2. Life in its Original Form
What is the cause of human existence? That cause is love. Then, what do you think is the purpose of human life? It is to fulfill the ideal of love. Human beings are conceived through love, so our purpose is to perfect love. First we should form a foundation of love in the context of our family. Then we should expand it and connect it everywhere, making it complete.
Since the beginning is love, the end is also attained through love. For this, a man and a woman begin a relationship, become one in love, and expand their love to connect with everyone around them: front and back, right and left, above and below. (Blessed Family-1062, 01/13/1986)
No matter how firmly we have determined to become an absolute being and live for an absolute purpose, it will be for nothing unless we are happy. Our daily life should be joyful.
We may live for the sake of a certain purpose. Yet once we achieve it, some new, greater purpose may appear that makes the earlier purpose seem insignificant. On the other hand, what is this most precious thing for a man or for a woman? It is love.
Love is the key element needed to experience happiness. Therefore, no matter how lofty a person’s purpose may be, if he fails to establish a love that can take dominion over purpose, once he attains his purpose he will not be satisfied. So he will embark on another purpose and in the end not be satisfied with that either. Thus, purpose is limited. It cannot stand above love. (29-130, 02/26/1970)
What are you living for? Some people say they live to eat. Some people say they live to work. Still others live without a purpose.
What are you living for? Declare that you live for love; that is the most excellent answer. We are born as the fruit of love, we spend our lives loving others, and eventually we return to the eternal love of God’s bosom. This is the original vision of human life as God created it. (Blessed Family-1064, 04/26/1982)
A person is born in love and raised in love. Then he or she leaves the love of parents behind and seeks out a love of a partner, which is the love of another dimension. We can say that children’s experience receiving love from their parents is formation-stage love, and spouses’ experience receiving conjugal love from their partner is growth-stage love. However, no matter how much love a husband and wife receive from each other, it is only when they have children that they can be completed in love.
That is why couples naturally want to have children. Parents’ experience of receiving love from their children is completion-stage love. Going through the stages of receiving parental love, conjugal love and children’s love is fundamental to human fulfillment. They constitute the path to fulfilling God’s original ideal of love that He purposed at the creation. (48-11, 08/31/1971)
Love gives birth to life. A man is born from love, is raised in love by his loving parents, meets a loving wife and loves her, and then dies in that love – this is the course of human life. In this original vision for human life there would be no sorrow or pain. (Blessed Family-1062, 10/29/1982)
Originally, God designed the focal point of the universe to be the place where every type of love combines into one. God’s vertical love and human horizontal love would come together in a comprehensive way that involves parental love, conjugal love and children’s love simultaneously in an all-encompassing union. This would become the focal point of the entire universe. Every cell in the universe would turn in its direction. All the spirits in the spirit world would turn and focus on this point.
They would protect it and not allow anyone to invade it, since if it were destroyed it would be catastrophic. This focal point needs a certain structure to maintain itself and preserve its integrity. In the teaching of the Unification Church, this structure is called the four-position foundation. (Blessed Family-1062, 10/29/1982)