1. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOUR PHYSICAL PARENTS AND TRUE PARENTS

What does it mean to say "true parents"? How are true parents different from your physical parents? What are true parents? What do true parents do? What kind of love do they teach? When we speak in terms of love, what is the difference between your physical parents and true parents? The difference is in their concepts of love. Each has a different concept concerning love. Physical parents have taught about love that is centered on the physical love. Spiritual parents teach about love that is centered on the spirit world. The content is different.

You would think that having physical parents would be enough. So, why do you need spiritual parents? It is because of the Fall. The Fall. What have fallen parents been teaching until now? For the most part, they completely scorn that which is greater, and teach their children to center on themselves and take a path that keeps going downward. They teach about going down. Because of that, a line has been drawn in order to keep the children in the satanic world forever centering on the love of the parents. There has been no way to break that.

Then, what are True Parents? Right here, starting with this much of a foundation, they teach about larger and larger things. As you go higher, they teach about things that are even larger. So, what is that? They teach you so that you will be suitable for the heavenly world, the eternal world. They teach you so that when you go to the eternal world, you will be compatible there and won't have any problems living there in harmony. Do you understand?

If you go as you are to the high spirit world, you just have to go into some corner and stay there with your back turned against the entire spirit world, as if to protect yourself against the wind. You have to do that, because if you turn around and face people, they are all people who just want to live for you, deny themselves and sacrifice themselves. It's so much that you'll feel you're going to suffocate.

Who made it this way? Satan did. That is why you are hoping that True Parents will come and liberate you. You want to be liberated. What is the way to go about liberating people in this situation? Do you untie the knot just as it is, or do you go the opposite course?

Your parents look on "Moonies" to be their enemy. They say they're going to deprogram you, and they're making a big commotion. On the other hand, if you live according to my words, you will go through a lot of suffering, but you will find peace in your heart. If you take only the easy way, you will come up against despair and misery.

If you live according to my words for one year and then ten years, then you will be able to look behind you and see a mass of people following you. If you don't, then you will just fall away in loneliness all by yourself. In the end, there won't be anyone left but you. In the end, there will only be one person left. Who here today can say: "I'm confident that I won't die"? Hold up your hands. People who are confident they will not die. No one? (129-99)

If you want to return to God, then the spirit world is the stage where you can do this. The spirit world. You have to go as far as to receive training for the spirit world in the third dimension. The place where you are trained to strengthen your love for and oneness with the spirit world is the same place where you learn to love God. It's the place where you learn to love your Parents in Heaven.

For this training, the Messiah comes for the purpose of fulfilling the role of True Parents on earth today and to connect the spirit world and the substantial world to God above. That's all there is to the mission of the Messiah. The Messiah truly loves us and lives for our sake to a greater extent than anyone else in history. So, you have to be sure to pass this training successfully. You have to be able to say: "I've completed all the training." In the spirit world you have to do that when you go to spirit world.

Before the Lord comes, before the True Parents come on this earth, all of spirit world is divided into many parts. If you want to know what spirit world is like, it's similar to the way the world we live in now in that it cannot be united as one. Many walls have been built up, and the True Parents have to take care of all this. The True Parents do this in a substantial body like this, not having died. They do it in the substantial body, and in this way, they break through this separation between the physical and spirit worlds. Do you understand? That is why the True Parents represent not only the world of the physical body but also the spirit world, as God's representatives.

Normally you would have to die and be trained for billions and billions of years. But by attending the True Parents and by means of absolute love, you are, for the first time, able to pave a road that connects to the spirit world. By demonstrating absolute loyalty before this Messiah, you establish the condition of having demonstrated absolute loyalty before even the greatest of all spirit people. You establish the condition of having demonstrated absolute loyalty to God's commands. You have to demonstrate absolute loyalty to the Messiah in the place of God. Why is that? It is so that you can establish a tradition that enables you to become one with the people in spirit world. In order to pass this test, you need to demonstrate absolute loyalty. Do you understand what I'm saying? [Yes.]

Why do you need to attend the Lord at the Second Advent, the True Parents? It is because they represent spirit world and God. Moreover, the first parents, second parents and third parents have formed a bond of heart that is sealed in love. Thus, another reason for you to do these things is so that you can be qualified to participate in the realm of the victory of heart that represents all of this. (105-112)