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HSA-UWC 4 West 43rd Street New York, New York 10036 First Printing, 1980 iii Table of Contents The Fall………………………………………………………….1 Indemnity………………………………………………………18 Repentance………………………………………………….….37 Prayer……………………………………………………….….46 Religious Life………………………………………………….58 Mind – Body Unity………………………………………….…98 Time, Suffering, Ordeals……………………………….…….124 Cain – Able…………………………………………………..149 Persecution…………………………………………………...161 Position………………………………………………………180 Judgment…………………………………………………..…188 Training in Life………………………………………………198 Church Life…………………………………………………..258 Material Possessions………………………………………....278 Public Money………………………………………………...284 Holy Salt……………………………………………………..286 Holy Ground…………………………………………………287 Study…………………………………………………………288 - 1 - THE FALL 1. You must consider your chastity as the most important thing from now on. Forget about the past. But from now on, be careful! Single people, be careful! 2. Because the power of love was so strong, God had warned that Adam and Eve not even touch one another. Don’t even look at the knowledge of the tree of good and evil. It is too tempting. This means, don’t even contact the opposite sex until you are allowed to do it. If you contact, you are tempted. If you go to a certain point, you can’t trust yourself not to go farther. So, don’t start. On this matter, the outlook is very strict. We are all human beings and we know how tempting love can be. We do not even like to have men and women going somewhere together, because we know that humans are not strong. Master Speaks 3-1-65 3. Never yield to satanic lust. You have to return love to where it came from and uphold the vigorous standard of heavenly children’s’ life-style in our one family living. The failure to fulfill God’s original desire originated in the subversive relationship between two people—a man and a woman. 4. Today, as we come back historically to the same growing stage that Adam and Eve could not overcome, many youths without knowing the Principle repeat the historical iniquity. Amid the world-wide turmoil of unnatural love (lust), there must come an institution of the original relationship of love between a man and woman. In such a light, the arrival of the notion of “ideal mates” is an epoch-making gospel. In such an era, the girls of the unified family should not be trampled by strangers. If you have real faith and wisdom, you will keep yourself chaste and away from over-acting. We, first of all, have to restore the position of heavenly son and daughter, as the first blessing of God was to be fruitful. Passing through this process, we will be qualified to form the conjugal relationship with God’s love in its center, and we will bear the children of goodness to set the foundation of original four position. The starting point in our faith is, thus, to feel God’s love in our blood and complete ourselves in the indestructible yearning of the love. If you lack the confidence to declare God’s love and glory in you, you are still not quite his son nor daughter. Do you have such a confidence and standard? (Yes!) It is easy to say “yes” in words, but hard to do “yes” in acts. You must have the power and dignity of heavenly children so that you can march forward alone into the enemy Satan’s camp full of confidence to subjugate them. Before you bring forth the standard of the second blessing you must set a condition of having overcome Satan who entrapped Adam and Eve. - 2 - 5. To love loosely one another without the standard is unrelated to God and thereby Satan’s task. You must completely surrender to God’s love. 6. Anyone who sees or relates to your brothers and sisters in the relationship more than brother and sister, is on the fringe of downfall. Such a person and relationship can never last nor be allowed. If you feel such an element even in the slightest, you have to cut it out immediately. The Ideal Mate 2-4-69 7. The degradation of mankind, the fall of man, came from the attitude that one would be willing to sacrifice others for his own benefit. As you know, the subject of evil is the archangel and this archangel, for his own enjoyment or benefit, sacrificed Eve and Adam. The Ideal World 12-11-71 8. This is the key point entitling to the Heavenly Kingdom of God—to be able to love your spouse whole-heartedly in the ideal and perfection of love. Those who are single must be resolved not to be stained. Keep your virginity pure. Can you make love without God’s permission, knowing all these things? Everything must be motivated by God. That is how God created man, centered on love. If you have that in mind you will realize how precious love is. And we must be loving in that way. Tradition Centered on God 1-2-72 9. The human fall was caused by man’s loving himself, exalting himself. But in order to restore ourselves to the original position, we must be loving God first and exalting God first. That’s why in the Bible you read that you should love God with “all your heart, all your soul and all your mind”, and then next you must love the will of God. 10. We cannot restore ourselves without knowing the factors involved. We must know the cause of the fall and by reversing this way, we can restore the original position. The True Path of Restoration 1-11-72 11. In our church, young men and women should not come too close. You must be careful not to cross over a certain point. Leaders’ Speech 3-16-72 - 3 - 12. The thing God hates most is immorality, lust and adultery. One God—One World Religion 3-70-72 13. Love is not yours. Love does not belong to you. It belongs to God, to the world, to the earth, to the future prosperity of the earth and future generations. I have seen many boys and girls even in the streetcar or on a crowded street or in the parks kissing and embracing each other, and in my heart, I question if they really know the value of love. The value of love is high like this, but because of the human fall, it was distorted and degraded. You young people must know all this and you must be thorough in discriminating true love and false love. Unification 4-2-72 14. We often see many bachelors here, who don’t like the idea of marrying girls. Those people are increasing in number, isn’t that right? But on the other hand, they also want to have premarital sex, and we often see boys and girls making love under the trees in the park. Well if you go on like that, you are apt to lose your family relationship, your nation even, and finally you will lose the whole world. Opening of the Training Session 12-9-72 15. Due to the human fall, everyone has satanic blood running in his veins. It is appalling to think of that. If you find that you were born from the lineage of a murderer, would you be pleased? Satan is more than that—he’s not only the murderer, but he is the adulterer, thief and everything evil. We came from his lineage. He is the king of the murderers. He has committed that sin not just once, but he has been continuing to do that. We are his descendants. We are from satanic lineage and we must know that we have all those events and all those things inherent in us. We are liable to judgment and if we are dragged to the court before God, what kind of judgment are we going to receive? You are the offspring of the Satan who took away man of God’s creation. Then, if you were in God’s position, what would you do with satanic mankind? If you were in that position, you could not think of any such thing as forgiveness. From your part you cannot pray to God to be merciful, to save you; you are not in the position to ask for that. Are you? Can you ask for forgiveness from God? Are you entitled to it? But, when you are in the court, if you find yourself forgiven, then how would you feel? Overjoyed. When you had expected capital punishment, you were allowed (as Jesus said) on eye plucked - 4 - out and you were forgiven—would you not be thankful? If God would allow you to be forgiven by cutting one of your arms or one of your legs, would you not be thankful? If you are in a position to follow God and follow our Father as God’s agent, can you complain on the way? (No!) Can you say: “I am exhausted, I cannot go any further.” (No!) Never. With all this knowledge, you must be determined to face what you will come to! 16. You know that Adam and Eve fell while they were in their teens, so you want to sacrifice yourselves while you are still in your teens, fighting and working against Satan in order to restore yourselves and all mankind to the position of Adam and Eve before the fall.