What is the universe? It is the amplified family. You've got to know this. Seen from the order of the family, it comprises the higher, middle, lower, left, right, front and back. That is the Principle. When we speak of the higher and lower, it indicates parents and children; when speaking of the left and right, it refers to husband and wife; when it is the front and back, it means brothers and sisters. How can all those parts become one? By power? [ No.] Knowledge? [No.] Money? [No.] Then what makes it possible? [Love.] Not ordinary love. Is True Love. Nothing can make a round circle but True Love. Then, what are the higher, middle and lower levels in a family? That's the textbook to let you feel the love of the universe. I want you to spread such love to the world. How to love yourself? Jesus said, "Love your neighbor as you love yourself." What does that mean? It's not clear. When you meet another's grandfather, serve him as you serve your own grandfather. In the same way, you have to serve other mothers, fathers and children. It can be said that all those kinds of people are exhibited in the exhibition center, the world. It's like a world people exhibition. When you love others with love as you love your family members, God will be with you. In addition, when you see a child, love him as you love God. Well, what is the heavenly world like? It is like an amplified family and exhibition center of qualified goods. So it should have some shape to hold such a qualified family. (128-23) Here, can we live without learning the love of the universe? [No, we can't live.] God gave you a textbook, a holy scripture, and promised that you shall love your grandfather and grandmother, who were sent to you representing the grandfathers and grandmothers in the spiritual world. In the same manner, if you absolutely love your father and mother, who stand for the other parents in the world, it makes the condition for you to love the rest of the parents. It applies to the case of men and women and children in the same way. So a family is the training center to teach people what love is and how to love people through its holy scripture. If these trainees answer, "Yes," when they are asked to love other grandfathers and grandmothers as they are love their grandparents, then they can establish the conditions to save this world. In loving people, you shouldn't discriminate among people, whether white or black, rich or poor, learned or uneducated. You have to love people, whatever they may be like, just as you love your family members. That's the formula by which one is taught how to love. (130-273)
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