Belvedere International Training Center – February 13, 1974

If you are not able to connect those two elements with yourself at the center, you will not have carried out your mission.

Through the central figure, or central point, two other elements are to be connected. The leader of any group must put himself in the center with two elements — one ahead of him and one in the rear — to be connected through him. You are in the center; the purpose is ahead of you, and what you have acquired is behind you.

The mission of a governor is this: the governor is in the center; the population of the state is behind him; and the whole nation is ahead of him. Isn’t that true? The central figure, which is responsible for many under him, must be able to carry out the mission as the central figure. He must qualify by connecting the two elements.

In other words, the responsible person is never in a position to think of himself alone. If you do think centered on yourself… can you ever dream of carrying out this kind of great mission? No. It is safe for you to deny yourself, thinking of the other two elements, to be connected. Suppose you are the central leader, but you are also head of a family with your own family under you.

The Path of Life for All Humankind

Sun Myung Moon January 17, 1999

Each person comes into the world through three sets of parents. The first parent is the material world. Elements from the world of matter combine to form each person as the center of the material world and as a complex material being. Thus, it can be said that these physical elements themselves are the ancestors who gave us birth. At the same time, the material world is an extension of us. The universe is created so that matter can settle only in the ideal of love. It is only in the ideal of love that all cells can live in tranquility. However, this is ruined whenever a person becomes angry.

Our second set of parents is our natural parents. By giving birth to us, our parents gave us a particular form, and to this extent they are the masters of our lives. However, no matter how hard they may try, our parents cannot be the masters of our love. The master of love is God. In this context, God exists so that love can expand into the entire universe and be made eternal.

Because God is the subject partner of love, God becomes the Parent centering on love. God is our third Parent, so we have three sets of parents.

Part V

There will be no single nation which would claim to be able to bring the whole world under it. No such idealism or ideology will survive. If at that point a certain group of people would appear proclaiming that they are going to make the whole world into one under God, people of the whole world are destined to follow that ideology. That is what we call the Unification Group. We can never imagine that any other group than ours can do that. People will have tested all other ideologies, religions and other things and will have reached the point of utter despair. At that moment, if the U. S. would claim to be the leading nation of the world or to be responsible for the welfare of all the nations, anybody would scoff at them. Could the Soviet Union do the same? Could Japan do the job? Could Germany? No, never! With those utterly helpless, who would do that? One of the religions maybe, Confucianism, Buddhism, Islam? No, no such religions. People of the world will look around with attentive eyes and they will find our group, even though the men and women in this group might look shabby and miserable. This group of people, when they throw away their families, discard their nations and do things for the whole world, transcendent of national boundaries, what will be brought about as a result?

Part IV

In the western world, individualism is prevailing. Externally they seem to cherish worldwide idealism, but inwardly they don’t discard their imperialism or nationalism. They have tried everything on each level but those all being a failure they all go back to the individual level. Why is it so? When they fall back, they are back here in the position of Cain and Abel at the time of the Fall. Here they went up having hope, but now they are going down in utter distress, but they would not discard their world ideology. By this time, when they will have reached this point, when they look back, they will miss or long for the age of the peak, because they had something great there. What they had there was something worldwide. So, as small as they may be in scope, they still want to keep the worldwide base ideology here. At the point of their downfall, if they see an ideology as big as to encompass the whole world, they will be destined to follow that ideology at an instant. Human history, after 2,000 years of struggle, will diminish and reach the lowest point, but it’s not going to die away. At that point something great will happen, like a seed planted to grow into new life. At that point it is supposed to be called the worldwide base or the Close of the Age.

Heavenly Tradition

Reverend Sun Myung Moon

January 20, 1973

In the course of their long war, they each wanted to strengthen themselves to maintain a balance of power, and when they are at the peak of being diminished, they will not fall back to this side, but they will fall back beyond the peak to the other side. They are starting from the Communistic individual and Cain-type family, tribe, nation and world. The other party does the same. On the peak they are not going to go reversely down but they will go over the peak and they will fall on the other side. If they went up this way the idea was to have the whole world under their ideologies, but they will be diminished, although they will not throw away their ambition of having the world. Although they are on the way to destruction, their ideologies will be based on the worldwide base. They wouldn’t discard the idea of having to include the whole world under their ideology. More than being the Abel-type nation or Cain-type nation, the strongest power must think that they are going to have the whole world as their nation. But having gone through the stage of the worldwide level, they will not throw away their ideology. So, even though their power will be diminished, they won’t throw away their ideology of making the world into one. At the peak, if any one of the two would give up hope about having the leading power in the world, they would be faced with ruin and they cannot go over the peak to the other side. As time goes by, they will be diminished to nothing at full speed. For instance, if this course has gone through 2,000 years of history, this may take 200 years. Or it may be 20 years. In 1960 the situation was at the peak and then, going down to reach the year 1980, a new change will be brought about.

Heavenly Tradition – Part II

Reverend Sun Myung Moon – January 20, 1973

From this point of view we can realize at what point we will meet the Latter Days or the Close of the Age. The war began between Abel and Cain because of the Human Fall, so, as long as that type of war continues, we cannot call it the Close of the Age. In other words, at the Close of the Age, the Abel-type must win over the Cain-type. But on the other hand if the Cain-type wins over the Abel-type, the sinful age cannot come to a close. They will struggle on to win over the opponent, but as long as they continue their war, we cannot see the end of the world. The Communistic and Democratic world have long been fighting each other. First they went through heated war, then cold war and now they are in the stage of having a peaceful war — or war of appeasement. This fact is telling us that we do not fight with our fists and weapons alone. If we went on fighting against each other with weapons and fists alone, both would be corrupted, ruined. By doing that both the Democratic and Communistic worlds will be weakened and there will be rupture between those two. If they are weakened or diminished to be smaller and smaller, then they will both have been strengthened and multiplied and made bigger and bigger but now they are going to be weakened by the long war against each other. At that point they will not go the reverse way, but will go over the peak of the thing and both will be destroyed.