Men Are Destined to Go the Road of Restoration - Returning Home - Original document

… veryone, regardless of age, is seeking something better •. What are they longing for?· … ver.’yone likes money, everyone is eager for power, everyone is longing for knowledge. e know that every individual upon this earth is seeking these three major essences.

:.f you want to have money, how much do you want? Man’s goal is not ch~ap; it is pot malL Everyone is eager to have enough money to buy the whole world. And ho\v much . wer are you seeking? Man is a greedy creature in a way. No matter how much power . e has, even if that power seems good enough to seize the power of the _e ntire world, mething within him is not satisfied.

you knC?w how greedy man is? Man is seeking and longing to possess God as his ·own. ave you ever thought where this desire and this longing originated? There m~~_U>e .:. origin of desire. There must be an origin of longing. Without thfs origin there is - th~ . . Do you think there is a ~~;l t~~’as~re on the earth? Are y~~-the one. to be the :· ner? Do :YOU think there is any individual who really deserves the power of the world · day? Do:you think the master of the White House, President Johnson, deserves the . wer of tl:e pntire world? It is not the men who are presently leading the nations of :· e world who deserve .the power. No. The owner of the knowledge and power is someone =-Se.

•nen you think of all this, why are you seeking more money? For what and for whom _.:-e you seeking po,,er ? Why search for knowledge? No matter how you try you will 0 er _be the true conqueror of these three. No one living on earth can be the owner - r can he claim the o,vncrship of these three. Man probably can be the temporary · lper of these things. Man has been struggling in human history for money. Money, many cases, is the cause of fighting, struggle, and battle. In many cases this. - tle is vdthin the family, within the nation, within the world. The same with power: . wer has been the cause of struggle in human society. The search for knowledge is - so going to battle with assumptions and logical theo_ries.

- v, :e veryone comes to the point of a worldwide struggle. All three aspects come to · ·e point of struggle on a worldwide scale today. People are realizing that they might — e the wealth , mcney, and treasure that can buy the entire ,vorld, but these things :c nothing compared to their own happtness. Po’i.ver,: too, they arc seeking, but .they :~-cldenly realize this power is not the source of happiness. Now, economically, the rl d is unsafe . Knowledge cannot bring a solution to the problems of the world in ch we live. The world is struggling within two worlds: a, bloc of Democracy and a :- c of Communism. The two arc struggling for something. Do you know who is =- ·ng to be the winner? Between the two, that one which is closest to the real owner

ill eventually be victorious. Human history is moving, not arbitrarily, not by the ind or the ocean tide. History is definit0ly taking up a cause. The economy of the orld must have a goal. PO\W. r has certain objectives. Knowledge has a certain purl-’ose to serve. It is victory in the struggle of the world today. ! I The .;c who know the true destiny of all three will be there first; they are the ultimate anc final victors. There must be a time of struggle for all three ultimately to be ref -.o red. The. hour will arrive. Everything-is headed toward oneness; the economic . one ,~ess, world economy; power, world power; and even ideology, world ideology. =:vt:ry one of us is seeking the true goal and the definite objective that all three are eading for. We are the ones. If there is a way, tlien truly you can possess and secure. that goal. Would you like to?

But that goal will never be achieved with what we have today — economically, power- “is.e , or. through knowledge. The value of man is not predicated upon appearance. he value of man rests upon the value of the mind. Suppose you are very successful .--obtaining money, wealth, power, and world knowledge. If you have·1failed to have ~at world mind that controls you as an individual, your entire cause is lost. The ;>eople of today are seeking outward things. ‘t_he tr~~ourse of historyJs not deci~ed t> the outward causes of _things. Rather the inward things have ultimate impact; the :n;-;~-d -~odd of mind. - The true owner of money, owner o-f p·; \;~, owner of knowledge · not man. You can’t deny that all of creation belongs to the Creator. This land is His. The power and sovereignty are His. Ultimate knowledge is His. God is not king you to seek the outward things but rather God is asking you to contemplate, :o concentrate on the inward world of mind.

You know what God is eager to have? God is not seeking money or power or knowledge. All of these things are already His. God is seeking the world of mind which was de-. royed because of the fall of man. Everyone has to star.t from zero to get back to .he road of restoration. _The world of mind has been destroyed. God has not had true control over man. God is preparing inward and outward things together for the ultimate y of achievement. If, as I said, the true owner is God and if man had not fallen, then =ian and God would be as one and the true owner of money, power, and knowledge ;ould automatically be His Sons. You can really claim this knowledge. The world . as originally yours. The reason is simple: Father, who created this world, is my ather. Therefore, Father’s world is my world. Father’s power is my power. Father is mine; therefore Father’s things a~~e my things. Father’s knowledge is :ruly owned by me because I am His true Son. But the fall of man jeopardized everything. A gap was created between God and man and God’s tbings were lost ecause man lost God. Therefore,. God has to ask you to deny and pay indemnity. ou know all things that originally belonged to God now belong to the evil power. All · ings are out of God’s hands. In order to restore all things to His side, God has to -ny Satan. God works for restoration through the world of religi~n. the world of ind, and if you prep:ire yourselves then you become a true unity with God; outward ings automatically come into proper position. This is why world religion does not :>ay much attention to the materialistic world. ’

The world of religion i~~peratecl in the world of mind. God is urging us to see the _ alue of the inward things. God is not concerned about what you have physically and materially; Goel cares about your mind and what kind of mind it is. Therefore, in religion, the word “judgment” has to be spoken. God has to judge. Why? Because here is a true owner, but many false owners are making a claim. God has to judge and chase the false ones out. Those who promise, in the name of the Lord of the econd Advent, arc the ones who will come with the ultimate solution to tbr..: world of mind, and will unite God and man. This is your work; this is your mission to come. our value is not decided by the treasure or wealth you have, but by the greatness of your mind. God is seeking a man or an individual who has found the true value of the world of mind. Since this \·alue is so great he cannot have anything material bat he cannot give up. God is seeking the man who will put value into the world of mind. God is asking, hoping, and anxiously waiting so He can really pour out His love.

When we look at the course of history _there is a definite stage that has passed. First ·s the economic struggle, the Bill of Rights for the individual dignity of man. Then, ater, the ideological struggle occurs. Do you know what kind of war is left? The -\ only war that will come is a war of religion; the battle in the religious world; the battle \ qf searching for God; the battle of giving ourselves to God. This is an open struggle J of bringing the state of mind up to the level where man was originally intended to be. Do you think God is less knowing? No. Everything you have, put together, doesn’t even come close to the true value of the greatness of God, the truth of God. God is the ltimate value of man’s life. Nothing can surpass God because be is the highest value. Physical life is no longer significant when you find life in God. Unless you restore the true value of God, no goal of humanity will be completely achieved.

hat kind of characteristics is God seeking in you? Now, -let’s extunirie. If every one of you has a desire to possess G6d, are you longing for the dress or the suit that God wears? Are you longing for the diamond that God might have? No. Man is not really seeking that. But many are greedy. (I am not using this word in a bad sense.) • an is seeking something nobler than all these things. Man’s ultimate search is focused and centered upon the love of God, the heart of God. Once you truly taste be flowing love of God, even though you might be given the power to control the entire world, the world you live in today becomes but a grain of sand. In the sight of God he power of the President of the United States is not ·much.

The essence of man’s life — do you know what it is? Man was born to be in love, live in love, die in love, of God — this is th~ essence of man, s original creation. When you are born you are longing for the love of the parent. As you grow older you long after your mate. And you seek love of-your neighbor, love o~ your family. Do you love God to a degree that matches your love for your wife? No love can be compared with the love of God. It is agony and almost heartbreaking; God has this love but has no one to give it to. This love has not been given out to all humanity. Therefore,

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God is seeking children upon whom He can pour out this love. God is seeking the container that will be good enough to contain His love. But no container is good enough to hold the love of God. Since the fall of man no one is capable of restoring himself to be eligible for the love of God. So, God has to find one mediator between himself and man, to bridge the gap. This is the Messiah. God had prepared for 4, 000 years to send this promised one to do that job. The mission of Jesus was to restore the original characteristics, original essentiality of ma~ so that there could be a container good enough to contain the flowing love of God. Jesus came with his secret to give God to man so that man could possess God, but this ultimate purpose of the coming of Jesus was not met. It is obvious. Therefore, Christianity and the Bible promise the second coming of the Christ . .

’ When the time comes for the return of the Christ, the historical pattern must be a repetition of the time of Jesus Christ, a historic parallel. There is one evidence of the end of the world. Instead of God being the center, man has a tendency to put himself in the position of God and tries to relate himself to the rest of the universe. That end of the world, when it comes, will find that God has prepared a small group who can really deny this old type of life and go after something genuine. The Divine Principle movement is heading in the opposite direction from the world.

You can expect from now on a great and serious war, a religious war. A war of religion is a war of spirit, a war of soul. It was originated in spirit world. You might be ainazed when I say this, but many millions of spirits originated this war of religion. They are assaulting the earth. This as·s ault of spirit world will hit the lowest level first, since God is patient. God waits until last. He starts from the very bottom. When you come to the stage that the hope of money, hope of power, hope of knowledge is abandoned, you will feel the vast vacuum created. When your mind comes to this vacuum area, you will be ready to make a relationship with the spirit world. At he end of the world, those who have money, those who have power, those who have knowledge will have more pain than those who have less. You will never know, but all be control is being conducted behind you from the spirit world, the world of thought. Those who are really keen, in the civilized sense, on the pursuit of knowledge can sense the spiritual coming.

Since the spirit world is assaulting today, there are very mysterious and unusual phenomena, such as mental sickness, disturbances, and nervous breakdowns. This all becomes common in the world. It is not confined to a particular area. Outward medicines cannot treat them. The only true way for treatment is to seek .a solution rom the world of mind. You may not know, but when God sets his timetable, the most phenomenal of spirit communication is ~elevant. The more you are agonized and 3.nguished, in spiritual anguish to the point of fear of the unknown, the more you must overcome the spirit. There is a lower spirit, a disturbing spirit coming first; the igh spirit, good spirit comes after this. So you must pass through the spirit. Today, man must be capable of prc\’enting disturbances of the lower spirit so that he may be capable of making contact with good spirits only.

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This way has to be tested by religion. Religion has to give the solution, but today religion is not doing what it is supposed to do. In this helpless world at this particular ime, the Divine Principle Movement, known as Unification Church, has been installed to fulfill the mission of preventing disturbance from lower spirit, and enabling you to counsel with the high spirit for your faster growth. Later, some of you might see the phenomena. Some may talk with spirit. Spirit may make you tell things against your vill. Other people will observe that yc,u appear to be crazy. These are the people who will remain in a middle ground, half-normal. For those who set the religious goal low, this phenomenon has to come to them.

How can you solve the problem? Only true power can do this. Diagnose the true cause of the problem and give the prescription. You can expect among the members of the F amily there will be those who _speak prophecy. But you cannot be sure because some- times they’re quite normal. Sometimes that same person is doing something unusual. You cannot judge which.

But man is not seeking after that. Man’s goal is not those ·phenomena. The search of man is for a true relationship with God. The hope of God, the love of God and God’s e sire is 100 percent parallel. The one who has the ul.timate solution and diagnoses fo r the diseases and sickness of the world is known as the Lord of the Second Advent. ou have to struggle and win through this difficult period before ·you get to the ultimate r elationship with God. This ultimate goal cannot be achieved without treading a rugged path first.

. ow, I am limited to one physical body. I have nothing different from you. If you want :o.try to determine something different in me, it will not be visible because that dif- _:erence is in the world of mind. Knowing this different universal -consciousness is here you find the difference. May I make a tremendous declaration? Will you allow me to say this? I am speaking to you with authority, and this authority was not created ere on earth. This authority was decided by the spirit world. You may not recognize :ne, but the spirit world does. They have to recognize me, because there the battle was ecided and a showdown was made. Mr. Voelker mentioned testimony from Arthur :Cord, who doesn’t know me, and I don’t know him. That is the insignificant part. You ow, sensitives in a way are like microphones or speakers. They speak what the spirit . orld speaks, but they never know the principle behind it. Those who are in the position f sensitives need wisdom. The sensitive must control the spirit instead of letting the pirit control him. Do you know how to control spirit? There is one way to do it : Know :he Principle, know the fundamental Principle. In order to know the Principle, you have :o know the Divine Principle.

nless you have the authority you cannot unify the physical world. Unless you have authority and power to unite the spirit world, you cannot unify the physical world. his is a world of shadow. I have known the path. That path was never known to uman hi~tory, so my path was not an easy one. I was born in Korea, which in a way

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is an underprivileged country, where my path was blocked by the chains of prison. Yet, the prison chains could not really block my path. Through physical experiences I knew that God was sending me even more followers. Do you know why? Because hose ancestors who dwell in spirit world have to work through their generation which is living in the physical world today.

I have studied science. I am a very scientific person, and I do not want any blind faith. I do not want the God :::>f concept. I want tJ_!e Goel of life — and God is life, life itself. That God I seek. The God who can govern life itself and who can be the 1;eal, true-· ackbone of the world. Arthur Ford’s testimony was made available tonight. Gordon (Ross) spoke about his experience. Doris (Walder) spoke, and Miss Kim spoke tonight. hese spiritual experiences can never be a scale for measuring. No. You must look :o the truth behind them. You never knew me. Well, I met Jesus Christ and many · sciples. I did not trust them. I was analyzing them. I was analyzing their revelation f truth. Through this period of analysis I came to know the situation: and heart of esus more than anyone else in this world. The Bible says that Jesus once spoke to :he disciples, “I have so many things to tell you, but you cannot bear them now,” and : became a-ele_vant and crystal clear to me.

Because of the fall of man, man lost the things of creation, lost ultimate knowledge and od Himself. God gave lordship to Adam and Eve and asked them to love all of reation. God wanted them to live with Him. Did they live with God? No, they did ot. And even Jesus Christ in a sense did not live with God here on earth. How do ou know the true God unless you live with Him here on earth? Without living with Him, how do you know His true life? Therefore, there is room for the coming of :be Lord of the Second Advent. As I said, man is destined to go the road of restoration. Since man bas a desire for physical ownership of money, power and knowledge, restora- :ion has been from outward things to inward. But that does not mean that God is neglecting :he inward world. God is establishing the religion of the world and cultivating the human heart. I mean the world of mind for the ultimate day. Do you see the secret? If you · ave a commitment and a real mind, you can willingly give up everything for God. God :s not willing to let you “go for broke. “ God restores even more •

.::>o you know what God requested in His commandment? He asked that you love your God with all your heart, all your mind, all your soul. The man who does this seems to be losing everything. No. The more you really live the commandment, the more od is restoring what is needed. God can’t give to you from the front. God cannot give this way. You go His way. God is bring·ing things from the back of you. History is made by those who were going against the trend of history. In order to go the adverse way, man has to suffer and the one who made history is the one who suffered most. Vhen the ultimate day comes, you may think that the Lord comes from the front, but no, he cannot. The Lord is not coming, heading forward, or in front of the current history. The Lord is coming toward toose who deny the world and are seeking the rue love of God. Somewhere the Lord is coming to them.

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Do you know that many of these people who arc searching for God are the victims of the world? There arc many who arc living in a miserable way. · Have you had many people say to you that you should not go the road of the Divine Principle? When you are heading toward the current of history have you ever had anyone say you should not go that direction? But you should not go the same direction as . everyone else. Have an open mind! Listen to God! Love Him! When you are in the position of a millionaire, can you treasure Him more than the wealth you have? When you have power and you receive this prophecy, can you value this message more?

When Jesus was going the road of death he did not appear in public. He was not pre- paring his road to death among the multitudes. He was even segregated from his disciples. All by himself he had to prepare for his ultimate course. Decision and recommitment came only between the two: God and Jesus. Do you think Jesus would have changed his course for a million dollars? Nothing, no value in this world could change his way. No, he would not even exchange death. He took death because he knew the true ultimate Will of God. He realized he was responsible even to the . - smallest one.

Let’s make a conclusion here. Where are you now? Where are you? Are you on the road to your money? Are you seeking power? 0 r knowledge? The truest value is not these things. The tru~~-~~l~-~J.-~~ve. When you see a friend, you embrace in ove. When you see the things of creation, love them as much as the Creator loves hem. This is the greatest value of all. Parents want to be proud of the paintings of heir C:hildren because the~r children painted them. God wants you to pick up even the smallest creation of His Kingdom and be proud of it as if it were a masterpiece of art. God wants you to do that. One individual is more precious than the entire universe. God is longing for man, and He has said that man is more precious than the entire universe. God has sought one individual who is pouring out his sweat, toil, and blood. When you see that one individual, do you· have the feeling of God toward that one man? :Jo you have that feeling for him, for his life, for his welfare without reservation? an you give up everything you have for him? Whe:i:e there is a woman there must be one who loves her. Maybe there is a man so miserably defeated and so miserably 1 knocked out, “ but you know that behind him the-re .is a woman who loves him with all • er heart. No matter how miserable looking or miserably defeated a man or woman :.s, so that there is no value , to be found in that man -:--:-..:as in a. garbage can there is o value — yes, have you ever thought that there is a mother who. loves that man eeply? Tln t there is a father who has a painful heart for that son? Have you ever :hought that man might be yourself? Have you thought that defeated one is your own elf? Everyone is seeking for another. Those who are closest to you want to stay ‘”’losest.

·, herevcr the misery, there God is. When you see an injustice to a persof\ you have certain anger within yourself; that is the mind of God. God is seeking a man whose eart is so overflowing with love that everyone will find a real eternal resting ground.

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You know the story in the Bible where Jesus spoke to someone who almost knocked down· the woman who had committed adultery. Do you know on whose side God stood? God stood on the side of the harlot. Jesus felt toward her as he would feel toward his own sister or his· own aunt. To Jesus, all women were related to him as sisters, mothers, or awits. This spirit, this ideology was what God wanted Jesus to µring to this world so that everyone could live in the center. God did not intend to have Jesus be a shepherd or religious leader who only spoke in glowing terms from a big pulpit. The true religious leader is crying out to the multitudes of people who are miserably efeated in this world. That Leader is here. This is why to be a true religious leader : have to go the road of tears. If you don’t have it then you weep because you cannot et it; you are sorry and you have nothing. This is the path of God and the road of Jesus, who are always one step ahead of your misery. Even before misery and hurt : it you, God already tastes the hardship and He is one step ahead of you. When you ee some wifortunate thing happen in the road you must have such a loving heart that :~ou cannot just pass by. You must physically experience, physically feel and live as · this world is waiting for your hand and your service.

_iy work has been concentrated on these lives, these types of people, not in those who are at the top. My work has followed in the message. Whether you like it or not . ou have to have ·feeling for it. The road of restoration is rugged and complicated. ou cannot respond to this road because you are not capable. In order for one man to e capable .o f his own restoration, he goes through dozens of problems. In this respect • an has been longing for Heaven. You have been longing for the individual, clan, tribe, :12.tion, world. Your aim is always higher. You might sacrifice your own family .to: -ave the nation. You might not be welcomed by the family, but you are rewarded on the _ational scale. You, as Americans, must not simply ask for help for America. Go -yond your nation ahd your own people. Go beyond the world and embrace it with -orld humanity. Then you are the blessed ones. Humanity is waiting for the pioneers .::i a worldwide scale; pioneers that center and_ focus upon this -~v_ ?rld. The Son of God, :esus Christ, abandoned the crown and lowered himself to the bottom of the misery ~£ humanity. The Bible explains very little about Jesus’ life, but he was the one who ept most. He poured out tears. Jesus came with the mind of a parent and the heart _: the True Parent. He examined everything from the viewpoint of a parent.

:nose who “get with it” without reservation for the world and for humanity are the ones · be citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven. We must realize that God has been living all · ough eternity with His heart. Your life may be 100 years at the most, truly just a ::. ark of life and a short period compared with what our Heavenly Father has been :-aring. Have you ever followed your f~llow man, even though he be a stranger in the .:::reet, and tbou_g·ht, “Oh, how I want him to be in God’s world, in God’s Kingdom!” and : causc of longing without even realizing it you have been following for miles and miles 0

-: er him? God is also after that man. He’s been looking for him for Heaven. He’s _..,e n seeking him for G, 000 years.

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here is a problem in the world. How can man transform himself into understanding :he heart of Christ so that every individual relate d with him is his responsibility? I as tortured in prison and I lost much blood. At that critical moment, I could not . ray to God for myself, since I knew so clearly that God loved the one who was in my ;>osition. I knew He unders tood my miserable situation. Every time I was in difficulty :ny word to Father was this: ‘’Father, don’t worry about me. Since the rugged path f the restoration of the world is still far away, I want to carry the burden. Father, .et me go first, before you, Father.” If you are parents and have children,-.- I think _.ou understand this feeling. If your children really hit your heart deep in love, tears f gratitude flow. You can -really feel the heart of the Father in love. God is looking : r that man who can touch His heart, who can give God joy. The universe will focus on him. This is one reason the Divine Principle Movement is known as “Family.” :. is a “Family” movement, no matter how big we might become .

. fter you know the Divine Principle you realize that we are destined to go this path . .::.ave you ever felt persecuted, then seen a persecution greater than yours? You see · at you are not persecy.ted, but God is persecuted. When yoµ are persecuted you ust forget yourself and think from the position of God. Then you see that God is ere. God is all ready to comfort you. So far, it has been man’s tendency to follow - d and leave his trials and difficulties up to God. When man prays, he asks, “Please · not deal me hardship.” We must change our prayer 180 degrees.

d loves the United States, but He also loves the world. And the world is greater an the United States. When you cry for the world, then you will become the man :: vision. You are the man of the world, not confined to any one nation. By knowing ·e divine truth of God, this realization is automatically evolving and forces no one. : · s is the way to become a true son and daughter of God. When you have faced the ve of God, then you will taste the love of God. The love of God is not apart from ur country, not apart from tiie world; it is not a separate thing. Love of God is - t found up above, or somewhere else, but here on earth.

: ue, in your lifetime you realize God is living in your life. You must recognize - t you are my son here on earth. It is not important that you believe God. The portant thing is whether God trusts you. ·. :. Saying that you love God is not im- : rtant. The words “God loves me” are important. After long experience with the ._ irit world, I realize one thing: The heavenly way of the heavenly Kingdom has to ; underneath hell. . You taste hell first. If you recognize this circumstance, there ~ no problem. Other things, such as money, power, knowledge, automatically fall -..o the right position. If yoi cannot believe my word, please do ask a sensitive or -K in your prayers. If you live life like that, then you are sent to hell and you - st take all accusations. After the tragedy of the fall of man this was known to : humanity: The re is but one way to go to heaven.

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… hank you for your enthusiastic listening and patience. Thank you so much.

* ::)eveloped and published by: The Unified Family U. S. Headquarters . P. O. Box 7596, Ben Franklin Station Washington, D. C. 20044

December, 1967