2. In Order to Experience Vertical Love

I, Rev. Moon, am the person who wants most in the universe to be born in and swim and live in this kind of love. Since Rev. Moon is in such a position, if I grab someone, I can hold him and take him to the headquarters of love. You can just cross this bridge and go there quickly, so the members of the Unification Church are anxious to make use of me

Why do we like our fathers and mothers? We love them because we want to make use of them and find the love of a higher level. That is good. Mothers and fathers tell their children to love their parents. The reason for loving your parents is to build a bridge of children and to seek the love of the world. This was not known until now.

Why do animals called men need woman and vice versa? They need each other to love. To love means to build a vertical bridge between humankind. To build a bridge! Brothers caring for each other means building a bridge back and forth, and parents and children? To build a vertical bridge. Vertical relationship, above and below relationship, back and forth relationship, left and right relationship.

When we make a bond, with what do we make it? We make it with love. A commitment to the universe, must be spread, it must be magnified. That is why you want to be a global person. Even splendid figures would want the best sons and daughters in the world, rather than have below-average children. (136-120)

When you say you live for your spouse, you are not living for the sake of your spouse. You live centered upon God's original, ideal True Love, in the essence of it. You live centering on that kind of love. You are living for and representing God. Isn't that wonderful! You want to live with God, but He is incorporeal so you live with your spouse instead of God.

However, love between a man and a woman is inadequate; it is only horizontal love. You need the love of a mother and a father, parents' love.

You must become a parent. You can never know vertical love unless you become a parent. After experiencing horizontal love, why do we need sons and daughters? In order to experience vertical love. People without children do not understand vertical love. This kind of people are unhappy. Do you get it? (Yes) Why are they unhappy? At the level, of parents there must be love you can give and take with one below your level. By doing so, above and below can be connected.

Then, just as in love between spouses, the more you love there should be no complaints about living for the sake of others. So in the world of living for the sake of others, even if the husband loves his children more than he loves his wife, the wife cannot complain saying, "Oh, that man only loves his sons and daughters and doesn't care for me day and night. Why does he act like that?" She does not complain. She is happy with it, and says, "Oh, I'm glad. He loves them more than me. That's the way it should be."