1. Father's Views of Material

1) Father's View on Material

As the Unification Church members, what you should understand is that the things that you have owned so far, your material possessions, are not really your own, but you are temporarily in the process of managing them. That is, you are their manager. The things that you should manage well should be offered to God through the True Parents. In other words, unless they go through the process of belonging to the True Parents and God, they cannot be yours. This you must clearly understand. (23-334)

Today, since fallen people are in the transitional point of going into such a world, the issue of ownership is a serious matter. You must understand that national ownership is closer to the Will of God than private ownership. The evil Satan knew this in advance and created Communism, adopting this concept but excluding God in taking national ownership from private ownership. Therefore, we should understand that mind, body, and matter belong to the public, but not without a purpose. The purpose is to bring a total oneness between a subject and an object centered on God in order to have a right ownership. Then we eventually come to own God ourselves. If we own God instead of material, not only shall we come to own everything, not to mention material, but also shall we become perfect subjects towards the material. (1/6/75)

For humans to fulfill their portion of responsibility with the cooperation of God, according to the Principle of Re-creation, they should be better than angels. Further, the master who has dominion over all things is Adam, and the master which should control his body is his mind: For you to have dominion over all things, you should have dominion over your body. Do you understand? If you stand in the position of controlling your body, all things will follow you. Why? According to the Principle, all things are supposed to be under the dominion of perfect Adam. Due to the fall of Adam, separation took place between mind and body, and humans separated from each other. Further, all things deviated. Therefore, once Adam becomes perfect, money and material will automatically follow. (2/22/76)

What are we going to do through restoring material? It is to create again Adam and Eve. The creation of Adam means to invest everything for the Lord at the Second Advent. Therefore, unless you use your material that you gained with blood and sweat for that creation, you are committing a sin. That is a principle. (2/1/76)

You do not know how many contributions material things have made for the restoration of humans. If humans do not become one with all things, they cannot return to God. (23-326)

From a religious viewpoint, what is the Will that God desires to achieve and the world that He desires to build? The more you think about it, the more you will realize that people are not meant to exalt the material. Why? It is because God is the very initiator of the material realm. God, the Creator, does not need the material world of earth. God owns the vast material world of the universe.

Therefore, treasures that humans consider precious, such as gold or silver, mean nothing to God. To Him, all material things on earth mean nothing. (28-184)