4) An Understanding of Unification Thought

Then what is Unification thought? Because the concept of history is divided into two concepts--the material concept of history and the spiritual concept of history--in order to resolve this problem it was Unification thought that was studied and organized. You should know that everything was synthesized and Unification thought was newly organized as a new thesis with the goal of presenting a new concept of life and a new concept of the world. (65-337)

A healthy person can digest what an ordinary person cannot digest. So everyone likes healthy people. Let's say a person has a healthy spirit. When a person is spiritually healthy, that person can digest anything. He can digest democracy; he can digest communism. He can digest anything. Then what is the "ism" of the Unification Church? It's Godism, and beyond that, Unificationism.

Is Unificationism an easy thing? [No.] Look at it this way. If we look at our whole body we can understand it. Our body has eyes, ears, a nose, and hands and feet. Here, there, they are connected by one life and have to unite. Then in order for them to become one, can one of them say, "Oh, I don't like the eyes. Get out of here. I don't like you?" They have to say, "I like everyone." We must be able to digest everything. (111-97)

The Unification Church's thought is not materialism. It is an ideology which raises one up to God. Therefore God can raise us up. But since materialism is an ideology which brings one down, it ruins people. (106-287)

How big a fight is the fight which the Unification Church is fighting now? How big is this war? How big is this war which Rev. Moon started? Here communism is hanging in the balance and the neck of America is in the balance. Also, Japan is involved, all are involved. Therefore Rev. Moon is gradually becoming famous. In order to do what? After becoming famous what should I do? I'm asking what should be done after becoming famous. [Create the universe.] What? [Unify the creation of the universe.] Unify the creation of the universe? God does the creation of the universe, and we should do the unifying. (Laughter) Unify the creation of the universe... Does that involve creating? You should know that. Wherever you live, will you be digested or will I be digested....It's an issue like this if you meet a communist: "You communist, will you be digested by me, or will I be digested by you?" That's it. If we talk about the world, it's simple. There are two great thoughts, two sides, the democratic world and the communist world. We say they are divided into the left and the right.

The left-wing thought is on the left and the right-wing thought is on the right. Then where is the head? There is no head. We talk about the left and the right, and we talk about left-wing and right-wing, but if we talk about head-wing, where is the head-wing? And where is the foot-wing? There's only a lot of controversy about the arms. There are no legs. Is that a person?

So what wing are we? [Head-wing.] It's unification-wing, unification-wing. The unification-wing, if it were a person, what would it be? Head-wing. The head-wing group. Well, now by talking like this we've created a new word. Then what does the head-wing group mean? The time will come when someone will say, "Ah, on October 5, 1986 on the first Sunday at Chung-Pa Dong, in the sermon titled "The Pride of the Unification Church," the term "head-wing" was used. The person who knows that first is a world scholar. Those who don't know that must bow down to me. What kind of group is the Unification Church? [The head-wing group.] (laughter) There is left-wing and right-wing and there is head-wing; then if there is upper-wing there should be lower-wing. Then what makes these move? What makes the hands or feet move right or left? Can the right hand make the head move? Can the right hand make the four limbs move? No. It can't make the left hand move. No matter how big it is. For the right-wing to live... It can't live alone. "Oh no, my right hand is itching. Let's scratch it." Can the right side scratch it? [No.]

What I mean by that is that if the right-wing has a disease, it has no way to cure it. The cure has to come from somewhere else. Can it come and scratch an itchy diseased part of the left-wing? [No.] Come on you guys, when the left arm is sore and itchy, the right arm has to come and massage it, and scratch it and give it a shot.

If we look at the world, the left and the right are fighting. We are taking responsibility to stop this fighting of the left and right. That is the mission of the Unification Church group. Do you understand or not? [We understand.] This is the pride of the Unification Church.

What does the Unification Church have? It has Unification thought. That is our pride. How big is it? We have the thought which we call Cosmosism. That is an amazing statement. It is seeking to eternally unify the spirit world and the world of earth. Its container is so big that if the whole world were put into it, the world would fill just a corner of it. It is an ideology that can be filled only by putting all the spirit world, the whole cosmos into it. It is not some blind ideology. It is an ideology which is founded on laws developed step by step and which is connected to a formal process. This content is difficult, so people who have come for the first time may have trouble understanding what's being said. (147-184)

Have you ever heard the term "sonism"? The parents take the viewpoint of "sonism," and the son must take the viewpoint of "sonism," and they must unite. Have you ever heard of anything like this? That "ism" does not fit in the realm of familyism. In familyism, the families are needed in order to unite to form the nation. This familyism is then absorbed into nationism. Then nationism is absorbed into worldism, worldism is absorbed into cosmosism. Further, cosmosism is absorbed into heartism. From that viewpoint, what "ism" is today's Unification Church? What "ism"? [Heartism.]. The "ism" of the Unification Church is heartism. When we say cosmosism (Chunju Juui), which Chinese character is used for "ju" in "Chunju"? In the term cosmosism how is it possible that the "ju" character meaning "home" is used? Why not the characters meaning the great lord of heaven's "ism" or the great king of heaven's "ism" or the lord of heaven's "ism".

So why does the word for cosmos (chunju) use the character for home? The home is the cradle of all joy; it is the beginning point of the world; it is the crux of the matter for all blessings.

As mentioned before, Heaven is the subject and earth is the object. When we look at things centered on that subject and object, and when we talk abut love in relation to man who is in the object position, for instance if it's Adam, then in front of God, who is the subject to Adam, it is the family which can occupy the place where they can unify perpendicularly at the point of unity. Isn't that so?

Because the family is the place where the central axis of the universe can finally take its place on the earth, without finding the family the center of the universe cannot be established. That's why it is called cosmosism. Now do you understand why the character "home" is used in "cosmos"? (24-276, 57-112)

The "ism" of the Unification Church is cosmosism. Cosmosism is of course the making of heaven and earth into one, but in cosmos the character for home is used. In other words it means familyism. Man is heaven, woman is earth. If these two people become one, heaven and earth are becoming one. Isn't that right?

What that means is that centered on heart, going beyond the tribe, the people, and the nation, the family must be tied together like an impregnable fortress. The people is not the problem, the tribe is not the problem, the clan is not the problem. If the family can be tied together, the world can become one. (37-78)