Today, there are four billion people living on earth, and yet in the spirit world there are hundreds of billions of souls. So the question is how this world and the spirit world are connected. Are they connected through that which we consider valuable on earth, such as material, power structure, or knowledge? It cannot be so. It is because the other world transcends material and knowledge. It transcends time and space so that yesterday's joy can be that of today, and today's joy can be that of tomorrow. Hence, we can see that the other world is not moved by what we need and the value of the world of earth. What is the center of value in the spirit world? This is important. Each of the spirit people belongs to a society of the spirit world. As on earth, spirit world also has families, tribes, countries, and world. Everyone, no matter who he is, will go to and live in the spirit world. Think about it. All kinds of people who have lived in human history are there, primitive or civilized. Since human history has not been a history of peace, happiness, and the ideal, what will happen when they go to the spirit world? This is curious. How are they to be treated? One cannot change his life-style so quickly in the other world. There is a saying that the habit of a three-year old continues until he turns eighty. Inborn personality is also hard to change. So are spirit people very different from the way we live? It cannot be so. The life-style on earth is transferred to the other world. After all, those living in the spirit world used to be souls of living individuals. So spirit world is not so different from this world where we live. (141-268) There are many kinds of histories in the spirit world. But spirit people cannot come here and work just as they wish. They are blocked from it. Unless a bridge is built through religion, only a few special people can return to earth. Suppose that factions are created in Judaism, and the point of connection moves here and there, creating a confusion. Spirit people are trying to come down from the spirit world, but the connecting line is not straight; when different factions of Judaism make their own spiritual conditions, the line of connection moves here and there. From the spirit world, only those who are connected through a straight line can come down for returning resurrection. One who is on earth will go to the spirit world after one century. If he wants to come down, he has to follow the same principle, and yet only few special ones can come down. This way, walls become more and more numerous in the spirit world, and it becomes more and more complicated. Afterwards, the entire generation goes to the spirit world, and walls become bigger and bigger. Now is a global age. Imagine how complicated it must be. Think how many times you must turn around and around in order to find this. So when the time comes, the walls must be brought down. In the spirit world, let us create the main road through which spirit people can come down. Those who went this way cannot come here, do you understand? So this is what the Unification Church will do. (102-29) Those who went to the spirit world are all divided... In the spirit world there is no horizontal communication, but only certain vertical communication. (218-125)
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