Moment of Rise or Fall - Talk by Leader, Sunday morning 5:00 AM - Original Document

Eveey man has the d~idre to be euccesful. The individual, fam:ily, society, nation, want to be successful for themselves. We always want our nation to be successful. Often we plan things out and wish to follow closely to this plan, but the result is often contrary to what we planned. Sometimes we are not confident about the plans that we make, but the outcome is a e:u-.-:uess. A thing beginning as a failure, turns out a success; a thing that was a certainty becomes tricky and chancy., We know parents who have only one child and lose him only to @d up in soli_tude. Or a couple who are divided by one of them being taken away. Or a man who is good in business and becomes a success aft&r 30 years, and in one moment he loses all his fortune by fire or flood. When we think of this we are faced with a lot of things that we don’ ·t want, but what we do not want is always there and we can not get rid of it. Sometimes an unexpected thing will take place and our p ~ become a success. So the problem of rieil’.lg and falling can’t be handled by our oi-m hands. We can not deal with a nation aa we will nor oan we get rid of the walls .and barriers. Ups and downs are always changing so that w~ can’t control them. · Re~·i:-lution and other means to change the world is in accordance with the power ~bove. The great powers USA and USSR want to have things· for their own benefit. but they can not have the things that ‘they wan·t. They plan, make goals, but there is stalet!rt·•-~e and even the Conmnmist nations have ·to give way.,

The point of rise or fall starts from a small point. When we begin to think of things on an individual and national level the conscience in every man vaguely can tell a man which way he has to go. Conscience will accelerate the way a man has to go if he is a patriot. But l1hen a man treads the way of what he thinks is justice in a nation, in the end he will fall with that nation. He can not there• fore rely on national policy or his own conscience. In the Orient, we say that the conscience is straight. We can not 6-efine the conscience by ourself. There ie 1:1 standard measure which you have t6 measure the conscience by; it is like a f’ine straight line pnasing through two points. The self and conscience must draw a stra13ht li11e \\rith the purpose ahead of you. If the goal is a sure one then you can say that the conscienc~ is straight. ~’hen you look back over your life you see that you have gone many different WfX1S and you oanno·t define which is the str- aight way. Why even after a great struggle is man not happy? If the goal is se·t before us in f3. straight line why failure? Take a sparrow, doet it learn hw to chit•p!. ! Does · a cow lea1”Xl how to moo! I They do -chat w:Hhout having to learn, but they- do progresa spiritually. When I was in New York I visited the museum of Natural History., I aa.u the ecology of many diffGrent birds all having different kinda of nests; soma c,ren had hall~ays in them. But these birds do the same thing ganeration aft&r g&nerationo Things ar& different with man since man is headed for a different goalo Wt take things to be preci.oua when they don’t change • gold, diamonds etc .. are constant - no elemental change. If a diamond had a mind would it say that I don’t want to be anything less than l am? ,1.T,0uld gold want to be anything of higher value if it existed,. Anything and everybody does not want to be anything less than wha-t it is. Like a diamond or gold, even if they are put in tha gutter don’t change. Ia man as precious and unchangable as this? Is it really so? Ruman minds cha’l:lge all the time, from morning until night. Man is the most changing thing, but we still consider him to be the most valuable one. Do you think that you are your real un- changing self when you are being wayward — NO 1 Ir gold or diamonds talked they would say that the constant man is best. If a diamond asked you to be constant could you stay unchangeable? It is unnatural for a man of less qua.l ificatic;,11 to dominate something that has more qualifications .. It must be the other W1!J:3 around. There are all kinds of things that have more quali~cations · - would you like to hide your worst things?

Whic:h do you thiM: ie more precious~ o:r unchanging things? Unchanging! tf’ there ia a supreme ‘being dominating the whole would world He would ·answer, · •those things that do-not change throughout all of eternity. StaJl,dard· that is measured by cannot be checked. We must have one standard 1.lleaaure · that Will eliminate all difference and be the original one that we can compare all others by. We must think of the being. a~•e .\18 who ia never changing and eternal. What makes our conscience straight, vb.en, how; it is vague, bi1t we must ea:, it is a straight line that goes through all of eternit7. Because it ia· straight it is most precious since we can compare oureelves to this atratght line of conscience to see if we are ll~ight. Ever,y man thinks that his standard is right so one demands that everyone be like him. Everyone must find the original standard. Even the saints and the man who you think is great, are not right. We know that every man living does not hav-e absolute. ruler stcmdard. People in the western world should go to the orient and find out it th•1 are living by this standard. If this original standai-d is in the past we must go back in bistoeyC if in the f’utUJ’O we muat wait for 1 t to come. Compare the primitive. present and tutur-e worlds, what is thf future world going to be like it .things are always changing, processing .and unable to stand still? If you have friends, parents or wives do JOU \ct:ult them to be changing or unchanging? Which is more unique, eternal lite or eternal love? Eternal loveJ What would be more precious life or love in changing human beings. “Absolute”, eh9Uld be absolute standard and measure. If we ask people who have passed away• ‘’\that is love”? What would they say? 1’housands of years afterwards the answer wotL.•d be just the earne. ~ define the love that we are enjoying and what it is like, then we must find out what standard ia good tor today. Can we recognize it when we have found it? When you find this standard tor today all must sa:s yes!, in a unified answer. If” there is an absolute being determining our course what would the definition of love be? It there is a God at all then we must define Him to be love. If w~ asked Him he would say that he wanted us to be objects of His love taking an absolute position •- like Him 11

The point of rise is if there is a God who favours you. ‘l!l& point of fall is if there is a God who does not favour you. God wants to have DIFll1Y large grains of diamonds. If you are above the standard or what God wants you to be then you will rise. It God loses these priceless diamonds then He will be sad. The point of ri&e or fall is also, determined by how close we are to the things that we have. A puffl’ dog wi.11 lmov ~~ther or not lN.s .master will love or hate him. He will ai’l; and meditate all day long and leap up when he haars his masters voice. If his master hatee him the puppy dog will run away and liiever come back even when his master callJJ to him. Love unites two. bei~ into one. If’ a man is a loving person he is attracted to you, w.”.JltB to be near you, and pour out his whole being to youo Hate is the opposite, it wants to take away from the other. God reeemblea us — the same as us. ~ love God means to be one with Him. When we want to give Him all we have we are not losing aeything because we are in Him. So tho fttnd(mlental poitlt of defining \ilether we rise or fall is love, which makes us different from each othel”• If in a nation all the ~ople love each other horizontally and the president loves his people on all l&vels, then that nation is goint to rise. If there is any other nation plann:h1g to attack that nation than they will be defeated and become the eternal foe. Even God will think of the nation as the enemy and will not be able to forgive them. Lo1tG is the eternal source of ultimate happiness; Satan is the . very enemy of this love. A couple who love each other will attract all around them but if this couple are quarreling day after day their friends and neighbours will drive them away and all will be lost. What makes us rise or fall is love~ What kind of love?

If any individual, . frunily, tribe or nation ca’A _love each o her verticaU;, and horizontaUy then no others ·can · dream of attacking that nation. What ‘4U God think? We must go out in search of that kind of love which however hard ve searched tot’ in the satanic \forld we did not find. We must find Ood - the etern.al unchang- ing God. We must make the great diecoveey and realize the great revelation in rinding 1£,-,d; a great and wonderf’ul discovery t !o make · God our father is the goal for- man. There can ‘be no happiness great~ than to find God. We muet not just ooy thia, but we of the Unification Cburo.’zi. ,,mst live it. Only leai’Ding the Dirine Principle will not make us like this because the. l:>ivine Principle will not be counted when .the providence of restoration is accomplished - ~ int;imate love. Which do you want? 1bat goal is ours which ve must accomplish. Would you have this love with you? Would you ~nt this love to bG with ,-ou~ ‘Love does not start from oureelves but f’rom other men who are afraid to fall and desire to rise. ‘l’o love that person as you would love God is the point that is the absol~te standard to rise to. You cmm.ot raach all the world, but if you loYe 10 people like this you have loved all the world . i.rhe more of such persons you hav$ the more persons will come to you. Love will be expanded and broadened. Love the persons as you ‘t!OUld love your own ft.Ullily and tho more you do this the broader your horizon will be. 1’hat is the thin’. that God would have us do. tove rill make tts rise or :f’all eo we shou1~ not sin ~th -our eyes or mouth or any of our senses since this effects others. Good benefits others and will make the people rise. Evil will make other people fall. making other people unhappy .. ,, You might be jealous of other people who are loving. Thie is sintul and evil and will cause the other harm and make them sad. If you feel like singing because of the lo e betweon others this is good. tr you find a person who is sitting, brooding and going through sadness you t1ant to take away the other persons unhappiness. It will make the other person _,,.,. ._, _ happy- again. Jesus was like this ·to the whole of mankind when ho said, “Come unto me all you that are heavily burdened and I will give· you rest.” Thie was a great love. Christianity never foll -.under with this type of attiturle. ~day, if Christ- ianity had this attitude it wo,J:_d not .go under or any other religion that teaches this . attitude. The Unification Church must teach and do this at the cost of our life and win the world and future generations to our side. We must love others so much as to be willing to take care of their offspring. · We must love a person on three levels: an~es-ters - past, descendents - future, and themselves - present. God is longing tor the love of three generations cGntering on that person. If you love that person you will want to love three generations. This is the scope of God’s love. When you look at a person you must look at him on three le•.-els. By loving three generations you can reach the spiritual world, present world and the :future world.