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Three Stages Of Creation

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World Assembly to Proclaim the Embodiment of God's Word and the Era of the Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind

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Ladies and gentlemen, God created human beings as his children. As the original absolute, unique, unchanging, and eternal being, God created people by breathing His love into them to endow them with a soul. If not for the Fall, we would have been able to perfect ourselves as God is perfect, to fulfill the way of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience, and to attain eternal life.

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But unfortunately, human beings are living as descendants of the Fall. To live a perfect life, all people without exception must receive life through the blessing from True Parents in the three stages of rebirth, resurrection, and eternal life.

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Rebirth, in this context, refers to an individual attaining a new life. Resurrection is when a family and nation attain a new life, and eternal life refers to all humankind attaining perfection and living forever in God's homeland after establishing the kingdom of heaven on earth and in the spirit world by attending the True Parents, the King, and Queen of Peace.

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Your ancestors who are in the spirit world shall now return to this earth according to the time of the True Parents who directly govern all life and all things as the substantial entity of God who exists without form.

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They will go through the three-stage blessings of rebirth, resurrection, and eternal life and complete the Original Divine Principle education the education on absolute marital fidelity organized by True Parents. Only then can they take part in the original authority of Seunghwa ascension and liberation and attain the qualifications to become citizens of Cheon Il Guk.

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We can easily see that each person's life goes through three stages. Everyone is conceived through the grace of God and the love of his or her parents. The first stage of life is the long (yet short) nine months spent in the mother's womb. No one is exempt from this!

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Whether we are conscious of it or not at the time, all of us without exception spend nine months in our mother's womb. Even though a woman's womb is smaller than some rice cookers, from the perspective of a fetus, it is larger than the entire universe.

What about our birth into the second stage of our lives, which occurs on earth?

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How could we find words adequate to describe the struggle of a newborn baby as it is faced with a completely unfamiliar, new world? The first lonely cry of a newborn as it experiences the large and wide world that it finds upon exiting the womb represents the promise of a one-hundred-year future, the blessing, and celebration of entering a new time and space.

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We have all received the blessing of birth that enabled us to live in the second stage of our lives. Although a hundred years is much longer than the nine months we spend in the womb, please do not forget that there is still a course we must follow to a higher end.

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Although we have all forgotten the standard of consciousness that we possessed in our mother's womb, and though you may think that we are now enjoying our lives fully in this big, wide world with a higher standard of consciousness, there is yet one final stage of our lives, which is the way toward eternal life.

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That third stage occurs in the world of eternal life, the spirit world, which we enter upon ending our life on this earth. We were originally meant to enter the spirit world having first perfected our spirits during our life on earth. It is a world that cannot be imagined by people descended from the Fall, a world in which we transcend time and space.

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Just as the fetus in his or her mother's womb cannot imagine life on earth, we, as people living and breathing air in this earthly world, cannot easily understand the spirit world, where we will be reborn in our spiritual bodies, living and breathing true love.

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APA 7

Moon, S. M. (2010, July 8). Three Stages Of Creation [Address]. True Parents Legacy Archive (J. Auror, Ed.). https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/three-stages-of-creation

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Moon, Sun Myung. “Three Stages Of Creation.” True Parents Legacy Archive, 8 Jul. 2010, https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/three-stages-of-creation.

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Moon, Sun Myung. “Three Stages Of Creation.” Address, July 8, 2010. True Parents Legacy Archive. https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/three-stages-of-creation.

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@misc{moon2010,
  author = {Sun Myung Moon},
  title = {Three Stages Of Creation},
  year = {2010},
  month = {jul},
  howpublished = {True Parents Legacy Archive},
  url = {https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/three-stages-of-creation},
  note = {Address}
}
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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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