1. Foundation Parents are Required to Have

1) The Foundation of Faith You Should Establish First

You are the same. In order to be sons and daughters of God, you have to build the condition in which you love Satan like God, who has been in the position to love Satan. You must build it at the level of individuals, families, nations and the world. I, your teacher, am indemnifying them representing you as such a huge abyss surrounds you. Do you understand? (136-172, 12/22/1985)

Well, the Unification Church uses the term "spiritual children." Spiritual children? There is no such phrase in the dictionary. What does the word, spiritual children, mean? There are two kinds of ancestors for us, people living in the fallen world at present, in our path to find God. One is the ancestor found in the fallen world and the other is the ancestor of our direct line. Those are the two ancestors.
Until now, there have been only fallen ancestors. Not just spiritually. We have fallen not only spiritually but also physically. Although our ancestors exist, God cannot recognize them. That's why Christianity talks about spiritual salvation. The age of Christianity is for spiritual redemption and the age of the Second Advent is for substantial redemption. The coming Messiah is an ancestor. He must prepare spiritual and substantial ancestors. And God has to find his own children. I myself have to give birth to babies and God has to have his children through me, not from ordinary people. (125-109, 03/14/1983)

Well, you need to know what spiritual sons and daughters are. They mean three things. First, the necessity of the archangel's restoration. Second, the restoration of the whole Satanic world. Third, to be in the state of children who can be blessed. Therefore, spiritual parents should graft spiritual children onto their real children. To whom do spiritual children have to be grafted? They have to be grafted onto their spiritual parents' direct children. Do you understand? To whom? Do they need to be grafted onto their spiritual mother or father? As they are your children, they should be grafted onto your direct children. (127-61, 05/03/1983)

Your spiritual children should be completely together with each other. If you marry, you have babies in your womb. Three of your spiritual children have to obey and yield to your babies from when the babies are in the womb. The restoration of Cain and Abel was done after they were born. But basically, they should have been restored when they were in the womb.
Who is Cain? He is an archangel. Who is Abel? He is Adam. The role of archangel was to attend Adam from the moment Adam was created. Don't you think so? That's why your children have to be taken care of by your spiritual children from when they were born. When Adam was created, the archangel helped the work in creation, but after he was born, he fell.
For the purpose of restoration through indemnity you need three spiritual sons and daughters who should serve your babies when the babies were in the womb, which means they should be in the position of servants completely. Otherwise they cannot be restored entirely as three archangels in the spirit world. Don't submit to Adam. Isn't that so? If you don't decide it, you can never escape from the interference of Satan completely.
When did I do it then? Ye-jin and Hyo-jin were born during a period of three years. Three years. During that period, all of you went to rural districts and fought. You fought but did the work inside. You restored it through indemnity inside yourself. When babies are in the womb, we give them whatever they would like to eat and do whatever they want for them. Like this, you should be placed in the position of respecting them with the determination you will give them your life and all your property. Otherwise three archangels in the spirit world cannot restore the standpoint of serving Adam through indemnity. You cannot restore through indemnity fundamentally.
This is the major purpose of the Unification Church. You cannot go to Heaven if you don't completely get out of the condition which enables Satan to interfere. (160-88, 08/11/1968)

2) The Characteristics of Oriental Thought and the Thought of the Unification Church

In Korea when they write with a brush, which part is big? The beginning part or the finished part? [The beginning part] The beginning part is big and the lower is thin. It means that the center of a cause is up and the center of a result is down. Down is a standpoint not for settling down but for revolving. The love of parents exists in members of a family. It is a point to rotate around, not to settle down. Settling down means we have to return to God.
When our love for God is bigger than that for our children, I think that it can be in accord with the center of universal principles and love. That's the reason why Oriental thought in which we might give up our wife and children but must not give up our parents, is great. However, how about Western manners? Down is bigger. They are beginning not from the top but from the bottom, which means they are starting from me and getting higher and higher. I am in the center of everything. It does not concern the parents. Therefore, God has made an effort to mix those two thoughts. (126-250, 04/24/1983)

Oriental thought teaches us that we should sacrifice our family in favor of saving the nation when it is in great danger. At the same time it teaches us the necessity of sacrificing a nation to save the world and universe. But you don't have such instruction in America, do you? (129-99, 10/01/1983)

The Principle of the Unification Church introduces the view of the world centering on God. It suggests to us the way of living as individuals, families, and tribes. But the rules don't come from Reverend Moon. They are the reflection of Heavenly Law. If you don't follow these, you cannot enroll in the other world.
The order to get higher education is through primary school, middle, high undergraduate, postgraduate schools and then a doctoral course. In the spirit world when God asks you what you did in your previous life, you must not answer that you lived with a husband and children.
God has lost the world. Therefore, you should say, "Although I lived with my husband and children I loved God and all human beings and tried to realize God's will and live with God. So, there was a lot of persecution against my family." Saying, "My father was starved to death living there, and my mother was beaten to death while she was witnessing." is something to be proud of. You don't have to be ashamed of them. You should know that the lives of unprepared people are the same as the voices of resentment falling into death. (147-194, 09/21/1986)

3) Lessons Learned from Abraham's Offering of Isaac

Grandfather Abraham was living in Ur of the Chaldees, his hometown. One day God asked him to go from one strange place to another. Then God ordered him to give himself as an offering. So he followed the Will. But did he suggest it first? He didn't even pray, " God, I have already prepared a table for you, then would you please take it? " He didn't think about it. But God came and said, " You worked hard so, I will bless you. Give me an offering, and your offspring will be as many as the stars in the sky and sand on the ground." So he did it.
While serving, he should have cut the pigeon in half. But he didn't because he thought it wasn't important. Don't you think so? How could he cut such a small pigeon? However, why was God so angry? God promised to bless him but afterwards, he said to him that his offspring would be slaves for four hundred years. Did the man think God was the real God? He could have thought of God as Satan. What was Abraham's great aspect? He took the words of God seriously. When God gave him such a punishment he considered it much more fearfully than if he killed himself, so Grandfather Abraham is great.
Owing to the enormous mistake he had made, he got a big shock but he still respected Him. So when he was asked to kill his own son he decided to perform it immediately hoping that he might be forgiven. We should know how deliberately he considered God's order until he determined to follow it. Therefore, he could offer his son, given miraculously by a blessing from God at the age of a hundred years, as a sacrifice. God gave it and then took it back? Does it seem to be able to be believed? All those things are a contradiction. According to human thinking, it was an absolutely mistaken order.
Even the fathers of the fallen world would not have done so if they have wished their children to be happy. How much more should God have not done such a thing? Here is a deep meaning that we do not know. Generally, human beings cannot love anyone more than themselves. We cannot think beyond ourselves. Although a person is in love he does not want to love only the other, without loving himself as well. We tend to make ourselves a plus and then love others. Men don't want to do anything by denying themselves. Despite it all, Abraham chose the way of love in the position of denying himself. What kind of love did he try to look for? He wanted to find the love of God. Denying himself, his tribe and relatives, which family and tribe did he find? We should know that it was Abraham who found the family and tribe that God could be happy with even though the world objected.
In spite of the fact that he gave his son as a sacrifice he deeply desired to realize the tribe and the nation which God could be pleased with. As the wish was bigger than any other difficult conditions, he could overcome the way of a wanderer, safely. We need to know that he could go along the way only where God directed, forgetting such difficulty because his desire was great and his heart to love it was always strong. (57-288, 06/05/1972)

What kinds of people can go to Heaven? What was the reason that Abraham became a spiritual father? Abraham offered his son as a sacrifice for burning. The reason why he did that was because of his descendants in the future. This was his motivation. How tragic it was when he offered his own son for the children in the future.
The people capable of offering their sons and daughters as sacrifices for the future more than for the present, will pull the foundation for the future to be right now. Abraham gave his son for the world of the future. He loved his sons and daughters more than anything in his age and in the future. But he could offer his son to God as he had the heart of loving all human beings more than his son. (32-221, 07/19/1970)

4) Love Your Sons and Daughters Having the Ideal Standard of a Country

Your sons and daughters are important and necessary. But when you consider all aspects, you should not live thoughtlessly. You should live a life doing everything; breathing, walking, and praying, for the whole purpose. When you fulfill it you can go with the fortune of Heaven. All members of the Unification Church should realize this.
You do everything that you want and do what you do in your family and ignore the God's will. Do you think it is right? When you do the national and worldwide things with a thorough attitude, Heaven can be restored. Heaven isn't made in your life of itself. You have to build it on your own. (18-215, 06/08/1967)

You sometimes show off your children to me although they were born with my blessing. It is the same in Western countries. You phone to me from all over the countries, then say, "Father, please give a name to my son or daughter." You ask me to give names to your children. You call me again and again. You rascals! Are you so busy naming your children? You shouldn't do that. You should love your children after you are equipped with the qualifications to love the country. Aren't you supposed to love your children after you love God? God is the God of all countries, and He is the center of the universe. As a result, if you love him you gain the qualification to love Heaven and earth. You get a condition in which you loved the country, the race, the tribe, the family and the individual. You love the bigger and if you qualify for it..... Do you understand? For example, at university you get the degree you don't have by going to high school. People recognize it whatever the method you used. They are all same. (125-253, 03/27/1983)

Well, is the father who kisses his baby on its lips allowed to do it? When you kiss your new born baby because it is cute, did you do so with God's approval? As a husband when you hold your wife and kiss and love her, have you received God's approval? If you didn't it's horrifying. Put the brakes on your hand and your lips. Stop! Emergency brakes! Screech! And you fall on your back with surprise. I am asking you, did you ever put on the brakes? (125-254, 03/27/1983)

It is my responsibility and also God's to do this in order to save the world. Isn't it certain? [Yes] When you think, "Why are True Parents doing that?" you should think at the same time that his responsibility is to digest the world but he hasn't finished it yet. If you look at a chimpanzee in Africa they eat lice. (laugher) Fathers and mothers should be better than a chimpanzee. Do you understand? Fathers and mothers should do more than that. (129-151, 10/09/1983)

5) You Should Regard the Will as the Greatest Importance

Today we are living for the Will and the world so, we are living for our offspring. (45-227, 07/01/1971)

How can you become the person God relies on? What should we consider as the first thing to be so? This is the question. You should be a good example before the Will and material things. Do you get what I mean? You should be a person to show your children a fine example following the Will. You should not care for material things more than the Will. You should take care of the Will more than your children. You should cherish the Will more than your husband or wife. (41-86, 02/13/1971)

Children can notice immediately whether their parents are good or not. If you move forward steadily for the Will, the day the world recognizes them will come.
Even though a couple dies they should leave the way of Heaven. What does the family exist for? Although it is for the children, it should exist for the country and God first. It is the way to benefit your children in the end. It is the only course in which your children can be together with the fortune of God, the world and the nation. Therefore, although the children have trouble in some way you should not assist them but help God, the world and the nation. (21-86, 11/03/1968)

What kind of person can inherit history? What should the descendants of future generations have done in order to take over? The man should be a person who lives for the world, all human beings and the spirit world. It is the principle that people who live for those two worlds can inherit it. Do you understand? (97-229, 03/19/1978)