8. The Standard of Birth and The Standard of Life

8.1. Our Wrong Birth

People in today’s world boast of their social status or family background, all the while unaware that they were misbegotten at birth. They do not know that they were born from the love, life and lineage of Satan, the enemy of God. This is a serious problem.
Due to the human Fall, all people have been born from Satan’s love. Satan’s love has been passed down through the generations to their parents and then to them. Satan’s blood is flowing in the life of every mother and in the life of every father, and that blood now flows in each of us. Each of us is a fruit of these three.
For this reason, each of you belongs to the linage of Satan. To put it another way, Satan’s blood is running through your veins. Therefore, Satan propagates his “ideal” fruit in the natural course of things. Meanwhile, God strives to redeem those same men and women and transform them into the pure and wholesome men and women of His original vision.
Your beginning was in Satan’s love. You were born from his lineage.
Your starting point was wrong. Since you came from the wrong starting point, you must return to the correct starting point. Where is that correct starting point? How far back do we need to go? We need to go back to the origin. As we originated from false parents, we need to return and start anew from true parents. How serious is this? It is imperative to inherit God’s love, life and lineage afresh.
That is why, when you receive the Blessing, you undergo a ceremony for changing your lineage. Just because it is a Unification Church ceremony, you should not think of it as some ordinary ritual. It is like a wonder drug, an antidote to restore the dead back to life. You must believe in it more than your own life.
The mistake our first ancestors made was so serious that it caused the suffering of countless people throughout the course of human history. People have paid a ghastly price for having perpetuated illicit love in the fallen spiritual and physical worlds, with far-reaching consequences for individuals, families, societies, nations and the world. Knowing this, we cannot commit that same mistake again. Never again! (216-109, 03/09/1991)

8.2. Eternal Life

Eternal life does not refer only to an eternal existence in the spirit world. It means living for eternity in the bosom of God’s love.
God created each individual to live with Him in a relationship of Lover and beloved, Subject partner and object partner. You are the beloved of God. God cherishes the ideal of true love more than He values Himself. Although God is the absolute and eternal center of life, His ideal is even more eternal, and the center of that ideal is true love. Love is realized with a partner, and the partner of God’s love is you.
Love has the power to bring two individuals into oneness. Love can unify a nation. When two people are in a relationship of true love, they will accompany each other through any situation. The same applies to your relationship with God. When you live this way, you can inherit God’s entire fortune and even His entire heart. I went through a miserable course to discover this reality, and now I stand on its foundation. It is sublime and lofty. I would not exchange it for anything in the world. It is an amazing grace.
Because God and I love each other in this way, He lets me stand in the same position with Him, where we can share true love for eternity. The spirit world is in a different dimension from this limited earthly world. We cannot move freely within these mundane confines, but as the spirit world is a realm of higher dimension, you can do anything there; you can even leap across time. You can have whatever you desire anytime and anywhere, so long as your desire is motivated by love.
We were originally created as eternal beings. If on earth we become people of true love who enjoy an eternal relationship with God, then when we go to the spirit world, we will enjoy such freedom. The first standard of life is the criteria of good and evil, the second is the original starting point, and the third is eternal life. (216-107, 03/09/1991)