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Cheon Il Guk is in the Midst of You.

August 17, 2011

“I would like to continue my reflections on ‘A Movement in Crisis’, and how we can move forward and overcome the problems and difficulties currently facing us.

As we know, our movement is a microcosm of the world and of human history itself, and therefore, of the events that are taking place on the world stage now, and that have also occurred throughout history.

Our mission is to overcome all these problems and those things which have plagued the human family since the fall of Adam and Eve, including, the loss of the Original True Family and the legacy it should have established eternally.

The answer to these problems lies in understanding God’s original ideal of creation and the purpose for which He created. Through a course of absolute faith, love and obedience, God Himself, sacrificing and investing with all his heart, soul, mind and energy, strove to create His object of love, ultimately, an absolute family, a true family.

In order to accomplish that, God gave man, whom God desired to be a co-creator with Him, a portion of responsibility. “Do not have sex, whilst you are still in the Indirect Dominion”.

This was not only a matter of obedience to God but also for Adam and Eve as brother and sister to have the right heart of love and respect for each other during this growing period.

They were to manifest true sibling love as a foundation for conjugal and parental love, and love each other as God loved them. Adam and Eve should have cared for each other and loved each other believing that they must also protect each other’s purity as God had asked them to.

Adam should have scolded Lucifer when he saw that he was getting to close to his sister. Eve should have rebuffed Lucifer’s advances and sought out her brother’s help. Had they cared for and loved each other by taking God’s commandment seriously, Lucifer would not have been able to invade.

Therefore the environment God had created and that Adam and Eve should have perfected through true love was defiled. The give and take of absolute love God desired within the four position foundation was lost, and an unrighteous self-centred four position foundation centring on Satan was established.

God’s children had now become the servants of an Archangel, a servant of a servant.

Therefore, I would like to discuss how we can re-create that Environmental Kingdom where through give and take as siblings, we can create a culture and environment of heart, and ultimately the Kingdom of Heaven which is a kingdom where true love is practised.

Culture is created most significantly by what we believe and understand to be true and how we then practise that, making our thought and understanding substantial reality. Our original nature naturally aspires to creating a culture of heart. Therefore at the centre of such a culture, would be, the practice of true love, living for the sake of others as demonstrated by God in His act of Creation.

Similarly through Father’s words and his substantial model course (living the word), we can understand how to build the Kingdom of Heaven. Each one of us is created as an individual truth body with our own personality, character and heart. Each one of us, in our own relationship with God, is to fulfil our own portion of responsibility by our own free will and therefore take ownership of our lives and the results of what we do or don’t do.

I would like to share with you a very important excerpt from the Divine Principle. P.455 under the heading, ‘The Renaissance’:

* “ The principle of creation tells us that man was created to become perfect by carrying out by his free will, his own portion of responsibility, in which process even God couldn’t intervene. Therefore it is man’s original nature to pursue freedom. It is from man’s original nature that he would pursue the independence of his personality by carrying out his own portion of responsibility with his free will and thus by becoming one with God and perfecting his individuality.”

The next paragraph in the same section is also very significant.

“Man was created as a man of perfected individuality to know God’s will through his intelligence and reason and to live in accordance with it, even though he might not receive any revelation from God. Therefore it is man’s original nature to follow and develop his intelligence and reason.”

Therefore each one of us needs to clearly understand the Divine Principle and Father’s words expressed in his many sermons, speeches and the guidance he has given over a lifetime.

Father’s words are the Completed Testament Word which we may also refer to as Godism or Head-wing ideology. We need to clearly understand Father’s teaching and take ownership of this understanding and apply it in our own lives as expressed in the Divine Principle quote above. This is the same as Adam and Eve incarnating the word.

There is huge energy and empowerment that comes through people having give and take in a free and open environment. When we can discuss and determine our future by our own decisions and actions then we can truly be liberated. We need to create that environment and culture, otherwise, we won’t actually be building the Kingdom of Heaven, they are synonymous.

Instead we will just continue to maintain a two dimensional, linear, leader-centred and blinkered movement, not listening to its membership, nor the people we are trying to attract and involve in our various activities and affiliations.

We will have more in common with a totalitarian state, than God’s Ideal. Remember, God was breaking down historical absolutism and absolute monarchism during the time leading up to and during the 400 year preparation period for the Lord of the Second Advent.

People won’t be attracted to something which doesn’t demonstrate and practise the values and principles it teaches, especially in respect to and for human relationships that one would hope to find in an ideal society. This is the reality we are facing in our movement.

Even though we have a wonderful teaching and wonderful True Parents, why would anyone want to share their lives with us when we haven’t created that culture of heart and are not going to whilst our actions and even our thinking are not in line with that ideal.

As I shared previously, Father announced in 1981 the end of the leader centred-movement and the beginning of the member-centred movement, where we live by give and take of love, not following commands. (Historical Children’s Day speech Oct. 1981)

“Today I am declaring a new beginning: the leader-centred movement is over, and the member-centred movement is going to begin. Why should it be like that? If the head of the family thinks only about himself, the family is unhappy. Only if he worries about the whole family can they be successful and happy together.

The Unification Church is one family. I am concerned and worried about each one of you, and you should be concerned with each other as brothers and sisters, and together come to parents. What we need now is an environmental Kingdom of Heaven. If you only move in one direction, that is no good. You must move in 360 degrees, in all directions.

Our ultimate goal is Canaan. While we are marching toward Canaan, our supreme duty is to follow orders, but once we enter Canaan we don’t live by commands but by love. This is that time. We are arriving now, and we must live in a God-like way. The second three seven-year courses have been announced. In the first 21 years we marched toward Canaan, and in these 21 years we shall live by love.

Could that not be any clearer, does Father’s direction not make it abundantly clear what we should be striving for and trying to attain as of thirty years ago.

Yet we still have a movement where leaders continue to dictate to brothers and sisters what to do, no matter how nicely they may package it. This stifles give and take, stifles our role as co-creators, and therefore stifles God’s bid to establish His environmental kingdom. That is why Father stated, that the first commandment on earth is to love people, as I mentioned in my previous letter.

** “If you are one with God you must love Cain. If you stand in a position of receiving God’s love, just as you love God with all your heart, soul and mind you must love your tribe, people and nation. This is the first commandment on earth. It is a commandment not of Heaven but of God’s Kingdom on earth. The commandment of God’s Kingdom in Heaven is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. However the first commandment of His Kingdom on Earth is to love our nation and race with all our soul, heart and mind…” Cheon Seong Gyeong P.717 RHS 3.5 (1970/8/29)

Note the date of this quote, 1970, that is 41 years ago! So let’s use this statement now, as our base point, our primary mandate, commandment. All other laws and directions are secondary and subject to this primary mandate.

Now suddenly we have a very different understanding, hence spirit and culture that can develop. Now the standard and blueprint for our life is to love and serve people before anything else.

Everything is measured from that standard and practice. There is no hiding behind, ‘unite with the central figure’, ‘this is God’s Will’. Foremostly, we are bound to follow our conscience as our ‘first teacher’, and practise Father’s teaching, as explained in the previous quote above **. Here is I believe, the most profound definition of God’s Will:

“There is no real substance at the moment. Then, what is the real substance? It is the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification that will come. It signifies the completion of the four position foundation. What is God’s ideal of creation? It is the completion of God’s will. What is God’s will then? It is the completion of God’s ideal of creation.

What is the completion of the ideal of creation? It means completing the four position foundation. What does it mean by completing the four position foundation? In the completed four position foundation, fathers, mothers, sons and daughters are all united. And then, keeping in time with God, they know how to sing and dance together with Him. That is the completion of God’s will”. CSG. p. 2362 LHS.(1992/7/1)

Let’s continue our discussion on the centrality of sibling love in achieving God’s ideal.

I would like to share a number of quotes, pertaining to Father’s teaching on the centrality of sibling love for the realisation of God’s Ideal. The following quotes for me, were very revelationary, and I believe, require serious reflection.

“Only when we embrace the world and love all people with sibling love, will we join everything together in an ideal sphere of love; when that occurs, no mishap will severely shock us. Only then will all the substance of God’s thought finally bear fruit. God’s ideal of children unites and bears fruit there: the fruit of children’s love, the fruit of siblings’ love, the fruit of the love of husband and wife and the fruit of parents’ love.

When the plan that the incorporeal God had at the time of Creation is made substantial, upper and lower, front and rear and left and right will be merged with Him”. CSG, p.374 Last Para. LHS. (1992/11/4)

Frankly the weakness and failing of our church, is this point, we have overemphasised vertical relationships to the detriment if not absence of horizontal relationships, therefore failing to secure an environmental kingdom that can nurture, protect and raise up sons and daughters to God.

From another speech Father stated,

“Through brothers and sisters a nation arises and all humankind arises. The relationship of brothers and sisters signifies front and back, a flat surface, but when flesh is added a sphere is formed. So it is brothers and sisters and the people of the nation who form the sphere. Brothers and sisters expand to become a people.

The love of siblings is connected with the love for the world. A family where many brothers and sisters are growing up is like a model to embrace all people of the world and to create an ideal Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of God on Earth and in Heaven. Hence brothers and sisters expand in number”. CSG, p.374 2nd Para. RHS(1992/10/1)

That is profound! Let’s continue.

LOVE BETWEEN SIBLINGS (CSG. p.1075-76 RHS last para.)

“The heart of parents desires that children love each other more than they love the parents. Even if you can not take care of your parents , if you say “ Mum, please wait. I’ll take care of my younger brother first,” your parents will say, “ my boy! Oh he will grow up to be a good man.” Isn’t that right? (1975/5/1)

“The person who is willing to love his brother more than his parents will live eternally in heaven. Those who can not love their brother as they would their parents are not included in this place. The source of this principle, when understood is simple. Members were incapable of loving one another because they did not know this until now.

The question is whether our members can unite among themselves. If you stand in a position where you cannot fulfil your filial duty to True Parents, you should offer those things that you wanted to devote to them to the members instead. Then Heaven can accept this offering as something greater than your filial devotion to True Parents. Such a person will surely be blessed”. (78-41, 1975.5.1)

“The path to heaven is opened by loving the members in the same way that you love God. You are trying to follow me, yet, with that same heart, you should strive to go together with your siblings. In this respect, we can conclude that the one who teaches the highest, quickest, and best way to go to heaven is neither God nor me but your siblings. The one who exerts himself with love greater than parental or conjugal love becomes the supreme subject being of love who then searches for his object partner”. (66-125, 1973.4.18) Again, look at the dates of these quotes.

From these quotes it is clear that the Kingdom of Heaven is born out of the relationships of brothers and sisters and having the heart to love each other more than we love our parents. Let’s make this understanding a new paradigm for each of us to aspire to.

‘CHEON IL GUK IS IN THE MIDST OF YOU’.

As Jesus said, “The Kingdom of Heaven is in the midst of you”. In the midst, meaning, in our relationships as brothers and sisters, as people. To the extent that we love each other and love our tribe, nation and world determines whether the Kingdom of Heaven is built.

That is why Jesus said, ‘Love one another as I have loved you.’ ‘People will know you are my disciples by your love for one another.’ ‘As you do to the least of these so you do to me.’ This was the beginning of the growth stage.

Similarly, if we want to establish a CIG nation and world, then firstly, CIG must be in the midst of us. If it isn’t, how can we create it in the nation and the world; because we just proclaim it?

John the Baptist and Jesus both said, “Repent the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” Was it? We know the Kingdom begins with a true family. Are we a true family as a movement? Do we have those types of relationships that Father spoke of above? Are we substantially creating a culture of heart, through true give and take as brothers and sisters, according to Father’s words and the first commandment on earth being to love people.

Loving God does not create a culture of heart. It has to manifest substantially on earth in human relationships of love, otherwise it is just like thoughts in your head that can only become substantial through action. For this you need a physical body as explained in the principle of creation and the principles of re-creation. Let’s read another excerpt from Divine Principle from the chapter on Resurrection, P. 173, 2nd paragraph.

“Second, according to the principle of creation, man, who was created as part of God’s portion of responsibility, was made to be perfected by believing in God’s word and practising them, as his own portion of responsibility.Therefore, in carrying out the providence of resurrection, there must be ‘words’ from God for the sake of the providence, which is God’s portion of responsibility. Only by believing in and practising these words, as man’s own portion of responsibility, is God’s will accomplished.

Third, in light of the principle of creation, the spirit man was made to grow and become perfect only through the physical body. Thus, the resurrection of the spirit man, according to the providence of restoration, is only to be accomplished through physical life on earth.”

This signifies the importance of our physical life and actions whilst on earth and that re-creation occurs not in worship or even workshops, but in physical human give and take centred on God’s word.

Cheon Il Guk is in the midst of you. There is a famous quote of Fathers where he says, “Let us build the Kingdom of Heaven with our own hands.”

Here’s an interesting anecdote I heard from a UTS Seminarian. Father asked this particular class of students, what is the most important thing about being at the Seminary? Naturally their minds would have raced thinking of things of great providential significance and the knowledge they had gained there and so on.

However, Father said that the most important thing about being there, was making friends. Surprise! Again everything comes back to relationships. Even practically, who are the people you will accomplish and do the most things with? Those people you are closest in heart to. Yes, make friends. When you go to a workshop, the Original Divine Principle workshop, make friends and develop old friendships.

At the end of the day, these are our brothers and sisters who we can have an eternal relationship with. It is sad if we don’t take that opportunity to share heart and love together. Similarly with your spouses and children, family, neighbours, kith and kin. Love is now. Love is what you are putting in the bank now to enjoy when you are in the spirit world. It’s a good ‘retirement plan’.

Just to clarify the above points with Father’s words:

“The time has come for you to join the original family of Adam worldwide. All the people in the world must perfect themselves on the family level. What must be done to reach perfection? Your families must be the ones who restore the fallen families through atonement offerings. This has to be achieved by each and every family worldwide, making an effort through the Family Federation.

Perfection has to be achieved by Adam and Eve. God can not do it for them. True Parents can not do it for them. The reason that the Family Federation exists is to allow you to perfect yourselves through your own efforts. This has to be a worldwide organization. You are able to go beyond the fallen world and the lineage of Adam through the Family Federation….” CSG. P. 2362 RHS. (1995/10/30)

Lastly I want to share about Tribal Messiahship and the mission we have in terms of hometown and the significance of the emergence of the Family Federation.

“Until that day, you must fulfil your responsibility by giving your utmost effort. I am handing down to you the supreme gift, the result of 10,000 years of faith, and the fruit of all the pioneering that God has done for billions of years since the creation of the world, If you inherit this completely, you will be able to honour the authority of the blood lineage established through the Unification Church, which you can be proud of throughout the whole universe and in the heavenly world.

You should know that there is nothing more righteous or valuable than this. I ask you to become people who can go directly to the world of peace with that value. You should know that with your returning to hometown, the unification of a new nation will arise. Amen! (1992.1.26. Headquarters Church)

Father stated last year that the main responsibilities that he gave us were, Hometown and Tribal Messiahship. (Hometown being inclusive of Homechurch)

These are responsibilities that are for us to to own, determine and fulfil regardless of what else the church may decide to undertake and conversely what we may decide to support. These are our holy and eternal responsibilities.

I would like to share a number of quotes on home church from when Father was focused on this providence from the late seventies and throughout the eighties. I believe that similarly, these quotes apply to Tribal Messiahship and Hometown as well.

‘Home Church is My Kingdom of Heaven.’ Jan. 1, 1981

“This year’s motto is “Home Church is My Kingdom of Heaven.” As I already said, in the past two years home church was not that very near or personal to you. So far, you may have thought of home church as a kind of witnessing technique, or an innovation of the Unification Church. But it is the heavenly way. The home church is your personal affair; it doesn’t belong to anyone else. It is your personal matter on earth and in heaven, not the Unification Church’s”.

It is not a witnessing technique; it is our personal matter, not the Unification Church’s. So too, this is true of Tribal Messiahship. This is very important for us to understand from the point of view of our ‘ownership’ and fulfilling our responsibility (which even God can not intervene) as quoted above *.

“God will recognise home church as the foundation through which you serve as filial children, as patriots and even as saints. God will recognise as a saint the person who accomplishes this. A saint is a person who lives on the world level, but God can recognise you as such on the foundation of home church”.

“Home church was announced in America rather than in Korea. How was that possible? In New York and in this country as a whole, you can find different races living in 360 homes. There is no other country like this. If all the 360 homes oppose you, it means that not just an individual or a family, or even a nation is opposing you, but many nations and races. In America, therefore, it is possible to go through the worldwide level of indemnity. After winning in New York, we will concentrate our efforts in Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, etc., and it will become easier and easier. For this reason, we cannot go to heaven without having home church.

After Jesus gave the keys to heaven to Peter, did Peter ascend to heaven, or did he go to the cross? What should Peter have done? We know that he should have gone to heaven by opening the door of home church on the dispensational level of that time, which was the tribal level. Then the foundation of the Kingdom of Heaven could have been laid. But now we are starting home church on the world level, which is much more difficult. Peter would have secured the environment through home church, and thereafter organized twelve tribes. Jesus had indicated that whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven; likewise, unless we realize the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, the Kingdom of Heaven in spirit world will not come about either.

When I do come back, will I return to the Unification Church boundary, or to the home church? The Church is like an office for the families and the society, but the home church is where the parents and children can live, and where God can dwell”.

Similarly, Hometown is where the parents and children can live, and where God can dwell. This statement is important as it emphasises that the goal of history is not religion nor a church, but ideal families living together. Similarly the quote below. From CSG, P. 2023, RHS, last para.

“What treasure would I like to leave behind for the Unification Church. Home Church is the treasure I am leaving behind for you after going the way of sacrifice throughout my life. What did I say is the treasure I can leave behind for the members of Unification Church? You are given the opportunity to inherit the authority of the Unification Church in a dignified manner from Heaven and Earth, or from God and Satan; this is the treasure.

If Home Church is perfected, will there be a term Unification Church or not? Will there be God’s providence, or not? Maybe these terms will exist in a Home Church that is not yet perfected, somewhere far away. Yet in the Home Church I created, there is no religion and no providence of God. It is the place where the people of Heaven live”. (1980/10/19)

Out of Tribal Messiahship activities, everything else should emerge, grow and develop. Tribal Messiahship, tills the soil, that all the fruits and harvest will come from, thus establishing the hometown community, clan, society, nation and world. Everything else, is subordinate to that. Why? Because the family and expansion of the family is the purpose of God’s creation.

The Tribal Messiah and his family are the cornerstone of the Kingdom of Heaven and the yeast to expand the family level to the community, society, nation, world and cosmic level through the collaboration and co-operation of Central Blessed Families working together throughout the world as a federation of families. ‘You should know that with your returning to hometown, the unification of a new nation will arise. Amen!’

Herein lies the reason why Father founded the ‘Family Federation for World Peace and Unification’, which was to have also superseded the Unification Church that represented the religious realm and era, prior to the advent of Cheon Il Guk, and the era after the coming of heaven.

Following are quotes from Father which explain this point. CSG, p.2360-2362

“The mission of the HSA-UWC is over and so is the mission of religion. For the first time in history we are entering into the new age, an age when humanity does not need salvation. The Family Federation is creating ideal families in order to complete the work of restoration to establish God’s ideal of creation and to build the heavenly ideal world.” CSG, P. 2360, RHS April 8, 1997, Korea

“Therefore, families must settle on earth. So far, religions have focused on individual salvation and not on family salvation. All the religions have taught people to leave and abandon their families. Now is a different time. All the religions talk about saving individuals, but they have no idea about saving families, tribes, and nations. Our Unification Church teaches about saving nations and the world based on families”. (1997/4/8)

“God’s ideal of creation, which He has longed for since the Garden of Eden, will appear only when a family settles down, becomes recognised by the world, and bears fruit. Through sons and daughters, that family must expand horizontally to become a tribe that will automatically connect itself to the people”. CSG. P.2361 LHS (1997/4/8)

“That is why families are important. Everything will be completed within the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. Now, please repeat after me, “The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification.” Its centre is the family”. (1997/4/8)

“Without establishing the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, world peace will never be achieved. This is an important point. Families are this important. World peace starts at home…. “(1992/7/10)

“Now is the time for the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. Everything starts in the family. Focusing on the family, tribe and nation you should attend God. Without realising the family ideal, through which you can unite with God, the Kingdom of Heaven will not come about”. (1999/3/23)

“The Unification Church now means the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. This means that the FFWPU is being established in your homes. I have to put all families in order: satanic families, archangel type families on God’s side, and Adam type families. Since the separation from God grew out of a bad marriage, the marriage has to be restored and perfected, creating a unified world…..

Forty years after the start of my public ministry I founded the FFWPU. In order to accomplish this goal, we need to have something like a constitution as an absolute regulation – the Family Pledge. There has never been such a term as Family Pledge throughout history. It is the family pledge that points us in the right direction and enables us to complete the Heavenly Kingdom”. (1994/11/3)

What is God’s ideal of creation? It is the completion of God’s will. What is God’s will then? It is the completion of God’s ideal of creation.What is the completion of the ideal of creation? It means completing the four position foundation. What does it mean by completing the four position foundation?

In the completed four position foundation, fathers mothers, sons and daughters are all united. And then, keeping in time with God, they know how to sing and dance together with Him. that is the completion of God’s will”. (1992/7/1)

This has to be achieved by each and every family worldwide, making an effort through the Family Federation. Perfection has to be achieved by Adam and Eve. God can not do it for them. True Parents can not do it for them.

The reason that the Family Federation exists is to allow you to perfect yourselves through your own efforts. This has to be a worldwide organisation. You are able to go beyond the fallen world and the lineage of Adam through the Family Federation….” CSG. P. 2362 RHS (1995/10/30)

In summary, based on what the children do as brothers and sisters, determines whether the ideal world is realised or not. That means, the children determine the establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven, just as it was the children, Adam and Eve originally, who would determine the establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven.

The children are the substantial horizontal expression of God’s creation. If the children can’t work together and love each other there is no Kingdom of Heaven. The establishment of CIG will be determined by the children, which is us and successive generations.

True Parents alone will not build the Kingdom of Heaven, nor any individual by their own will and determination.

The above quotes from Father’s teachings I believe makes the course and action we need to take very clear. Brothers and sisters foremostly, need to unite in heart together, collaborate, co-operate, communicate and work together centring on sibling love to build the Kingdom of Heaven, and then Cheon Il Guk, will be in the midst of us.

Finally, I would like to re-iterate that life does not emerge from religiosity and vertical etiquette and protocols. Life emerges from the root of love, which originates in the desire to live for the sake of, and to love others. ‘Love one another as I have loved you.’

Brothers and sisters, let’s unite together centring on sibling love.

“Only then will all the substance of God’s thought finally bear fruit”.

Substantial Conditions for Tribal Messiahship

This reading came up as my Rheama today:

Cheon Seong Gyeong 2172

If you settle down and find your place
in the family, then things will change
180 degrees. That’s why, even though I
told you a few days ago, I’m telling you
again to put up pictures of True Parents.
That is the position where you become
one with True Parents directions, so you
will live, just like the people who looked
at the snake Moses held up on a stick.
This is exactly the point.
People who look at the Unification
Church flag and curse it will later devel-
op problems with their eyes and all sorts
of things will happen to them. The rea-
son it hasn’t happened yet is because you
haven’t raised your flags with true devo-
tion. Also, when you put up True Par-
ents’ picture, if you can truly devote your
heart before doing that, then if someone
points a finger at it in scorn, that finger
will be bent. All sorts of strange things
may happen. It is because you haven’t
devoted all your heart that it hasn’t hap-
pened that way. (218-72, 1991.7.2)

Also, this is a related reading:

Cheon Seong Gyeong 301

On this earth, in order to take back
all the authority Satan has had, you just
have to raise the flag, hang up a picture
of True Parents and register. This will
change your affiliation. Thus, what I am
especially emphasizing in our move-
ment is to display True Parents’ pic-
tures and raise the flag. It has already
been three years. I started this cam-
paign because I knew that such a time
would come. This is why I am asking
you to have people fill out membership
application forms. When you receive the
membership forms, greet those who sign
them, saying, “Please do well.” Satan will
not receive salvation unless he submits
to Adam. The next step is to attend the
Parents.

A Movement in Crisis

This is the first letter I wrote regarding the state of our movement:

May 5, 2011

“I would like to share with you my perspective on why I believe our movement is currently in crisis and has in fact been for some time.

My name is Stephen Downward, I live in Christchurch New Zealand, I was blessed in New York in 1982 (2075 Couples).

As this letter may reach a wide audience of brothers and sisters who have had very varied experiences, understandings and insights of the Unification Movement, our teachings and Father’s words, including experiences with True Parents, I have tried to tread a middle ground given the spectrum of human experience and understanding that each of us have.

Obviously some of us have had more intimate experiences with True Parents and True Family, and more experience with the teachings of our church and religions as a whole. Others may have had more experiences with spirit world and gained insights that the rest of us don’t have. So this letter is written by essentially a grassroots member, centring on Father’s words from a variety of speeches, to all of you in this wide ranging spectrum.

To start, let us remind ourselves why God created. He created in order to have give and take of love with an object partner, namely His children.

The Principle says, that God motivated by Heart, (the impulse to love), desired to have give and take of love with an object so He created an objective reality to fulfil that desire. Therefore as God’s children, our purpose is the same. We want to establish a world whereby the give and take action of love is realised on the worldwide level starting from within the family having accomplished the four position foundation through spherical relationships and then expands out to encompass the whole world.

Love is not contrived nor forced, otherwise it would not be love. God does not demand the love of His children, it is something freely given and developed through give and take action.

As this ideal was not fulfilled through God’s first children, a course of re-creation was walked requiring obedience, faith and love. In terms of restoration, humanity has endeavoured to walk this course which we can also refer to as ‘the religious realm’.

However with the advent of True Parents who bring forgiveness of original sin and the Blessing, we are then able to walk the ‘Way of Principle’ from the top of the growth stage as a couple and through the completion stage to emerge above the completion stage into the Direct Dominion of God – now in this era of CIG we are walking the way of ‘the Original Realm’. Father has also referred to this as ‘True Religion’.

Due to the failure of Christianity, True Parents and the Unification Church had to restore this providential history in order to recover the lost foundation to receive the Lord of the Second Advent. Therefore the wilderness course had to be repeated, following Moses in the desert and obeying commands.

This was ultimately fulfilled through the Parents’ Course that took place between 1960 and 1981. Then in October of 1981, Father made a startling announcement. He declared a New Era, “The age of the leader-centred movement is over and now the age of the member-centred movement is to begin.”

What was now important was to focus on settlement and establishing an environmental kingdom. In other words, the time for just following leaders and commands was over, and now more importantly we live by give and take of love as brothers and sisters. Father clearly outlined this new era in his Historical Children’s Day speech of October 1981.

This was the start of the Children’s 21 year course. However, as we look back and also observe our current situation, this direction and proclamation was not I believe followed, discussed or even considered important otherwise we would have a very different movement and reality today. I also believe it would not have required all the offerings of True Family being made, including True Parents helicopter accident/crucifixion.

If there ever was a case of not uniting with the central figure as we are constantly reminded of, this was it. Even though True Father clearly explained that we were initiating a new era in his speech, as a movement, we did not even begin to practise it.

Ultimately the greatest responsibility for this failure rests with leaders and elders who should have spearheaded this change and then the rest of us for allowing this situation to have continued for so long. The bulk of our church’s problems I believe stems from this failure to accept the providential change in the age Father spoke of, just as the Jewish leadership didn’t accept the providential change that Jesus was bringing.

This resulted in Jesus’ crucifixion, our failure resulted in True Parents’ crucifixion. This is not a success story. Therefore it’s important for all Unificationists to go to Father’s October 1981 Historical Children’s Day speech and read it and understand what it is Father asked of us, what Father explained, as this was a speech given to us in the position of the ‘first generation children’, outlining what we need to understand and what we need to accomplish in the Children’s Era.

This was our inheritance, our roadmap for the 21 year Children’s course. If we didn’t read this, hear about it, take it on board and practise it, then that is the reason our movement is in crisis. It would be like Christians not understanding what faith, re-birth or forgiveness of sin is. In fact, that was the reality of Medieval Christianity, ordinary people didn’t understand what there faith was about and furthermore were deliberately kept in ignorance. It is much easier to control and manipulate an uneducated and uninformed group of people. That is why that period is also known as the “Dark Ages”

I’m attaching this speech (and I have highlighted in red what I consider the most relevant part of the speech in respect to our discussion. The last two pages)*https://tparents.org/Moon-Talks/SunMyungMoon81/811028.htm

*As per the original letter sent out, not this link.

Now, as you reflect on the conflict and dysfunction within our church you’ll understand why, from reading this speech, and the fact that Father’s words were not followed.

However, throughout and beyond this 21 year time period of the Children’s Course the leader-centred movement was in fact maintained and reinforced where leaders were inviolate and any failures or shortcomings were attributed to ‘faithless’ and ‘disunited’ members.

Members have been treated more like servants and slaves similar to the ‘nobi’ of Korea who were the domestic slave class of dynastic Korean society which supposedly ended at the beginning of the 20th Century.

The concept of child of God has not been upheld, Father’s teachings flouted and misrepresented, and our current state of meltdown is attributable to these failings. This is not a problem that we can just attribute to recent events but to a longstanding problem of not practising the basic tenets of our faith which is to live for the sake of others, love one another and in fact love one another more than we love God and True Parents as Father directed in his Historical Children’s Day speech. We maintained a top-down church devoid of real communication in terms of feedback, which would be practising Give and Take action ascribed in the Principle.

As a movement we have paid lip service to Father’s teachings and have just established another hierarchical command based organisation no different from any other currently or throughout history. Without true give and take and dialogue and processes to review and change practices and behaviours, we are another authoritarian movement not interested in the views and opinions of its membership.

We cry out for human rights from the societies we live in, wanting to enjoy the basic freedoms and rights of democracy, but what human rights and basic freedoms are we allowing within our church.

Challenging leaders or disagreeing with them is considered to be an act of fallen nature or even heresy. Such hypocrisy from those who espouse religious ideals and beliefs. Being told if you love True Parents you should do this or that, and that this is the Will of God. Our very faith being used against us. Holding members to ransom by their faith and love of God and True Parents is an egregious breach of heart and love not to mention human rights.

This is a violation of the Heavenly Constitution where Father declared that people’s hearts should not be hurt.

Let’s look at the section that I previously mentioned from Father’s “Historical Children’s Day’ speech. I’ve highlighted (bold text) what I believe is most significant and important to understand in the context of this discussion:

“Today is Historical Children’s Day. What does that mean? God cannot erect His Kingdom alone. God needs a champion, an assistant to act as mediator. Should God’s children or His servant be the mediator? Would He prefer being served by a servant, or by His children? There must a unified effort from four directions of north, east, south and west, and we shall be the unifying factor. So far it has been the unification tradition to follow an Abel figure, but how much did we really give the same kind of fidelity to our brothers and sisters?

I tell you that running after Dr. Durst will not lead you to the Kingdom of Heaven. The important thing is that you must unite among yourselves centred on him, and then you will enter. Divine Principle says that Cain and Abel must unite before any restoration takes place. If the central figure only wants you to unite around him instead of with each other, he is a false central figure.

In the Sermon on the Mount there is an important phrase-the peacemakers shall be called the sons and daughters of God. The Bible didn’t say that only those who obey commands will enter heaven. With how many people have you made harmony? Loving each other means loving the world because here in Unification Church we have a small world; what you are doing here is actually being done on the world level.

Those who can harmonize with other people will rise higher and higher, and ultimately become great leaders. If a blessed couple only worries about their own family, they’re in the wrong. They should worry about others before they worry about themselves. They should give themselves to the brothers and sisters first; those true blessed couples shall be admitted to heaven.

The Cain-Abel theory in Unification Church is very strong, and sometimes I worry that it is understood incorrectly. Leaders who are given responsibility sometimes have the mistaken idea that they have sole authority, but I tell you that Abel is only Abel when he saves Cain. Divine Principle teaches that you must love and embrace Cain, and then bring him to the mother. If you sometimes don’t get along with your leader but you take care of brothers and sisters, that leader will still look for you because without you he cannot be successful.

This is why the Bible says that when two or more gather to pray then God will be in their midst. Your prayer is not powerful when you pray singly; but only when you pray together. Brothers and sisters must truly unite so they can share life together. Today I am declaring a new beginning: the leader-centred movement is over, and the member-centred movement is going to begin. Why should it be like that? If the head of the family thinks only about himself, the family is unhappy. Only if he worries about the whole family can they be successful and happy together.

My teaching today is this: as much as you love God and True Parents, you should love the world and unite with it. Don’t shy away from adverse conditions, or from smelly or ugly brothers and sisters. They are the ones who need you. Willingly participate in the dirty places and make them fragrant. Don’t run away from problems, but face them and conquer them.

God feels greater joy when He sees that you love each other more than you love Him. Parents want to see their children loving each other more than they love their parents. The 36 couples are the elders of our Church, and this rule applies to them as well unless they love the true children and the members more than their own families, they are the enemies of our movement.

I am teaching you that you should love one another as much as you love God and True Parents. Then the dwelling of God is with you, and Mother and I shall be with you. Because this day marks the beginning of that new era, I called this the Historical Children’s Day. Those who have not been blessed should make unity with each other first.

There are four directions and four seasons, with three months in each season. When you arrive at heaven in spirit world you will see twelve pearl gates. Your relationship with your leader is important, but it is more important to unite with twelve types of people on earth. Even Jesus practised this way of life by serving his twelve apostles. Rebellion occurred, however, and they sold Jesus. The most sacred act Jesus performed was washing his disciples’ feet and saying that he did not come to be served but to serve. That was the supreme expression of love. By doing so he became the central figure around which twelve people joined. When people are linked in unity they cannot be separated.

There are three categories of people: married people, engaged people-or people living together without having had a formal ceremony-and virgin men and women. These three have providential meaning. Married people represent Adam’s family, where husband and wife joined out of their own will. Engaged people represent Jesus, who came to look for his bride, but could not achieve that goal. The virgin men and women represent the Second Advent, in which they are matched by heaven. The entire world is a mixture of these kinds of people.

Twelve of each of these types were chosen for representation in the 36 couples; that’s why this number of couples was chosen to be the ancestors of mankind. not twelve couples. Their mandate is to unite all 36 types of people. If the 36 can be united, it represents harmonizing all three levels of twelve personalities, thus bringing everyone into the Kingdom of Heaven. I have been serving those couples, those tough individuals-matching them, providing them with homes, sending them to travel. When they come to America, Mother and I shop for them, getting clothes and furniture.

Some people think the 36 couples are masters of the Unification Church, seeing that I shop for them and listen to them, but that is wrong! I have been setting the example of the servant. If I gave the order, they would immediately go to the jungles of Africa. After you serve twelve types of people and 36 couples, serving one God and one set of True Parents is an easy task!

The heavenly dispensation is like a relay game, with each person carrying the baton in turn, back and forth, down through the 36 couples. Some people think that they don’t even want to look at the 36 couples, who are all Korean. But I am telling you that you need them. Without them there is no foundation, no backbone for Unification Church. The backbone carries the central nervous system, so it is linked to every tissue. Jesus wanted to consummate his service to twelve people, but three of them betrayed him.

Spring, summer, autumn and winter make one grand circle, and when you complete one dispensational circuit, you start in the opposite direction. Through the fall of man, however, the same circle was continued.

Would you want to be eligible to go through only one gate to heaven, or through all twelve? If you can only enter one gate, you can only move back and forth in one direction. But if you can enter all twelve gates then you have total freedom of movement.

You get the pass to enter all twelve gates by serving 36 people. Then you can enter both heaven and hell. Would you want to be limited in spirit world as though you were in a prison cell or do you want total freedom ? Look at each person as one gate. A soft person is the spring gate; a tough person is a winter gate. There are twelve different styles. Look at each person as another gate to God, and think that you will melt his heart and win him.

Black and white are like north and south; there is no center. When there is a center everything can come alive, but there has been no center so far. My mandate to you is to unite among yourselves. Where you can do that, the dwelling of God shall be with you. Can you do it?

During the exodus it is a virtue to focus on following the leader, but when you enter Canaan you live by the give and take with brothers and sisters. From today on our membership around the world shall perfect that way of life. Even if I am not here, it should not matter. You already know the secret of going to heaven-loving each other. At night you should think that you are a parent to someone; pick someone to care about the next day, and the following day pick another person. It doesn’t matter whether he is younger or older. The cardinal rule is to forget yourself.

You will turn the three satanic elements into heavenly elements. You will give sacrificial love and talk about “our position,” not “my position.” Satan is arrogant, but you will go to the lowest place to lift the people up. Satan is throwing all kinds of hooks around you, but when Satan tries to pull them in, nothing should move. Then he will cast his hooks again, but when nothing ever moves he will say good-bye to you forever.

Have a love competition among yourselves. It doesn’t matter whom Mother or I love most, but who is the king of loving brothers and sisters. Who loves me? I know your love is real, so now pledge to me that you will love your brothers and sisters more than you love me. That will please me more than your love for me.

Who says that they can only love me and love God? That is baloney; there is no substance to that love. Who says that they know the truth, and from now on they shall open the Kingdom of Heaven on earth? Amen! ”

Clearly in this section of Father’s speech he has emphasised the importance of loving brothers and sisters even more than loving God and True Parents, stating that the secret to going to Heaven is loving each other. In another speech, Father asked,

“What is a child of filial piety? They are not those that make devoted efforts for their parents. You should know that those who make devoted efforts for their brothers and sisters as they would serve their parents are children of filial piety…’ ( 1984 /7/19) CSG, p 376, left hand side bottom paragraph.

This is very different from the orthodox and much touted view of filial piety expounded in our church and again this emphasises the importance of loving brothers and sisters, the horizontal plain which Christianity initiated and developed. Clearly this understanding has not been part of Unification culture and thinking.

Instead, the spirit of the Archangel has dominated our movement for the past 30 years. The Historical Children’s Day speech heralded the Children’s Era. Just as God took responsibility for the creation of the Cosmos through the six days of creation and then on the seventh day God was to take Sabbath and subsequently His children who were approaching adulthood were given their ‘Historical Children’s Day Commandment’ and responsibility, “Do not eat the fruit…”

Central to supporting that direction should have been the AA Lucifer. Lucifer should have continued his guidance and protection of God’s children helping to raise them up to reach maturity and perfection. In doing that he himself would have also gained his perfection and received the love of God through Adam and Eve. He chose not to do that and embarked on an elaborate plot to not only bring down the children of God but God Himself, presuming to make himself ‘ruler of this world’.

From the moment Father declared the end of the era of the leader centred movement to the era of the member centred movement, based on this commandment, the elders and leaders themselves in the Archangel role plus the whole movement should have worked to accomplish this new direction from Father in the position of God.

Clearly this wasn’t done and over the intervening years has lead us to this time of confusion, division and crisis. Leadership has wanted to maintain power and control seeking to be served and not to serve, cementing a top down church dominating members through members’ own faith in God and True Parents, using that very faith to manipulate members as is still happening now.

Lucifer manipulated God’s Word to control Adam and Eve. The egregious crimes of Unificationism is not in burning women at the stake, torturing so called heretics and butchering millions in the name of Christ, but in stealing our birthright to be true sons and daughters of God, by impeding our ability to fulfil our own portion of responsibility in our own relationship with God, not the so called central figure, which in fact, is YOU (History of Restoration and “I”.)

We have been subjected to futility groaning in travail waiting for the day we could be liberated from the chains of expedience, exploitation and elitism, that has been so prevalent in Unificationist culture.

Brothers and sisters have been turned into slaves as Joseph was sold into slavery by his own brothers and as Jacob’s own uncle Laban deceived and exploited him. No for a surety that a man’s enemies will be of his own household.

Just as Judas dipped his hand in the bowl with Jesus. The infamy of the so called Unification Church is the betrayal of brothers’ and sisters’ hearts, hopes and ideals, betrayal on all levels.

“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, a desire fulfilled is the tree of life.” Adam’s hope was perfection. Where is the perfection of actions, behaviour and culture in the Unification church. It doesn’t exist. We pride ourselves on being the followers of True Parents, “Out of these stones God may raise up followers of True Parents.”

We are meant to be God’s children first; do we even know God, if we did we would be loving our brothers and sisters as we love True Parents, in fact as Father directed in the speech we must love our brothers and sisters more than we love God and True Parents. Have we? No! because we are behaving like servants under the dominion of the Archangel. We seek praise, to be acknowledged and be seen in a good light within the Unification community as good members, Abel-type members and that is our undoing.

As Jesus said, “The Messiah came to serve not to be served…love one another as I have loved you…people will know you are my disciples by your love for one another… and my Father and I’ll be with you.”

Compare with what father said, “Mother and I’ll be with you.” “I am teaching you that you should love one another as much you love God and True Parents. Then the dwelling of God is with you, and Mother and I shall be with you”.

Therefore how can God or True Parents be with us when we don’t love one another and have not created that culture of heart. We have just created a religious institution devoid of real life, that’s only purpose is to serve that institution not brothers and sisters. That seems to be more like communism where people just serve the state but have no opportunity to develop personally and find happiness in a truly, life giving community. Everything becomes about the state, not the individual. Let’s read the following passage again.

“The Unification Church is one family. I am concerned and worried about each one of you, and you should be concerned with each other as brothers and sisters, and together come to (the) parents”.

The parents’ heart is always concerned about the welfare and future of the children. On that foundation of heart a community emerges, develops and matures. As Jesus asked, “Was man made for the Sabbath or was the Sabbath made for man?”

I also believe that because we didn’t listen to Father and establish the member centred movement, then the True Children became offerings. Father stated in the Historical Children’s Day speech, “The 36 couples are the elders of our Church, and this rule applies to them as well, unless they love the true children and the members more than their own families, they are the enemies of our movement”.

From 1984, three of True Parents’ children have become offerings, Heung Jin Nim, Young Jin Nim and Hyo Jin Nim, all went to the spirit world not able to fulfil all that they, God and True Parents would have hoped for them.

Then there was the crucifixion of True Parents themselves which we proclaim as a great miracle because no one was killed. What is wrong with us? Do we proclaim the crucifixion of Jesus as a great miracle even though he resurrected in spirit.

True Parents helicopter crash was a tragedy, brought on by our failure to LOVE. No, it was more important to just unite with your leader and serve them no matter what they were espousing and asking you to do, than to listen to you and respect your relationship with God, therefore violating God’s principle of give and take through which all things, exist, act and multiply and love.

It is, and still is, because we don’t practise true give and take action as Father has described, that our movement is in a state of dysfunction, and during the Children’s course three of the true children have gone to spirit world. That was on our watch.

Divine Principle simply came to mean, “unite with your leader, your Abel” etc. This great teaching in reality was reduced to that level of consciousness and practice. What a travesty, what a shame, what a disgrace. Who was responsible for this? Those that Father entrusted to be leaders, the elders of our movement, ‘unless they love the true children and members more than their own families they are the enemies of our movement’ as stated by Father. Let’s clarify the Cain Abel relationship with Father’s words.

“..Japanese leaders – aren’t you teaching a principle that I do not teach, when you say” I am Abel because I’m church leader. You are Cain. Cain obeys Abel. This is the Principle so obey.” There is no such principle. The person who does not fulfil his mission and become the embodiment of love is not Abel. People automatically and naturally bow before the power of love. The same holds true on the family, clan or tribal level. So if the Unification movement is the Abel movement on the world level, it must gain victory by shedding blood on the world level, and it must gain Satan’s signature on the certificate of victory. Only then can the Unification movement become the Abel movement for the first time”. God’s Will and the World, “A Day When We Welcome The Blessing” P. 465 An Abel is known by his love. Japan 78/9/22

Again, the chosen people failed as was the case with the first and second Israels, those who opposed God’s Will and claimed to be the representatives of God and the Messiah, now we can add the third Israel to that list.

The hope now lies in the fourth Israel, the fourth Adams who are beyond doctrine and religion, who have cultivated their faith in God and their love for people. Father stated that the Age of Religion is over.

“The mission of the HSAUWC is over and so is the mission of religion. For the first time in History we are entering into the new age, an age when humanity does not need salvation. The Family Federation is creating ideal families in order to complete the work of restoration to establish God’s ideal of creation..” CSG, P. 2360, RHS

“The era for the unity of Christianity has already passed. Since the restoration of the right of the eldest son, and right of the parent have been completed, we have entered the era, not just for the unity of Christianity but for the unity of the world. Therefore as of April 10 (1997) we should put aside the name “Unification Church” and instead work under the name of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification.

With the completion of the mission of the HSAUWC, the mission of religion has been brought to a conclusion. For the first time in human history we have entered a new era that does not require salvation through religion. The objective of the Family Federation lies in transforming families into ideal families, thereby restoring and perfecting God’s ideal of creation and establishing the ideal heavenly world”. CSG, P.1606 LHS

Now we need true practice through true love. We don’t need an institutionalised church that seeks to glorify vertical tradition and the religious way over living for the sake of others and actually creating a culture of love. This following quote of Father’s is very profound and important and you would think that these were the words of a heretic save for the fact that Father spoke them.

“If you are one with God you must love Cain. If you stand in a position of receiving God’s love, just as you love God with all your heart, soul and mind you must love your tribe, people and nation. This is the first commandment on earth. It is a commandment not of Heaven but of God’s Kingdom on earth. The commandment of God’s Kingdom in Heaven is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. However the first commandment of His Kingdom on Earth is to love our nation and race with all our soul, heart and mind…” Cheon Seong Gyeong P.717 RHS 3.5 (1970/8/29)

We speak of the Principle yet we don’t practise it. We say that God was motivated by heart to create an object of love and that He sacrificed Himself completely for that purpose; then isn’t that the Principle, living for the sake of others.

Therefore what is the principle in essence; living for the sake of others, loving and serving people. That is why Father said the most sacred act Jesus performed was washing his disciples’ feet. That’s the Principle. Yet somehow we have understood the Principle to be to primarily unite with the leader who has been incorrectly called the central figure. I can think of several regimes in the last century, which had that very same thinking also.

Father explained in his Children’s Day speech of 1983 that leaders are in the Archangel position and members, Adam and Eve; doesn’t that tell you something. If there is any central figure then it is the children, Adam and Eve, therefore the members, brothers and sisters. The goal of God’s creation was His children. It reminds me of the Sargent Major who trains the non-commissioned officers to become officers after which he salutes them and calls them ‘Sir’.

Unfortunately in our church the Archangel reversed dominion and unrighteously controlled the children. Following is an excerpt from the 1983 Children’s Day speech.

‘‘The mission of the Western world is to lift the Unification movement into the worldwide level. Without even knowing it, you have already been grafted into the True Parents’ family on the individual, family, tribal, society, national and worldwide level. Someday you will have a moment of realization and you will say, “Yes, I am truly linked with the True Family.” These next three years will be your opportunity to come to that poignant realization. This is why the Korean elders have come here, I wanted you to achieve that emotional link between the Korean and Western tradition. You will inherit such a heartistic connection, not from me directly but from the Korean elders, who are in the position of archangels to Adam and Eve.

It was God’s design for the archangel to take the position of teacher to the growing Adam and Eve even though he was ultimately in the servant’s position. The Korean elders will bring all the children of the True Parents-whether Oriental or Western-together into one family. Only when you are true brothers and sisters can the True Parents completely accept you. From the Divine Principle point of view, the Korean elders are in the position of unfallen archangel in the Garden of Eden and you are in the position of Adam and Eve. Their primary purpose is to teach God’s tradition to you.’’ Children’s Day 1983

Based on what I have already explained, I would suggest that they have failed to do that and will continue to fail until they understand what their role truly is, and then repent for not seeing from God’s viewpoint, leaving their proper position, reversing dominion and multiplying the wrong tradition.

They have misused their position and the responsibility given them to lord it over brothers and sisters and our mistake was to let them. The children, those who are the object of God’s Heart must say No! Eve only had to say “No!” to Lucifer. “Get back into your proper position”.

A teacher teaches, he doesn’t control your life and dominate you. The Archangel misused his position of trust to unrighteously control and dominate God’s children. He was there to serve and support not make himself subject and put in a position to be worshipped or venerated.

Haven’t we seen a lot of that in our church with various leaders (isn’t that the definition of a cult) and what became of so many of these leaders, what happened to Chung Hwan Kwak who Father himself from the position of a servant, raised and educated for over 50 years.

Still, he didn’t understand Father’s heart as is the problem with leadership today. Is it a problem of understanding or in actual fact, not being humble enough to live for the sake of others and ‘wash your brothers feet’. Why else would Father say, “the most sacred act Jesus performed was to wash his disciples feet”.

For Father to have walked the course he has, above any virtue or strength you can think of, the most important quality Father possessed was humility. Without humility, there was no way Father could accomplish his mission. Without humility, his mission would be doomed, hence Jesus’ most sacred act.

I can hear some people say, “ What about Father’s great love?” True, but remember, many times Father said he had to just walk the way of the Principle even though he wasn’t feeling [God’s love], or even he was just sick, battered and bruised. Father demonstrated absolute humility to the Will of God and the ideal of true love.

That is what makes Father a great man, and still today he is ready to forgive his enemies, even those who are most closest to him. In fact, I believe, that that, is what is inside his heart, which he is crying out to accomplish. As a hen her brood, Father wants to gather together all of God’s children, good and bad and bring reconciliation and unity.

But as Jesus said in that verse, “…but you would not”. Not what? Respond, listen, allow yourself to be guided and protected. So instead, all were scattered:

Matt 26: 31-34. “Then Jesus said to them, ‘All of you will be made to stumble this night because of me for it is written, I’ll strike the Shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be scattered’…..Peter answered and said to him,”Even if all are made to stumble because of you, I’ll never be made to stumble.” Jesus said to him,”Assuredly I say to you, this night before the rooster crows you will deny me three times.”

True Parents were struck and what has happened to us? In heart, many of us if not all of us have been scattered, not truly knowing what to do even though Father has told us many times to love one another and to love this world as we would love God and True Parents, but the reality is, we have lacked the humility to do that.

So in fact we have denied True Parents many times, more than just three times. Instead we rush to build the golden calf and graven image of True Parents and bow down and worship them thinking the more I bow and honour True Parents the more righteous I am. The more I sing their praises the more I’ll be loved by God and True Parents.

‘Blind guides, whited sepulchres full of dead man’s bones!’ This is not what Father taught, this is man made religion. As Jesus said “ People will know you are my disciples by your love for one another.” As you love the least of these so you love me.”

Father stated, “I am teaching you that you should love one another as much you love God and True Parents. Then the dwelling of God is with you, and Mother and I shall be with you”.

Therefore, I believe a big problem in our movement, is that we don’t truly understand who we are. We are not servants, we are not adopted sons and daughters, but in fact we are the lineal sons and daughters of God and True Parents, maturing through the growing period to become true sons and daughters. This is the key point; we are the lineal children of God. Never before did God have lineal children.

Through True Parents forgiveness of original sin and the Blessing, we became the children of God and True Parents. We make mistakes, sometimes big mistakes, we are still immature, our hearts and minds are growing but we are not ‘sinners’.

That denies, repudiates what True Parents have most essentially fought for and successfully accomplished as the True Parents. The Messiah came to eradicate original sin, engraft humanity into the lineage of God, and bless people. Not bless people and then say they are sinners. That makes a mockery and lie of the Blessing.

Sinners belong to the realm of death through the Fall, hence belonging to the blood lineage of Satan. That’s how we became sinners, through the fall. No matter how selfish Adam and Eve may have been during the growing period, had they not fallen, there would be no such term as sinners.

Even though children may hurt their parents heart in some way, they would not be sinners. Do you think of your child as a sinner when they don’t listen to you or act selfishly? I don’t think so, especially as they are born without original sin.

The word sinner is incorrect, in fact it is a falsehood to use it regarding blessed members and blessed children. We have been through the change of blood lineage and blessed emerging from the womb of True Mother, we conducted the three day ceremony, participated in the Registration Blessing, the Cosmic Blessing, the New Beginning workshop, liberation of ancestors, we recite the family pledge beginning , “Our family the Owner of Cheon Il Guk…” but by the way, you are a sinner. I don’t think so.

What is the origin of the word sinner? The Fall and mankind’s ensnarement to Satan’s blood lineage. We are beyond the time of ensnarement. We are living in the time after the coming of Heaven. Let’s read some quotes from Father.

“The Blessed families are equal in value to the world and cosmos. They are like the sons and daughters of Rev Moon’s direct lineage, who can act on his behalf. When I gave them the Blessing, I did so in order for them to become better than me, by following me. So once you have the heart of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, you can do the things I did. When God created He started with such a heart. God the subject partner, said, “When I speak my object partners of love substantially appear.” This is absolute faith. Upon this He meets the partner of absolute love. To be an owner of love a partner of love is indispensable. That is why even God Himself obeys love. A circular movement arises whenever we adopt an absolute response”. CSG, P.2523 RHS (1999/4/16)

“The fact that you have received the Blessing signifies that a time has come to start a new era in the name of the husband and wife. This new era is based on the chosen people, the church and the tribe and the foundation the Messiah has laid on the earth for the past 2000 years. Can all of you become tribal Messiahs.? Even Satan can not do anything from preventing you from becoming Tribal Messiahs because you are connected to Father in a father and son relationship. The Blessing is truly amazing”. CSG, P. 1244 LHS (1968/8/13)

In Chapter 8 of the book of Romans, it is recorded, “But we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies!” It also states, “For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out ‘Abba, Father.’” Therefore the best we can hope for is adoption. The Christians of today are adopted sons and daughters. Adopted children come from a different bloodline….” CSG, P.1256 LHS (1964/10/5)

True Parents will save the whole of humanity as true people by engrafting them to the true love, true life and true lineage of God. They will do so by conducting the Blessing of holy matrimony through which the conversion of lineage takes place. Furthermore the people will then form true families and establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. CSG, P.1263 RHS (1997/3/13)

Yes, the adopted son religion is still connected to Satan’s bloodline, even though they may believe in Jesus. Jesus didn’t set the conditions to forgive original sin, so yes Christians are still sinners even after they are re-born spiritually and will remain so till they die.

Only True Parents offer spiritual and physical re-birth. Yes, we still have our portion of responsibility just as Adam and Eve had theirs, they were sinless but not perfect. They were in the growing period as we are. However we are not adopted children, we are lineal children of God and True Parents. There is a world and cosmos of difference.

Wake up brothers and sisters, we are not the servants of a servant, we are God’s children to become God incarnate in the flesh, not just True Parents. We are no longer walking the way of restoration but the way of the Principle – check your internal guidance notes from your 21 day workshop.

If you want to remain as a servant or adopted son that’s up to you but then we have missed the significance of the Blessing and all that we have striven for. (Jacob’s course and wrestling with the angel).

We have been living a lie and the only way to liberate ourselves from that is to love people and seek after love:

“There is no need for you to seek God. You need to seek love before seeking God. If you have love in you, God will automatically come to you. He will be drawn to you and bind Himself to you.That is why if you want to seek God and love Him, you must think of human beings in this world as your brothers and sisters and love them and relate to them as you would your parents, or even God. If you do so, God will come to you. This is why religion puts so much emphasis on love. However, until now, this has not been achieved, and so the UC must conduct these activities in order to restore that….” CSG, P. 1245, RHS (1997/2/20). The question is, are we?

Love people before loving God or love people as you love God but we can’t truly love God until we love people. Love brothers and sisters more than we love True Parents. Stop worshipping God and True Parents (have a real relationship with them) and focus on humanity.

We can’t love God and True Parents until we love our enemy because that is what God and True Parents have done and continue to do even in relation to us, those who dip their hand into the bowl with Father.

That’s why Father calls us thieves and he can’t believe us. We will never comfort Father until we love people as Father did. How can Father truly relate to pretenders, those who haven’t walked the suffering lonely course of serving humanity.

Everything else is just pageantry, a light show, a circus under the big top. We don’t need big churches and temples. What we need is sincerity of heart and a passion to love others.

“Feed my sheep, tend my flock, feed my lambs.” Not fleece my sheep. Why else would Father say the most sacred act Jesus performed was washing his disciples feet, not his miracles, healings, sermons, etc. washing his disciples’ feet.

This is akin to a parent bathing their child. What’s Fathers autobiography all about? Living for the sake of others – serving and loving people, the sick, beggars, prostitutes, labourers, his torturers through to religious leaders, political leaders and you and I.

We don’t need to be dominated by religiosity and the religious realm. That is why Father said the Age of Religion is over. Refer previous quote. This is the Age of the Noon Day sun, God’s Direct Dominion. Sons and daughters don’t need to be told that their parents are their parents.

We don’t need a servant to tell us what to do in relating to our parents. Lineal children know who they are. We are the lineal children of God and True Parents. That is what we need to understand, proclaim and celebrate.

From there we can love humanity and liberate this world and in doing so liberate God and True Parents themselves. Hanging round True Parents like bees round a honey pot will not build the Kingdom of Heaven.

That is why Father called us thieves because we are always wanting to take from Father but what have we created, accomplished. What are we offering True Parents that resembles what they have done. A subject feels joy when he sees his object reflect/emulate him.

When we realise that we have to love humanity more than we love God and True Parents then we will have the power and ability to change this world. That will draw down God’s spirit in a substantial life changing way. As long as we just want to glorify God and True Parents nothing will happen because the children aren’t doing anything.

We can say we are following the greatest couple in human history but unless we do something by following Father’s course, nothing will change, and the family of God will continue to be as dysfunctional as it ever was.

Father is waiting for us to pick up our crosses and follow him, not have grandstand seats and just watch True Parents. Do you remember Father speaking to us about becoming second Sun Myung Moons, becoming Sunnies and graduating from being Moonies. The sun gives out light, the moon just reflects it.

If we want God to be with us, then LOVE and God who incidentally is a God of love will want to be with us as He sees His nature and character being expressed by His children. Similarly Father will be attracted to those who are truly living for the sake of others and not just focusing on him, and feeding him creative reports.

What is Father’s and God’s greatest legacy? Loving their enemies. This is the internal course God has walked through history, loving the children of His enemy, and promoting that reality horizontally on earth through individuals like Jacob, Tamar, Joseph, Jesus, Christian saints and ultimately True Parents.

True Parents accomplished this on the cosmic level through the 8 step course of restoration. To go before Father as a true son we have to also walk that course or at least be trying to, not just cheering Father on.

To conclude, the only way to comfort and support God and True Parents is to love people first; refer quote above.

The Age of HSA-UWC and religion is over, this is now the Age of Familyism and perfecting those relationships found in the family. The focus now is on loving and serving people. This is true attendance in the Age of Attendance.

As Father stated, “Who says that they can only love me and love God? That is baloney; there is no substance to that love. Who says that they know the truth, and from now on they shall open the Kingdom of Heaven on earth? Amen!” What is that truth. “You already know the secret of going to heaven-loving each other.” Historical Children’s Day. 1981

Practically, as a movement we need to take more time for intra-faith discussion and critique. Channels need to be set up for national leaders, national messiahs and others to be able to have discussions and meetings with Hyung Jin Nim.

I believe it is very important for Hyung Jin Nim to have time to share and listen to our grassroots’ membership as well. I don’t believe there can be satisfactory feedback from just the Korean Continental Directors.

Indigenous members need to be listened to. Without real give and take and real relationships we will not accomplish anything substantial, that can affect change in our world. If we can’t change our movement, how can we change the world.

In fact we will just become part of the problem if we haven’t already. Remember, there is no existence, action or multiplication, without give and take action. How is it that our movement has not understood this?

If you believe this message is important and relevant, forward it on to brothers and sisters, and to anyone with whom you would like to share it”.

Reflections on a Tribal Messiah Association

The Tribal Messiah’s Association is able to provide a forum for brothers and sisters to communicate, share their testimonies and ideas, gain solidarity and support, and build a community, for what is an ongoing process in terms of personal growth, our relationships, conducting the Marriage Blessing and building God’s Kingdom.

The Kingdom of Heaven was established on Foundation Day with the Perfection Level Marriage Blessing of brothers and sisters, which took place above the top of the Completion Stage in God’s Direct Dominion. Our responsibility is to now expand and develop the Kingdom.

However, I would like to preface that this Association is not aligned to any particular faction or schism of the Unification Movement, but is instead, centred on ‘The Eight Great Sacred Texts’, that being Father’s unadulterated, unredacted and unedited words.

The object of our faith is the Word, hence Father’s teachings that he bequeathed to us. Adam and Eve were to keep the Commandment, God’s Word in order to grow to perfection, not follow the archangel. The same applies to us.

On this note I would also like to publish a number of letters I’ve written over the years since 2011 explaining why as a movement we have reached this point of division and crisis. In understanding this I believe we can then successfully move forward, being able to excise any misunderstandings or practices. In so doing we can establish the correct tradition for humanity to embrace.

Without understanding and fully realising our internal purpose that is connected to God’s Sung Sang and Heart, we will at best only establish external structures and systems as Judaism and Christianity had done previously.

Remember, neither of these two faiths received their respective Messiah, as God had raised them up and had intended for them to do so.

So they failed their internal responsibility to unite with their Messiah who was the embodiment of the Word just as Adam and Eve failed to unite with God’s Word.

Today we have the same responsibility, to unite internally with Father and only Father. This is accomplished by internalising the Word and practising it in substance. That is to love God, His Word and Commandments, and to love your neighbour as yourself.

Father in fact stated that the First Commandment on earth is to love people as this quote explains:

Again this has nothing to do with following any particular person or group especially when they themselves are not connected to God’s Sung Sang and Heart, and even in Father’s case who was, he told us not to follow him but become the embodiment of the Word ourselves and even greater than Father by unifying everything. Unification can only occur when we live for the sake of others and offer service and respect to one another.

As Father explained about Jesus washing his disciples feet:

“The most sacred act Jesus performed was washing his disciples’ feet and saying that he did not come to be served but to serve. That was the supreme expression of love. By doing so he became the central figure around which twelve people joined. When people are linked in unity they cannot be separated”. Historical Children’s Day, 1981

This is the fundamental problem and failure of the Unification Movement, it has not understood nor practised these truths substantially in respect to brothers and sisters and people in general. We have thought somehow that because we were following the LSA, that was good enough, and we were ‘justified’, but we weren’t, as we still have to accomplish the human portion of responsibility re ‘Predestination’ in the Divine Principle.

That is to create a world of true love in substance, not theory or words, but as a living reality. That is the real ‘portion of responsibility’ we have to accomplish. So far we have not understood, nor accomplished that.

As previously mentioned, I will shortly be posting a series of letters that I sent out beginning May 2011, that begins to explain where we went wrong, and therefore what we need to do to get back on track.

The first letter I wrote in this series is entitled ‘A Movement in Crisis’.

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