The 6000 years of history progressed along the line starting from the level of individual, to the levels of family, tribe, people, nation, and world. In the Unification Church, we are to go through the eight stages of the restoration of individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, cosmos and God's love.

When you pray, you pray centering on these eight stages, right? "Heavenly Father, after completing the individual restoration and the family restoration...." The completion of the individual restoration takes place at the heart of the family, and the completion of the family happens at the heart of the tribe, and the completion of restoration of the tribe is at the center of the people, and the completion of the restoration of the people is found at the center of the nation, and the completion of the nation occurs at the center of the world, and the completion of the restoration of the world is in the middle of the cosmos, and the completion of the restoration of the cosmos takes place at the heart of God's love. Everything is trying to become one on the cosmic level centering on the love of God.

Therefore, the Unification Church is proclaiming the ideology of the cosmos, centering on the perspective of history based on the heart. Some people might say, "We are too busy making a living for today, so what is all this fuss about the ideology of the cosmos? We don't know if we will live or die today, so what is the point of this eternal and abundant idealism? These are crazy people." It's true that we are crazy. (61-75)

Then, how great is this stage? How many stages are there? You must pass the test of the individual stage. Moreover, passing the individual stage alone is not enough. Is the test something that can be passed in comfort, while sleeping, resting, and eating all you want? Is this so? You must pass the test. Why do you have to pass it? By doing so, one stage... Night and day will be swapped. It will be different. You can go from the era of the night to the era of the day. You can go from the spring time to the summer time. This is how it is. You can make progress.

Just as there is a test whenever one tries to bring conclusion to something, in our course of restoration the eight stages are left for us to pass through. The course for indemnity on the levels of the individual, family, tribe, people ,nation, world, cosmos, and then? There are eight stages including the stage of God. If you look at the actual course, there are seven stages. Fallen man is destined to must walk through these. They cannot be left abandoned for ever.

If you made a contact with that as an individual, then in whatever way that you can, you must connect it to the family level. In order to connect this, you have to love this more. Having loved this, you must stage a concentrated attack in order to be one with it. You must not put your own opinion first. The question is how to adjust and focus right onto this. (125-250)

What is the Principle of the Unification Church saying to do today? This is the only path, yet one cannot just enter it just because this is the Principle path one cannot just enter it. It has been made to be the path of destiny to pass through the eight stages. Do you understand? There are the eight stages of individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, cosmos, and God. The number eight is the number of new beginning. After that, the number of new beginning will not emerge again. Do you understand? [Yes] (135-304)

When you possess the love of God, there is no need for you to commit sin. You will have no need for sin or greed. In love, everything exists. Do you understand what this means? [Yes] What we must do is fulfill our portion of responsibility. You must understand clearly that only what you do in these can be said to contribute to restoration through indemnity based on your portion of responsibility.

In the course for indemnity, there are eight stages, indemnity on the levels of the individual, the family, the tribe, the people, the nation, the world, the cosmos, and then of God. So there are seven actual stages. What did I just talk about? What are the eight stages? [Perfection of the individual, perfection of the family, then perfection of the tribe.... The eight stages must be passed through.] What is involved in going through them? What is the reason that one must go through them? You should be able to answer if you heard me speak. [If you enter the position of God, then God can become the ruler of everything....] It is very simple. I am talking about restoration through indemnity. What have you been doing so far? You have been dozing off, right? Putting you through such embarrassing situations is the only way to make you become alert and listen. Why are we to go through the eight stages? Didn't I just teach you? Why are we supposed to go through the eight stages? It is for the sake of restoration through indemnity. Do you understand? [Yes] You are to pass through the eight stages for the accomplishment of restoration through indemnity.

When did you pass through these eight stages? [We have not yet] You might be thinking, "Those eight stages were created by Rev. Moon. I do not need indemnity." If the existence of man's portion of responsibility is true, then this kind of course came into existence because of man's portion of responsibility. If the Fall had not taken place, then in 21 years all would have been achieved automatically; but because there is this wall that blocks us, it must be taken care of step by step. It cannot be gotten rid of all at once. This is because Satan is tied to it. Accordingly, we have no choice but to deal with it step by step. (speaking while writing on the board) Satan came into being because of the Fall and this is also the reason that the indemnity condition also came to exist. Because the indemnity condition lies within man's portion of responsibility, it is an inescapable course, an unavoidable course.

So, did you know the individual course for indemnity or not? You are to go through the levels of individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, cosmos, and God; you are to return. In returning, how are you to do that? When you rise up, in order to stretch up and climb up the eight stages what do you have to do? You cannot directly climb up. To claim the vertical column, you must first move to the side and gain individual victory, and to do this you have to go up on the side centering on a mind to struggle with and then win over Cain. This is the only way to climb up. Why? This is because Satan is attached to you. You have to understand this. Do you understand what this means? [Yes]

If there had been no Fall, the individual, family, tribe, people, nation and even the world would be centered on you as an individual; and family, tribe, and everything else including God would be one axis. However, because of the Fall, the whole axis has been twisted. Because people's angles have all become crooked due to the Fall, the axis has become twisted. Accordingly, along this twisted axis, Satan controls you.

For this reason, you have to go along this crooked axis to make it straight, and by linking it up, climb up. This cannot be connected up here. In the restoration of the tribe, after having laid the victorious foundation centering on the family, one must go out to the domain of the tribe, and centering on the place where the tribe is putting up the opposition it must be made to submit naturally. Having done so, one is supposed to come this way, taking a turn here and climbing up. Do you understand what I am saying? [Yes]

If there had been no Fall, in twenty generations humanity could have established all this, but since that is not the case it has taken the two thousand years from Abraham to Jesus and the two thousand years after Jesus. You must understand this. You cannot simply go up directly. How nice would it be if we could climb up directly. If there had been no Fall, we could grow up to perfection easily. Individual perfection would become family perfection, and family perfection would become perfection of the tribe... At that time there was no tribe. It was supposed to develop naturally. However, after the Fall, everything from individual, to family, tribe, people, nation, and world are points of accusations. The satanic kingdom had been established. The cosmos became the sovereignty of Satan. How do we restore this world? Centering on the individual, it must be planted here. Separately. Going in the opposite direction it must be dragged on. We must escape. This is why in such religions as Buddhism one leaves one's home. One is not permitted to love one's father and mother or as one's older sister and brother. The words in the Bible, "Those who cannot love me more than their father and mother cannot become my disciples," is a paradoxical theory, but this must be accepted as the reasonable theory that will lead one to the heavenly path. Do you understand? [Yes]

For this reason, having understood the laws of indemnity in this world and cosmos, I have been adjusting the focus of love on the levels starting from the individual and expanding to love on the levels of the family, tribe, people, and nation. Every time this is being undertaken, Satan tries his best to destroy it. Therefore, religions must walk the path of persecution. Tears and blood must be shed. One must not climb to the top. One must remain in the shadows. This is a safe zone. Because Satan is arrogant, he does not like dark places. Accordingly, the most miserable place is the safest place.

Starting from the servant of servant there are also eight stages, right? Starting from a servant of servant, to a servant, and then what is next? From an adopted son, to an illegitimate son, to a child of direct lineage, and then from mother, father, to God; all together they are eight stages. It is the same. Eight stages remain. You must understand this clearly. Before becoming a leader of the Unification Church, one must first become the servant of the nation. Otherwise, there is no path for liberation. Having become the servant of servant, one must be treated as an adopted son. Then one must be treated as an illegitimate child.

How much mistreatment has the Unification Church suffered so far? This is how we are to climb up. When we climb up a stage, there is always indemnity to be paid. Then, have you or have you not walked the path of indemnity? Did you or did you not walk the path of indemnity on the individual level? You don't understand, right? Have you fought with Satan and through God's fair judgment claim the victory? Have you or have you not? If you have not, then your families cannot walk the course of indemnity. How can you travel the course of indemnity on the tribal level when you have not even done so on the familial level? There is no way. How can you go the course for indemnity on the level of the people when you have not even done so for the tribal level; how can you walk the course for indemnity on the national level when you have not even done so for the people; how can you walk the course for indemnity on the global level when you have not gone the course for the national level; and how can you walk the course for indemnity on the cosmic level when you have not done so on the global level? You must understand this clearly.

The law of indemnity that the Unification Church teaches is the truth, yet in practicing this truth the crucial question is when have you fought with Satan centering on God in the triangular position and having defeated Satan served God on that foundation. Actually it's not fighting. Satan must submit naturally.

You must understand that what lies incomplete before you is the duty of loving God more than did anyone in history, and being loyal to God more ardently than the combination of the loyalties of all people in history toward Satan. You must understand this clearly, that you must pay the indemnity.

Restoration through indemnity: why do we need indemnity? Without indemnity, there is no way to subjugate Satan. If the original focus of God's love is fixed in an individual, can there be Satan there or not? Looking at it with the Principle's perspective, would there be Satan there? (1988. 10. 3)

There were numerous paths of tribulation in history, but the eight stages of the path of suffering that I have walked cannot be found in the satanic world's history or in God's history. You must understand that the path of indemnity has been such that I could not shed tears just because of the difficulties I was facing, telling God, "God I cannot endure this any longer." For someone who is heading toward Heaven, he must not walk the path while shedding tears and then wiping them. Unless the situation in which he was shedding tears does not become the foundation on which he can move toward happiness, then it is the universal principle that the basis of the Kingdom of Heaven cannot remain on the earth.

For this reason, everyone must walk the suffering path of the king of servant of servants, the suffering paths of the king of servants, then of the king of adopted sons, the suffering path of the king of illegitimate sons, then of the king of sons, king of mothers, and then the suffering path of the king of fathers. You must not shed tears because of your own tribulations on the path, but grabbing onto humanity you must cry for the sake of the liberation of the humanity. This must be liberated. You must repent for the sake of the humanity.

Before God, for God, I am one that God cannot afford to lose more than anyone else in the world, but even then my attitude is, "I cannot abandon these adopted children and miserable slave children, so I must save them even if it means that I have to switch places with them." Every time this happens, when God asks Satan, "Should I listen to his plea or not?" then Satan cannot but say, "You should listen to his plea." He will add, "Even in such a miserable position he loves God and humanity, and this is the realm that I cannot reach, therefore, since there is no universal principle that will allow one to oppose such person, there is no basis for opposition. The path that he is walking on is the domain of liberation."

When I was setting up our holy grounds in the forty nations, as I was traveling through wealthy countries, pitiful countries, and servant-like nations, when I came across miserable people, in my heart I comforted them with confidence, telling them in my mind, "I, who have been through worse places than the situation that you are heading toward, came here and prayed. My prayer will become your shield through which you can gain life, and the path that will lead you to the road of life from this earth to the kingdom in heaven will be shown to you." This is the path of restoration. This position should have had a glorious beginning, but it began with the path of suffering and agony.

Although such a story lies behind me, who would have believed me forty years ago? People believe me now only because I have already accomplished all this. If I had said those words, then wouldn't people have treated me as a maniac? They will say, "That lunatic, he has gone mad. What? He says that he is going to move heaven and earth, having impact in this world, and turn this evil world upside down to make it a good world?" So how ridiculous was it? I have been walking this path for forty years. If those of you gathered here have evaded the path of suffering, then you are nothing more than thieves.

The seven-year course is designed to shrink it and pay indemnity. This is also made up of seven stages. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, there are seven stages. Within seven years. This is home church.

The Israelite people had to walk the path that Jacob went, and the Israelite nation had to walk the path that Moses went, Christianity must walk the path that Jesus walked, and you must walk the path that I have gone through. Isn't this the Principle? [Yes] You must go here and receive persecution. You should receive persecution. You are to receive persecution. I stand in the parental position, yet I have put my children in the place of suffering: the question is how to determine, in my lifetime a time period in which all suffering can be blocked and where you can pay the indemnity and be welcomed on the world stage. This is home church. After Danbury, the period of persecution has passed by.

What is applicable here are the eras of individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, of cosmos, and Heaven; these are also eight stages. (speaking while writing on the board) They are eight stages. This is also the case with the course of restoration. Like the course of suffering, the course of restoration is like this. From the individual to the family, to the tribe... So, you need a nation, right? You need a family, right? It is the same thing. Adding it all... So, centering on home church... (161-195)