This is the first of two excerpts from the sermon given at Belvedere on October 8, 1995.

Some day we will go to the spiritual world because this is a temporal world. The spiritual world is not far away, it is just next door. The physical and spiritual world are mingled together here. But in the spiritual world there is a different quality of existence, a different dimension, that is why we cannot see, we cannot understand and we cannot realize it. This material we can touch, but we cannot touch the air even though we are breathing it. They are completely different kinds of material. Thus, the spirit and the spiritual world are non- material according to our physical senses. However, we have mind and body, yet you cannot show me your mind. You know you have mind and body. Which one is subject? The mind, the spiritual mind is the center of existence. The spiritual world exists even though we cannot see and realize it. On October 1 and 3, Father spoke for a long time about the duality of existence-about the visible and invisible parts of things.

Physical life is like an orchard: the spring and summer are for taking good care and farming, and autumn is the harvest. Then the good fruit is put in storage. The bad and unripe fruit are thrown in the garbage or burned. This planet earth is like a farm. God needs His spouse, His partnership of true love; thus human beings are in the journey of true love on the farm. At the time of harvest, God picks the good fruit and throws away the bad. I hope everyone some day can become good fruit so that we can be put in the storage of the kingdom of heaven. This is our expectation.

There is no guarantee when your are going to the spiritual world, whether you are young or old. Even today, you may have an accident and leave the physical world very early. When we go to the spiritual world is very unpredictable. If we say, _in 1996, December 22, you will go to the spiritual world,_ how do you feel? It is because of God's love that we do not know. We just have to understand that this world is a dual existence like light and shadow, yin and yang, beauty and dirty, cold and hot. Everything is a dual system, so even though we are living in the physical world, we can deduce that the spiritual world exists. Many times Father talked about spiritual world; he did not give us everything at once, but bit by bit. We heard at that time, but we forgot. Today, I want to give you Father's entire teaching about the spiritual world. We will organize and have a full structure about the spiritual world. So, when Father speaks again and again about the spiritual world, you can understand which part Father is referring to. Oh! Father is speaking about the kingdom of hell, now he is speaking about paradise, about the cold part of the spiritual world, now is the hot part there and so on.

When you go to a new place, either New York, or San Francisco, you first look for a map, right? Spiritual world is the same. In the physical world we are just a passenger, we are not meant to live here eternally. We need a map to the spiritual world. Otherwise, we will be wanderers in the spiritual world.

Who can enter the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of hell? If we understand the conditions of entering the kingdom of heaven we might realize that we could not go there. God does not decide, we decide according to our whole life record; it comes suddenly like a video tape, then we can see everything. We then decide where we belong. That is the spiritual world. Originally we had two worlds, the material and non-material world. The visible world and the unseen, invisible world. Our eternal home is the spiritual world. This borderline is very thin; so after we lose the physical life, we immediately enter the spiritual world.

The purpose of this physical world is to achieve the three great blessings. If we follow God's blue print of the three blessings, then automatically we go to the kingdom of heaven. You know well the three blessings. First blessing is mind and body unity; we have to follow our right mind, our conscience; then we have individual perfection and we achieve the first blessing. Then comes the relationship between man and woman centering on the ideal true love, family is to achieve the second blessing. We also need children, male and female. So, parents, children, the family and the world become one that is the achievement of the second blessing.

The third blessing is the unification of the two worlds, physical and spiritual world centering on true love. From now, in your mind, please put a stamp, our human life is to achieve this stamp, its simple but at the same time, very complicated. We have to fulfill this content in the physical world and then automatically we will go to the kingdom of heaven in the spiritual world. It is guaranteed. We do not need to know the kind of degree we will belong.

The original spiritual world is one, not many different levels or degrees. But because of Adam and Eve's fall, human being became spiritually sick and could not achieve perfection. God then made many different levels. Therefore the purpose of human life on the earth is to become men and women of love. The central figure in the spirit world is God, thus we can only relate with God with love. We also breath love in the spirit world, just as we breath air in the physical world. Through the first blessing we learn the individual perfection of love by understanding the existence of God as our eternal parent. Then we learn to give glory to Him and respect and follow Him. Horizontally, we learn conjugal love and love of family; this applies to all kinds of people, yellow, black, white and thus realize that we are all one family.

Then we love the environment, just like this morning we saw the beautiful moon combined with this nature, then we feel gratitude to God. This is the love of dominion. All people have to achieve this realms, only then they can enter the kingdom of heaven. Recently Father is teaching the four realms of heart which are not in the Divine Principle, when we achieve those realms we can reach God and the kingdom of heaven.

In your mind you agree that originally the spiritual world was one, but got divided because of man's fall. There is racism in America. Our world today is divided in many nations, languages, peoples, religions etc., therefore the spirit world is also divided into the same kind of things. Thus we cannot explain the entire map of the spiritual world because it became too complicated. That is why Heung Jin Nim, Jesus Christ and many other important figures were sent to work hard into unifying the spiritual world and the physical world into one world.

What kind of people do we have in the physical world? We can say that we have five kinds of people. There is formation, growth and perfection during the growth period. But there are people who are not in any of these realms so they belong in a non principled realm. They follow good conscience, they love neighbors and the nation.

Also there are some people who are in the formation level, the Old Testament, Christians, Religious community people and very righteous people; we can say that they belong in the formation level. Today's Christians say that only they have the right of salvation and the rest will go to hell. Father denied that because there are other righteous people who serve and sacrifice for others. Then come the Buddhist, Confucius and Muslims. As a Christian community we really have to repent and change our minds about this kind of concept. God organized the Buddhists, Confucians, Muslims, etc.

I grew up with Confucian and Buddhist background in my hometown, my mother's side is Buddhist and husband's side is Confucius. But I saw that they were all very good people and even Christians. From now we should really embrace all these religious and righteous people. Who belong to this growth level? Jesus Christ, Confucius, Buddha, Mohammed we can safely say that they are in the growth level. Who is in the perfection level? According to Divine Principle it is not just physical perfection, but spiritual perfection. Centered in God, with true lineage, true life, true love and conjugal love, achieving the three great blessings then we can enter the kingdom of heaven. Unfortunately because Jesus could not have the second blessing during his life on earth, he had to stay in paradise. That is why he said he will go to paradise while dying, This means that the kingdom of heaven is still empty.

This level belongs only to True Parents, True Family and blessed families; we are so fortunate that we are blessed families. If we did not meet True Parents, did not receive the blessing, we cannot say where we would belong. Perhaps only Dr. Hendricks and Rev. Holt would belong here, I don't know the rest of you, but I know them very well. We can honestly say that we can reach that level only because of grace of God and True Parents. We need to appreciate them day and night. My spiritual parents taught me to always appreciate True Parents, never to complain. Unfortunately, many people belong to the area of non- principle fallen world; Satanic world. Ninety nine per cent of people belong to Satan, they are living only for their self purpose, also immoral, stealing, murdering, anger and jealousy, adultery and so many other bad behavior. So, we can say that people belong to the realm of principle, those who are in between or in the middle position, and those who completely belong to Satan and are in hell. There are these three kinds of people. Thus, if people are living one type of physical life on earth in either position, here is the borderline, then when they die, they go exactly to the same place in the spiritual world. For instance, I lived in a farm so I will go to the same place when I die, that's very clear.

So, when we go to the spiritual world, what happen? Spiritual world also has this kind of world so we go the realm between heaven and hell first. This is like in the history of American immigration, the Ellis island in New York; everyone arrived there first, they had to go there and clear their physical health otherwise they were kicked out. That is the way it is in this area. We stay there 40 days. The bible and from Father's words we know that Jesus stayed 40 days on earth. This spiritual world between heaven and hell is a turning point, it is the deciding period to know whether we go to heaven or hell. Everyone who dies today will go to that place first. The exceptions are True Parents, True Family and blessed couples; when we die, we will go straight to the spiritual realm that we belong. Everyone else stays there 40 days. That is why we have to be even more grateful. True Parents follow the highway of light.

However, in our life on earth we received the blessing, but if our life was not clear, always complaining, up and down, disobeying, disuniting and making trouble, being a burden to the church, a burden to True Parents, all these kinds of people, I am sorry, but they have to stay in this waiting room. They have to go through a period of re- education, rehabilitation only then, they can go to their proper realm. Even this realm between heaven and hell is very beautiful. There are some brothers and sisters who lost their spouses after the blessing and came to me asking why they could not see their spouses in a dream. If the spiritual and physical world are very close, why could they not appear? It is because even this realm is very beautiful, very shiny. We cannot even compare to the most beautiful places of the United States like Yosemite Park or Yellowstone. So when people go to that realm they become almost drunk because of such a beautiful atmosphere, so they forget their husband or wife, their children. That is the reality.

Furthermore, there are people who have physically died and suddenly came back to tell us about the beauty of that place, others did not want to come back even though they had the chance. If we compare ourselves being inside our mother's womb and this world, what do you think? Inside the mother's womb is too wet, too dark, too tight. It is the same, when we arrive to that level, even though is just a waiting area, it is still very beautiful and of course, you don't want to come back to this world. They say that there are birds singing, there is special fragrance in the flowers, it is shiny, etc. When you arrive, who comes to welcome you? All your relatives come, your former spouse, your children, your grandparents, and two kinds of angels; one kind is God's angel and the other is Satan's angel. You go in front of a special mirror and can see your whole personal life is there. Then one type of jeopardy game begins, they ask you all kinds of questions until one of the angels says, "Oh, you belong with us." And they take you.

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