1) Discovering the Portion of Responsibility

As we did not know about the portion of responsibility thus far, history... Why have good people been sacrificed while evil people prospered? Looking at history, why have dictators ruled the world? It has been impossible for the good forces to appear and unify the world; in studying history, we find that only dictators dreamt of making the world one. That is because it has been Satan's world. As the realm of the portion of responsibility had been violated, all creation under it, and man himself who was under it, not one among all ancestors who appeared on this earth and went to the spiritual world, among all peoples on this earth, has been able to go into the realm of the completed portion of responsibility.

That is the Principle. It isn't something that I took and made up. Without knowing the term, "portion of responsibility", we cannot resolve history. Isn't that right? None of history can be clarified. We cannot resolve the twists and turns of history. Why is it a history of war? \The good condition of having fulfilled the portion of responsibility had to overcome the conditions of the evil world; thus, the battle to overturn the world of Satan, caused by the Fall had to be fought. That is why it became a history of the struggle between good and evil. (137-266)

Who made this word, "portion of responsibility", in the Unification Church? Who discovered it? [Reverend Moon!] I just discovered it, but I didn't make it up. (Laughter) God made it. God did. Did the words exist before I discovered them or not? [Existed before.] Since when? [From the time of creation of Heaven and Earth.] From the time of creation of Heaven and Earth. This law is an eternal law. We must know that.

God's love is absolute; at the same time, if that love does not stand on top of an absolute portion of responsibility, that love cannot be realized. It is absolute. It is more fundamental than eating breakfast and thinking about living.

So I discovered the word, "portion of responsibility". I discovered it, but did I do so just sitting quietly like all of you? I fought to discover it. The world of Satan must come to collapse completely if this were discovered, so Satan sought to hide it with all his might, to cover it up under mountains and hide it completely. (150-41)

Today, we must know that the clarification of man's portion of responsibility is a cosmic discovery. It cannot be compared with even the invention of the atomic bomb or the discovery of Einstein's theory of relativity. If we don't know this, none of the problems of humankind can be resolved.

The fact that you know the truth about man's portion of responsibility means that you possess something great. Yet today, Moonies dislike man's portion of responsibility the most. It should be the Moonies who love it the most, but it is they who dislike man's portion of responsibility. How is that? Do you like it or dislike it? [We like it.] I said, "You should fulfill man's portion of responsibility," but have you? [We haven't.] (124-303)

All of the contradictory situations in the universe and all of the twisted, tragic outcomes of history occurred because man did not know about the portion of responsibility. You are thinking of the portion of responsibility just as you choose. "The portion of responsibility is something taught within the Principle and it doesn't relate to us. We can live as we please in this world." That is how you are thinking.

When you view it in that way, you must know that the discovery of the portion of responsibility by Reverend Moon was indeed a great discovery. How important do you think the portion of responsibility is? The entire universe is dependent upon this portion of responsibility. God is not liberated, the universe is not liberated, hell is not liberated because this hasn't been fulfilled; the history of every possible contradictory immorality in society is hooked onto the wall of the portion of responsibility, and is groaning. (124-94)