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May 1999 Unification News TOUR DOUBLE ISSUE UnificationUnification NewsNews $2 Volume 18, No. 4/5 T HE N EWSPAPER OF THE U NIFICATION C OMMUNITY April/May 1999 Mother’s Tour CHICAGO p.6 OAKLAND p.9 SECAUCUS p.10 PHILADELPHIA p.11 DALLAS p.12 SEATTLE p.13 TORONTO p.15 CongratulationsCongratulations andand ThankThank YouYou fromfrom thethe ChurchChurch inin NorthNorth America.America. GoodGood LuckLuck onon thethe WorldWorld Tour!Tour! 2 Unification News April/May 1999 FOUNDER’S DISCOURSE ON UNIFICATIONISM February 7, 1999 was the culmina- universe that absolutely no one can tion of a series of blessing ceremonies possess by themselves. Once we have given by the Reverend and Mrs. Sun a partner, however, love gives us the Myung Moon to more than 360 million power to share the entire universe. couples worldwide, including those Likewise, a husband and wife need already married and those getting mar- children in order to experience the pro- ried for the first time. The following is a found joy of parental love. message from Reverend Moon to these Thus, we can say that God created VERYBODY couples that will soon appear in news- human beings and the universe as His E papers in all the major world capitals. reciprocal partners in order to bring become completely one through true sume all creatures. We can enjoy every- about true love. All types of love – includ- love, it will be possible for the lineage thing that we desire, but there is one ear Blessed Couples world- ing love of children, love of siblings, of Satan to be rooted out completely. condition: that we do so with a heart wide: love of husband and wife, and love of True love comes through both hor- that represents the love of God, the What is the most impor- parents – come about through the unity izontal and vertical relationships. A Creator. tant thing, the one thing of subject and object partners. When horizontal relationship of true love is God’s ideal was for one couple, Adam we need more than any- two partners become one in true love, gradually elevated in a vertical direc- and Eve, centering on true love, to Dthing else? It is not money, power or it is impossible to separate them. If for tion until it eventually reaches the pin- become the seed from which all the knowledge. It is true love. True love is any reason, separation occurs, true nacle. This point is the position of the world’s families, clans, nations, and, more precious than life itself and more love is destroyed. Therefore, in true “King and Queen of True Love.” In this finally, the multitudinous citizenry of important to us than air or water. love, there is no concept of divorce. position, everything is synthesized, the Kingdom of Heaven would be Why is true love so precious and When a man feels love, the feeling everything is embraced, everything is descended. Citizens of the Kingdom of important? Just as human beings desire is not generated on his own. The feel- crystallized into love, and everything Heaven can be created only in accor- to see God, God also wants to see true ing in his heart is awakened because blooms. This is why all beings in the dance with God’s tradition of true love. human beings. If God were to express of a particular woman. Likewise, the universe want to be transformed in love The words that I am sharing are in a preference for either men or women, fire of love is kindled in the heart of a and live in the midst of love. We are direct opposition to the theories of the other would surely complain. God’s woman not by herself alone but by the born for the sake of love, live for the Charles Darwin. Yet it is through these only choice is to place love in the fore- man who is her reciprocal partner. In sake of love, and finally die for the sake words, not Darwin’s theories, that we front. By placing love in the forefront, other words, our love belongs to our of love. will achieve a world of peace. This is God can see, touch, and share with partner. Thus, we should honor our Not only people, but all beings desire because my words witness to the fun- men and women at the same time, partners as even more precious than true love. This is why human beings, damental principles of creation. because men and women love each our love. Each person should be grate- as the highest beings in creation, should Darwin proposed in his theory of other. If anything other than love were ful to their spouse, and live their life embrace and love the masterpieces of evolution that species evolve through to be recognized as the most valuable for his or her sake. This basic reason- God’s creation, and teach creation how a process of natural selection based on thing in the universe, men and women ing will make it possible for the 360 to love. All creation is longing to receive random mutations. Such a theory implies would fight each other to try and claim million couples to live together eter- and experience God’s love through men that there is no fundamental meaning, it for themselves. Once we realize that nally. When husbands and wives live and women who have become one with order or goal in the development of the love is the highest value, however, we for each other, respect each other and God at the pinnacle of true love. It is a natural world. Today, scientists and can then strive to live for shame that we have not others are debating between the theo- each other and become realized this degree of love. ry of evolution and the creation theo- one with each other to All beings exist at a cer- ry. The word “creation” acknowledges share the happiness of C ALENDAR tain level with a recipro- the existence of God, the Creator. There possessing love together. cal partner. At the same is a purpose embodied in God’s act of Everyone likes love. APRIL time, they are continual- creation. Subject and object partners Love is the only thing that 4 Jin Sung Nim’s 37th Birthday (lunar) ly absorbed into higher unite to achieve a higher purpose. can satisfy all human 7 42 Couples’ Blessing (1989) levels of love. Thus, min- Communist theory, based on mate- desires. God’s providence erals want to be absorbed rialism, also lacks the element of pur- of salvation stems from 138 Previously Married Couples’ Blessing (1989) into plants, plants want pose. God’s creation embodies the pur- the principle of love. 57 Single Blessing (1989) to be absorbed into ani- pose of true love, whereas Communism Fundamentally, love 10 1265 Couples’ Blessing (1992) mals, and finally, all of cre- only has struggle and destruction. Thus, belongs to God. Yet even 11 Un Jin Nim & Jin Hun Nim’s Blessing(1986) ation wants to be absorbed it is destined eventually to disappear. God cannot possess love 12 36 Couples of the 2nd Generation Blessing(1986) into human beings. All In all creation, the most precious all by Himself. Love beings want this so that entities are human beings — man and requires a reciprocal part- 13 Shin Chul Nim’s 7th Birthday (lunar) they can participate in a woman. The most precious part of the ner. A man by himself or 16 Kwon Jin Nim & Hwa Yun Nim’s Blessing (1995) higher level of love. Through human body is not the nose, the eyes, a woman by herself can- Sun Jin Nim & In Sup Nim’s Blessing (1995) this process, they ulti- the hands, or even the brain. It is the not experience love. 17 TRUE PARENTS’ DAY (lunar) mately reach the position sexual organs, the main organs of love. Women exist for the sake Sung Jin Nim’s Birthday (lunar) where they can experience Everything in the universe can be recre- of men’s love and men the love that is nearest to ated through the love organs. exist for the sake of 26 Shin Hwa Nim’s 11th Birthday (lunar) God, who is the origin of All living things – whether plants or women’s love. It does not MAY love. All beings have the animals – multiply through sex. The matter how handsome or essence of true love as their most precious and outstanding family beautiful a person may 1 43 Couples’ Blessing (1969) ultimate goal. In His wis- begins with a husband and wife who appear on the outside. In HSA-UWC Established (1954) dom, God created every- are one with each other. Our love organs their heart, every person 6 Nan Sook Nim’s 33rd Birthday (lunar) thing with a purpose. For are the main sanctuary of life, occu- desires a mate who can 10 Jin Hun Nim’s 36th Birthday (lunar) example, creatures with pying a position of incredible value give and receive the high- elongated shapes, such as where blood lineage and history are est level of love. 15 36 Couples’ Blessing (1961) eels and worms that fish connected. When we examine the 16 Day of the Love of God (1984) like to eat, provide ingre- God’s fundamental principle is to universe, we see that all Ye Jin Nim & Jin Whi Nim’s Blessing (1981) dients for natural medi- create through male and female. For a beings exist in pairs relat- 17 Shin Bok Nim’s 17th Birthday (lunar) cine. Creatures on a high- man and woman to share absolute love, ing to one another as sub- 21 118 Couples’ Blessing (1978) er level are meant to con- however, they should have only one ject and object.
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