God created
the world to receive joy from it. Since even the absolute being,
God, could not feel joy while alone, He needed a partner with
whom He could share the giving and receiving of love. This is
because joy cannot be learned all by oneself, but can only be
experienced through a partner.
To put it in
another way, God created this world in order to feel joy from
seeing humankind and all things of the creation become one
through His love, forming a harmonious and peaceful world of
love. On such a basis, human beings were meant to form true
conjugal relationships centering upon His love, and to establish
families, tribes, peoples, nations and a world of true love. God
created this world to participate directly in this process and
to feel joy from it.
We can see
that human beings are absolutely essential to fulfill God’s
ideal of love, and, in light of this, we can better understand
the concept that absolute value is derived from an absolute
partner.
God, as the
Father, and humankind, as His children, were to form a vertical
axis, and this was the purpose for the creation of human beings.
If this axis had been connected perfectly, that is, if a
relationship that united humankind and God as one through true
love had been established, that relationship would have been an
absolutely inseparable one, which no force in the universe could
break apart. How could anyone who has been bound to the original
love of God, and who has tasted that love, ever be separated
from it?
With the
coming of spring, honeybees wake up from their long slumber and
get the taste for the fresh nectar of the blooming flowers. Try
pulling the abdomen of one such honeybee while it is lost to all
else but sucking on that nectar. You will see that it cannot
tear itself from the nectar, even if its abdomen is pulled off.
How about you? Once you really get to know the taste of God’s
true love, you won’t get far from it before you come back and
cling to it once again. This shows that the power of the
vertical true love that connects us to Him is greater than the
power of life.
The reason
we miss the family we have left behind is because at home there
is love for one another. It is where the love of mother and
father, the love of elder brothers and sisters and younger
siblings, and the love of one’s spouse and children and close
neighbors are all deeply embedded. It is a place of mutual
affection, where all the relationships and affinities are
brought together through mutual love. This makes you want to
cherish each and every member of your family. It is the yearning
and desire of any wanderer who has left his family behind to
re-appear before his family once again boldly, as a liberated
being, and to embrace mountains, streams and trees, love his
kith and kin, and sing songs of ecstasy.
The family
sets the pattern for living together in harmony. The family
wherein parents and children love and respect each other,
husband and wife are grounded in mutual trust and love, and
brothers and sisters trust and rely on each other, and all live
together as one, is the model ideal family. This means that you
need to establish a true family wherein the stem of true love
emerges from the root of true love and bears the fruit of true
love.
In such a
family the root of history is alive, and the root of the kingdom
of heaven extends into it. It is in such a family that the
kingdom of heaven on earth takes root. It is also where the
everlasting root of kingship is firmly planted. The roots of the
past, present and future are represented by the grandparents,
parents, and grandchildren, respectively. The root of the past
represents the spirit world; the root of the present is the
palace representing the world today; and the root of the future
establishes the grandsons and granddaughters as princes and
princesses. Through such a family we erect the palace of peace,
representing the harmony of the two worlds, the spirit world and
the physical world.
In this
manner, the three generations of grandparents, parents, and
grandchildren should live together as one family, serving the
eternally existent God. You should know that to seek after and
establish such a family of God’s kingdom is the desire of God.
You should
form families that God will miss and yearn to return to after He
has been away. You should raise families to which He can come
freely as a parent visiting His children. This is what it means
to live in service to God. To such a family, God becomes the
subject of our conscience, acting vertically. Following that
vertical subject, your mind stands in the position of the
vertical subject of yourself, and brings your mind and body into
unity. That is where parental love, conjugal love, children’s
love, and siblings’ love - in short, the four realms of love or
the four realms of heart—are perfected. Only in such a family
can the upper and lower, front and behind, left and right be
connected as one and circular motion continue. This leads to
God’s everlasting, model ideal families and nations, and His
peace kingdom.
Why should
we get married? It is to restore the position of an owner. A man
or woman alone can only be one half of the whole. That is how
God created us. For that reason, He has interchanged the owners
of the reproductive organs, the love organs. The owner of the
wife’s reproductive organ is the husband, and the owner of the
husband’s is the wife. Only when each is rooted in love for the
other can they stand in the position of the owner of their
spouse. We marry to secure this position of the owner.
Then what are we trying to achieve by restoring
the position of the owner? It is to fulfill and embody God’s
love from that position. God is the subject of the three great
loves. As the Owner of the universe, He is the teacher, owner
and parent of true love. This is the genuine
three-great-subject-thought-system. All such teachings and
truths are created based on the life of true, model families,
and once they expand, the society, nation, world and even heaven
and earth can be transformed into the peace kingdom of the model
ideal family.
