March 2001 WORLD CULTURE and SPORTS FESTIVAL 2001 Blessing and Convocation of World Leaders GRAEME CARMICHAEL
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UnificationUnification NewsNews $2 Volume 20, No. 3 T HE N EWSPAPER OF THE U NIFICATION C OMMUNITY March 2001 WORLD CULTURE AND SPORTS FESTIVAL 2001 Blessing and Convocation of World Leaders GRAEME CARMICHAEL True Parents giving the Blessing Prayer at the WCSF Blessing held in the United Nations building by William Selig theme for the Convocation of World the World Association of Non-Govern- was Dr. Thomas G. Walsh, secretary Leaders as part of the 7th World Cul- mental Organizations (WANGO), more general, WCSF 2001. Deborah Moldow, he new year began with a ture and Sports Festival held at the than 800 participants from 143 nations co-chair, Values Caucus at the Unit- spectacular gathering cen- New York Hilton and the United Nations attended the international event, includ- ed Nations delivered the invocation. tered on Heavenly Father Headquarters, Jan. 26-30, 2001. ing 40 current and former heads of Opening remarks were given by Rev. and our True Parents. “Dia- Sponsored by the Interreligious and state, heads of government, and prime Chung Hwan Kwak, WCSF 2001 chair- logue and Harmony Among International Federation for World Peace ministers. man, former U.S. Vice President Dan Civilizations:T The Family, Universal (IIFWP), the Family Federation for World At the opening banquet in the Hilton see WCSF on page 18 Values, and World Peace,” was the Peace and Unification (FFWPU), and Grand Ballroom Jan. 26, the emcee 50-state Speaking Tour of America Reports from the states start on p. 5 NEW FUTURE PHOTO New York, NY Houston, TX Atlanta, GA Miami, FL Columbus, OH Portland, OR Oakland, CA Philadelphia, PA 2 Unification News March 2001 50-STATE SPEAKING TOUR This is one of the two speeches that are being given on the 50-state tour. ith the end of the Cold War, new hope for peace In Search of the Origin and justice has spread rapidly across the globe. who dislikes the sexual organs? If you love? The owner of love is not man or relationships in reality have the same cen- Leaders unable or unwill- like them, how much do you like them? woman. The owner of love is God. Cen- ter. The relationship between God and ingW to acknowledge the new internation- Until now you may not have thought it tering on love and through love, God and human beings is a parent-child relation- al realities are being swept away by the virtuous to value the sexual organs, but humankind become one. This is because ship. Thus, God and man must become tidal wave of change. from now you must value them. both God and human beings absolutely one, centering on true love. As we stand at the threshold of the What will the world be like in the future? need love. Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, new millennium, I believe it is time to If it is a world which values the sexual Then, what kind of love does God need? how lofty is human desire? Your mind review our traditional patterns of think- organs absolutely, will that world be good God needs absolute love. What about you? wants to reach higher than God. No mat- ing and boldly seize these new opportu- or bad? Will it prosper or perish? This is It is the same for you and for me. Just as ter how lowly a person is, he or she can nities. Thus it is my great honor to share not a joke. When God was creating human God needs absolute, unique, unchanging desire a world even greater than that of with you my life-long advocacy for world beings, into which part did He invest the and eternal love, we also need absolute, God’s desire. As a beloved son or daugh- peace and true family values. greatest creative effort? The eyes? The unique, unchanging and eternal love. It ter of God, if you say to God, “Father, In this world there are two kinds of nose? The heart? The brain? All of these seems that we all resemble God. please come!”, won’t He come? No mat- human beings: men and women. Can they organs eventually die, do they not? What God himself has characteristics of mas- ter how ugly a man’s wife is, if he really decide to exchange positions? Was your is the purpose of the Family Feder- loves her, he naturally will follow her birth as male or female based upon your ation for World Peace? If humanity when she calls. With unity centering personal desire? Or were you born that were to go beyond the traditional on true love, the husband will respond way irrespective of your personal prefer- categories of virtue, religion and any to his wife’s beckoning, the elder will ence? The sex that we are given is an other human norms, but were follow the younger’s call, and the younger absolute and is not a matter of choice. absolutely in harmony with the sex- will follow the elder’s call. None of them We did not think it nor did we want it, ual organs, earning the welcoming will ever want to separate from the but without knowing the cause, result, applause of God, what kind of world other. or process of our birth, we were born a would it be? If God is alone, does He feel lonely certain way. When we are born as a man or or not? How can we know that He feels Thus it is undeniable that no matter woman, who is the owner of our sex- lonely? Distinguished Ladies and Gen- how great a person may be, he or she is ual organ? Actually the owner of a tlemen, do you have love? Do you have not a causal being, but is a resultant husband’s sexual organ is his wife, life? Do you have sperm and eggs? Do being. Therefore, there must exist the first and the owner of a wife’s sexual organ you have a conscience? You affirm all causal being. Who is that causal being? is her husband. We did not know these things, but have you seen love? Is it male? Is it female? You can call that that the sexual organ is owned by Have you seen life? Have you seen lin- first causal being God or any other name, the opposite sex. This is a simple Portland, OR eage? Have you seen the conscience? but this causal being must exist. truth. We cannot deny this truth. Have you ever touched these things? You Here today are gathered some of the Even after history progresses for thou- know their existence, but you cannot most famous people in the world. You sands of years, this truth will not change. culinity and femininity, or positivity and touch or see them. You know them only might say, “Where is God? Show me and Every man thinks his sexual organ negativity. Human beings, who were cre- through your mind’s intuition. By the then I will believe.” But I warn you not to belongs to himself, and each woman thinks ated as the substantial object of God, were same token, even though you have not deny the existence of that causal being. her sexual organ is her own. That is why created as man and woman. When man seen or touched God, you cannot say that The topic of today’s speech is “In Search the world is perishing. Everyone is mis- and woman marry, they become sub- He does not exist. What is more impor- of the Origin of the Universe.” If we go taken concerning ownership of the sex- stantial plus and minus representing God. tant, that which is visible or that which deeper and deeper in our search for the ual organs. We all think that love is absolute, It is God’s will that when we marry, we is invisible? I am sure you realize that the origin of the universe, we arrive at God. eternal, and dream-like, but when we completely unite horizontally centering invisible is more important than the vis- We come to know that God possesses dual come to clearly understand that the own- on God’s vertical love. ible. You can see and touch money, posi- characteristics of male and female. How ership of eternal love lies with the oppo- The human body is horizontal, repre- tion and honor, but you cannot see or did the universe begin? Let us put aside site sex, the world will not remain in its senting the earth. On the other hand, the touch love, life, lineage and conscience. our discussion of God for the moment, present condition. There are numerous conscience always loves the vertical and We all have them, so why can we not see and consider humankind. It is clear that scholars and Ph.D.s, but none of them seeks the higher perspective. Thus human them? It is because they are one with us. humankind is comprised of man and have thought about this. beings irresistibly seek the point at which When mind and body maintain absolute woman, or subject and object. In the min- Can any of you deny this? If you ask they become one with the vertical stan- balance, you do not feel them. eral kingdom, molecules are composed of your parents, your grandparents, your dard of God. That point must be the cen- Do you feel your eyes blinking? Try anion and cation. Plants reproduce through great-grandparents, the original ances- ter, and man and woman must meet each counting your blinks for three hours.