Claim. The family is the starting point at which God’s ideal is manifested and the unrevisable base from which all higher social forms — nation, world, cosmos — must develop; even God cannot change this position.
Elaboration. “The family is the starting point where God’s ideal can be manifested, as well as the happiness of humanity. It is the place where all individuals can have their efforts brought to fruition, and where all of God’s work is fulfilled” (1.1. Why is the family valuable?, Blessed Family -934). The unrevisability is named explicitly: “This fact cannot be changed by the father or the elder brother, indeed, by any system in the nation or the world. Furthermore, this fact cannot be changed by heaven and earth, or even by God Himself” (ibid, 25-87, 1969.9.30). The structural rationale ties to the four-position-foundation: “we marry in order to achieve the four-position foundation. Only when such public laws of the universe are established on earth can God’s will, as well as the will of humankind, be fulfilled.” The implication: in SMM’s frame, social ontology runs family-first; “revolution” has no purchase against the family because the family is itself the founding axiom.