5. To go the way of restoration

To go the way of restoration how do you have to go? You cannot go the way of restoration thoughtlessly. To complete the purpose of the restoration that God wants, there must first be the model for perfecting the individual. That model must be something that has surpassed all the standards. God also wants to establish through the model of the individual a family he can set up as a model, a nation to set up as a model, and a world to set up as a model. This way is the way of the Will that God is pursuing with humankind along the way of the restoration. (63-153)

How does God live? God lives for the whole world. How does God love? God loves the whole world together. How can God be happy? By watching people who are happy having give and take, God is happy. That's how God lives. That is how God goes His way. The course of restoration is the reverse of the course of the illness. If we had not fallen, then everything would have come from here like this, but because we fell the branches are divided. So we have to kill this and use it as fertilizer, and from here we have to stick it here backwards. To develop this backwards, we must be more for the whole than for "myself." There is no way to reverse it without having an ideal to be for the whole more than for "myself." We have to be powerful as an individual, and powerful as a family, and powerful as a tribe. And then we have to go backwards and break through. (79-232)

1) Restoration Starts From an Individual

The area of the mission of restoration expands. First you have to complete individual restoration. But completing individual restoration is done in order to complete the restoration of the family. They mean the same. We have to pull out everything that is attached to the tail. If "I" have pulled out "myself" then I have to expand that and pull out my family, and pull out my tribe, and pull out my people. This is the way to expel Satan. In words, we must take them away from Satan, to expel him. (68-11)

Where does the viewpoint of the Unification World start? It starts from the individual, from yourselves. But the individual is divided. It's divided as the body and the mind, and the part that does wrong is always the body. So if you follow what the body says to do, then the world of mind gets conquered. The part that always does wrong is the body. (56-87)

If we place God as our ultimate goal, can we say, "Ah, then I should find the universe," and start from the universe? No. Then to go up to the universe, let's think about the shortest path. Where should we start from? [From the individual] The individual is the issue. Then, when the individual is starting, can that individual start thoughtlessly? No. If God is here, then between God and the individual we should mark a straight line... This is the goal point, and this is the beginning point.

Then what is the shortest path? However broad it is, it starts from "me," an individual. Then "my mind" has to unite. That's why God orders our mind to unite with the body for world restoration. If the mind and the body don't unite, then the mind goes it's own way, and the body goes it's own way; they go separately. Then they can't go to one destination. An indecisive person cannot have success.

Therefore, the first step of the way that we have to go is having the body and the mind become one. The mind goes through the way of the body. Then where do you go? What direction should you head? What is the closest? It's the family. You know that in the family there are parents, spouses and children. These people must unite. This has to become one. It can be concluded that the object realm must become one. (70-12)