1. Prayers and
Speeches on prayer
By Sun Myung Moon
How to Gain Spiritual Help......................................................2
The Importance of Prayer.........................................................6
The Necessity of Prayer..........................................................17
Mission and Prayer.................................................................29
Lifestyle of Prayer..................................................................49
Prayers by True Father...........................................................63

2. How to Gain Spiritual Help
November 27, 1978
What attitude do we need to nurture in order to move the spirit world? We need to change our
concepts. Our attitude is an environment that must be prepared in order to receive spiritual
help. We must use Father's words and make ourselves channels to receive spiritual power.
Actually, the spirit world wants to be part of everything we have and do. They want to be
involved to such a great extent. So whatever we may look at, we must search for the nobility
in it, and treat it as if it were owned directly by True Parents. Then everything becomes like an
expensive antique, a God-given treasure. Each object is waiting for your touch, hoping to feel
the vibration of God through you.
Consider all things holy. Why does a handkerchief owned by a holy man become so valuable?
Because of the vibration of the holy man. So you, too, should give all things a holy value.
When you touch something, feel that you are giving it glory.
The same holds true for the people we meet and live with. When you see another person, how
much do you care for him or her? How do you feel towards that person? You must really love
the people you meet, because they are the temple of God. When you touch another person,
feel that through your touch, both of you will be blessed.
Each of us has two aspects, mind and body. Our true mind wants to touch our body with heart
and give love to it. We should think of our mind as God's mind, because God loves it and that
is where He dwells. Look at each man or woman as a holy person. Regard each person's body
as sacred and their mind as hallowed.
If you live like this, soon you will hear inside of yourself a small voice, the sound of your
mind. Wherever you walk, no evil or darkness can remain. Only good spirits can touch you if
you create such an atmosphere. If you place yourself in such a position, then spirit world will
pour down upon you its abundant blessing and power.
You must attract this power from the spirit world and then weld yourself to it. Make it one
with your body, so that even your arms and legs feel special. When you are in bed, even if it is
a sleeping bag, your surroundings will become like a king's palace; your body will be resting
in a king's bed.
You must name yourself as the dwelling place of God. Then all good spirits will touch you.
When you go to bed, lie down with a beautiful mind. Remove all ugliness from it. In the
morning when you wake, come before the deep bosom of God, and then, when you go out to
your mission, you will embark from the throne of God.
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3. The spirit world is always around you, listening and attentive. Always be aware that it is
within your reach. If you keep thinking this way, then you will be able to control your
circumstances. Make yourself a tuning fork, resonating with and vibrating along God's
frequency. Resonate with God's unselfishness.
If you partake of this resonance with God, then when you see someone, you will automatically
be able to sense what type of person he is. Sometimes you will be able to see your own spirit
man with your own eyes. Train yourself and discipline yourself to develop this capacity. If
you live this way, you will be always able to act in the right way when an emergency arises.
You are in competition with the spirit world, so you must be determined to surpass it. Adam's
position is to control the spirit world, not the other way round. With prayer coming from deep
within your mind, you can move a man from outside to inside. Become a magnet, a mover of
people's spirits; become a spiritual magnet, drawing people with love. Maintain this condition
or attitude, and then your prayer will become a reality.
Pray with all your heart, focusing your mind and soul on the object of your prayer, otherwise
your mind will become restless and hasty. In the life of prayer, you must make the time to
pray. Sit down even if it takes eight hours and pray; this time will never be wasted. Then you
can go out and work eight hours for God. Therefore, be prayerful now and then go out, you
and God together. If you have to write a sermon, for instance, the spirit world will help you
prepare it. If you go out, the spirit world will lead you. You will discover the feeling of
breaking through; you will become selfless, feeling the power of your mind and body pulling
together in harmony. So the key word for this kind of life is respect.
Respect all things as holy things.
Respect all men as holy men.
Respect yourself as a holy person.
Respect your mind as holy.
Respect your body as holy. Pay deep respect to all people, no matter what kind of person they
may be. As a child, be respectful towards an elderly man. Think over your words three times
before uttering them and always have a humble attitude.
Always share with others the best thing you have. Empty your pocketbook to give; then you
will deserve the best result. If you do not do good for your fellowman, you will have no sleep;
if you have done good, then your mind will rest in peace. Unpack the dirty elements inside
yourself and cleanse them. Open up the baggage of your mind and look what you find there.
Don't harbor selfish feelings; repent publicly for any selfish feelings you may have
entertained. Practice the virtue of meekness.
If you push yourself to develop these attitudes, then the spirit world must descend to assist
you. The spirit world is using so many channels by which to come down and participate in
God's providence; they will choose the best one to use first.
In the Unification Church a true leader must be able to mobilize the spirit world. When you
touch it, all kinds of phenomena start to occur some very strange, some very wonderful. Don't
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4. be manipulated by them. You be the subject. Don't let yourself be driven by strange
phenomena; before this, you may have had to face these challenges all alone, but now you
have a clearer understanding.
You already know the secret of tapping power from the spirit world; witness to others,
pouring out all your heart, soul and mind for them. When I was in prison camp, I would pray,
and prisoners would just come to me and stand there. When they were introduced to me
through the guidance of spirit world they would cling to me.
You, too, can be like me. The problem is that you are often too distant from thinking about the
spiritual dimension: holy things, holy mankind, holy temple, holy mind. When I was in the
worst of situations, lonely and hungry, a revelation would come or an important guest would
appear before me. When I needed money, the spirit world would guide someone to me. Spirit
world is never far away; they can cooperate with us. We should always feel that we are not
doing quite enough, and that we always have to try harder.
Act with the support of the spirit world. If they are behind you, you will never be lonely, you
will always have energy and power. Even though you may be penniless, still have no fear.
You can be adventurous and bold. On the road of success, the more you walk, the further you
yearn to go.
Who knows how long he or she will live? Maybe tomorrow you will die, at a mere 25 or 30
years of age. Do you have some guarantee from God how long you will live? No one has such
a guarantee.
A wise person thinks like this: "I have only a short time to live. Within this time I must
prepare myself for eternity. The way I live in the next two years will be the model for my
eternal life." Then explode your sense of love. Love God, and love another person as God. For
an entire day, 24 hours, pour out your entire energy for someone. If you love a person like
this, even though you may die early, you will have made the highest accomplishment in all
eternity. Then when God gives you more time to live, your response will be immense
gratitude. Push yourself to live more fully. The person who expects death and then is given
life dwells in the fullest gratitude.
Leave behind something that God can praise. Each moment is so precious there is no time for
worry or frustration. The person who recognizes that earthly life is short compared to eternity
and, therefore, condenses his accomplishments is a wise man indeed. Think about what
"label" you wear spiritually on your forehead. Ask yourself how many people, how many
clans, how many tribes, how many nations you have loved.
Seek to become that master of love. Program your life like that, and you will never be a loser.
Plan as if you only had two years to live, and then by the third year, when you are still alive,
think of the joy of living! This is "resurrected" living. I still have so much to do love my wife,
love my children, love all mankind. I have to love the Unification Church; I must pay
indemnity for all mankind; I need to liberate man from sin. I am determined to leave behind
tremendous assets.
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5. When you work, you must love that business, love the products you work with, and, of course,
love the people. Always give honor to the other people. God created us, but we are also
shaping ourselves and restoring our original value. Return a portion of what you earn to God
as a tithe. Give one-tenth to the local church, one-tenth to the national level work and one-
tenth for the worldwide level three-tenths in all.
When you give to others, don't think that you are giving to them out of your own pocket. Give
out as though it were coming from a heavenly treasure. Then the person who is receiving
through you is actually receiving from God. The spirit world can then help you, and God will
remember everything and return it to you ten times over.
Make your company a dwelling of God; don't just feel like a worker or supervisor. Invest your
heart in your work. Determine to make it a business that will serve all people. Then wherever
your business goes, it becomes God's "love extension." Whatever you are responsible for, give
it your heart and soul on a 24-hour basis; feel like you are the parent and it is your baby.
Whatever you do, think that you are carrying it out in partnership with God. Feel that you are
the second owner and pour all your love into it. The one who loves something the most is the
ultimate owner. When you give love, you will attain infinite value.
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6. The Importance of Prayer
April 15, 1979
Everyone harbors hope; there is no one without hope. How each one can accomplish that hope
depends not upon heaven but upon the individual. There are two ways of doing so-through
your own power alone, or by receiving cooperation from others. If your desire is extraordinary
and great then your responsibility is also great. If you cannot fulfill it on your own, you need
help from outside.
When you start elementary school your purpose is to finish with a good record. In order to
finish with good marks your own effort plus the effort of your teachers is needed. The same is
true of junior high, high school and college life. It is not easy to fulfill 100% of your desire at
each level of study. What kind of attitude is needed? First you need total concentration which
leaves you time for nothing else. If you think about playing and meeting your friends first, you
cannot fulfill 100% of the goal.
From this standpoint let us analyze the life of believers. What is our goal ? It is to become
sons and daughters of God. There are many kinds of sons and daughters: An adopted son is a
son; also there may be a rebellious son, a son of filial piety, and a son who is mediocre. In this
situation becoming a true son and daughter is difficult.
In order to become a true son or daughter you must concentrate on the goal 100%, looking to
the True Parents constantly and thinking of nothing else. Just becoming good sons and
daughters to your natural parents is not easy, but how much more difficult it is to become
absolute sons and daughters of God. When you call upon God, your Father, He does not
answer right away. Even though you call upon God, if in your innermost heart you are not
sure whether He even exists then God would not answer.
What is the fall of man? It is nothing more than departure or separation from God. Man has
been separated to the degree that he has nothing to do with God. We are going back to restore
that original union. We can use an analogy from our world. Perhaps because of an unfortunate
incident a child is separated from his parents at a very early age. After he is grown he may
have occasion to meet his parents, but they will be total strangers to him; he will not know
who they are. This young man must have some assurance that this man is his father, and at the
same time, there must be some witnesses to testify to the fact. Even if he knows they are his
parents, there is still some conflict and feeling of estrangement between the two parties.
In order to become a true child to your parents, you must inherit their desires. Between the
two there should be only one desire; their road in life should be your life, and your desire
should be theirs. Parents give their heart and soul to the children, and the children must do
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7. likewise. When you are in one union, even though there are two separate parties there is still
only one goal and one desire and purpose. Then the fulfillment of each becomes the joy of the
other. Fulfilling a task becomes the common joy of father and son. When you continue that
way of life for one year, ten years, a whole lifetime, there is total unity between parents and
children.
Today our task is to discover the true desire of God, because as believers our goal is to be sons
and daughters of God. What we eat and drink and where we live are not part of God's central
concerns; these are things everyone does. In the Bible Jesus said not to worry about where to
dwell and what to eat, that this is what nonbelievers worry about. You must seek God and His
righteousness first. What is His kingdom and what is that righteousness?
For us as Unification Church members, that kingdom and righteousness is the fulfillment of
the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth. When Jesus spoke of God's kingdom, he wasn't
referring to just one nation; God's righteousness isn't limited to one nation's righteousness, but
includes the whole kingdom that God designed. For instance, the American people's
righteousness is secondary to that of the kingdom, not primary. If the righteousness of a whole
nation is secondary, then clearly your own personal desires are much farther down the line.
God's kingdom should engulf the nation, and the family and individual should come within
the scope of that nation. Imagine that this large circle is America; within it are circles for the
society, tribe and family. The shapes are the same and they differ only in size so they can all
be contained within the large circle. The crossing point of the axes is the center of each of the
circles. There may be a big nation and small nation, but the same vertical line cuts through
them both. Everything is centered on that axis, and that alignment can be connected to one
primary desire.
An individual trying to achieve the highest goal does not have to leave his own country or
society or family; he must actually go to each of them and penetrate each stage. Another way
of depicting this is to picture you as a locomotive pulling a family behind you, plus a society,
nation and world. All of these can be aligned behind you. When you move, the train of the
family, nation and world and spirit world moves behind you.
Does this concept apply in the context of today's America? This is the so-called "me
generation," and among other things it means that America is totally isolating herself from the
rest of the world. God is trying to fulfill one harmonized world, and so when anyone thinks in
selfish fashion he is a traitor to God's own desire. Americans say they don't care about their
country. There are people of all five colors of skin in this country, and if they only care about
their own race then in God's sight they are the most traitorous foe. They are causing barriers to
emerge between the races, which is totally opposite to God's will.
I want you to understand that God's will always centers on one focal point for everyone-for
the family, nation, world and cosmos. That's the way God designed the world. What is that
center? That central principle or axis of the universe is the fatherson relationship. In any
family there is a fatherson axis and everything else surrounds that. When one family assumes
the father position, other families assume the son's position.
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8. Any corporation operates the same way; the president is in the father's position and the
employees are in the children's position. The concept should be that the employer is working
for the sake of the employees and each employee is working not for his boss, but for the
wellbeing of his own corporate family. A head of state is in the parental position and the
people are in the children's position. A true central figure should be thinking like a father
would think. Without that parental heart anyone in that position is a false central person.
The criterion of comparison is whether he is better or worse than your own father. The people
should love the central figure of their nation like their own father, because after all, their own
natural fathers are also in the position of children to that per son. Those fathers would expect
their children to love the head of state and the nation more than their own fathers. With this
viewpoint the children can participate in patriotic action even to the extent of giving up their
own lives and sacrificing their own families. Above the president of the nation should be
someone in the position of president of the entire world. The head of state should be loyal to
the president of the world to the same degree. Almighty God resides above that man, and he
should be loyal to God in the same fashion that everyone is loyal to him.
Why should it be like this? From the individual to God there should be one central connecting
axis, with the result that everything in between is like a bridge between the individual and
God. In any company operating under this principle the president would serve his employees
like a father would his own children. The employees would work for the wellbeing of the
company just as children would for their father, and naturally such a company would prosper
and be righteous.
What about the Unification Church in light of this principle? The Unification Church is bound
together by the fatherson relationship, but our purpose is not to advance the wellbeing of the
Church. We are here to accomplish something greater for the sake of the world and cosmos. I
always teach you to sacrifice yourselves to help the nation and God, never to live for the
prosperity of the Unification Church. If we truly practice this ideology then it has to become
the central theme of the world. Then we can use the Unification Church as a ladder, going all
the way to the top with the same principle. You are working toward being tribal messiahs,
then national and world messiahs, all the way to God.
When I was searching after the Principle I spent many agonized nights in prayer, and the
central theme of those prayers was to understand what the central axis and core principle of
the universe was. Ultimately the answer came that the central axis was the fatherson
relationship, which I have just explained. When we live up to that principle then we are going
to bring a world of peace and unity. Since the universe is organized this way when you look
horizontally at other people you are seeing no one else but your brothers and sisters. You are
linked together because you have common parents.
If the younger children serve and love their elder brother more than their parents, would the
parents be jealous? No, they would smile ear to ear to see such an exchange of love between
their children. I know you love me and love God, but when I look at you I want to see whether
you have that love among yourselves. That becomes my joy and something beautiful to
behold. In order to become true sons and daughters you must first love each other more than
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9. your parents; that is the most beautiful gift you can give your parents. If you are loving in that
way then you are positioning yourself closest to the parents. Then even if you don't know
Principle intellectually, no one could say you don't know the truth.
In the Unification Church we have a common rule about who is the true member of the
Church; he is the one who truly loves his brothers and sisters. Not only I think that way, but
company presidents, national and world leaders should think that way as well. God Himself is
that way. Do you think there are different principles working on each different level? Would
you welcome this principle of love if this works in every different situation?
To become sons and daughters of God you have to move the heart of God and entice His love.
If a person leaves for a faraway place, would he be separated and not have anything to do with
this theme? Whether a poplar tree is at Belvedere or New York, it is still a poplar tree.
Wherever you go, this principle shall remain as the standard. If you want to dive by another
principle, I say to you, go ahead and try to find a better one. Do you agree that God's kingdom
and righteousness shall be built by this fatherson relationship?
When this relationship is expanded horizontally it is known as the subject object relationship.
Right now I am subject and you are objects. When you are united in that relationship with
others, even a piece of chalk can be very precious. In this relationship everything you do is
rewarding and serves a purpose. Of itself studying is nothing, but when you take the central
position and have a purpose, studying becomes very important. Instead of saying you hate
your books, you really love them.
No matter what you see in this universe, when you think it is related to you in this subject
object relationship, everything becomes very important all of a sudden. With this point of
view you are a dynamo and ambassador of the love of God and there is nothing that is not
lovable or precious. There is happiness and harmony wherever you go when you are a subject
of the love of God. I don't think God could think up any better way than this.
Our job today is not to seek what to eat or drink or where to live but to seek God's kingdom
and His righteousness. Now we know where to look. God is not unaware that you need food
and shelter, but He knows that when you take care of the important things first then
everything else will be taken care of. You have to decide to win the love of God first.
Words are cheap and this sounds good, but how far are you from realizing this? When you
look at yourself you know better than I do where you are in terms of realizing this. Is the
realization of it quite far away or close at hand? As an ideal this sounds good, but living it is
another thing entirely. Maybe you think you are not cut out for such a life because you can see
many, many problems to be solved. The problems of the family are as big as the family; the
problems of the nation are as big as the nation. The problems of the world and universe are as
big as the world and universe. How can you cope with such vast and complex problems?
The easiest thing you can do is just give up, right? But that's no solution. If your capacity is
not adequate then you must seek the help of others. Where can you get the necessary help and
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10. guidance? Is there anyone to turn to? Now we have come to the topic of today's message, the
importance of prayer.
The most important thing in prayer is the attitude of the person who is praying. The most
essential thing is your commitment to go toward this destiny without reservation. If anything
wants to block you, you have to be decided that it will never stop you. Unless you have that
commitment first, God will not waste His time trying to help you. He has always been
deceived in history, so what God needs to see is proof of what you are and how strong your
commitment is. You may tell God you are totally committed, but He will shake His head and
think, "I have to wait three more years and see." If God sees that something isn't quite right in
you, He wild wait before sending down His help. God needs to be sure.
God is foolish if He gives His help freely but then at the end of several years the person is all
in pieces. If I were God I would also wait and see. Suppose you were God; what would you
do? You may tell God, "You see I am living as a Moonie and I will die as one." Then God will
notice and look more closely, but no matter how firmly you pray, without this basic
commitment nothing will happen and you will be wasting your time. A decisive attitude is the
key.
Do you think I made a commitment to God that I would never change, not for fifty years or
the rest of my life? I prayed first for the absolute faith which could say, "Even if not a single
person in this world can believe, I will believe and follow in whatever incredible course You
give me." Second, I asked for absolute knowledge and wisdom. Third, I asked for absolute
love. I prayed for these three things throughout my life, and now in looking back I see that
they have been fulfilled, even when I didn't know it was happening. There is no other power
that could go beyond the boundary of race and nation. Since God could give me this absolute
wisdom, I could search and find the Divine Principle and the truth about the world.
An attitude of absoluteness is the basis for everything. Nowadays most of you think in terms
of when you will get married, thinking that you are getting older and older. If this worries you
then your absolute commitment is starting to shake. Instead of shrinking, you can make your
commitment much thicker by thinking, "Marriage? That doesn't bother me or change my
commitment. " When you face great problems and agony, after you finally overcome them
your faith will be like iron. When you can see the kind of obstacle that might confront you,
you can clear the field.
Suppose you have been married for some time and are deeply in love, but then suddenly your
wife or husband dies. Would all of heaven and earth crumble for you? That might be the very
moment you could curse God for taking your loved one away, but instead you can thank Him
for His grace in giving you a situation that will strengthen your faith. Then your belief can
become stronger instead of weaker. God is a parent, and if He takes a loved one away it is not
because He hates you but for some greater reason. If you can accept it and have faith in that
purpose then you are ready for another challenge.
In our Unification Church faith the most beautiful word is indemnity; through indemnity we
can pay the debt of sin. You can think that no one else could stand such a burden of
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11. indemnity, so God is asking you to pay instead as His champion. You can accept it with a
thankful heart. When you compare the time you spend without the person you loved with the
millions of years your generations will live, your payment of indemnity is small in
comparison to the blessing God will give you and your descendants. If the death of your loved
one was really accidental and not direct intervention of God, yet you pray with this attitude of
gratitude, then God will feel that He has really found an extraordinary child and His blessing
will automatically be yours. Your attitude will decide the amount of blessing.
Are you ready? If an extraordinary grief or tragedy hits you, are you ready to thank God and
ask what is next? You know the law of indemnity; you cannot expect only good things and
then curse God when unpleasant things happen. With knowledge of indemnity there should be
nothing you cannot bear. That is the attitude of those who truly know God. When you first
join this Church your eyes might be bright and filled with fervor, but after three years your
eyes get a little duller, don't they? No? Ten years later? It is easy to say no, isn't it? But do you
really have confidence?
Prayer is an absolute necessity. You may kneel all the way down to pray, but the most
important thing is that you create an environment of commitment first. Unless your basic
attitude is ready, no amount of prayer will be useful. In the Christian world today many people
pray every day, but do you think they pray to destroy the Christian churches? No, they pray
for prosperity, but the churches are crumbling nevertheless. Do you pray for the sake of the
Unification Church? You don't have to pray for the Unification Church; pray for the big
things-the nation, the world, the liberation of God. What you are really doing then is praying
for a cross even bigger than the Unification Church.
If you pray for yourself or for things smaller than the Church then God will not answer
because He is not interested in listening to such boring prayer. When you talk about the nation
and world, He gets excited and starts looking for ways to help. This is training for how to love
greater things. If you really live like that then even if you don't have time to pray God will still
back you up.
In churches today people pray for their denominations, their social security check or their
family problems and their pet. God's ears hurt when He hears those prayers and He will plug
His ears. If those people prayed for God to use their church to help save the world and liberate
God, He would perk up and be amazed because God is a person just like you. When you only
talk about yourself in your prayer, God is thoroughly bored and nothing will happen. But if
you pray for His righteousness and His kingdom, He will be caught up in your passion.
In order to fulfill bigger things you need an adventurous mind willing to take risks. Then God
will tell you not to worry, that He is right behind you. If you throw yourself into overcoming
the stone walls and persecution before you, God will take up your battle for He knows who is
just and who is unjust. But first God will watch, giving you a chance to knock your opponent
down with your own capability. This is the same thing a father and mother would do. If you
come running to God to ask for help before you even confront your enemy, He, like any
parent, will be ashamed to hear you and will send you back out again. Create a good problem:
be a heavenly troublemaker instead.
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12. I came to America and became a good troublemaker, and that's why America doesn't like me.
America has built a prosperous society, but I came to shake this nation and Americans resent
my disturbing their peace. But I did not come to destroy America, only to warn this nation that
there is danger ahead. Someone has to warn the people and bring them out of disaster. You
know there is a big battle coming so you must ready yourself in body and spirit. After you go
first you can ask God to come and help you with anything you lack. Then God will say, "Go
ahead. I am right behind you."
If you seriously sit down and pray in those circumstances, God will encourage you. As soon
as proof of your commitment comes to God, an avalanche of help will come to you. I have
had the experience of thinking about some problem and not even praying about it, but already
God knew my thoughts and went one step ahead of me. When I discovered that my thinking
had been fulfilled, He smiled and said, "See what I did?"
You need the basic attitude of sincerity as a foundation of prayer. Otherwise, no prayer will
work. More important for creating that atmosphere is to go out and serve one more person,
knock on one more door, receive more persecution. That is more valuable than sitting for
hours in a dark room praying. Prayer is only needed after you have exerted all your energy
and it was not enough. Then you can ask God to come help. When you can do it then you
don't have to ask God, but can tell Him to relax. The prayer for all seasons is the prayer for
God's kingdom and His righteousness.
Do you think God prays sometimes? Sometimes without thinking a parent murmurs to himself
or herself, "Oh, I wish my son would do this, or be that way." That is God's prayer also. God
is murmuring about you, about me and about the Unification Church because this is an
emergency and He is engrossed in His concern. That is God's prayer. You don't even have to
sit down to pray; you can just talk to yourself as you go, whispering and murmuring your
concern. That's prayer. In our case praying and doing is our life. Praying and waiting is not
our life.
If you pray unconsciously in everyday life then undoubtedly you are becoming sons and
daughters of prayer. you give your last ounce of energy but it is not enough, then ask God for
assistance and your prayer will be answered. If that were not the case, how could we ever
subjugate Satan? Satan has given unending anguish and heartbreak to God for 6,000 years and
if there were no way we could finally subjugate him then there would be no end to it. There
must be a way.
The power of prayer works wonders, but prayer must be serious and done with one united
heart, not a divided heart. When the moment of engagement comes, it is a most serious
moment for both men and women, but in the Unification Church it is different because you
leave it to me. Do you realize what a formidable job it is to pick your own spouse? In that
moment you become dead serious, but prayer is even more serious than that. If you pray with
that attitude then it will be answered. If your parents are on their deathbed it is a serious
moment, and the words you speak then are urgent. There is no way you could doze at that
time. Your prayer to God is more serious than that.
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13. Prayer is like a covenant between you and God, a promise. Once you make a contract, you
follow through and then it will undoubtedly be fulfilled. That is the attitude I am talking
about. You must not be disappointed when prayer is not answered immediately. Some
answers come late. At other times you should not be overjoyed when prayer is answered
quickly. That is not necessarily the best thing.
Because you are surrounded by the world there are many stages to go through horizontally
and vertically. The answer to prayer does not come from you but down from heaven and it
takes time to reach you. There have been many foolish people who received answers to their
prayers up to a point but who didn't go the final inch, and when they weren't satisfied they
betrayed God. When you pray for the world you may not see things changing immediately
around you, but far away the communist world starts to crumble. The impact of prayer can be
felt in a faraway place. If you are in the Abel position, the answer comes from Cain and takes
time to reach you.
You must think that your prayer today may not be fulfilled until thousands of years from now.
I pray such prayers. I am not praying just for this world today; I am praying for 1,000 and
2,000 years from now. If that prayer makes a bridge between that time and now then the
Unification Church will continue to flourish even a long time after I am gone from the earth.
That kind of prayer is needed.
If many of you pray that kind of eternal prayer, the world will start to shake and the impact be
far-reaching. The root of that prayer is your tears, sweat and blood, and out of it beautiful
flowers will blossom. When Jesus prayed on Gethsemane he was deadly serious, shedding
tears, sweat and blood. All day long you must be in a prayer mood, not just one hour, but 24
hours. What prayer position do you prefer? The best is to kneel and lower your head. You
have to restrict your body's freedom, as though it were bound. You will feel pain, but
overcome it because you must be serious. Then God will know your attitude. That is a
necessity for prayer. Without prayer Jesus and the saints could not have done the great things
that had an impact on the world. When you resort to the power of prayer you can have hope
because you never know when the fulfillment will come.
My prayer is centered on the culmination of the third seven year course. You may think I relax
when I am alone, but there is no moment of relaxation because my mind is always
concentrated on the completion of the third seven year course. You must understand the
importance of prayer and have conviction that prayer will be answered. Through prayer you
can receive power.
Through prayer you can receive visions into the future and guide yourself accordingly. You
will know what kind of difficulty is coming and how to divert it and overcome. If you know
how to steer yourself then you can do big things, and prayer alone can pioneer such a path. It
is more important than eating. I go out to nature because it gives me a better environment for
prayer, and I love nature for that reason. I love the quiet of midnight. I don't say much about
the visions I receive, but if you receive them then don't you think I do too? That kind of new
world can only be reached through prayer. In that position you can taste love. This world is
desertlike, but the world created through prayer has a climate where love can thrive.
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14. You must learn how to generate your own power. You cannot expect that I will always pull
you and push you out. You must make yourself self propelling. In order to do that, prayer
must be the diet of your life. Whether people recognize your efforts or not, you must do your
duty enthusiastically because you have a covenant with God. Day and night you move on;
there is no pause. That is a living testimony.
Every several years my topic of prayer changes, which shows progress to a new era. In a
prayerful mind I know precisely what time it is in God's timetable. That kind of preparation is
necessary for self perfection, and you must learn it through the power of prayer. Do you pray
in the way I taught you today, for His kingdom and righteousness? Pray that this country can
become a center of God's righteousness. Your country has seen many fervent patriots, but you
must pray with more fervor than any of them. If your concern for this country is greater than
God's then this country will survive, but other wise it will crumble.
What is our goal and destination in the Unification Church? I am leading you where God
desires for you to be. It doesn't make any difference whether it is difficult or easy because
whether there are many obstacles in front of us is irrelevant. The important thing is not just
getting there, but getting there in the shortest possible time. If we go quickly then there is less
danger, but when the process is stretched out there are many opportunities for disaster and we
must not allow that.
This is a transitional period; we are entering into a new era, a new plateau and history of faith.
Therefore, this is a critical moment for you and God. Last night I spoke to the department
heads about the true meaning of home church. Home church is the greatest gift God and True
Parents can give mankind. It has never existed before and will not again in the future. When
you make this gift yours by fulfilling it, you will definitely become a son and daughter of
God. I have prepared this precious gift for you for my entire life of sixty years and now I
freely give it to you. You can make it yours in six months. This is an incredible opportunity.
Home church should be the subject of your prayer. Pray with a parental heart for your home
church people as your children who are struggling in hell. Your heart as a parent must be
grieved and desiring to save them. If you don't have that feeling then you are in a dire
emergency; you must open your heart to parental feeling of love toward your people. If you
don't have real love for them then push yourself until you do. No one has to teach a parent to
love his children. If you feel like a parent to your home church then your love will be the same
and no one will have to teach you.
Just finishing elementary school takes six years of daily attendance. Do you think home
church is comparable even to elementary school? It is the school for becoming a messiah.
Think of how important it is. Even though you might attend it your entire life, you must give
your heart and soul because you could not have any better school. Even though you have only
360 homes, God will treat your efforts there as though you had given them for the entire
universe.
In America there are about 70 million homes, and if each person had 360 homes we would
need 200,000 members to cover all America. If the entire Christian population accepted
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15. Divine Principle and wanted to do home church, what would happen? There would be no
room for you! There is nothing more important for you than this. Test your own power of
prayer: take one person and pray for him fervently, constantly, without telling him. Pray
tearfully for his wellbeing and then that person will feel a magnetic attraction to you. He won't
know why he feels drawn to you.
If you receive in your prayer that you will meet a person at such and such a time, when you go
there then that person will come. If you are dead serious then these things will happen.
Hypnosis can transfer a person into another state of consciousness, but how much more can
prayer change lives. There is no distance or limit to its influence because the power of thought
travels everywhere. You can mobilize the entire spirit world by the power of prayer. You have
experienced that I will work through your prayers and tell you certain things. There is no limit
to the power of prayer.
When you have the right attitude in prayer then miracle after miracle will happen. The most
important part of a launching pad is the foundation. At takeoff it must not break under the heat
and pressure. Your prayer is like a missile firing and you need a solid foundation. You must
not pray from greed for yourself. That prayer would be harmful to you. Public prayer as a
public person will cleanse you and elevate you higher and higher.
If you live with this high sensitivity to spirit world, you will sense what is forthcoming. Your
perception will be keen and you can prepare for the future. You should know that you are like
two people in one. Your inner man is like a mirror, clean and bright. When the inner and
external men are not synchronized you feel anguish. but when they are perfectly aligned you
feel joy and power. This is happening every day within you. When you see a person your
inner man can tell you what kind of person he is, and if you hear a person's report, a sixth
sense tell you how truthful it is. When someone walks into a room, I can see whether he is
bringing good news or bad.
Don't neglect this inner man but consult him all the time. When you are higher spiritually you
are always there, always speaking with this inner man. You have a spirit man and he wants to
talk to your physical man. You may not have any intention of saying anything yet suddenly
you find your mouth moving. That is not you but your inner partner speaking. Even the rats of
a ship can sense when a ship is in trouble and run away, but how much more should man, the
supreme creation of God, know when life or death is coming? Shouldn't you be alerted when a
certain destiny is forthcoming? For your inner and outer man to become one you need the
power of prayer.
I have a family but I seldom pray for them. My prayer is anguish for the nation and world and
cosmos. God will concern Himself with my wellbeing because I am concerned with God's. If I
only paid attention to my family instead of to the world and God, my family would get sick. I
don't concern myself with my family's wellbeing; I concern myself with the Church and God's
work and I know God will take care of them in the meantime. This is the principle of give and
take.
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16. Those who want to do more for others will receive more; those who want to go down will be
lifted up. Don't pray empty prayers. Now you know the power of prayer. Everyone needs to
experience these things spiritually. You must know whether the things you do will succeed or
fail. You know that certain things will succeed because you feel pulled in that direction and
are eager to go ahead. Your body is like the receiver of a radio. Free yourself from self-
centered thinking, and then mighty things will happen to you. You must open that valve.
You are entitled to ask for God's power, but only for the sake of His righteousness and
Kingdom. Then He will come down. Pray and act; you will feel different from yesterday and
you will know the power of prayer is in action. Today is just the beginning; pray to tell God
that you are just beginning and need His help. Make a showdown with God every day. It shall
become second nature, and without being conscious of it you can live that life all the time.
Let's do it then.
Let us pray.
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17. Necessity of Prayer
June 22, 1980
We all understand that prayer is an indispensable element in religious life. Being a religious
group, we emphasize prayer. Why? In a word, it is because we haven't fulfilled everything,
and because we are not fully equipped to do everything we need to do. From earliest times
mankind has been praying, and we can conclude it is because man has not fulfilled what he
has wished for.
There are all different levels of prayer, about the individual, family, tribe and so forth. Then
why hasn't the purpose of man's religious life already been fulfilled? We know prayer was
necessitated by the fall; man is trying to accomplish something left undone by the fall. Whose
fault was the fall, God's or man's? We must make sure, because if it wasn't done by the first
ancestors of mankind, then some people somewhere must be perfect. If it was true that some
individuals became perfect, but a family broke up, then we wouldn't have to pray about the
individual. But we know there is no one who is perfect, so the fall must have been caused by
the first man and woman.
Then why did the first ancestors fall? Man did not go in the direction God desired; by going in
another direction man fell, so where is man's liberty and free will? Before modern times did
mankind have liberty? Western countries cherish freedom, especially since the Renaissance.
Then where is this freedom to be found?
It is not really freedom to have liberty and then always walk backward, or just do anything
you like. In the same way it is not natural to use just one eye, or to plug one ear and listen with
the other. Freedom which does not satisfy the Principle is not really freedom. Will freedom be
obtained by fulfilling necessary conditions, or does it just come along?
Is freedom necessary for its own sake, or in order to fulfill the ideal? Is freedom itself the
ideal? No. It is valuable only because it is necessary for fulfilling the ideal. Actually it is the
ideal to be natural in a way that cannot be accused. For example, it is ideal for eyes to blink
once in a while; it is torture for eyes not to blink.
The ideal has a direction and freedom has a direction. Human life has a direction; we don't just
live aimlessly. Just as an individual has a direction in life, so does history, even though it may
seem to move haphazardly. We can even say that God has a certain direction and purpose.
When something has an objective, then it has a direction to go in. You got up early this
morning and something in your mind kept pointing you toward Belvedere, so now you are
sitting here. The fact that you have assembled here shows that you are united in wanting to go
a step further in a certain direction, to a higher level.
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18. By meeting True Parents in the morning you come into unity, to see a new direction and really
go forward. A succession of this kind of event is what we call development. A person strives
for the ideal as an individual, and then moves onto other levels. One result of the fall is that
mankind lost direction, and that's how man has been living for thousands of years. The world
is in confusion, not knowing where to go or how to find an example.
In order for something to move it has to have energy; that power is just as necessary in human
history as in nature. In the confrontation between Russia and America we see that the more
powerful of the two pushes the less powerful. Where does this power come from? It is greatest
for the nation that has a clear sense of direction.
Power also stems from unity among a nation's people. America is a nation divided internally,
with individuals just going their own way and not caring about unity or direction. How about
the Unification Church? It has a completely different outlook because it has a different
direction and it has unity. Your unity with True Parents is so strong that your parents get
upset.
What should we pay most attention to? We unite because we have a certain direction toward a
higher level. You have to know whether you have a precise direction, not just an idea of one.
It seems true that in the garden of Eden God had a direction. The fall basically meant that God
said, "Let's go this way, and man said, "No, let's go this way." So who should follow whom?
Why wouldn't it be just as well for God to follow man?
The subject-object situation was absolutely necessary for God, and under the law of creation
the subject is always followed by the object. The fall meant that this law was not observed,
and today mankind doesn't even know there is such a thing as subject and object. Today many
women think they are able to be subject. We know that starting with God and the first
ancestors there is subject and object; the subject must love the object, which follows, and they
must come into unity by following a clear direction. While they move in that direction they
can come into unity.
In history we see that there is a force which is rearranging the confusion of society and
directing man toward a certain purpose. Without power or energy we cannot move at all.
Certainly some force was necessary for the natural world to come into being, and in history
some power has always led men to a desirable direction. It is a realistic conclusion to say that
all things are done through energy, or force.
Where does power come from? Power results only from action and reaction. To accomplish a
huge task, a huge amount of power is needed, which requires a huge action and response.
Before the universe has power it must have the right situation and response. When we eat food
it enters the stomach, and when it becomes one with the body it gives us power. Power can
only result from action. For example, the response to the food is digestive action. Even
scientists recognize that there is great power in the universe, but they fail to recognize that
great action preceded that power.
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19. If you really look into what must precede action, you will find that subject and object are
absolutely necessary. It is easy to see this principle at work in the natural world. We know that
the Divine Principle is wonderful, and one of the key realizations it contains is this deep
understanding for the necessity of subject and object; we can deeply know the dual
essentialities of God through this point.
Starting with subject and object as the base, we have give and take. Then we can see that they
fulfill the four position foundation, through which they attain all their beauty. When this is
fulfilled in a sequence of steps, it has direction and unity and purpose. The subject and object
relationship clearly comes first with a certain purpose to achieve, so it has precise direction.
Unification Church women have a certain ideal and purpose, and thus have a certain direction.
More concretely, women have an individual purpose, plus a purpose leading to men.
Centering on yourself you have a purpose as subject, and al so as object. Why do women have
two purposes, instead of just one? This is because women resemble God, who happens to have
duality; because subject and object want to get together, you have two purposes.
When subject and object come into oneness, they can go to a higher level and form a subject-
object relationship with a higher being. Then when they form unity they in turn will become
object to a higher-level subject.
First you have mind and body as an individual, each of which have a purpose, so within you
there are dual purposes. They vaguely correspond in direction, but nevertheless they are
distinct. How do they coordinate with each other? It all happens within the foundation of four
positions, with give and take action going round and round. Within an individual it is always
the mind that directs the body, not vice versa. Is that relationship the result of receiving a
high-level college education, or were you just born with it? That is taking place every day
within each of us. The power within the universe moves in the same way, just as a tornado or
typhoon finds an appropriate path.
Often the body seems not to hear, however. Until you understand this principle you might
have room for going a different way, but once you know this is how the whole universe
operates then you know your body should follow your mind at all times. This is where power
will come from, so having a clear idea of subject and object will help revolutionize your
individual life, family life, and so forth. Is this just fine talk, or do you feel this is really the
secret of your being?
We know that for many years mankind did not understand this because the fall confused this
basic concept for man. The archangel had a relationship of object to God, but he failed to
observe the right direction. The archangel's idea of purpose became different from God's idea,
so their relationship and direction became separate and unity was not obtained.
It is important to know clearly about subject-object relations. In the communist countries they
say the capitalists exist for the workers, but they totally fail to understand who is subject -- the
worker, or whoever runs the company. In your idea who is it? Right or wrong, the owner is in
position of subject. In the four position foundation we have God, the owner, workers and
company, so the owner has to have relationships in two directions. The worker will be in the
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20. object position, but on an equal level with the subject. The nation is moving in a certain
direction, so the worker as object and factory-owner as subject will move together in that
same direction. This principle is the only reason for anyone to pay taxes. In the same way,
there are a leader and citizens in America and they must go in the direction the country
desires. Even within the individual the same pattern will be found, though in a smaller scale.
Now we have learned that fulfillment of the purpose of the ideal is found in the four position
foundation. You have two eyes, an optical nerve, and a point of focus in your vision; together
the y form a four position foundation. Air enters through two nostrils; you hear through two
ears. We have to be aware of the subject position, realizing there is such a thing as an object,
and then we can have purpose, direction, and unity.
The communist ideology is founded on the idea that there is no such thing as subject or object,
no such thing as purpose, and thus no direction or unity necessary in human life. If a
communist concedes that any of these elements must be present, then he has denied the whole
communist philosophy. Their typical view of a subject-object relationship is understood only
in terms of fighting: through conflict they become one! In this thinking, then, men and women
must fight before they can have unity. They say that mind and body have to fight in order to
find unity.
They view the material world as subject, and say that the existence of the mind is only
accidental. It really is a satanic outlook on life, inverting the actual universal Principle. The
direction communist countries s et for the individual and nation is one of fighting. Of course
they say they want to unify the whole world under communism, but they also say that blood
must be shed before that can happen.
This is exactly how they are thinking and this activity cannot be forgiven. It not only goes
against the direction of history, but also against the law of existence in the universe.
As long as the communists have no clear objective to reach after their revolution, and they
only fight in the name of progress, then they make no sense at all. They say something good
will probably happen after the fighting, but actually they have no clear idea of what they will
become. Now the communists in different nations are fighting among each other. But unless
there can be unity, how can the ideal come into being?
What we have here in Unification Church is founded on solid rock. In the history of the
universe, where is the subject and object? Is it God and man together who have to create
history? Can America say that it has been prosperous without God, and just continue on its
way? If we learn from what happened in history, we won't make the same mistake. No great
empire or nation knew beforehand that it would collapse. Individuals can do a certain amount,
but after that they are helpless.
People today have stopped pursuing the ideal, saying that things like religion aren't necessary,
and they indulge in sensual excitement as a way of life. No person has met more persecution
than I have; whenever I spoke up the commotion began, in the churches, the government,
every place. No one else has ever met so much persecution and survived. How did I do it? I
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21. am the only one who lived according to natural law, moving in the same direction as the
universe. Thus, I prospered more and more.
Eventually America will have to listen to me, and even though the President may not
recognize me, this nation will eventually believe me. Even in daily life am I a success or
failure? I do not take great pride in what I know, or manipulate people. I get out and s et the
example of how to live. But I will never try to compromise the Principle; whatever is the
Principle way, I do. What makes me different from anyone in the world is my notion of
subject and object. That is very serious and very strong. I follow the same direction God does.
I have a clear view of the future of the world, and an objective to go toward, and I will never
compromise that. I am all for bringing everything into unity. As long as someone is a son or
daughter of God, he will come into unity centering on God.
Why do you find yourself here in Unification Church? You don't eat delicious food here, and
you can't sleep as much as you want; people don't even respect you. What do you have here
anyway? Your purpose for being here is to be like a rock upon which God can rebuild the
world. God is pounding on you to make you tempered steel. Do you know about the process
of making Japanese swords? The metal is put in the fire and then beaten, again and again.
That is what is happening to you year after year . Everyone who mistreats you helps in this
process. In order for you to have great power you must have much give and take action, and
being pounded on is part of that action.
I start many new things because I am not interested in just one area. That's how my life has
always been. I started training myself much earlier than you did. I know what it takes to train
a person because I have gone through the same things. Is it bad or good that I want you to be
stronger than me? You have a difficult time being pounded, but I who am doing the pounding
also have a difficult time. The name of the game is who gives up first! All you have to do is
survive until I give up.
Would you feel that your children cannot be greater than you? Though you are the parent, you
will want them to be better than you because you know your own deficiencies. You always
think that I will give you more assignments to make you work hard. In your mind you think
that you don't question whatever I do, but you wonder if you can really work harder . You
awkwardly conclude that you love me but feel that Unification Church life is too hard, that it
is too hard to be object to the subject. You might want me to listen to the object once in a
while.
You and your ancestors are used to the American life and maybe you think I don't understand
Americans. I always have a reason for what I do, so should you listen to me, or me to you?
God has a definite idea whether I should listen to Him or He should listen to me. The whole
universe centers around the positions of subject and object; an equally strong law is that the
object must follow subject. Is the whole thing clear to you?
Maybe you ask if it would be better to follow a religion with an easier course, like Buddhism
or Hinduism. There are not even chairs to sit on here. On the coldest winter day you always
sat on a cold concrete floor, but just recently you have been provided with a carpet to sit on. In
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22. any other church you sit on pews to listen to short sermons, and feel that the other church
members are interested in your problems. They will never make you fund raise! The minister
will warmly shake your hand and come visit you, but I don't do that.
In light of all this, why do you make a determination that you must do even more? It is
because such thinking perfectly conforms to the Principle. Whether other people approve or
not, we go on because it is the right thing to do. Even though you may not have gone to
college, you know what contribution I have made to history. By myself I have brought
thousands of people closer to God.
Other people say we cannot ever compare the Creator to His creations. But the purpose of
religion is to bring God and man together, and I have brought this lofty idea of God into living
reality and lifted man all the way up to heaven. We can live with God in our daily life, not just
in concept. God is the subject over our daily life, over where we will go, and over where
America will go and where history will go 10,000 years from now.
We have to be serious about subject-object relations all the time, in every part of life. We are
on the right track, and if we just keep going we will reach the ideal. That is our destiny. It
really matters little whether it is agreeable to or approved by others. It would be easier if I
didn't have to take the Unification Church along with me, but not only that, eventually I must
bring the entire world. The same tears that roll down my face should roll down your faces;
what's good-tasting to me should taste good to you also.
You and I eat different food; I sleep on my back, while you sleep on your stomach. I even
speak a different language, but our tears and our hearts should be the same, whether white,
black or yellow. This is our common denominator and meeting point.
Now you know that you need much power, so you need much action. Before you can come
into action you must establish clearly defined subject-object relationships. With that power
you will go toward a purpose, in a specific direction. Finally the whole thing will come into
unity on a higher level, and ultimately everyone will unite on the highest level. This is a
precise summary of what I have told you this morning. Is there any fault in this?
In order for there to be power it is absolutely necessary for subject and object to come into
good action. If one eye sees clearly and the other eye sees dimly, can they focus well? Then
the four position foundation will not be formed in a correct way.
If you work in many directions then after successful give and take action you will have much
power. That means you need many subject-object relationships, both as subject and as object.
You don't generate action for its own sake, but with a purpose in mind. Once you come into
perfect unity with America and it responds, then you will go toward the world. Then the world
will come within your embrace and become one. Once the world becomes our object, we are
ready to form a perfect relationship with God as subject and the world as object.
Then what belongs to God is yours, and what is yours is God's. There is no such thing as
division in that case. All is done with love, and then the whole process will be finished. Then
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23. our laughter will never cease for eternity. Definitely the universe will develop according to
this principle. Communists insist that their doctrine will continue eternally, but actually at
some point it must join forces with our doctrine. When we reach this goal, the communists
will be connected to us.
This will take place when subject and object become harmonious in every way and the whole
universe comes into perfect unity centering on God. One force will act and another respond;
one will go up, then down, in and out, and so forth. With each force alternately pushing, the
universe will go around. When a child's top is spinning slowly it wobbles, but when it is
whirling quickly it stands perfectly in place. In the same way, when the forces acting on the
universe are perfectly balanced, it whirls in place.
Today's human knowledge reveals that the universe is expanding, but doesn't show that it also
contracts, or comes back in again. It doesn't just repeat a certain static pattern but goes in a
vertical field or sphere. Then why is the earth round, for instance? Because it is in perpetual
motion of horizontal and vertical. That's the principle of the universe in action.
Where would I go after I finish my work in America and the world? I would go back to my
hometown. Always you can think that the first place you will go when you succeed is back to
your native land. Why? Because of this universal principle I have just described.
You breathe by inhaling and exhaling. Air is not stationary; it constantly moves in areas of
low and high pressure because of this principle. You might want to stay on the level you have
been brought up in, and wonder why you should go to the national and world level. It is
because the only way to perfect oneself is to perfect the world; there is an indivisible
relationship between the two.
You all want to be the most important person in the world, whether you are qualified or not.
There is no one who would refuse that. When we reach the world level, without fail it will
come back again, completing a circle of action. The world will turn on an axis which links
God and earth. Even though there may be a plus and minus, however, without love the axis
will not come into being. The Unification Church must have an idea of individual perfection,
but without also having an ideal of world perfection the individual cannot reach his goal.
Though it might take us millions of years, this is the way we have to go.
We can achieve hundreds of times more here on earth than in spirit world. This is why we are
so fortunate to know the will of God today. When we reach up to fulfill all levels of unity, we
will start experiencing God's love; this is where He beckons us to come.
Now let me return to the question of why we have to pray. From the point of the fall we have
to reach up to that point, and then eventually we will reach the center. When the axis is placed
firmly and give and take action can take place, then the ideal horizontal way will follow
almost immediately.
We have to have a definite idea about God and His grandchildren. God's objective was not
limited to Adam and Eve. God has a triple objective purpose, of three purposes and three
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24. objects. The four positions are necessary as a foundation for action and maneuver. God is the
almighty subject, but He is not happy alone, so in order to move He had to have objects. This
is why He created man and woman.
But those three are not complete either. Since God wanted to move in spherical motion, He
needed the fourth position, to form a south pole to His north pole. Subject and object were
divided in order to take after God's own image. If plus and minus have give and take, another
being of plus and minus is bound to come into being. For these purposes God needed
grandchildren. Without having the fourth position, man could only have two objects. If he did
not have three objects like God did, then he could not be elevated to the same level as God, or
become His perfect object.
Thus, even for Adam and Eve's triple objective purpose children were inevitable. In achieving
that they could become the same as God. Even the children have the triple objective purpose
fulfilled. Now we know the reason man absolutely needs woman, woman absolutely needs
man, and both absolutely need children. This is the law of creation of the universe.
The gay movement is very fashionable in this country. Men and men decide to marry each
other and forget about women. You have to know why that could never create the ideal. When
parents love children, they form the same pattern as they do in loving God, and they represent
God's love. Children loving parents is the same as mankind loving God. For children to love
their parents is the same as their loving God. God's loving His grandchildren is the same as
His loving Adam and Eve. By loving Adam, Eve loves God and children at the same time.
The same goes for man when he loves Eve, he loves God and children as well. Now we know
we definitely need man, we definitely need woman and children, but we also need God.
For God this is the ideal of man, woman and children because it includes love. Some people
say they don't want children, but they must know they really do need children. If a woman
doesn't have children, she might as well not have a bosom. Do women have bosoms for
themselves, or for someone else? Korean women are careful to hide their bosoms, but when
they are breast feeding their children they don't care who is around to see. A Korean woman
might think she is justified in this openness because God wants to see it. You have seen the
practice of American women in this matter. A bosom becomes less valuable when it is shown
to everyone all the time. Why do men have broad shoulders? To work hard a man needs good
muscles and strong build.
When you look at the world with this basic knowledge, you can know instantly what is going
on. If you have a firm knowledge of what I have just told you then you can evaluate what is
right and wrong with people, and also with yourself. Now you know how nice is the ideal of
the four position foundation. Everything is included in it. The elements are subject and object,
direction, purpose, unity. There the ideal is fulfilled.
Applied to your situation, you fundamentally have mind and body. Can women say they only
need God and then go into a monastery? Can men say they don't need women? Woman has to
find a man. As soon as a woman has mind and body in complete unity centered on a direction
and purpose, then she has to trot along to a man. When a man as subject and a woman as
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25. object become completely one, they form the four position foundation with their children.
When that is accomplished they can bring society into unity, then the nation and the world and
spirit world as well. Then they return to God. We originated from God and then eventually we
return to God.
What does a person leave behind? The only thing he leaves is love. As soon as your mind and
body come into unity then you love your spouse, your family, your country and then the world
and universe. Then finally you return to God. Maybe you start out quietly, but when you love
everything and return to God you do so with great laughter.
This is the only way God can be happy, you can be happy, and all other elements can be
happy as well. Since it is so important that woman meet man, when Unification Church
women marry they never have more than one husband. Once a couple are united perfectly
then they immediately take on a higher subject. American men always follow American
women, don't they? Do American women want to lead or follow American men?
Your ideal as an individual is not sufficient; only after fulfilling dual ideals are you in
conformity with the universe. If a plus never wants to unite with a minus then eventually it
will be eliminated by the universe. A plus cannot remain as a plus all the time and still be in
motion eternally. Now in America men and women want to stay single. According to
universal law should this practice be perpetuated or
eliminated? This is not what I say, but what the universe says. Do women want to have a man
so that they can become smaller or bigger? Your spouse is a bridge, without whom you cannot
love the universe, whether as plus or minus.
Then why do we have to pray? If you are not altogether sure who your subject is then you
have to pray. Whether they realize it or not, all mankind is looking for the absolute positive
subject. That is God. Before we pray, we ask whether we have established ourselves as
absolute objects to the absolute subject. Once you are sure your position is sound, then you
make sure you are an absolute object, and then you can follow whatever God says. It's not
conditional based on what God does for you, but means doing 100% whatever the perfect
subject says. This is how we have to be established.
A prayer asking to be shown the existence of God will never have power. First you have to
establish yourself as absolute object to the absolute subject and then have direction of absolute
obedience. Living things want to go their own way, especially Americans, and especially
American women! Only on the basis of the absolute law which God created will He respond
to our communication. God hears, without exception, but cannot always answer.
If you are disregarding the direction while you ask God to answer, He cannot answer even
though He hears you. There must be direction, from the individual, the family, and nation to
the world. You also need faith that you as a small minus, an individual, can be as big as the
absolute plus. Though a magnet is small, it responds the same as a big magnet does. Now that
we know what He would like the world to be, we can pray to God that regardless of the
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26. persecution, we have no objection: "God, I will give up everything that is important to me and
care about your purpose." Then God will respond to us.
First we have to become one with God in His purpose, and after that help our poor family,
nation and world. If you say to God, "Let us two get together and forget about the world,"
nothing will happen. But if God hears you praying for absolute faith to become one with Him
and do His work, God cannot deny that. The Messiah opens the way in place of mankind, all
by himself. After he achieves that, he will inherit everything, and on that foundation can
bequeath the course he has achieved, which you know is home church. Now you know the
right direction to go.
If a person prays that he has listened to me and agrees, but just cannot do anything, then God
cannot help him. God works only by the Principle, which states that man has to find his own
way. Now you know the direction of prayer.
Rather than pray about your household, when you pray about the world your children are
already included. One thing for sure, whatever we pray for, God will fulfill, though it may
take some time. The only problem is whether man will carry on and persevere until God
fulfills. God will never forget, but man is always going up and down.
I am now praying about things to happen in a thousand years, and I pray that I will continue
until those things are finished. You may feel you have prayed deeply about something yet God
did nothing, but that is not the case. He may not have achieved it through you but through
someone else, and you just haven't seen it. But always in time those things will come back to
you. Because the universe goes around, either you will find that event or it will find you.
A typical churchgoer prays usually for his family, or at best for his nation, but hardly ever for
the world; people today just don't pray for God's will. Again, your primary concerns are
subject and object, direction and purpose. Whatever we do, as long as it is to achieve a certain
purpose, it will be there and nothing will be wasted.
From the time you achieve that purpose you will be elevated one step higher, praying for the
sake of mankind and the universe and eventually meeting God. This is God's desire too, so if
you pray like that then certainly God will fulfill it. If He doesn't then He isn't fulfilling His
own purpose. When you have a high objective and ideal for which you pray, God will meet
you when you achieve it. Certainly He will appear and reveal what you should do after that.
People commonly ask why God doesn't love them, but only after we achieve our purpose can
God truly give His love. He has to give His love when we arrive at the higher subject-object
relationship which He needs so much.
With this basic knowledge I can know precisely where in history today's world is, and what a
country's destiny is. When America doesn't do what it ought to then difficulties will come to it
even within a few weeks. Its trouble is love. When, as a perfect object to the perfect subject,
you pray for God's own purpose then God will listen to every word. That's the one thing you
won't have to worry about. Of course a small prayer will bear fruit more quickly, but a far-
reaching prayer will come back to your descendants, or to the Church. Sometimes I pray for
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27. something and ask for it to be achieved in 10,000 years. By the time t hat prayer is fulfilled
my boundary of love will be enormous.
Finally, when we pray we must act and carry it out. If you pray about a content often then you
should act to a level of fifteen. Then God will be right behind you, even though you cannot
see Him, supplying you with power. If this is an actual law then how can you get tired? Even
if you have worked hard for many years and just became engaged, you shouldn't be concerned
if you don't have a chance to be with your fiancée as much as you would like. What kind of
life you live and in what direction you go is more important than your fiancée. Do you pray at
all?
Perhaps you have been down for a while, and then feel that you have to make some resolve
because you just can't go on like that. There are times when you are breaking your back
witnessing or fund raising, yet even at that time you have to repent. You are in a minus
position to the huge plus of economic work, for instance. Wherever you go you have to grasp
quickly the subject-object relationships you find there.
In witnessing, Abel is plus and Cain is minus, and you have to unite them. Even though the
minus may be more powerful than you are, somehow you have to make that relationship work
like it should. Because God is right behind you, it will work. That is the process of re-creation,
and reversing the tide always involves difficulty. Because of love, God had a happy mind
when He first created the world, even though it might have been a difficult job. The purpose is
what matters, so we can do difficult things with a happy mind. God sees all of us together as
one individual, so each one must really try to come into unity with the group; the most
effective way is to cherish the person beside you. If you truly have that feeling then the whole
congregation will be united.
If you feel you are needed and are living for the congregation then the meaning of the whole
church will become very clear and you can give everything for the sake of the whole. That is
the process of re-creation. When you truly do that then you will become a subject and others
will really like and respect you. Once you are accustomed to this basic pattern of life then you
don't have to pray so much because everything you do is prayer. Once you pray, God will just
reply, "Go ahead and do it." Now and then you would pray to make sure that what you are
doing is what God wants and the universe wants; then you can pray for power if you are worn
out.
Sometimes you don't want to go on unless some immediate need is fulfilled, such as food.
Then either you could eat and go on, or you could get mad and tell the food that it is your
enemy at that moment. Then your body's need for food will gradually subside. You know you
can go on for seven days without food, but actually it is rare that you have nothing available to
you for that long. If your fiancée is somehow blocking your way then you have to chase that
barrier away. If your clothing hinders you then you have to turn against it. Maybe you felt
energetic all the time before coming to Unification Church, but after being a member for a
long time you feel drained. Now you know how you lost power.
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28. I have had the experience of wishing I hadn't said some things in prayers, and in order to
nullify those words I fasted for weeks. Such is the power of prayer.
Should you pray for your fiancée, or just go straight for the sake of the world? Actually there
is little you can do about your fiancée if you are worried. God knows what he needs better
than you do. You might think your husband or wife-to-be doesn't care about you, but he or she
has a higher being to love and dedicate his heart to. Once he achieves that, he has to return
and love you anyway. All you have to do is wait for that time and tag along in obedience
meanwhile.
In your case you can tell me that since I know so much more about prayer than you that I
should do the praying and you will just follow what I say. That attitude and action are as
meaningful as your individual prayer. Then you won't complain if I push you to work hard.
Actually 90% of prayer is not about doing this or that, because you and God already know
what must be done. 90% of prayer is repentance. This parallels Jesus' teaching to repent, for
the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Repentance is very valuable if you do it correctly.
Other people don't have to see you repent and work hard. When you work according to your
repentance then your goal is getting nearer. If you walk many miles in one day and it gets dark
but you want to walk even ten steps further before you collapse and rest, that is better than
counting up what you did and calculating you can reasonably stop until tomorrow. Always
you should stretch yourself to the maximum.
Do you pray? How do you pray? If your prayer is centered mostly on personal requests, it is
neither valuable nor powerful. Now you know how to pray. I understand that you want to pray
about yourself, and there is one way to do that. You might introduce where you are precisely,
saying, "Father, I am one part of womankind, a representative of all women. I know the world
is more important than myself, but in order to reach the world I have to have a spouse and
family so I can fulfill your desire." In that way you can ask God for an ideal spouse.
Sometimes you are much too self-centered and want individual advancement. God just cannot
listen to that prayer. The first thing is to determine what your direction is and to work toward
the goal, repenting in daily religious life. God will always listen to the needs of such a person.
Now you have a precise idea about prayer. I have followed this principle so closely that if I
wanted to pray in an unprincipled way, my mouth wouldn't even open. Then I would know
God was going in a different direction.
When I just close my eyes momentarily, I know which way God wants me to go. If you live
like I do then God will always be near you and always around your family. Our purpose is to
nourish that kind of family, In that respect prayer is very necessary. Your life right now
should be one of uniting with each other and praying for the sake of the world. When a wife is
working very hard should the husband be idle and the children playing all the time? No, all
should go in unison.
From now on you should pray about going in the direction God desires, checking to see if
what you do is acceptable. Praying in any other manner is not acceptable.
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29. Mission and Prayer
June 12, 1983
When you are asked if you have a mission, how do you answer? What is your mission? In
view of the dispensation, is your mission to restore one person, one family, one nation, or the
world? It is easy to answer "the world," but can the world be united overnight? You need a
foundation to reach the world. Do you have that foundation?
Do you really know the True Parents? Do you understand our essence? Do you know what we
have been doing? Each of you should know clearly what our mission is, what we are doing
now, and what goal we are working toward. Also you should have a clear idea about yourself
and your own mission.
People have ambitions and desires, but they shouldn't take them to the extreme. Suppose, for
example, that an ambitious person goes to the mountains to gather wild berries or plants,
determined to bring back only the best. He may spend the entire morning and afternoon
searching but if he can't find the best, he will return empty handed. In contrast, another person
might spend the day picking all types of berries: poor, average and good. At the end of the day
his basket is full, and chances are he brought back top quality berries as well. The second
person has the best strategy in this case. He picks all types of plants: A, B and C. Even though
type C is not exactly what he wants, they can be washed; he finds many type B plants and an
occasional type A. Wouldn't you agree that this is a wise person?
Ask yourself what type of mission you have. Reflect on the type of mission I have given you
as a Church member. This is a serious point to consider. You must understand, of course, that
I am speaking to all of you in general, and not about the specific mission that you as an
individual may have. Each of you should apply these concepts to your specific situation.
Let me give you an example so you can better understand what I mean. I started Tongil
Industry from scratch many years ago. My idea or goal was for Tongil to attain the highest
standard of technical expertise and production in the world. The foundation for Tongil
Industry was 35 years of study and thought. Now Tongil machinery has reached the pinnacle
of world technology.
To accomplish this goal, we didn't start out with sophisticated equipment but rather with the
simplest and humblest machines. I determined to make the very best simple machines even
though I realized there were more sophisticated types. After producing the best on one level,
Tongil advanced to the next level and continued in this manner for 35 years until reaching its
present level.
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30. Not all of the people working at Tongil, however, had the same concept about how to reach
the goal. Some people complacently came to work at starting time, took lunch breaks, and left
as soon as it was time to go home.
The attitude I wanted to see was for the workers to rise while it was still dark and think,
"Today I will perform even better than yesterday." Then they would arrive at the factory early,
before the others, and prepare to work.
It's the spiritual attitude that makes all the difference. If you plan to do just what others do,
you can never excel over the competition. You have to make things consistently larger and
better. That requires investing energy into a project even if it is something you don't
particularly care to do. That is the only way to accomplish it. If you think of your task as just a
job, you will never excel. Furthermore, each time you improve the product, you must educate
people. All this takes money which you have to make and use wisely, on product
improvement and employee education.
Now when people see with their own eyes the kinds of machines built and sold by Tongil,
they are filled with admiration. They say, "Father, you are just a wonder-man!" But during the
company's development many people didn't believe me. They told me, "Father, you cannot
develop that much technology in just a decade, and maybe not even in a century! We have no
foundation." Yet, we kept building it up and now people tell me that the accomplishments are
amazing.
I have always had keen insight. People took it for granted that German technology is the best
and that nobody could rival it. They predicted it would take us centuries to surpass it. "Is that
so?" I thought to myself. So I went to Germany, checked around, and found the industry a
little shaky. I visited all the machine tool factories and examined their equipment. Machine
tools can play a critical role in unifying the world and that is why their development is one of
our goals. We are doing it for the sake of the world and for the sake of Germany, but the
Germans didn't understand it that way. They were worried that we were trying to infiltrate
their technological expertise, although they wondered what I could accomplish by spending
only one day visiting a factory.
Even our members in Germany had only a foggy notion of what I was doing. "Oh Father,"
they said, "you go out visiting for a day and now Germany is all stirred up! Why didn't you
just leave them alone?" Even now, can you say that you understand what I am doing? Do you
have a foundation to reach out to the world? You say yes, based on my foundation, but do you
really know what I am doing? Answer me honestly.
Actually, you hardly know much about anyone other than yourself, and occasionally even
that's doubtful! Sometimes you are going in the proper direction and at other times you are
heading in just the reverse. You may make a resolution to work for the goal and devote
yourself for the sake of God and the world-and then at the next moment you look at what
others are doing and decide to take it easy for a while. You are constantly changing, and if you
continue living that way, you will become confused and not even know yourself!
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31. This is why it is necessary to spell out in detail the nature of our mission. The overall mission
is the same for everyone here although individual missions vary. One person might have a
mission as a lookout, watching what is going on; another person might have a mission to
witness and give life to people. You should know exactly what your individual mission is.
We are all working to advance God's providence and fulfill His will. If I ask how many of you
are willing to sacrifice your life for God's providence and God's will, I know all of you would
raise your hands and sincerely mean it. I know you are devoting yourself to this mission, but
can you sacrifice yourself for one entire day, morning to night? Right now you may say yes,
but at noon you might change your mind! Since you have vacillated in the past and may do so
again, your promise is not absolute.
People may have various attitudes in making an offering. Which is better, to offer yourself
when you are asked to, or to volunteer on your own? Would you be willing to offer your life
to accomplish the goal, even without being asked? If you are willing to offer your life,
couldn't you give just one day? You are still young; can you give one year out of your life?
And if you are willing as a teenager, will you be sacrificial in your twenties too? If you are
willing as a young adult, will you continue to be sacrificial when you are in your thirties? Can
you pledge to work harder so that if you were to die ten years from now you would have no
regrets?
Some might be unwilling to die for the mission because they are working to obtain a blessing
on earth. Which would be preferable: to receive a blessing before you die, or to sacrifice
yourself and receive a variety of blessings after death? Actually, we need to take the sacrificial
path in order to fulfill our mission.
The real content of the mission entrusted to each of us is to liberate God and to liberate
mankind. This is not easy. Liberation may take ten lifetimes and we may need to face death
ten times!
If we are unable to fulfill our mission of liberating God and mankind during our lifetime,
someone whom we have raised up should carry on the mission in our stead. We should be able
to say, "Even if I die, my place won't be vacant; my successor will continue the task. Someone
better than I will take my place, therefore, I don't have to worry about dying."
Even when we reach our fifties or sixties, we should not expect to take things easy because
our bodies are not what they used to be. Rather, we should work harder to make the most of
the time that remains. This is how I feel.
With all its accomplishments, the United States is not big enough to liberate both God and
Americans. Therefore, we must march on to Moscow. Moscow will be even more difficult
than America. My attitude is, if you agree with me, can you take it easy after accomplishing
the present mission? Actually, an even harder mission is awaiting us.
If we live this way each day, when the time comes to die we can face death with honor and
glory, since every day of our life has been spent preparing for it. But someone whose daily life
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32. lacks this quality will be surprised when death visits him and will not know what to do. He
may cry out to God to save him. If you can face death with honor, one of your heirs will
volunteer to take your place. At the crucial moment, someone you have educated will tell you,
"If you go to spirit world I will take your place and do even better than you. Please don't
worry, I will complete your mission."
Since we have only one life, how will we spend it? One type of person knows his mission
clearly and devotes each day to its fulfillment. The other type of person has a vague idea of
his mission, so he just lives one day at a time. Each of you belongs to one category or the
other. To which would you like to belong? Why? The first category is preferable because that
way of life is more valuable.
There are some older members here who have been in the movement for a long time. As the
years go by, some may wish to take it easy since their body is getting old, while others resolve
to run ahead of the rest -- just as if they were still in their thirties or forties. When you reach
your fifties or sixties, what attitude will you have?
As Unification Church members our goal is so clear. We should be willing to continue our
mission joyfully forever, without regrets. We should eagerly await the dawn of each day so
we can jump up to work. If we live this way, we won't get tired out or run down. We won't
complain about being unable to continue and we won't lose energy.
How do you rate compared to this model? Do you really believe that you have been called by
God and that this is your vocation and lifetime task? Could you ever erase all memory of me
out of your head? Don't you feel that you and I are inextricably linked? One person might
promise to follow me wherever I go, and other might say, "Father, I will not only follow you,
but I want to help you." Which attitude is better? [The second] So do you want to help out, in
addition to following me?
Actually, you are headed this way because it is your goal anyway -- whether I go there as well
doesn't really matter. The correct answer to the last question would be: "Well, Father's goal
and my goal are the same. He is going there ahead of me, so I will accompany him and help
him reach that goal." You should be convinced that if I had not done all the work in advance,
you yourself would have laid the foundation. Since I have already accomplished so much, you
should be only too grateful to help me, because it is your work anyway.
You might actually feel like telling me you have a better idea on how to liberate God and
mankind and you would prefer to do your mission differently. But as you watch me you
realize that I have already laid a large foundation and I seem smarter than you and have a
better way of doing things. Therefore, you decide to drop your way and follow mine in order
to reach the same goal. This is why you want to follow me. In fact, you should say, "Father,
you have already done so much and will continue laboring to achieve the liberation of God
and all mankind. When you go to spirit world, I will be happy to take your place and try even
harder."
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