8.2.1. God’s principle of creation and absolute faith
and absolute obedience
After creating Adam
and Eve in the Garden of Eden, God gave them the one and only commandment and
told them not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil. He told them to keep it from the position of one having absolute faith,
absolute love and absolute obedience, but they failed to do so. When God gave
them that commandment, He, Himself, stood in the position of absolute faith,
absolute love and absolute obedience. Thus, His counterparts also had to do the
same in order to achieve oneness. However, they failed to accomplish this.
In the last days, in
order for fallen human beings to return to the original world and to enter the
Kingdom of Heaven, they should go through the gate of the True Parents. In
order to do so, they must perform acts of absolute faith, absolute love and
absolute obedience, which were not carried out in the Garden of Eden.
Otherwise, they cannot go to this new world. They must hold fast to the coat tails
of the True Parents and follow them, without ever losing them, with an attitude
of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. God is the subject
partner. God has lost His partners of love because He lost the fruits of absolute
faith, the fruits of absolute love, and the fruits of absolute obedience. That
is, He lost the family of Adam and Eve with their sons and daughters. No force
can prevent you from grasping Rev. Moon’s belt like this. For such victors of
unification, all creation says “Amen” while cheering Mansei. (282-41,
1997.2.16)
When God created the
universe, He did so on the basis of absolute faith. Thus, whatever God has
said, will absolutely be fulfilled. There is nothing that cannot be
accomplished. Also, the purpose of creation is to have object partners of love,
absolute love. There is no room for doubt; no second thoughts. Next is absolute
obedience. Absolute obedience means not having a sense of “self”; even God is
no exception to this. (274-201, 1995.11.3)
God started creating
all things based on absolute faith. He began to create so that He could have
object partners of absolute love. Absolute obedience means that there exists no
awareness of “self”. It is a state of complete zero – a complete nothingness.
Once God returns to nothingness, a circular movement automatically begins.
Since everything is given out, and there is no more to give, God returns to the
bottom. This has become the origin of the movement of the universe. Thus, after
completely investing everything, things go down preparing to go up once more.
(282-68, 1997.3.10)
At the time of
creation, God created based on absolute faith, absolute love and absolute
obedience. This total giving left a complete vacuum, resulting in a deflation
in which not even the tiniest particle remained between the two sides, which
then attached to each other and became one. This is how oneness, total oneness
is achieved. When oneness is created and fullness is produced, like a type of high-pressure
zone, then a circular motion is created. Likewise, if you totally invest
yourself from the position of absolute nothingness, a dynamic type of movement
can occur.
When I apply such a
principle and invest myself for the universe based on absolute faith, absolute
love and absolute obedience, there will come a time when the world naturally
unites, and the high pressure zone will be completely filled. Here it is
logical that the unification of the world will naturally appear without conflict.
(273-297, 1995.10.29)
God raised Adam and
Eve, wanting them to be absolutely faithful. God wanted the family of Adam and
Eve to stand on absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience because
the place of love for the ideal world that He had created with absolute faith
was to be a place of such a standard. But Adam and Eve fell. They destroyed the
standard of absolute faith, violated the standard of absolute love, and
abandoned the standard of absolute obedience. Where can such people go? They
are bound to go to hell.
The commandment that
God gave to Adam and Eve was to do with love, which is symbolized by the fruit
of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They should have become one in
the love of God, who had practiced absolute faith, absolute love and absolute
obedience. However, they lost that position, and Rev. Moon has come today and
is speaking about this to restore it. It is amazing that a system of truth has
been established, which people can accept as common sense on a theoretical
basis, and which can work to reshape their lives. You should understand that
you are standing in the position of kings and queens and rich men and women,
which is more precious than that of billionaires and the presidents of all
nations. (273-299, 1995.10.29)
God created with
absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, and aspired towards the
ideal unified world of absolute love. God Himself practiced all these: absolute
faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. Thus, we should also inevitably
practice them in order to earn the right to be partners with God. Even if we
may go to a place of death, or even if we may lose our life, we should still
stand on the standard of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience.
Only then can we, as His sons and daughters, resemble the image of the Father
who has passed through history, investing and investing and forgetting about
His investment in order to find absolute love. That is why Jesus came to this
earth and said, as a motto for going to the heavenly kingdom: “Whoever seeks to
gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.”
(273-299, 1995.10.29)
We are trying to regain what was lost in Adam’s
family: absolute faith, absolute love... What is absolute love? God’s purpose
of creation is to find partners of love. In order to find the absolute partners
of love, God Himself has been investing absolute love as the standard.
Thus, absolute
obedience means that even your own way of thinking should not exist. You invest
your whole self and forget about what you’ve invested. God does not acknowledge
His own value as the creator of heaven and earth. He lowers himself. Since God
totally invests Himself while going down to the bottom, while His partner is
going up to the extent in which he goes even higher than God’s position, then
they both automatically resurrect. (282-323, 1997.4.7)
We should love God.
We should have absolute faith in God. With absolute faith, we should love God
absolutely and obey Him absolutely. Why? It is in order to receive God’s love
and to inherit the right of ownership.
God created heaven
and earth with absolute faith and absolute love, and in the position of
absolute obedience. God’s ideal of creation should possess the standard of
absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. Adam and Eve were the
central beings; God’s object partners of love. Thus, because creation was created
with absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, these become the
standards for existence.
Christianity also
teaches faith, hope, and love. What is the greatest among them all? It is love.
It is exactly the same. God created all things with absolute faith and absolute
love. Absolute obedience requires you to have no sense of self; it requires
that you be conscious of others. Hope does not refer to the present time;
instead it is referring to the future expectations connected to the object partner.
Hope is the same for both. (284- 135, 1997.4.16)
It is absolute faith,
absolute love and absolute obedience. Everything is realized within this realm.
God Himself created His partners of love with absolute faith. He created them
after proclaiming, “I have this faith!” He completely invested Himself with
absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience.
Absolute faith stands
on the basis of absolute love, and absolute obedience stands on the basis of
absolute love. This is the main idea of the spirit world. It is the main
thought of the eternal spirit world. It is also the main thought of the earth.
It is the main thought in both worlds: the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and the
Kingdom of Heaven in heaven. So you should have such a concept. As long as you
have this concept, you can pass anywhere. You can pass everywhere. (292-271,
1998.4.27)
Just as God created all things with full authority, investing absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, you should also stand in the same position. You should not fail to become object partners to the subject partner in the ideal realm created by God, and unite with Him as one.
What you should know is that I, Rev. Moon, absolutely believe in the entire contents of the Principle. That is what you should understand. That is something which you must absolutely love.
There is nothing else.
Even if I may have to abandon my world, abandon my family, abandon my wife, and abandon my children, I love the Principle absolutely, more than them.
I absolutely obey it. I invest my present life as well as the entire length of my life in it. I invest everything and then forget it.
Until now, you may have understood
absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience conceptually, but it is
not a concept. It is something that you must actually put into practice. (293-92, 1998.5.24)
You should know that
God is liberated with the liberation of humankind. For the liberation of your
families, I, Rev. Moon, console God’s sorrow of having lost His family. By
liberating my tribe, I should console God’s sorrow of having lost His tribe,
and by building a nation, I should liberate God from the sorrow of having lost
His nation. What I am trying to do in my life is to regain the lost cosmos in
order to console God’s sorrow. I do not have my own wish, nor do I have my own
thoughts. I just practice absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience.
If I am told to die, I don’t hesitate to die. I try not to avoid something even
if I may have to die. (300-72, 1999.2.21)
Within the bag of the
harmony of love, there is the world of peace and unity. You, Unification Church
members, have no way of denying it. This is because even if you study it for
ten thousand years, you will not have studied it more than I have. So if you
come to this conclusion clearly and practice it with absolute faith, absolute
love and absolute obedience, everything is completed.
Ladies and gentlemen,
when you are married, you ask your spouse, “You absolutely trust me, don’t
you?” If your bride asks you on the first night of your marriage, “How much do
you love me?” you would answer, “I love you absolutely with my mind and body as
one; I absolutely love you with the oneness of my mind and body; I absolutely
trust you,” right? (296-94, 1998.11.3)
The philosophy of the
True Parents is simple. It is centered on absolute faith, absolute love and
absolute obedience. It is absolute faith centered on love. The absolute faith,
however, is a concept, whereas love is the center of everything. Love is
invisible although you experience it.
Next, obedience means
practice. If we are going to realize love, centering on love, we must obey. The
purpose of obedience is to achieve something greater; so, to achieve this we
should invest ourselves. If this grows centering on ourselves, it cannot fully
grow. God’s tradition of infinite love expands everywhere continuously. The
issue is the relationship between husband and wife. That is why my first
declaration in Jardim was absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience.
Through this, we are returning to the original position of God at the time of
creation. (296-94, 1998.11.3)
The realm of dominion
based on accomplishments, the realm of direct dominion, or the realm of direct
dominion through the fulfillment of humankind’s portion of responsibility – all
these refer to the accomplishment of our responsibility, by receiving the Blessing
centering on love; this is the view of the Principle, isn’t it? When you stand
with this view, you should completely resemble God in your mind and body. God
created all things based on absolute faith, absolute love and absolute
obedience. Therefore, unless the human beings, Adam and Eve, become one through
absolute faith, and stand in the position of object partners to Him through
absolute love and absolute obedience, there will never be a way for them to
become one with Him. At their one meeting point, they can reach the standard of
oneness; this point should not be off even one iota. This is logical; this is a
serious matter. (285-72, 1997.4.21)
The Fall means having
failed to have absolute faith. You should know this. It is absolute faith,
absolute love and absolute obedience! God emphasized this. Why? It was so that
He could bequeath to you the entire ideal of love. In order for you to do so,
you should resemble Him. (282-297, 1997.4.7)
Absoluteness implies
that there is only one. This is a road that leads to one, not two. How do we
connect ourselves to that single path? We can connect by living for the sake of
others. God also created with such a concept. It is absolute faith, absolute
love and absolute obedience. Even God has no other concept. It means none, a
zero. (281-217, 1997.2.13)
When God created Adam
and Eve, He had absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. Because
God created in this way, His partners must stand on absolute faith and be in
the position of absolute obedience. Otherwise, they cannot enter the realm of
God’s love. This is where the Kingdom of Heaven and hell are divided. This is
the content of the commandment. (278-128, 1996.5.1)
Americans, being
individualists, are saying, “I am the best, and who is this Rev. Moon? He’s
just the founder of the Unification Church, so what? He has nothing to do with
me.” When Rev. Moon talks about absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience,
they are saying, “What kind of words are these? Are they words from a dictator or
a king?” The dictator or king is God. He is, however, the true dictator or
king. The false dictator or king is Satan. You should know this. If you tell
God not to act as the owner, would He stop acting as the owner? The answer is
eternally no. (293-297, 1998.6.7)
