1. THE FAMILY IS THE TEXTBOOK FOR COMPOSING THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.

For what have we been shedding tears, blood and sweat with a parental heart and servile body? It is for the sake of the world. It would be a lie to say that we live for the sake of the world without living for the sake of our sons and daughters. When one lives for the world's sake, one can become a representative. Therefore, "I" am the one who has done so and I am the one who decides the criterion and the base for realizing the Heavenly Kingdom.

Then, what is the criterion? That's the family. Also, what is the base to establish a nation? It is the family too. There you should be such a love-centered person who doesn't want any rewards, even if you might have sacrificed your children and experienced every severe trial. You should have the thought that you feel sorry for not giving more and more. When you make up your mind like that, then your children would thank you for what you have done for them and voluntarily take over the responsibility on behalf of the parents. You have to make and offer such an environment. Without doing so, you can't go beyond the state of regret in the Garden of Eden when the people had fallen. (29-101)

There is the love of your grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, and brothers and sisters in your heart. Our Divine Principle calls it the love of the three-objects. Right? Husband and wife stand for the present. So they should have the mind to live for the past and the future. It means that you have to establish a vertical foundation.

Do you like your mother-in-law? [Yes.] Do you need sons and daughters? [Yes.] Well, you said, "Yes." Then here are grandparents, husband and wife, and children. By the way, which one is more important, a vertical relationship or a horizontal one? [The vertical one.] Why? It's because that is the root and base of the universe. Love comes from Heaven, the upper place. It doesn't originate from the horizontal base. Therefore, the vertical one should come first, from which the horizontal one would originate. This is a plus and that is a minus.

After the horizontal husband and wife become one being, then whom should they love most strongly? [Parents-in-law.] The two loving beings should return to this place (speaking while pointing to his writing on the board). They have to make one circle, moving around. How can they do so?

The husband should love his parents as he loves his wife. And he should more strongly love his children. These three types of love should be located like this: first, the grandparents and then the father and mother and finally the children. Here are the vertical love and the horizontal love together. Thinking from this point of view, we find that when an American couple becomes divorced, they are able to desert each other but not the baby. Why is it so? Because the baby has everything, the love of man, the love of woman, the love of God. So, there may be no need for a man or woman, but there is the need for a baby. Why? It has God's love.

Do you understand that? So once a couple get divorced, there breaks out a fight to take the baby. Right? [Yes.] Just as a husband loves a baby, so he has to love his wife and God. In the same manner, a wife should love her husband and God as she loves her baby. When such three types of love come true, it will be ideal.

The husband and the wife in Western society are moving around, centering on this. But they don't have a center when moving. (speaking while pointing to his writing on the board) Where is the center? Without bringing the love center here, Western society and civilization will be under darkness. The universe would not tolerate it.

Seen from such a type of family organization, the family can be like a textbook. That is also a textbook to show how to realize an ideal nation. And such an ideal nation is a textbook to build an ideal world. Do you understand what that means? [Yes.] So there are four types of textbooks. These are the family textbook, the nation textbook, the world textbook and the universe textbook. Where should this training take place? Basically, it should be done in the family.

What should a family be like? Man must go beyond woman, woman must go beyond man, husband and wife must go beyond grandfather and grandmother.

That's the content of the family textbook which is for the nation. The nation is comprised of grandparent, mothers and father, and future daughters-in-law. So it is possible to say that one can build his own nation. (118-232)

There are four generations: God and True Parents, parents, husband and wife, and children. The parents are the beings who are realized horizontally in the stead of True Parents. If you had not been fallen, you would not have any need to believe in God. It means that you would be supposed to recognize God automatically. So if you loved God as you loved your parents, you'd deserve to go to the Kingdom of Heaven. Then, there would be no need of religion. It would be needless. Understand that?

In the same way, children should love grandparents as parents love grandparents. This does not need education. It can be applied to the animal world in the same way. The textbook says that God, parents and sons and daughters should become one like one body, centering on love. Also, it tells us that love shouldn't be applied to your home only. (164-94)

The family is the textbook to show how to make the Kingdom of Heaven. There is one common thing that every nation can agree upon. If you love all the parents and old people in the world as you love your physical parents and grandparents, you are surely supposed to go to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Any border in the spiritual world could not influence such a man. In other words, if you treat all the young in the world as your sons and daughters, you will be welcome any place in the heavenly world.

The family is the textbook to show how to make a relationship with the Kingdom of Heaven. It is the textbook for education. If you apply what you learn in such an ideal family to the nation, the world and God, you will become a patriot and a saint. All people desire to be so.