1. Build Up Your Knowledge of the Divine Principle

1) Read the Principle Everyday

I want to ask you how much you love the Principle. It is something that I have spent my life to find, melting my bone marrow. Even if you were to memorize it hundreds and thousands of times there is no way to pay back for its contents, yet you just put it on a shelf and read a novel instead. Do you get involved in the trivial affairs of the neighboring villages? Do you go around and have a good time? I have not walked such a path. Before Heaven, there is nothing that I am doing now that goes against my conscience, and because I am in the position to do such things, I am doing them. Yet, those who are unworthy and immature, can they do their mission only after doing all the things that please them first? Never! You have to understand that you need to be trained and educated. (68-181)

Although you claim that you have learned the Principle, you throw it away in the back room, and go on your way, your life and the Principle totally separate from each other.... They have not become one. Isn't this so? Do you think that you can do witnessing in the present state? It won't work, it won't. Because God is not with you, what you are doing is fake. You have to do it according to the Principle.

Everyone, when you look at the Principle book, there you can find the heart of God of the six thousand years. You can find the history of my conflict in which I have shed blood all of my life. There is an abundant amount of contents that you are not aware of. As you flip through each page of the Principle book with such background, have you ever memorized it with the mind-set that there you can find some ladder that can connect you to find the heart of God? Underlining each phrase, have you ever thought about what kind of history lies behind it?

All of you just put the Principle book on your shelves, and... Do you read the Principle book everyday? Those of you who read it everyday, please raise your hand. You are all a group of hooligans. So, you complain that God is not helping you? For this reason, I have no choice but to make a new system. From now on, you have to reform all your ways. This shows that you do not realize how sacred the works of clergymen who live for God are. (68-101)

When you read the Principle's words, have you ever shed tears through a sleepless night? What was great about former-President Eu is that he would write notes to every part of the Principle and in every page he would shed tears hundreds of times. He, as an intellectual, an intelligent person who graduated from college, fell down from exhaustion when he was searching for the truth, so when he came to know such a deep world, he shed tears not in drops but like a waterfall. When he came to work with it, he felt so much awe before the truth that he could not continue writing without shedding tears. I heard that it took him one week to write one page.

So, we do not know how many tears he has shed. The word of truth that can be connected to the original heart has the power to explode love over and over, and its actions occur throughout history. (141-70)

Everyone, The Divine Principle is a fearsome book. There are many people who belittle it just because President Eu wrote it. If it was I who wrote it, then what do you think will happen? All will face the accusation. Without an exception, all will immediately face accusations. You go to the spirit world and see. Even if it was written with mistakes in it, you will be accused if you belittle it. You have to understand the reason why it is written that way. Do you understand what I am saying? (33-101)

The Divine Principle is the storage where the words of life are kept. When you listen to the Principle, it is just like connecting a big rubber hose to the storage and being supplied with the water of life. Once you come to know the taste of this water of life, you will become crazy about that taste so that no matter how hard you try, you cannot take your mouth off the hose. When you try to take your mouth off, it is more likely that your mouth will break off from you than that it will come off the hose. This is just as when a bee is sucking on honey and you pull his hind parts off, even if this breaks off the rest of its body, it won't take its mouth off. Similarly, within the Principle you can find something that is sweeter than honey. (90-19)

Church leaders must read the words of the Principle, at least ten pages a day. All of you eat meals, right? You eat three meals a day, right? [Yes] If you eat three meals a day, then likewise you have to do spiritual breathing together. Everyone, do you fully understand the Principle's words? I am the one who has been fighting hard to walk the course of restoration through practice centering on those words of the Principle. If you want to know more about the deep valley of heart that flows at the core of my existence, then you have to implant your roots there very, very deeply.

In order to become a large branch, you have to develop a relationship with the fluids from the root and absorb them. Those branches that do not do this will become desiccated and then eventually die and Fall off. Do you understand. It is very serious. Accordingly, you have to pray and exert yourself everyday. (46-171)

The members of the Unification Church all do not understand the Principle; you are ignorant about the Principle. At the same time that you equip yourself with the Principle, you have to do witnessing. At the same time that you equip yourself with the words, you should always stress the necessity of the Principle. You cannot live an experience of the heart alone. You have to do witnessing. How? What do you do witnessing with? You have to recite the Divine Principle book to the extent that you can memorize the whole thing. Knowing what is in what page, and everything... (96-318)

When you learn the Principle, when you begin from the Principle of Creation and learn about the Fall and the Principles of Restoration, you are not learning about someone else's affairs. You have to learn while being in the position where it becomes one with your flesh and bone. In other words, when you learn about Adam's family, you have to become Adam, and when you learn about Noah, you have to become Noah, and when you learn about Abraham, you have to be Abraham.

Because they failed in being resurrected, you have to feel the pain of repeating the sacrifice, and you have to know how to listen to the lecture while experiencing the sorrow of God. For this reason, God is as a Cain-position God right now. Therefore, we have to make sure that because of us, God can take the Abel position. (66-25)

In order to find God, look at the work He has done in history. In order to find the living and moving God, you have to study the Principle. I have come to the earth so that you can do such study of the Principle. Those of you who at times see me in their dreams, raise your hand. Put down your hands. You are all supposed to see me. You should see me , and when you face difficulties, I will coach you in everything. (60-169)