1. The Unification Church and the Spirit World

1) The Meaning of the Name, Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity

The official name of our church is "Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity." What is meant by "the Unification of World Christianity" is that its destiny is to unify the Christian churches throughout the world; next, there is "holy spirit" in the part, "the Holy Spirit Association," and this holy spirit refers not to the human world, but to the spirit world. It means that on the foundation of having unified world Christianity, works of the good spiritual world will take place. Through the good spiritual phenomena, we are trying to bring the world into one.

Therefore, if "holy spirit" were omitted, what would we become? We would be the same as the Christian churches. If we leave out holy spirit from the term, the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of the World Christianity, then it will become the Association for the Unification of World Christianity, isn't this so? It will be reduced to nothing if holy spirit is omitted.

In this point of view, we see that even in the history of humanity today, there is always a thought or spirit that influences the course of history. The thought exists inside one's mind, but it is not dominated by the mind. It tries to transcend the mind as well as the environment, to conquer the world. Isn't this true? When you say to yourself, "I am going to become a great person," that "great person" is not referring to the ideal of a great figure that you will realize by employing the service of your body in an environment where you can do whatever you please centering on yourself. Of course you are to act as your heart moves you, but that desire of the heart will lead you to transcend the family, environment, nation, world, and taking a step further, guide you to become someone who can even influence the spirit world, provided that such a thing exists. (168-241)

What is the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity? What are we going to bring about the unification with? [With holy spirit] We are to bring the unification through holy spirit, which is the holy spirit of the parent-child relationship. What is this holy spirit? Why are we talking about these strange things? The holy spirit is to bring harmony between the spirit world centered on love and the human world. Do you understand?

Giving eyesight to the blind man is not an important part of the holy spirit's task. It does not concern itself so much with making the deaf hear again. Today, Christian churches like to talk about how there is nothing impossible for the omnipotent God and tell a cripple to stand on his own feet, but this is so insignificant. God does not need this. Divine spirit of love. You have to know that it is a holy spirit of love.

In the Bible it says that when you hold a religious service you should do so with spirit and truth, so what does it mean by "truth" there? This is not talking about some Pythagorean principles. It is not talking about some Newtonian laws. It is not that kind of truth. It is the truth of love. What is the highest aspect of that truth of love? It is that between parents and children, and this is how you should understand it. What God wants is not money, power, or knowledge. He wants to give and receive love.

Why does he need love? Because God needs objects in order to feel joyful and fulfilled, he created people. Because he created people as the objects for joy, people have the same value as the entire creation. Further, with love we have the potential to assume a position equal to God's. This is what you have to understand. Christians of today assert that the creation is less than the creator, but they should stop with their nonsense. Then, why did God create all things? You have to understand this clearly.

What is the Holy Spirit Association? [Love] What kind of love? [Love in the parent-child relationship] Centering on the love of the parent-child relationship, harmony is to be achieved. As long as there is this harmony, when a small and insignificant event takes place on the earth, the ripples it creates will reverberate out and have universal consequences. Although there was weak, the ripples will be felt all over the universe. Similarly, the domain of harmony of love means that although its scale might be small, it has the content that will connect up with the universe; you have to understand this very clearly. (113-103)

The name of our church is the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity. As I have been doing all these works up to now, I have not been doing them with my breathing passages blocked up. Rather, I have been conducting the program of the spirit world for everything. I do not talk about how Heaven is or how Heavenly Father is, and so forth, carelessly. First, digest everything with the truth, and talk only after systematizing. Do you think that I simply listen to the words of some women or grandmothers, or some spiritual medium? No way. They are ignorant. They know how to testify to the present, but they do not know how things operate. (68-276)

It is clear that our organization is a religious organization. It is a religious organization. But what kind of religious organization is it? It is a religious organization whose goal is unification. This is why we call it the Unification Church.

Then you have to know clearly what the center of that word, "unification," is. What does the word center around? Of course you might think that it is centered on the world, but when you say the "world," there are two different types of worlds. One is the spiritual world, and the other is the substantial world. This is how I see it. However, ordinarily when people say, "world," they are talking about the world on earth, the world that they are living in right now. Therefore, it is easy to think that we are talking about the unification of this world. It is normal to think that way.

Now, when we look at this, what does the word, "religion," center around? It is not centered on this world, and the spirit world is its background. This is definitely true when you examine the past history. This is true.

Then, in the name the HSA-UWC there is a term, "unification," and the question is how to unify world Christianity. The Catholic and Protestant denominations are numerous, but they do not preoccupy themselves with this feat. You have to understand this. You have to understand that unification welcomes all churches of this world. But because the churches have been in conflict with each other up to now, they will not try to unite no matter what kind of things emerge. They will not try to become one.

Then what do you do to bring unity? Until now, countless church leaders, at times centering on the Roman papacy, have attempted to initiate a movement for unification, but was it possible? The results have showed that it was impossible, and it still remains impossible. However, what is the path that can bring this unity? Do you think that it is enough merely for a strong religious leader to appear and order the unification? If there is no political foundation, then even if the leader is powerful and resolute, he is completely powerless. The conclusion is that it is impossible.

Then, what if there is some truth based on which the denominations cannot but come together? What do you think? They might support it halfway, but they will oppose again by saying that it might be the work of Satan, the devil. This is how difficult it is. Then, even if Jesus had not passed away, but survived to evangelize the world centering on the Roman Empire, if a young Jesus who had died in the past had appeared in the world as a man and claimed that he was Jesus, who would have believed him? People would not believe him. What I am saying is that even if Jesus himself was to resurrect into a new life, people would not believe him. How many percent of the people would believe in Jesus? How about you? How about Moonies? How about Moonies who tend to believe and trust too readily? Don't people say that you have been brainwashed? You have been brainwashed. How is it? How many of you will believe him? Do you think you will believe him? [No] (laughter).

So, when we examine these things, we can see that Rev. Moon is truly great. You have to understand how great was this feat of gathering together these young people who had been leading chaotic life styles in the white society, and in an attempt to create one world, bring them together in this manner and have them intermingle with each other.

Did Rev. Moon accomplish this with the power and knowledge of this world, or through the spirit world? When we consider this, it is clear that despite the impact of the standard of this world, the employment of the standard of the spirit world brings greater power to influence.

Of course just the mere fact that you can independently gather here and proceed in your mission shows that the Principle's words and my guidance have an impact. Although this should be recognized, this is not all there is to the story. The reason that something invisible is influencing you to make the transition is because there lies behind us a spiritual force that is many tens of times stronger. This fact cannot be denied. Is this true or false? [It is true] It is true that you can feel this to your bones.

Then what is the thing that Satan likes the most? What is the thing that Satan desires the most? This is the problem. Satan says, "It is all right to give the lectures on the Principle words of the Unification Church. It is all right for someone to be a great lecturer who can give the speech with the whole book memorized. I acknowledge it. There is nothing that I can do about that. There is nothing that I can do because it is truth that is already revealed and manifested. However, I will not allow spiritual phenomena." Do you think that he will do that? [Yes]

Without spiritual phenomena, no matter how great the truth is it is difficult to maintain the same level of faith as before. It is difficult to march forward with one's life placed on the line for the rest of one's life. It is easy to develop a life of habits. Although one might remain faithful when one is young, one may lose one's faith when one grows old. Accordingly, as far as Satan is concerned, he figures that everything will be fine if people lose their faith after they grow old and as a result go to hell after they die.

This is the way Satan sees things, so what is God going to do? It is logical for a good divinity, who is opposed to the evil divinity, to deeply contemplate on the following question-in the spiritual territory, how does he spread the spiritual truth that can increase the power for the rest of one's life even if one dies only of old age. (131-208)

What must be done in order to bring about the unification of the world? Where does liberation take place? The spiritual world and the physical world must be liberated. The liberation of the spiritual world and the liberation of the physical world... God does not need the liberation of the spiritual world. If there emerges one man who has, as God does, the ability to unite all of the satanic domain, then the spirit world and the physical world which have been separated will be reunited. They will be liberated. As soon as there is someone who can have dominion over Satan, then the liberation of the spirit world as well as the liberation of the physical world will take place. (161-243)