1. A FAMILY NEEDS THREE GENERATIONS

Do you like a complicated thing or a simple one? [We like a simple one.] Really, you like a simple family? [Yes] Then, to where has what I said led?

I mean, let's live together with our grandfather, grandmother, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and grandchildren. Centered on what? Three generations, formation, growth and completion, can exist in a family, centered on the center. What does it mean? It means that you can love God when you love not only your father and mother but also grandparents. When you put grandfather above father and mother's position, then you can love God.

Then, why do we need a husband? Why do we need parents? Why do we need sons and daughters? It's just because we can't serve God without them. That's why we need them. It is the principle that we need to have parents, sons and daughters. Now, what does this mean? One, two, three, one, two, three..... (speaking while writing on the board) Here is the center. With an angle of 90 degrees. An angle of 90 degrees should be fit for it. These are all the same. So is the Center.

Now we understand why we need three generations. Do you need parents? [Yes] Then, do you need a husband and a wife? [Yes] You need a baby? [Yes] Why do you need them? From this, it is logical that we need parents, a husband and children in order to make a relationship with God and be well centered.

We have to know surely why we need parents, a spouse, children. You should know that by all means. You are bound to go up and down, to the center and side, to every direction. Even grandchildren can't help going to these directions.

When you act toward your grandfather with love, then he may say, "Good, good." You know this fact? [Yes] So you should know that it is a really surprising thing that the Unification Church has trained people how to build this type of family which is centered on the original love, in order to realize the original world which has not come true yet. (128-17)

There should be parents, a husband and a wife and child in a family. Then, the family becomes a foundation of happiness. The reason that God has sought human beings is to seek His own happiness.

So in order for God to seek such a foundation of happiness, He could not achieve the ideal if He were away from human beings. When God makes a relationship with people, then He can achieve it. Just as we feel happiness in the family where there are all kinds of emotions and sentiments, so God can feel that in that place. (132-198)

We need to feel and face each other. Therefore, we are absolutely in need of wife and husband as well as young and old. What would our future be like, if we say we don't need the old? When you neglect the old, then the nationality of your country may disappear. You understand that? From the viewpoint of ethnic traditions, if you would dislike the old, you would become a traitor to your ethnic traits.

By the way, children deny their parents, and even ethics and morality these days. It will be the Last Days when people deny ethics and morality. Our Unification Church members shouldn't do so, and we shouldn't dance to the tune of current thought. The Unification Church has to make firm human relationships which are truly positive and upright forever. Parents, children and teachers, everyone of them, should make true relationships with others respectively. So young people by themselves cannot make it perfect. Without exception, God also needs the old people in order to establish and fulfill His Will.

Therefore we must look upon the old as very important. Hereafter, you will set out to do this kind of work, centering on Rev. Moon. In working for God we need adults, sons and daughters, all members of a family (21-120)

Is it true that a lot of grandchildren and daughters-in-law hate to see the cane which grandparents are carrying with them. Why? Does it mean that they may wish the grandparents' early death? However, good grandchildren and daughters-in-law who have a lovely mind and heart may think, "Oh God, when the cane disappears someday, I will be drenched in tears." Then, are they good or bad? Which one? [They are good daughters-in-law and grandchildren] What about all of you, then? You want to just manage to get along, without being serious, don't you? These people don't have the proper direction of life and can't find the center in life at all. (184-270)

These days, the basic foundation of family ethics is being shaken. So far, those who believe in religion have thought that it's not good to get married.

But we have to sing in praise of the great divinity of marriage. The way for a man and woman to love each other will be built through their marriage life.

Thus, they can become one. Then whom are the man and the woman supposed to take after? That's God. Only when they become one, can they resemble God who made the man and the woman as His external image. Then God can be together within them.

The power of the universe is like this. Why does a wife cry over her husband's death? Well, we can think "death is just death..." He died because he would not want to eat meals? (Laughter) Death! It's just nothing but to be all over. Then, why do people cry for that? You have to know this point. When you don't have any sons and daughters, what makes you cry and be sad? The point is that you should be fully equipped with all the constituent family members. That's the basic principle of the universe.

Therefore, we can say that the existence-power of the cosmos is composed of power and the will to advance the object's ideal. For this reason, all can have give and take with each other. For instance, the South and the North can have give and take with each other, can't they? Just as the South Pole and the North Pole create give and take action, so one star and another star can do so. Nothing can exist without its counterpart. So an ideally unified being which has perfect give and take action can deserve the support of the universe.

This means that in order for this type of unified being to remain, heavenly fortune should come around it. Then, everything cooperates for such a being. That's how the Principle works. Also, we absolutely need sons and daughters. Nowadays, Western society has been filled with the way of thinking that there is no need of children. But just see if they really will not need any children later. You may understand why you need children, when you go to the spiritual world. The place where you are standing has an upside and a downside at the same time. It means that our existence is bound to pass through three stages.

Everything is made up of three stages. Three stages! \These should be parents, spouses, and children. \Nothing can run counter to this heavenly principle. If you divide each into three parts, there are three stages of man and three stages of woman. In summary, three numerological stages are formed and the ideal world comes true. It means that there must be a grandfather and a grandmother, a father and a mother, and yourselves. The family ethics of the Unification Church originate from just this ideal. (70-76)

What is Heaven? It is Heaven where one can love others just like one's family members, and it is the heavenly people who do so. Grandfather and grandmother, mother and father, husband and wife, brother and sister, and children! What do these four generations mean? A family is just like a textbook where heavenly people can experience a perfect love, the True Love of the universe. We all have to understand that a family is like a textbook that teaches you what the cornerstone of your life is. (129-98)

What is the Satan like? What is Satan? Here! Let's see what Satan is. We need to know what kind of fellow this Satan is. In other words, we should understand how Satan can be so bad.

Look! There is one family. How many generations usually live together in one family? [Three generations] Three generations or four generations? Which one? There are a grandfather, a father and you. They are three generations. By the way, there can be a great-grandfather. So there are four generations living together in one family. Thus, we should know that four generations can live together. Isn't that right? If there are four generations in a family, there are eighty years in total when we count 20 years for one generation.

Considering it in this light, where must the people before these generations live? They must be in the spiritual world.

By what should a family on the earth live? By money or by power? What matters is what we have to live by. [We should live by love.] (124-138)