The Course of Indemnity and Our Life
Section 1. The Way of Restoration Is the Inevitable Course for Humankind
1.1. Restoration through indemnity is the way of re-creation
When we say “restoration through indemnity,” it means indemnity for the sake of restoration. Restoration through indemnity is the way to attain perfection. Only after indemnity can restoration take place; then we can go the path of perfection. Thus, you can consider that indemnity and restoration are one. Perfection cannot be attained automatically; it is attained through indemnity. Therefore, human beings living in the fallen world cannot reach perfection unless they set up conditions of indemnity. (God’s Will -697)
What is the way of restoration we talk about in the Unification Church? Ordinary religions state that people need to be saved and therefore seek the religious path. But we seek the way of restoration, saying that restoration is necessary. Then, what is restoration? How is it done? We accomplish it through the process of re-creation. (168-324, 1987.10.1)
The way of restoration is the way by which people return to their original state, and therefore one cannot go this way without setting indemnity conditions. Indemnity conditions must be set by a man, not by God. If a person is sick, he must take medication in order to recover, even if the medicine tastes bitter and he does not like it. Good medicine tastes bitter. Something bitter becomes a truly good medicine. Setting indemnity conditions is difficult, like taking bitter medicine. However, unless indemnity conditions are set, restoration can never be accomplished. The way of salvation is the way of indemnification and restoration. Indemnity means going the route opposite to that of the Fall. It means going the reverse way. (92-254, 1977.4.18)
If everyone comes to understand the meaning of indemnity, then they would like that word the best. Without indemnity, there is no blessing. It is indemnity that has the value of gold in the Unification Church. Indemnity is an amazing word that enables us to even risk our lives, sacrifice everything, and overcome all difficulties. (97-71, 1978.2.26)
The history of restoration is not something you accomplish just based on explanations. First, you do things, achieve victory, and in this way you take charge of the situation. If there were a way to receive explanations from someone, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments would not have been necessary. Ten pages would have been enough to record everything. Why would we need the sixty-six books? They would be useless. We would not even need ten pages. Three pages should be enough to record everything. (62-126, 1972.9.17)
The concept of indemnity is necessary for the sake of re-creation. That is why we need indemnity for re-creation. Indemnity is essential in order to be re-created as an original human being. Only when an original human being appears will other persons appear who can go the original way of God’s will. So, are you the original people? No. You are of the fallen blood. Therefore, you must be re-created through indemnity. (133-69, 1984.7.8)
How did Adam fall? He fell due to his disbelief. Disbelief was the primary reason. Next, Adam fell because he asserted himself. He put himself, his ego in the center of everything. Adam fell because he took a self-centered position. Next, Adam demanded a realm of selfcentered love. These are the three major elements of the Fall: disbelief, self-assertion or self-centeredness, and finally dreams of self-centered love. These are the footholds of Satan. The fallen angels were like this. (126-34, 1983.4.10)
Why am I giving you a suffering course? It is because you have to go the way of indemnity. I, too, intend to walk the way of indemnity my whole life. I am not reluctant to do it. One should walk this path willingly. You must understand that. Even when I go to prison, I do it willingly. I have to go there for the sake of indemnity. If I complain, my actions cannot be considered as indemnity. (133-69, 1984.7.8)
The way of indemnity is necessary for us. In order to save this world, you walk the way of indemnity. Even though Jesus was born as the original son of God, he still needed to go the way of indemnity in order to save this world. Since the world could not do so, and since the people who were supposed to go the way of indemnity opposed him, Jesus himself had to walk that path and had no choice but to take responsibility. (133-69, 1984.7.8)
The way of restoration requires you to cut your way through in the direction opposite to that of the Fall. Walking the way of indemnity is a basic rule for fallen people. Unless you surmount this path, you cannot restore your original status. Therefore, you must clean up yourselves. You must possess a sound theoretical system explaining how to restore the individual, family, tribe, ethnic people, nation, and world. (God’s Will -354)
1.2. The Reason We Must Go the In order to re-create something, you
must invest even more energy than that originally invested in its creation. Since repairing something requires more effort than creation, that extra amount must be paid through a condition called indemnity. Do you understand? Are you able to understand the concept of indemnity? (133-69, 1984.7.8)
The more deeply you understand God’s will, the more you feel you want to burn up your body that has been defiled by Satan, and through which his dirty blood runs. You feel like throwing away your hands and feet and your whole body, which have been used by Satan. It is absurd to try to maintain yourselves in your present form, tainted by evil. Have you ever experienced such a feeling? However, we cannot kill ourselves, so we need certain conditions in order to clean ourselves from the past connected with Satan. (22-207, 1969.2.4)
You cannot walk the way of restoration alone. According to the principle of re-creation, you must walk this way in cooperation with God and the spirit world. Since the providence of salvation develops only in this way, God and the spirit world are mobilized to carry out the work of re-creation. The reason for this is that God created the world of angels before He created human beings. Next, He created all things with the help of the angels, and then using all things as the material, He created human beings. (100-264, 1978.10.22)
Perfection is achieved through the completion of indemnity. Without climbing over the ridge of indemnity, there is no way for you to reach perfection. Internally, this refers to individual perfection, but from God’s point of view, this can be seen as restoration. It is possible to say that the standard of the completion of indemnity is the completion of restoration. Restoration is accomplished through indemnity. That is why we call it restoration through indemnity. Thus, indemnity and restoration cannot be separated. (God’s Will -697)
Adam and Eve, who were the ancestors of humankind, fell due to illicit selfcentered love. Together with the archangel they committed the Fall, which resulted in God being exiled and the original, true character of Adam and Eve being lost. (35-215, 1970.10.19)
God appears to Adam and Eve, who have not fallen. In this position you can find God. We all must return to the position of sinless Adam and Eve as they were before the Fall. In that position we must meet the True Parents and create a true tribe, true nation, and the true world. There is no other theology that advocates such things, only the Unification Principle. (God’s Will -354)
The Kingdom of Heaven is a place where we attend God as the absolute center and develop relationships of love through Him. God carries out the providence of salvation in order to set this foundation straight, so asserting oneself is absolutely inadmissible. (92-255, 1977.4.18)
Section 2. The Foundation of Faith and the Foundation of Substance
2.1. The Foundation for the Messiah
Creating a foundation for the Messiah, by restoring the foundation of faith and the foundation of substance, is necessary in order to remove original sin. Once we remove the original sin, we are able to newly enter the realm of God’s life and love. To do so, we must receive a graft. In order to make a wild olive tree into a true olive tree, we must cut off the wild tree and graft onto it the scion of the true tree. Similarly, in order for people who are like wild olive trees to become true olive trees, they must go through the process where they first deny themselves and then totally affirm something new. By doing so, a person changes his intrinsic nature from that of a wild olive tree to that of a true olive tree, so that he can emerge as a person led only by goodness. Then such people form a family, a tribe, an ethnic people, a nation, and the world. That is what the Unification Church intends to do. You must understand that this is what the Unification Church members presently hope to achieve. (41-62, 1971.2.13)
How can the foundation of faith be restored? A condition must be set through a sacrificial offering. The foundation of substance means removing fallen nature, but that is done by uniting Cain and Abel. If you wish to restore yourself, your fallen nature must be completely eliminated and you must put aside your feelings of closeness to your kin. If you are told, “Go to the east!” you must say “Yes” and do so. And if you are told, “Go to the west!” you also say “Yes” and obey. If you object, you are not going to be restored. If you object, can restoration be accomplished? You must follow absolutely. (46-233, 1971.8.15)
In order to receive the Messiah, there must be the foundation of faith and the foundation of substance. After the foundation of substance is completed, the foundation for the Messiah is inevitably required. If so, who would stand on the foundation for the Messiah after the foundation of substance is established? We were born as the descendants of fallen human beings, inheriting Satan’s lineage, and we are still not able to transcend that lineage. In order to transcend that lineage, we must change our lineage, but we cannot do that on our own. Therefore, we need the Messiah. (47-12, 1971.8.19)
Due to the Fall, first the parents were lost. Second, we inherited Satan’s lineage. And third, we came under the dominion of Satan. So, in order to restore all this, we must go up the opposite way. How far can you go by studying the Principle? You must establish the foundation of faith and the foundation of substance; only then can you hope to meet the Messiah. This is the Principle. Thus, I say, let us create the foundation of faith and the foundation of substance externally. (54-186, 1972.3.24)
Even if a person reached the standard of perfection, his lineage is still not completely clean. Since humankind inherited Satan’s lineage, our lineage is not pure yet. In order to purify it, humankind certainly needs the Messiah. Therefore, the foundation of faith, the foundation of substance, and the foundation for the Messiah are absolutely necessary for fallen people. The ultimate question is how to create the foundation for the Messiah and change the lineage through the Messiah. (55-135, 1972.5.7)
People must complete the foundation of faith and the foundation of substance, thus inheriting the foundation for the Messiah, and receive a graft from him. By receiving the graft you can become a true olive tree, even though in the past you were a wild one. In other words, when and only when you get rid of Satan’s lineage and come back to God’s lineage of goodness can you stand in the positions of bride and groom. That is the way of the Principle. (64-16, 1972.10.22)
No one in the world can say that he or she has completed the course of restoration. That is why people are destined to perish. The responsible person who comes to save people from destruction and enable them to possess such inner qualities and complete this path is the Messiah. If you graft the scion of the Messiah to yourself, then you will be able to follow this path. In the Unification Church, don’t we say that once you establish the foundation of faith and complete the foundation of substance, you are able to then accomplish the foundation for the Messiah? This is what it refers to. (63-340, 1972.10.22)
During the course of restoration, one must go up, starting from the era of servant of servants, through the eras of servant, adopted son, and direct son. If so, can one be connected to the era of direct son after going through the era of servant of servant, the era of servant, and the era of adopted son? You cannot get connected to the era of the direct son without doing anything. You must go through the process of establishing the foundation of faith, the foundation of substance, and the foundation for the Messiah according to the Principle. In short, you must receive the Messiah. The Messiah is the true son of God. An adopted son and a true son belong to different lineages. Therefore, the change of the lineage is necessary. (55-192, 1972.5.9)
Then, what are you supposed to do? You must go through suffering on the verge of death. In order to indemnify the vertical history horizontally, you must become a servant. Korean people loved by God must become servants like angels. From that position, if you can become a master, you will become an adopted son. Becoming an adopted son refers to restoring the foundation of faith and the foundation of substance. Since the foundation for the Messiah can only be established by restoring the foundation of substance, you must do this. (62-259, 1972.9.25)
You can become a person of goodness only by conquering evil and leaving goodness behind, so that evil automatically surrenders to you. In terms of the Principle, it is called completing the foundation of substance. In order to accomplish this, you must fight Satan and win. (58-18, 1972.6.6)
Even if Israel had become a nation able to restore the world, that one nation was not enough. From the Principle you probably know about the era of substantial restoration of Cain and Abel, in other words, about the foundation of substance. Similarly, the Cain-type nation, or in other words the archangeltype nation, must be subjugated by the restored nation of Israel. It cannot be accomplished by the force of arms. Since Abel was killed by his elder brother Cain, you must all understand that unless you stand in the position of dying, that is, the position of being struck, but still survive and manage to subjugate those who strike you, restoration will not begin. (30-46, 1970.3.15)
In order to go the way of restoration, you must first establish a foundation of faith. The foundation of faith is necessary in order to create a solid foundation upon which you can secure your place and stand in the subject position. After that, even though you became a person who can pursue his goals on his own, that is not enough, so you must come back and establish the foundation of substance, What is the foundation of substance? It is a foundation created through Abel being able to subjugate Cain. Who is Cain? He is the son of an enemy. Through Cain, historical struggles have been occurring. Through Cain, the original source of evil has set down its roots. Through Cain, waves of death have been rushing forward throughout history. We can see from these facts, that in order to prevent the appearance of conditions for evil and the expansion of the evil side, a person in the Abel position – that is a person on God’s side – must bring the person in the position of Cain to surrender. (30-289, 1970.4.5)
There are two ways we must go for the sake of Cain and ourselves. We must walk this path for the sake of our enemy. What does that mean? It means we must deal well with Cain. What is the foundation of substance? Even though Abel has paved his own way, he cannot stand before God unless he subjugates Cain. Abel must lead his enemy. He should not fight with his enemy along the way, but lead the enemy. (30-338, 1970.4.6)
The expression “the foundation of faith has been established” refers to a conditional position where someone is able to indemnify the Fall, which occurred due to disbelief in God, and stand again in the hopeful position of Adam, who can be trusted by Heaven. After that, the person must fight against Satan and establish the foundation of substance. Standing in the position of Abel, he must make Cain surrender. (40-243, 1971.2.6)
From the Principle you know about the foundation of faith and the foundation of substance. Even if you have established the foundation of substance, that substance is not to be offered to God. It serves as a foundation for the Messiah, that is, a substance that can welcome the Messiah. (43-187, 1971.4.30)
2.2. The ultimate issue is the restoration of lineage
Since Adam lost faith and substance, he can only find love after he has restored the foundation of faith and the foundation of substance. So what did Adam lose? First, he lost faith, and then he lost substance, and lastly he lost love. These three things were lost. We need to find them. (65-314, 1973.3.4)
The term “foundation of faith” refers to an unshakable person of principle establishing a foundation of faith that enables him to be one with God’s Principle, without changing his position whether it is day or night, regardless of seasonal changes, throughout his youth, middle age, and old age. Only after that, a foundation of substance based on the Principle will be established. Upon the foundation of faith, the foundation of substance emerges through the Principle, and if you stand on that foundation of substance in oneness with the Principle, you will inherit the world of heart as the person who has the value of God’s object partner. This is the way fallen people should go. (68-189, 1973.7.29)
The great contribution I made lies in the fact that I clarified the relationship between God and human beings centered on love, and clarified the portion of responsibility and the course of indemnity, as well as the problem of Cain and Abel, and the issue of the lineage. Unless Cain and Abel unite, the Messiah cannot come. Only when Cain and Abel become one is the foundation of substance formed, and only then can the Messiah come. Only when people are united with the Messiah can the restoration of the lineage take place. This is the gist of the Principle. You must understand such a program fully and pray accordingly. That is the way you should be thinking. (161-149, 1987.1.18)
First there is the foundation of faith, next comes the foundation of substance, and then comes the foundation for the Messiah. The lineage is the problem. Centering on Abel’s victorious realm, we must overcome the opposition from the United States and win over the opposition from any country in the free world. Even if the whole world is against me, I will not be driven back by that opposition. You have the Principle, so can you act arbitrarily? The Principle is like an ironclad bastion. Since God has approved this theory, you cannot do anything about it. Unless you have made a condition of loving even your enemy’s nation, even the devil himself, you have no qualification to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. So, do you know why Jesus asked God to forgive the Roman soldiers who stabbed him with a spear when he was dying on the cross? This was not something personal. Rome was upsetting the world. However, today Christianity seeks salvation on an individual basis, doesn’t it? (182-285, 1988.10.26)
Section 3. Why Restoration through Indemnity is Necessary
3.1. Two things that must be restored through indemnity
Why should we attach importance to the law of indemnity when we walk the course of restoration? From the viewpoint of God’s providence, since human beings destroyed everything God created, each person must re-create everything. Since God invested His sincere devotion during the creation, for the sake of re-creation you must also re-create that condition of sincere devotion. While creating the universe, God was not playing around or dancing. He invested His utmost devotion, 100 percent of it, when He was creating. The way of restoration means re-creating; this time is the same as the time when God was creating, and so can you play around while going this path? (96-114, 1978.1.2)
Originally, in order for Adam and Eve to complete each stage of growth, they were each given their portion of responsibility. For each stage of the growth period, they had a corresponding portion of responsibility. Therefore, for three stages of growth, they had to complete three stages of responsibility. There is no exception. All people are on equal terms: they can grow by fulfilling their own responsibility. If God demanded from fallen people fulfillment of the same portion of responsibility as that of Adam and Eve, we would have no hope to restore ourselves to the original position before the Fall. We lost a chance to fulfill our portion of responsibility. So now to compensate for this, we must set indemnity conditions. (The Way of a Church
Leader - 711) The portion of responsibility and indemnity are in the right and left positions respectively. The former is like the right leg and the latter is like the left leg, but we forgot about them. We do not know about our portion of responsibility or about indemnity. So, how can we move forward? We cannot move forward like this. You must understand that unless we connect our portion of responsibility with restoration through indemnity, progress is impossible. Have you ever thought about this? Don’t you all dislike indemnity? Don’t you dislike God and His providence? From today you must renew yourselves and not forget this, even if you forget to eat, to sleep, to think about your loved ones. That is how serious it is. Even God must go through this. Rev. Moon must also go through this in his lifetime. All Unification Church members and the whole world must walk this path; otherwise there is no way for them to go. You all want to go through this easily, don’t you? Can you get a doctorate or become a professor easily? You have to go through a certain course to get a doctorate degree. How can you do it easily? If you don’t go through the course, then you are a fake doctor. Now, do you understand? (124-105, 1983.1.30)
In order to be separated from Satan vertically and horizontally, there are internal indemnity conditions and external indemnity conditions. The external indemnity conditions are that of Cain and Abel, and the internal indemnity conditions are that of Adam. When you completely overcome all this centering on the portion of responsibility, and remove Satan’s realm of dominion, then Heaven’s side can begin its work. This is a basic rule. (161-207, 1987.2.4)
Why did Adam fall? Adam’s Fall was that he could not complete his portion of responsibility, and his relationship with God, a relationship of love, was cut off. Adam was not able to fulfill his portion of responsibility. Next, he could not connect to God’s love. Due to the Fall, people lost their portion of responsibility and the realm of God’s love. (161-205, 1987.2.4)
How can we be separated from Satan? We must stand in a position of Adam’s representatives, being able to make indemnity conditions. Therefore, separation from Satan takes place when a person in Adam’s position meets qualifications as the one who fulfilled his portion of responsibility according to the original standard, and when this person confronts Satan centering on love and sets the conditions that enable him to be related to Heaven’s side more than people belonging to Satan’s side are and to love with heavenly love more than with satanic love. You must understand that indemnity conditions are established in this way. Since Satan controls the environment, he will use intrigues and slander, and he will resort to all means to cut you away from God. However, if you overcome such an environment and, as God’s representative, restore the portion of responsibility lost by Adam no matter what happens, you will not fail. It will be eternal. Besides, no indemnity can be accomplished unless in loving God you set an absolute standard of faith no matter who says what. (161-205, 1987.2.4)
What does an indemnity condition separate you from? First, you complete your portion of responsibility and then you love God. No matter how much Satan persecutes and attacks you, if you drive him away without wavering, if he strikes you over and over again but you do not retreat, then he will have to retreat instead. This is the way to be separated from Satan. Unless this is done, there is no way to indemnify Cain and Abel. (161-205, 1987.2.4)
How can a vertical indemnity condition be set? It is through the two conditions of completing one’s portion of responsibility and completing the restoration of absolute love toward God. Since there is such a standard, Jesus said, “He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” (Matt. 10:37). Jesus’ words came from this fundamental law. This is how the questions in the Bible are resolved. Similarly, do you love me in such a way? (161-213, 1987.2.4)
The way of restoration through indemnity is the way we must inevitably go. We must be separated from Satan. Without separation from Satan, there is no fulfillment of your portion of responsibility. And without fulfilling your portion of responsibility, there is no way you can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. God’s law drove Adam and Eve out, but are you better than Adam and Eve? Answer me. Are you any better than them, or not? If you are inferior to them, then throwing you away is not a big deal. If people just put on airs and come in and out of the church that does not make them Unification Church members. You should have a clear understanding of the Principle. (148-156, 1986.10.8)
Our concept of life is that we live for the sake of the world. We live for the sake of the world, for the sake of God, and furthermore for the liberation of God, Parents, and the world. Aren’t these things the contents of a life of Unificationists? It is not enough to simply know restoration through indemnity in order to achieve liberation. Because the portion of responsibility exists, we can put everything in good order. (148-166, 1986.10.8)
Cain and Abel are not fully responsible for everything. Then who is? Adam and Eve, the Parents, are. Since I have that responsibility, I am responsible for everything you could not accomplish and for everything that Christianity failed to do, so in forty years I fixed everything on the levels of an individual, family, tribe, people, nation, and the world. In this way, I restored through indemnity the portion of responsibility of the individual and created a wall to push Satan away… Since I created the realm of completion of the portion of responsibility, a new world begins from this point. Since I accomplished this in a position higher than that of the world, from now the Kingdom of Heaven has become possible. That is why the terms “creation of the Kingdom of Heaven” and “creation of the homeland” arise today. This is all according to the Principle. (148-163, 1986.10.8)
Who has been moving history until now? Satan has. Therefore, we must be separated from him. Unless we remove Satan, there is no way God can enter. It is not God’s territory. Since we are still in the territory of Satan, unless we set indemnity conditions in this fallen realm and separate from Satan, unless we lay the indemnity conditions to drive Satan away, God’s domain will not expand and the foundation for God’s activities cannot be built. Therefore, we must be separated from Satan and drive him away completely. (161-204, 1987.2.4)
Let the satanic world persecute me as much as it wants! Let it strike me! I will capture them all! With what? With the power of love, with God’s creative power! If I do so, God will be with me. In such a position God acts with me. Try doing it to see if He will be with you or not. I have been fighting never forgetting about this even when I was in prison or when I was tortured. Isn’t that how you separate from Satan? (161-213, 1987.2.4)
Nowadays, Unification Church members do not like the way of indemnity. That means they do not like restoration. You cannot say “Oh, I like restoration but I don’t like indemnity!” If so, which comes first: restoration or indemnity? You like restoration, but dislike indemnity, but from God’s point of view it should be the opposite. Which side are you on? God’s side or Satan’s side? You must clearly understand this. You like restoration. But from God’s side, you cannot prefer restoration. Restoration takes place only after you have paid the indemnity, after you are through with that. (116-127, 1981.12.27)
Why do we need indemnity, restoration through indemnity? Without indemnity, there is no way to make Satan surrender. If the focal point of God’s original love dwelt in an individual, would Satan be there or not? From the point of view of the Principle, would Satan exist there or not? (181-214, 1988.10.3)
In order to restore this through indemnity, you must do the opposite things. That is where the term “absolute faith” came from. Since the first ancestors of humankind fell due to their disbelief, we must overcome this and move up. We must move above the line where our ancestors fell. We must have absolute faith. Absolute faith goes forward until we die, or even beyond death. It wants to go forward even when a person is dying. You do not understand absolute faith, do you? Where is the limit of absolute faith? If I were to compare it with the living person, it is a person who is willing to go forward even if he is dying. And even when this person dies, he falls not sideways, but straight forward. In this sense, if I deny my faith, I choose the way of death. (126-34, 1983.4.10)
Second is self-denial. You must deny yourself 100 percent. It is self-denial. You must deny everything: your eyes wanting to see, your mouth wanting to eat. There was not a single day that I was not hungry until I reached the age of thirty. This was to deny my own self. (126-39, 1983.4.10)
Third is absolute love. Absolute love means digesting one’s enemy… Revenge does not mean forgiveness. The enemy should willingly hand over to you his nation, all his rights, and even his right of a first son. You must receive these things from him. (126-46, 1983.4.10)
Now that you have understood that the side that dislikes indemnity is Satan’s side, and the side that likes indemnity is God’s side, reflect on yourself quietly. “Am I on God’s side or on Satan’s side?” You know the answer, so ask yourself. Until now you have been following the path of God’s will, but now that you clearly know that Satan’s side likes restoration, and God’s side likes indemnity, which way would you go? (116-127, 1981.12.27)
In following me, you have experienced going fundraising, haven’t you? You probably said, “Oh my goodness. I hate fundraising, so what am I doing?” But that is only the beginning. Now, I may even tell you to walk backwards. The world is upside-down, so I may well tell you, “Since the world is evil, you should walk backwards!” If we walk like evil people, we may become evil. So, we must go the opposite way. Only then can we become good people. That’s logical. (133-69, 1984.7.8)
Section 4. You Must Set Indemnity Conditions Yourself
4.1. No one else can set indemnity conditions for you
You must make indemnity conditions yourself. It is not something that another person can do on your behalf. The Fall refers to losing the right of dominion. To achieve restoration, we must go forward with our own firm proactive nature, no matter how much others may interfere. Whatever paths others may take, we have to be busy going our own path. Whatever others may say from the side, we have no time to worry about this. We have no time to sleep at night. We don’t have spare time to sit comfortably and eat. Unless we have that kind of desperate heart, we cannot go the way of restoration. (22-211, 1969.2.4)
Since the Fall was the mistake of human beings, restoration through indemnity must also be carried out by human beings. The fundamental rule is that the one who committed a sin must indemnify it. Since the first parents became false, unless True Parents come and indemnify everything, there is no way to go back to God. True Parents are the ones who will resolve all this. True Parents are people with such value that cannot be exchanged even if you offered your life millions and billions of times over. Therefore, you must find True Parents and be able to say, “I put my life at stake to follow you.” (55-161, 1972.5.7)
What were the consequences of the Fall? God and the angelic world were expelled from the human world; the world of all creation was lost. Next, all levels were lost from an individual, to the family, tribe, people, nation, and the world. Who is responsible for that? That responsibility is neither with God, nor with the world of angels, nor with all things. Humankind is responsible. People are responsible for these consequences. Therefore, people are destined to take responsibility and walk the path of restoration. (100-264, 1978.10.22)
The way of restoration requires you to cut your way through in the direction opposite to that of the Fall. Walking the way of indemnity is a basic principle for fallen people. Unless you surmount this path, you cannot restore your original status. You must clean up yourselves. You must possess a sound theoretical system explaining how to restore the individual, the family, the tribe, the ethnic people, the nation, and the world. (God’s Will -354)
While you are witnessing or fundraising as a Unification Church member, do you know what happens if you start saying, “Oh, this is too hard for me, I can’t do it!” It becomes something centered on you, not centered on God. When you think about such basic principles, you must clearly understand that if anyone who has become a Unification Church member says he cannot go on, or complains while doing his task, that disqualifies him. Those who work in the Unification Church for their own benefit may very soon begin complaining about Rev. Moon and the church when faced with difficulty and assert that all the work they have done in the Unification Church is theirs. (92-256, 1977.4.18)
The Kingdom of Heaven is a place where we attend God as the absolute center and develop relationships of love through Him. God carries out the providence of salvation in order to set this foundation straight, so asserting oneself is absolutely not permissible. (92-255, 1977.4.18)
Since Adam was unable to fulfill his portion of responsibility, we are in a position where we cannot receive help from anyone to fulfill our responsibility and complete our mission. The final decision will be made by us. In other words, God does not decide whether we will be good people or evil people; we must decide this ourselves. (29-333, 1970.3.14)
You must stand in a position more earnest than life. That is why even when you are hungry, you should still pray. Even while fasting, you must invest yourself. You must invest God’s love and the power of your life into all the nations. As you do so, God will never answer your questions, and He will pretend that He does not see what you are doing. God cannot interfere. He will not interfere until your investment is complete. What is the human portion of responsibility? It means attaining completion on your own, doesn’t it? Similarly, when you go forward with prayer, God does not interfere. It is really strange, but God sometimes even opposes you. (180-195, 1988.8.22)
Where should the cardinal point determining victory or defeat be set? You should not place it in me. Even though I have got such a cardinal point, it has nothing to do with you. You each have five percent of your own portion of responsibility. (31-208, 1970.5.31)
Each time when the living environment of an individual and the age he is living in change, there is always the course of the five percent of one’s portion of responsibility that he must strive to complete in order to determine his position as God’s object partner responding to His call. This is true for individuals, as well as for churches, nations, and the world. (40-66, 1971.1.24)
What kind of a being is God? Do you think He is a glorious God, sitting on His throne? It is not like that. What has God been doing so far for fallen humankind? God has been weeping loudly everyday as He works to save humankind. That has been the situation of God as He leads humankind. God is such a miserable being. In order to save human beings who fell into the pits of misery, God is waking people up from sleep, shouting “Come! Come to me!” But God cannot make people come to Him like that. They must fulfill their portion of responsibility. So, as God cannot do our part for us, how difficult it is for God to do His work! (20-220, 1968.6.9)
4.2. The mindset necessary to fulfill one’s responsibility
Human beings are in a midway position where they must determine whether they belong to the side of goodness or to the side of evil. A person cannot receive help from a third party to decide whether he is heading in the direction of goodness or evil; he must decide this by himself. Furthermore, we must understand that since we are the descendants of fallen people who were unable to fulfill their portion of responsibility, we stand at a serious crossroad where we must decide this. (29-333, 1970.3.14)
Section 5. There is No Separation from Satan without the Law of Indemnity
5.1. I am standing at a divide
I have been in and out of prison several times, in both North and South Korea. You must know this. Why must we accomplish restoration through indemnity? Why should we be separated from Satan? The reason we should separate from Satan is in order to make free the realm of the portion of responsibility. Did Satan interfere with the life of Adam and Eve before the Fall? You cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven if Satan has interfered with your life. Where are you standing now? Your conscience knows where you are. You cannot deceive it. It knows where you are going. (148-199, 1986.10.9)
Restoration through indemnity is inevitable. Why should we accomplish restoration through indemnity? Why should we separate from Satan? It is because we need the foundation of a free environment where we can naturally fulfill our original portion of responsibility. It is because we need to hold onto a place where Satan cannot accuse us or be connected with us in any way. Thus, logically, we must inevitably meet the standard of restoration through indemnity and fulfill our portion of responsibility. That is why you must separate from Satan. That is why you must have the thinking not to be related to the satanic world, even if you have to starve. That is the divide. This is the borderline. (148-204, 1986.10.9)
The way of restoration through indemnity is the way of separation from Satan. Why should we be separated from Satan? In order to find the realm of the portion of responsibility. Originally, Satan does not exist in the realm of the portion of responsibility. That is the realm of Adam’s portion of responsibility. The original standard is that the realm of Adam’s portion of responsibility cannot be invaded by Satan. We need to instill that clear notion into people’s minds. We must go this path in any case. We must complete our portion of responsibility and be grafted onto God’s love. If we want to graft onto God’s love, we must separate from Satan. We must be completely separated from everything related to Satan. (148-197, 1986.10.9)
Why did restoration through indemnity come about? For what purpose did it appear after the Fall occurred? If there were no portion of responsibility, then there would be no need for the term “restoration through indemnity.” In what position did human beings fall? They fell during the course of fulfilling their portion of responsibility. At that time, human beings handed over the realm of the portion of responsibility to Satan. It was taken by Satan. Therefore, we must regain the realm of the portion of responsibility. (143-77, 1986.3.16)
If God had not given fallen human beings a portion of responsibility, the term “restoration through indemnity” that we emphasize today in the Unification Church would not have appeared. Simple restoration would have been enough. You must pay indemnity! Why? It is because human beings do have a portion of responsibility. Since human beings violated their given portion of responsibility, they must fulfill it. To do so, you must win over everything that belongs to the satanic world and in a dignified manner rid yourselves of its climate of opposition. You must enter a place where you can receive God’s love. If you accomplish this, Satan will depart from you. (143-77, 1986.3.16)
You are still within the realm of the portion of responsibility, even as the descendants of fallen people. Have you reached individual perfection within the realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle? Have you become connected to God’s love? Have you laid a foundation that enables you to be connected with God directly through a bond of love? If you look at these questions from the viewpoint of your portion of responsibility, you will have to say that you have been unable to accomplish these things. Restoration through indemnity is necessary for us to be separated from Satan. Your portion of responsibility cannot be fulfilled unless you are separated from Satan. (148-148, 1986.10.8)
You all have been living without understanding how important the portion of responsibility is. This is the standard for liberation. What is restoration through indemnity? It is needed to create a free environment in which we can fulfill our portion of responsibility. Since Satan is invading us, what must we do to protect ourselves? We must love God and love other people more than we love Satan. He hates God and hates humankind, but we on the opposite side must be able to say, “I love God and humankind more than I love you.” Unless we stand in such a position, being able to create a one-way street based on the standard of a person who has not fallen, we will never be able to separate ourselves from Satan. (148-154, 1986.10.8)
We must inevitably go the way of restoration through indemnity. We must separate from Satan. Without separation from Satan, there is no fulfillment of the portion of responsibility. And without fulfilling your portion of responsibility, there is no way for you to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. God’s law drove Adam and Eve out. Are you better than Adam and Eve? Answer me. Are you any better than them, or not? If you are inferior to them, then throwing you away is not a big deal. If people just put on airs and come in and out of the church that does not make them Unification Church members. You should have a clear understanding of the Principle. (148-156, 1986.10.8)
We need restoration through indemnity to be separated from Satan. Unless we are separated from Satan, we will not be able to accomplish our portion of responsibility. (148-148, 1986.10.8)
Satan invaded upon the condition of people not fulfilling their responsibility. Therefore, once the portion of responsibility is fulfilled, Satan will be banished. Satan cannot stay once the portion of responsibility is fulfilled. (137-254, 1986.1.3)
Have you completed your portion of responsibility, or is it still incomplete? You have not completed it, so do you have any relationship with me? You must understand this. Why must we accomplish restoration through indemnity? Originally, before the Fall, Satan could not bring any accusation in the realm of the portion of responsibility. If you are in a place where Satan invades, you are not within the realm of the portion of responsibility. Therefore, he cannot invade the place where indemnity is being paid. That kind of place is a prison. (148-156, 1986.10.8)
With the power of my love for God I willingly go to prison in Satan’s world. I welcome with greatest joy the place that Satan hates the most. The people of this world dislike suffering, don’t they? But the members of the Unification Church like hardships. Why do they like them? Because they want to accomplish restoration through indemnity… Arrogant behavior is Satan’s characteristic. He cannot go down to a low place. (148-156, 1986.10.8)
In order to protect yourself from Satan, you must love God more than you love anybody else. You must love Him more than you love anybody in this world and in the universe. You must love God more than you love yourself. Since you are a fallen person, you must love God more than you love your own self. Satan loves himself more than he loves God and the world. That is Satan. Therefore, if you are basing your life on individualism, you are the princes of Satan. (148-161, 1986.10.8)
If there were no law of the portion of responsibility, it would be impossible to bring things in order. Due to the portion of responsibility we can dispose of Satan and clearly divide the heavenly kingdom into two nations with clear borders, thus entering the era of a cosmic dominion centered on God’s love. This is the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven and on earth, the spirit world and physical world, under God’s direct dominion. Do you understand clearly? You are the problem. Where are you now? You are always on the borderline. When you are on the borderline of restoration through indemnity centering on an individual, Satan cannot follow you. (148-166, 1986.10.8)
What concept of life do Unification Church members have? It is to live for the sake of the world, for the sake of God, and furthermore, for the sake of the liberating God, True Parents, and the world. These must become the core of Unification Church members’ daily life. (148-166, 1986.10.8)
5.2. How to get out of the realm of Satan (the realm of the Fall)
In order to be completely saved, you must cleanse your sins. You must clear up all the sins you have committed in the past and those you are committing in the present. In order to clear up your sins, you must do things that do not deviate from the Principle. (55-158, 1972.5.7)
Since human beings got out of order due to the Fall, in order to repair the damage we must follow the basic rules and principles that existed before the disorder occurred. In order to comply with the laws of creation, we must go through the course of the history of re-creation. The Fall began with making one’s partner invest for one’s sake instead of investing for the sake of the partner. Therefore, we need to go through a reverse process of investing ourselves. That is why religion teaches self-sacrifice. (69-84, 1973.10.20)
What is the disease that humankind developed after the Fall of Adam and Eve? Human beings caught the disease of Satan-centered love, and because of that disease of false love, they have been multiplying Satan’s lineage ever since. (God’s Will -437)
We inherited Satan’s lineage and were born as his own children; that’s our disease. But how did this disease of love begin? The disease of the Fall started when Adam and Eve denied the proper order, denied the principles of heaven and earth and the environment established by God, and engaged in selfcentered love. Thus, to cure yourselves of this disease, you must deny yourselves and make God the absolute center of your lives. If the Archangel, Adam, and Eve had desired a God-centered love, they would not have fallen and would have built an ideal world. (92-255, 1977.4.18)
In order to get out of the satanic realm, we must have a view centered on God. That is the only way we can get out of there. Since there is no other way we can do it, we must inevitably choose this path. (God’s Will -437)
The way you have to go is difficult, but you must think about God, who is walking this path before you, and your friends and brothers and sisters, who are walking by your side. You also must keep in mind that the path to the destiny that humankind must head for still lies in front of us. You must make up your mind to go this way until the end of your life. With such thinking, you can transcend the point of Satan’s Fall that he perpetrated through his self-centeredness. You can go over the realm of the Fall when your thinking is centered on God, rather than on yourselves. Therefore, the most difficult time for the Unification Church signifies that the day is drawing near when we kick away the most difficult realm of Satan’s Fall and are liberated. (92-256, 1977.4.18)
The Fall in essence is a lapse into the state of death. In order to be saved, therefore, you have to plunge yourself bravely into that state of death. If that is an unavoidable and destined course, then you must confront it as a man should – with a joyful heart. When the number of church members walking the way of God’s will with such determination increases, the world will move in a new direction. Our hearts are burning with the desire to form that kind of foundation. Do you have the conviction that enables you to transcend the border between life and death? I have confronted Satan in tens, hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of life-and-death situations. I never altered the standard I had set, even when unspeakably difficult circumstances surged against me repeatedly like waves. I will not depart from the standard of heart that I had at the beginning, even if my legs break, my eyeballs pop out, or my head falls off. Thus, as long as I do not die, I will win. (22-184, 1969.2.2)
How can you get rid of the love and the lineage belonging to the satanic realm? If you love yourself and think only of yourself, Satan will drag you along at any time. On the contrary, if you deny yourself and put God in the center of your thinking and your life, Satan will no longer control you; instead God will come to you and take charge of you. By doing so, you can be liberated from the archangelic realm of the satanic world. You will rise from the position of the fallen archangel to the position of the archangel who is not fallen. Therefore, you must die! Act as if you are dead. You have to be trampled under foot constantly. (92-264, 1977.4.18)
As far as I know, there is no way you can unite mind and body when rising to a high position. If you rise to the top with a lofty mindset, there is no way to be united. You must be trampled on. Even in my case, God has been trampling on me with His feet for forty years now, so that I would not rise high. Since He’s been doing that, all my aspirations to rise were stirred up and I could unite with Him. You must be cursed at, trampled upon, and mistreated wherever you go, like Kim Sat-gat who roamed all over the Korean peninsula. But even in such circumstances you must discover yourself and be able to digest everything with joy. (144-255, 1986.4.25)
You must live within the framework of love with the determination in your heart to love more than Satan does, with the desire to love God and the universe; you must be able to say, “For the sake of God’s will and the liberation of humanity, I will go down to the abyss.” How do you go down? Try being trampled upon. Let all the four billion people of the world walk over you. I do not complain, even when I am trampled on. I digest everything with gratitude and love. That is what you must do. (138-288, 1986.1.24)
Section 6. Faith Means Keeping the Law of Indemnity The Unification Church is 95 to 98 percent to do with the life of faith. Since human beings lost 95 percent of what God created, our re-creation takes place only after we complete 95 percent. Once that is done, we must fulfill the remain- ing 5 percent. How difficult that is! If the Fall had not occurred, Heaven would have done 95 percent and we would only have to do five percent. But due to the
Fall, God cannot do that for us again. We must accomplish re-creation. That means we must do 95 percent plus 5 percent. Therefore, we must be ready to die. We must be prepared for sacrifice. Don’t think of comfort until we have completed the worldwide course of restoration… (142-84, 1986.3.1)
On coming to this earth I brought four tremendous truths to the world of believers. I clarified the relationship between God and human beings; I gave clear explanations about the portion of responsibility and indemnity – things that no one in history had known about. The next question is why life is difficult for conscientious people, and why evil people live well. I clarified the law of indemnity and the problem of Cain and Abel, which no one had known about. (161-153, 1987.1.18)
Human beings inherited fallen nature and became slaves to their habits. Nowadays, even religious people tend to lead a very habitual life. A routine life of faith is dangerous. Such a life of faith becomes a major factor presenting Satan with the conditions for accusation. As people walk the course of restoration, Satan uses every method possible to find opportunities for recurrent invasion, trying not to lose even one person. Satan has to separate from individuals due to the indemnity conditions they set, but he may invade them again on the level of the family or on the national level. (167-98, 1987.6.30)
We must go through a certain formula course, but you do not understand clearly about that formula. “We don’t need indemnity. Why should we walk this difficult path of indemnity?” People who say that will inevitably die within Satan’s realm. He will claim that they belong to his realm. You must conquer Satan’s territory and repel Satan. You must capture his realm. Stand up boldly. Clear things from your past. This is your responsibility in your life of faith. You must understand this clearly. (167-319, 1987.8.20)
Restoration through indemnity is not conditional restoration. You must understand that indemnity is real. This is not written in the Divine Principle. It is probably the first time that you are hearing that conditional indemnity is actually real indemnity. Therefore, when you think about the course of restoration until now, God raised from the satanic world one person who was the most conscientious. Noah was exactly that kind of a person. God had Noah set the foundation of absolute faith. God settled on the earth through Noah’s family. God needs a man of absolute faith, a woman of absolute faith, a four-position foundation of absolute faith. (183-164, 1988.10.31)
God established religion in order to restore fallen man through indemnity. Through religion, God is teaching the method to strengthen a God-centered spirit and the method to reverse the dominion of the physical body over human life and character. This is why religion requires fasting, sacrificial service, a meek and humble attitude, and other such things. These are methods to reduce the force of the physical body and make the body obey the spirit. Usually it takes from three to five years to get rid of life habits centered on the physical body and to create a new lifestyle centered on the spirit. (201-208, 1990.4.9)
What is indemnity centered on? What is the content of indemnity? It is the issue of love: whether you love Satan more or God more. Everything is about the issue of love. In order to pay indemnity, you must believe in God absolutely. However, Satan did not believe in God absolutely. He betrayed God. Satan betrayed God during the course of his mission. Therefore, when you are going the way of indemnity, first of all your faith and actions must be absolute. (206-238, 1990.10.14)
In the course of indemnity, you must fulfill your portion of responsibility. What is the key point in the fulfillment of the portion of responsibility? Without loving Heaven more, without having absolute faith and absolute love, you cannot subjugate Satan. (139-279, 1986.1.31)
The era of restoration through indemnity that has lasted until now is passing away. Since it is passing away, the time is coming when people will be immediately caught if they act in violation of the law. In the era of restoration through indemnity people have been moving in circles: if the first attempt failed, they could have a second one. In this way they were able to progress. Now, however, we have passed the era of restoration through indemnity and entered the era of restoration. In the era of restoration we cannot take our time to resolve mistakes. Things will happen immediately. You must understand this clearly, and if you had only a faint concept of faith in the past, you must toss that out and be determined to take the lead. (144-128, 1986.4.12)
I have been walking the way for the sake of God’s will. Looking at my life, no one can understand the path I am going. However, my life has a deep and broad background that is understood by Heaven. When you think about this, am I fortunate or unfortunate? I am fortunate. People oppose me not because they want to. Without opposition, restoration through indemnity will not occur. Knowing that everything we do we do by Heaven’s direction you must be grateful. If you continue being grateful you will ultimately come to a world you had never thought of, and the world that opposed you will fall into consequences it would have never imagined. That is why the life of those who live in attendance of Heaven must be filled with gratitude. (138-129, 1986.1.19)
The valuable thing is to move closer to Heaven step by step, regarding as precious the results brought about by your loyalty. Even if you are offering loud prayers expressing great ambition that does not mean that God’s will is going to be fulfilled. On the path of restoration through indemnity all the people who claim they are the best will fall away. Don’t I also say that I am the best? Well, among everything I have taught you so far there was nothing I had not put into practice before teaching it to you. I practiced it, I completed it, and then I taught it to you; isn’t that true? (142-89, 1986.3.1)
God’s liberation will not be accomplished unless people become one with True Parents and remove all conditions for Satan’s accusations, thus making it possible to offer to God everything on this earth. How do you come into the realm of ownership of God’s heart? Your parents, yourselves, and all things of creation could not stand on an equal footing, belonging to God. We must restore this through indemnity. (137-268, 1986.1.3)
How grateful were you to accept the fact that you are going the way of restoration through indemnity, the predestined way of the portion of responsibility? You must consider it once again. You cannot say, “Oh, I like the words of the Principle of the Unification Church, but I don’t like restoration through indemnity!” In order to be admitted to a university, in order to walk though its gates, you must take an exam. The path opposite to what you desire lies ahead of you. You cannot enter school unless you solve the task. It is the same with us. The way of the Unification Church is not easy. (138-120, 1986.1.19)
You understand better than anyone why you must follow this way, why your soul is being pressured like that, and why your conscience is pushing you so that you are having a hard time. The question is why your heart is this way. It is because the right path lies in front of your eyes, it is because there is the history you must follow, and the predestined crucial way of restoration through indemnity that people must walk is yet to be trodden. If you fall away, you cannot go this path. You cannot go this way unless you ride on the back of Parents. No matter how filthy a fly may be, if it clings to the belly of a swift horse and endures without falling away, the fly can travel a thousand miles. You are in the same position. You must cling onto True Parents and move together with them, even if you are upside down; you must not fall off. (138-120, 1986.1.19)
Nowadays believers are forgetting that they are going the way of restoration through indemnity. Why did Adam and Eve fall? It is because they forgot about the course of the portion of responsibility. They fell because they forgot about the reality. While the realm of the portion of responsibility remains incomplete, human beings stand in a position where they cannot but groan; moreover, they are not in the position to freely enter this realm. Since human beings are fallen, in order to reach the position where they can freely fulfill their portion of responsibility, they must emancipate themselves from the historical realm of the Fall. Otherwise, people cannot walk the path of restoration. (142-82, 1986.3.1)
Those who have completed restoration through indemnity, raise your hands. You no-goods! You fickle scoundrels! You ought to be beaten with a club; you have to be cursed! You should by struck by lightning! If you haven’t done it, even I cannot help you. I taught you everything clearly. The spirit world is transformed according to what I say. If you go there without doing that, you’ll be trapped. No matter how much husband and wife say they have loved their children, when they go to the spirit world that will all stop. Just as paradise has emerged in the spirit world, for the families in the Unification Church there will be a paradise where they stay before entering the Kingdom of Heaven. You won’t even be able to love there. How can you love each other? You won’t be able to love your own child, no matter how much you may want to. What will you do? Even though wives may tell their husbands, “You used to love me, so why do you act differently after coming here?” husbands won’t be able to love them. You won’t be able to love. In the position you are in, you are not supposed to love. (148-168, 1986.10.8)
I want to ask you one thing: Have you been walking the way of restoration through indemnity? Have you lived this way? Our destiny is to restore the first son and though the road to that restoration, which lies ahead of us, is blocked, have you made desperate efforts, have you struggled with the resolve to go over that ridge at any cost? You have not. You have not tried. You have been just following me. For what reason have you been following me? Because you liked me. Why did you follow me? You have been following me not because you were motivated by the Principle, but simply because you liked me. (138-134, 1986.1.19)
Do not think that if you join the Unification Church and just sit there in a careless manner that you will go to the Kingdom of Heaven! You must inherit the realm of heart. When will you fulfill restoration through indemnity? I told you to go and do it, but when did you go? (140-197, 1986.2.9)
What is the most difficult thing for human beings? Satan has three main gates, and the first gate is eating. This wretched mouth eats and eats and eats, and still demands better food. It keeps doing this. The second gate is resting. If you just sleep, you always want to rest. Isn’t that so? You don’t want to work. What is the third gate? Lust. People have a tendency to be unfaithful to their spouses. If there are people in the Unification Church who cheat on their spouses and have love affairs with others, they deserve the judgment of fire. Such a time may come. It has not happened because I have not commanded it. Didn’t God drive Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden? There was no way to deal with those reprobates. There were only two of them, so there was no way to deal with it. But now, it is different. There are many such people. I do not want to see such things happening in my time. That is why I am saying this is serious. (199-107, 1990.2.16)
Section 7. The Way of Indemnity is the Way of Absolute Obedience and Absolute Submission Why should religious people obey absolutely? It is necessary in order for them to become absolute object part- ners in relation to the absolute Subject partner. And when facing evil, don’t you ever become its partner, even if you have to die. I am telling you, never become accomplices of evil! The commandment to love means that you should love peo- ple, but do not love the sin people are
united with. You must understand this. (57-57, 1972.5.28)
If God is absolute, I must also desire an absolute position. If God is unchanging, I must also become unchanging. If God is unique, I must also become unique. If God is eternal, I must also be eternal. From this point of view, human beings must inevitably have an eternal life. Everything comes to this resultant point; I think it is a fair conclusion. Even if God has love, life, and ideal, but I do not have all these things, it is all in vain. (69-74, 1973.10.20)
You should not have selfish ambitions. You must become completely and absolutely one with me. There is only one root. If the root is being pulled, the entire tree is being pulled. A trunk or branch cannot have an awareness of itself. They cannot assert themselves. There cannot be two directions. There is only one. We will have a freedom to move in all four directions only after we have built a victorious foundation and secured our position. Unless that is accomplished, there is no freedom. Do you understand what I mean? Therefore, you cannot act freely. (169-199, 1987.10.31)
What until now has been the center of life of religious people? Jesus was an unfortunate person. From a humanistic point of view, Jesus had no personal claims. Night and day, he only served God’s will and had no will of his own. He absolutely obeyed God’s will. Absolute obedience! Why did he obey absolutely? There is only one absolute original Subject, but Satan formed another realm of the subject, forming a triangular shape; thus Jesus did what he did in order to remove Satan. Today, human beings are under the control of Satan’s domain. To escape from this situation in the satanic realm, they must follow the path Satan hates the most. Therefore, a religion commands one to be absolutely obedient to his conscience. Since God is absolute, there is a requirement for people in the religious world to become a minus which aims at making them absolutely one with God. (57-114, 1972.5.29)
Be absolutely obedient! Absolute obedience does not lead you to death. What happens when you obey? You become one with the person you obey. What happens, once you become one? You repel evil. Since you become completely one, evil is repelled. Therefore, evil can be removed. This is the principle. (57-114, 1972.5.29)
In God’s will, there is a will related to His ideal, and a will to restore people through indemnity because they have fallen. You must understand that there are the two kinds of will. If so, which kind of will should we follow? The second one. If so, can there be even an iota of freedom in the religious life of the people who follow Heaven on the path of this second type of God’s will? There cannot be even an iota of freedom. (134-117, 1985.2.25)
We must have absolute faith. When asked if you believe in the Unification Church, you must answer, “I go this way with absolute faith.” (46-99, 1971.7.25)
What is absolute faith? If there is a leader of a religion you believe in, there can be a historical gap of a few thousand years between you and him. But through the faith in your heart, you can enter the realm of the same era with him on a horizontal plane. That is why I am telling you to believe absolutely. When you believe absolutely, you come to realize that you are together with that person. Moreover, you come to understand that you are living together with that person. You must know that faith is meant to stimulate people and give them new awareness of this fact. (32-162, 1970.7.12)
Absolute faith will pass, and absolute obedience will also pass; what remains at the very end is absolute love. Faith, love, and hope, these three are always there, but what is said to be the first among these three? Love! Faith passes and hope also passes, but love remains until the very end. I am telling you the same thing. Even absolute faith will pass. (169-130, 1987.10.29)
You must be bold even at the time of death. When you close your eyes and think, “Now I am dead,” you will already be in the other world. Such a leap will take place. The Unification Church has been developing like this. If you are in a dumbfounding and shocking situation, when all four directions are blocked and you can neither stay on the earth nor rise to heaven, and yet you go over that situation ready to die, then the living God will surely manifest Himself. That is why whether God exists or not is not even an issue for me. (126-38, 1983.4.10)
Then you must assimilate your enemy. You must love your enemy. That path is not easy. Not only must you deny yourself hundreds of times, but you must move up to a position where you are able to love your enemy. Unless you do that, you cannot stand on God’s side. (126-44, 1983.4.10)
A religion cannot start from a concept of affirmation, because our ancestors fell. The first condition necessary in order to deny that is absolute faith. Do you understand? So, do you have absolute faith? That is why we must discover the reason why people are going the way of asceticism. Do you not wish that this Mr. Moon would come today and reveal the entire secret world of religion? Why do we have to go the way of asceticism? Why do we have to sacrifice? Why believe absolutely? If we call pastors and ask them these three questions, they will not be able to answer. They will just say “Well, through faith we gain salvation.” Don’t be tricked by Satan’s deceptive smoke-screen tactics. (126-36, 1983.4.10)
Members of the Unification Church must go the reverse route in order to accomplish restoration through indemnity. Therefore, their path does not begin from self-recognition and self-affirmation. It starts from complete denial. A perfect religion begins with self-denial, with the complete denial of the fallen world. That is why you must deny the world, deny your nation, tribe, family, wife or husband, deny even being a man and a woman, and deny your own mind and body. You must understand how huge the scope of this denial is. Following your mind, you must even deny your own body. (126-34, 1983.4.10)
Do not think that you will receive blessings just because you believe in the Unification Church. You must think about giving blessings to others. You must strive to give away the blessings that exist in the Unification Church for the sake of your nation and the world, for the sake of something larger. If you walk your path in this way, then I will be responsible for your course and not hold you back. You must become such people. (130-61, 1983.12.11)
Some people outwardly express that they like something, but inwardly they shake their heads. Seeing this, I wish they had been born with a better character. On the path of faith, fighting and gaining victory over oneself is more difficult than conquering the world. From this point of view, the first cross we must bear is overcoming the self. (46-95, 1971.7.25)
Until now, who has completed the payment of indemnity for the portion of responsibility? Can you pay that indemnity with money? Can you pay it by selling your house and your country? Then what should you do? There is nothing you can do. You can only be absolutely obedient. You must be absolutely obedient until you are in your twenties. Adam and Eve insisted on their own way. They had a sexual encounter, thus falling before they reached the age of twenty. Until you reach your twenties, you must be absolutely obedient. Before you reach twenty, you must obey. Therefore children are absolutely obedient. They are, even if you do not teach them to be like that. They know that if they do not become one with their parents, they will go to ruin. You will go to ruin if you do not become one with God. (133-136, 1984.7.10)
Since humankind lost the four great realms of heart and the three great kingships, we must find them. In order to accomplish this, you must submit with absolute obedience, absolute compliance, and absolute sacrifice and be willing to do whatever you are asked to. Only after you do this will parents come out from the satanic world to here. Men of the satanic world are archangels, so you must cut yourselves off from them. Then you can go up from this point. (235-293, 1992.10.25)
In the course of the restoration of Canaan, you must follow me. When wild geese fly across the ocean, they absolutely follow their leader. There are no objections. When he says, “Fly!” all the geese fly. They must follow the leader, no matter how difficult it is, even to the point of death. Until now, you have been doing something similar. However, now that you have arrived at our destination and started giving birth to children, you must care for each other and love each other; you must create one tribe and be proud of it. Such a time must come. I have said that is what we must do now. Until now, it has been a time to move toward the blessed land of Canaan, and now we have come to a settlement age. (115-107, 1981.11.4)
A true filial son is the one who obeys. A true loyal subject even when being chased and put to death by traitors never calls his king incapable. A true loyal subject is a person of integrity and loyalty, who sheds tears with a sorrowful heart, and wishes his king a long life even when persecuted by treacherous courtiers to the point of death. This is absolute obedience. The only way to bring about success through absolute obedience is the way of true love. (164-48, 1987.5.3)
Up to now I have not told you, “Oh, you must absolutely obey my words.” We must comply with the historical course. The historical course is a course of providential history trodden for the sake of God. It is for that reason that I have been teaching you about the course of the providence of restoration. I did not teach that for the sake of Rev. Moon of the Unification Church. That is why I, too, am going that way. We are heading toward the purpose of God, the Subject, and toward the purpose of humankind, the object partner. These objectives have not been accomplished, so the Unification Principle and Unification Thought advocated by the Unification Church today, in this age, are calling upon people to complete them. (71-66, 1974.4.28)