8. The Cosmic Ideology
All things start from one, divide into many, and ultimately come together again as something larger. One divides into many, and the many unite again into one. Then that greater one divides again, and they recombine into an even larger unit. This process repeats continuously.
Families exist within this process of continual division and recombination, yet the form of the family never changes. In the family a husband and wife meet, build a relationship as two people, and become one. The clan brings many families together as one. Clans combine to form a tribe, and tribes combine to form a nation. The family, however, is always at the center. (26-189, 10/25/1969)
The horizontal world develops as an expansion of the family.
This is why no society can do without the family. If family conflicts are not resolved, we cannot solve the conflicts plaguing our world. Once a family is restored, then through that family we can fulfill the ideal of a unified cosmos. The cosmos includes the spirit world (heaven) and the physical world (earth). Heaven and earth can be compared to a person’s mind and body. Mind and body must become one.
Just as a subject partner needs an object partner and vice-versa, a man needs a woman and a woman needs a man.
The union of a man and a woman leads to a family. God’s foundation of love will not be attained except through the family. (26-189, 10/25/1969)
The cosmic ideology teaches that we should first unite our mind and body, next form a family that embodies God’s love, and on that basis we can connect the spirit world and the physical world – the cosmos. The character ju (宙) in cheon-ju (cosmos) refers to a house or a home. We thus understand the term “cosmic ideology” to mean that unity in the cosmos – between the incorporeal world and the corporeal world – is rooted in unity in the family.
What does this have to do with us? Everyone needs a family. If you cannot be united in your family, you will have no place to stand in a united cosmos.
The family serves as the ultimate standard for fulfilling the cosmic ideology. If you cannot sing songs of peace and praise the happiness of your family, you will be miserable, both on earth and in the spirit world. (26-189, 10/25/1969)
What kind of teaching is the cosmic ideology? It is chambumo ju-eui, the ideology that teaches us to be true parents. These teachings uphold the way of life where we relate to others with the mind of a parent. This is the way of life in our home, the way of leadership in the nation, and way each of you should conduct yourselves as individuals.
Had human beings not fallen, Adam and Eve would have brought the teaching that would have spread all over the world. The ideology of the original unfallen Adam is exactly the teaching about how to live as a true parent. It is the teaching about how to live as a father and as a mother. There is no higher teaching than this.
This is the reason the Unification Church must link matters of the heart with the heavenly ideology. Heart is cultivated through the philosophy of true parents and is practiced within the framework of the original ideal family. As long as connections remain to families that have internalized this philosophy, the Unification Church will not perish. (26-201, 10/25/1969)
Where does the task of building the Kingdom of Heaven begin? It begins in our families. Our philosophy for establishing the Kingdom is family-centered. In the word cheon-ju (cosmos) the character cheon (天) means heaven and ju (宙) means house or home. Thus the phrase cheonju ju-eui (cosmic ideology) literally means the ideology of heaven’s family.
Everything in the 66 books of the Bible is God’s word expressing His earnest desire for an ideal family. Consider, what is the earnest desire of every man? It is to have an ideal wife.
Also, every person born a woman has the earnest desire to have an ideal husband. She may earn the highest academic degrees and command influence over world events, but her deepest desire is still to meet an ideal man. She wants to meet an ideal man whom she can love and with whom she can give birth to sons and daughters filled with blessings. This is the root of happiness. The ideal of the Unification Church does not lie anyplace else. It begins in the family and concludes in the family. (26-102, 10/18/1969)