Love between parents and children comes from the parent, and the love of parents means the love of a father and a mother. We receive the love of our parents from the moment we are born, and as long as our parents exist, in childhood, in youth and adulthood regardless of time, we receive their love. As we grow up with this parents' love, it will lead to each of us expanding in the horizontal life of husband and wife. In order to complete love between husband and wife, you must have children and love them.

When you look at it this way, the first ancestors received God's love and became a couple, and everything consisted of even numbers centered upon love. When we look at it from this viewpoint, people who receive parents' love and people who grant it are all brothers.

Without children, parents cannot know what love is. You can feel True Love only with an object. Brothers might grow up without experiencing parents' love, but when they grow up, marry and have children, they would understand parents' love. In other words, when it starts from parents and goes one round and then comes again to parents, then it's understood. So you cannot be called a mature person without having children.

The question is where we should decide the standard of a mature and completed figure.

You may see the parents themselves are mature, but unless they are horizontally and vertically mature, they cannot be called a perfect person. When Adam and Eve receive God's love, mature, and centering on God unite horizontally, in other words, when they enter a realm where they can unite with each other in the reciprocative positions, the love which God has purposed reaches completion.

When Adam and Eve unite centering upon God, a certain shape is formed. But to form a plane shape they must definitely have children. This makes a horizontal relationship; but you must understand that it cannot replace the vertical relationship.

The loves of a husband and wife are one and the loves of parents are vertically more than two. If so, the question is, which is more important? Even though the loves of husband and wife have relative reciprocators, because they are one, the vertical love must be the center.

A vertical relationship is extending love between parents and children. Parents, husband and wife, and children are the fundamental requirements of a vertical relationship. When all of it comes together, it forms one family. When you expand a couple's love, it can reach parents' love. If the children become parents after becoming husbands and wives, their love also must become the same size and length as the love of their parents. If so, what becomes of love between children? With what standard should we love? The brothers love as their parents do. (66-119)

Nowadays, we humans seek greater people than ourselves... If you ask young women, "What are you going to be?" they will answer, "I will become a beautiful young lady with virtues, and marry a husband even more magnificent." They will think like that. Then if you ask young men, these youth here, "What do you want?," they will answer, "I want to become a more valuable and handsome man and marry a more splendid woman as my spouse." These are inevitable and common desires of people, so we see it.

When we look at it this way, if the two can become a couple that can unite perfectly into one, we can say that they are a true and precious husband and wife. If so, this valuable couple should not stop with themselves. To expand a better environment standing on an environmental position, they will need children, won't they? As you usually see in the movies, when his dear wife becomes pregnant, the husband rejoices. Well, why is he happy? Because it means the expansion of himself, and the expansion of a base that connects himself to a larger scope. Since it is needed, we desire it.

Through having children we connect to four sides. This sphere, where the couple concentrated to love each other, expands bit by bit to a diffusive realm of love.

When you have a family, can you be satisfied with only the family? The family is not sufficient. It will want to expand. Here we need a tribe, a people, a nation, a world, and if there is a spirit world, we also need the spirit world. And if God exists beyond the spirit world, we need God as well. It expands like this.

Something expanding does not mean the reduction of itself but the expansion of itself, and it does not mean the incompleteness of itself but the perfection of self. So the more it goes up to a higher position, the greater its solid value is than a plane value. Solid value is not a stagnant value but a circulation value. When it moves its action is not without purpose but has content; its movement is not purposeless, but is purposeful action. Whatever direction it takes, it has to fit the purpose. Everything has that sort of thought. (110-68)

When ours and God's hope and conditions meet, what will God do? He will let us inherit all things. God wants us to become this kind of being and own all things, and to have sons and daughters in that position and to let the children inherit everything. Only a person like this can find and restore behind in front, left and right, and above and below.

Any person without parents, spouse or children would be sad, because centering on these elements we must hold heaven and earth. We must be able to say, "Heavenly Father is my father. So the whole universe which He created is mine." We must be able to say, "His heart of hope throughout history and this current circumstances are mine, and the future he wants to create is mine." (12-150)