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This is the message of Heung Jin Nin sent through Hoon Mo Nim on January 1, 2002
on the 35th True God’s Day. It was addressed to True Parents and read to the
7000 members gathered at the God’s Day ceremony. Heung Jin Nim describes the
effects in the Spiritual world of True Parents’ declarations and ceremonies.
He explains how ancestors are recreated, about the Training Center and their
progress in the training there. He also reported in detail how the spiritual
world has changed since the Coronation of God’s Kingship. After hearing this
report, True Parents’ comment was, “It is so well expressed that it should
be regarded as a clear illustration of the spiritual world. This content must be
published and heard by all members, who should apply it in their daily life.
This text is a translation of this message as published in a book produced at
Cheong Pyeong Training Center to commemorate the training center’s 500th 2-day
workshop and 7th Anniversary.-
True
Parents! I am so thankful, because through true love you have opened the Cheon
Il Guk nation and the New Age in which we can live together with God and True
Parents.
It was on July 8, 2000 that we performed the groundbreaking ceremony for the
Original Palace, which Heaven, humanity and all creation have desired. We then
went forward towards the goal you set for us, “Let us perfect the realm of
Heaven and earth’s liberation as we inherit the heavenly fortune of true
love.” From the end of October to the end of December 2001, the Speaking Tour
of Unified Nation of Cosmic Peace in Korea, Japan, and USA led to the opening of
the Cheon Il Guk. After these momentous events, I have no words to adequately
thank you. I am sorry that I have not been able to report the situation in the
spiritual world more often.
Most revered and esteemed True Parents! According to your guidance and blessing
I have been making a foundation here in the spiritual world as you have been
continuously leading the providence on the earth. I have been educating those
spirits who were collected at the Cheong Pyeong Training Center and brought up
here to my training center in the spiritual world. Here they are educated and
cleansed of their sins. They come down to be Blessed on the earth, and
afterwards they are educated in the way of true family. This is their foundation
to be resurrected on the Earth as they help their descendants to accomplish the
Providence according to True Parents’ direction.
The Coronation of God’s Kingship was the fruit of 80 years of True Parents’
victories. This event especially caused amazing changes in the spiritual world.
On the basis of True Parents’ hard course of indemnity conditions, God’s
lineage is now being restored. The Day of the Coronation of God’s Kingship was
indeed a historical day. On that day God and restored spirits wept for joy, as
6000 years of God’s resentment was overcome. Truly, True Parents’ heart of
filial piety moved the whole cosmos. We want take their example into our hearts
to become mature children who give joy to our True Parents.
We have done a lot of work here in the spirit world with the love and attention
of True Parents. Here I will report in detail on the ancestor liberations,
Registration Blessings, and the process of raising spirits to the status of
Absolute Good Spirits, as well as the changes that have ensued since the
Coronation of God’s Kingship.
Changes in the Spiritual World due to True Parents’
Declarations
True Parents’ greatest wish was to offer the Coronation of God’s
Kingship. To accomplish this historical ceremony, True Parents shed tears and
sweat and blood throughout the 80 years of their life. True Parents had to make
so many conditions before they could hold it, because the barriers in the
spiritual world first had to be broken down.
With each victorious foundation, True Parents made a providential declaration in
order to advance towards the coming of God’s sovereignty on the earth and the
spiritual world. He then had to realize on the earth the content of the
declarations through rallies. I want to discuss the meaning of recent
declarations and report on the resulting changes in the spiritual world.
When I first arrived here, I encountered many difficulties as I tried to follow
the will of True Parents. True Parents sent me here in the position of the
Commander In Chief, but the atmosphere was not good for me to work strongly.
Among the spirits here, believers in different religions continued to insist on
the ways, rituals and doctrines of their own religions as they knew them on
earth. Those who had not been religious were likewise set in their ways. None
paid any attention to things beyond their limited vision.
God’s intention is that all the religious people in the spiritual world should
descend to work with their descendants and followers on earth, and be
resurrected centered on True Parents by giving testimonies and bringing about
the unity of religions. At that time I did not have the right environment to
make this happen. It was so difficult. Especially, there were no Absolute Good
Spirits. There was only an evil spiritual world, an environment where evil
spirits dominated and people’s fallen natures were so strong that they took no
interest in anyone but themselves. In most cases those who took an interest in
others only did so because they wanted to get revenge for his or her suffering
as a result of what happened to them on the earth.
Furthermore, I was hesitant to act because I did not have a close relationship
with Jesus or other religious leaders. The Christian churches were placed in the
Abel position because True Parents came on the foundation of the Christianity,
to guide them to God’s side. My unity with Jesus was less important than unity
between the Unification Church and Christian churches. True Father said that the
Unification Church and Christian churches could unite on the earth through first
establishing unity in the spiritual world. Yet it was not easy to find the
central point that could transcend the realms of religion, because each religion
had its own rituals and culture. Especially I had difficulty making a
relationship with the saints and sages of the different religions.
In order to establish the realm of religious unity, in December 1996 True
Parents called the founders of the four great religions and the 12 disciples of
Jesus to attend a 40-day workshop at Cheong Pyeong.
Next they went through a 100-day workshop and explored the whole spiritual
world. They learned the Divine Principle and came to understand the spiritual
world overall. Especially after the Blessing our relationship improved
considerably. Through the course of 100 days at the spirit world training center
these religious leaders learned who the True Parents are, and this brought us
into unity of heart. Finally, after the Blessing of the four great Religious
Founders, the world religions are able to unite. Through this process, all the
difficulties that I had in the beginning were overcome, so I could start working
with confidence as the Commander In Chief of the spiritual world. This was
possible only because of the love and blessing of True Parents.
True Parents held the Blessing ceremony for Dae Mo Nim, Dae Hyung Nim and Choong
Mo Nim on August 25, 1995. On December 1, 1997 they proclaimed the
“Declaration of the Opening of the Right to Give the Blessing in the Spiritual
World,” through which Heung Jin Nim and Dae Mo Nim were given the rightful
position to conduct Blessings of spirit people. Since then spirits could receive
the Blessing with the absolute authority of the spiritual world.
The victory of the 400 Million Couples Blessing resulted in cutting off
Satan’s lineage and connecting everyone to True Parents’ lineage. Through
this, the victory of True Parents could be connected to the spiritual world.
I give thanks to our True Parents for the “Declaration of the Opening of the
Right to Give the Blessing in the Spiritual World,” because through this God
is now able to liberate the Heavenly world completely and go anywhere to spread
His original heart of love.
On Easter Sunday, April 17, 1998 True Parents gave the “Declaration of the
Opening of Elder Brother-ship, Parent-ship and Kingship.” Through this
declaration, whatever had not been connected centered on the family could be
connected to the victory of the 360 Million Couples Blessing. It was thus
proclaimed as “cutting off Satan’s lineage on the worldwide level.”
Now the gate of the Liberated Realm of Blessing is open on the earth and in
Heaven. Three nations—representing the father nation, mother nation and elder
brother nation—had established an absolute unified foundation centered on True
Parents representing the nation of Heaven and Earth and the center of Universe.
On that foundation, Blessings of 30,000 couples, 360,000 couples and 3.6 million
couples reached the worldwide level. By 1998 the Blessing had reached the cosmic
level. This meant that the spirits in the spiritual world and in the physical
world could receive the Blessing.
Most notably, in 1999 the declaration, “The Complete Liberation of Satan’s
Lineage and Accomplishment of True Blessing on the Cosmic Level” enabled our
ancestors in the spiritual world to go the way of liberation and work for the
unity of the earth.
The “Liberation of the Cosmos” prayer in the Pantanal, and the
“Declaration of Congratulation of Victory in East and West” brought many
more changes. Through these we arrived at the time when God could free the
spiritual world and physical world and establish the God’s sovereign nation of
love to be governed by God. All this was based on the victorious foundation laid
by the True Parents after overcoming the false lineage.
Furthermore, the Blessed Couples in the spiritual world could stand in the
position of younger brothers and sisters to attend the Blessed Couples on the
earth in the position of elder brothers and sisters. This created a new order
between the physical world and spiritual world, which had previously been in a
relationship of Cain and Abel. It set up a new realm of liberation and a new
level—The Victorious Parents’ Realm. Based on this, True Parents could hold
the “Ceremony of Declaration to Congratulate True Parents’ Cosmic Level
Victory.” Through this a great change came about: the time when Satan could
take God’s children by force ended, and the time when the ancestors of Blessed
Couples can take their descendants to Kingdom of Heaven by force arrived. We
thus entered the Era of the Liberated Realm of Freedom.
Nine minutes and 9 seconds after 9 o’clock on September 9, 1999, True Father
being 79 years old, was the moment when the number 9 appeared 9 times. About
5000 members gathered in Su Taek Ri Training Center to hear True Parents make
the “Declaration of the Ceremony for the Liberation of the Cosmic Unity of the
Parents of Heaven and Earth.” The spiritual world also participated in this
grand and beautiful ceremony to participate in True Parents’ victory.
Through that declaration, the age changed from the era under Satan’s dominion
to the era of God’s sovereignty. Satan had built foundations on the national,
tribal, familial and individual levels, but from that moment on Satan’s
foundations were required to take orders from God. The cosmic True Parents
restored the number 9 which had been lost, cut off the history of Satan, and
declared that the final victorious era had come. At that moment Satan
surrendered to God. Satan could no longer cross the boundary into the realm on
God’s side. From that moment on, the sovereignty of unified love was
established centered on the children in the spiritual world and on earth,
vertically and horizontally, and front and back, complete in every direction.
Thus the “Realm of Kingship of the Unity of Love” could be declared.
Today this unworthy one whom you elevated to the position of a saint, the
family-level saint, thanks you very much. I know you raised me up to save the
family by bringing together into unity the Blessed Couples on the earth and in
the spiritual world. I know you wish me to save the family. It entails
reconnecting what was lost at the time of Jesus on the earth and expanding the
ideal of the family to Heaven. You have blessed this Cheong Pyeong Providence,
which has established the position of the spiritual parents of Jesus’ time and
established the position of the physical and spiritual parents who can officiate
at the Blessing. I am grateful that I could assist you in this way. It is
entirely the result of your victory, and you deserve all the glory.
That was the historical Nine Nines Day, when the Parents of Heaven and Earth
could embrace the whole cosmos from the peak of the summit, based on
“Declaration of the Ceremony for the Liberation of the Cosmic Unity of the
Parents of Heaven and Earth.” After that you established Three Tens Day.
In the year 2000 much change came in the spiritual world for the building of
God’s Homeland. In August True Parents made the “Declaration to Break Down
National Borders and Realize True Love.”
True Parents then performed the “Chusok Ceremony for the Liberation of All
Resentment” at East Garden, in the presence of True Children and 122 leaders.
On that day eight people faced the four directions in pairs, and the sprinkling
of Holy Wine made a condition to sanctify the cosmos. They represented the whole
Unification movement and all Blessed Couples in the spiritual world. Everything
can be governed, now that we are able to go freely east, west, north, south and
to the center, as well as vertically to every level. I am grateful for this
opening of the way by which we can go forward as filial children of God into the
united kingdom of love.
After the Chusok holiday, the “Declaration of the Handing Over of the Right of
Blessing” was held in the Heavenly Palace where 4000 Blessed wives had
gathered for a 21-day workshop. You bequeathed the rightful position to me to
give the Blessing, this unworthy person whom you nevertheless have trusted and
to whom you have bequeathed all your victories.
Everything you made victorious in the heavenly world, the liberated realm of
God’s ideal of creation, you have bequeathed to this unworthy one. The
Blessing of the “Transition of the Three Ages Four-Position Foundation
Registration Unification Blessing” could be given on this foundation.
On October 14, 2000 True Parents performed the “Ceremony on the 50th
Anniversary of the Release from Heungnam Prison and Ceremony for the Liberation
of the Spiritual World.” It was attended by Young Jin Nim, Hye Jin Nim, Hee
Jin Nim, the four great Founders of the major religions, philosophers, saints
and sages, the 4000 people participating in the fourth 21-day Registration
Workshop, and I. True Parents centered on God performed the ceremony, which
opened the new shimjung culture of the Kingdom of Heaven on the earth and in
Heaven. Now there is a way open for even Satan, the Archangel, to enter the
Kingdom of Heaven eventually. At that time you commissioned me to lead the four
major religious leaders of the world, conscientious people, and all philosophers
to go in the same direction, toward the straight way of Heaven.
This was truly the love of True Parents. True Parents comforted God, even amidst
suffering and at the risk of their lives. In order to save all mankind, True
Father went to Heungnam Prison. Now True Parents have connected the 50th
anniversary of that day to the liberation of cosmos, the liberation of the
physical and spiritual worlds. I am so grateful for this blessing and love.
As True Parents performed the Total Liberation Ceremony, the walls in the
spiritual world collapsed and the spirits in the spirit world were able to move
freely. With this, much change came in the spiritual world.
The way of the spiritual world is quite different from what is commonly thought
on the earth. A spirit cannot easily travel from one place to another. If it
weren’t for the declarations of True Parents and their constant love, it would
be so difficult for me to work here.
The spiritual world is the world of mind. Once you are set in your mind and in
your habits, it is not easy to change. Therefore it is very difficult for
religious people of different backgrounds to travel to each other’s regions.
In the spiritual world thought is reality itself, so differences in thinking are
manifest as high walls, or as steep cliffs with wide holes or many falling
stones, making it difficult to move from place to place. Therefore, it was so
difficult for spirits who lived in some remote region to venture outside their
accustomed place.
Knowing this situation, True Parents brought victory by going the course of
indemnity to make the foundation to perform the “Total Liberation Ceremony.”
Through this ceremony, countless boundaries between different regions were
broken down. Of course not all the obstructions disappeared in that instant, and
spirits still cannot easily go anywhere they please. At present though it is
much easier to go from one place to another where the obstacles had been
religious boundaries.
On December 3, 2000, forty days before the Coronation of God’s Kingship, True
Parents made the “Declaration of the Elimination of Hell and Registration for
the Kingdom of Heaven” in Punta del’Este, Uruguay at a gathering of 66
members. This declaration holds a very important meaning. Hell and Paradise had
been the source of God’s sadness, but now they were being liberated. In the
dominion of God, the law of love and heart crosses over hills and transcends
national boundaries. With their release, the realm of liberation had finally
arrived. The time had come for True Parents’ grace to establish God’s
Kingship.
On that day, God appointed the ancestors of members to stand alongside the
angels and serve as ushers and escorts. Amidst brilliant light and the fragrance
of perfume, God himself came down in person to the Main Hall of the Heavenly
Palace. Officiating at the ceremony, you crowned God in His original proper
position. You could perform this ceremony after going through your life-long
course. You could make the proclamation based on your solemn promise. You
performed this ceremony for the sake of God, so that God can come and go freely
and connect people to His realm of love. Once more I congratulate you!
True Parents worked hard throughout their whole life to restore God’s dignity
and bring God to His rightful position. Their life-long victorious indemnity
conditions and the content of their declarations were focused on this very
purpose. God said, “Truly, True Parents’ heart of filial piety is beyond
what anyone can describe.” In the spiritual world all this is well known. This
unworthy one also wants to be like you, always making God happy. I will make
every effort to attend True Parents and let them feel comforted.
The
Situation and Changes in the Spiritual World
Dear Beloved True
Parents,
I want share this for the sake of the members, that they may understand the
changes taking place in the spiritual world and its situation in detail.
If you want to ascend to Heaven, first you have to go through a door between the
Middle Level of the spiritual world and Paradise. As you enter you see fog, such
as you see when you climb a mountain just before you reach the summit; looking
down you see the fog beneath you, and as you descend the fog again gets thicker
and thicker. But as you continue upward and approach the Kingdom of Heaven it
gets brighter.
In the Kingdom of Heaven you will see green grass everywhere. Birds are singing,
flowers are blooming in profusion, and animals are playing happily together. The
air is fresh and filled with fragrances like lilac. Bright light shines
throughout, more beautiful than diamond and clear as crystal. As you stand there
you feel so comfortable and refreshed. A feeling of love and happiness fills
you. Unlike in earthy life, in the Kingdom of Heaven these happy feelings are
continual.
In the Kingdom of Heaven there is no anxiety or suffering. All the spirits have
bright and peaceful expressions; they don’t need to talk as they automatically
care for each other. There is no fighting, no jealousy, no hate or arrogance,
and no fallen nature. Everyone is filled only with True Love. However, only
people who were Blessed through the True Parents can enter this place. Even
people on earth who led a good life cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven unless
they have been Blessed.
You cannot go to this place by living in a haphazard way. In order to enter the
Kingdom of Heaven you have to live a clean and beautiful life, crystal clear
with no blemishes. In order to live here you must have a smile on your face and
a light that shines like jewels. Blessed Couples should examine themselves every
hour of their life to check whether they are truly becoming citizens of Kingdom
of Heaven, by leading an earthly life of which they will not be ashamed in any
way.
As you descend from the Kingdom of Heaven, you will encounter many different
regions of the spiritual world. Many people on earth think that there are only
two different places: Heaven and hell. But in reality there are many regions,
from very evil places to very good places. Although there are many different
levels, any level other than the Kingdom of Heaven is not at all comfortable
because the people fight each other, insisting that they alone are correct about
their opinions. Each region is filled with people who are of the same type, so
it is not interesting to remain there.
For example, in the region where people who were accustomed to stealing things
on earth dwell, they are ever thinking that other people will steal things from
them. Amid such distrust of others fighting goes on continually.
When they come here most of the sprits are placed in various regions of hell and
the middle realms. Where they are placed is decided by how they lived their
lives on the earth. Therefore, if you don’t want to suffer in hell you must
not live an unprincipled life, but go the way of absolute faith, absolute love
and absolute obedience. God is only goodness and love. Unless we make effort to
resemble God, we cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
If you descend further into the lower regions, you come to regions of hell where
you cannot breathe. It is dark and scary, and it has a terrible smell, worse
than the smell of rotten meat or fish. Deformed figures appear in front of you,
biting each other, yelling and screaming at each other. Some regions are filled
with burning holes, and in them are people who are forever angry at each other.
The worst regions are reserved for those who were sexually corrupt or who
committed suicide. It is difficult to look at the many ugly figures there
slithering all about like snakes. People living on the earth don’t recognize
how frightening it is in these areas. If you could see it, you would not be able
to remain there even for a minute. Fortunately, all Blessed Couples have had
their Original Sin forgiven and have the chance to cleanse their ancestors’
sins, collective sins, personal sins and fallen nature. Yet Blessed Couples
don’t recognize how precious and valuable is the grace that they possess.
As the Divine Principle teaches us, no one forces people to go to a particular
region of the spiritual world, but people find their own place by their own will
according to the spiritual level they attained on the earth. If only we could
make people understand this, they would know how to live in the future.
The colors of the different regions of the spiritual world differ one from
another, from the Kingdom of Heaven to hell. The Kingdom of Heaven is extremely
bright and white, clean like flawless white jade. But as we descend the colors
become darker and darker and dirtier. Descending from the Kingdom of Heaven the
color turns beige, then darker shades of purple. Descending to still lower
regions the color becomes light brown, then gray, dark gray, black and pitch
black. The more sins committed, the darker the color. Also, spirits who
committed many sins with a certain part of their body show dirtier and darker
colors on that part. After receiving the Blessing, people can get rid of their
fallen nature and live in the Kingdom of Heaven. The more True Love, the closer
they can get to the Kingdom of Heaven. But the more fallen nature the darker
their spirit self becomes, and they go to a dark place.
It is so important after we receive the Blessing to remove evil, resentful
spirits and to remove our fallen nature, because this will decide our
environment after we go to the spiritual world. People may enjoy their wealth,
power and good position, but the situation in the spiritual world is so
different. The more money a person had on earth or the higher the position that
they misused, the greater their troubles are in the spiritual world.
In the Divine Principle it reads, “Sin is a violation of heavenly law which is
committed when a person forms a common base with Satan, thus setting a condition
for give-and-take action with him.” Most people think of sin only as personal
sin, but there is Original Sin, ancestral sin, collective sin as well as
personal sin. We are burdened with sins inherited from our ancestors even though
we personally did not commit them, and we are also responsible for collective
sins that were committed collectively.
In one word, being a fallen person means being the result of 6000 years of
fallen human history—a mixture of good and evil. People inherit good and evil
character from their ancestors, but living in the world where there is more evil
than good, evil is continuously repeated. When we say that there are many evil
spirits in the bodies of people on the earth, it is the result of personal sins
and ancestral sins passed down through the lineage. For every sin there is
always a cause, because it is the result of a condition to have give-and-take
action with Satan. Thus, there is story behind every sin, and someone was its
cause. Maybe an ancestor of the person, while living on the earth gave much
difficulty and pain to someone, and that person came to have resentment. Now
this resentful spirit has come down to the descendant of that ancestor to get
revenge by trying to influence him to commit sin. Such a cause might also show
as sickness or pain.
All modern diseases have spiritual causes that are connected to the sins of
ancestors. By looking at the sicknesses and difficulties of descendants, we can
infer about the life of their ancestors. If the ancestors had stolen things from
the others or misused public things or money, their descendants often suffer
from stomach problems. If they had many sexual transgressions, their descendants
may suffer from diseases of the sex organs, or be unable to bear children, have
problems being faithful, or get divorced after marriage. Ancestors who did not
see things about others correctly and hurt them will cause their descendants to
have children who are born blind, mute or deaf. In other words, according to the
way pain was given, the descendants suffer with the same kind of troubles. The
heavier the ancestors’ sins, the more difficult it is to heal the resulting
sickness; it may not even be curable.
If people on the earth do not clear up these sins through paying the required
indemnity, the suffering is passed down to their children. Later, when those
people come to the spiritual world and watch their children suffer they regret
that they did not clear things up for them. They lament, “If only I had borne
my suffering on earth, my children would not need to suffer now.”
Therefore, unless people clear up all the sins passed down from their ancestors,
as well as the personal sins they committed themselves, they cannot escape from
sickness and pain. The sins are so great and so many that they cause countless
evil spirits to infest the bodies of people on the earth. There are multitudes
of them, each the size of an ant’s egg. In reality spirits can control their
size freely. These evil spirits make themselves tiny in order to infest
people’s bodies in large numbers.
When you look at a spirit it may appear as it was as a human being, or as it was
at the time of death. Sometimes a spirit appears as an animal or as an insect
according to how he or she lived on the earth. A person who had a hot temper
might have the appearance of a tiger. A person who delighted in tricking others
might look like fox, and a person who was sexually promiscuous might look like a
snake.
Dear most precious True Parents! My training center is located right next to the
Kingdom of Heaven.
The Kingdom of Heaven is not yet open, as it will be opened only after True
Parents arrive here. All of us will enter on that day. I am glad that we have
this training center, because we need it in order to restore all people in the
spirit world. I can never thank you enough for providing it. Now we are able to
create Absolute Good Spirits. This means we have now created a realm where Satan
cannot invade. As the number of Absolute Good Spirits increases, the territory
of God and True Parents increases. Satan’s evil work is diminished, and the
hope of establishing the Kingdom of Heaven opens up on the earth.
Looking at our progress in liberating evil spirits, some may question whether it
would be easier if we would restore all the evil spirits on the earth at once.
But that is not the Principle way. God cannot intervene in the choices of fallen
human beings, who fell into the midway position. God cannot intervene with His
power, and Satan cannot intervene either. Each person alone decides whose side
he or she is on by the conditions he or she makes and who is in the rightful
position to intervene. Only when a person makes a condition for God, can God
intervene in that person’s life. Therefore, in order to remove evil spirits we
need to make indemnity conditions by understanding our sins and the sins of our
ancestors. Otherwise the separation or liberation of evil spirits is very
difficult. The same principle applies in Blessing our ancestors. We need to make
conditions so that our ancestors can be liberated and sent to the training
center in the spiritual world, where they become the Absolute Good Spirits who
will be the foundation for God to come down on earth.
As of this time, True Parents have achieved the cosmic level of victory. They
have liberated the spiritual world and have broken down the boundaries between
religions in the spiritual world. True Parents have created the environment to
establish the Kingdom of Heaven and to break down national boundaries.
On this basis, evil spirits are being restored to become Absolute Good Spirits.
Especially, all the declarations that True Parents proclaimed from 1990 up to
the Coronation of God’s Kingship made the victorious foundation to restore
Absolute Good Spirits and send them to the earth. This work would be impossible
unless the Messiah, the eternal True Parent, does it.
In
recent years the spiritual world has changed for the worse. Since 1980 evil
spirits greatly increased their power to work on the earth and this made their
work much more effective. The reason for this was that the central figures of
the Providence did not know the identity of Satan, the root of sin, or the
nature of Original Sin. Satan, therefore, had no anxieties about creating his
self-centered world. However, after the True Parents came into the world the
situation started changing. After revealing the root of sin and the Original Sin
more clearly than God had ever revealed it before, True Parents began making
conditions so that Satan would not be able to settle on the earth. As he
achieved victory after victory in Providence of Restoration, Satan began to get
nervous. Consequently, Satan mobilized the evil spirits in the spiritual world
to work with the evil spirits in the bodies of people on the earth by
stimulating their resentment and their desire to take revenge on the descendants
of the people who caused them pain. In particular, Satan watched closely for
opportunities to invade Blessed Couples. Whenever he found any conditions to do
so, he put evil spirits into Blessed Couples’ bodies. As a result, Blessed
Couples were not living centered on God.
God expected that Blessed Couples would make unity of heart with God and True
Parents by living with absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience.
Satan cannot invade such Blessed Couples. But when the Blessed Couples acted in
unprincipled ways they made conditions for Satan to invade them. In fact, most
Blessed Couples expected that the victory of True Parents would protect them;
they didn’t look deeply at themselves to check whether they had anything for
which Satan could accuse them. They didn’t reflect on whether any fallen
nature remained in them. Therefore, at least from now on we must work hard to
purify ourselves from evil and sin and be reborn as original, true children.
Blessed Couples must know that they have many, many evil resentful spirits
within them. Blessed Couples should know how to separate these evil spirits and
be cleansed of sins. They must work hard to clean this up while they are on the
earth. Do Blessed Couples doubt it when I say that they have many evil spirits
in them? The proof is that they still commit so many evil actions and retain so
much fallen nature.
From this point of view, liberating our ancestors is the way to straighten out
all the complicated matters passed down through the linage and to restore the
original linage. All the sins committed by ancestors are passed down to their
descendants; therefore members are pushed to commit sins in spite of themselves.
By clearing up the invisible world True Parents’ saving hands are reaching
down to us. Their desire is that members will no longer be tempted by Satan and
can live according to the original way.
As time passes by, people will see the difference in the members’ lives
between those who have invested to liberate evil spirits and those who have not.
The more evil spirits there are in a person, the more difficulties that person
will have to face. The fewer evil spirits he or she has, the more comfortable
and happy his or her life will be.
Therefore, each of us must reach the absolute standard, which is in accord with
the ideal standard of the Kingdom of Heaven. Let’s overcome our fallen nature
and go the way of true children, the way acceptable to God. This is most
important.
Therefore, you members must not take this matter lightly and just be bystanders.
You must take it seriously and by all means remove the evil spirits from your
bodies. Participate with the determination to uproot all the evil and all your
fallen nature. Just as evil spirits can change to become Absolute Good Spirits,
so also you on the earth must heed the voice of your conscience and original
mind and pursue the way of perfection, that you may resemble God.
Through the Coronation of God’s Kingship, the Transition of Three Ages
Four-Position Foundation Registration Unification Blessing, the liberation of
ancestors and the Blessing of ancestors, the time has now come to open and
enlarge the history of goodness.
Now is the time when all the people on the earth can be cleansed of their fallen
nature and be reborn into the state before the Fall. Now, when the spiritual and
physical worlds are changing and developing at the same time, all must go out
and witness to True Parents and teach the Divine Principle, in order that all
people on the earth may go to the Kingdom of Heaven.
In order for all mankind to be Blessed and enter the Kingdom of Heaven, the
numbers of Absolute Good Spirits must be increased. It is important that members
take this responsibility to further the progress of the Providence of
Restoration.
No evil spirit can invade an Absolute Good Spirit. Evil spirits cannot bear to
look at the bright light shining from an Absolute Good Spirit. But Absolute Good
Spirits can see evil spirits and are able to drag them out of earthly people’s
bodies. Now, as Absolute Good Spirits are descending to the earth, evil spirits
are loosing their ground upon which to be active. Evil spirits have misled good
people whose spiritual senses are partially open by coming to them in the
disguise of a good spirit and leading them astray. To prevent members from being
misled the evil spirits who are cleared from their bodies are made into Absolute
Good Spirits. No one can be misled once all five spiritual senses are completely
open, but this will be possible only after the evil spirits are cleared out
completely and the person is united with the heart of God and True Parents. For
this reason all members must work hard to become spiritually clean and unite
with God and True Parents’ realm of heart. This is the way we will prevent the
divisions that plague Christians, who, although they believe in the same Jesus,
divided into denominations and became enemies.
In order to build one family under God with our True Parents members must clear
up this potential problem so that no one will come pretending to be this or
that.
True Parents are on the earth, but they are in the spiritual world as well. When
you go to the Kingdom of Heaven you can see True Parents sitting beside the
throne of God. This is how all the spirits could accept True Parents as the
Messiah. Only the people dwelling on the earth don’t know this well because
they see True Parents strictly from a humanistic standpoint.
When the participants in Heung Jin Nim’s training go and visit True Parents in
the spiritual world they get to meet the smiling, loving True Parents. True
Parents are eternal beings who can travel freely between the earth and Heaven.
Only on the earth are people still ignorant of the value of True Parents; this
makes me truly so sad. I am so happy and grateful to live with the eternal True
Parents. On earth members trapped in their busy daily schedules may sometimes
forget about True Parents. Here, no matter what they cannot forget the eternal
value of True Parents.
Ancestor
Liberation Ceremony and the Spirit World Workshop
After you register for the ancestor liberation ceremony, Dae Mo Nim looks
through the list of ancestors and mobilizes angels and Absolute Good Spirits to
seek them out in the spirit world. Sometimes the spirits are found dwelling in
the physical bodies of people on the earth, sometimes they are simply staying
somewhere in the spirit world, and sometimes they are found wandering about the
earth as ghosts. Searching for them is like looking at a distant place through a
telescope. When we track down ancestors through a person’s lineage it is like
checking the person’s genes.
A few years ago we would call the spirits over here to liberate their
resentments. However, because the evil spirit world is becoming stronger and
stronger we now must go and grab hold of them and directly bring them to Cheong
Pyeong to make sure we have accurately found the right ancestors.
During the ancestor liberation ceremony the ancestors first wait to meet with
their descendants on the earth. Then a shaft of light shines down on them from
Heaven and they ascend to the spirit world, guided up that beam of light by
angels. Then the evil spirits who were separated during the 2-day workshop and
the ancestors liberated through the ceremony go together to the place in the
spirit world where they will attend the training.
They approach the training center through the gate of the spirit world located
between the Middle-Level Spirit World and Paradise. They enter the training
center and then register for the 100-day workshop.
After my words of greeting they receive an explanation about the significance of
the 100-day workshop and its schedule. In the first lectures I explain to them
concretely what each of them looks like and why, and then I let them see their
spirit selves. These spirits never had the chance or the interest to observe
their appearance closely. They never lived in an environment where they could
see themselves with their own eyes. In the workshop they are shocked to see what
they look like. Some cry out when they discover how strange they look. What they
see when they look at their own body is their actual life on earth. Also, they
learn clearly where in the spirit world they will go for their dwelling-place.
After I let the ancestors see themselves in this way I take them on a tour of
the whole spirit world, from Heaven to the bottom of hell. Next, I let them find
their rightful dwelling-places as determined by their spiritual state.
As they travel downward towards the lower regions of the spirit world closer to
hell the landscape becomes rougher, with high walls and ditches. Because the
surroundings are dark, the spirits have a hard time finding their rightful
dwellings even though they might in fact be close by.
In fact, most of the ancestors never had a chance to reach their proper
dwelling-places in the spirit world after they left the earth. Often an evil
spirit captured them as soon as they died. Hence, for many of them it was their
first time to actually visit their due home in the spirit world.
Next, I let them feel how painful it is to stay in their dwellings. I leave them
alone there until they see that there is no way they could continue living in
such a place. I wait until they repent and make a heart-felt pledge after
realizing for themselves how wayward their lives on earth were. Then I call them
again to the spirit world workshop.
After this process I gather them together and give them serious Divine Principle
lectures. These lectures are different from those on the earth. The participants
can actually see the scenes played out and know the real situations as they
happened. Hence, the participants can understand more deeply than people on
earth who hear the lectures.
The first lectures are “The Principle of Creation” and “The Fall of
Humankind,” which I teach. I tell them, “When God was creating human beings
and the natural world He worked full of hope and joy. God created the natural
world so that He could enjoy watching His children rejoicing as they took loving
dominion over nature. God created each creature in the Garden of Eden with His
children in mind.” As I lecture on the process of creation a screen on the
side of the stage shows actual scenes from God’s creation of Heaven and earth.
Through watching these images the participants can understand in depth how much
love God invested as He created human beings and all of nature. When I ask the
participants after the presentation if they had felt God’s heart of creation,
they all reply, “Yes.” When I then remark that they had no idea about
God’s loving heart in their earthly life, and pronounce that their life of
ignorance was itself a great sin, they all nod and begin deep prayers of
repentance.
As I continue with the lecture on the Fall of Humankind moving images of the
actual fall are displayed on the screen beside the stage. The participants first
see how Lucifer in his excessive desire felt more and more lack of love, how
Lucifer led Eve to fall, and how Eve tempted Adam. They observe the spirit world
and the earth becoming darker and darker after the fall of Adam and Eve, and how
the sinful world came into being.
The participants then watch how, after the fall of Adam and Eve, their
descendants inherited the fallen nature of Satan and committed sins. They see
that as the lineage expanded its nature grew more and more evil. They witness
the evil lineage from the false parents being passed down, as the sins of their
ancestors were passed down, and then see how this caused the descendants to add
still more sins of their own. The participants can see the entire process: sins
flowing down and they themselves inheriting the accumulated mass of sin. They
confirm their own evil nature and understand that they are the substantiation of
evil. Thereupon they break into tears and start cleansing their sins, making
effort to remove sin from every part of their body until their spirit self
shines with light.
The lecture goes on to explain how the world deviated from God and how hell came
into being. As the participants learn the process by which hell was formed they
reflect upon their life on earth. After they listen to the Principle of Creation
and the Fall of Humankind they can recollect 80 percent of their memories of
life on earth through their reflections. If the lecturer can create the right
atmosphere, they can recall 100 percent. In those memories they also see how
their sins and fallen natures were passed down to their own offspring. As they
comprehend that they have caused their descendants to suffer with pain in the
sinful world they begin to weep in bitter repentance.
After the participants wash away their sins through the lecture series, I let
them go out to find the dwelling-places that would be fitting to their new
spiritual state. They discover that their new homes are quite different from the
ones they had occupied before. They recognize that they are getting closer to
Heaven and gain new hope that they, too, can become Spirits of Absolute Goodness
who can enter Heaven.
Next, they listen to a lecture titled “Good and Evil,” which is presented by
President Kee Seuk Lee. This lecture clarifies the meaning of “absolute
goodness” and the meaning of evil. In it the participants learn how evil
became stronger with the passage of time. They learn that from the Principle
perspective there was not a trace of evil in the world of God’s original
creation. Evil emerged only after the fall of Adam and Eve. Therefore, evil
itself cannot be absolute. Ultimately the world can only end in absolute
goodness. Nevertheless, evil emerged after the fall of Adam and Eve and grew
greater and greater with time as evil nature and sin were passed down to
generation after generation of their descendants. They see how the power of evil
became greater than the power of goodness. Then they learn how the situation
changed after the True Parents were born on the earth as the Second Coming of
the Messiah. True Parents have prepared a foundation of victory and a heavenly
environment that can move both earth and the spirit world centered on God’s
absolute goodness.
During this series of lectures the screen on side of the stage shows the world
of goodness and the world of evil, as well as how sins are passed down from
ancestors to descendants. When the participants see such scenes they reflect on
how they passed on sin and suffering to their own descendants, and they repent.
They realize that there is no way for them to enter Heaven unless they first
change themselves into Spirits of Absolute Goodness. They recognize that as long
as they have even a spot of sin they will never be able to stand before God.
Therefore, once again they try hard to find their sins and cleanse themselves.
After this I again let them go and find their proper dwellings. After seeing
that they have ascended to better places they work even harder to cleanse their
sins, separate evil spirits, and remove their fallen nature, so that they may
become Spirits of Absolute Goodness. They begin to offer their deepest gratitude
to God and True Parents for giving them such grace.
Next come the series of lectures on the Principle of Restoration taught by
President Hyo Won Eu. These are lectures on the Providence of Restoration
centering on Adam’s family, Noah’s family, Abraham’s family, and Moses and
Jesus’ life courses. Here participants can understand deeply how the central
figures of the Providence of Restoration failed to fulfill their
responsibilities and thus extended the Providence. These events are again shown
as actual scenes on the side screen. The participants reflect back on their own
lives to see whether they committed similar mistakes and failures. This is
another occasion for them to reflect and repent as they work to cleanse their
sins.
As the workshop progresses and more sins are cleansed the participants gain
greater hope to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Therefore, they invest more effort
to participate in the workshop. The spirits offer glory and thanksgiving to True
Parents for revealing to them such a tremendous truth.
Then follows a lecture on “True Parents’ Life Course,” taught by President
Cheong Goo (Tiger) Park. He explains that True Parents came to earth but had to
experience pain and loneliness due to the betrayal by Christianity. He describes
to the participants that even after True Father was sent to the Heungnam death
camp, he continually comforted God, offered thanks for the blessings that God
would give him after his imprisonment, expressed his determination to move
forward despite any difficulties and persecution, and asked God to forgive his
persecutors. President Park goes on to explain how True Father set each
condition of indemnity and exposed the facts about Satan, how he discovered the
Principle, and how he searched for his disciples to build God’s nation on
earth. He also goes into depth on True Father’s sermons, his Holy Wedding, and
several providential events in the present Completed Testament Age. All this is
displayed as images on the side screen.
Through these presentations, the participants learn to offer thanks for God’s
deep grace and love in sending True Parents on the earth to build the Kingdom of
Heaven on earth. They also repent for being so ignorant about this aspect of
God’s heart.
Further Divine Principle lectures on “Eschatology and Human History,”
“Resurrection,” “Predestination,” and “Christology” are taught by
those who were Divine Principle lecturers or church leaders during their earthly
life. They received special training to be the lecturers in my workshop.
All participants go through these Divine Principle lectures and watch the moving
images on the screen. They see and understand the actual events and situations
in history. They take this opportunity to reflect on their sinfulness and wash
away their sins with repentance. As they strive to reach the standard of
absolute goodness they confirm how much they have changed. They go through this
curriculum over and over, each time gaining more hope to enter the Kingdom of
Heaven. This curriculum is indeed extremely effective and good for the spirit
people.
After completing a period of 100 days in the workshop at the training center in
the spirit world the spirits come back down to the Cheong Pyeong Heaven and
Earth Training Center to receive the Blessing. They arrive there having removed
all their sins except the Original Sin. Their Original Sin is removed through
the Holy Wine Ceremony at the Blessing Ceremony, and when this is done they
become Spirits of Absolute Goodness. They have gone through the ancestor
liberation ceremony, education in the spirit world workshop and the Blessing to
become Spirits of Absolute Goodness. This means that they are restored into the
lineage of God and True Parents.
Spirits of Absolute Goodness do not have even a spot of sin. Therefore, Satan
and evil spirits cannot approach them; much less tempt them back to their realm
under Satan’s rule. The appearance of these Absolute Good Spirits is truly
bright and beautiful. Their fragrance is deep and lovely. Such spirits can
attend True Parents, and when True Parents open the heavenly gates they will
enter Kingdom of Heaven together with True Parents.
After these Spirits of Absolute Goodness receive the Blessing on the earth they
return to the training center in the spirit world to go through a 40-day True
Family Education Workshop. This time Mr. Ho Cheol Shin gives the lectures.
The True Family Education Workshop is the time when the participating spirits
learn about the great value of the Blessing they have received from True Parents
and how to lead a life of attendance to God and True Parents. They are informed
about their descendants on earth—what kind of life they live, their problems
and sufferings. They are given the opportunity to study the situations and sins
of their descendants in detail. They receive practical education on the natures
of the evil spirits who infest the bodies of their descendants and what they
should do to take control of these evil spirits. As they learn their
descendants’ situations they become more serious, because those descendants
who liberated them and gave them the chance to receive the Blessing still suffer
from the influences of evil spirits. They become anxious that something terrible
might happen to them.
During the True Family Education Workshop the ancestors also learn about the
difficult and suffering course that True Parents went through to indemnify the
sins of humanity. They learn the importance of fulfilling their responsibilities
in accordance with the timing of True Parents’ providence. They also receive
education about the actual responsibilities of Spirits of Absolute Goodness in
connection with the missions of Tongban Kyukpa (Grassroots Breakthrough) and
Tribal Messiahship, and for the safe settlement of the Cheon Il Guk. They learn
how to wash away the sins of their descendants and change the world to build the
Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
These Absolute Good Spirits then return to the earth to help their descendants
break free from the dominion of evil spirits over their minds and bodies, and to
make their earthly life into that of an ideal family living in accordance with
heavenly fortune and the will of God. They guide their descendants to contribute
to God, to the whole Unification Family, and to humanity. They also help them to
establish God and True Parents’ tradition of the Four Great Realms of Heart
and the Three Great Kingships centered upon the ideal of creation and the will
of God. This tradition fosters true families that are based upon the eternal
true love of husband and wife, and such families in turn become the foundation
for building the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in Heaven.
Absolute Good Spirits work together with the angels to help Blessed Families
separate from evil spirits, so that they may break free of the suffering due to
the dominion of evil spirits. When they return to their descendants they realize
that what they learned about their descendants’ lives at the training center
was true. They become serious to help their descendants rid themselves of sin
and fallen nature. They worry that their descendants might commit a serious
mistake during this time when Satan and his evil spirits are doing their last
evil works. Therefore, they offer their utmost effort to help their descendants.
The ancestors are very sincere about fulfilling their responsibility to cleanse
their descendants’ sins, which, as they learned during the workshop in the
spiritual world, were passed down from ancestors like themselves. They sincerely
want to help their descendants to overcome their problems. Although they don’t
have a body, they want to work with their descendants as if they were their
body. They want to enable them to live according to the way of citizens of the
Kingdom of Heaven, and through this to build the Kingdom of Heaven.
In this New Age that is being opened through the grace and love of True Parents
all Blessed Couples must unite with True Parents by living the way of absolute
faith, absolute love and absolute obedience.
Changes
Since the Coronation of God’s Kingship
True Parents have demonstrated to us their heart of filial piety through
offering the Coronation of God’s Kingship based upon their hard life-long
course of indemnity conditions. After Adam and Eve’s fall Satan raised so many
barriers to make the world completely his own. No one could surmount them. Only
True Parents made the indemnity conditions that could conquer them. Through
their declarations and rallies all the barriers were released. Knowing the heart
of God and knowing the misery of life in this sinful world, True Parents worked
extremely hard to restore this evil world and establish the environment of the
Kingdom of Heaven.
Up until now evil was stronger than goodness. Therefore, strong and evil people
were more prosperous. But now, in these times after the God’s Coronation, the
side of absolute good will be the wining side because the Spirits of Absolute
Goodness are working on the earth. Hence, from now on, if you live centered on
the standard of absolute goodness, the way of the Divine Principle, you will
prosper. God Himself will work on behalf of His children who have separated
themselves from their sins, and He is determined to free them from sickness and
misery.
Up until now the earth spiritually looked completely dark because of the sins
that covered it. But ever since the Coronation of God’s Kingship God has been
free to go down to the earth. Traveling back and forth between earth and Heaven,
God works in person to illuminate both worlds.
Since the fall of Adam and Eve the children created by God have suffered, unable
to connect to God. Because of their sins walls have been blocking all the
different levels of the spiritual world. Now, because of True Parents’
authority, and based upon their victories step by step, these walls have been
broken down. As a result the original minds of people in the spiritual world and
the physical world can have a base to respond to God’s heart. Their response
is to repent of their personal sins and cleanse themselves of evil. Thus, the
meaning of the Coronation of God’s Kingship is that now God’s light of love
is reaching out to the whole cosmos.
True Parents said, “Everyone must go toward the era of heavenly blessing upon
the accomplishment of God’s Coronation, the Registration Blessing, and the
settlement of the unified Blessing in Heaven and earth centered on the
relationship of brothers and as the family of unchanging filial children.”
Therefore, now is the time of worldwide brotherhood. Going beyond national
boundaries, everyone must become brothers to one another. Therefore, the Blessed
Central Families must protect the nation of God, the family of God and the
kingship of God. We must be resolved to settle the Cheon Il Guk nation on the
earth.
All this will be accomplished. I am organizing all the saints and sages centered
on the One Religion in Heaven and earth. Together they go the same direction
centered on the teaching of True Parents based on the ideal of the family of
God.
Since the Coronation Ceremony God can use His almighty, omnipresent, and
omnipotent power. All the world’s organizations will come under the power of
God. Satan’s world is surrendering before God’s omnipotent, almighty, and
omnipresent power.
In the spiritual world there are no more clear demarcations of nationality or
religion. No one can speak anymore of their religion or their sovereignty, as
all is coming under God’s ideal. The satanic world is submitting to True
Parents since only the True Parents, who are in the absolute object position to
God, can have the authority of God. Those authorities or sovereignties that do
not submit to God and True Parents will decline or collapse.
Now the time of indemnity is passing. The time is coming when the authority of
God’s law will govern. From now on, there is no latitude to overlook your
transgressions. The time is coming when you will be judged immediately. In order
to become the citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, you must keep a pure lineage,
not violate human rights, and never steal other people’s things or take public
money. Your way of life must only be to live with true love.
To become the good object partners of God and True Parents we must remove all
the evil spirits from our bodies. Then we can be reborn as absolutely good
people who can attend True Parents as their absolute object partners. To
transform this evil world into the world of original goodness, God Himself must
be able to directly manifest His almighty power. Now that the True Parents have
offered the Coronation of God’s Kingship, God can reveal Himself to humanity.
God has waited so long for this time. At such a time as this we must understand
that God is alive and working, and live our life in such a way that God’s
almighty power can move in us. We must make effort to build the happy and
peaceful Cheon Il Guk nation through living with absolute faith, absolute love
and absolute obedience.
Honorable and precious True Parents, I am truly grateful to you for establishing
order among the spirits and creating Absolute Good Spirits. You created the
absolute good lineage. As you have allowed Cheon Il Guk national citizenship
cards to be issued to the members on the earth, please allow the Blessed Couples
in the spiritual world who are Absolute Good Spirits to also receive them.
Everything accomplished up until now has been done only because of the blessings
given by True Parents. I was so moved when I saw how True Parents comforted God
by conducting the Ceremony of the Coronation of God’s Kingship. We also want
to do our best to love both the spiritual and physical worlds and show True
Parents’ heart of filial piety toward God. As I become more and more deeply
aware that we are the fruit of True Parents’ blood, sweat and tears, I know
what attitude I should have to go this way.
I will make more effort to expand the Kingdom of Heaven to the worldwide level.
After clearing up the evil spirits in the spiritual world based on the victory
of the True Parents, I, with the Absolute Good Spirits in the spiritual world
and on the earth will take responsibility to establish the Cheon Il Guk nation.
I will build the Original Palace of the True Parents, and then I will offer the
Coronation of True Parents’ Kingship and liberate the True Parents. I will
work hard so they may rest comfortably after having gone through such a
difficult indemnity course. I will do my best together with all the Blessed
Couples in the spiritual world and on the earth to fulfill this.
Together with Young Jin, Hee Jin and Hye Jin; and Dae Mo Nim, Choon Mo Nim and
Dae Hyung Nim, my direct relatives in the spiritual world; the four great
religious founders, saints and sages, and all absolute Blessed Couples, we will
work hard together and fulfill our responsibility.
True Parents, please trust us, rest comfortably, and take care of your health.
–
Offered by unworthy Heung Jin at the Cheong Pyeong Training Center, January 1,
2002