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The Process and Standard for the Determination of Original Value

Sun Myung MoonSpeaker
Exposition of the Divine PrinciplePart 01 · The Principle of Creation
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How is a being’s original created value determined?

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The value of an entity may be determined by the relationship between its purpose of existence and the desire that a human being has for it. To be more precise, the value of an entity intended at its creation is not fixed as an inherent attribute.

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Rather, it is established through the mutual relationship between the purpose of the entity according to God’s ideal of creation, and people’s original desire to treasure it and bring out its true worth. It finds its true value when it participates as an object partner in a God-centered four-position foundation by relating with a person through give and take action, and by their union becoming the third object partner to God.

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What sets the standard by which the original value of an entity is determined?

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Since its original value is determined when it participates in a four-position foundation, and since the center of this four-position foundation is God, it is God who sets the standard for its value. Since God is absolute, the original value of an object partner determined in relation to this standard set by God must also be absolute.

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Consider a rose; how is its original beauty determined? It is determined when the purpose for which God created the flower and the divinely given human desire to appreciate and bring out its beauty are fulfilled together. To put it another way, an ideal person feels the fullness of joy when his desire to pursue beauty is satisfied by the emotional stimulation that the flower gives him. At that moment, the flower manifests its original beauty. The flower’s beauty becomes absolute when it achieves its inherent purpose, which is to give complete joy to its subject partner.

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The human desire to appreciate the beauty of the flower is an instance of the desire to feel aspects of one’s own internal nature and external form through an object partner. The moment the flower’s purpose for which it was created and the human desire to bring out its value are fulfilled, the subject partner and the object partner enter a state of harmonious oneness.

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An entity attains its true value when it and a human being, its subject partner, enter a state of harmonious oneness and form the third object partner to God in the four-position foundation. Through this process, the true values of all things are determined absolutely, based on their relationship with the absolute standard of value set by God.

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Until now, no object partner’s value could become absolute; it has remained relative because its relationship with fallen people was not based on God’s ideal of creation but was based on satanic purpose and desire.

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CITED IN · 24 REFERS TO · 3 What Belongs to t…, 1959Let Us Halt in Ou…, 1959To Whom Do You Be…, 1958We Are the Ones W…, 1957 Thisbook chapter Give and Take ActionThe Four Position Found…Joy
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    What Belongs to the Father Belongs to MeSermon · 30 Aug 1959 · ¶ 13Human beings have lost their original value. We should look at the whole world. If there is a God, then we should call out “Heaven.”
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    Let Us Halt in Our Steps and Behold the One Who Is Protecting UsSermon · 8 Aug 1959 · ¶ 98…pass through a world of relationships before arriving at our destination. There, we can fully manifest our original value and proudly stand in the presence of the Creator. Hence, we must understand that in their innermost hearts,…
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    To Whom Do You Belong?Sermon · 16 Mar 1958 · ¶ 135Accordingly, people must set a substantial standard that can advocate the original value of materials and represent the original ideology so that they can attain a form where materials, humankind, and Heaven…
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    We Are the Ones Who Must Possess the Key to the Kingdom of HeavenSermon · 17 Mar 1957 · ¶ 134When such a standard is completed, one can finally say that one has the original value of creation. Therefore, Jesus spoke, “What good would it be if you win the whole universe but lose your soul?” You must…
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    Let Us Perfect The Peace Kingdom Through The Peace United NationsAddress · 15 Oct 2003 · ¶ 63Through the original mind, it has become possible to recover the original value of human beings. We can accomplish a worldwide realm of absolute goodness that will not tilt toward Satan…
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    The New Family PledgeSermon · 8 May 1994 · ¶ 140When we come to think of our original value, all our ancestors in the spiritual world will shout out mansei because their offspring are all here…
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    The Ideal Family Is The Base For Peace And UnificationSermon · 24 Jul 1994 · ¶ 245…give the same seed the same fruit. If the Unification Church Blessed couples do not bear this intrinsic original value, they are not worthy.
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    Let Us Find Our True SelfSermon · 4 Dec 1994 · ¶ 321…universe. Through this, we begin to understand how precious man is. Now look at mankind. Compared to the original value of man and the way they have reduced their value, they appear as maggots by comparison.
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    True Family And World PeaceBook chapter · ¶ 22…it brought about ignorance of God and ignorance of true love. With this, human beings lost God and their original value.
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    The New Future of HumankindBook chapter · ¶ 30…unchanging and absolute love from an absolute and unique higher level. If human beings, who have lost their original value due to the Fall, ask for such love, could God, the eternal, unchanging, unique, and absolute Being, want the…
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    True Marriage And True LoveOther · ¶ 306…and eternal, and therefore absolute. Thus, we see the present as a time when we, who have forgotten our great original value, should restore the origin of our lives.
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    Adam And EveOther · ¶ 79Animals, far more than people, recognize the original value of all things. Animals live in nature as their home. When you think this way, nature will become very intimate with you;…
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    The Way of a True PersonBook chapter · ¶ 107…in their footsteps, for the human heart is connected to the heavenly heart. This is a natural pursuit of original value. (17-268)
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    Realizing the True Love Movement through the Power of WomenOther · ¶ 6Until now, men did not know the original value of creation, and therefore, women were not treated properly, and for a long time, have had to bear the agony of gender…
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    Could God Prevent the Fall?Book chapter · ¶ 21However, as sinners, we are debtors to God and cannot liquidate our debt and restore our original value by our power alone. God does not and cannot forgive people unconditionally because it is contrary to the…
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    The Succession of MissionsBook chapter · ¶ 38Having lost their original value through the fall, people certainly have no right to complain to God about their lot in life. God loved Jacob…
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    Original Emotion, Intellect and Will; and Original Beauty, Truth and GoodnessBook chapter · ¶ 2…mind; hence, He is also the subject partner to human emotion, intellect and will. Desiring to realize his original value, a person responds to the perfect emotion, perfect intellect and perfect will of God through his mind, and…
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    Signs of the Restoration of the First BlessingBook chapter · ¶ 11Human beings lost their original value because of the Fall. In the present era, as democratic ideals have flourished, people have been promoting…
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    Jesus and Fallen PeopleBook chapter · ¶ 4A person has virtually none of his original value as long as he remains in the fallen state. If, however, he were to be reborn spiritually and physically…
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    The Search for Absolute Values in a Changing WorldSermon · 26 Nov 1977 · ¶ 11However, science without a standard of value to guide it could be destructive. The possibility of nuclear warfare attests to this. Thus, at this…
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    Strategies to Save the NationSermon · 22 Oct 1992 · ¶ 57…and to promote a new family spirit, a new Christian spirit. It needs to solve the problem of values with an absolute standard of value.
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    RighteousnessResearch study · ¶ 19…or on restoration, but in the chapter on the Principle of Creation itself — specifically in Section 4 on “Original Value.”
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    Original ValueResearch study · ¶ 13The Exposition of the Divine Principle’s Chapter on Creation establishes the structural source of Original Value. God created with two purposes simultaneously — the purpose of the whole and the purpose of the individual —…
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    The FamilySermon · 11 May 1969 · ¶ 70One must liquidate what has gone wrong and start with the original standard that has not gone wrong. To do so, the old and the new collide.

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  1. 1.09The Purpose of the Creation of the Universe2 min
  2. 1.10Good Object Partners for the Joy of God6 min
  3. 1.11The Process and Standard for the Determination of Original Value2 min
  4. 1.12Original Emotion, Intellect and Will; and Original Beauty, Truth and Goodness1 min
  5. 1.13Love and Beauty, Good and Evil, Righteousness and Unrighteousness4 min
  6. 1.14The Process of the Creation of the Universe1 min

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APA 7

Moon, S. M., Eu, H. W. (n.d.). The Process and Standard for the Determination of Original Value [Book chapter]. True Parents Legacy Archive (J. Auror, Ed.). https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/the-process-and-standard-for-the-determination-of-original-value

MLA 9

Moon, Sun Myung. “The Process and Standard for the Determination of Original Value.” True Parents Legacy Archive, https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/the-process-and-standard-for-the-determination-of-original-value.

Chicago 17

Moon, Sun Myung. “The Process and Standard for the Determination of Original Value.” Book chapter, n.d. True Parents Legacy Archive. https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/the-process-and-standard-for-the-determination-of-original-value.

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@misc{moon,
  author = {Sun Myung Moon and Hyo Won Eu},
  title = {The Process and Standard for the Determination of Original Value},
  howpublished = {True Parents Legacy Archive},
  url = {https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/the-process-and-standard-for-the-determination-of-original-value},
  note = {Book chapter}
}
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Text bySun Myung Moon, Founder of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity; Hyo Won Eu, The first president of the Unification Church of Korea and a key early disciple of Sun Myung Moon.
TranslationWorking translation from the Korean. Official editions are reproduced verbatim.
Editorial scopeTexts are not abridged or paraphrased. Paragraph numbers are stable for citation. Report an error