Humanism (Relativism)

The most dangerous ideology today is Humanism.
We live in an age of Ideological War and the philosophy we have to combat and overcome is that of Humanism.

"Humanism is not only the biggest evil in the world, but it is also the most deceptive of all religious philosophies."- Homar Dankan

People often ask, what exactly is 'Humanism'. Well, Divine Principle is very clear. Humanism is a product of our Physical Mind; it expanded as a Cain-type ideology. After Satan left Communism his power moved totally in the secular culture of Humanism and Relativism that destroyed morality and the foundation of the family in the last half of the century. It is vitally important to reveal the true satanic nature of humanism and overcome it ideologically with the truth.

As Tim La Hay wrote in his book, Battle for the mind, "Most of the evil in the world today can be traced to humanism, which took over governments, United Nations, education, television and other most influential fields in life." Humanism controls the society today by a network of organizations - humanistic associations, education, trade unions, pro-sex programs, universities, porn magazines, even hospitals and the textbooks of our children. But how much are the aims of humanism beneficial for humanity? It turns out that the values they promote are extremely destructive to the family and society, and especially dangerous for our young people.

How secular Humanism infiltrates the minds of people

This becomes obvious when we check their main philosophical base expressed in the Humanist Manifesto:


1. Absolutely rejects traditional moral values - anyone who mentions what's wrong is considered evil and amoral.

2. They deny obedience to any authority, including parental, or belief in the authority of God.

3. Humanism promotes selfish-individualism - extreme individualism, as the highest good: It propagates that everyone can do what he wants to satisfy his momentary desires.

4. Humanism directly attacks marriage and the family.

The conclusion of the "humanist manifesto" is that the freedom of any kind of sexuality should be allowed: Including same sex relations, sex outside marriage, sex with many partners, or sex with small children and animals. At the same time Humanism's aim is that "the family" should be denied as an outdated and unnecessary unit.

Origin and Nature of Humanism

From Divine Principle viewpoint Humanism is the reversal of all God's principles. It sounds nice and has seemingly good aims for a better world, but it puts Object over Subject (Wife over Husband; Children before Parent; Students over Teachers); humanism is putting the external and horizontal over the internal and vertical. Why do humanists do that? Remember, Humanism is a product of the Physical Mind; same as the Physical Mind reversed the dominion over the Spiritual Mind. Humanism puts Materialism, Individualism (individual human interests) above Spirituality and God (purpose of the whole).
Thus it violates all Principle laws; attacking any attempt to restore the correct principle priorities.

Moreover, Humanism is the Ideological expression of the Four Fallen Natures. Why? Physical Mind can never see from God's view point, no matter how much it tries - only Spiritual Mind can do that. Thus people led by their Physical Mind naturally go against God's will even when they want to follow it. Physical Mind left it's position as an object to the Spiritual Mind and reversed dominion over it, which is the root of the Second and Third Fallen Natures; Leaving ones position and reversing dominion.

The Physical Mind constantly suppresses the Spirit Mind's desires and rejects them as evil by multiplying evil thoughts and philosophy instead. Humanism is the philosophical expression of these fallen natures. Here we come to understand why even people who are lead by their Physical Mind end up becoming Humanistic, putting External values over the Internal ones;
We should understand that this is only natural consequence of being lead by the Physical Mind. So people should quickly develop their Spiritual Mind. Only then can God work through them.

A real ideological battle is carried out today in the minds of our youth.

Most people have not even heard about the existence of a "humanist Manifesto, and yet, young people are brainwashed with the propaganda of secular Humanism. They literally quote the above points which humanism is based on.

Humanists deny God and raise these materialistic, atheistic, immoral values which are dangerous for the young people of today.
Humanists also deny faith in God, faith in family, in true love and moral values.
They criticize Christian denominations as sects threatening to deceive our children with moral values, while they themselves can without opposition pervert our children with immorality, individualism and free sex.
They penetrate everywhere, even in our homes, schools, movies and the literature we read ...

We live in a really absurd society where good and evil are literally turned upside down.

Today, religions have little real impact in the lives of young people, although in fact they teach good moral values.

Humanism, as rust, destroys families and corrodes our marriages and the morals of our children and Nation.

When will we open our eyes to reality? The most dangerous sect that actually destroys the foundations of faith is the sect of secular Humanism - relativism, which bombards us from everywhere and enters our minds, our lives, our families and communities.

Humanists literally controls television, media, art, fashion, schools ... massively brainwashing our children. We are not free. Our children go to schools encountering violence, drugs, anti-moral propaganda ... Humanism is the most dangerous religion of today. It is a sect - an ideology that undisturbed propagates into all aspects of our society. And the world is still blind to its satanic and destructive influence.

Note: The first Humanist Manifesto was written in 1933 and directly denies the moral values. The Second Humanist Manifesto criticizes this approach and calls for mass propagation of humanist values and immorality by any means; even through
books about God and faith. Only in the 1990's a book revealed the scale of the propaganda activities drawn by Hollywood Productions. This happened after some of the Founders themselves had begun to realize the negative result of its influence.

This article reflects the views of the Unification Movement of Dr. Sun Myung Moon.
The main motive for the persecution and criticism towards him has been because of the key role he played in the fight against Communism, a God-denying ideology.

WHAT IS UNIQUE AND DISTINCTIVE ABOUT REVEREND MOON'S TEACHINGS

WHAT IS UNIQUE AND DISTINCTIVE ABOUT REVEREND MOON'S TEACHINGS

Reverend Moon tells us he received the Divine Principle by revelation through hours of intense prayer and scriptural study over a period of seven years. With a Christian background, raised in the Korean culture of Confucianism and Buddhism, with academic studies in electrical engineering, Reverend Moon was in a unique position to bring to the world a religious revelation that combined the wisdom of East and West, the scientific and the mystical.


A theologian remarked: "Divine Principle humanizes God and divinizes man."



Divine Principle Humanizes God.
Divine Principle reveals God as first and foremost as a God of heart and loving parent who created human beings to be the object of His love. God is all powerful, and all knowing but, he is "humanized" because according to Divine Principle, God cannot be happy and complete without the reciprocal love of His children. Due to humankind's separation from God at the human fall, people did not become His full objects of love and the ideal world planned was not realized. God needs human beings in order to experience joy through receiving love from His children. As a loving parent, He suffers greatly at the separation from His children and works ceaselessly behind the events of history to bring man back to Him and to realize ideal world He originally planned.

Divine Principle Divinizes Man and Woman.
The Divine Principle teaches that God’s original plan is that all men and women are to be sons and daughters of God just as Jesus was God's son. If Adam and Eve had not fallen, all men and women would have been of the same perfection as Jesus. God works for the day when all people will naturally develop to be “perfect as the Heavenly Father is perfect.” God's original plan for each person to become a perfected son or daughter of God will be realized through a spiritual reformation that taking place during this time in history.

The First Theology and Biblical Interpretation to Place the Family at the Center
From beginning to the end, God’s originally planned ideal, humanity's fall from grace, and our struggle to reconnect with God and the ultimate realization of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, all revolve around the family, according to Reverend Moon. The Divine Principle’s interpretation of the Judeo-Christian scriptures reveals a repeated pattern of family restoration, beginning from Genesis and ending with the prophecies of the Book of Revelation. The first human couple, Adam and Eve, departed from God because they failed to connect themselves to God not only as individuals but also as a married couple who were to create a family centered on God. Therefore, after this fall from God, God worked to restore not individuals but families back to Himself, beginning with Cain and Abel in Adam's family and then on the families of Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses and finally Jesus. In fact, according the Divine Principle, all of God’s providential work in history is to establish one God-centered family; such a family is the foothold that will turn the world around.

Divine Principle Is Uniquely Comprehensive.
The Divine Principle gives explanations of the traditional categories of theology including Christology, Trinity, the nature of God and His relation to mankind, the origin of evil, the Last Days and predestination. It also explains what kind of ideal society God originally planned, gives an interpretation of the primary events in the Old and New Testament, and explains how God has been working in history since Jesus time up to today. Based on events in the Bible, the Divine Principle explains God’s original ideal, the cause of the fall from God, and the process of restoration back to God including the precise historical laws and principles God uses in history to bring back people to God. These laws of restoration and indemnity operate in the lives of all the central persons and families in Biblical history and post-biblical history from Jesus to modern times. The Divine Principle also provides a detailed historical explanation of how God has been guiding events from Jesus' time until today and God's plan today to realize His original ideal world.

Divine Principle Elevates the Position and Importance of Women.
By showing that God is a being of dual characteristics of masculinity and femininity, the Divine Principle states that a man is a complete reflection of God only when he is united in marriage with a woman, and vice versa. Secondly, in Reverend Moon's understanding of the key Biblical figures, restoration takes place in the family, not just centered on the victories of an individual man, which means that the role of women is equally important.

Divine Principle Distinctively Reveals a Suffering God Who as Our Parent Grieves Deeply Over Our Fallen,Tragic Lives.
A hallmark of the Divine Principle is the revelation that God is above all our Parent and as our Parent He is a God of suffering, experiencing untold grief since the human fall, which brought about a world where God's children live in a Hell on earth of fighting, sin, injustice, poverty and destruction.

Divine Principle Is a Theology Consonant with the Latest Scientific Knowledge.
The Divine Principle declares that the time of blind faith has ended and in this modern age people can only accept a religious teaching that is logical and in harmony with scientific knowledge. Those who listen to the Divine Priniciple are struck by its logical explanations, its internal consistencies, and its compatibility with modern science.

The Divine Principle Harmonizes the Wisdom and Thought of Oriental Religions with the Wisdom and Thought of the West’s Central Religion, Christianity.
Prominent scholars of history such as Arnold Toynbee predicted that the new world culture will be a combination of the Oriental and the Western. Teachings such as Divine Priniciple that harmonize both traditions are essential for future of the a unified and peaceful world.

The Divine Principle States That God's Will Has Not Been Accomplished Due to Humankind's Failure to Fulfill Their Responsibility.
According to the Divine Priniciple, God has always fulfilled His part to make a world of goodness, but human beings have been ignorant and negligent of our responsibilty; therefore, the world is not yet the world God has planned from the beginning. We must understand who we are, separate ourselves from Satan, and restore this world back to God.

True Parents Is a Unique Concept of the Divine Principle.
For the Divine Principle, the "be all and end all" is for people to become "True Parents." A True Parent is a man or woman one with God in heart and mind who has matured to established a God-centered family and who can love others as our Heavenly Parent God loves others. Unificationists see Reverend and Mrs. Moon as the first True Parents of humankind and the couple who has pioneered the way for all humankind to become True Parents. A world where every adult is a True Parent would be a world without selfishness and sin, with no need for armies or police.

The Divine Principle Concept of the Messiah Is Unique.
Reverend Moon teaches that all men and women should become messiahs, that is, persons who are one in mind and body with God. He teaches that spouses are to be the “messiahs” to each other and that children are to be the messiahs to their parents, because through loving family relationships our hearts are perfected. He encourages followers to be tribal messiahs, bringing their relatives to God, and to be national messiahs, bringing their nations to God.

The Kingdom of Heaven on Earth Will Be Established Substantially on Earth at This Time.
Similar to Jewish teachers, Reverend Moon believes that the Messiah comes to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. We are not to wait until we die to experience God and heaven. In fact, today is the time when God is bringing everything together to make His kingdom a reality.

WHAT SCHOLARS SAY ABOUT THE TEACHINGS OF SUN MYUNG MOON

Rev. Sun Myung Moon:
His Teachings


HIS LIFE HIS TEACHINGS HIS FAMILY HIS WORKS
WHAT SCHOLARS SAY ABOUT HIS TEACHINGS: THE DIVINE PRINCIPLE
Dr. Warren Lewis, Religious scholar and author, US
Those who have eyes to see beneath the Christian tractarian surface of Moon’s book, the Divine Principle, have already detected this indigenous unificationism at work. His doctrine of the “Four-Position Foundation” is in some respects a metaphysical expansion of the central Confucian ethical construct. His doctrine of the Lord of the Second Advent is perhaps an ingenious recycling of the Buddhist notion of transmigration of souls, eschatologically reinterpreted to become a transmigration of providential office or function. His doctrine of “indemnity” is probably a historicized, communalize version of the pan-oriental notion of Karma. Moon’s version of Christian Shinto is remarkably similar to our own American Civil Religion. His revisioning of “ancestor worship” is a highly-nuanced rendition of the communio sanctorum. His understanding of God incorporates the yin-yang of Taoism and moves from there to the assertion that God is both male and female, spirit and logos. Moon, I do not hesitate to say, is at least the Tertullian of the Orient. He is one who, to parody Harnack’s phrase, accomplished for the first time in a thoroughly consistent fashion (if we exclude Kanzo Uchimura) the “acute Orientalization of the Christian Gospel.”

Dr. Thomas Boslooper, Member of the Dutch Reformed Church in the United States, former Professor of Biblical Studies at the Unification Theological Seminary, USA
As I read the Divine Principle and come into contact with the Unification Church, the thought occurred to me over the period of a year that the formation and development of Unification Theology in the heart and mind of Reverend Sun Myung Moon signals the most radical, powerful and constructive force for the future of biblical studies since the Protestant Reformation.
I say this because one of the principal charges against Reverend Moon and the Unification Theology is that it is not Christian, that it is not true to the word of God and that members of the Unification Church never read the Bible. The truth is that the Unification Movement is very authentically Christian, so much so that it frightens people who like to be Christian but know in their hearts that they really are not. The members of the Unification Church as I have observed so far, are as serious students of the Bible as I have ever encountered anywhere.

Dr. Shuki Ben-Ami, Dean, Emil Frank Institute, Jerusalem
My life starts with the Bible and ends with the Bible. I think of the Bible. I dream of the Bible. There are no coincidences in life. When I was eight years old I came across a book of scriptures and it had other books in it than ours did. My father said not to read it, because it’s not our book. But I opened it up and read the genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham. My name is Joshua. It has the same meaning as the name Jesus. My father is David. His father is Abraham. I said, ‘This is my book.’ I don’t have an Old Testament and a New Testament. I have a Bible. Now, because of Father Moon, I don’t have an Old Testament, a New Testament, and a Divine Principle. I have one holy book.

Dr. Richard Quebedeaux, Religious scholar and author, US
The "power" of the Principle derives from its relational character, its ability--when properly understood and practiced--to transform people, and to radically change their relationship to God, to others, and to their own "true selves." Everyone wants to be loved, to be taken care of, in concrete, tangible ways they can actually experience. They long for peace, for harmony; but the world, in its present, fallen state, does not exhibit these desired qualities. Rather, people are divided and estranged from one another almost everywhere. Centered only on themselves, they are resentful when they cannot get what they want; and they resent the success of other, "more powerful" people who have attained what they themselves covet, and won't share it with them. In Rev. Moon's thinking, resentment is the root cause of all human conflict. Resentment leads to the desire for revenge, and it results in division, warfare and exclusion, rather than reconciliation and peace. Those who attain power use it only for themselves and their own self-interests. For all practical purposes, then, everyone else can go to hell. Rev. Moon, however, has a different approach to power. In the Unification system, power is extremely important. This is why he wants to train all his followers to become leaders. But the source of Rev. Moon's type of power resides in self-sacrifice rather than self-aggrandizement. Here power to change people and their social relations is based on the love of God (God's "heart"), which is not "self-centered love," but, rather, the motivation to love others in ways they can fully experience in their day-to-day lives. Leaders are to earn power by being good. Goodness, then, is the practice of love for others, even one's enemies.

Dr. Herbert Richardson, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
The Unification Church is an authentic Christian group, although it is somewhat novel in its combination of elements. It is Calvinist, Catholic, and Wesleyan. It is a unification all three traditions. Moreover, although its strong emphasis on the family comes from its oriental background, such a family emphasis is also found in Horace Bushnell. I myself fail to see why we should be so antagonistic to this group or so eager to condemn them as heretical. The UnificationChurch is both more orthodox and more creative in dealing with scriptures and the Christian tradition than many other contemporary churches. We should rejoice in its fervor and be glad to learn from its theology. (author’s emphasis)

Joseph H. Fichter, S.J., Late Sociologist of Religion, Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana, US
It is a commonplace observation that the family is the moral basis of society, and that religion constitutes the moral bond of family solidarity. Slogans abound in praise of family life. The family that prays together stays together. The moral level of a community reflects the moral level of its families. The Unification ideology emphasizes the centrality of the family in maintaining a religious culture and in transmitting a spiritual tradition. We may well conclude here with the remark by Harvey Cox: “Here is a movement which manages to combine religious universality, Pentecostal immediacy, a warmly supportive family and a program for allegedly building the kingdom of God on earth. Such a potent admixture cannot be dismissed lightly.”

Prof. Dr. Paul Schwarzenau, Professor (emeritus) of Protestant Theology and
Comparative Religions, University of Dortmund, Germany
I have always been interested in certain ideas in the Divine Principle, which the Christian churches cannot afford to ignore. Irrespective of, or indeed because of my standpoint as a Protestant theologian, I am of the opinion that Christianity has reached a point at which it must further develop through a relationship with the great world religions and the great non-European cultural spheres. Christianity must find the courage to free itself from the limitations of the western cultural sphere.
According to the teaching of the distinguished psychologist C. G. Jung, Jesus appeared proclaiming the Kingdom of God, which should naturally dawn on earth, but his life ended on the cross and, instead of the Kingdom, arose the church and the separation between the church and the world. In the history of Christianity, there have been very few attempts to overcome this split. The Divine Principle, however, researches this in detail. According to the Principle, in the perfected universe, God is fully perfected and fulfilled only through perfected human beings. This is a theory of the Divine which at last accords with the dignity of man. Further, it is a theory appropriate for modern man, who is bound to partnership and democracy.
In each of us, as well as in the churches, there is a bit of "Second Coming," a subconscious striving for a more perfected philosophy of man, embracing both the spiritual and the physical realms. There is therefore a renewed emphasis on apocalyptic matters in today's churches. There is a search for the realisation not only of things spiritual, but also of the ideal, "as in heaven, so also on earth." In striving for such a reality, we could enter into brotherly dialogue with the Unification movement, by mutually stimulating each other and strengthening our powers of expectation.

Msgr. Antonio Jose Plaza, Archbishop of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
I understand that in a speech before the United States Congress, the fundamental point which the Reverend Moon emphasized was that without the help of God, there is no nation or society which can accomplish its goals. This is completely in accord with the eternal message of Catholicism.

M. Darrel Bryant, Religious scholar and author, US
The eschatological vision of the Divine Principle with its universality, its affirmation of a significant future, its inclusiveness in relation to science and other religions, its affirmation of the family and its determination to create a restore world should not be dismissed or lightly set aside. Rather, it should at least challenge Christian communities to rethink their eschatological commitments….
… regardless as to what is said in a negative way about the Christology of the Unification Church, Jesus Christ by them is regarded on a higher level, closer to their hearts, is much more in their minds and spirit than many Christians that I have known throughout my life who … affirm the traditional formulations on the person and work of Jesus Christ.
… In June, 1976, Reverend Moon, in speaking to the faculty of the seminary of which I am a member, said people often ask the question, “What is Reverend Moon doing or what is Reverend Moon trying to get people to do?” and Reverend Moon’s answer is that he is trying to get people to live the life of Jesus Christ.

Metropolitan Paulos Mar Gregorios, Former President, World Council of Churches
... when we work with you for the unity of humanity we stand on our own convictions and traditions, while sharing with you your great vision of God at the center of all and an all-embracing love for all humanity... We pledge, rooted in our own religious traditions, to work with you for the fulfillment of the will of God.

Irving Hexham, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary, Canada
Clearly, the Rev. Moon is a great religious visionary who ranks among the greatest religious figures of history. Clearly, he is a very gifted, far sighted, individual who has a keen sense of history and God’s providence.

Dr. Hycel Taylor, Senior Pastor, Second Baptist Church, Illinois, US
Rev. Sun Myung Moon: In the first instance, he is deserving of tribute because of his willingness to subject not only his theology to the scrutiny and criticism of other renowned religious scholars arid critics, but to subject his life to the inevitable castigation and controversy that attends such openness. He stands within the sacred tradition of Christ, Krishna, Confucius, Buddha, Mohammed, Gandhi, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. It is a hallowed tradition that is marked by great suffering and sacrifice.
In the second instance, he is deserving of tribute because he has produced an ideal paradigm to set a standard for the attaining of the original ideal state of the creation of humanity, namely, the state of spiritual oneness with God, oneness with the individual self, and oneness with others. In a world fraught with social fragmentation that has lead to the destruction of the family, a model of familial wholeness is itself healing to the despairing human heart….

Why People are not Happy

The Fundamental Reason why human beings are not happy

No matter what we do to find the happiness we are longing for, many times we end up being unhappy. Read more to know the fundamental reason for this situation.

Everyone is struggling to attain happiness and avoid misfortune. From the commonplace affairs of individuals to the great events that shape the course of history, each is at root an expression of the human aspiration for ever greater happiness. How, then, does happiness arise?

People feel joy when their desires are fulfilled. The word "desire," however, is often not understood in its original sense, because in the present circumstances our desires tend to pursue evil rather than good. Desires which result in injustice do not emanate from a person's original mind. The original mind is well aware that such desires lead to misfortune. Therefore, it repels evil desires and strives to follow the good. Even at the cost of their lives, people seek for the joy that can enrapture the original mind. This is the human condition: we grope along exhausting paths to cast off the shadow of death and search for the light of life.

Has anyone realized the joy in which the original mind delights by pursuing evil desires? Whenever such desires are sated, we feel unrest in our conscience and agony in our heart. Would a parent ever instruct his child to be evil? Would a teacher deliberately instill unrighteousness in his students? The impulse of the original mind, which everyone possesses, is to abhor evil and exalt goodness.

In the lives of religious people one can see an intense struggle to realize goodness by single-mindedly following the desires of the original mind. Yet since the beginning of time, not even one person has abided strictly by his original mind. As St. Paul noted, "None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands, no one seeks for God."1(Rom. 3:10-11)Confronted with the human condition, he lamented, "For I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self, but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am!"2(Rom. 7:22-24)

We find a great contradiction in every person. Within the self-same individual are two opposing inclinations: the original mind that desires goodness and the evil mind that desires wickedness. They are engaged in a fierce battle, striving to accomplish two conflicting purposes. Any being possessing such a contradiction within itself is doomed to perish. Human beings, having acquired this contradiction, live on the brink of destruction.

Can it be that human life originated with such a contradiction? How could beings with a self-contradictory nature come into existence? If burdened by such a contradiction from its inception, human life would not have been able to arise. The contradiction, therefore, must have developed after the birth of the human race. Christianity sees this state of destruction as the result of the human Fall.

Can anyone dispute that the human condition is fallen? When we realize the fact that, due to the Fall, we have arrived at the brink of self-destruction, we make desperate efforts to resolve the contradiction within. We repel the evil desires coming from our evil mind and embrace the good desires springing from our original mind.

Nevertheless, we have been unable to find the ultimate answer to the question: What is the nature of good and evil? We still do not have an absolute and definitive truth which can enable us to distinguish, for example, which of the two, theism or atheism, is good and which is evil. Furthermore, we remain entirely ignorant of the answers to such questions as: What is the original mind, the wellspring of good desires? What is the origin of the evil mind that incites evil desires in opposition to the original mind? What is the root cause of the contradiction that brings people to ruin? In order to ward off evil desires and follow good desires, we must overcome this ignorance and gain the ability to distinguish clearly between good and evil. Then we can take the path to the good life the original mind seeks.

Considered from the viewpoint of the intellect, the human Fall represents humanity's descent into ignorance. People are composed of two aspects: internal and external, or mind and body; likewise, the intellect consists of two aspects: internal and external. In the same way, there are two types of ignorance: internal ignorance and external ignorance.

Internal ignorance, in religious terms, is spiritual ignorance. It is ignorance of such questions as: What is the origin of human beings? What is the purpose of life? What happens after death? Do God and the next world exist? What is the nature of good and evil? External ignorance refers to ignorance of the natural world, including the human body. It is ignorance of such issues as: What is the origin of the physical universe? What are the natural laws governing all phenomena?

From the dawn of history until today, human beings have ceaselessly searched for the truth with which to overcome both types of ignorance and attain knowledge. Humanity through religion has followed the path of searching for internal truth, and through science has followed the path of seeking external truth. Religion and science, each in their own spheres, have been the methods of searching for truth in order to conquer ignorance and attain knowledge. Eventually, the way of religion and the way of science should be integrated and their problems resolved in one united undertaking; the two aspects of truth, internal and external, should develop in full consonance. Only then, completely liberated from ignorance and living solely in goodness in accord with the desires of the original mind, will we enjoy eternal happiness.

We can discern two broad courses in the search for solutions to the fundamental questions of human life. In the first, people have searched within the resultant, material world. Those who walk this path, believing it to be the supreme way, kneel before the glories of highly developed science. They take pride in its omnipotence and the material comforts it provides. Nevertheless, can we enjoy full happiness founded only upon external conditions that satisfy the flesh? The advance of science may create a comfortable social environment in which we can enjoy abundant wealth and prosperity, but can that alone truly gratify the spiritual desires of the inner self?

The passing joys of those who delight in the pleasures of the flesh are nothing compared to the bliss experienced by those on the path of enlightenment, who find joy in the midst of simple poverty. Gautama Buddha, who abandoned the luxuries of the royal palace and became enraptured in the pursuit of the Way, was not the only one who wandered about homeless while searching for his heart's resting place. Just as a healthy body depends upon a sound mind, so too the joy of the body is complete only when the mind is content.

What of the sailor who voyages on the sea of the material world under the sail of science in search of physical comforts? Let him reach the coast for which he longs. He eventually will come to realize that it is nothing more than the very graveyard where his body will be buried.

Where is science heading? Until now, scientific research has not embraced the internal world of cause; it has limited itself to the external world. It has not embraced the world of essence, but has limited itself to the world of phenomena. However, science today is entering a new phase. It is compelled to elevate its gaze from the external and resultant world of phenomena to the internal and causal world of essence. The scientific world has begun to recognize that science cannot achieve its ultimate goals without a theoretical explanation of the causal, spiritual world.

When the sailor, who has completed his voyage in search of external truth under the sail of science, adds another sail, the sail of religion, and embarks on a new voyage in search of internal truth, he finally will be headed toward the destination for which his original mind yearns.

The second course of human endeavor is the attempt to answer the fundamental questions about human life by transcending the resultant world of phenomena and searching in the world of essence. Undeniably, philosophies and religions which have pursued this path have made many contributions. Philosophers, saints and sages set out to pave the way of goodness for the people of their times. Yet so many of their accomplishments have become added spiritual burdens for the people of today.

Consider this objectively. Has any philosopher ever arrived at the knowledge that could solve humanity's deepest anguish? Has any sage ever clearly illuminated the path by resolving all the fundamental questions of human life and the universe? Have not their teachings and philosophies raised more unsettled questions, thus giving rise to skepticism?

Furthermore, the lights of revival which religions of every age cast upon the many souls who were groping in the darkness have faded with the onward flow of history. They have left only dim, sputtering wicks glimmering in the falling darkness.

Examine the history of Christianity. Professing the salvation of humankind, Christianity has expanded through a tumultuous history of two thousand years, extending its influence throughout the world in the present era. Yet what has become of the Christian spirit that once cast flames of life so brilliant that, despite the most brutal persecution by the Roman empire, Roman citizens were brought to their knees before the crucified Jesus? Medieval feudal society buried Christianity alive. Even though the Reformation raised high the torch of new life, its flame could not turn back the sweeping tide of darkness.

When ecclesiastic love waned, when waves of capitalistic greed surged across Christian Europe, when starving masses cried out bitterly in the slums, the promise of their salvation came not from heaven but from the earth. Its name was communism. Christianity, though it professed the love of God, had degenerated into a dead body of clergy trailing empty slogans. It was then only natural that a banner of rebellion would be raised, arguing that a merciless God who would allow such suffering could not exist. Hence, modern materialism was born. Western society became a hotbed of materialism; it was the fertile soil in which communism flourished.

Christianity lost the ability to equal the successes of either communism or materialism and failed to present the truth that could conquer their theories. Christians watched helplessly as these ideologies budded and thrived in their midst and expanded their influence all over the world. What a pity this is! What is more, although Christian doctrine teaches that all humanity descended from the same parents, many citizens of Christian nations who profess this doctrine will not even sit together with their brothers and sisters of different skin colors. This illustrates the actual situation of today's Christianity, which has lost much of the power to put the words of Jesus into practice. It has become a house of lifeless rituals, a whitewashed tomb.

There may come a day when human efforts bring an end to such social evils, but there is one social vice that human efforts alone can never eradicate. That is sexual immorality. Christian doctrine regards this as a cardinal sin. What a tragedy that today's Christian society cannot block this path of ruin down which so many people are rushing blindly! Christianity today has fallen victim to confusion and division, and it can only watch helplessly while countless lives are sucked into the maelstrom of immorality. This is evidence that conventional Christianity stands powerless to carry on God's providence to save humanity in this present age.

What is the reason that religious people, though earnestly searching for internal truth, have been unable to accomplish their God-given mission? The relationship between the world of essence and the world of phenomena can be compared to that between mind and body. It is a relationship of cause and result, internal and external, subject partner and object partner. Just as people attain perfection of character only when the mind and body are fully united, the two worlds of essence and phenomena must join in perfect harmony before the ideal world can be realized. As with the relationship between mind and body, so too the world of phenomena cannot exist apart from the world of essence, and the world of essence cannot exist apart from the world of phenomena. Accordingly, life after death is inseparably linked to life in this world. Spiritual joy is incomplete without genuine physical happiness.

Religions have made strenuous efforts to deny life in this world in their quest for the life eternal. They have despised the pleasures of the body for the sake of spiritual bliss. Yet however hard they may try, people cannot cut themselves off from the reality of this world or annihilate the desire for physical pleasures, which follows them like a shadow and cannot be shaken off. This world and its desires tenaciously grab hold of religious people, driving them into the depths of agony. Such is the contradiction which plagues their devotional lives. Even many enlightened spiritual leaders, still torn by this contradiction, have met a sad end. Herein is a principal cause for the inactivity and weakness of today's religions: they have not overcome this self-contradiction.

Another factor has fated religions to decline. In step with the progress of science, the human intellect has become highly sophisticated, requiring a scientific approach to understanding reality. The traditional doctrines of religions, on the other hand, are largely devoid of scientific explanations. That is to say, the current interpretations of internal truth and external truth do not agree.

The ultimate purpose of religion can be attained only when one first believes it in one's heart and then puts it into practice. However, without first understanding, beliefs do not take hold. For example, it is in order to understand the truth and thereby solidify our beliefs that we study holy scriptures. Likewise, it was to help the people understand that he was the Messiah, and thereby lead them to believe in him, that Jesus performed miracles. Understanding is the starting point for knowledge. Today, however, people will not accept what is not demonstrable by the logic of science. Accordingly, since religions are now unable to guide people even to the level of understanding, much less to belief, they are unable to fulfill their purpose. Even internal truth demands logical and convincing explanations. Indeed, throughout the long course of history, religions have been moving toward the point when their teachings could be elucidated scientifically.

Religion and science, setting out with the missions of dispelling the two aspects of human ignorance, have seemed in the course of their development to take positions that were contradictory and irreconcilable. However, for humankind to completely overcome the two aspects of ignorance and fully realize the goodness which the original mind desires, at some point in history there must emerge a new truth which can reconcile religion and science and resolve their problems in an integrated undertaking.

It may be displeasing to religious believers, especially to Christians, to learn that a new expression of truth must appear. They believe that the scriptures they have are already perfect and flawless. Certainly, truth itself is unique, eternal, immutable and absolute. Scriptures, however, are not the truth itself, but are textbooks teaching the truth. They were given at various times in history as humankind developed both spiritually and intellectually. The depth and extent of teaching and the method of expressing the truth naturally varied according to each age. Consequently, we must never regard such textbooks as absolute in every detail.

People need religion in order to seek the Ultimate Reality and realize goodness in accordance with the inclination of the original mind. Thus, the purpose of every religion is identical. However, religions have appeared in different forms according to their various missions, the cultures in which they took root, and their particular historical period. Their scriptures have taken different forms for similar reasons. All scriptures have the same purpose: to illuminate their surroundings with the light of truth. Yet when a brighter lamp is lit, the old lamp is outshone and its mission fades. Because religions lack the power to guide modern people out of the dark valley of death into the full radiance of life, there must emerge a new expression of truth that can radiate a new and brighter light. Jesus indicated that God would someday reveal a new truth: "I have said this to you in figures; the hour is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in figures but tell you plainly of the Father."(John 16:25)

What missions must the new truth fulfill? The new truth should be able to unify knowledge by reconciling the internal truth pursued by religion and the external truth pursued by science. Consequently, it will enable all people to overcome the two types of ignorance, internal and external, and fully comprehend the two types of knowledge.

Next, the new truth should lead fallen people to block the ways of the evil mind and to pursue the goals of the original mind, enabling them to attain goodness. It should guide people to remove the double-mindedness that sometimes seeks good and sometimes evil. It should empower religious people to overcome the contradiction which they face in their struggle to live according to the Way. For fallen people, knowledge is the light of life holding the power of revival, while ignorance is the shadow of death and the cause of ruin. Ignorance cannot beget true sentiments, and in the absence of knowledge and emotion the will to act cannot arise. Without the proper functioning of emotion, intellect and will, one cannot live the life of a true human being.

If we are created in such a way that we cannot live apart from God, then surely our ignorance of God consigns us to walk miserable paths. Though we may diligently study the Bible, can we really say that we know clearly the reality of God? Can we ever grasp the Heart of God? The new expression of truth should be able to reveal the Heart of God: His heart of joy at the time of creation; the broken heart He felt when humankind, His children whom He could not abandon, rebelled against Him; and His heart of striving to save them throughout the long course of history.

Human history, woven of the lives of people who are inclined toward both good and evil, is filled with struggle. Today, external conflicts - battles over property, people and territory - are gradually diminishing. People are coming together transcending the differences between races. The victors of World War II liberated their colonies, gave them equal rights with the great powers and included them as members of the United Nations. Together, they are working toward a world order. Hostility and discord in international relations have been mitigated as economic concerns come to the forefront and nations are cooperating to construct common markets. Culture is freely circulating, the traditional isolation of nations is being overcome and the cultural distance between East and West is being bridged.

Nonetheless, one final and inescapable conflict remains before us, the war between democracy and communism. Although each side has equipped itself with fearsome weapons and is pitted against the other in readiness for battle, the core of their conflict is internal and ideological.

Which side will triumph in this final ideological conflict? Anyone who believes in the reality of God will surely answer that democracy will win. However, democracy does not possess any doctrine which can win over communism, nor does it have the power to do so. Therefore, in order for God's providence of salvation to be completely fulfilled, this new truth should first elevate the idealism of the democratic world to a new level, then use it to assimilate materialism, and finally bring humanity into a new world. This truth must be able to embrace all historical religions, ideologies and philosophies and bring complete unity among them.

Some people do, indeed, refuse to believe in religion. They disbelieve because they do not know the reality of God and life after death. Yet, however strongly they would like to deny these realities, it is human nature to accept and believe in them if they can be proven scientifically. Moreover, Heaven has implanted in human beings a nature such that those who place their ultimate purpose of life in the material world will eventually come to feel a great void and emptiness in their hearts. When people come to know God through the new truth and encounter the reality of the spirit world, they will realize that they should not set the ultimate purpose of life in the material world, but instead should look to the eternal world. They will walk the path of faith, and when they reach their final destination, they will meet as brothers and sisters.

If all people are to meet as brothers and sisters by virtue of this one truth, what will that world be like? Under the light of the new truth, all those who have struggled over the long course of history to dispel the darkness of ignorance will gather. They will form one great family. Since the purpose of truth is to realize goodness, and since God is the origin of goodness, God will be the center of the world founded upon this truth. Everyone will adore and serve God as their Parent and live in harmony with each other in brotherly love. It is human nature that when people wrong their neighbor for selfish ends, they suffer more from the pangs of conscience than they benefit from the enjoyment of unrighteous gains. Anyone realizing this will restrain himself from hurting his neighbor. But were genuine brotherly love to overflow from the depth of people's hearts, they would no longer wish to do anything that would cause pain to their neighbor. How much more would this be true in a society of people who actually feel that God, who transcends time and space and observes their every act, wants them to love each other? Therefore, once the sinful history of humanity has come to an end, a new historical era will begin wherein people simply will not commit sins.

The reason why people who believe in God continue to commit sins is because their faith in God has been merely conceptual. It has not touched their innermost feelings. Who among them would ever dare to commit sin if they experienced God in the depths of their being? Would they not tremble if they felt the reality of the heavenly law that those who commit crimes cannot escape the destiny of hell?

The world without sin which has just been described, this long-sought goal of humankind, may be called the Kingdom of Heaven. Since this world is to be established on the earth, it may be called the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

We can conclude that the ultimate purpose of God's work of salvation is to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. It was explained above that human beings fell, and that this fall took place after the human race originated. If we accept the existence of God, then it is obvious what kind of world God originally wanted to realize before the fall of the first human ancestors. It suffices to say that this world was to be the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, wherein God's purpose of creation would bear fruit.

Due to the Fall, human beings failed to establish this world. Instead, they fell into ignorance and built a sinful world. Since then, fallen human beings have unceasingly struggled to restore the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, the world God originally intended to create. Over the long course of history, they have sought for truth, both internal and external, and have strived to pursue goodness. Thus, behind human history is God's providence to restore a world where the purpose of God's creation is fulfilled. Accordingly, the new truth should guide fallen human beings to return to their original state. To do this, it must reveal the purpose for which God created humankind and the universe, and teach about the process of their restoration and its ultimate goal.

Did human beings fall by eating a fruit called the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, as is written literally in the Bible? If not, then what was the cause of the Fall? The new truth must answer these and other questions which have pained and troubled the minds of profound thinkers throughout the ages: Why did the God of perfection and beauty create human beings with the potential to fall? Why did the omniscient and omnipotent God not prevent their fall, even though He was aware that they were falling? Why did God not save sinful humankind in an instant with His almighty power?

As we marvel at the scientific laws concealed in the natural world, we can deduce that God, its Creator, truly is the very origin of science. If human history is God's providence to restore the world wherein His purpose of creation is fulfilled, it must be that God, the Master of all laws, has led the long providence of restoration according to an orderly plan. It is our most urgent task to comprehend how the sinful history of humanity began, what formulas and laws have governed the course of the providence, how history will be consummated and, finally, into what kind of world humanity will enter. The new truth must offer answers to all of these deeper questions of life. When the answers are made clear, it will not be possible to deny the existence of God, the Ruler who plans and guides history. We will recognize in every historical event traces of the Heart of God as He has struggled to save fallen human beings.

In addition, the new truth should be able to elucidate many difficult issues in Christianity, which has been granted the mission to establish its sphere of culture worldwide. Educated people are not fully satisfied with the simple assertion that Jesus is the Son of God and the Savior of humanity. They have carried on many theological debates in their efforts to understand the deeper significance of Christian doctrines. The new truth should elucidate the relationships between God, Jesus and human beings; they will be explained in light of the Principle of Creation. Furthermore, it should clarify the difficult mysteries surrounding the Holy Trinity. It should show why God's salvation of humanity was possible only through shedding the blood of His only begotten Son on the cross.

Still, difficult issues remain. Christians believe that salvation is given through the atonement of the cross. Yet no one has ever given birth to a child who is sinless and in no need of redemption by the Savior. This demonstrates that, even after their rebirth in Christ, people continue to pass down the original sin to their children. This raises a crucial question: What is the extent of redemption by the cross? How many millions of Christians in the two-thousand-year history of Christianity have boasted that their sins were completely forgiven by virtue of the blood of the crucifixion? Yet in reality, a sinless individual, family or society has never appeared. Furthermore, the Christian spirit has been in gradual decline. How are we going to reconcile the discrepancy between the conventional belief in complete redemption through the crucifixion and the actual reality? These are only some of many dilemmas we face. The new truth, for which we long, should provide plain answers.

Many other difficult riddles are found in the Bible, couched in symbolism and metaphor, such as: Why must Jesus come again? When, where and how will his return take place? How will fallen people be resurrected at his coming? What is the meaning of the biblical prophecies that heaven and earth will be destroyed by fire and other calamities? The new truth should explain these puzzles, not in esoteric language but, as Jesus promised, in plain language that everyone can understand.(John 16:25) Divergent interpretations of such symbolic and metaphorical Bible verses have inevitably led to the division of Christianity into denominations. Only with the aid of the new truth, with its clear explanations, can we bring about Christian unity.

This ultimate life-giving truth, however, cannot be discovered through an exhaustive investigation of scriptures or scholarly texts; nor can it be invented by any human intellect. As is written in the Book of Revelation, "You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings."(Rev. 10:11) This truth must appear as a revelation from God.

With the fullness of time, God has sent one person to this earth to resolve the fundamental problems of human life and the universe. His name is Sun Myung Moon. For several decades he wandered through the spirit world so vast as to be beyond imagining. He trod a bloody path of suffering in search of the truth, passing through tribulations that God alone remembers. Since he understood that no one can find the ultimate truth to save humanity without first passing through the bitterest of trials, he fought alone against millions of devils, both in the spiritual and physical worlds, and triumphed over them all. Through intimate spiritual communion with God and by meeting with Jesus and many saints in Paradise, he brought to light all the secrets of Heaven.

The words proclaimed on these pages are only a portion of this truth. This volume is merely a compilation of what his disciples have hitherto heard and seen. We believe and hope that when the time is ripe, more profound portions of the truth will be published.

In every corner of the world, countless souls who had been groping in the darkness are receiving the light of this new truth and are being reborn. As we witness this, we cannot stop shedding tears of deepest inspiration. We desire from the bottom of our hearts that its light quickly fills the earth.