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Enlightenment Central Unification of Religions and Science

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By: Peter Nordquist

The World Research Institute fo r Science and Technol og, ,, as fo rmed by Re v. Sun Mvun g Moon in the early 198()’ s. The mo st important assignment has been the maki ng of a “ Spirit World Machine’·. Truth and /\s ·’home\\ ork” for this project. wc were asked to stud\” Sincerity ·’hem med ium s do what they do’’. /\s I was st udying the top character for ·’Truth’’ in the calligra phy fo r W. R. I. S.T., it rem inded me of the sym bol for OM (AUM) in Hindui sm and B uddhism. Th us began mv attempt to understand inter-re ligious mysticism, wh ich resu lted in the fo rmat ion of this notebook. Peter Nordqui st 1/6/04

Unification Thought ’ :iJt;· \ .z;, -~ ,..,. i L Two Stage Process of Creation . Two Sets of Dual Characteristics

Gen 1:27 So God created n1an in his own inutge, in the hnage -~ ,. /. of God he creatP<I him; male and female he created them. - l,,,,J~- \. ·- I A)Sung Sang / Internal Character /Subject /Mind / Heaven

B) llyung Sang / External Form / Object / Body / Earth

A)Yang / i\fast·uline / Subject / Aggressive / Positive / Heaven

B) Yin / Feminine / Object / Passive / Negative / Earth

Three Blessings

Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God

said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”

John 1: 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the

First Blessing- Be Fruitful Word was with God, and the Word was God.

• Grow to spiritual maturity lCor 6:19 Do you not know that your body is a by obeying God’s Word. temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you • Unite Mind and Body have from God? You are not your own; • Prepare to receive God’s Second Great Blessing - the Blessing of Marriage 1Cor 6:20 You were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Freedom and the Fall Adam and Eve did not all because o Freedom. There is no Freedom outside the Principle. There is no Freedom without Responsibility. There is no Freedom without Actual Results. Free Will is subject to Free Action as object. Original Mind is subject to the Conscience as object.

God - Hananim o~L~~

Life Mind - SaengShim ~., L, Body Mind - YukShim A ., G

Original Mind - Bon Shim ~., C..,,

Emotion - Jung ‘I’m ~

Intellect - Ji XD

“In the Divine Principle there is a section in the Principle of Creation about the original or divine mind. “The greatest problem of humanity today is the That mind is the essence of each person, being the living separation between mind and body, with these two soul which is eternally connected to God. It is through contradicting each other instead of harmonizing with each the original mind that people can be regenerated, to live other. In restoration, it is ,vhen the divine mind or soul the true value and purpose of life here on eatih. Without becomes the master of the human body that a person’s life the divine mind we have no means by which to make can become God -centered. It is as if God’s mind were any relationships between ourselves, God, the spirit coming to dwell within that person. As a person responds world and the physical world. Your divine mind to his divine mind that person will find his purpose and functions in conjunction with your conscience. As it goal. Fallen man has no hope or direction unless that does your whole body will certainly have a purpose and connection with the divine mind takes place. Until then,

“Fallen man’s ultimate goal is to reach his “The purpose of religion is to plant the divine divine mind. Religions have evolved now to a point mind in the human heart . There are many kinds of where they are close to finding the divine mind, yet religion : some fonn small circles and others large still they have not touched it. They circle around and circles, but some even form distorted circles. The come out again yet they do not see it. When the true important thing is to realize that even though there religion of God finally is fu lly revealed its focus \.viii are many religions, very few actually deal directly be the divine mind; it may come out and go in and with the divine mind .” circle around many times, but still it will not fai l to pinJJoint the target .”

“The amazing thing about this search is this: In searching from the outer to the inner circle the individual is in front. However, after reaching your divine mind there will always be someone else in front of you; from that time on God is ahead of you. Once you reach the divine mind within you and come back out to the world, you will find that God is already before you; thus nothing will be able to disconnect you or overcome you. In this way the world is guaranteed of finding peace.”

Second Blessing- Multiply

Perfect • The Dual Characteristics of Sung Sang and Hyung Sang are Primary relative to those of Yang and Yin, which are Secondary. Ideal Family • Perfect Person - The Output of Stage 1 becomes the Inr.ut of Stage 2.

Third Blessing- Dominion Ideal The Yang and Yin qualities of the Trne Family Family represent Im1er Yang / Inner Yin, which act as Subject to the Yang / Yin of Things of Creation as Object.

True Love, Life, Lineage and Conscience: The Womb of God

On May 1, 1998 at the 44th anniversary of the HSA-UWC, Rev. Moon explained about Love, Life, and Lineage in conjunction with Universal Prime Force as the Feminine aspect of God. “Lineage,” he explained, “is the Subject of Conscience.”

“Another way of interpreting this formula of Origin, Division and Union, is that the Origin, which is God ‘s position, can be interpreted as a plus. The Union can be interpreted as Man ‘s position, which is a

Rev. Sun Myung Moon, True God ‘s Day, l/1/1996

Three Great Blessings : Integrated Body Mapped to the Body.

“The mouth is the m·gan The Head re resents God. through which love and life can be connected.” The Arms re resent Mankind. Rev. Moon,”The Best The Le s re resent Nature. Thing” 1/4/1981

The Vertical Flow Transformed to the Quadruple Base

Love. Li fe. Lineage and Conscience: God. Mankind and ‘.\alurc Love Life Linea 1c and Conscience The Origin stage Love contains elements position represents of heart and purpose, which in Unification Thought are central God; the Division to the Identity Maintaining and stage of Subj ect and the Developing Quadruple Object can be Bases, respective ly . interpreted as Adam Although he felt that an d Eve (Mankind); English does not have an adequate wo rd , Rev . Moon said the Union stage can be that the best English word for interpreted as Nature. the Korean word fo r love is “cooReration”.

Four Ori inal Natures Opposite to the Four Fallen Food for Thou.,ht: Natures that resulted from the Fall of Man are Four Original Unification Thought Natures. explains that the process I) Taking God ’ s viewpoint exists that finally allows

2) Keeping one’s proper position the Identity Maintaining and the Developing Four- 3) Maintain ing proper orde r Position-Bases to have give

an receive ac ion an o exhibit truth, beauty and . goo~ s. riroduce a re.:.. su ;,.liiit.r -._..,…_…

Three As ects No Freedom Without: •--··•- . . - . . - 1) Principle

I• The Divine Principle defines freed om as requiring three criteria. • • II • … ·-11· • … .. ’ : E . .• . These correspond to the Three Great Blessings, • •I • El

and to the 3 stages of development of the 4- … ml ~ J)Adual Results Position~ FQundation.

Three ;\s eels of the Co mm andment: Wh Y God Gave the Commandment 3 Reasons WhY God Did Not Interfe re With the Fall of Man The reason for God to gin• the Commandment was not to test mankind, Why did God nor simpl)· to prevent us from falling. ., allow Adam and Eve to disobey His Word? I’!

I r The three reasons listed II in the diagram also The answer is closely correspond to the Three related to the reasons Great Blessings and the 11!,1 II three stages of for giving the de,·elopment of the 4- position -foundation, which are : Commandment. I II

••• Two Sta e Process of Creation: Dual Characteristics Tree: The First and Second Blessings Low and Beauty

I — In the usual Unification Thought diagram , the Logos is the output of I II stage I. The Logos then enters into the Sung Sang position of the stage 2 • ~ _ • ~ iii

Quadruple Base . In th is diagram that ~ ~ trans ition is drawn vertically with the emphasis on the dual characteristics of the Sung Sang and Hyung Sang . • … _,

‘Ill Ilshim + Ilshin ~ == Ilchai ~ On May 3 of 1998, Rev. Moon spoke at Sunday service and ex lained that he had ·ust com leted as ecial 14-da r

prayer condition for the families of Heung Jin Nim and Jesus, after having just elevated America to the Elder Son position in a ceremony in Korea. For the first time in 40 years, he explained that he could again work with America representing worldwide Christianity. At the ceremony held after the 14 days, he made the condition to unite the religions of the ,vorld centering on Christianity. Then Father Moon explained that our motto was “Ilshim, Ilshin, Ilchai”. Everything else we can forget, he said, but not this motto. This motto emphasizes the ideal ,otihe family:.,

llshim I l l+ llshin ~ = llchai ~ II Shim II Shin II Chai On the fo undat ion of having achieved mind/body unity Mind and body must as individuals, the husband and wi fe un ite their minds during be united twice. once as an the day (Il shi m) and their bodi es at night (Il shin ). These two individual and the second together return to the Origin stage of the Quadruple Base of ~ ~ ·-..___… Pme<I ‘\ time as a husband and / -Jl.iio•S· · woman’s ’ the Second Great Bless ing. This is the tvvo-stage process of wife , married \.Vith God’s ‘Mind ’ Mind / ·----- in th e in Ille creation. representing ful fi ll ing the fi rst and second blessings . Day Time ~ DayJ1,111e The Third Great Blessing automatically appears as O bject to blessing. This achieves the ·------- . .

True Fami ly as Subject. Re v. Moon further clarified that substantial unification of One . the two fund amental sets of ’ Body Ilshim represents the D ivi sion Stage of the Q uad ruple Base “ Nigh!Ti.me

and that Ilshin represents the Union Stage . ·-------

The Four Ma·or Hol The Four Ma·or Hal Today is the 22 nd Parents’ Da y. Parents Day was established on Order of Establishment April 10, and after that came Children ‘s Day, Day of All Things and God’s Day. Centering on Parent’s Day and Children ‘s Day, 1) Parents’ Day Day of All Things, God’s Day and Day of Heaven would have all 2) Children’s Day come into bei ng at the same time. Then, of cou rse, the history of 3) Day of All Things restoration would not have been necessary … 4) God’s Day

Salvation actually means saving the four heavenly days also. They should have no other origin except God . Parents’ Day and This Age , April 5, 1981 , Rev. Sun Myung Moon

The Three Great Blessin s wTith Assi nments from Unification Thou ht and Rev. Moon’s S eeches

1.Fruitful 2. 1\llultiply 3.Dominion Education Education Education of of of

Heai1 Nonn Teclmique God Mankind Nature Love Life Lineage Emotion Will httellect Heai1 Mind Body

Com al’ison With the Jewish Natural Arnn· Tree of Lifl’ Com al’ison With the Jewish Natural Arnn· Tree of Lifl’

There are t\vo sabbaths. one vertical or masculine. 10 Commandments the other horizontal or feminine. The masculine 1) Thue is only one God. Will 2 ) Don 1 t worship idols. Wisdom sabbath is the Y esod. representing the male sexual 3) Don’t cw·se. Understandiug \’--?<C?”””S><:-_,,/ 4) Remember the Sabbath. Beauly organ and the 7th commandment, “Don ‘t commit 5) Honor yow· parents. Meny/Love 6) Don’t kill. Sn·engtJ, adultery.” The feminine sabbath is Malchut, 7) Don’t couunit adulte1-y. Fowodation 8) Don’t steal. Victory 9) Don’t lie. Glo1-y representing the female sexual organ and the 10 th 10) Don’t em-y 01· be jealous. Kingdom (Minimwn Standard) (Highest Ideal) commandment, that includes “Don’t covet yom neighbors wife.”

• • • Comparison With the Jewish Na tura l Array Tree of Life

-.• ~•1 The Natural Arrav Tree of Life has 22

we11 w~ll liil ,_ _1 channels along which give and receive action take place bet\veen the 10 positions of the

I 1 liil holy emanatio.ns. The 22 cl.iannels repr.esent the 10 fingers. the 10 toes . the tongue. and

a•1• the sexual organ. They also represent the 22 IIJ!!II letters of the Hebrew alphabet, which consist I I • of3 groups.

II • I •-· a•• • liil IJII The 3 horizontal lines represent the 3 Mother Letters. The 7 vertical lines represent the 7 Fath er_L. etters, and the 12 diagonal lines represent the 12 Children letters.

Com arison With the Jewish Natural Array Tree of Life The 3 Mother Letters also represent (from the top do,,1n “Shin, Aleph, Mem”, which are assigned to Fire, Air and Water) 1) Circumcision of the tongue 2) Circu1ncision of heart and 3) Circumcision of the flesh, which is the sign of the Covenant between God and Abraham. The 3 Mother Letters also represent 3 levels of soul, known as (from the top down) 1) N eshamah - di vine soul 2) Ruach - eternal soul 3) Nefesh - the level of soul that is in th~.bl99,d.::i.n4 c.liss.i,p~J~s ~t.c.l~,t1.th: :

As AbO\c. So Belo\\ (Jc,,1sh Tree) S11nultaneous Appearance AbO\e and Rehm

.I 1) Orig_in I • st•~ • 1) Origin I • Klt’J . I 1·

,· I I •a II I d • - The Parnava: AUM I - Hinduism in a N ut she ll I Everv cvcle of the Between the In-breath breatl1 t;.ansitions and the Out-breath The Allin plus the through the 4 states. silence afterwards ..

The Parnava: AUM 2 The Aum symbol is expanded to include the Creation, Preservation, Destruction (Evolution) process of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva . These “gods” are often viewed in a monotheistic fashion as various aspects of energy within the human body . The One God is Brahman.

The expanded AUlVI expressed as a quadruple base is again showing •n The PranaYa: AUM 3

•.·• the process of creation from a Hindu per. spective. Destruction is -~ ollen termed as evolution. … ~ The term. destruction. is possibly used to emphasize a transition . from that which has been I r’iill I •I ·I! •- preserved by an Almighty Force of 1 II B.V..E Preservation. Hearing the AUM, which can be ‘1iil 1 experienced in different ways, is Ill • 0

one’s spiritual path by the ~ igh_t~Jfimsel

A I Iindu View of Conscience “I have come across many a person who argues ,vith that in him ,vhich is not in Himsdf Some also say they have made their conscience as Guru or l\faster. But I am sure they have not made their conscience as their Guru but their own ego. The conscience, as described in the Shastras, is made of four things - manas (mind), chit (deeper conscience), buddhi (cognition) and ahamkara (ego). !fall these become perfectly purified, conscience will give you only con-ect signals. After the purification of these things there come the higher powers. And at the same time purity has now begun all round. I hope people will excuse if I add a little more in the conte>..1 that incon-ect way of worship will lead to the incon-ect result. We all desire for realization, but we have no yearning for it. I pray that we all retw’ll to our original condition and see the difference between the earthly andt he heavenly life!” Ram c:handra of Shajahanpur :2/24/73

Allah Unknowable/Undefinable M ajhul-W’l-N at Truili/Re ality Haqiqat The Pute Essence Zoht-a!-Baht The Beyond-Beyond State of Goel Wan-ul-Wara The Hidden of the Hidde.n Ghaib-ul-Ghaib The Eternity ofEtemities Azl-ul-Azal The Absolute Existence

… Wujud-e-MuU&.q The state in rela.tion to which all indications are dropped. MW’lqata-ul-lzharat The Unity of God in Essence T auhid- e-2 ati The terminology in this Sufi Tree of Life was taken from the book by Meher Baba •’””-~--~. .. ••-~ ~· ~-

entitled “God pea s . God’s Divine Essence

Divine Knowledge Qudret

ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY

ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY ORIENTAL P HILOSOPHY

A= Vru ,~,r. Vtf\l I l~11n~1 0= run VAf\Ir.

ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY

THREE COINS HEADS/ YANG : 3 TAILS/ YIN= 2

2+2+2=6 2+2+3=7 2+3+3=8 3+3+3=9

#1 Dauahter #2 Dauahter #3 Dauahter

ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY

=== R,r nlHlr l=’ nPJ:”N :._: ~ - - -p•··

Y - v;· = - . . ; - - Y4- i:-m~ri:-

l’II’~ n . == 4- ·:: ‘”’n RnI

MnllMTAlt-.1 ~mu:i:- :--:: = 7 _ r.PnllNn

ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY

The Three Bodies of Buddhism: The Tri-kaya The unchang ing absolute of Buddhism is called “suchness” or “thatness”.

As Tibet’ s great Buddhist yogi, Milarepa said, “Altrui sm leads to enlightenment, whereas selfi shness leads to bondage.”

Altruism is th e principle ofli ving for the

Have you ever asked your minds whe re thei r ori gi nal homeland is? Try and see. History has progressed and cu lt ures have advanced. External environments have evolved and advanced to a certain degree according to culture or human intelligence. However, the world of the heart has remained unchanged . This worl d of the heart does not experience revolutions or progress; it is inherently eternal and unchanging. When you have a certain sense of purpose and se_t a clear goal, you will run limitlessly.

When the needle of a compass is lined up to the notih and south poles, there is no way to turn it unless you apply a force stronger than the force pulling the needle to the poles. Like,vise, the ,vorld of the conscience cannot be moved. The function of

the mind which cannot be moved lies in the realm of ideology. When a clear sense of purpose is set for the mind, you can ce1iainly cause an action that can pull every cell and every emotion.

God cannot sh ift the standard of the heart at Then the problem is simple. No matter how whim. It can be moved only in ha rm ony with the great the function of the mind may be. it cannot be body. We have to control our body, put it in a certain more effective than the level the person has reached. situation. and align the orientation of the heart w ith Do you understand? It cannot make a greater impact the lavvs of the universe. God wants such laws of truth than the state the person has attained. Even though it to be established. If a truth appears which can link the stands in the position of a subject pa11ner. it cannot world together and join it with th e principles of be much more effective. Because the mind stands in Heaven, the conscience can expand outward without the reciprocal position to control the body, it cannot limits and be active. function outside of the reciprocal relationship.

M:alhU-1111•/’IM Haql11,11 ~ -aJ.-lbbt W…n-ul-W;,Q only used for meditation. but Ch:,!J,. uJ.Ch:’Olb A21-ul·AJ:II Wujv,t,,. l-h,tUa~ also !cir magic (science of the Mwiq:,a-ul- lth.u’:i,t 1tit,.~Gocl • Tauhld-e-2..:itf Magi). The diagram at the right preserves the numeri cal W- assignments of the three columns of the Natura l Array Tree of Life. y The inner circle is Above and the Outer circle is Below. Odd numbe rs are positive or Yang and even numbers are negative or Yin.

Mystical numerology Science of the Ma i: 2 contends that wherever the same number is found that there is a A+ similarity of purpose. this F- N ‘VV- mapping of numbers relates the Tree of Life to the Periodic Table of Elements, based on the Atomic Number. All the elements in the Air column exemplify the Ne F+ qualities of Air which represents Will, and similarly for those in the Water and Fire lines.

S . ftl M . 3 Tl P . d’ T bl Quantum Systems (Origi na lly published as a letter to the editor) Mapping of Periodic Table to Air, Water and Fire of 4 Directions Here’s a thought for you . Superconductivity, the (Clockwise• EasVSpring to North/Winter) Meisner Effect the atom, the double slit electron scattering E (Spri,,;J S(Sumrn,,) WAutunU\) N(Wintu) experiment, all demonstrate seemingly miraculous behavior of A+ F+ W+ A+ F+ W+ W- A- F- W- A- electrons (and the electromagnetism involved) … … indicating 1 H 3 Li 5 B 7N 9 F llNa 2 He 4 Be 6 C 8 0 10 Ne that “electrons are psychic”. The one word explanation used to 13Al 15P 17 Cl 9K 21 Sc 23 V 14 Si 16 S 8 Ar 20 Ca 22 Ii explain all of these phenomena is “quantum” , as in quantum 25Mn 27 Co 29 Cu 31 Ga 33 As 35 Br 26 Fe 28 Ni 30 Zn 32 Ge 34 Se 37 Rb 39 Y 41 Nb 43 Tc 45 Rh 47 Ag 38 Sr 40 Zr 42 Mo 44 Ru 46 Pd state or quantum mechanics . 49 In 51 Sb 53 I 55 Cs 57 La 59 Pr 50 Sn 52 Te 54 Xe 56 Ba 58 Ce Quantum states occur in quantum systems. Since the universe at the subatomic level is a quantum system then we can assume that all consequent larger aspects bu ilt up fro m the smaller are also quantum systems and that God, the creator, is J.L 106 10s a quantum God who has quantized the universe .

Physic ists claim that they don’t understand why electrons behave this way, and that maybe nobody else does Relationships on all level s of the family. society , nation either. But I understand. The reason is that a subject and object and world need to enter a quantum state in order to be of a lower level unite and become an object to a subject of a protected, prosper and develop in the di rection of goodness . hi gher level for the purpose of gaining highe r dimens ional We might call this the theory of the fami ly as a quantum value, harmony and closeness to God, who is the subj ect of system with the expectation that a definition of the family highest dimension. grounded in “Quantum Mechanics” will resolve the social Those particles and systems such as atoms that enter problems caused by family breakdown and help to systematize quantum states are enjoying the protection of the universe as our understanding of what a family is and how it is supposed the higher level vertical subject. Thus they maintain their to work. identities. Similarly a fami ly in which there is unity between parents and children, husband and wife, and siblings, enters a quantum state and is r.rotected by the universe .

Life Pluribus

Lineage Family America Conscience The God-centered Family expresses … “e pluribus unum”, and teaches absolute sexual ethics and living for the sake of others.

Concludi n, Comments from Rev. Moon and Swami Vivekananda: “The Hindu may have failed to carry out all his plans, but if there is ever to be a universal religion, it must be one which will have no “In order to move the spirit world, our teaching must not only be locati on in place or time; which will be infinite like the God it will endorsed by God but also accord with the desires and hopes of the preach, and whose sun wi ll shine upon the followers of Krishna and many saints and religious leaders who lived and worked on emth. It of Christ, on saints and sinners alike; which will not be Brahminic or must explain the core of what Gautama Buddha wanted to propose, Buddhistic, Christian or Mohammedan, but the sum total of all these what Confucius wanted to carry out, what Jesus wanted to preach •· and still have infinite space for development; which in its catholicity and even the content of things yet unknown. All these people must will embrace in infinite arms, and find a place for. every human being give their seal of approval.” from the lowest groveling savage, not far removed from the brute, to the hi hest man towerin b ’ the virtues of his head and heart almost

1e pro em 1s 10w to connect t 1e re 1g1ons o servant an a opte above humanity, making society stand in awe of him and doubt his son to the reli gion of son, which is their center and vehicle for human nature. It will he a religion which will have no place for reaching the religion of parents. O nly then can a system endorsed by persecution or intolerance in its polity. which will recognize divinity the heavenly spirit world and God emerge.” in every man and woman, and whose whole scope, whose w hole force, will be centered in aiding humanity to realize its own true, Rev. Sun M yung Moon, May 1, 198 1 in Seoul, Korea divine nature. … · …_.,,s ----

Olfor such a rel igion and all the nations will follow you. Asoka’s Three Sets of Parents council wa s a co uncil of the Buddhist fa ith. Akbar’s. though more to the purpose. was only a parl or meeting. It was reserved for America to proclaim to all quarters of the globe that the Lord is in every religion. We have three sets of parents. Nature is our ‘.\fay He who is the Brahma of the Hi ndus, the Ahura-1\.lazda of the Zoroastrians, the Budd ha of the Buddhi sts. the Jehovah of the Jews. first parent. Our physical the Father in Heaven of the Christians. give strength to you to carry parents are our second out yo ur noble idea! The star arose in the East: it travelled steadil y parents, and God is our towards the \Vest, someti mes dimmed and sometimes effulgent. till it made a circ uit of the ,;vorl d, and no”v it is again ri sJng on the very third and most important horizon of the East, the borders of the Sanpo ‘, a thousand fold more parent of heart and love. efful gent than it ever was before. “

·-·---- Swami Vivekananda, Sept 19, 1893, World’s Parliament of Religions

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