By Rev.Yulian UTS / 2006 / Internal Guidance
Restoration is carried out centered on the Word. Our responsibility is to learn, believe and practice it to reach perfection. But why not studying and not teaching DP is a sin? How this creates a base with Satan? In a spiritual message, from 1993, Jesus explained why "Not reading DP is the Biggest Sin" for us the Unificationists. He gave many examples of how Satan prevents us from reading the Principle.
The Complete Truth is here to expel the ignorance, which keeps us under Satan's control. But why members and second generation are loosing faith? Father said, these problems come because we didn't study the Word. It's true, many members, especially second generation never read the Divine Principle even once. And as we know, faith only comes through reading God's Word.
"True belief cannot come... without knowledge and understanding. We study (DP) to confirm our belief by knowing the truth." (DP, p.8) "Scripture can be likened to a lamp which illuminates the truth. It's mission is to shed the light of truth." (DP, p.9)
"Ignorance is the shadow of death and the cause of ruin... no act of will can arise from ignorance... intellect, emotion and will do not function properly." DP, p. 10
"Human beings should perfect themselves through their faith in the Word as their own portion of responsibility... Only by perfecting themselves in accordance with the Principle can they earn the qualifications to rule the universe." DP, THE HUMAN FALL
"Satan cannot perpetrate his evil activity unless he first finds an object partner with whom he can form a common base and engage in give and take action... Of their own free will, human beings are to bring Satan to voluntary submission by upholding the Word of God through fulfilling their responsibility." THE HUMAN FALL
Only by understanding the Principle we can solve all problems:
"The Divine Principle... is overriding, all-law. If we study the Divine Principle, we can solve everything. Nothing is too complicated to be solved by the Divine Principle. Looking through the glass of the Divine Principle, all the complicated situations of the satanic world will become simple and clear. The same is true for all the problems within the heavenly world. Through the Divine Principle, we can solve everything." Father, 871121
Shouldn't be a requirement for reading and knowing DP:
1. For all Leaders, in any position2. For all who participate in decision making3. For Blessing Candidates to have read it several times?
Comment: Sorry, but those who aren't proud of who we are and what we teach need to pound sand and not be in a position of guidance, guiding others. We owe it to True Parents and to God to grow and strengthen our understanding of the Divine Principle.
"As members of the Family Federation, you have a firm responsibility to educate people. Don't give your own speech. Read the Divine Principle book and the books of Father's words. Teach your relatives what True Parents have done. That is the formula course." Father,
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Levels of understanding the Truth:
- Logical Understanding (Formation Stage)
- Know the Applications - what's right and wrong (Growth Stage)
- Embody, Incarnate, Live by it (Completion Stage)
"Once someone studies the Divine Principle they can turn completely around in only three days. Its power is much stronger than economic power. But you foolish people don't know what astrong armament you have." Father, 910728
Do we really understand God's Principles behind the book? Even if we reed several times, still there are many things we don't understand.
"We must guide people to read the Principle." Gil Ja Sa
Father's Guidance on Teaching the Divine Principle is that listening to "lectures from bare memory... there will be no spiritual connection." Receiving such lectures, Father explained, we "cannot develop." Instead of lectures spoken with own words we need to "learn in accordance with the original content... The book is the real teacher." Only the original text has this spiritual power. Those who teach with personal explanations are "obstructing the real depth of the Principle," Gil Ja Sa wrote. See, THE TOP FIVE LESSONS IN DIVINE PRINCIPLE
"How should we study Divine Principle? Self-study is the only way to study. Don't expect anybody to teach you. Learn by yourself. You have to learn yourself before you can answer either the difficult or easy questions other people are going to ask you. If you don't study, learn and memorize, you won't be able to answer... So we don't get any results whatsoever from witnessing... we have to equip ourselves to be able to teach others. Wehave to learn ourselves. The only way is through studying the book." Father, 921206
"Learn it by heart," Father said, " This will give you a hundred times greater advantage than giving lectures by bare memory. Lecturing from bare memory will have no spiritual connection. You may start talking about everything under the sun, and even after ten years, you may still be without confidence." Father's Guidance on Teaching the Divine Principle
"According to the principle of of creation, man.. was made to be perfected by believing in God's words and practicing them, as his own portion of responsibility." DP, Resurrection
"(For) Resurrection... there must be 'Word'... which is God's portion of responsibility. Only by believing in and practicing these words as man's own portion of responsibility, is God's will accomplished." (DP, p.173)
In his spiritual message Jesus said that millions of people are prepared to join full time immediately... and their ancestors are pleading with him to allow. But the good spirit world prevents that, because we have no foundation and are not ready to take care of them. We will just kill them spiritually, because of our own ignorance.
Coming out of Ignorance is a process of Transforming the Concepts in our Inner Heungsang
Levels of our Spiritual Growth:
- Formed Spirit - Old Testament Level (Formation Stage)
- Life Spirit - New Testament Level (Growth Stage)
- Divine Spirit - Completed Testament (Completion Stage)
"God does not directly govern them because He wishes to allow them to fulfill their own portion of responsibility. God will govern them directly only after they have reached full maturity." DP, THE HUMAN FALL
I ask members, "Did you notice what DP explains you will be able to do when you become Divine Spirit?" Most don't even know DP explains such things. They didn't pay attention. But once you rich that spiritual level of growth, you start noticing, "Oh, that's why the Principle says this." Then you notice that Father spoke so much of that. "Oh, why I never noticed before?" Because when we are not grown for it, we don't notice.
“When.. the spirit man becomes a divine spirit.. the spirit man can feel and perceive everything in the invisible world. Since all the spiritual phenomena thus perceived by the spirit man are reflected and echoed in the physical man, presenting themselves as physical phenomena, man finally comes to feel spiritual phenomena even with his five physical senses.” DP 62: Structure of the Spirit Man
How the Fallen Nature Works?(1) Not seeing God's viewpoint, leads to(2) Leaving the proper Principle position; which results in(3) Reversing dominion in many possible ways; And finally,
(4) Start Multiplying that Evil
"The new truth should lead fallen people to block the ways of the evil mind and to pursue the goals of the original mind, enabling them to attain goodness. It should guide people to remove the double-mindedness that sometimes seeks good and sometimes evil. It should empower religious people to overcome the contradiction which they face in their struggle to live according to the Way." DP, Introduction
Thus even one or two such people end up blocking the whole community from deeper Principle education. At the same time, lectures that are compromised with lots of selfish and humanistic concepts may become well accepted and even praised. The next generation grows thinking that's the Principle.
Even a Principle lecture, by omitting the essence of the Principle can easily lead to Humanism/Relativism. By philosophizing about everything under the sun, immature lecturers make the line of what's good and what evil very blurred. In their ignorance they may give examples and explanations that lead to Relativism.
Instead of clearly learning what's principle or unprinciple, sometimes it goes so much off, that it seems the unprinciple is the right way. For example, instead of 'Forget yourself', and 'sacrifice for others,' they embrace the very opposite view of, 'Self-esteam', and 'Self-love,' not realizing that's Satan's way. How ignorant of God's Principles. Father teaches the opposite, "Forget yourself," "Live for others," "Give and forget."
Yet, instead of "tuning to God’s frequency of unselfishness," as Father told us, such members desperately focus on tuning with Satan's self centered vibrations. Not clear in the Principle, Satan tricked them to believe that's the way to happiness. Communities that learn that selfish way of thought become very resistant to listening the actual way of the Principle.
Wrong Concepts Trap Our Spirit
Dr. Lee said, he found so many such members in the Middle Spirit World. misled by such false ideologies. Even there they continue to give such a stupid arguments against the truth, so it seems they can never be saved out of there, he said.
Chart: Each new information creates Neurological connections in our Brain. Incorrect Neuro Paths can become prison for our Spirit.
Read the Divine Principle minimum 20 times: To Have Protection from Thoughts given by Evil Spirits
Unless we read DP minimum 20 times we don't have personal protection from Satan within our own minds. Evil spirits can constantly influence our thought and feelings. But to be able to separate others from Satan, Father said, we should read DP minimum 100 times.
Can we separate the correct from the wrong thoughts in our own mind? Jesus explained that in each minute 20 to 30 thoughts come in our mind from different sources in the spirit world, including Satan. How important it is to be able to cut correctly what thoughts are good, which ones are evil. It's not that simple.
We have around 60 thousand thoughts a day. Researchers found that around 80% of them are negative - unprinciple.
Chart: The Words empowers our Original mind with the Truth: See, THE REAL MEANING OF MIND AND BODY UNITY
"Read Divine Principle one hundred or one thousand times. Spirit world is watching you. If you stand still, you will see the phenomena resulting from that. If Midori-san here reads the Divine Principle 1,000 times, her spiritual level will shoot up like a rocket and she will experience many different levels of spiritual life and she will stay up there. Her personality will develop greatly. That is possible. This is no ordinary power. For that reason, Father is telling you to keep reading the Divine Principle, even memorize it. Do you understand? Then you can utilize it in any way."Father, 940212
"The Divine Principle... is overriding, all-law. If we study the Divine Principle, we can solve everything. Nothing is too complicated to be solved by the Divine Principle. Looking through the glass of the Divine Principle, all the complicated situations of the satanic world will become simple and clear. The same is true for all the problems within the heavenly world. Through the Divine Principle, we can solve everything." Father, 871121
"You can read it and immediately regain spiritual momentum. If you are 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." Rev. Sun Myung Moon
Satan used 'love' to make humanity Fall. Precisely because God created love to be stronger than the Principle, Adam and Eve were supposed to keep faith in the Word, to be able to achieve True Love.
We don't study the Principle to just satisfy our intellectual interests. Father gave specific instructions on how to study and teach the Principle. We study it because it is the pathway to perfection. These are the key principles and secrets of winning the war within ourselves. They are all in this book. This book is that precious. Yet, Satan keeps you from really grasping it, so it takes prayer and efforts. It's a spiritual battle.
In the Physical Mind, our concepts are separated neurological connections, that the Principle will start connecting in the way that our Spirit Mind can relate freely with our Physical Mind. When that happens and your spirit mind gets liberated; you start seeing the big picture, from God's higher perspective. You will be enlightened. You will be able to spiritually sense the truth. This will make Satan unable to trap you again in some misleading, trapping neurological connections (Like SC).
Consequently, not all who study the Principle end up to believe it and are victorious in practicing it. Only those who overcome Satan's attacks and experience the power of the Principle way will gain the power to Subjugate Satan.
The closer to the Truth, the brighter the color of your spirit
"The colors of the different regions of the spiritual world differ... The Kingdom of Heaven is extremely bright and white, clean like flawless white jade. But as we descend the colors become darker and darker and dirtier... The more sins committed, the darker the color...the more fallen nature the darker their spirit self becomes, and they go to a dark Heung Jin Nimplace ."



















