go the way of pain; to recover them He must again suffer in sorrow. This is what God must endure as He strives to reclaim what He has lost. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Sect. 1, #23, Pp 114-115)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - The Liberation of God and the Way of the Filial Child

• The Fall caused God to lose what was most precious to Him. It is not the case that the Fall only affected human beings with God having nothing to do with it. God and human beings are in a parent-child relationship. That relationship is in order to realize the ideal of love-the ideal of oneness between them based on love. However, because human beings separated from God, that ideal of unity in love cannot be found. That is what God lost, and that is what He needs to recover. However, just following the course of indemnity is not enough to recover the ideal of oneness in love that God is seeking. To recover this ideal, there needs to be a program for re-creation. Human beings need to be remade based on a blueprint, just as a blueprint is needed for manufacturing a product in a factory. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Sect. 1, #73, Pp 114-115)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - The Liberation of God and the Way of the Filial Child • The Savior is God’s representative who can dissolve the bitter sorrow in God’s heart, the sorrow that was brought by the first human beings’ failure to fulfill God’s love in accordance with His Will. Because they never realized God’s love, all people are in despair and filled with bitter sorrow. The Savior is the one who dissolves this bitter sorrow and brings God’s love to fulfillment. He comes to help people attain this original love. The Savior does not come to feed those who are hungry physically. He comes to liberate God. A man is liberated when he has a wife of true love. When a man has a wife who loves him and remains with him eternally, there is no imprisonment. He is free. Does God, the original central being, enjoy that kind of freedom? He is a sorrowful God, who, while searching for love and investing His love, had to forget how much He invested, only to invest again. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Section 1, #78, Pp 116)

Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Insights on God - The Liberation of God and the Way of the Filial Child • You are the ones who have to carry out the final remaining adventurous mission on the level of the universe at the conclusion of six thousand years of history. Since this is a universe-level mission, in order to meet it you must also be on the level of the universe. You must be courageous and filled with inner determination to carry out this mission. If your life of faith falls short of what is needed for God’s Will, what will happen? Up to the present, God’s history progressed when individuals took a bold course that transcended ordinary reality. Hence, you too must go through the gate of an adventurous universe-level course. Only then can you uphold the flag of final victory, sing “Hosanna” in front of God, and stand in the position of His brides before the entire universe. If you are to become God’s princes and princesses, you must overcome all conditions without stumbling, and weather any circumstances, even persecution or ridicule. You must set a standard of boldness that transcends ordinary reality. (CSG, Book 1, Chpt. 4, Section 1, #63, Pp 111)

The Way of the Blessed Central Family • The preceding slides have expanded upon one aspect of Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s revelation about God – the God of Suffering and Restoration. Other aspects of Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s revelation about God, such as the God of Creation and the Ideal, could be the focus of additional presentations on the topic of our eternal attendance of God on the Vertical Axis. • In addition, the preceding slides have expanded upon only component of just the First Fundamental Duties and Missions declared by Rev. Sun Myung Moon for every citizen of Cheon Il Guk. Others components of this first duty and mission which should also be examined utilizing True Parent’s words and thought, include: • Establish the realm of three generations in your family • Perfect the Four Great Realms of Heart • Uphold the King of Peace in Heaven and on 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 • Make living for the sake of others, which is practice of true love, the standard of your life • 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. • In addition, the second through seventh duties and missions should be featured in subsequent presentations.

The Way of The Blessed Central Family Discussion and Reflection Points • How can we translate the duty and mission to attend God on the vertical axis for eternity, informed by those aspects of True Father’s Revelation which discloses the God of Salvation and Restoration, into your daily life as Blessed Central Families? • What advice would you like to pass onto future Blessed Central Families related to this presentation’s focus?

Reflections Shared • When you talk about a couple, there is a standard and blueprint. True Father was talking about the family for everyone, not only for our church community. In the couple, you have to agree on the standard and blueprint – HDH is the lifeblood of the couple. If you can relate everything through God’s heart, that is good. However, the word acceptance keeps coming to mind – we have to love those who are not Unificationists – you have to acknowledge hell.

• Today’s presentation explained some of the blueprint- through this one and others to come, we need to bring the pieces together. The essence is, humans have responsibility. One of our responsibilities is to understand and then make the blueprint work in our lives.

• It is important to realize that God created us because he needed love. One key quote is, “Have a family that True Father would want to visit.”

• One point that we must remember is that our Blessings are conditional , thus while we are striving to realize an ideal family and fulfill the second Blessing, each partner must also continue their personal growth to perfection. One aspect of the Blessing requires that each partner also takes responsibility to help their spouse and also their children reach the same goal of perfection. To do this successfully ,each partner must overcome their past limitations/concepts and meet with God at each stage of their growth.

• It might be a good practice to have a worldwide daily/weekly reading of True Father’s words that can help set the tone for our church, helping us to develop our hearts to witness and also to win back those who have left the movement.

The Way of the Blessed Central Family