The Perfection Of The Individual And The Starting Point Of Love

The perfection of an individual is not realized through knowledge, power or money. It is realized through love — not earthly love, but the original love. Through this love, everything can be perfected.

We all have the senses of sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell. These five senses should work centering on perfect love. We must think that the sensations which our eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hands, and so forth, experience should be perfected centering on love.

Similarly, we can say that when our five senses unite centering on love, then the feelings we receive from the world are the ideal feelings, which means, in short, to be intoxicated. This is the state of being harmonized with the world through love and being intoxicated with joy by the environment.

In that state, a person is not alone. There has to be a reciprocal partner with whom to continue in harmony eternally. That partner can always be different, and the feelings coming from the partner would also always be different. True love is something that has the power to become endlessly big when it is enlarged and to converge into one point when it is diminished. It is a heavenly love. When we look with an eye of love, anything big or small is always one. Small things are diminished values, and big things are enlarged.

The perfected individual is one in whom the mind and body are completely united through the eternal give and take of love, having matured according to the form of love which God originally created. A person maturing centering on love is like a bud growing into fruit.

God dwells in such a perfected individual. If love cannot be matured, the form to bear fruit can. not be made.

All the creation is created and exists based upon the law of love. When a flower blooms, the stamen and pistil have give and take action within the flower; in other words, a seed is formed through a circular movement. It is the same in the animal world and also among human beings. They all exist through the circular movement of love. Everything on earth is created to perfect itself through a relationship of love. Therefore, we can say that every existence can become perfect only through love.

Man can make his mind and body unite when he becomes one with the core of God’s love. Also, when man unites his mind and body and returns back to the realm of God’s love, then man, as an unfallen original human being, can grow toward individual perfection.

The perfection of an individual means the unification of the mind and the body. When the mind in a subject position performs give and take action with the body in an object position, then this mind and body become the object of God. The mind should not change eternally.

When the mind centering on heaven and the body centering on the earth unite, what would this idea be called? It would be called a universal idea. DO YOU know what universalism is? Universalism is an idea which calls for the unity of heaven and earth, that is, of the visible and the invisible worlds. Shouldn’t the person who tries to dominate the universe have a united mind and body? If that person does not have a united mind and body he or she would perish. However, if the mind and the body unite centering on God, then God will be the internal God, and you yourself will become the external God. Isn’t that so? And, if we ask upon what we should center the unity of our mind and body, we should center this unity upon love.

You yourself are the problem. Therefore, you yourself could become your enemy. If your mind and body cannot unite, they become your enemy.

What on earth does perfection of individuality mean? It means to vertically connect the parent and child relationship through faith. As God loves us, we also must love God. Because love is formed through relationship with an object, our relationship as children to God cannot be left undone.

The perfection of an individual starts from the point where he or she becomes vertically related to God.

It is a matter of fact that we must love God as God loves us. This is the law of the Principle. If you respect and serve God as the vertical center, you will be able to receive His love as His sons and daughters. Therefore, unless we form a tradition of loving each other, we will not create the starting point for our individual perfection.

You all should know that the completion of one’s responsibility is the only way to the perfection of one’s personality.

The reason God cannot display His love toward fallen man and woman is that fallen man and woman must first perfect their individuality.

God is the subject of true love. Because God is the subject of love, when an absolute object appears, He can perform the give and take action of love.

What do you think perfection of our individuality means? It means to become a person who can complete his or her responsibility. In other words, it is a revolution of personality, in which the person first is restored to his or her original position before the fall and then is perfected by fulfilling his or her responsibility.

The perfection of personality can be said to be the perfection of individuality. We can say that when a person has fulfilled his or her responsibility, he or she has realized the perfection of individuality. As children of God, we must become mature beings who can stand in a position before God to glorify and love Him. Understand clearly that you can obtain true love after you have perfected your personality, and always have deep in your mind that there is no other way you can go than the way of perfecting your personality.

In the satanic world there can be no connection between hearts. In your case, you can only connect with true love after you have gone through a revolutionary change in your personality. You should always remember that unless you free yourselves from your self-centered, private mind, earthly greed, attachment to yourself, or personal cultural superiority, you will never be able to perfect yourselves.

For Adam and Eve to become people of mature personality, they had to start anew centering on a complete, ideal religion and denying everything in the satanic world. Therefore, although I am receiving so much persecution, I am denying every worldly thing in order to stand in a perfected position.

The people who are always thinking centering on their own selves are people who are stuck in the satanic realm. If you have inherited God’s heart and maintain the standard of perfected individuality, then you can come in contact with God’s standard of personality and also unite with Adam’s intended standard of personality. We must become perfected individuals who match the standard of original, perfected individuality. To do this, we must continually revolutionize ourselves and fulfill our given responsibilities. In this respect, I can definitely say that nothing in this world can make you revolutionize and perfect yourself except for the Unification Principle.

To improve this world, we must complete our individuality one hundred percent. Otherwise we cannot reach the level of happiness we desire, because even if we say we have restored fallen humanity, there

should not be a fallen concept remaining in us, and God also should not have the concept that we once fell. In order to erase even the concept that man and woman once fell, we must become a one hundred percent complete ideal being.

Where is the beginning point, the foundation, and the resting point of love? You might hope it is your mind and body. In fact, if your mind and body could become the resting point of God’s love, then you would become the perfect unified foundation. Then, becoming God’s son or daughter, you would become the object of God’s love who could inherit all the creation on earth and in heaven. And you would inherit all of God’s love as His son or daughter, and God would close His eyes, shedding tears of gratitude, saying, “Oh, my child!” Everything would be under your control.

Where does love start? Love starts with a perfected Individual. The Principle view is that we are to start loving after becoming perfected as an individual. The relationship of love starts only after you have gone through adolescence, becoming qualified to love the opposite sex and to carry the responsibility of uniting with the harmony of heaven and earth.

However, in the case of Adam and Eve, it was different. What kind of love was their love? It was not love which could unite all the creation and the universe. Adam and Eve’s love should have been a subjective and necessary love, but it was not. Therefore, none of their descendants could make this level of love either. Although we know the word “love,” people do not know the idea of a world of true love, wherein people love each other centering on God and God comes to love the people.

In other words, when God sees people, who are His masterpieces, love each other, He cannot help loving them. The blessed marriages of the Unification Church link the love relationships of the people as God’s sons and daughters.

God, who existed as Logos in the beginning, created man and woman after creating all the creation. When God created human beings as His object, God created the male Adam as His object and then created the female Eve as the object of Adam.

Centering on God, Adam and Eve should stand as subject and object and become linked through love. When this happens, God and the human beings (Adam and Eve) would each form a relationship of subject and object. However, if Adam, without forming a subject and object relationship with Eve, formed only the subject and object relationship with God, he would not be able to inherit the eternal love of God or exist eternally. Eternity and perfection come not from a straight forward movement, but from a circular movement. In order for the straight forward movement to become a circular movement, Adam must also form a relationship with Eve who is the object. Adam cannot move in a circular direction if he forms a relationship just with God or just with Eve, and he would not be able to create the harmony of life and love by himself alone.

All the creation exists through a movement with three points as its base. If the movement does not go through three points, it will not be eternal or perfect.

Adam was not supposed to stand before God in a straight line. Adam was to form a circular movement only by standing before God through his object Eve, and Eve through Adam. When Adam forms a circular movement through Eve, he has to be in a love relationship with Eve. This is because Adam does not have the power to circulate by himself alone.

What would have happened if Adam and Eve had perfected themselves and reached the level to receive the Blessing? In other words, what would have happened if Adam and Eve had completely matured as man and woman? Centering on one love, they would have become a motherly womb united with the whole universe. If this unity had formed, Adam and Eve would have become united with God, and God and man and woman finally would have established a new beginning in this universe. What would have been the starting point? It would have been love. From the origin, the starting point had to be love. Then what love would that have been? It would have been God’s love.

Where would the origin of this God-centered, unified love have appeared? Originally Adam and Eve were to grow and embrace all the creation in heaven and on earth. They were to be filled with happiness, with hope for tomorrow and with heart enough to reach the position of intoxication in God’s love and love the future generations eternally. When Adam and Eve reached this position, then finally the origin of true love, where man and woman could unite centering on God, would have appeared. The origin of a unified love cannot appear by any other means.

After reaching perfection as an individual and perfection as a reciprocal spouse, and when we become approved publicly by God- centered love, we can realize the genuine, true ideal.