Claim. The path of true human beings is to live for the sake of others — this is the heavenly law that distinguishes saints from “great people” and supplies the condition under which all relational doors open.
Elaboration. “Anything that engages in action for its own sake brings about evil. Anything that acts for the greater good brings about development … the Unification Church teaches that to live for the sake of others is a principle of heavenly law” (5.2. The way true human beings should go, 133-16, 1984.7.1). SMM distinguishes saints from great people sharply: “Great people have enemies before them, but saints do not. Great people love only their own race, but saints love all humankind” (ibid, 38-263, 1971.1.8). God Himself is positioned as the supreme example: “He stands in the representative position of living for the sake of others more than anyone else does in the universe.” The implication: ethics in SMM’s frame is not negotiation between self-interests but inheritance of God’s own altruistic mode of existence; anything less is structurally incompatible with His presence.