Rev. Moon's Guidance on The Divine Principle Reading

Rev. Moon's Guidance on the Diagramed Lecture Manual: STF internal guidance for second generation.

True Father on Divine Principle Reading

Leader's meeting at the Hannam-dong house, 6.20.94

1. The lifeline of our members is to live according to God's word. You have to nurture and develop your life (by studying the Principle). The Church will not do it for you.

"The biggest advantage to carrying the Divine Principle book with you wherever you are is that if you feel low spiritually and are in need of spiritual help, then you can immediately refer to the Divine Principle book. You can read it and immediately regain spiritual momentum." TF

Swedenborg gives amazing picture of what happens spiritually when we read the Truth:

"When the Word is read.. it is displayed by the Lord before angels' eyes with tremendous beauty and charm, accompanied by visual representations and adapted with inexpressible variety to every phase they are then passing through. The beauty and charm are so great that every single facet is perceived as alive. This vital energy is the life that lies within the Word and that give birth to the Word when it was sent down from heaven. For this reason, the Lord's Word by its very nature conceals spiritual and heavenly messages within, no matter how unpolished it seems in the letter. These inner messages lie open to the view of good spirits and of angels when people on earth read the Word." Swedenborg, Secrets of Heaven

We should understand what incredible spiritual channel opens when we read the word, allowing God to educate both, our own mind and even the spiritual world, including our ancestors. Therefore, reading daily is so vitally important.

2. Read daily 20-30 pages of Divine Principle - your level of spirituality will increase. 

"If you were to read twenty or thirty pages of the Divine Principle black book each day continuously, then your level of spirituality would go up and continue to rise daily." TF

TF explains: To open your original mind don't stop reading when you have a question. Read the whole book in the shortest time and the next time you read you'll find the answer. The purpose is to open - broaden your mind and see God's principles and history as a whole, not just focus on the small, particular issues, which will narrow your scope.

UT Explanation: Physical Mind works through point to point neurological connections, but Spirit Mind can see the whole and see all connections at the same time multi-dimensionally. For this reason, Read in a way that allows your Spirit Mind to restore it's dominion over the Physical Mind; opening your heart to feel God's Heart, by going fast through the whole book.

DP Explanation: Reading DP is to open the flow of Life Elements from God. To allow your Physical Mind to accept and follow the Spirit Mind way and desires and stop objecting them. Read the Principle is like a prayer or a lecture to the spirit world - it's a spiritual battle. The more you read the more your heart and spirit is to be filled with light and God's love. But if your Mind and Body are disunited that is not going to happen - you'll lose the battle with Satan.

TF's explanation: It's wrong if as a lecturer you get stuck on studying and teaching the same parts of the Principle that you feel comfortable with. That only strengthens your physical mind to subjugate  and limit your spirit. This means, Physical Mind  subjugates Spirit Mind - it's a reversal of dominion, allowing Satan to invade.

"Before being able to lead a good life by following the good desire of the original mind and repelling evil desire, it is necessary to overcome ignorance and be able to distinguish between good and evil." DP p.3

3. I have been emphasizing.. to lecture.. If you learn the Principle just by listening to lectures, it is difficult for you to convey your understanding at home or other places. for anybody to accomplish the mission.. they must be able to teach the Divine Principle

4. Believe and practice to understand and embody (Incarnate) the Truth.

"The ultimate purpose of religion can be fulfilled only by first believing in and then by practicing the truth. But true belief cannot come about today without knowledge and understanding. We study the Principle to confirm our belief by knowing the truth." DP p.8

5. Learn the Principle by heart. It is the only way to overcome Ignorance. God's providence of restoration was carried with the Truth.

"For fallen man, knowledge is the light of life and holds the power of revival; ignorance is the shadow of death and the cause of ruin. No feeling or emotion can be derived from ignorance, no act of will can arise from ignorance. Thus, when knowledge, emotion and will do not function properly in man, life is no longer worth living." DP p.10

6. Grasp the essentials and teach completely centering on the book.

TF: When The Divine Principle was being written, I directed everything. I had it written because fallen people need something to study. This book must be valued. There is no need for sermons. Do not use the Bible and talk about other things. You cannot continue your old ways. Instead, give lectures completely centering on the book. If you grasp the essentials, you can speak at ease. If you continue to use the book, in few years you will be way ahead of those who did not use the book. 

7. Learn all Principle diagrams, the Spirit Mind works with images. The charts become the core skeleton helping you to connect all truth to it - not just flying peaces of truth, disconnected.

TF: If the Principle of Creation takes three hours to lecture, for instance, write down a 15-minute summary of it. Underline that portion of the book in red and read it. Create diagrams for it and mark each part.. Use diagramed manuals for lectures.

To speak on the stage.. is a big job. You may start digressing, talking about everything under the sun.. You should do as I say. As you read the speeches every day and gain inspiration, you should try to spread it around you; after hearing them, however, you go away and become mute.

Train yourself to speak succinctly with the diagramed manual, moving chapter by chapter.. Instead of speaking your own words, you should all speak in accordance with the original content, and the audience will be inspired in the same standard way. The leader should always speak God's word. Those who cannot do so cannot develop in the future. Train people with the book. According to the depth of the presentation, the content can be organized in fifteen-minute, forty-five-minute, and one-and-half-hour formats. Beginners will read the fifteen-minute content, marked with red, covering an entire chapter in fifteen minutes. ..

Then everyone can grasp the skeleton, after which flesh is added. Reading three times this way is much more effective than reading the whole book three times cover to cover. Why would you not do it? Everyone can give lectures.  It is foolish to try to memorize and say everything without such an organization.

LECTURE MANUALS:

3-Hour Manual: Exposition of the Divine Principle, Part 1 of 3 (2012 pdf)

3-Hour Manual: Exposition of the Divine Principle, Part 2 of 3 (2012 pdf)

3-Hour Manual: Exposition of the Divine Principle, Part 3 of 3 (2012 pdf)

Internal Guidance:

Why Study God's Word (Divine Principle)

Internal Guidance on Problem Solving at FR

Rev. Moon's words on Reading DP

Study, Know and Believe to Incarnate the Truth

STF Internal Guidance: Why Study God's Word (Divine Principle) Foundation of Faith

STF Internal Guidance

Why Study God's Word (The Divine Principle)
STF guidance on Foundation of Faith based
 STF leadership Training for Second Generation
STF guidance on Foundation of Faith based on Divine Principle
Restoration is only possible based on the Word, which essence is True Love. Fall was descent into Ignorance, which brought us out of Love, into internal state of Fear, Worries, Struggles...

It took thousands of years for God to gradually reveal the Complete Truth, which can bring as back to His love. In the Old Testament God could reveal only few Laws. In the New testament they had the Gospel, which only promised that one day will come the Complete Truth, so they had to keep faith and hope until then. 








Bible promised, that when the complete Truth comes, we will see things and understand God directly. St. Paul was excited, that when that happens we will be able to liberate even our body from Satan's influence, so we will finally reach Mind and Body unity - become a Temple of God, liberated form the Original Sin.

We grow spiritually in accordance to how much we incarnated the Truth - corrected our concepts of right and wrong, good and evil. Book on the shelf will not make us grow. Father says that Divine Principle is the way of True Love. The Principle is the New Revelation promised by the Bible, that can bring all humanity out of the Ignorance, United in God's Love. We have to study it and spread it.

Our Conscience works based on our understanding of the Truth. If our understanding of good and evil deviates from God's Absolute Standard, our own conscience can unite with the Evil Mind and go against God. This is why even people of faith can fight each other. Until there are different understandings fighting will never stop.

Aligning your concepts with God's Principle takes years and years of study and practice. It cannot happen with 1 or 2 readings. Reading and praying is vitally important, but not enough to change the concepts in our subconsciousness, which are already automatic. We need to practice - gain new experiences, and through repetition make the true way automatic.

Therefore, practice without reading is also impossible, because we have to embody the Truth, not some other philosophies. True Father says: Read minimum 20 times for protection from Satan, minimum 100 times if you are a Leader (to protect others).

For the first time in history we have the Complete Truth. So much sacrifice in history to reach to its understanding. Only by it we can become perfect. But there are different levels of understanding and aligning with the Truth. We can easily check at what level we are.

If we don't know the Principle well, we are in Satan's realm, where evil spirits can always mislead us in our own thoughts. That's why Father explained, we should read the Principle minimum 20 times, just to have personal protection from Satan.

Level of Understanding the Principle

Formation stage of understanding is when we know Divine Principle logically - nearly by heart. How many members are on that level? How many STF members read DP 20 times? In reality, most members are in the very beginning of the Formation stage, many not even there. True Father explained, that this is the reason members and second-gen leave the Church.

Growth stage is to know the Application - that takes much deeper attitude of search, interest and prayers. Shallow view and partial knowledge of DP are not enough. We have to connect these principles with the every-day real situations; understand practically what's good and evil in complete accordance with the Principle.

Completion stage; Understanding the application is one thing, but living by it is the stage of Completion. With repetition of the correct, true living, finally practicing the truth will become automatic, subconscious way. Therefore we become Perfect incarnation of the Truth.

It is long and difficult process to study, learn, practice and finally incarnate the Truth. In Jesus, 'the Word became flesh’ for the first time. True Father also became embodiment of the Word - on higher, family level. Divine Principle guides us all to embody (Incarnate) the Truth! That's where God's Kingdom starts, not outside, but in our hearts.

It takes years to understand and incarnate the Truth. To achieve that is our own portion of the responsibility. We cannot expect anybody else do it for us. God gave us the truth. He will guide us if we serious in our hearts.

Satan will try anything to stop us; stay ignorant of the importance to study DP, be lazy, sleepy, not concentrated, busy - not to have time to study.. etc. God will not interfere, it's our responsibility. That's why Jesus called the luck of desire to study DP, one of the greatest sins in UC.

Formula Course of Restoration

True Father established the Formula Course, as a model course for our restoration. There are only two indemnity conditions explained in the Principle, as a conditions to bring us back to God; Foundation of Faith and Foundation of Substance.

Foundation of Faith (FF) is through Restoring All Things (Money) to make indemnity condition which allows to set our Spiritual Mind as a subject over the Physical Mind. FR makes indemnity for the sin of misusing all things (our and our ancestors').

When is FF successful? Not all who did FR made that condition successfully. Not all succeeded to liberate their Original Mind. Crashing out in FR is only a glimpse into the state, where Sp.M. is a Subject and God can work freely through us. But becoming consistent this state of mind has to become permanent.

When we fail in the Foundation of Faith? If Fundraisers didn't love it and couldn't brake through, they stayed under the Physical Mind and ended failures, resentful etc. So they are not qualified for the Foundation of Substance - Witnessing. Therefore they will not have foundation for protection of their family. Their relationships and children will be constantly invaded by evil spirit world. You see how this creates a lot of problems for the Church; in family relations and with the next generation.

Dual Purpose of Fundraising:
STF guidance on Foundation of Faith based on Divine Principle
 (1) Purpose of the Whole (Internal, Cause, Subject): To restore 'Money for Building the Kingdom of Heaven' (HS), which makes an Indemnity condition for the restoration of All Things, All People, those who bought and their ancestors (SS).

(2) Individual Purpose (External, Effect, Object): To restore our Character and Heart (HS), and make Indemnity Condition for our own Sin, and the Sin of our Ancestors (SS). DP (POC)

That's why Divine Principle explains that we can only come to God through All Things: Putting the restored Money in the position of Subject (Abel), while we stand in the position of Object (Cain). DP p. 247

To grow spiritually we have to forget ourselves. We are the offering; we offer our mind and body. Putting our own desires, our own concepts first, means we don't want to separate from Satan - we resist to grow spiritually. Meaning we are still dominated by our Physical Mind (Body).

Subjugate Satan - Model Course
How FF + FS = FM ? (1) Divide good and evil - Separating Sp.M (under God) and Ph.M. (under Satan). (2) Restore the reversed dominion (Sp.M. over Ph.M.) and finally (3) Unite them under God (Mind/Body Unity).

How to explain the Formula Course of Restoration:
After the Fall, Adam was in midway position - good and evil: His Physical Mind related to Satan, his Spiritual Mind related to God. God had to bring this internal problem out, so they can see it and solve it - by reversing it externally.

That's why Cain (Ph.M.) and Abel (Sp.M.) had to reverse the Physical Mind dominion, allowing the Spiritual Mind to be Subject. Physical Mind subject, means man is under Satan's fallen natures.

The Four Fallen Natures (Humanism):
The Fallen Natures are automatic result of the Physical Mind becoming a Subject - improper, reversed position, allowing Satan to work. Humanist philosophy is a result of the Physical Mind logic developed throughout history. It's philosophy excusing the reversal of dominion on all levels. Therefore, Satan's philosophy.

(1) Ph.M. does not see God's view coming through the Sp.M. and automatically rejects it.
(2) Ph.M. thus leaves its position of Object to the Sp.M
(3) Ph.M rejects Sp.M. view and goes against it (Excuses -  philosophizing it)
(4) Ph.M. multiplies evil, by propagating this Satanic philosophy (against Sp.M. and God)

Thus, the purpose of Restoration is to liberate the Spiritual Mind, teach the Physical Mind the Truth, so it can understand and obey the Sp.M. instead of going against it. Thus, God will be liberated to work freely with such people, while Satan will become powerless (without Objects to work through). Man's Original Nature will be liberated.

For the purpose of Restoration this internal problem has to come out, in external philosophical conflict, and be resolved. The Fallen Natures were expressed in history through the development of Humanism. Culmination of this Physical Mind philosophy was Communism (Satanic Totalitarianism) and today's Secular Humanism ((leading to individualism, materialism and the free sex culture). Man cannot find freedom of his Original Mind under these Satanic - Ph.M. philosophies - they are the very reason man lost his freedom and lost True Love.

Now the Complete Truth overcomes these false philosophies. The Original Mind is free when Spirit Mind is Subject and Physical Mind unites with it; Thus, the Fallen Natures are gone and the Original Good Nature comes out.

(1) Sp.M. see God's view and knows God's Heart.
(2) Ph.M. created to be in position of Object to the Sp.M (Even Ph.M. feels liberated and good)
(3) Ph.M learns Sp.M. view and resists the fallen natures coming from the lineage (through the Body)
(4) Ph.M. multiplies Sp.M. way, propagating God's philosophy

20 to 30 thoughts come in our mind each minute, from 20-30 spirits, including Satan.

People are spiritual beings. Yet now they are spiritually blind, not realizing where their thoughts come from - evil spirit world or good spirit world. Not knowing the Truth clearly we can be easily fulled in our own thoughts and side with Satan.

Only learning the Divine Principle well can give us power to block Satan and side with God. Than we will find ourselves able to feel and perceive directly God's Heart and Will. Because our spirit mind is where God dwells, so it always knows the answer of every question.

First learn the difference between how Spirit Mind works and how Physical Mind works. They have different desires, different objectives. One see always externally, the other always internally. Ph.M. doesn't know God, nor Sp.W, nor the truth - so it always gets confused, doubting, fearing. But Sp.M. always relates to God, Sp.W. and the Truth - never doubts, never confused, never fears, but always peaceful and loving.

God was in pain for thousands of years, since the fall. Cut off by his own children, trapped and controlled by Satan. How? Lucifer tempted our own ancestors to live bad life and become evil spirits. Through the ancestors he can invade and control the lineage.

Satan works through our Bodies (chemicals and energy)

How Satan controls our bodies? - through our lineage! Each cell of our body is connected with the memories of our ancestors. Satan uses many evil angels to induce our ancestors with lies and false promises. Under Satan's command they invade the body and influence thoughts and feelings against God's will.

Chemical reactions and subconscious trapped emotions subjugate the Physical Mind and push it against the Spiritual Mind. Once we understand that and subjugate our Body, Satan becomes powerless. But for this to happen, we have to quickly learn the Principle (Life Elements) and practice (Vitality Elements) so that our Spirit can grow to become Subject.

We live in amazing time when our perfection and liberation is finally possible, after thousands of years of fallen history. How great that is! How great victory True Parents (Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han) have achieved.