In January of 1992, Reverend Moon issued a set of what he calls "instructions." This particular set, in its brief translation by Rev. Zin Moon Kim, is of great significance as a revelation of the Principle vision for the practical shape of God's Kingdom on the earth.

When Rev. Moon says, "True Love," what social application might it have? When he refers to the family as the building block of the Kingdom, what does he mean? These instructions are enlightening in reference to these questions.

"Unification of the New Nation"

I. Restoration of Elder Sonship, Restoration of Parentship, Restoration of Kingship, Restoration of Royal Familyship

1. Restoration of Christianity, which has the elder position

2. Restoration of secular parentship, which has the elder position

3. Restoration of secular kingship, which has the elder position

This first section deals with the essence of the restoration course in the providence of God today. "The elder position" refers to external dominion or simply just "presence" in this world. Christianity has this elder position and has the external power to create God's Kingdom. However, Christianity has lacked the internal power, the spiritual power and vision necessary to create a peaceful and happy world. Christianity has been unable to break down the barriers of race, religion, culture and nation. Christianity has been unable to overcome sexual immorality and political corruption. Hence, Christianity must be restored, or resurrected.

Further, parentship, that is, the position of parents, has been secularized. Parenthood has lost its religious, spiritual foundation. Therefore the family has very limited social grounding in our culture. Divorce is commonplace. Homosexuality is accepted. The "ties that bind" have broken. Hence, parentship must be restored.

Similarly, "kingship," that is, the power and responsibility to govern, has been secularized--has lost its religious, spiritual foundation. Government has been reduced to politics. God and the divine vision have no place in the political sphere. Good men and women attempt to serve their countries, but without ideals transcending national or factional interest their power to do good is vitiated. Hence, the righteousness of civic responsibility, or "kingship," must be restored.

This last point is especially controversial. People like to be served by their government, but are understandably reluctant to grant government the power to serve. "Power corrupts." Does power corrupt the people who enter into public service? Religion says: no, not really: they were corrupt even before they entered into public office. Hence the beauty of the democratic separation of powers: it controls the damage.

To move beyond the present impasse, we must support leaders who serve the people with True Love. That is, leaders who give and give, and forget they have given, and give more. What is the model to which we can refer? The model, the only viable, accessible, realistic model, is that of a family centered upon parents.

Don't be sentimental about parenthood. We're not talking Hollywood B movie. Think objectively. Think about the meaning of parenthood, in all its dimensions. Ask yourself: why do parents love their children? Why to children love their parents? How is that love expressed? Is such love noble, or not noble? Is it necessary that such love be limited to the nuclear family? Can you imagine such love leaping the boundaries of the family? Did Jesus have such love? Can you imagine some dimension of that love empowering the public sphere? Is the problem due to the limited potential of love itself, or to the limitations of human beings who haven't learned to practice love?

Then where do we learn to practice love? Reverend Moon teaches that the family is the textbook of love. He says that we learn the essentials of life--we learn that which God put us on this earth to learn--through the family. This is a life-long education: continuing education for parents, extra-continuing education for grandparents. Post-graduate courses in the spirit world. Night school, day school, evening classes--you got it. Lots of homework. Lots of touchy-feelie. Private tutoring. Every language. Tuition free for the first twelve to eighteen years. Attendance compulsory. No summer vacations, sorry. Four textbooks: the textbook of children, the textbook of brothers and sisters, the textbook of couples, and the textbook of parents.

Here's the course outline:

II. Heavenly Education

1. Textbook of Heavenly Children

i) Through unity with vertical parents, children can be helpful for God's love, parental love, conjugal love, and brotherly-sisterly love.

ii) To let children have concern for and dialogue with things, people and issues greater than themselves.

iii) To let them treat others' (things, people, issues) as their own

iv) To let children understand that they are the foundation of the family

2. Textbook of Heavenly Brothers and Sisters

i) Totally explain parental love, conjugal love, children's love

ii) To let them embrace all human beings as their own brothers and sisters

iii) To let them understand that they are the representatives of the entire horizontal world.

iv) To let them cherish the life of giving and the life for the sake of others (the more they give, the more they nicely grow).

v) To let them horizontally grow and prepare to be the spouse of another

3. Textbook of Heavenly Couples

i) To let them understand that conjugal love is the second stage of three kinds of love: 1) children's love 2) conjugal love 3) parental love. (The three cannot be practiced separately but must be linked together.)

ii) A couple is the total virtue of heaven and earth, which means the unity of east and west, south and north, up and down, front and back.

iii) By total harmonization with God's vertical love, a couple accomplishes becoming the terminal of vertical love, and then the couple can occupy the parental position representing God.

4. Textbook of Heavenly Parents

i) Parental love means the completion of the ideal kingdom on earth by combining children's love, brotherly- sisterly love, conjugal love and by then becoming second creators, and by multiplying children.

ii) By expanding the ideal family on earth, parents become vertically the first ancestors, and by accomplishing their responsibility they can establish kingship.

iii) By the total virtue of heaven and earth, kingship on earth and in heaven can be accomplished.

Did you catch number 4. ii)? Check it out: "By expanding the ideal family on earth, parents become vertically the first ancestors, and by accomplishing their responsibility they can establish kingship." And the following one: "By the total virtue of heaven and earth, kingship on earth and in heaven can be accomplished." The basis of Kingship, then, is not money, political skill, power, or the ability to manipulate media or law--it is family life; the ability to substantialize true love.

It means that parental love expands, multiplies and creates an ideal which naturally takes responsibility for the public sphere, the society, nation and world. This love combines children's love (the ability to receive love with no inhibitions, with no guilt--the awareness that "I am loved and I am worthy by my God-given nature to be loved"), brotherly-sisterly love (that is, good horizontal relationships based upon living for the sake of others--the entirety of democratic idealism is encapsulated here) and conjugal love (the unification of masculity and femininity, in all their multitudinous dimensions).

Parental love includes all these forms and expressions of love and multiplies them, creating absolutely new and unique persons of love (children), and being responsible in the position to represent God physically to those children. (Teenage pregnancies, anyone?) This "virtue of heaven and earth" embodied in parental love empowers, through God's grace, the parents with public authority--"kingship." Their love creates and determines the public life, the life of society and culture.

Continuing with Rev. Moon's Instructions:

III. System of the Ideal World

1. The nation which is the expanded family, the world which is the expanded nation, the cosmos which is the expanded world, and God's ideal love world which is the expanded cosmos.

2. Through True Parents demonstrating these four realities (above), we can go into the heavenly environment (subject-object).

Here is the explicit theology of the natural expanding power of True Love: the nation is the expanded family, and so forth, until we reach "God's ideal love world which is the expanded cosmos"! Remember, love transcends time and space: the expanded cosmos of love need be no bigger than the conjugal bed. The conjugal bed expands to fill the cosmos. This is what Rev. Moon calls the "Palace of True Love."

Precious treasures come in small packages.

As love expands it changes form. Nothing surprising in this, although some professors of religion have had a hard time understanding it. The same natural laws manifest differently on different scales. A mayor cannot pick up a city on his knee. He wipes up its drool and through garbage trucks and sanitation workers. But the love-based ideal is the same: cleanliness.

This should be no surprise for Christians. Jesus' "bride" is the church. No Christian rejects that notion because Jesus cannot kiss a church. It's metaphorical--deeper than that, it's sacramental. There is a substantial reality being referenced. Jesus loves the church as his bride. Christians are in the position to receive that real love, through the Holy Spirit. It's the same for a mayor or president or king loving his people with parental love. The nation is the expanded family; the world is the expanded nation. This is Rev. Moon's theology of True Love.

And the ultimate result? This is amazing: the ultimate result is "the heavenly environment (subject-object)." SUBJECT-OBJECT! That's it, the final conclusion. Get your subject-object relations together, and God is there. Eternity.

IV. Conclusion

The completion of God's love ideal can be practiced by the completion of children's love, brotherly-sisterly love, conjugal love and parental love, and then the completion of the total ideal of creation can be substantiated, and then as eternally happy parents on earth and in heaven, parents can be the eternal king of kings.

Amen! Amen! Amen!

Alleluia: parents can be the eternal king of kings. Will Jesus be jealous? Will he say, "Hey, I'm the eternal king of kings. You can't be king of kings too." Is Jesus like the proverbial hero of the Hollywood western: "There ain't room in this town for the both of us"? Forget it: there's room in heaven for a billion kings and queens of True Love. Jesus needs some company. On his behalf, Rev. and Mrs. Moon are inviting you to attend. Be there or be square. God is round. Satan is a square. A real party-pooper. Passes up marriage suppers.

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