The Path of True Parents

… That we might be perfect, as our Father is in heaven (Matthew 5:48)

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Video Cosmic Assembly Program

Cosmic Assembly for the Settlement of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind and for the Proclamation of the Word by God’s Substantial Self

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Easter Sunday
April 24, 2011
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Songdo Convensia — Incheon Korea
Westin Palace Hotel — Madrid Spain
Hotel Marriot Rome Park — Rome Italy
Bristol Hotel — Oslo Norway

Distinguished guests participating in today’s event, I am truly happy and grateful to see you at this new assembly.

What I am about to proclaim to you today is part of the course of True Parents’ tour that is to proclaim the ultimate conclusion and fulfillment of all aspects of the providence of restoration during the lifetime of the True Parents. The path taken by the True Parents shall serve as a tradition and historic example; thus, I am proclaiming that all of you should model your life course on this path, become families that pledge to inherit and fulfill the will of God that True Parents have already accomplished, and be true to this pledge…  Continue to full speech

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Seven Deaths and Resurrections of True Parents

Explanation by Reverend Yong  JinHyung

 

December 9^th 2009 at the Headquarters Church in Seoul South Korea

http://iunificationist.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/seven-deaths-and-resurrections-by-rev-jin-hung-yong/

1.)  경기도  경찰부  (Gyeonggi-Do  Police Headquarters)

1944 October – 1945 February

2.)   정주 곽산지서 수감

1945 October

3.)  대동부안서 수남

1946 August 11^th – November 21^st

4.)  흥남감옥  수난

1948  February 22^nd – 1950 October 14^th

5.)  서대문혛무소

1955 July 4^th – October 4^th

6.)  댄버리 연방교도소 생활  (Danbury Correctional Facility)

1984 July 20^th – 1985 August 20^th

7.)  헬기추락

2008 August 19^th  5:13 pm

Interesting story by Rev.  Michael Brazil:

Well, I always love the tradition that our senior pastor had for us, in a bit of humor before our sermon. How about you, do you like the humor? (Yes!) You know, we did a little poll—and we were told Hyung Jin Nim thought that maybe members didn’t like it (the interesting story). So we did a little survey and it was like, ninety-eight percent liked the humor. So, I have a little interesting story—maybe, hopefully—for you. And this is about a minister who, around Christmas time, had all the remaining teeth pulled, so he had to get dentures. Can we see that slide? There we go! For those of you who are not so familiar, those are what we call dentures and you notice there the top part we might call the gums. The first Sunday after the minister received his new dentures he preached for ten minutes. The second Sunday he preached for only twenty minutes, but on the third Sunday he preached for 1 hour 25 minutes. Now, the congregation was somewhat confused and they asked, “Well, Minister, why?” And he said, “Well, on the first Sunday, my gums were so sore, it hurt to talk, so I only talked for 10 minutes. The second Sunday, my dentures were hurting a lot so I spoke for twenty minutes. But on the third Sunday, I accidentally used my wife’s dentures and I couldn’t stop talking!”

Introduction of Guest Speaker by Rev. Michael Brazil

As you may have noticed, our senior pastor is not here today. He actually is in Taiwan holding a Blessing ceremony, officiating at it. But we are very blessed today to have a very special speaker, and this very special person by the name of Rev. Jin Hung Yong] has  lived twenty-four years of a public live in our movement. For ten years he worked in the Unification Church history-compilation committee. Nine years, he worked as a minister, and for the last two years he’s been leading the department for education and witnessing at the Hyup-Hae and here at the headquarters church. In his spare time he’s working on a doctorate in education. So I’d like for you to join me in welcoming our special speaker today, Rev Jin Hung Yong.

Main Sermon by Rev Jin Hung Yong:

Good afternoon. I am very happy to have the opportunity to speak to you all today.

It reminds me of the times we had service together at Heuk Sok-dong with Rev. Kyle Toffey and with Rev. Brazil. We used to have our English service over there at Heuk Sok-dong. Let’s read together from the Divine Principle (p.137): “The changes a person experiences when he is resurrected and enters the governance of God take place in his heart and spirit. These internal changes also purify his body, transforming it from a haunt of Satan to a temple of God.” Aju.

Now, from the Bible (Romans 8:6): “The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace.” Aju.

Today I’d like to share with you some of the meaning behind True Parents’ seven deaths and resurrections. I really feel I must share this information with everyone at the headquarter’s church and our members around the world.

Hyung Jin Nim talks a lot about the seven deaths and resurrections but he hasn’t had a lot of time to explain the details of it to us. So, first we’ll start by talking about who is Rev. Moon who has experienced these seven deaths and resurrections.

We know what resurrection means, right? It means salvation.

We’ve heard about resurrection a lot in the Divine Principle. From our point of view, it means being saved from a fallen state. From the point of view of the Messiah, resurrection means restoring God’s will. So True Parents have described resurrection as a process by which today we are closer to God than yesterday and each day we are improving. As a Messiah, to accomplish resurrection is an extremely meaningful accomplishment.

We were created by God but then, because of the Fall, we fell away from God. So for us, returning back to God’s direct dominion, that is resurrection. Jesus came in order to recreate mankind back into the state of being in God’s direct dominion. But Jesus was not able to accomplish that completely because he went the way of the cross. He did manage to accomplish the spiritual resurrection but the physical body remained in the realm of Satan. So Jesus died once, was resurrected once, spiritually. And forty days after, he reappeared to mankind and was able to establish a very huge Christian church foundation based on that one resurrection.

In comparison, True Parents have undergone seven resurrections. True Parents have faced death seven times and been resurrected seven times, not only spiritually, but spiritually and physically. This means that True Parents have an extremely huge gift to give to mankind because of the victory of those resurrections. That’s the grace of the seven deaths and resurrections.

So, let’s look at the meaning of Jesus’ resurrection.

Before his death, Jesus was described as a Messiah to the Jewish people. In Matthew, he is described as one who goes beyond the rules and breaks the rules (Matt. 12:10). They described him as a colleague of Beelzebub, the prince of demons (Matt. 12:22), and he is described as the one who brings the sword to separate and judge the nation of Israel (Matt. 10:34).

He came to save mankind but he was crucified. After three days following his death, he was resurrected and from that time his appearance was entirely different from before his death. For example, St. Paul who tried very hard to kill Jesus during his lifetime, was transformed after Jesus’ resurrection and came to follow Jesus. Because he thought Jesus was dead and then Jesus appeared to him, he was transformed and began to lead Jesus’ followers. From that time on, he listened to every word that Jesus said and he began to be Jesus’ most faithful follower.

This put the nation of Israel in a position relating to the Roman kingdom. Originally Jesus was in the nation of Israel, but after the resurrection, the Christian church [was] established in the Roman kingdom, so Rome became the religious center. The disciples began to preach that Jesus has reappeared, Jesus has resurrected. They traveled all over the place and the Christian church began.

If we look at Jesus before the resurrection and after the resurrection, we see a completely different picture. After Jesus’ resurrection the providence to really save mankind throughout the world began. So the fact that the Messiah was resurrected held great meaning for all of mankind. True Parents have gone a course of seven deaths and resurrections and completing the eight stages. So, in a sense, we have to die to really become the true son of God.

The eight stages start from the bottom: servant of servants.

Because mankind fell, they ended up in the position of 1) servant of servants, even below the position of angels who were kind of like servants. So first they had to be resurrected up to the level of 2) servants, and on up through the levels of 3) adopted child, 4) step child,  5) children, 6) mother and 7) father, finally able to 8) enter God’s eternal kingdom. These are the vertical eight stages. These are the eight stages all fallen men have to go through to be victorious.

True Parents have also discussed that we need to go through eight stages of horizontal [resurrection]. We have to accomplish victories at the 1) individual, 2) family, 3) tribal, 4) race,  5) nation, 6) world, 7) cosmic levels. Only if we accomplish these eight vertical and eight horizontal stages, can we escape from the realm of Satan and become (establish) God’s kingdom.

If you look at the chart starting from the bottom, True Parents have accomplished all seven levels of resurrection going to the eighth stage. Through Father’s work, he has gone through all the stages from servant of servant going all the way up to father, and the horizontal stages starting from the individual, family, race and so on. So the fact that Father has been able to go through the seven deaths and resurrections and complete all of these stages to get up to the eighth stage, it proves that he is the Messiah.

1.)  경기도  경찰부  (Gyeonggi-Do  Police Headquarters)

1944 October – 1945 February

The first resurrection was in the prison at Gyeonggi do. Father was imprisoned in October 1944. He was imprisoned for about 4 months until February 1945. He was in the position of servant of servants. When he was in Japan studying, just prior to this, he had been participating in independence movement activities. Like all of Korea, under the rule of Japan for 40 years, Father had been in the position of servant of servants. So he came back to Korea and his name was on the list of people who had participated in independence activities in Japan. This is what got him in trouble the first time. The government ordered a list of people who had been doing independence activities, and his name appeared on that list. He was subjected to seven kinds of torture while he was in prison during that time in Gyeonggi do, so he shed blood and suffered. It was severe suffering.

Even while he was being beaten, he did not come to hate the guards who were beating him. “Later on when I get out of this prison, and this person comes to understand who I am, I need to have him not hate me, and I not hate him,” he thought. “Actually he (the torturer) is also the son of God.”  More than about the pain and suffering that Father was going through, he was concerned about how to save the guard who was inflicting the pain on him.

2.)   정주 곽산지서 수감

1945 October

The second death and resurrection was at the Jeongju police station in North Korea. He was imprisoned for about a week during October of 1945. This was right after the World War was finished and Korea was getting out from the rule of Japan. Father at that point decided to go a public course and cut off from his physical family, from his parents and his brothers. The reason he got in trouble this time, externally, was because he had brought South Korean money to North Korea and was using it, so he looked suspicious. So we have to feel that this money represented not just money but the people of Korea, because Korean people had been divided into south and north. So he had democratic money and he was using it in the communist north, and he got in trouble. So we have Korea, the nation chosen by God, but it was divided into democratic and communist parts and Father at that time began his public mission. Father said, “From a normal point of view, this looks very severe and harsh, but in order to take the course of the Messiah, it’s necessary to separate from my family. This is the path the Messiah must take.”

3.)  대동부안서 수남

1946 August 11^th – November 21^st

The third time Father was imprisoned was by the internal security forces in 1946, from August 11 until November 21. There was a person in the John the Baptist position, Kim Baekmun. This person had a huge church, a huge following, that God had prepared to meet Father, but this minister was not able to proclaim Father as the Messiah. He should have attended Father as the Messiah and brought all his followers to Father but he did not. There were other religious leaders that were also prepared to meet Father at that time. Some of them did admit that he was the Messiah. They said he was the Messiah but they didn’t follow him and they didn’t help him.

If we look at the course of events that Father went through in North Korea up until about 1960, we can see that it parallels Jesus’ course very closely. Rev. Kim Baekmun was so surprised to hear that the Messiah was there. In the case of Jesus, John the Baptist was not able to proclaim Jesus as the Messiah and bring his followers to Jesus. And the disciples also, their faith wavered because of John the Baptist’s actions. Because of that, Jesus had to go to a new place, to Jerusalem, to try to find new, stronger disciples. He did not find highly trained religious people as he should have had. He found people—fishermen, prostitutes, tax collectors—twelve, who were willing to follow him.

He should have had the twelve top leaders from the Jewish church as his twelve disciples. So, he had to take a much more sorrowful course with twelve people who were really not very qualified to be his disciples, and we know that finally one of those twelve people betrayed him in the end. Because Judas betrayed him to the authorities in the end, Jesus ended up going to the cross. The authorities, Pontius Pilate, who was in charge of the case, knew that Jesus had no sin and he said, “I cannot punish this man.” So he let the Jewish people choose and they sent Jesus to the cross. And as we said before,  three days after his death, Jesus resurrected, and for forty days as a spiritual person he re-collected twelve faithful disciples.

True Parents have followed  the course of restoring the course that Jesus went. Kim Baekmun should have followed True Father after receiving the revelation, and collected twelve disciples together, but he did not follow True Father and Father did not get the twelve disciples at that time. So again, there were twelve religious leaders prepared to follow Father but because of the lack of faith of their leader, Kim Baekmun, they did not follow him and he went to North Korea and found a secondary group of disciples: Inju Kim, Wonpil Kim, Dalok Jung and others. And some of those who were not following him betrayed him to the authorities, which led to him being imprisoned. Finally the security police also realized that he was not guilty. He was innocent. But then he was arrested again, suspected of being a spy, and sent to Heungnam labor camp.

4.)  흥남감옥  수난

1948  February 22^nd – 1950 October 14^th

Heungnam was not a regular prison. It was a place where they basically worked people until they died. So even in that place, where basically the purpose of it was to kill people, Father managed to find twelve disciples, inside there. Jesus found his twelve disciples when he was present in spirit after the resurrection, but Father found twelve disciples in spirit and physical body. So there in Heungnam prison, Father passed the tribal and racial level of restoration.

And as you’ve heard before, during the Korean War, UN forces liberated the prisoners at Heungnam prison and, in that way, Father’s life was spared. After escaping from Heungnam, Father said this: “After being tortured and returning to my dark cell in the moonless night, I cleaned my wounds and offered my appreciation to heaven. I could not cry for myself. I could only cry for Heavenly Father who has shed His blood and tears for mankind.” Even though he was undergoing tremendous suffering, he could not express that suffering because he did not want to make God any more sorrowful than He already was. He came to know a lot about Heavenly Father’s heart while he was in Heungnam.

5.)  서대문혛무소

1955 July 4^th – October 4^th

After Heungnam, Father was imprisoned again in Seodaemun prison in 1955. From July 4 until October 4, he was held in the Seodaemun prison. The reason he was imprisoned this time was because there was a big flack raised about many students from Yonsei and Ehwa Universities who were following him, and therefore got expelled from school. This was shortly after the Korean War finished and Ehwa and Yonsei Universities were both missionary schools, made by American missionaries in Korea—very strong Christians.

The whole country was very poor, in a poor state at the end of the war. When Father was speaking many people were listening to what he said. There were 800 students in the dormitories at the colleges and they all were moved by what Father was saying. These 800 students started coming regularly to hear Father speak. At the Christian university (Ehwa), the president of the university, President Kim, was very perplexed at what kind of religion could draw 800 of his students. He sent some professors to go find out what kind of place it was.

There were six [professors sent]. Yang YunYong was one of the professors. She was also very moved by what Father had to say. She said “This is not a regular message. This is from God. Now I understand why our students are going to the Unification Church.” She told the president of the college, “All of us need to go this way – follow the Unification Church.” The president of the college was worried that if the whole Korean country became Unificationist, they wouldn’t receive any support from Christian United States any more.

He sent some more of his best professors – Han ChungHwa, Choi WonBok, Lee JungHo. Every one of them came back to him and said, “You need to believe what this man is teaching.” He took out his last hidden card. He had a professor whom he had raised as his student and then who had studied in America and had come back – Kim YoungOon. He sent this professor to hear Father.

At this time, YoungOon Kim was being raised to be the next president of the university. She had major stomach problems at that time and her health was not very good. So  YoungOon Kim also went to hear what Father was saying but she did not go inside the church; she listened through the open window. All morning she listened and she was also very moved. She stayed and listened through the afternoon and her mind began to change. She stayed and listened for three days and she was convinced that this was the word of God. She joined the church.

The president of the university was very distressed. He fired the six professors who had become members of the church and kicked out seventeen students who had joined the church. These six professors and seventeen students became very loyal followers of True Parents. They helped start with Father the Saemaul movement (movement to restore the race). The Saemaul movement was very instrumental in President Pak’s time. President Pak was very impressed by the Saemaul movement and that’s why he gave the land where we built the Little Angels theater and school.

6.)  댄버리 연방교도소 생활  (Danbury Correctional Facility)

1984 July 20^th – 1985 August 20^th

The sixth resurrection was when Father was held in Danbury from July 20, 1984 until July 4 of the following year. As you probably all know, [for] the imprisonment of Father in Danbury prison the excuse was some unpaid taxes, but really it was just that they wanted to put Father in prison. The Fraser committee members had a very communist attitude and they didn’t like Father’s highly religious work. While Father was in prison in Danbury, we started a coalition of Christian ministers that grew to include 7000 Christian ministers. And the True Children and True Mother began a very devotional life while Father was in prison.

So, when Father came out from Danbury, it was a very victorious resurrection. Seven thousand American clergy also visited Korea at that time as the holy land of True Parents. And in the period just after Father came out of Danbury, communism was finished. Father met with Kim Il Sung, he met with Gorbachev. You have to consider that this was a world level victory because the United States had put Father in prison and the United States is a world level power.

7.)  헬기추락

2008 August 19^th  5:13 pm

You all heard about the seventh resurrection last year: the helicopter accident. YeongHo Kim, a movie director, was out fishing in the area and he saw a vision. He saw a rainbow and hordes of people in white clothes surrounding the helicopter. There was also a famous actor with him, SangSoon Kim. They didn’t know if this was a dream or something real when they saw it. When they got home and turned on the news, they realized that what they had seen was Rev. Moon’s helicopter accident. And after that, they were convinced that Father was the Messiah and they joined the church.

This helicopter accident was not just a miracle; it was a sign from God to show, “This is my son, this is the Messiah.” Jesus’ crucifixion was handing over his physical and spiritual body to Satan. Finally he was resurrected only spiritually, but his physical being was not resurrected. But True Parents have been resurrected both physically and spiritually through these seven resurrections.

If we compare Jesus’ resurrection and Father’s resurrection, True Parents were substantially resurrected. Jesus shed blood on the cross. True Parents were resurrected without shedding blood. Jesus died alone and had to go and re-gather his disciples when he was in spiritual form. True Parents were not alone. They had their followers with them in the helicopter and their followers saved them. Jesus had to witness to himself as the Messiah after his resurrection. But there were many, many people to witness to True Parents as the Messiah. They did not have to do it themselves.

Let’s look at Jesus before and after the resurrection.

Before the resurrection, Jesus was more interested in the external world. After the resurrection, there was the Pentecost, and the spiritual experiences began. He gathered his disciples again. Instead of centering on himself, his words centered on heaven. Before the resurrection, he had habits that kept him from being absolute in his faith but after the resurrection, his faith became absolute. Before the resurrection, people were not sure he was the Messiah, but after it became very clear that he was the Messiah. Only after the resurrection people were convinced he was the Messiah and had spiritual experiences and followed him.

The Pentecost, following the resurrection, was the most active period for his disciples. He was just there spiritually but [through] it (his disciples) became very active. This very tiny religion that had started in Jerusalem became huge, through Rome spread to the entire world. Through this one resurrection, Jesus was able to accomplish a worldwide foundation.

Imagine now, True Parents have been resurrected seven times, physically and spiritually. So at this time, we need to believe in True Parents and lead a clean and holy life. We need to become one with True Parents. We need to live for others. We have to throw away all our old habits and become a model family following True Parents. We are the people who should be following those eight stages of resurrection. We need to clean ourselves internally and join with True Parents. Now is the time we have to understand our position. Now you know that you, too, can be resurrected through True Parents’ resurrections. This is what I wanted to share with you today. Thank you.

 

 

More on the Seven Deaths and Resurrections

 

Follow True Love

(Seven Deaths and Seven Resurrections)

— HyungJin Moon
July 18, 2009 — Headquarters Church, Seoul Korea

http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/HyungJinMoon-09/HyungJinMoon-090718.htm

 

Freedom is a Song / Egypt

The moral force of nonviolence…

bent the arc of history towards justice once more!

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Arabic w/ English sub Voice of Freedom Sout Al Horeya صوت الحريه – Amir Eid ft. Hany Adel

Shereefz — February 12, 2011 —

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHgzJIkFP7s

Voice of Freedom / Sout Al Horeya / صوت الحريه Amir Eid and Hany Adel Singing Hawary On Guitar Sherif On Keyboards; with English Lyrics Hadeer & Shereef Marzouk Lyrics

 

 

Hello Egypt,
Thank you, again, for your fine example, and your own Song of Freedom.

After joining in with the worldwide celebration and heartfelt accolades towards the people of Egypt for your victorious and peaceful revolution,  my optimism eventually became tempered by a more anxious feeling, as I began to contemplate more seriously the question of where the revolution there in Egypt–and the parallel uprisings developing these days throughout the Middle East–might lead that region (and the world).

Will some unprincipled elements of mob mentality co-opt the progressive impetus of the collective “soul’s crying out for freedom”?  Or will there be some clear and positive leadership rising up naturally and automatically, to lead the people in the Way of some new enlightened democracy, say for example in the Way of a political consciousness informed by something akin to Plato’s “Idea of the Good”?

Looking for a hint of some source, some germ of “right-guidance” that might be cultivated within the collective consciousness of these various masses suing for freedom–within that same collective soul that is crying out for freedom–I came across a passage from the I-Ching:

On “Inner Truth” (중부 / Jung Bu), Hexagram number 61 (out of 64).

To paraphrase…  the passage informs us about the mindset required of those who would lead in such times of conflicting interests; times wherein, from the grass-roots, there might appear a multitude of competing parties–some intractable and difficult to influence:

중        부   (Korean: Chung Bu)
中 孚 (Chinese: Chung Fu)  Inner Truth
http://theabysmal.wordpress.com/2006/08/22/i-ching-hexagram-61/

excerpted/paraphrased:

A heart free of prejudices
can be open to the truth.  Visible effects
of the invisible force of inner truth
manifest themselves.

Gentleness, forbearance toward inferiors;
joyousness in obeying superiors:
Such conditions create the basis of a mutual confidence
that makes achievement possible.

Ridding oneself of all prejudice,
letting the psyche of the other to
act on one without restraint; one will
establish contact, understand, and open the doors
whereby the force of one’s personality
may influence persons most intractable and difficult.

(Reminds me of Tagmemics: http://climatization.wordpress.com/tagmemics/)

The Chinese character for Truth, here, is a picture of a claw over a fledgling, suggesting a bird hatching an egg.  “An egg is hollow.  The light-giving power must work to quicken it from outside, but there must be a germ of life within, if life is to be awakened.”

The kind of “truth” implied by this character is an inner truth that engenders reliability, trustworthiness, sure-footedness, and great promise.

So  on the matter of this period of Revolution,
In these dangerous times of transition,  let us pray for a right guidance to rule the day.

In that sense, we should be glad for President Obama’s speech, even though some may rightly decry the hypocrisy of the President of “Shock and Awe War-on-Terror” America lauding such values as the Dignity of Humanity.  I am glad that the President was audacious enough to seize the moment and highlight (particularly for the sake of future protests) the Dignity of Humanity that can never be taken away from those who, through non-violence moreover, championed the cause of freedom, there in Egypt.

I am glad that he was astute enough to speak (not for America only, but for humanity) and deliberately claim and frame that pivotal historical moment in such terms as “something in the soul that cries out for freedom”–describing nonviolence as “soul force,” as “moral force that bent the arc of history towards justice once more.”

All the same, I am anxious about whether or not this generation is ready to recognize the responsibility that comes with the privilege and the universal rights afforded by this hard-earned Freedom.  Some seem optimistic enough in the expectation that “extreme fundamentalism will be restrained by the power of the people.”  I want to join in with such optimism and add to that scenario the hope that, together with avoiding extreme fundamentalism, the global conflagration currently demanding freedom will also not be co-opted by and degenerate into excessive license.

Insomuch as the thirst for freedom really does find its origin somewhere in the “soul” of humanity, the  purpose of humanity’s search for freedom is to accomplish the purpose of creation.

As man’s volition for the restoration of freedom is cultivated, he naturally seeks to create the social circumstances in which he can realize freedom.  Social revolution is unavoidable when the circumstances of the age cannot satisfy the desires of the men belonging to the age.  The French Revolution in the 18th century is a representative example.  Revolution will continue until the freedom of the original nature of creation is restored completely.

Excerpted from The Significance of Freedom Seen from the Viewpoint of the Principle

http://www. unification.net/dp73-1-2.html#5.1

To accomplish the highest purpose of freedom (i.e. the fulfillment of the original nature and purpose of creation), we have to establish contact, understand, and open the doors whereby individually and collectively the visible effects of the invisible force of inner truth might manifest themselves through us and the through the body politic (national, global, universal).

In the beginning was The Word, The Logos, The Idea of the Good, The Ideal of Creation, The Original Principle (governing Natural as well as Social Law);  The Cause, The Reason, The Aspiration that seeks (through Freedom) The Consummation of Human History, through the exercise of our free will and free action, through our own volition.

Here, I am reminded a passage from Gandhi’s “All Men Are Brothers” :

There is a stage in life when a man does not need even to proclaim his thoughts, much less show them by outward action. Mere thoughts act.  They attain that power.  Then it can be said of him that his seeming inaction constitutes his action… My striving is in that direction. — Harijan, October 26, 1947 (Chapter “Autobiographical” quote number 149).

I am hopeful.  I do not see as a guaranteed done-deal this current transformation being automatically completed (into nations and eventually a world of true Freedom and Happiness).  There is promise in the air, but promise is no guarantee.  Our volition is Key, and the multiplication, the popularization of good volition (Benevolence).

1. THE PHENOMENON OF THE RESTORATION OF THE FIRST BLESSING

… The spiritual standard of fallen men is being restored. As stated above, a man of perfection becomes one body with God in heart-and-zeal, so that man and God become able to communicate with each other fully and freely…
Today man’s heart-and-zeal has reached the highest level, where people are in search of the original mind’s freedom even at the risk of their lives…

[Dignity], the original value of fallen men, which was endowed at the creation, is being restored… The original value of men, horizontally observed, is that of equality between people, and this may not appear so precious. But when vertically observed, centered on God, each and every individual bears the most august, macrocosmic value. Men lost their original value because of the fall. In the present age, however, the democratic ideology has reached its culmination, and men have come to pursue the original value of individuality endowed at the creation. This may be seen in the liberation of slaves, liberation of minority groups and liberation of the minor powers, together with the demand for human dignity, equality between the sexes and equality among all people…

Fourth, the original love endowed at the creation is being restored. In the world in which God’s ideal of creation is fulfilled, the people of this world, all having formed one body vertically with God, will naturally form one body horizontally with one another… Due to the fall, man’s vertical love with God was cut off, thus causing the severance of the horizontal love among people; and so human history has been woven with struggles. Today, however, since humanitarianism is reaching its culmination, men are increasingly in pursuit of the original love.

http://www.unification.net/dp73/dp73-1-3.html#4.1

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I believe we are headed in this direction.  I am optimistic, but realize that we must be vigilant.  Whether we make it or not depends on how many people in this generation are willing to build and use their own good Karma as an investment against the proportion of this generation that is generating and multiplying bad Karma and dis-ease, though self-centered ways and means that violate the trust that inner truth would help us establish.

 

… In the beginning was The Word, The Logos, The Idea of the Good, The Ideal of Creation, The Original Principle (governing Natural as well as Social Law);  The Cause, The Reason… The Aspiration that seeks (through Freedom) The Consummation of Human History–through the exercise of our free will and free action, through our own volition.

 

Egypt: Moral force bent the arc of history once more.

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  February 11, 2011 4:03 PM

  President Obama on a Historic Day in Egypt

Full text of the speech:

 

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release

February 11, 2011

Remarks by the President on Egypt

Grand Foyer

3:06 P.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon, everybody.  There are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place.  This is one of those moments.  This is one of those times.  The people of Egypt have spoken, their voices have been heard, and Egypt will never be the same.

By stepping down, President Mubarak responded to the Egyptian people’s hunger for change.  But this is not the end of Egypt’s transition.  It’s a beginning.  I’m sure there will be difficult days ahead, and many questions remain unanswered.  But I am confident that the people of Egypt can find the answers, and do so peacefully, constructively, and in the spirit of unity that has defined these last few weeks.  For Egyptians have made it clear that nothing less than genuine democracy will carry the day.

The military has served patriotically and responsibly as a caretaker to the state, and will now have to ensure a transition that is credible in the eyes of the Egyptian people.  That means protecting the rights of Egypt’s citizens, lifting the emergency law, revising the constitution and other laws to make this change irreversible, and laying out a clear path to elections that are fair and free.  Above all, this transition must bring all of Egypt’s voices to the table.  For the spirit of peaceful protest and perseverance that the Egyptian people have shown can serve as a powerful wind at the back of this change.

The United States will continue to be a friend and partner to Egypt.  We stand ready to provide whatever assistance is necessary — and asked for — to pursue a credible transition to a democracy.  I’m also confident that the same ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit that the young people of Egypt have shown in recent days can be harnessed to create new opportunity — jobs and businesses that allow the extraordinary potential of this generation to take flight.  And I know that a democratic Egypt can advance its role of responsible leadership not only in the region but around the world.

Egypt has played a pivotal role in human history for over 6,000 years.  But over the last few weeks, the wheel of history turned at a blinding pace as the Egyptian people demanded their universal rights.

We saw mothers and fathers carrying their children on their shoulders to show them what true freedom might look like.

We saw a young Egyptian say, “For the first time in my life, I really count.  My voice is heard.  Even though I’m only one person, this is the way real democracy works.”

We saw protesters chant “Selmiyya, selmiyya” — “We are peaceful” — again and again.

We saw a military that would not fire bullets at the people they were sworn to protect.

And we saw doctors and nurses rushing into the streets to care for those who were wounded, volunteers checking protesters to ensure that they were unarmed.

We saw people of faith praying together and chanting – “Muslims, Christians, We are one.”  And though we know that the strains between faiths still divide too many in this world and no single event will close that chasm immediately, these scenes remind us that we need not be defined by our differences.  We can be defined by the common humanity that we share.

And above all, we saw a new generation emerge — a generation that uses their own creativity and talent and technology to call for a government that represented their hopes and not their fears; a government that is responsive to their boundless aspirations.  One Egyptian put it simply:  Most people have discovered in the last few days…that they are worth something, and this cannot be taken away from them anymore, ever.

This is the power of human dignity, and it can never be denied.  Egyptians have inspired us, and they’ve done so by putting the lie to the idea that justice is best gained through violence.  For in Egypt, it was the moral force of nonviolence — not terrorism, not mindless killing — but nonviolence, moral force that bent the arc of history toward justice once more.

And while the sights and sounds that we heard were entirely Egyptian, we can’t help but hear the echoes of history — echoes from Germans tearing down a wall, Indonesian students taking to the streets, Gandhi leading his people down the path of justice.

As Martin Luther King said in celebrating the birth of a new nation in Ghana while trying to perfect his own, “There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom.”  Those were the cries that came from Tahrir Square, and the entire world has taken note.

Today belongs to the people of Egypt, and the American people are moved by these scenes in Cairo and across Egypt because of who we are as a people and the kind of world that we want our children to grow up in.

The word Tahrir means liberation.  It is a word that speaks to that something in our souls that cries out for freedom.  And forevermore it will remind us of the Egyptian people — of what they did, of the things that they stood for, and how they changed their country, and in doing so changed the world.

Thank you.

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The Significance of Freedom

Seen from the Viewpoint of the Principle

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God can work His providence of restoring man’s freedom because man, though fallen, still has a remainder of his original nature which seeks freedom in God.  It is sound proof of man’s progress toward restoring this freedom, long lost due to Satan, that, as time goes by, man’s zeal for the pursuit of freedom grows, and he seeks it even at the risk of his life.

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Therefore, the purpose of man’s search for freedom is to accomplish the purpose of creation by bringing about actual results, and to accomplish his responsibility in the Principle through his free action in accordance with his free will.

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Angels were created to minister to men.  Thus, men were free to deal with the angels.  However, Eve, at the time of her temptation, was still immature both in wisdom and in heart.  Thus, when Eve was blinded in wisdom (knowledge) and confused in heart (feeling) by the temptation of the angel, she was forced to go beyond the line of fall even though she felt anxiety due to the freedom of her original mind, which was in pursuit of actual results and responsibility.

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This mis-step of going beyond the line happened because the power of love with the angel was stronger than the freedom of her original mind.  However free Eve may have been to deal with the angel,  she should have believed in God’s commandment not to eat the fruit, thus restraining herself from responding to the temptation of the angel.  Had Eve restrained herself, she would not have fallen.  In that case, the power of the non-principled love with the angel could not have been generated.  Despite the fact that freedom allowed Eve to respond to the angel, leading her to the line of fall, it was by no means freedom but the power of non-principled love that made her overstep the line of fall.

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Since man was created to deal with the angels in freedom, Eve came to deal with Lucifer.  By Eve’s performing give and take action with him on a reciprocal base, they fell into non-principled love, and the power of this love caused them to fall.

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On the contrary, fallen man can also stand in the objective position to God in freedom.  Therefore, if man performs the action of give and take with God on a reciprocal base according to the truth, he can restore the original nature of creation by the power of principled love.  Man came to cry for freedom because of the directional nature of the freedom of his original mind, which seeks to restore the original nature of creation.

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Man, due to the fall, became ignorant of God and of His heart. Therefore, human will, due to ignorance, could not take a direction with which God could be pleased.  However, in fallen man the “heart-and-zeal” for the freedom of the original mind directed toward the purpose of creation has been renewed, as spirit (internal knowledge) and truth (external knowledge) have developed according to the age in the providence of restoration. Subsequently, man’s heart-and-zeal toward God has also been restored, heightening his desire to live in accordance with God’s will.

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As man’s volition for the restoration of freedom is cultivated, he naturally seeks to create the social circumstances in which he can realize freedom.  Social revolution is unavoidable when the circumstances of the age cannot satisfy the desires of the men belonging to the age.  The French Revolution in the 18th century is a representative example.  Revolution will continue until the freedom of the original nature of creation is restored completely.

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Excerpted from

The Significance of Freedom

Seen from the Viewpoint of the Principle

http://www. unification.net/dp73-1-2.html#5.1

 

Israeli / Palestinian Re-unification

Noam Chomsky
Guillotining Gaza

. . .  For Palestinians to be permitted to peek out of the walls of their Gaza dungeon, Hamas must recognise Israel, renounce violence and accept past agreements, in particular, the Road Map of the Quartet (the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations).

Hundreds of Palestinian civilians were killed in the 22-day conflict last winter

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The hypocrisy is stunning. Obviously, the United States and Israel do not recognise Palestine or renounce violence. Nor do they accept past agreements. While Israel formally accepted the Road Map, it attached 14 reservations that eviscerate it. To take just the first, Israel demanded that for the process to commence and continue, the Palestinians must ensure full quiet, education for peace, cessation of incitement, dismantling of Hamas and other organisations, and other conditions; and even if they were to satisfy this virtually impossible demand, the Israeli cabinet proclaimed that ‘the Roadmap will not state that Israel must cease violence and incitement against the Palestinians.’

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George Bisharat

Biography

George Bisharat is a prominent Palestinian-American professor of law and frequent commentator on current events in the Middle East, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular.

The mirage of the two-state solution

40th Anniversary of the Six-Day War. Solution on which all agree impossible to achieve

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JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
Rockets, Napalm, Torpedoes & Lie
Israel’s Attack on the USS Liberty, Revisited

Sheldon L. Richman
“Ancient History”: U.S. Conduct in the Middle East
Since World War II and the Folly Of Intervention

Jerusalem Post

Ahmadinejad: Bombs won’t fix world

… The Iranian president also said he did not deny the Holocaust but that he merely “raised questions on it.”

“I said that in World War Two sixty million people were killed. They were all humans with self-respect. Why (do we talk of) just six million? If it happened, it is a historic event, so why do they not allow for an independent investigation? Moreover, how are the Palestinians at fault? These questions need to be answered,” said Ahmadinejad.

Homeostatic Truths
May we see in the enemy the face of our Father

Surah 41. Ha Mim Sajdah: Revelations Well Expounded
http://www.ishwar.com/islam/holy_quran_(pickthall)/sura041.html

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The good deed and the evil deed are not alike. Repel the evil deed with one which is better, then lo! he, between whom and thee there was enmity (will become) as though he was a bosom friend.

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But none is granted it save those who are steadfast, and none is granted it save the owner of great happiness.

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Anat Biletzki

Grieving Gaza

I write as an Israeli. Some of us, as Israelis, are grieving over what we have become. Blaming the other side with a roster of rehearsed clichés cannot mitigate the grief…

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Anat Biletzki of B’Tselem speaks at Jewish Voice for Peace
	10 min – 17 May 2007 – Professor Anat Biletzki of B’Tselem, the Israeli Center for Reporting on Human Rights in the Occupied Territories

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Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff

ANALYSIS / The ball is now in Hamas’ court in Gaza

Twenty-two days after launching its campaign against Hamas, Israel announced on Saturday it was pulling the plug. But the cabinet’s decision to declare a unilateral cease-fire while maintaining a military presence in areas seized by the Israel Defense Forces is only a conditional cease-fire.

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Nur AbdurRashid
Impotence