The Master Speaks On the Restoration and Judgment

These questions and answers have been transcribed from tapes made during our Leader’s sessions with members and guests at Centers throughout the United States during his trip in March & April 1965.

Comments: After the Leader was released from prison and came down to South Korea, he lived with two other persons in a very ti’ny room. They would discuss the problems of uniting the universe” If any out- sider had heard their conversation he would have thought them all to be crazy.

The problem is whether we can endure until the time comes, We must continue our efforts for a few more years and things will happen. We must work as hard as we can, without reservation. God is working. You will se~ the change.

The Art of Preaahing a Sermon and Other Things The highly spiritual message suffers through interpretation. The flow of the spirit is interrupted. A sermon should flow like a poem. As the spirit world harmonizes with this world, the message originating in spirit should not be interrupted. ( Good preaching should not require organization of the thoughts, but should be like water flowing. Translation destroys the grammar and causes awkward presentation, but teamwork improves the effort. ·

For instance, the water in the pitcher is calm and beautiful and crystal-clear, but it is not alive. A mountain stream which runs, falls 2 makes noises ,_is living water. Spirit is somewhat similar. r:t:”should flow like runnin water and have true beautyo In order to give a good sermon, YOU must be inspired first. Unless your heart is touched and you are in the grace of God, you can never inspire other people. You must be capable of first inspiring yourself. The sermon is not for other people as much as it is for yourself. I do not lan a written sermon. I feel the spiri- tual atmosphere of the audience and fit the sermon to it. A ser- mon should not be like a sharpened knife, with re-sharpening be- tween sermons, The sermon should inspire you with power over- flowing inside with an endless supply of spirit flowing from you. So, if you give a good sermon, you can give another good sermon, and then an even greater sermon. That is the way it should be!

Tthhere are man yd who ca~t~e.criticca~t~f.the.situation~ Even a rCJ ree-year~o 1 can cri icize. ri icism is not a virtue. Great ‘---C./ leadership consists of knowing the circumstances and controlling them for a certain pu?pose. (_ The true light of religion comes by experienceo We should not commit the mistake of judging others by what we know. Should ~e say that something is good or bad based only upon our own under- ~tanding, this is not good. We must be open. When someone does

something wrongp there could·•be a reason” Until·you are surep don°t close the door,; Otherwise, you are movin:g·toward only one type of Heaven o Heaven· is -· like a vast ocean o Unless your life is open and flexiblep you cannot - freely live in that vast spiri- tual heaven. You are limited to one particular sectiona

When you are giving a sermonp you must start at the level of_ the owe st one in the roug_a”_ Humble ourself, belittl.sL,y o ~ l fl If you announce that you are about to deliver a great message which you have prepared. no · one will receive any inspiration. Start at the bottom. Some of those who begin·to preach will make many-mistakes because their experience- is· not very good~ and becaus·e their understanding of the Divine Principle in depth is not very good. We must not judge a person when our ability is not very gooda Even God said that He will judge last.

In some cases you may be afraidp or unexpected things happen to you, or you may be disturbed becaus~ the condition is not the same as the one you asked for in your prayer “ Do not be concerned. There is a purpose behind what you experiencev and it is certain to bring you some benefit. Even though· some occurrences seem tra- gict do not be complacent, but digest the matter and search for the true grace and benefits

Many people have their own fixed religious concepts and simply do not wish to be bothered with the Divine Principle~ or some persons may purposely come to disturb your sermon or even try to harm you” Do not judge _th_em but re~liz <it_ that _§111 ~UQ.h ha,J2- penings help you to become more perfect ,, Many r many of such disturbing factors cooperate in helping you to reach perfection.

The Leader learns from everyone, from you, from children, from those who are insanet and from the ignorant laborer” They all inspire hima

In this, the Leader 0 s first trip to the United States, he sees many things which can be compared to things in Koreao But in no way is he judging ¼our way of life from the Korean point of view. He is observing from your ‘tandpointu with a completely open mindo Everything is moving by waves, small waves here and large waves which seem to be far away” They are all in harmonyo In some cases a ship turns over and many die in the shipwreck o But all of the waves fill the one purpose of running forward straight toward the goalo See the big picture and do not be critical, but keep yourself free.

To our Leaderu Americans appear to be physically big, like giants, but also they a ear to e small in a wa b livin lives that _a re very ’ regu atedo They are regulated by metersv by pounds, by ounces, c~rtain foodsp doing things in a certain wayv breakfast of two eggs sunnyside-up. Our Leader has a mind like an ocean; busy all the time.

The world cannot be cooked in heavenly fata

Our interest and o ,inion should be focused u on God and upon no one elseo Do not build a fence around yourself or mo your- self into a certain shapeo For instancev the Washington group should not be the patb=..!rnv but God should be the patterno Let your imagination work and tell you how God would do things., Po- cus your imagination upon God as the pattern. It is not meant that you should not have individual traits or gifts. You should, and dov have your own individuality. The Leader wants the Divine Principle to develop your own gifted character into a universal character that can fully communicate with God” You will fully develop your individuality” If you are completely confined with- in yourself,, then the world cannot come in. The world is greater than you, and God is greatesto God is like the ocean, capable of containing all thingsa You should make an effort to expand yourself and grow more like God every day” Uo not be centered upon yourselfo In many cases our Leader assigns tasks which are not parallel with the individual’) s gifts o This 1.s do~e so that the member will not be confined to too small an area~ because the Leader wants him to expando In many cases 9 the Leader trains disciples this wayn

Even though you·may live with our Leader for many years 0 still ( you do not know him. This is good for you, because if his depth were shallow and you could see the bottom clearlyv then you would have no desire to fellow himo

Many people classify our Leader as a religious leader, but he is not, he is freev he is universalo He can J?erform many jobs, from laborer on upo He was the best laborer in the Communist prison camp. The Communist. police were amazed because he could produce so much energyo Even in the labor camp 0 he was known. as a super- man. The Leader asks each individual if he has confidence to go the way of the Divine Principle. We are going a hard way. When the Leader leaves we will have many things which we would like to report to him to get his sympathy and helpo But when you meet him again, everything ~as melted away and you have no word to speako He is like the ocean and you are like the sand. The sand doesn°t take much space ot make much noise in the ocean. There is nothing he hates, because he likes everything. He likes every kind of taste of life”- He is eyen_ 9_yrm;L.athe_tic to Satan o <J In a waya Satan is amicable_”_ Satan has done a rea.t._ _’ob0 He has changed the course of the history of Godo The Leader wants his aisciples to be as courageous as O and to fight as hard as Satan does, but on God 0 s sidev of course. In the Divine Principle move- mentv all k.inds of people are needed 0 and everybody has a place. There is no segregationv or prejudiceo Every type has a mission. (_ The movement of your mind is very flexible. You can be literally crying 0 and the next minute can be laughing like a child 0 This ability to change moods rapidly comes into your life through trainingo So, three billions are existing for you and your per- fectiono Your children are all around, for you to see as training aids 0 for your own perfectiono

If our Leader wants to use you in a greater mission of greater ( leadership~ he tests you in a very unusual way 0 in fact, in a harsh way. He is still training his President of the HSA in Koreao Even at this stage 0 Mro Eu is being trained and is having a hard time. Our Leader has had so many messages from spirit world that he knows that his own responsibilities are grave since he has this mission. If he fails, it would be not just the end of his own mission, but it would be the failure of the entire dispensationn So he has the greatest of all mission~”

Comments/· Jesus was a manp you are a man” He was hungry as you are hungry, if ye~ rto not eat” He grew tired as you grow tired . The ability to perform a miracle does not make a Messiah” Moses performed even greater miracles than Jesus did u Moses was not a Messiah. There is one great difference between Jes u s and other men 0 Je_s_us. ~as the direct heir of Godp God 0 s blood line . born of God. Other men were not born of God but of the father devil, as stated in Johno Jesus was the only·person who could say that he was born of God 9 that he was of the Father v God a The fall separated man from God the Father, and man became the son of Satan.

Man’s original sin is hereditary, a matter of lineagev and God’s restoration has been going on for 6000 biblical years a If the sin had been of some other nature it could have been overcome very quickly” The transformation of the blood line is not easy and takes many~ many yearso

WiZl the Leader please tell about conditions in the new physical world? When that day comes 0 the definition of sin will be different. By today 0 s standards, society assumes that it is a sin to take food from a store without paying for it. While this would not even be a temptation in the new world, it would not be consid- ered sin. The gr~vest sin in the New Kin gdom is the v i olation of love O the misuse of love and the adul t _g rat.inn~ ~ ~s lin- eage. Man° s original si_n_wiLL.,!’~ain the capital crime. The s~ n of adulter or misuse of love will EL,a _s: rime ~ a !_nst on~ s ancestorsu the g _ r e ~ t . i . Q n . , and t l-i.e., following generationo Such a sin will be worse than the sin of Adam and Eve because they did not have a11cestors to defile . The misuse of love will degrade past 0 present, and futurea

We uphold the war in Viet Nam, as an effort for good~ and in pursuing the war, we kill and dest r oyo It is hard to understand a Actually it is simple. We must define good and evil in the sight of Godo In His sight 8 an action is right if it is good 0

Evil is a self-centered actionp which pulls everything toward t he individualv while good is God-centered action which pushes

( everything toward Goda Evil pulls in to the individual. Good pushes away from the individual and to Godo In God 0 s dispensa- tion0 the lesser is sacrificed in order to achieve the greatero An individual may be sacrificed to save his family and consequently oecomes the center of his family’’s reverence· or virtue of good- ~o This works at a.11. levelso Manns highest honor 1.s to further the purpose of Godo

In the last days 0 God 0 s Will is fulfill.ea on a world-wide scalea God is seeking individuals 0 familiesv tritesu and groups of people who can be sacrificed for the fulfillment of the world goala When the new order is establishede those who were sacri- ficed become the glorifieq center of the new worlda Our Leader rs leaalngour group· according to this principleo His motto isp 0 BE A LIVING SACRIFICEu u for God 0 s ultimate fulfillmento Thenu when the order of God is established 0 his followers will be the lords of that worldo They will be the center 0 and will be blessed by Godo This is basically and f ~ entall the teachin of Jesus 0 who’”lived in this mannerv If you desire to be like Christ, jou must live your life in this way.

Good and evil are a matter of airectiono Love itself is neutral, and is neither good nor evila When love is erroneously given to Satan and the action is self-centered 0 the resulting direc- tion is evilu On the other hand, when your love id given to Godv compassion and energy to bring His Will to earth 0 the ( direction is toward good~ This is fundamentally the essence of the teaching of Christo This is self-giving sacrifice or sacrificial love 11 and is the giving of oneself to the enemyo This will continue until the time of the fulfillment 0 when those who have been sacrificed are the glorified ones or the rnastersc The Lord of the Second Advent comes upon this foundation of vic- toryo

Within the boundary of man°s activity he can move in either the direction of good or the direction of evila Currently, everyone is self=centeredf living fer himselfa However 0 when one begins to go the selfless heavenly way 0 he is traveling in the opposite directiono This is why Jesus said that the road to destruction is wide and everyone is traveling on it, but the road to Heaven is narrow and no one wants to qo that wayo

Why are you optimistic about the future of the world? It is the nature of man to be self-centered and to work for him- selfa The Divine Principle will not change self-center~dness, but will change the concept of purposeo The Divine Principle will give a new awakening 0 so that ~n individual takes a differ- ent direction to help himself” He has to lear::n __t.hat-i-1-1- or..der to ~enefit himself 0 he must ive his who s..e.l.f to otherso The full knowledge of God brings the new awakening of consctousnes$ to the urgency of taking the road to God and reaching God 0 s kingdom in this lifetimeo This will bring the change in the world order.

An analogy~ suppose that your one possession is a huge diamond which you treasure with your lifeo Then you have an awakening of consciousness which says that you can sell this jewel and, with the proceedsv buy and do things which ~~e of more than ten times the value of the diamond. You have acquired a new sense of valuesa By giving up something of value today you have gained something of much greater value tomorrowo Today your food, your shelter and your clothing seem very important, but then you sud- denly awaken to the truth that these things are not nearly as im- portant as working for others and working for God. Then the energy and power are providedo In my personal life there is no moment of easy time and comfort.· I live Christ 1 s difficulty and hardship time and againv but I have had boundless energy to bring me this far, because I have known that this is the inevitable way that I ,have had to go, rather than its being a matter of choice. This sense of responsibility and value keep pushing me on my way. •

Jesus paid indemnity through aruaifixion. Does the Leader think in terme of aruaifixion?

No, in terms of complete victoryo Jesus gave his flesh as ran- som or sacrificeo That was a bargain. In order to take some- thing away from Satan, God had to give Satan something that Satan wantedo On the other hand, when the war is absolutely won, there is no bargain but unconditional surrender. Satan was supposed to remain unconditionally surrendered to Jesus. Jesus should not have had to yield any pityo He should not have had to give his body because he was already victorious. But the people failed Jesus. He was alone in his victory over Satan. So, because the people were possessed by Satan, and in order to bring them into the sight of God, God allowed Satan to take the body of Jesusa The body of the.Son of God was given in exchange for the spirit of the wo.rldo Do not believe in the Christ upon the cross, but in the victorious resurrected Christ. Salvation was not won by the cross, but by the resur- rected Christ who gives che enerqy to save your spirit. The cross on-to of the church· a mis-chosen s mbol The cross is the symbol of the giving up of the body of Christ- t .o Satan. The cross is the symbol of Satan 9 s victory. The resurrection is- a symbol of the victory of Godo Sop salvation comes from the resurrected Christo In the New Age, we no-longer use the cross as a symbol.

Why did God have to bargain?

~ In the process of the fall of man, we tend to blame Satan, saying, 0 Satan took Adam and Eve 1 • Tliis 1s not so! Satan is responsible because he agitated and tempted Eve. It is true that the motivation of the evil came from Satan. However, Adam and Eve themselves were partially responsib~ for the fall of man because they had been given by God the power to reject the temptation of evil. And, instead of rejecting, they responded by willingly cooperating with Satan. It was a con-spiracy in

( which the three worked togethero So man has responsibility for his falla So God cannot take man to His side without giving something to Satan., Satan is holding Adam and Eve and is pre- serving his right to do soo Even God cannot take man away with- out allowing certain conditions favoring Satano Hence, God allows Satan to make these certain conditions when He takes men backo

In additionv they became the adopted children of the father devil and became Satan°s childrena They were no longer God 0 s children, ~nd God would not take another 0 s children without making a bar- gain or payment” Of course, God created Adam and Evey but they betrayed Him and united with Satan, thus becoming Satanus child- rena Any parent can question the right of an outsider to take his childreno

A condition can be made by the children [man] themselves” A child can decide that he is under the wrong parent in which case he can sever his relationship and return to the parent he really desireso There is room here to exercise free willa If the children of Israel had done this, God would not have had to give the body of Jesus to Satano There would have been no need for any paymento However, the people failed, and remained with Satan, so, GodQ in order to open the way had to allow Satan to take Jesus 0 body [physical life]a It was a pity because Satan had millions of sons but God had only Jesusa ( For 4000 years Satan was indulging in his sovereignty of the worldo He is cunning and clevera He knew that the Messiah would destroy the satanic kingdoma Satan feared the Messiah and plotted to do away with him in order to preserve his own kingdomo This is why Satan asked for t~e body of Jesusu which request God alloweda Satan°s greatest desire was to kill the Christo What Satan wanted most was Jesus 0 so 6 when God allowed Satan to take His sonv Satanus complete desire was fulfflledo So then God exercised His power in resurrecting the Christ& Satan exercised his maximum power in killing the Messiaha Because Satan had done this 6 God could justifiably use His great power to resurrect His Sona Since Satanus claim was completely satisfiedu he had no reason to ask for moreu so the resurrected Jesus is completely free from satanic accusationo So all men who unite with Jesus are automatically free from +-he accusation of Satano

Donr,t we stiZZ have to bargain with Satan?

When men fail to make correct judgment in using their free will and fail to respond to Godv then the bargain takes place 0

When you follow the resurrected Christu since he is free from the accusation of Satan 0 you are also free from the accusation (_ of Satan 0 spirituallyo Therefore, the spiritual salvation is comingo Jesus failed to restore man physically since he had given up his body u so W.s body must come once again in the form () of the Lord of the Second Advento l

8 MS-4(2) r If man controls only 5% and God oontrols 95%» it seems that God is most responsible for man~s oonditiono

God did not mis-use his 95%0 His 95% was always perfecta The 95% has to do with our forgivenesso If we will pay 5% of the restitution required by our indebtedness, then by His grace, God will forgive the remaining 95%0 No one on earth is capable of getting out of sin by himselfo But Godp in His mercy and love, will forgive the 95% when we have demonstrated our sincere desire by paying the 5% by loving Himo This is the Law of Forgiveness.

If God did not require that man pay a part (5%) of hi~ debt, then Satan could accuse God of being unfairp because man shared the responsibility of the fall~ and Satan must be paid when man is taken away from him~ Because Adam and Eve responded to Satan 0 Satan accuses in front of Godo Hence 9 man°s payment of the 5% frees him from the accusation of Satano Man was to be in the likeness or image of Godo God wants us to be like He is, to have the same creative virtue , otherwise we can never be true sons of God. If God does the full 100%p then we turn out to be mere puppets, with no free will. Sop God does the 95% and requires that we do the 5%o When you reach perfec- tionp God will bless you, saying 0 o h~ My sonc you are in My own ~ikeness-even with the creative virtue, because you have created your 5% out of 100%0 You have participated in your own creation.’ Since God allowed us the supreme responsibility of “the 5% fulfill- ment, we can become the lords of creation. Man is thus above all other things of creation which have a set will but no free will. This is the supreme quality of man. Since man has this creative virtue , all things, including his house, the air conditioning, and the decoration come out of the creative ~ind. Animals do not have this ability, because their wills are set to engage in a certain way of lifeo They cannot choose to make their lives creativeo With them, everything is seto Because of this man can become the Son of Goda God made the condition that perfec- tion is achieved by each individual personu by man, not by God. This is a tremendous blessing that God gives uso Howeverv be- cause of this, the fall of man was possibleo Because of this 5%, the fall of man occurred and because of thisv God has taken 6,000 years to restore mano

Abrahamv Moses, and Jesus all worked according to the 5% require- mento Our Leader has worked according to the 5% requirement in his universal mission and this he has accomplisheda

If man is 95% aontroZZed by God and has onZy 5% free will~ I must believe that God takes the major blame for everything inaZwding the fall. You are right [in a way]a This is why God is taking the major responsibility for the fall of mano God is not maki._ng any excuse. The arent of children w o commit a crime must be held res onsi- 5 ea ~o So Go 1s not denying it, but is taking responsi- — :…- ---

I think that God oould have done a better job. ( A son needs $100.00 for schoolo His father gives him $95.00. The son says that he needs another $5.00. The father tells the son that the son must earn it; that if he earns it he can then go to school. The $5000 is the key to the entire matter. If the father should give the entire $100.00, the son has absolutely no responsibility and becomes a mere puppet.

Many unsolved questions have to do with this 5%. Even athiests set up a strong theory that there is no God because God does not seem to be working or is failing. What kind of God is this? You see, if man did not have this 5% responsibilityu the res- toration would have occurred a long time ago and the fall would never have happened. This explains that if man doesn’t do his (:} part of the work, then God fails. Certainly God is almighty and capable, but He established the principles as they are, and’ He will not violate them. In a way, God loved man too much and ex- pected too much from man; You know Jghn 3:16. The p£qmise is made to ‘whoever’ believes.

It seems ihat God and the d~viZ are equal foroes, beoause if they are not, then God would not have to bargain with the devil. God has to bargain even though Satan is nothing, compared to God. ( God bargains with Satan because He loves us and gives us the op- portunity to be like His image. He bargains with Satan because He loves His children.

Going back to a previous discussion, the Lord of the Second Ad- vent could not possibly come in a cloud of h~aven or a spirit body. He must come in flesh as Jesus did because the failure of Jesus’ mission occurred when he sacrificed his body. Because Jesus’ physical body was given to Satan, man°s physical salva- tion was lost. In order to regain physical salvation~ the lost ~ pody of Jesus must be restored. Consequently, the Lord of the Second Advent is coming in flesh, in a physic~l body, through which he will regain the physical salvation. The body is needed. Many Christians have the very erroneous belief that the Lord is coming in a heavenly cloud accompanied by the trumpets of the angels and great fantastic light. It ig not that way! What will God do to restore the physical salvation? He will provide a Lord with both the spirit and the physical selves here upon the earth. Therefore, the Leader is both spiritually and physically a man. He can perfect the spirit and he can restore the·salva- tion of the flesh, for all men. Was Jesus’ physioal body resurreoted? No. Jesus no longer needed the physical body. Because of the L loss of the physical body of Jesus, the bodies of all men on earth remained in Satan°s camp. Satan’s children are born in the satanic body. Our Lord is coming to take this physical body away from Satan and return it to God. He fights this’warp here on earth, through the use of his own physical body.

Does Divine Prinaiple explain why people are so unequal at birth? C You are looking at this particular moment of life in this gener- ationo Some are crippled, some are privileged 0 and the distri- bution seems to be unfairu But it is not really unfair when you look at all of history. You are an historical product . Your an- cestors~ lives affected each succeeding generationo You may not have exactly the same characteristics as your parents, but you are affected by all of your ancestorso God does not measure a person at just one special timeo You are the total sum of his- tory from the beginning to the presento When everything is re- stored there will be no underprivileged personso [Individuals will still be quite differento]

Does the Leader know our hearts individually without the use of words?

Our Leader helps you by (?) giving love and truth, not just making a surprise by hitting the painful part of your hearto This is not his desire. This is why he tries to not see your mind, but to see your person, your character, your virtueo Our Leader, being a perfect Son of Godp came down to your levelo He doesn’t need prayero A man of perfection doesn°t need prayer o Then why does he pray? He prays as your companiono He comes down to your level to prayo He ties us together by praying with us, at presento Even though he is not trying to see the mind of a person, his intuition is so correct that he is aware of many thingso Even though he does not tryp when he looks at you, he knows you very wello

An angel came to him to report something, but he rejected the angelr telling him to be quiet and go awayo If he should rely upon the spirit and angelic worldsp he would be required to allow them privileges because he would be using themo He does not want to pay their wageo He wants earth to come first and to receive the privilegeso Flesh people come firsto Soon a time will come when he will have to use certain spiritual powero For examplei when somebody is coming to the door, he knows who it is 0 why he is corning~ and much more; before he enterso The world situation is clear to him 0 even though he doesn°t concen- trate upon his psychic power. He does not care to make predic- tionso

Anyone under our Leader must be capable of subjugating Satan with his own power without having any spiritual assistanceo If our Leader had destroyed Satan°s power by using spirit assistance he would have blocked the way of those who would have the pri- vilege of subjugating Satan without helpo Even without spirit assistancep the truth itself is a strong enough weapon to des- troy Satan°s camp. Even without contacting the spirit world, our Leader can control rnediurnso When a medium reports to him, he knows which part of the message is correct and which part is incorrect and what advice he would give to the mediurno

( Mro Walter Voelker, who came to see our Leader this morning, reported that Arthur Ford, the medium, is very much interested in doing a seance for our Leader. Mr. Ford questioned the suc- cess of the sitting because of the great spirit activity and tension caused by the Leader’s presence. Our Leader does not emphasize spirit phenomena. You go to heaven through the TRUTH. If you indulge in spirit phenomena, you must pay the price: you pay indernnityo Jesus paid much indemnity because he appealed to the people through phenomena. He paid a high price for the miracles, in the end, paid with the crucifixion. The truth is the simplest, best, and easiest way . Miracles and phenomena are temporal, the truth is eternal! Therefore, we go the way of truth.

If anoth~r South Korea-North Korea war developed and the Leader was aalled into the army, would he fight?

Yes! The answer is so clear in the Bible. God is love and judg- mento Judgment is the other side of love. Since he loves he has to judge. For instance, because I love my child, if the child is afflicted with cancer, I put him upon the operating table so the affected part can be cut out. This destruction of an ungodly force, a satanic force, is a good virtue. If I tolerate the can- cer, can I love the body? On a number of occasions in the Bible, God proclaimed a judgment and ordered the destruction of the evil ( tribeo However, rather than serving as a soldier in the front line, (Q our Leader would have a much better and quicker way to win the victory. If he could work with the youth of America for ten years, he could destroy Communism without the firing of a single shot in a hot war. We are the youth. Let us be under his training.

Does the Leader believe that Communism is satanic?

Yes! The final scene of Jesus 0 crucifixion is synonomous with today’s world situation. Jesus, the Son of God, and the center of truth was in the position of God. On the two sides of Jesus were the two thieves. The one on the right was sympathetic toward the Christ, saying that the Lord was not deserving of such punishment. The thief on the ‘left was cruel to the Christ, cursing him.

If we think that Communism is evil and that this justi- fies the violenoe and suffering of war, do we really have a correct attitude?

The Divine Princfple is a positive attitude. And this group is not a highly militant organization. Yet, since God’s purpose is so vitally important to us, in seeking to do His Will, we (_ are not really making up our own minds, but we make our deci- sions in the sight of God. We do not hesitate to enforce the Will of God.

Jesus aaidJ) ‘Love your enemies’., and I aannot see killing ( one that you loveo Let us seek the answer in the Bibleo Jesus told the story about the farmer who planted the cropo During the night the devil planted weed seedso So when the crop grew, the weeds grew also. The servant came to his master and asked if he should pull out all of the weeds. The ma~ter decided against this, explaining that weeding now might hurt the crop and that it was better to let them grow together and that the separation would be made at the harvesto

This means that during the growth period as Jesus prepared his disciplesp if he tried to weed his enemies, the good followers would be hurto The faithful were in the minorityo Jesus said, 0 ~~ your enemy , which meant to tolerate him_, eve~ hough he ~ evi~ Which me~~ that__i!_ you tole t~ our enem,. he has o tolerate you; giving _y-9~ the-9hoice of t_he t_;me _to_ aJ,:1=.._o At the harvest the grain goes to God and the weeds are burned. So do not be fooled by cheap sentiment when you read that Jesus said, 0 Love your enemyo 0 If Jesus loved the enemy, how could he ut ~he weeds into the unquenchable fire?

How could Jesus say, 0 Love your enemy 0 , and also say , 0 1 came as judge 1 ? We must understand the compl~te p_lgt~re _a..,!_ld not ~ook at it piece by ieceo God is love, and since He fs - ove, He oes not want to tolerate prolonged suffering of mankindo C Because He loves us, He wants to restore this world as quickly as possible so that all men can live in Heaven here on earth and spirit Heaven thereaftero In pursuit of His dippensation God asks that the purity of His chosen people be maintainedo Hence, at Caanan, force was used; the Gentiles were killed • … Also evil used violence against good in the Garden of Edeno Cain slew Abela On the world-wide scale, the struggle between good and evil is inevitable in order for Abel to win over Cain. We cannot be hesitant about thiso

I aannot believe that I should destroy everyone around me who has some evil in himo Do not misunderstand the definition of the word--enemyo In World War II, America destroyed Japano America 0 s war machine and atomic bomb were designed to destroy the sovereignty of the Japanese nationo After the surrender· ou ave - the- Japanese people food and had no os ili t with them as i.ndi vidua l s .- By t he same token, when the Leader advocate s’aposit1 ve - attitude toward the destruction of Communism, he does not mean that every individual Russian should be slaino God is anxious about the sovereignty of evilo Th~ destruction of Communism is an act of mercy toward the Russian people.

Shouldn’t you teaah them the Divine Prinaiple rather than kill them?

MS-4(2) l3 The Divine Principle works in the broadest senseo God is working ( with the Communistic campo Our Leader knows that there are very many fervent Christians in the Communistic nations and there ~s much spiritual grace and communicationo These people are wa~ting for the liberationo They want to see the sunshineo It has al- ready been said that we 6 without sword or gunv are truly fighting against Communismo Communism is in the Cain position and is the true antichrist of this ageo So Christ can be the only positive winner against the ideology of Communismo We cannot defeat Communism on physical level by physical destruction aloneo We must win b chan in their ideologyo It is most important that our ideology is superior t o t a o the Communists” The Divine Principle movement battles by proclaiming the inward ideologyo We do not fight with weaponso We proclaim the Christly power as quickly as possible to the free world and Communism will be automatically doomed. It is our hope that in the meantime the Democratic governments of the free world will stand firm, without losing ground to Cornmunismo Therefore, we want America to win in Viet Nam, while we proclaim our ideology to the worldo The Divine Principle is the only ideology which can gain the complete victory over Com- munism. We are right now really fighting the battle against Communismo We proclai~ the power of the Christ so that the power of the antichrist is automatically doomedo

( In South Korea, Communism feels the threat of the Divine Prin- cipleo Because they fear us they are attempting to undermine our movement even though we do them no harm and no violenceo

At the·prison camp at Taejon where there are political prison- ers such as spies, there were many Communist fanatics” These fanatics held to their ideology until at the inJlitation of the Korean gove~nment the Divine Principle ~representatives taught che_i;:__me.s_aa_geo Many lifetime Communist fanatics embraced the movemento Many repented, shed tears, and called the name of Godo They were miraculously shown the way to salvation by Divine Principlea When they really know that there is a God, there is no longer room for Communismo

Churches have aZways carried the white banner of truth and have caused wars and have trampled people in the procesBo Your way is the sameo The~e must b0 a better wayo In a ffee world we will sooner or later come to an ideological dead-end. There is need for a positive ideology which is much stronger than that of Communismo Today the free world defends freedom under the banner of Arnerica o We DEFEND freedomo Under its banner, Communism spreads WORLD REVOLUTION o Communism has the power to win 0 because as long as we defendu we have no chance to wino Eventuallyv the aggressor breaks through the defenses 0

We do not oppose their version of the kingdom of heaven, without Godo Sou in this struggle of ideologies 6 the free world is los- ingo Our Leader says that there must come a time when the free world realizes that the ideological struggle must come td a dead-end 0

14 MS-4(2) Then what: ideology could possibly be . stronger than Communism which proclaims WORLD REVOLUTION? Two opposing statements cannot both be trueo Consider: “There is a God”, and “There is no Godo” Only one is true. If Communism says, “There is no God”, then the only statement that can win over Communism is “There is a Goda” Now, the free world has believed in God, but that God has never been a livin g God, living with man as the most important part of h i s lifeo The Divine Principle movement is accomplishing thiso When this new ideology spreads around the world the Communistic ideology is doomedo

In Korea, the Divine Principle movement is the strongest ideology of allo Communism is the sorest spot in the lives of the people because they have been so badly hurt by Communism. Communism destroyed our country and represents the devilo Since the Divine Principle movement has spread throughout the nation, the people have new hope to truly win over Communism. In Korea we see a model case of the struggle of the two ideologies. Our Leader comments that our discussion started with the Bible and ends with world politics. In this room, the living philosophy is taught which is not covered in any library or any college class- room. We hope that it will not be long before school textbooka c.7 contain the ideolo y of the Divine Principle.

You dwell upon Communism. Even if it did not exist, you would still have the problem of individual men. /The questioner aontinued the questions about Communism.) Our goal at present is not Russia, but the people here in Washing- ton, D.c., and in the United States. We are not preparing to march on the Kremlin, we are marching right here. You are right that there are evil forces around us, while Communism is symbolic of the satanic kingdom. ~

Religion is elementary teaching of life. Religion should not become involved in politics, but it is the f9undation of poli- tics, of the economy, foundation of moral grounds, foundation of family life. Religion is not a professional thing, but is the essence of basic living. It is the bed-rock foundation.

The separation of church and state in America is actually hel- ping the dispensation. Religions persecution is reducedoo•• (End of Tapeo)

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