Pyeong Hwa Gyeong: Episode 347
Pyeong Hwa Gyeong: A Selection of True Parents’ Speeches
Book 8: The Reunification of Korea and World Peace
Speech 15: God’s Kingdom of Peace Is the Eternal Home of Our Blessed Families, pg 1289-1294
Life centered on the spirit
We are now living in the Era after the Coming of Heaven. This is an era when your sincerity, your dedication and your sweat will bear fruit. The founders and saints of the great religions, accompanied by myriads of good ancestors, have descended to the earth and are participating in the works of the providence. Now is the time to forsake this world of anxiety, fear, and confusion, and follow the teachings of the True Parents to establish God’s peace kingdom on earth. If you, the citizens of the leading nation of the democratic world, cannot do it, God will accomplish His Will nonetheless, even by educating atheists in the former communist countries to do so.
Ladies and gentlemen, how can we become intermediaries who can unite with the Will of God? We must enter a state of resonance with God. In nature, resonance means that two objects are vibrating in harmonic frequencies. Sound waves of harmonic frequency create resonance. The resonating objects no longer vibrate independently; they begin to move around one center. In the same way, when a person’s spirit self and physical self resonate with each other and begin to revolve around God’s true love, the person’s spiritual cells and physical cells begin to function together. His or her physical eyes, for example, will vibrate in step with their spiritual eyes, and they will be able to see the physical world and the complete reality of the spirit world as well.
For the same reason, when we reach the state where our spirit self and physical self become one by the explosive force of true love, we will resonate with the earthly world, the heavenly world and even with God. What is the force that can move our mind and body into a state of complete resonance? It is not God’s wisdom, productivity or power. Only His true love can do it.
Every person has a dual structure, consisting of mind and body. Each man and each woman has a mind and a body. So when a man and a woman come together, it could be said that there are four entities present. If they are not united, it can be chaos. However, these four become naturally one when they resonate with God’s true love.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is a law of the universe that for every particular being or central core, there will always be a second being that revolves around it as its partner. The relationship between God and human beings is an expression of the same principle that causes electrons to revolve around protons. Just like an electron forms a relationship with a proton, the human mind interacts with God’s mind. By this principle God carries out His providence of restoration.
Indeed, as you delve into the words of truth, you will experience how God’s life energy and God’s love commune with one another. As the Apostle Paul taught, it is because God loves us as His children that we shine as lights unto the world.
The truth is eternal and unchanging. Yet how in this evil world can you distinguish between good and evil in order to walk the path of truth? The answer is this: turn away from the pursuit of self-aggrandizement and place yourselves in a low, humble position. The Bible says, “Whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” (Matt. 23:12) The essence of a human being is spiritual. When people die and go to spirit world, they understand much more clearly that human beings are essentially created to live for the sake of others. Nonetheless, we have not been able to escape from selfishness and individualism, because we still are yoked to Satan by the shackles of his fallen lineage.
You need to eat spiritual food. Between spiritual food and physical food, which do you think is the tastier? If you are to survive and stand on the side of God, you must prefer the taste of spiritual food. This means that you ought to prefer a life based on spiritual strength to a life based on physical strength.
It is said that human beings are the lords of creation. Yet a person does not become a lord of creation simply by virtue of being human. To be minimally qualified, a person must not live mainly for him or herself. They are rightly called lords who live for others and serve the whole. God is trying to accomplish His Will through such people. God is not building the kingdom of heaven for Himself. By having selfless people build the kingdom, He wants it to belong to them.
God created human beings to live forever. However, if we were unable to cast off the yoke of this evil world during our sojourn of one hundred years or so on the earth, how would our life be superior to that of an animal? We differ from animals only because we are spiritual beings.
It turns out that the reason human beings can be the lords of creation is because our hearts never grow old. Nature is always changing. Even a rock, a symbol of permanence, cannot endure forever the effects of erosion. Only the human heart was created with the potential to remain unchanging for eternity. Hence the title, “lord of creation,” cannot be awarded based upon money or knowledge. It is not based on power. It is only based on true unchanging love, God’s love.
Ladies and gentlemen, what are the ties that will bind original human beings to each other? Original relationships involve sharing joy and exhibiting the values of praise and respect for each other. Above all, they manifest perfect true love within the realm of God’s absolute love.
Thus, original human beings are to encapsulate the harmonious oneness of all relationships in heaven and on earth. This is the very reason we have both an invisible mind and a visible body. If we had preserved the mind-body relationship that God had intended, then the mind and body, though distinct and different from each other in terms of function, would be eternally united and whole.
Please consider your own life. I don’t think you can deny that your mind and body often fight each other. How much longer are you going to allow this fight to continue? Ten years? A hundred years? Or will it not end even when you die? All beings in the universe were designed to display a definite order. This means God did not create us to exist in the imperfect state in which we now find ourselves. Your task now is to empower your mind and subdue your body. The grace of God will be with you in this effort.
In the relationship between the mind and body, the mind is the more important of the two. The body persists for about a hundred years and then passes away, however the mind, or spirit, will live for eternity, transcendent of time and space. You may spend your days on earth eating and dressing extravagantly, yet someday you will die, and then what? You are better off setting a good spiritual standard and then aligning your physical life to that standard. Become a person of integrity and wholeness embracing both spirit and flesh.
Proposal for the World Peace King Bridge–Tunnel
Respected leaders of the United States, we are now entering a glorious age.
The kingdom of heaven on earth, God’s ideal of creation, is being established before our very eyes. This is the peace kingdom. In my life of more than eighty years, I have walked a lonely path. God called me to walk that path, soaked with blood, sweat and tears. Now, that effort is bearing victorious fruit for the sake of all six billion people of the world.
In more than 180 countries, ambassadors for peace have inherited God’s Will and tradition. They are working hard, day and night, proclaiming the values of true love and true families. They are moving forward with full force to establish world peace. In the Middle East, one of the world’s tinderboxes, Jews, Christians, and Muslims have found the resources in my teachings of peace to engage in a new dimension of dialogue for peace. Unificationism played an important role in ending the Cold War. I am now playing a decisive role to bring about the reunification of my homeland, Korea.
Ladies and gentlemen, that is not enough to satisfy me. I began my life’s work at God’s command. I have come as the True Parent of humankind with God’s anointing, and I am determined to keep my promise to Him to create a united world of peace.
As I stand here today on this platform, I would like to make a truly important historic declaration to humanity. For thousands of years, Satan used the Bering Strait to separate the East from the West and the North from the South, in particular to separate North America from Russia geographically. I propose that a bridge be constructed over or a tunnel be dug under the Bering Strait, so that it will be able to connect a world super highway starting from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa to Santiago, Chile, and from London to New York, making the world a single community. I would call this, “The World Peace King Bridge-Tunnel.” Ladies and gentlemen, for this dramatic and historic project to succeed, the United States, Russia, Europe, China, India, Japan, Brazil and all the nations and religions of the world need to work hand-in-hand. With the complete success of this project, humankind will be one step closer to the peace kingdom on earth, where there is no more division and war.
God is warning us that we can no longer tolerate separation and division. So let us really bind the world together as one community, tear down the walls of race, culture, religion, and nationality, and establish a world of peace on this earth. This has been God’s fervent desire. There is no other way. Humankind’s current course of conflict and selfishness is a dead-end street.
Aligning our efforts with those of Rev. Moon
People are beginning to realize the significance and the hope in my teachings of “true love, true life, and true lineage,” which are the pillars of world peace. As the power of God sweeps down upon the earth, even countries and peoples that appear strong today will run out of options and will surrender.
The choice is yours. The Will of God does not change. The teaching that I received in prayer 47 years ago is the same as the message I am giving to you who are living in the 21st century. The power and fortune of Heaven gave me the victory. Will you join in step with me as I rise, and work with me to establish true families, true societies, true nations and a true world on this earth? Or will you continue as Satan’s captive behind the wall of your religion, the wall of your culture, the wall of your nationality and the wall of your race, and spend the remainder of your life in agony and regret? Heaven is summoning brave generals who will turn this world of evil upside down and establish a new heaven and a new earth.
Today I have delivered Heaven’s message. Please inscribe it deep in your hearts, and become wise leaders who will set new coordinates for your lives.
I pray that God’s abundant blessings will be upon your families and upon your nations.
Thank you.