What is the human world composed of? There is an order in the world. That is to say, there is an order among grandparents, parents and children. What matters is how well they all get along. We believe it is the best thing that all of them become unified into one.

What is the most valuable and precious thing in human beings? That is not something external, but something internal. For this reason, we ought to seek and establish a good relationship with people in the objective world and with our inner selves, resulting in good grandparents, good parents, good brothers and sisters, and a good couple. (161-314)

Teenagers these days when given something by their mothers are not willing to take it. (Laughter). Also, some parents, in order to go out for fun or pleasure, let their children stay locked in a room. Do you like such parents? In reality there are many parents like that. We've got to know that there are lots of men who are worse than animals.

Why do we human beings need to understand what the concept of family is? People in the world are in one of the four positions: grandparents, parents, husband or wife, and children. Yes? or no? [Yes] The concept is that a family is a textbook and the Bible is given to all the people in the world in order to lead them to be heavenly people.

Then, who is supposed to establish the order and rank in the family? The person who serves the family most and knows the family best will be in charge of the family. This order is not against the democratic doctrine. Then, who should be the center of the family? [Grandparents] That's right. It's the grandparents. Is that wrong? [No] Why? Because they are aware of the whole. So we can say the grandfather is the king of the family. Right? When your grandfather himself feels too old and hands over his authority to his son, then finally your father becomes the center of the family.

Later, if your father hands his authority down to you, you also can be the center of the family. This inheritance will be continuous, from grandparents to parents, from parents to children, from children to their descendants. That's how our tradition can be transmitted. Accordingly we have to know that this tradition ought to be the principle of a family system representing the universe.

But there has been no such God-accepting family since the fall of man. So God has made efforts to build again this ideal family by establishing religions, passing through a torturous course in human history.

Seen from this historical background, the fact is that it is the Unification Church that starts the ideal-family-making movement in the name of God for the first time in history. (130-269)

Just as one loves one's children, parents and grandparents, one has to love other children, parents and grandparents in his neighborhood. There we can form relationships in every direction. That's the way it is. Understand? There can't occur the heavenly principle centered on a vertical standard of heart without forming these relationships. So I want to say, "Let's put that in practice." We can say that the Unification Church is building the ideal family because we are practicing it to make it come true.

Then, what do you have to do in this vertical center? You have to make it again on a horizontal level. That's what you have to do. So, you can't help loving grandparents. Well, will I also become a grandfather soon? [Yes] Yes, I will be a grandfather. So will you be. It goes the same way. You are born as a son or a daughter, get married, become a parent and a grandparent. That's our life. That's the official course of our life. You have to accept and love these facts, otherwise you run counter to the heavenly principle. That's how it goes. You understand? [Yes]

Basically, if we do not form these relationships, there will be no way to put the world in order. If you go to a Western society, you may feel that the old people there are poor. You may not know how much they miss and envy Eastern customs. They might say to themselves, "The Eastern people serve their grandparents like God, always consulting with their seventy- or eighty-year old parents in order to make any decision. How good it is!"

Who is the oldest grandfather? Isn't it God? Also, who is the youngest? It's also God Himself. God is older than a grandfather and younger than a baby, so in order for us to love God, we have to love all people. Do you understand? When it comes to age, God may be the oldest and youngest.

When you say that you love God, it should mean you have to love your neighborhood, the people around you, and even the people in the spirit world who passed away in history. That is logical. (70-152)