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The Principle of First Love

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Kodiak, Alaska

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There are so many problems in the world. The condensed solutions are all in one small Divine Principle book. People must read all of it to understand. I have practiced and accomplished its contents in my lifetime. I am not just an ideologue.

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If we know all the contents, we are happy people, because we know who God is.

01Women can lead the way to peace

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A typhoon has a far greater effect than a normal wind. Mother's talk was like a typhoon. The Seoul Olympic Stadium has a capacity of one hundred and fifty thousand. I said we would fill it for Mother's talk.

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The members didn't believe it, but it was filled because the time had come. You never thought the time would come, but it has. I didn't give money for her talks this time. The members took care of it.

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The mother's group is now bigger than any political party in Korea. She will speak in Russia and in China. Then Kim Il Sung will have to let us have a meeting in North Korea. He will have no place to turn.

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I will bring North Korean women to see other places. South Korean women can help them as elder sisters. Unification must be accomplished by brotherly/sisterly relationships, not by governments.

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Women don't fight with one another at meetings as men do. Have you ever seen a coup d'état carried out by women? Go back and quickly organize the Women's Federation for World Peace.

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My mission is to change the dominion. The woman was the initiator of the fall, so she must be involved with restoration. Only the Unification Church can change women's thinking.

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If women are educated, no seducers can affect them. The sexual organs are a holy place, but they are fearful if misused. They can destroy family and society.

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Please keep in mind that one day, one boy and one girl made a problem that has impacted all of human history.

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We are not the ones who had the issue that day, so why is there so much suffering?

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Why has Israel suffered? Why were six million Jews killed by the Germans? Love can move history.

02Forget your experiences of fallen love

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Teach members that their first love is critical. How wonderful our children are, born from the first pure love. Don't make a mistake, or the whole country will accuse you.

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One German missionary to Central Africa made a mistake, and that entire country accused Germany. I know that those of you here have made the right decision.

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Forget any sexual experiences that you may have had before the blessing. To achieve that, you must be serious about first love after the blessing.

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You need to have the heart of being unable to eat or sleep because you miss your spouse so much. I want to train you by separating spouses for five to seven years so the providence can be accomplished more quickly.

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If you do not have a clear determination about this when you go to the spirit world, your way will not be clear.

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People do not forget their first love, even though it is illicit love from the satanic world. That is how strong first love is. From first love, we can walk on a paved road.

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Our connection to True Parents should be higher than our first love. Our first love after the blessing should be deeper and stronger than any previous love before the blessing.

03All kinds of women were drawn to me

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Before I was blessed with Mother, all the surrounding women, from age eighteen to eighty, wanted to be my spouse. God is fair, so all of them had an equal chance as candidates. The women members would not leave the church.

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I would kick them out, but they would climb the fence to come back. Husbands would confine them to the house, take away their clothes and underwear, and tie them up. Still, somehow, they would untie themselves and get back to the church. Many rumors began. Husbands wanted to kill me.

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Adam and Eve broke the four realms of the heart, and I had to restore them. I treated all women as my younger sisters. They had dreams of getting married to me; they had dreams of my giving them a ring.

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From such experiences, a higher dimension of the heart came about, a dimension that transcended the satanic realm. Mother and I treated these women with compassionate understanding; otherwise, much confusion would have resulted.

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There were twelve families in which the grandmother, mother, and daughter received revelations that they were prepared. This was important because the preparation was not fulfilled at the time of Jesus. Nevertheless, I didn't listen to any of these people; I kept my position in the vertical center.

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All problems from teenage years on up had to be dealt with and indemnified. Korean women represented all the women of the world.

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That kind of infighting among women had to be resolved, or else some would have poisoned the others with jealousy. Mother and I couldn't even stay together.

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Some grandmothers thought that Mother had stolen the spouse their granddaughter was meant to have. Eventually, they understood. True Parents' love was of a higher dimension than that of the satanic world, so Satan could not invade.

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I had to indemnify all of human history just to be able to choose True Mother.

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If I had been accepted by Christianity after World War II, all the women of the world who felt they should be candidates could have assembled, and a British or American woman could have been decided. I indemnified so much just to decide, Mother; it was not done at random.

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You can indemnify everything just by following me. It is like you are receiving a free ride.

04First love opens the realm of the heart

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First love should transcend life and death. Female animals experience changes in their breasts and sexual organs at mating time. If there had been no fall, such changes would be even stronger in women.

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Unless you have a higher level of love for True Parents than that of your first love, you cannot enter True Parents' realm of the heart. First love in this world is at a lower level, so you must grow in your love of True Parents.

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If you love True Parents more than you love your sex partner, from that point True Parents' realm of heart begins. Then you receive the kingship of the elder son.

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People who can gain such elder Sonship become true Israelites and true Christians and bequeath their position to the next generation. Jews and Christians should have had this kind of tradition and become this kind of person, but they didn't know about it.

05First love determines inheritance

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The position of elder Sonship from first love can be bequeathed from generation to generation. This is the main tradition, centering on the first son of the first love.

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Kingship in the royal family comes from the first son of the first love. People who create problems between men and women should be dropped from the royal family.

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Only those connected with the royal family can go to the Kingdom of Heaven. Heavenly citizenship is not random.

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Only the royal family and those connected with it can go to the kingdom. Paul made a mistake by saying that just by believing in the cross, people could go to heaven.

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If you live as you wish, even in the church, you cannot go to the heavenly kingdom. You have the mission to teach all people this tradition. Then you will really be the king of kings.

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Within three days, you should know whatever I am saying. You need a satellite system to get information. Your countries will benefit from my words.

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If men cry because they miss me, that is their original mind coming out. Satan cannot touch such a person. Some people know about my coming and going just through their hearts. Compared with that standard of love, you are fakes.

06Invest everything to gain true love

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Remember your first love. This is a principle, not a story I made up. To find such true love, you need to invest all your life and property. This excitement of first love extends to the first child as well.

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Grandparents love their grandchildren more than their children. They become friends with their grandchildren and become childlike themselves. Around the world, there are concerns about senior citizens.

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How can you solve these problems?

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Use senior citizens to teach children; they have more heart. One statistic indicates that the cause of juvenile delinquency is the lack of grandparents' love.

07First love connects us

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For this, we need a special ideology. Everyone is God's child.

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How can three generations call God Father?

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The answer is based on first love. God is the first love for all of them. Because of first love, then, everybody is like brothers. Those who don't know the principle of first love think this is strange. China has so many people, but there are not so many social problems because of ancestor respect.

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Without Christianity, there would be fighting every day in the United States because of racial issues.

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If America starts to divide, there will be huge issues. If Hispanics take the West and blacks the South, the whites will have the smallest part, New England.

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Don't worry about being given higher levels of responsibility. Take things one step higher every day.

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You need training to serve True Parents and others. Set aside food for True Parents every day. Two plates are prepared at each meal for the True Parents and prayerfully offered. Then they can be given to a guest or family member.

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Set aside money for the country. You are pioneering the frontiers of the spirit world. Get training on the ocean so you can save your life and the lives of others.

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Deposit the money you gain from fishing, and in ten or twenty years, others will be impressed by the large amount.

08First love connects us to heaven

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The theme of my talk today was first love. Had there been no fall, you would all have experienced this first love. The whole cosmos would be concerned with your life.

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Heaven wants to connect to you based on the foundation of first true love, but it finds little place on earth to practice it. Thus, heaven is sad.

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Once you touch that realm, however, much help will come to you, and the environment will support you.

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Without the fall, people would not need to seek the blessing. Love would come automatically. First love comes from True Parents. If you want to experience this, you must love True Parents more than your spouse.

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    Unification of the World and Responsibility of HumanityOther · ¶ 62Jesus was born of the womb of a victorious woman as the first fruit of the first love, which could be claimed only by God. It was the first time in history that a child was born as God’s…
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    International Marriage Blessing of 60 Religious LeadersSermon · 27 May 2001 · ¶ 55…and become one with each other, centering on true love, then God would have dwelt with them. That is why the first love is precious.
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    Original Family And Blessed FamilySermon · 1 Oct 1995 · ¶ 224It is the point where your first love is consummated. This means the first night when a blessed husband and wife make love together. Why do men…
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    Responsibilities of National Messiahs to Support North KoreaSermon · 29 Nov 1997 · ¶ 35…all over the world, full of free sex and homosexuality. If you follow this, your country will be doomed. If the first love is lost, all kinds of social crimes result.
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    Responsibilities of Blessed FamiliesBook chapter · ¶ 21…of God’s love can be perfected, begins from the place where concave and convex unite and a relationship of the first love is established after marriage. The first love relationship of man and woman represents the place of…
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    The Absolute Object of God's LoveBook chapter · ¶ 18…internally and externally within that area, centering on God's true love. Thus, through engaging in their first love relationship in the position of the first ancestors, these physical transient beings attain oneness with the…
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    The Unity of the World and Humankind’s ResponsibilityBook chapter · ¶ 60Jesus was born of the womb of a victorious woman as the first fruit of the first love, which could be claimed only by God. It was the first time in history that a child was born as God’s…
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    Cain and AbelBook chapter · ¶ 30…the second love between Adam and Eve, which contained fewer evil elements, while Cain was the fruit of the first love. God took Abel because Adam and Eve’s relationship was more principled than the first relationship between…
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    The Proclamation of True Parents and KingshipBook chapter · ¶ 1…will was for Adam to reach perfection. Adam was the eldest son, the first son. He was the son who received the first love. This is the right of the first son. Since Adam was able to receive that first love he could have become a…
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    First Love in Young AdulthoodBook chapter · ¶ 3…with her cells shrinking and her heart dying. If she had not fallen, whom would she have loved as her first love? She would have had her first love with God. The first love Adam and Eve had with God would have contained…
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    Time and Our Destiny RelationshipSermon · 2 Apr 1978 · ¶ 111…one enemy, so all we have to do is conquer the one enemy of love. One particular historical enemy destroyed the first love, and that same enemy has destroyed the love of God and the love of parents and brothers and sisters,…
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    About MyselfSermon · 27 Feb 1983 · ¶ 31We were speaking of the original homeland. God's homeland is the place in which He experienced His first love with mankind. But since the fall, there has been no time and no place in which God could settle Himself on…
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    Completion Of The Responsibilities Of True ParentsSermon · 6 Dec 1992 · ¶ 149…for their children, God is God. God is the common God for all the different generations, centering on the first true love. We have to restore the feeling of first true love.

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Moon, S. M. (1992, October 23). The Principle of First Love [Sermon]. True Parents Legacy Archive (J. Auror, Ed.). https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/the-principle-of-first-love

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Moon, Sun Myung. “The Principle of First Love.” True Parents Legacy Archive, 23 Oct. 1992, https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/the-principle-of-first-love.

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Moon, Sun Myung. “The Principle of First Love.” Sermon, October 23, 1992. True Parents Legacy Archive. https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/the-principle-of-first-love.

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@misc{moon1992,
  author = {Sun Myung Moon},
  title = {The Principle of First Love},
  year = {1992},
  month = {oct},
  howpublished = {True Parents Legacy Archive},
  url = {https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/the-principle-of-first-love},
  note = {Sermon}
}
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Text bySun Myung Moon, Founder of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity
TranslationWorking translation from the Korean. Official editions are reproduced verbatim.
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