Human Fall, the motivation of the fall

The meaning of the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil

God told Adam and Eve there were many trees in the Garden of Eden, and He gave particular instructions about the Tree of Life and the Tree of Good and Evil. He told them they were free to eat any fruit from the other trees, but to stay away from the Tree of Life and the Tree of Good and Evil. He said not to even look at them, touch them, or eat them.

Father taught us that the Garden of Eden as described in the Bible does not refer to a specific place or location on earth. Instead, it refers to the bodies of Adam and Eve.

So when God told Adam and Eve that it was “alright to eat the fruits from other trees,” He was referring to the other parts of the bodies of Adam and Eve. This is a very important concept.

Adam and Eve were growing up as brother and sister. The Tree of Life and the Tree of Good and Evil meant the sexual organs of Adam and Eve. So Adam and Eve, as sibling, could embrace each other, kiss, hug, and give piggybacks rides, but God told them not to even look, touch, or eat what was at the center of their bodies until the right time came.

Let the second generation know clearly about the root of sin 

In the chapter about the Human Fall, the issue is the “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil”

For several years, Father told me, “Gil Ja, you must now have to teach the Principle to the second generation children and train them as Principle lectures. This is because the Archangel Lucifer tried to seduce Eve beginning when she was 12 years old.

Blessed second-generation children must protect their bodies, beginning when they are 12 years of age. That is why they must learn the Principle and teach the Principle to others. Then the spirit world will be mobilized and the physical world will be liberated. The biggest problem was how to make them understand what the Tree of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life symbolized and how Eve and the Archangel engaged in a illicit sexual relationship.

Describing man’s sexual organ and woman’s sexual organ as convex and concave. Father said, marriage is the coming together of a man’s convex part and a woman’s concave part. So what is the Fall? It is giving a convex or a concave part to a counterpart to whom it does not belong.

So, when we receive permission from God through the Holy Blessing and come together with our rightful partner, it become a rightful marriage. But, if we come together with the wrong partner, then it became the Fall. Children were able to understand it easily with this explanation.

“My concave Nim, convex Nim, Hello, I shall protect you well.”

Then Father said, “You should tell your children that they should not touch others’ genital area. They should also be taught that they should not touch their own genital area either.

The motivation of the fall

There are many verses in the Bible, which speak about angels, which are spiritual beings. Let us now discuss the motivation of the Fall. Why did Humans fall? Knowing the motivation of the Fall is most important in the path of restoration. So Father’s words about it will be of great use.

God created the angelic world first before he created all things. God could have created all things by himself, but it was easier when there were helping hands. Would it not be easier if there was someone to talk to and run errands?

There were three archangels: Lucifer, Michel, and Gabriel. These three archangels had different mission. Lucifer’s mission was to receive God’s love and distribute it to the whole angelic world. Michel was the angel praising God, and Gabriel was God’s messenger. Out of the three archangels, we realize that Lucifer was, without question, the leader of the three when we look at it from the point of view of their mission. According to Father, archangel Lucifer was a very loyal servant of God.

Then, what is God’s love? God’s love in the spirit world is the same as the air that we have to keep breathing when we exist in the physical world. Air is something that we absolutely need if we are to live. Just as we feel refreshed and joyous when we breathe in fresh and clean air, we breathe in God’s love in the spirit world as we had breathed air in the physical world. We become more happy, satisfied, and joyous when we receive more of God’s love.

Archangel Lucifer was immensely happy with all the love he was receiving from God until God created Adam and Eve.

According to Father, Adam and Eve did not have a mother. He said that God made them himself. In other words, Adam and Eve did not come from a mother’s womb, God created Adam and Eve so that they were able to walk from birth. According to Father: “we cannot logically think that God made Adam and Eve as fully grown people. He made them as babies. There is no way for us to explain the three stages of formation of beings without accepting that God went through with Adam and Eve the stage similar to a mother raising her child in her bosom. This means that Adam and Eve went through a toddler period. Then there was the stage of growth.

Some animals can walk right away after they come out of their mother’s womb. Baby cows and horses can do that. So I asked Father, “what did God feed Adam and Eve instead of breast milk?” Father answered that God fed them spiritually. Of course, Adam and Eve would have begun consuming physical food after a while.

How much would God have loved Adam and Eve after creating them as His children? God and the archangels were in a master-servant relationship, but God, Adam, and Eve were in a parent-child relationship. Adam and Eve were to grow and become the body of God and become the substantial self of God. So the level of love bestowed on them was different. That is why Lucifer, when he looked at Adam and Eve receiving God’s love, felt “oh, they are receiving more love than me.” Lucifer felt that the love he was receiving was diminished.

Father explained that the feeling of diminished love in itself is not a fallen nature. God gave all created beings the intellectual ability to compare so that they would want to compete with one another and develop faster.

But what was added in there? Self-centeredness, selfishness was added to his feeling of diminished love caused by the intellectual ability to compare. This became fallen nature.

Lucifer realized that though he loved God and God love him back, God loved Adam and Eve more than him. He also realized that he was supposed to love Adam and Eve who were receiving more of God’s love than he was. Lucifer began to think more about himself. Self-centeredness means that you think from your own standpoint. How did Lucifer think? Borrowing from Father’s words, Lucifer thought, “What am I? How could it be that Adam and Eve who never went through any suffering receive God’s love more than I do? I went through so much suffering!”

Lucifer had been thinking that he monopolized God’s love. However, when he saw Adam and Eve receiving more of God’s love than he was, he could not bare the pain caused by the feeling of diminished love, and he began to think centering on himself.

Father said that God had to endure much hardship when He made the creation. He had to invest everything He had, so much so that He was completely exhausted after creating all things. So the archangels who were helping Him must have also been completely exhausted. Lucifer was jealous because he worked so hard for God but God loved Adam and Eve more than him. As such, self-centeredness is “looking back at oneself.”

We must look to others if we are to escape from this self-centeredness. Father asked us one day, “Can you see your own face without a mirror?” if we don’t have a mediator called a mirror, we cannot see our face until the day we die. What that means is that God created us human beings in such a way that we cannot see our own face because we do not need to. Rather we must look at the face of others.

Why do we have to look at others’ faces? It is because what I want, my joy, and my love does not begin from myself but begins from making others happy and loving others... on the other hand, if we cause others’ sadness, then we became sad as well. That is why we must look at others first. Be conscious of others before we are conscious of ourselves.

Father said, “How sick and tired would we get if we were to always look at our own faces? We should look at the faces of others. Only then will our life not become boring since we always receive new stimulation. It is because God created human beings so that we would live for the sake of others.

After he became self-centered, Lucifer looked up to God like a senile old man, treated Him as an obsolete being, and took further steps to deny God’s existence.

Communism started when Lucifer denied God and began to fall. Atheism first began when Lucifer thought, “Now I can replace God.” This is the reason why the Messiah has to resolve the problem of atheism, which started from the spirit world, and communism that is the atheism of the physical world.

When the archangel Lucifer fell together with Eve, he insisted that God not exist and he practiced his false love from the same position as God. However, if Lucifer was faithfully remained in his servant position, he had to praise God in front of Adam and Eve.

However, he began to have an unrighteous desire to grab Eve’s attention and make her his own. Thinking that maybe he could gain the position of God’s child, he then seduced Eve and fell.