1979: Day of All Things

[Damian J. Anderson]

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ORDER NUMBER
79-05-26

REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON
SPEAKS ON

DAY OF ALL THINGS

May 26, 1979
World Mission Center
Translator - Bo Hi Pak

The literal translation of the title of today's message would be "Day
of 10,000 Things," or Day of All Things.

Those who were matched in the last engagement ceremony, raise your
hands please. How do all of you feel? All along you have been single,
but now you have someone else to worry about. I think you feel not
just great, but wonderful great! Now you realize how important it is
that you have your counterpart- a woman for man, and man for woman.
This is true not only in the human world, but for all things in God's
creation. Even iron ore exists in the pair system. Everything exists
in pairs, whether minerals, vegetables or animals, and according to
their special characteristics everything is matched plus with minus,
male with female.

When subject and object are united in soul, mind and body, they form
the ideal together. Man and woman each have spirit, mind and body;
together these total six, but they form a new entity, or number seven.
The most important rapport to be established is eye to eye. Especially
in the Orient men and women don't look at anything else except the
eyes; the eyes must be right. When there is rapport on this level,
then everything else falls into place. Your eyes are the windows
through which you project yourself and they reveal much about you.

Do you smile first and then look at a person, or look first and then
smile? Do you hear first and then smile, or smile and then hear? Are
you smiling while you talk, or do you talk and then smile? Do you
smile first and then touch, or touch and then smile? I am trying to
emphasize the importance of having your object or partner, because
without your object you have no one to talk with or hear from, touch
or see. Joy and smiling necessitate having someone who has rapport
with you.

What is the difference between cultured people and primitive people? A
cultured society has a balanced environment in the sense that
everywhere you turn you have give and take with the same level of
culture. In this room, for example, there is a cultured atmosphere
created by the chandelier and flowers, carpets and furniture. When the
women dress up everything has to be right, not just a few things.
Their dresses and accessories must fit together in the same level of
culture. Every object used is present to stimulate a sense of beauty.
Why do we decorate a room with special paint and wallpaper? Because we
want to create an environment that fits our cultural level and allows
us to be always stimulated by a sense of beauty.

Why do we seek this balance in our culture? Ultimately men and women
are seeking to find their culture embodied in one object or subject so
they can establish a reciprocal relationship which will be a constant
source of stimulation. Looking at you I saw that the women who have
always been solemn began to smile as soon as they were engaged because
they felt light and happy inside. You Unification Church women have
not been trained in the use of makeup, but as soon as you are engaged
you start looking in the mirror more frequently and care more about
your dress and overall appearance. When you were single you had
complete freedom, but now you worry about many things, such as whether
your figure is right or perhaps too big for your fiancee. You think
from the point of view of your subject now, not just yourself.

You are like a flower blossoming and you want to add fragrance to it.
You want to be in action, demonstrating your joy in movement instead
of just standing still. Now you concentrate on widening your horizons,
vertically and horizontally, trying to make a bigger projection of
yourself so you can please your mate. It is natural and good that your
mate is now the focal point of your concern.

Do you know your own face? Could you portray yourself without seeing
your face? If someone asked if you could remember your face you might
think that was a ridiculous question, but after thinking about it you
realize that none of you have memorized your own face. Why is that?
Your features change according to your state of mind, and you don't
have one concrete image in your mind. Sometimes you feel happy and
think you are good-looking, but other days you have no confidence and
you think your appearance has certain weaknesses. Your state of mind
is the subject factor here and your external self is an expression of
your state of mind. Since that is changing from one mood to another,
your external appearance is always changing.

You are too close to yourself to evaluate yourself clearly; when you
look at a painting too closely, for instance, you cannot evaluate it.
If you bring a little object close to your eye, thinking you can see
it better, you cannot really distinguish what it is. The husband and
wife relationship is the same. When your right hand holds your left
hand you don't feel a sensation, but if someone else holds your hand
you feel something. A husband may think he knows his wife and have one
concrete image of her in his mind, but in that case he is not really
appreciating her and doesn't know her completely.

Just as you cannot really know how you look, you cannot really know
your husband or wife's face too well because it has many aspects.
Sometimes you are strongly impressed by the laughing face of your
mate, and you cannot forget how he or she beams from ear to ear, for
instance. A wife might be impressed with the dignified appearance of
her husband, or she might notice some little habit, such as how he
shows his tongue when he laughs. If something about your mate makes a
strong impression in your mind, you might not want to see other sides
of that person. He might snore a lot or have a very ugly side, but you
won't remember that.

This shows the infinite variety of expressions of love between men and
women. There should not be a fixed relationship there. If a man is
always serious then no woman could stand him, but there is always a
variety of expression, with joy or anger suddenly bursting forth, and
it is there that the beauty of relationship between man and woman is
found.

Would you women like to have a different dress every day? You have an
urge to look different each day, and it shows that your internal
person also wants to be fresh and new every day. Do you want to wear a
beautiful dress to go to the store, or to see your loved one? Your
desire to be beautiful reflects an interior motive to please your
loved one. If you dress up beautifully but your mood is serious and
solemn, does your internal person match your external beauty? Your
lovely dress would protest and urge you to change your expression. No
matter how beautiful your dress might be, if you are sad and sick at
heart, your dress sighs. But if you are happy and joyful in God's
love, even a humble dress will rejoice to be there with you for then
it is an ornament of your love. Have you ever seen anyone wear a
large, sparkling diamond directly on his finger? Usually a ring is
made to set off a diamond, and a plain gold or platinum ring wants an
ornament to wear on top of it.

Everything in creation exists for some certain purpose. Do you think
they would feel good just being a commodity on the market, even if
they were expensive, valuable commodities? Would they feel happy if
many men came to watch and observe them? Do these flowers here on
stage exist to glorify themselves? Just as you do not see your own
face, the petals of these flowers do not see themselves; they exist to
serve something besides their own purpose. The flowers impart their
fragrance to please someone else who comes to appreciate them.

The flowers are beautiful in order to invite the attention of
butterflies and bees, and the fragrance serves like a beacon to guide
them directly to the flowers. The same principle applies to women; you
want to be dressed up and wear perfume in order to be attractive, not
for your own enjoyment. Many women are meticulous about their makeup,
spending hours in front of their mirrors every morning recreating
themselves. Would such a woman say that her purpose for living is to
beautify herself in the morning? Would you say your goal in life was
to eat or sleep or play? What would that mean?

When you wake up from a good night's sleep does your mind think ahead
to school or your job? Your mind travels to your loved one, the place
where love is. American-style loving today is often an unhappy
situation; I have heard that in California over 70% of the marriages
are breaking up. What kind of love is that?

A thing that is truly precious has an unchanging quality. Diamonds and
gold are held to be valuable because of their unchanging quality. The
most expensive things under the sun must be gold and pearls, right?
No? True love? Where is true love; show me. True love means unchanging
love that never tarnishes.

Sometimes American young people run away from home because they are
longing for unchanging parental love and they aren't receiving it from
their parents. True love never changes, so any parent who cares for
his children always loves them, no matter what tragedy overwhelms
their home. Even if the father dies, the mother has a strong urge to
live in order to keep loving her children. Any woman who just wants to
re-marry and doesn't care about how her children feel will have
nothing left, either love of her children or her husband. Children in
that situation feel left out and cold when they are at home, and they
usually go their own way. But children whose mother is still devoted
and loving them more than ever, even after the father dies, will be
completely devoted to her and never betray her expectations.

Even though her husband is dead, that woman is not losing anything.
More than ever her children will reciprocate the love she is giving
them. The more she devotes herself to her children, the more they will
return love that is even greater than their father's when they grow
up, knowing she dedicated her life to them. Then the vertical love
between a mother and son is more beautiful than the love between the
husband and wife. The same is true for man. If the mother dies then
the father can find tremendous beauty and value in loving his
children.

Man is created to live in true love, and when he pursues that true
love both vertically and horizontally he finds true fulfillment in
life. When a man and woman unite completely in unchanging true love
then they are each other's pride; a wife and husband want to be proud
of each other. Instead of asking the other person to serve you, you
want to serve that other person genuinely, feeling that he is the
best. When each person feels that way, their relationship is truly
something to behold.

Love has a certain sound when it is in motion, like an electric gadget
at work. When another expert in love hears that sound he echoes it, so
all over the place echoes of that love begin to join with that love.
When two sounds of love meet, would that have greater impact than
thunder and lightning? How great an impact would that have? The
meeting of those sounds of love is so thunderous that anyone who is
sleeping, even for 1,000 years, has to wake up. Even eternally
sleeping people will wake up and be galvanized into motion and dance.
No one forces or asks them to; it will just happen automatically.

Do you enjoy a halting, uncertain kind of dance by someone trying to
follow the rules? No. In that sense disco dancing is real dancing
because there are no rules; it is just a free expression of happiness.
When man and woman come closer and the sound of love starts up, what
will happen?

All of these explanations lead to one conclusion-that all things exist
to rejoice over true love. All things are searching to be united with
true love. Is there anyone who has a different idea? Why do you women
want to look as beautiful as Miss America? For true love. Is there any
better answer? You might wonder why you look so unattractive, and the
cause of your concern is still true love. There have been many ugly
people in history who could not receive love because of their
appearance. Now I am here, an ugly person, but as a possessor of true
love I will indemnify the pain of all the unattractive people of the
past. Even if you look ugly to everyone else, for the person who loves
you, you are the most attractive person in the world. Your spouse will
feel that because of all the odd contours of your face he has much
more to react to than if it were smooth and lovely.

Love transcends appearance. Therefore, your own being cannot conquer
love; love conquers your being. A husband might look like a chopstick
and the wife might look like a potato, so that you wonder how they can
continue together, but they are close because love blinds and
harmonizes them. That's why love is almighty.

Why am I talking about love so much on the Day of All Things? In the
world of men we feel that love is the ultimate goal of life, and it
must be clear that all things live under the same rule. Would a gold
nugget want to be independent and have no one bother it? Or would it
want to be surrounded by other material? Do you think it matters to
the nugget at all? What actually surrounds the nugget is unimportant;
what is important is the nugget itself and whether it is true gold or
false gold. No matter how lovely the setting, if the gold itself is
impure, it is no good. Whether the nugget is found in a ditch or lake
is immaterial; as long as it is pure gold its value and quality will
not change.

The important thing is you yourself, not the kind of people who
surround you. The key is whether you are a holder of true love,
regardless of whether you are surrounded by black, white or yellow
people. Think of how beautifully harmonized creation is; why should
the world of men alone be in conflict? In the world of animals there
is no segregation according to color. White puppies don't play with
only white puppies. If a sparrow comes from Africa, would American
sparrows tell it to go back to Africa? Did God draw a line between
nations somewhere?

Why are there so many dominions here on earth? There is a national
sovereignty in America, as well as people who are masters of their own
land. There are many man-made divisions and boundaries. In the world
of love will there be many compartments? I have not seen this in
person, but I have heard that American husbands and wives often have
separate savings accounts; there is a distinct boundary in money even
if they think there is not one in love. How artificial that is! They
keep certain areas to themselves and forbid intrusion. Will you tell
your mate he must have an appointment to see you and insist he be on
time? When children go to see their parents should they phone ahead
for a time slot? That's the American habit, though.

Does this show that love in America is weaker than money and job
commitments? Would you like that kind of love? If not then you should
get rid of it. There is no time boundary in love; it comes in the
morning, afternoon, and midnight. Is there a rule in the universe
about what time lightning can strike? The visitation of love is like
the lightning of the universe; it can come any time through the front,
back door, side door, anywhere. It may even come in a fistfight. The
important thing is the quality of love.

In front of the supreme power of love, everything else is subdued.
Women are born to be conquered by the love of men. The motion of love
is faster than an arrow or a bullet; it can travel from the North to
the South pole in no time. Each one exists for the purpose of love.
Does that make you feel good or bad? When you are a temple of that
true love you are more precious than a diamond the size of your whole
body. Even if that diamond were bigger than the universe, you would
still be more precious.

Man is supreme in all the creation because we can be kings and queens
of love, giving and imparting love. No other creation has that
capacity. Now you are princes and princesses of love, advancing every
day toward perfection. Do you want it? Even God has not been able to
fulfill that true love and certainly no man in history has fulfilled
it. Now we are the first group of volunteers who want to pioneer that
true love. All the things of creation are like the honor guard waiting
for the day when God will walk down the path of fulfillment of that
true love. They are waiting to glorify that day, waiting to see men,
their masters, walk down the path as well.

When God walks down that path He will not go alone. Who will be His
companions? In the garden of Eden it was to have been Adam and Eve.
The greatest march God anticipated was the march of true love, walking
from the king's throne down the path of love. Adam and Eve would
follow God and invite all the things of creation to accompany them.
When God sat on His throne Adam and Eve would stand before Him, and
surrounding them would be all things of creation like the best man and
maid of honor.

When God embraces His children in true, eternal love, all things of
creation would be intoxicated in that love. What would you imagine
would be the day God would first start to love Adam and Eve? Would
that be spring, fall, summer or winter? Why spring? Because spring is
the season for rejoicing, for blossoming and harmonizing in beauty and
fragrance. If God could sit on His throne and embrace His children
Adam and Eve in true love, then the entire universe would sing the
glory of God in praise, rejoicing over the sound of love. Before the
throne of God Adam and Eve would be installed as husband and wife and
give the first heavenly kiss between man and woman. Can you imagine
how beautiful that would be? Have God and mankind and creation seen
that particular momentous day?

When God embraced Adam and Eve in love, then the creation surrounding
them would clothe them, become the ornaments and form the wedding
hall. If you were to ask all things what their history has been, all
creation would be able to say they had fulfilled the purpose of their
existence because they would have seen the day of the fulfillment of
God's love, the day God embraced His children. They could say that on
that day they ornamented and clothed Adam and Eve. Ever since, all the
creation that witnessed that day would remain as a museum piece.

Their greatest honor would be to witness that wedding ceremony in the
garden of Eden. A blade of grass by the path Adam and Eve walked would
be historical, an important ingredient of that heavenly museum. An oak
tree would be proud that it saw the fulfillment of the love of God in
Adam and Eve; oak trees today would be proud of how their direct
ancestors were present to see that cosmic event. Their family history
began in witnessing the love of God, and that would be their
tradition. They would look for the people who fulfill that true love
and want to rejoice with them, just as their ancestors did.

Would the Unification Church have been needed in the garden of Eden?
That momentous day of the fulfillment of God's love in the garden of
Eden never took place, and all that God prepared became broken and
ragged. Now once again we are trying to unite all things and recreate
the day of that wedding, the day of the fulfillment of love. Our
clothes should have been bright and fragrant with love, but instead
they are stained with tears and sweat and blood. Now the tuxedos we
wear are soaked by sweat and tears, and they have a totally different
kind of value. In order to restore the lost garden of Eden we work
hard in tribulation, and it is so hard to restore just this one time
we cannot think of repeating any more the fallen garden of Eden.

The Unification Church is here to restore the day of joy of love, and
we are piecing it together from this fallen, satanic world. Some day
we will have a completed wedding dress and tuxedo to wear to restore
that lost day of God. We know the sad, tragic history in which nations
and peoples crumbled and had to sacrifice. Now all the hopes and
fragments here and there are being pieced together to make one
restoration of unification.

Everything which should have existed solely to glorify God now exists
solely to destroy you and destroy any attempt to restore godly things.
Unless we are truly alert and cautious every day, we may be struck
down by the dangers of this world. Human history has been one of
misery and suffering, so how much more have the things of creation
been in pain? The things of creation have been subjugated by a false
master and abused. Now God has chosen one champion to come and be the
friend of all things, asking them to follow him, guiding them step by
step. It is like going through an endless maze, trying to find the
other end and bring new hope for the fulfillment of love.

I started as one lone individual, but I gathered the foundation for
the family, tribe, nation and world, pulling the godly pieces
together. This incredible

march of the princes and princesses of love began decades ago, and now
has come to the worldwide level. For the first time, Satan has met an
adamant enemy and so has made an unending attempt to destroy him and
his work. But I have overcome all these obstacles one after another
and reached the peak of success, the 1976 Washington Monument Rally.
God's blessing to me is increasing because I have laid the foundation
all the way to the worldwide level, and now the blessing is not just
one of men coming, but also of material benefit.

What are you Unification Church members and why are you here? You are
searchers for true love, but true love is not contained in the
Unification Church; it has been stolen by Satan. We must go out to the
satanic world, plant the seeds of true love in the soil and harvest
it. That is our mission. In home church you are actually creating a
tribe, and once you obtain it you can go all the way to heaven. What
you have in home church is a microcosm of the world, and by practicing
there what I have done on the worldwide scale you are entitled to
receive what I have inherited from God.

You are small Reverend Moons. I am a tree of many branches and they
have been grafted on to you, and ultimately you will blossom as
full-grown trees yourselves. What kind of tree do I mean? Truly the
ideal tree of love. What the Bible calls the Tree of Life is actually
the tree of true love. Such a tree also knows the Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil and both need each other. That way of life
is not one of receiving love but of sharing and imparting love. That
love is strong and absolute, unlike the fragile love relationships in
today's world. Where that love is breaking down, our love is firm and
hard like rock.

American marriages today are fragile and breaking down so that the new
love can be planted. This situation is not completely tragic; when
Americans see the right direction they can still have hope. Who is the
master of all things in America? They don't automatically belong to
the sovereignty, but to the one who loves them most.

The other day I heard about one of our brothers, Richard Cohen. He is
from a Jewish family which has always been skeptical about Reverend
Moon and the Unification Church, but Richard has persevered and been
patient with them. Some time after his engagement he went home with a
movie of the 1800 blessing and told them more about his own matching
to a Korean girl. They questioned him hard, but since Richard was calm
in himself about his situation, he won their hearts. Finally his
father confessed that out of all his children Richard was the best
one. Richard's fiancee had written a letter from Korea and sent a
picture, and Richard's father had been carrying them in his wallet and
showing them to all his friends. Richard's brother has been married
and divorced twice but Richard's father knows now that because Richard
has found this way of life and the principle for a God-centered home
that Richard will succeed in marriage. Mr. Cohen said that he would
like to meet me and wished I knew better English so that we could talk
together.

Why are we becoming such respected attention-getters? We are living in
a new dimension of love. Suppose that a parent of one Moonie has many
other children but their relationships are all superficial and
sensual. If this one child who is a Moonie can establish true,
enduring love, it is a sign that we are giving true salvation. There
the new tradition of inheritance will be set up. The parents will want
to give everything-love and honor and property-to that one child.

If even numbed parents in the fallen world can react so sensitively to
true love, how much more so would God be sensitive to true love? When
you show that true love it makes God incredibly happy. When God sees
that a person truly loves the universe and feels responsible for all
things of creation, wanting to be a parent to them, don't you think
God would want to give everything to that son who is representing Him
so well?

In this principle there is no exception, whether in the past, present
or future, no matter what race you may be. Even if you ask a
grandfather from thousands of years ago, that rule would still be in
effect. God knew this was the only way. This explains why He is going
this way, and why I follow it as well and ask you to follow it. Why do
you go? Along this way you will receive the inheritance of God, the
True Parents and all things of creation, plus each other. Then you are
the king and queen of love, intoxicated and harmonized in love.

This is the way of life of the Unification Church, being intoxicated
in this true love. We make a grand circle by giving and receiving this
love, growing larger and larger like a snowball. Eventually we can
make the entire universe intoxicated by this love. There are many
people who don't want to see this true love succeed so they stab and
try to shatter it, but even though you falter momentarily, you still
come back together even stronger and bigger than before.

Our members know the taste of that love; it is the one thing we are
permitted to be addicted to. Nothing is too much to give for this
love. No matter how hard you work or how much you suffer, you insist
on having that love. Even death won't stop you because the taste of
that love is so irresistible. Now you inherit God and the True
Parents' tradition and are carrying it on yourself.

You are going to restore the dignity of love and conquer death, tears
of sorrow and any amount of hardship. Nothing can be stronger than
true love. If you only care about true love and nothing can stop your
march forward, when you turn around you will find all of a sudden that
the entire world and all things are following you. We do MFT and
witnessing now, but soon you will find that money and people will
chase you, not vice versa.

Right now we are in the final battle and the entire world are like
spectators, watching the conquest of the final hill which no one has
ever been able to cross over. Now finally the Moonies have volunteered
to try and people are giving opinions. "They're 80% of the way but
they don't really have a chance." At this point they are watching,
saying, "Wait! They're almost there!" Once we go over the hill the
spectators will be pushing each other aside to follow us up that hill.
The people most ready to run up that hill will be the Americans. In
other countries people have many strings attached and tugging at them,
but here there is much individualism and "freedom" so if a person
wants to go up the hill neither his parents nor society will pull him
back. Then when that person comes back ten years later as a king or
queen of true love, all the Americans will come out to welcome him as
their hero.

Today is the Day of All Things. What is the deep sorrow of all things?
It lies in not having seen the day of the true love of God and man,
the true love of God, parents, couples and sons and daughters. Nothing
has seen that day of fulfillment. All these years creation has sighed
for not having seen true gladness centered upon God in families of
grandparents, parents and children rejoicing together in love.

Your matching and engagement is the important and beautiful beginning
of a heavenly home in which you can truly be united in love and become
the glory of all things of creation. God would like to have the
universe be a museum of this historic moment and have us be important
elements there, so He can be proud of His children who ultimately
fulfilled. If someone wanted to put a price tag on you then God would
say there was nothing to be written down because you were without
price.

Great artists like Michelangelo and da Vinci painted masterpieces
worth millions of dollars now, but you are a living masterpiece of
God. If one Michelangelo costs a million dollars, you as a living
masterpiece are priceless. Even the little blade of grass which
witnessed the love of God is this precious. All things of creation are
waiting for their day of redemption and vindication, the day when they
can see their true masters appear. In understanding God with true love
you shall become their true masters, appreciating them and guiding
them with the hand of God. That's your should hand this down to your
children and grandchildren, taking pride in the tradition you are
setting today and allowing them to feel proud. They will need to be
educated about how to be thrifty with creation, not wasteful.

If the grandparents use the first few pieces of tissue in a box and
then hand it down to their children, who use a few pieces and then
hand it down to the grandchildren, generation to generation, how much
history could be accumulated in that one box of tissue? In even more
of an extreme, the grandparents could take one piece of bread from a
loaf, then each generation take another piece. If one loaf was handed
down ten generations and only a little bit was left, you would want to
preserve it for another ten or twenty generations, breaking it into
smaller and smaller pieces. That is like the tradition of love flowing
down. No matter how humble your clothes are, if they are handed down
in this tradition of love you will been prouder of them than of any
more expensive garments.

When things of creation have a true master loving them and enjoying
them in a conscientious, thrifty way, how would they feel? They would
feel they finally were living in the ideal world. Each creature would
feel happy for the first time. On this Day of All Things we should
think how we can reciprocate our gratitude to all things by saving
them and loving them. This is today's important agenda.

How much would you pay in a department store for a handkerchief like
this one here? $1 ? There is one brother in the Unification Church who
received a plain white handkerchief from me ten years ago and has been
carrying it with him ever since. After all that time it looks all
bedraggled, but that handkerchief has no price. That brother cherishes
it because I gave it to him and it represents an inheritance of love.

There is a Korean diplomat who became a member, and some years ago he
and his wife were to be sent overseas on diplomatic duty. He
approached me, humbly asking for the honor to invite Mother and me for
lunch. Their invitation was so heartfelt that I accepted and we went
to a humble Chinese restaurant. They tried very much to make us happy
that day. Later when he got a small receipt after paying for the meal
he wrote down the date and hour, and carried that receipt with him all
during his diplomatic tours. That happened about fifteen years ago and
even now he carries it with him, even though no words can be read on
it. Even though that receipt is hardly more than dust now, its value
remains and all of spirit world recognizes it, rejoicing over that
deed because it centered around true love.

Material value itself is not the consideration here. The priceless
implication of those small bits of material comes from love. If even a
simple handkerchief can become that precious, how much more precious
will you and your husband become when you really personify the love of
God? A little receipt and handkerchief can have priceless value, but
when you become the manifestation of God's love and love the world,
all things will become priceless because you will give value to them.

That is our tradition and way of life; our discipline is to live in
that one central goal. We want to search for and fulfill that true
love. I want you to become a lover of all things centering upon the
true love of God.

God bless you.

---
Damian J. Anderson <dam...@unification.net> http://www.unification.net

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast,
it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not
easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in
evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
(1 Cor 13:4-8)