Gender Balance and Divine Heart Principle - Overview

*To understand why God is Heavenly Parent, Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother, we need to examine God’s movement before and after the Creation. God’s movement before and after the Creation can also be viewed as the Cause and Effect positions. God in the Cause position can only be viewed as the undivided, all-encompassing Original Oneness and numerically as one. God’s Effect position is to co-exist with His/Her creations in the Collective—spiritual/physical—Reality, which is the entire Creation.

*Because Heavenly Parent has made a movement from the Cause to the Effect position or the Singular position to being part of the Collective, all in creations share an inseparable dual positional existential identity or the ​individual and collective​ positions.

*Once Heavenly Parent made the choice to create, S/He established the “absolute standard” or the Gender Balanced Divine Heart Principle, which defines the purpose of creation for differing types of creations. It also clearly indicates His/Her “95 percent” portion of limited involvement with the free willed choices of the creations, given that His/Her purpose is not to “100 percent” manipulate the creations as if we are simple automatons.

*There are basic three types of creations: ones with the spiritual self (spiritual mind/spiritual body)-only creations, the highest of which are angels; ones with the physical self (physical mind/physical body)-only creations, the highest of which are animals; and human beings who are the “sum total” of the entire Creation with spiritual self and physical self. Each type of creations has its/his/her own creative purpose, which cannot be crossed with those of other types of creations.

*Human beings are also the “sum total” of all the “dual positions” that have been employed throughout the creative process. In Unification Thought, multiplication through the Origin-Division-Union Action and forming the Four-Position Foundation is His/Her “eternal purpose of creation.” Moreover, each of the four positions must necessarily assume the numerical value of one each.

*The Creative Process involves seven symbolic numerical stages (Gen. 1-2: 3). As the last creative act of Heavenly Parent at the end of the six stage before S/He “rested,” S/He finished with not just one human being but with Adam and Eve or two human beings of different sex. Given so, being that only human beings are in His/Her complete “image” and can thus be eligible to be His/Her children, we can also infer that Heavenly Parent is person-like Being of Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother. So, the “Heavenly Parent” part indicates God in the Origin or Cause position, and the “Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother” part designates God’s participation in the Effect position, which ended with the creation of His/Her most complete “image” in a man and a woman.

*Heavenly Parent’s purpose of creation is to co-create with His/Her creations and especially with the human beings as the “sum total” of the entire Creation. In Unification Thought, this dynamic is illustrated as Heavenly Parent’s “95 percent” portion and “5 percent” human portion to complete the perfection of the entire Creation by fulfilling all Five Roles of the Three Blessings.

*Human portion or the fulfillment of all Five Roles of the Three Blessings indicate human perfection both on the ​individual and collective​ levels. The First Blessing speaks of ​individual​ perfection of both man and woman as both are human beings, which includes each human being becoming the embodiment of the “absolute standard” or the Gender Balanced Divine Heart Principle and coinciding with Heavenly Parent’s choice at any given time. The Second Blessing includes three roles (being a True Brother and Sister; being a True Spouse; and being a True Parent, which also incudes the interconnected role of how to be True Child to human parents), which are realized

in the ​collective​ human sphere. The Third Blessing indicates human perfection in the rest of the creational sphere on the ​collective​ level in relation to the creations in the physical and spiritual worlds.

​The Human Fall

*Given that all in Creation has dual positional responsibilities relating to individual and collective levels, we need to examine the course of the Fall from these dual positions. Since sexuality unites the partners into one and implicates the lineage, Adam and Eve’s sexual fall with the lower creation on the ​collective​ level lowered human value below the physical self-only creations and dragged humanity to come from them to have lost connection to Heavenly Parent as our Ultimate Parent. Originally, after Heavenly Parent finished His/Her “95 percent” creative portion finishing with a man and a woman or Adam and Eve, it then became Adam and Eve’s parental portion of the responsibility to start raising up the highest creation--a human being, whether it be a girl or boy--who would continue the same process to other human beings to come.

*Human Fall create the subversion of the Comic Four-Position Foundation and a lower creation, Lucifer, claimed humanity’s parental position, which should have been our Ultimate Parent Heavenly Parent’s position. This created havoc in what should have been the Principled order of the cosmos or dual worlds of the spiritual and physical with each human being as the center and the “sum total” of the entire Creation.

*Through the course of the Fall, since human beings lowered human value below the physical self-only creations, Heavenly Parent had no choice but to block our spiritual sense.

*Also, once Eve sided with the lower creation’s proposal of an un-Principled ideology, which was human fornication with an angel, and Adam foolishly went along with the fallen dynamics by uniting with unrestored Eve, not only Adam and Eve but their collective-extension or the humanity to come became implicated in the lower creation’s un-Principled ideology. Lucifer’s un-Principled ideology was his challenge to Heavenly Parent’s absolute standard, the center of which are the human beings who must co-create the ideal reality based upon His/Her purpose of creation. Given that the course of the Fall began with the un-Principled ideology, the first step in restoration is the recovery of Heavenly Parent’s ideology, which is the Gender Balanced Divine Heart Principle.

*One other consequence of the Fall is the introduction of homosexuality into the human as well as angelic realms. The Fall involved three partners, two males, Adam and Lucifer, and one female, Eve. Even though Adam did not engage in ​direct​ sex with Lucifer, by having united with Eve who had sex with both male, Adam was put in a position to have had ​indirect​ sex with another male as well. In this way, the introduction of homosexuality is one of the consequences of the Fall, which needs to be restored.

*On the ​individual ​level, Adam and Eve committed the differing sins. Eve committed the ‘double sin,’ first sexual fall with the lower creation and then without having been restored, another sexual sin with Adam. Adam’s sin was a ‘single sin’ with un-restored Eve, who is a human being, and without Heavenly Parent’s blessing. By virtue of the fact that Adam and Eve represented the humanity to come through them on the collective level, their differing individual choices affected mankind and womankind to come differently. Or, womankind was degraded to further removed position than mankind and had to suffer inordinate suffering and humiliation.

*Eve’s ‘double sin’ not only lowered womankind’s value, but also obscured Heavenly Mother’s advent onto humanity as She did not have the proper representation in womankind.

*After the Fall, Heavenly Parent could not use the fallen individual persons of Adam and Eve but had to work with their collective-extension or children. However, because the womankind’s further removed position, in the restorational process, Heavenly Parent had no choice but to use the sons or Cain and Abel. Cain’s first child position represented Adam and Eve’s first sexual sin with a lower creation, which is forbidden from the absolute standard, as opposed to Abel’s second child position representing the second sexual sin between Adan and Eve or between human beings, which is slightly more Principled.

*However, when Adam and Eve failed the parental responsibility to guide Cain/Abel and Cain/Abel also failed their Providential positions, not only the murder and violence came into human reality, but the Cain and Abel unequal positions became the operating formula to plague and divide humanity to come at every level of human social

reality. After the Fall, womankind has been the greatest number of people who assumed Cain position and suffered accordingly.

*The Original Sin is Adam and Eve’s failure to fulfill all Five Roles of the Three Blessings, which includes Heart Principled human sexuality. Since human perfection or the fulfillment of all Five Roles of the Three Blessings must be perfected in the physical world, the Original Sin must be restored in the physical world.

Slow Progress of the Restorational History with Repeated Prolongation and Additional Indemnity Conditions

*After the failure of Adam and Eve’s family, succeeding central foundations after them repeatedly failed to restore both levels of individual and collective foundations. True Individual foundation requires both man and woman’s individual perfection. True Family foundation requires restoration of Cain/Abel unequal positions and recovering equal value for every human being. In Heavenly Parent’s Ideal, the True Family is the starting basis to expand on to the worldwide and cosmic level foundation.

* Owing to Adam’s single sin as opposed to Eve’s double sins, Heavenly Parent had no choice but to initially engage with the male central figure first to begin the Providential foundation at a specific providential timing. Yet once the male central figure had been called and made a covenant with Him/Her, it then became his responsibility to be True Spouse to his wife by alerting his wife to fulfill her individual portion to reach Him/Here. If the female central figure were able to make the Providential efforts, this would have benefited womankind’s lowered position to be improved and the advent of Heavenly Mother to be available to humanity.

*Noah and his wife’s family is described in the ​Exposition of the​ ​Divine Principle​ as the “second ancestor [family] of humanity,” meaning that it was once again the providential moment when Heavenly Parent could have begun working with a central family to connected to the worldwide and cosmic level foundation.​ ​However, as was the case with Adam and Eve’s family, that family did not fulfill the dual position, individual and collective level perfection of all Five Roles of the Three Great Blessing. They did not realize the restoration of man and woman’s equal value. They were not able to represent humanity realizing the Cain and Abel position Heart-Principled true love unity. They did not substantiate the complete restoration of the Original Sin. As consequences of their family’s failures, racial inequality and language divisions became the fallen reality.

*The failure of Noah and his wife’s family was at the worldwide and cosmic levels. Hence, before Heavenly Parent could hope to make another attempt to restore the world and cosmic-level foundations, Heavenly Parent’s providence to recover fallen humanity had to take a prolonged route. Now clan and national divisions arose in fallen humanity, and these called for new indemnity conditions. Something called clan and national divisions in humanity was never the eternal purpose of creation. Originally, worldwide humanity would have expanded from Adam and Eve’s family, or Noah and his wife’s family, to become one family with God.​ ​Adam and Eve as the first human parents would have been the parents of entire humanity. Instead, after Adam and Eve’s family and Noah and his wife’s family failed to achieve Heart-Principled True Love unity at the family level, divisions arose in humanity, their collective extension. Hence, before Heavenly Parent could hope for the providential moment to resume worldwide and cosmic-level restoration, which came at the time of Jesus and his Bride, S/He had to first work at the clan and national levels.

*The Abel position clan-level foundation at the time was Abraham and Sarah’s three generations (Abraham, Hagar, and Sarah as the first generation; Isaac and Rebecca as the second generation; and Jacob, Leah, and Rachel as the third generation). However, while the Bible and the ​Exposition of theDivine Principle​ recognize the individual efforts of the male central figures—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, there is very little mention of central women—Sarah, Rebecca, and Rachel—making individual endeavors to support the providence and benefiting the woman’s side.​ ​On the other hand, when it came to collective responsibility, both the first generation Abraham and Sarah and the third generation Jacob and Rachel were responsible for creating the divisions between Cain and Abel-position wives by allowing the Cain-position wives Hagar and Leah to their respective family foundations.

*The divisions between Cain and Abel position wives were an entirely new unprincipled condition that did not exist in Adam and Eve’s family or Noah and his wife’s family. As discussed previously, being that the numerical value of each position of the four-position foundation must necessarily be one, man and woman’s value must each be one. However, when one pushes two women (in the case of Abraham, Hagar and Sarah) or even four women (Jacob

with Leah, Rachel and their servants Zilpah and Bilhah) into the wife’s position with numerical value of one to bear children, not only would it diminish each woman to a state of lowered numerical value (0.5 for each of the two women and 0.25 for each of the four women), but it would also impose unnecessary indemnity burdens to children coming from various mothers to suffer through in order to recover original human value. Indeed, when Cain and Abel had so much strain between them even with the same parents Adam and Eve, how much more difficulties would multiple wives inflict upon the divided Cain and Abel-position children.

*In sum, during the three generations of the clan-level foundation that began with Abraham and Sarah, there was not much of central women’s individual foundation to benefit woman’s side. On the collective level, instead of greater Heart-Principled True Love unity to unite the family and clan-level foundations, greater rifts had been created with the new indemnity condition of Cain and Abel-position wives and Cain and Abel-position children coming from different mothers. Given so, during the three generations of the clan-level foundation, not only did the woman’s position not advance much, but none of the Five Roles of the Three Great Blessings were realized, and Heart-Principled True Love unity between the Cain and Abel positions did not come to pass either.

*Thereafter, Heavenly Parent still had to continue the providence with the Israelites or the lineage of Abraham and Sarah, even though Abraham’s failure of the symbolic offering caused his and Sarah’s descendants to suffer the four hundred thirty years of slavery in Egypt. After the indemnity period, Heavenly Parent raised Moses as the male central figure to bring back the Israelites to the land of Canaan for the national-level foundation. However, what should have been the twenty-one days’ journey to return to Canaan was prolonged to forty years of wondering in the wilderness, and the first generation along with Moses, who as their central leader had to bear the collective-level responsibility, could not enter the land of Canaan. Only the younger generation entered under Caleb and Joshua’s direction.

*In addition, being the central figure for the national-level foundation, Moses and his family had to establish certain foundations. However, Moses could not even marry a woman of the Israelite, Abel-position lineage, and instead married a Midianite woman of the worldwide Cain lineage. On the other hand, his wife Zipporah did make a significant gesture to make a separation from her former faith and attach herself to the Israelite’s Abel position lineage by the act of circumcision, which was a necessary indemnity condition for the Israelites to suffer at the time. In the end, however, regardless of Zipporah’s offering of that conditional gesture and Moses’ individual-level endeavors, their combined efforts on the individual and collective levels were not enough to improve the woman’s position, nor to fulfill all Five Roles of the Three Great Blessings, nor to create Heart-Principled true love unity between the Cain and Abel positions up to the national level.

*Following that, it was the Jesus and his Bride’s course that was once again at the providential time to lay the worldwide and cosmic-level foundation. Theirs was the next “human ancestors[’]” course, which had the chance to restore all the failures that occurred at the time of Adam and Eve’s family, Noah and his wife’s family, and all the central foundations thereafter. However, from the standpoint of the absolute standard, the result of Jesus and his Bride’s course was not a complete success but not a complete failure either. As their course was at the level of expectation for the worldwide and cosmic-level, Jesus and his Bride together had to fulfill all Five Roles of the Three Great Blessings on the individual and on the various collective levels, thereby restoring the Original Sin, in addition to all the accumulated indemnity conditions of the past Providential foundations. Together they had to begin by recovering man and woman’s equal value and the elimination of Cain and Abel unequal positions that had been plaguing humanity at all levels.

*However, when Jesus was killed prematurely before he could unite with his Bride, it became inevitable that he could not complete the original mission. That would have required the physical person to remain alive in the physical world where human perfection has to occur. By the time Jesus was faced with the possibility of his own death, all the collective-level foundations had failed—those centering on Jesus’ own family, namely Zachariah with Elizabeth and Mary, his Cain and Abel position ‘wives,’ and John the Baptist and Jesus, their Cain and Abel position children, as well as that with his own disciples. In fact, at that point, being that one can exercise free will at all times, if Jesus too had lost faith on the individual level regarding the providential significance of his and Bride’s course, although he may have evaded immediate death, he would have completely failed the human foundation at the time. If that had occurred, it would have been equivalent to the complete and thorough failure at the worldwide and cosmic level both on the individual and collective level. In that case, providence would have taken a

different route where all of humanity would have had to pay indemnity, just as it was the case after the time of Adam and Eve’s family and Noah and Wife’s family’s failures.

*At least Jesus kept his faith on the individual level, even when all the collective-level foundations had failed and his physical body was sacrificed. This last act of Jesus made it possible for the human portion to make a minimum offering, though only on the male side of the individual level and only on the spiritual level without Jesus’ physical body. In this way, even though Jesus and his Bride did not deliver the complete victory up to the worldwide and cosmic levels at the time, since Jesus the male central figure had established a certain foundation on the individual male side and on the spiritual level, his last choice had made possible for the extension of he and his Bride’s course to that of the Second Coming and Bride after paying two thousand years of indemnity.

*As such, the end result of Jesus and his Bride’s course was the non-deliverance in these critical issues: restoration of man and woman’s equal value; fulfillment of all Five Roles of the Three Great Blessings and the restoration of the Original Sin; elimination of Cain and Abel inequality that has plagued human reality ever since the failure of Adam and Eve’s family; and restoration of subverted Cosmic Four-Position Foundation to return the creation back to Heavenly Parent through perfected human beings becoming the True Stewards overseeing the dual, spiritual and physical worlds.

*In addition, after the incomplete restoration of Cain/Abel unequal positions that have plagued humanity at every level at the time of Jesus/Bride’s course, the male monotheism that began with Abraham/Sarah, whose culmination was Jesus/Bride at the worldwide/cosmic level foundation, would divide into Cain/Abel positions once again. That is when Judaism, the first male monotheism that began with Abraham/Sarah, did not unite with Jesus/Bride, it would later divide with Christianity, another male monotheism believing in Jesus. Moreover, since Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar’s already divided Cain and Abel positional children had not been able to unite with Jesus/Bride’s foundation for the complete restoration, their lineage and their male monotheistic faith would also divide to form Judaism and Islam later on.

*In sum, from the time of Adam and Eve’s Fall, when man and woman’s unequal positions were created owing to Eve’s double sins, until the time of Second Coming and his course with his Bride, virtually no foundations had been made on the woman’s side to recover original gender equality. During the history of indemnity, when Heavenly Parent had no choice but to begin any providential foundation by initially contacting the male central figure, it was much easier for the male central figure to maintain his individual foundation with ongoing contact with the Heavenly Parent. Women central figures, on the other hand, were disadvantaged and ‘doubly’ burdened with Eve’s ‘double sins’ on the collective level. Further, since they could not even begin their course by direct contact with Heavenly Parent but only through their spouses, it was extremely difficult for them to live up to the providential expectation that their positions called for. Given this unbalanced reality between man and woman, since they had to be representatives of Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother respectively, the Heavenly Mother side of Heavenly Parent was also left in utterly dire straits, suffering through heart-wrenching torment for being left out and ignored by Her own children, humanity.

Providential Identity of the Unification Movement

*After two thousand years of working with Christians, the spiritual heirs of Jesus, Heavenly Parent raised the Unification Movement in twentieth century in the hope of completing this worldwide and cosmic-level restoration. The people who were called to join the movement came from all over the world. They came not only on their own accord as individuals, but also because they stood upon the collective level of their ancestors, whose merit came from their efforts to live closer to Principled life. This meant then it was not just the male and female central figures that were called to accomplish up to the worldwide and cosmic-level foundational course, but also all the people worldwide who were led to the Movement.

*The Movement began where Jesus and Bride’s foundation or Christianity had left off, which remained highly patriarchal. Jesus himself could only make individual male side and spiritual offering. Since Jesus’ Bride, who could have laid the foundation on behalf of Heavenly Mother and womankind, was not established, the patriarchal culture that prevailed ever since the Fall and Eve’s double sins simply continued on all over the human world.

Christian culture was male centered, as was Confucian culture that had strong sway in Korea where the Second Coming and his Bride were raised.

*Unification Movement has the responsibility to restore all the unprincipled choices dating back from Adam and Eve’s family and subsequent central Providential foundations that have created additional indemnity conditions for humanity to suffer through. We have to establish the True Individual foundation of both man and woman; True Family foundation of restoration of unequal Cain and Abel positions; True Clan foundation of true families multiplied who are the blessed families that constitute the Movement; True National foundation of central Providential nations—Korea, Japan, and USA; True Worldwide foundation of rest of humanity regaining their Heavenly Parent-given equal human value with adequate means to fulfill the human portion of all Five Roles of the Three Blessings (Those that have been ‘blessed’ earlier must work together to bring equality of means for everyone); and True Cosmic level foundation of regaining our lost spiritual senses due to the Fall and opening up the spiritual world where human beings can freely communicate between the dual worlds as befitting of human value, which is the sum total and the center of the entire Creation.

*However, before we can accomplish any of the above, we must necessarily recover Heavenly Parent’s original ideology or purpose of creation, which Adam and Eve lost through the Fall. That ideology is the Gender Balanced Divine Heart Principle, without which the proper course of balanced restoration cannot proceed as recovery of equal human value is the starting point to embrace the fullness of Heavenly Parent who is Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother and to restore all the unbalanced realities that the process of the Fall and subsequent fallen history have wrought. Since the Fall began with the un-Principled ideology, we must win the world and cosmos over with Heavenly Parent’s absolute standard of the Gender Balanced Divine Heart Principle.

*All those that are born in the Unification Movement continue to carry the promise the first generation has made before the witness of the Heavenly Parent and the entire Creation to deliver the complete restoration. This is because the lineage is the collective-extension of the preceding generations that had made the promise. In this sense, along with the first generation, the “blessed children” are the children of promise who must participate in completing the mission.