The Point of Division Between Prosperity and Perishing

Hyo Jin Moon

Belvedere, Tarrytown, NY USA

February 23, 1992

We all understand why Heavenly Father needed religion, and specifically why Heavenly Father needs the Unification Church. It is because of the fall of our first ancestors, Adam and Eve. This world, which should have been Heavenly Father's ideal domain, the realm of the ideal family and world, became a den of thieves, a world centered on Satan.

Thus it is important because God must ultimately realize the perfection of His creation. That is why He must manifest some type of His reality within this fallen world. Therefore, religion has played a key role in establishing God's reality amidst this satanic, fallen environment. Furthermore, the reason that the Unification Church is so important is because it is God's true reality amid the confusion and disunity among religion itself, which is supposedly the medium by which God can bring His environment to the fallen world. The Unification Church symbolizes the ultimate manifestation of God's reality in the fallen world.

It is important that this be realized because we learn through our environment. We learn through observation and experience. Thus it is most important for us to create an environment where people, especially growing children, can see an ideal situation so that they can emulate that situation. Everything, including the essence of love, is based on the principle of give and take. If I am to receive certain things, there has to be an environment, some element that can give me those things which I need to understand and absorb in order for me to grow.

So the kind of environment that can give these children who are growing up and nurture these children spiritually and physically in a healthy way so they can become productive children of God. So it is very important since God has initiated this creation to manifest love. Man was to become the recipient of that love initiation and we were to reciprocate that love. We must create an environment where we can initiate this love process. That is very important. That's why we need religion, that's why we have, amid all the religions of the world, the Unification Church: to initiate the ideal love process, the environment that can motivate people, that can give direction to people to initiate love in a proper manner which God can receive.

Different reality

But the reality is very different. Everywhere you look, it is clear that the God-centered environment is lacking to a certain degree. It is not to the point where we can move people, affect people's lives on a day-to-day basis. Certainly that is our task, that is our homework for the future. How can we affect people of the world? Not just those right around the Belvedere area, but the people of the world how can we affect their lives on a daily basis? That is our ultimate goal. Ultimately this whole world has to become God's environment, it has to become God's domain. Therefore, we have to be able to reach people on a worldwide level on a daily basis. We have to have absolute dominion over our spiritual destiny as well as our physical life. That is our task for the future.

I worry about these things because my children are now getting older. My Shin Jung is seven now, she will be in third grade. Every time she comes home she brings all sorts of ideas which I never introduced to her. I have a terrible time explaining these things to her on a daily basis. It drives me crazy! On top of all the miserable things that I sometimes have to face, I come home and my children sometimes are going nuts! I can't believe some of the things that they are saying. And I can't just prohibit them from speaking about these things. They dwell outside of my house at least half of the time each day. I can't control that. If the bottom line is for me to control them, then I am absolutely impotent. That is the reality. They play dress up and I observe them. They are not just putting on makeup and clothing. They are putting on a certain attitude, a certain understanding and mentality. That is what is frightening. This is just the beginning.

I feel very scared to see my children growing up. They grow up so quickly. I want to do more, not just for my children but because this is necessary for your children as w