5. Uniting the Love of Three Generations

The family that is connected through love and united in love can encompass past history, the present era and the future. Such a family has been God’s greatest desire, and He has sought for it over the history of six thousand biblical years. The original mission given to Adam and Eve at the time of creation was to establish such a family, where everything would come under the dominion of true love.
No one would cut themselves off from a relationship if the love were inherent and absolute.
God did not want Adam and Eve to remain an individual man and an individual woman. He looked forward to the new family they would form through their union. This was God’s primary point of origin in creating men and women.
You can enter the Kingdom of Heaven without any problem once you have established a true family. We need to live in this world feeling fulfillment from the love of God flowing within our family. Only this will enable us to transcend the snares of this world. (30-85, 03/17/1970)

To form the family realm of love, you must be absolute. As parents, you must be able to represent the past. As husband and wife, you must be able to represent the present. As the children, you must be able to represent the future.
You should consider that to love your parents, your partner or your children is equivalent to God relating to the world. When husband and wife and children have become as one body, they are able to represent the cosmos. They can instruct others to take their love as an example to follow, and teach their descendants to follow in their path. The place where they can make such statements, both to themselves and to others, and communicate the heart of heaven, is the homeland of the heart that will be remembered by all heaven and earth. (30-78, 03/17/1970)

What has God been seeking all this time? He has been seeking ideal object partners. He has been looking for people who resemble God and who possess the inner and outer aspects of His world of creation.
What is the starting point that leads to such a result? It is the family. Nothing represents the universe better than the family. To be one with our parents is to bring the past and present together. You can love the past by loving your parents, love the present by loving your spouse, and love the future by loving your children. In your family, you can experience the love of three generations. Your family is the core unit where these three kinds of love are concentrated. (30-80, 03/17/1970)

Then, where does life in the Kingdom of Heaven begin? It begins in the family, and not in some other place. The Kingdom of Heaven is nothing more than a three- dimensional expansion of the family; it does not exist separately from the family. Thus when you embrace your husband or wife, you should think of it as leading to the unions of all men and all women in the world. This is how in your family you can set the condition of having loved all humanity.
This is the path you should follow in your lives. When you love your parents, you are connecting past history with the present era, and you are paving a road that will let God come to you.
This is the reason you must love your parents. To love your parents is to connect everything in the past to yourself who lives in the present, bringing together the past and the present so they become as one. Also, loving your own children connects the present reality with the future. Unification Thought is the philosophy that extols such love and teaches how it can be practiced throughout eternity. (30-82, 03/17/1970)