So until now I have asked you to establish the foundation of the Unification thought tradition. That's what I have been asking of you. It is on that foundation that the family must be realized and the nation established. What can be the mainstream thought? It is not a thought centered on one's self; it is a thought centered on the whole. Then one must go the way of sacrificing one's self for the whole. This mainstream thought is Unification thought. Isn't that true? (47-197) Let's say a certain country established its policy for the sake of the world, and its citizens took the clothes off their backs for the world, and that nation fell into ruin. Would that nation really be ruined? If there were a nation which was ruined in that way, that ruined nation would have established a tradition of thought which could lead the future world. Therefore it might look as if that nation was ruined, but because it had established the tradition for the world, the world would be under the dominion of that nation and that people. It would be saved. At the end of the 20th century, don't lament that there isn't yet such a nation. When the citizens of a nation with a national character which can lead the world, and with a thought which can lead the world, are dying having hope and trying to substitute that thought, the way to live eternally in the ideal Kingdom of Heaven will be opened to them. That is what will happen. So our individual selves represent the family, and the family represents the tribe, and the tribe represents the people, and the people represent the nation, and the nation represents the world. In that way, our Unification Church Blessed families do not exist for our Blessed families. This is the mainstream thought of the Unification Church. (5-104) Therefore God is a pitiable God, a lonely God, a God of unspeakable sorrow. In order to liberate God, become a standard bearer, become a soldier in the front lines; and even though you bleed and receive direct hits, even though you bleed and collapse, with the conviction that you could all fall at once for the liberation of the nation, if the ranks of heroes going to bring the world into oneness get bigger and bigger that is the starting point of God's happiness. Without that, God is a God to be pitied. And Rev. Moon of the Unification Church is to be pitied. But even though I die centered on this land for a firm fight, I will begin the second attempt. You should know that this is the mainstream thought of Rev. Moon who is leading the Unification Church. (64-286) Then what is the mainstream thought of the Unification Church? If we look at the course of history up to now, we see that thought systems of killing others and advancing one's self were the mainstream; but it is that kind of thought which has destroyed history. The history of humankind has been a history of wars. What was the motivation for those wars? People pursued their own development and were not worried about sacrificing many others so that they alone could live well. (50-166)
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