The Principle and our Family

Mr. Eu Hyo won realized, “the principle is God’s love”

We know live in the age where Father can talk about everything. It is because Father has created a worldwide foundation.

We give long lectures on Divine Principle but Father said that such long lectures would be unnecessary once all people in the nation want to listen to the lectures without opposing. This is why Father ordered the creation of Divine Principle Hoondok Chart.

We must know what Father hate the most. Father says that we should not give lectures on the Principle by memorizing it in our head. It is because no one can completely memorize verbatim the entirety of the Divine Principle. Our one words will seep into the lectures we give where our memories fail. That is why father told us to summarize the important part in Divine Principle, make a chart out of it, and use it in place of blackboards.

Father also does not want us to mix other words into the Principle. Please remember that what Father hates the most is speaking about different things other than the Principle. It is because such differences are bound to create sects. Father worries about this very much.

When we give Principle lectures from now on, we should read the Divine Principle first, and use the chart instead of blackboards. We can put the chart included in the CD on the screen through a projector if we have one, and we can give lectures using a laser pointer. The charts include summaries of The Divine Principle so we can read the sentences and supplement them with various explanations. This is an entirely different level than the lectures given from memorization. Principle lectures become much easier when we use the chart. Father said that we should supplement these chart lectures with the contents of The Divine Principle or use excerpts from Father’s own Words.

You must read Father’s speech books often. I have already emphasized this many times but you should read “True Family and I” and Father and Mother’s Words. Also, we should stay away from talking about the things we invented while giving Principle lectures. Instead, we must use Father’s own Words.

Father’s Words must be added to Principle lectures if our lectures are to be full of inspiration. Therefore, we can say that the Principle is the bone of the Words. All members must go to Christian churches and give Principle lectures in the future. Father mentions that it is a waste of money to continue building churches. Then he asks if we know why Christians muster money to construct large church buildings. He says that there is only one reason that those building are constructed: so that the Christians will one day invite us to their churches and have us give Principle lectures.

We can always count on there being a church when we heart that there will be a new apartment complex. It’s really amazing. However, do they not all belong to God? As we know now Father’s Words, we should not worry about the small sizes of our churches.

One day, Christians will tell us ‘Abandon your small buildings and come to us to give us Principle lectures.’ Christian churches are God’s houses. Therefore, we must hone our lecture skill.

Christians still wait for the Lord. While praying ‘Must we still wait for you, Lord?’ Father said that they will one day get to know about Father and rally to Father, shouting ‘O, Lord!’ they have good knowledge of the Bible, pay tithing well, and actively participate in volunteer activities. How wonderful would it be if we taught them about the Principle and allowed them to give lectures as well. This is another reason why we members must become good at giving lectures.

This is the same with North Korean people. They are very talented in promoting their ideology. If they come to learn that our Principle is the Truth, however, we could expect them to become talented lecturers. The students from Soviet Union before gave tearful Principle lectures in America. They gave the lectures in tears, saying that they had led unfaithful way of life because they did not know anything about God.

If our members cannot give good Principle lectures, or if they did not study Father’s Words, then there is one thing they could do in the future. There will be a lot of garbage left after a large group of people comes to receive the lectures so these members should at least clean after them.

The children of such members will accuse their parents. The children will lament that their parents sacrificed so much for the church, even at the cost of caring for their children, but they end cleaning after the guests because they can’t give Principle lectures. They will be greatly embarrassed.

Moreover, we will experience embarrassment as well when we go to the spirit world. Many spirits will come to us and demand, “You must have learned a lot from True Parents as you lived on Earth together with True Parents. Please give us Principle lectures.” Father says that we will be embarrassed if we are unable to give Principle lectures at that time. We will lose our foothold, be unable to stay in one place, and become wandering ghosts. The Blessing is a glory but we will suffer more from it if we do not fulfill our responsibility. Please prepare so that you do not regret in the future.

The Principle discovered by Father not only provide scientific evidences but also give very logical explanations. How about communism in comparison? Communism puts great importance in science as well but their theories are not logically supported. They also denounce the existence of God and Heaven.

In my case as well, the persecution from communists who say that religion is the opium of people worked as my motivation to join the Unification Church. When I was a Christian, I could not give an explanation to communists who asked me if God could be seen. I entered the Unification Church and listened to the principle of Creation, and I came to realize the existence of God when I heard that the Principle explains God’s dual characteristics of plus and minus. I thought that everyone could use this explanation to learn about God. Doesn’t the Principle explain God as the dual characteristics of plus and minus? We learned the Principle directly from Father.

The Principle was not discovered just as a theory. Father had to fight Satan in bloody battles in order to find certain titles that God had given him. When we listen to the Principle, therefore, we must feel it in our heart, ‘Oh, that’s true.’ Our understanding of the Principle can only become complete when we feel it within our hearts instead of just using our heads.

Father told us that we must cry for three hours if we are to give one hour of Principle lecture. The lecturer himself must feel the Principle with his heart. The same must be applied when we study the Principle; however, we must also be completely one with God’s Shimjeong when we give the lectures. Father said that people will never be inspired if the lecturer just give the lecture with his tongue alone.

Father always emphasized that we will naturally memorize the Divine Principle Hoondok chart if we read it ten, twenty, a hundred, or two hundred times. Our members have begun recently to read from 1-hour, 3-hour, and 12-hour charts one hundred times each. I hear the testimonies that many people felt that their spirits were revived and that they felt the love of God. It is obvious that the lecturers themselves must be inspired by the Words if they are to inspire the hearts of their students.

My husband, Mr. Eu Hyo Won, also said that we must come to complete realization that the Principle is the truth while we are alive. However, he appeared through a spiritually bright person and confessed “I thought the Principle was the truth but the Principle is actually love.”

In conclusion, we must feel the Principle with our heart. The Principle lecturers therefore must be able to lecture so that the students can feel the Principle with their heart also.

I felt while reading The Divine Principle, during a 40-day training in Cheonpyeong, that ‘God has gone through so much suffering for 6,000 years in order to restore humanity.’ The sole purpose of 6,000 years of human history is to discover each and every person living. That is why those who listen to the lecturers can’t help to shed many tears. We must feel the principle within our heart.

My appointment as Colorado regional leader

I have only been able to convey the Words of Father as I’ve heard them.

I received the Words of Father that fell upon me like rain. I was just a clueless child, obvious to the values of his Words, listening to Father’s Words while desperately fighting against the Satan that came to me in the form of sleep. My only treasure now is the days in the past when I was drowning in Father’s Words, just as a honeybee that fell inside a honey jar.

I have made the determination to convey all of Father precious Words that I was able to hear to the world before I go to the spirit world. I want to testify about Father who was so big and masculine in his younger days, and Father who was a human just like us but was able to do things that even God couldn’t do.

I cannot remember how hard we cried in Cheongpa Don church after we were expelled from our University. We were then thrown out of own houses by our parents, who told us that they would no longer treat us as their children unless we go back to the University and apologize for our sins. We were abandoned from every angle.

In the end, we gathered at the church to study and listen to Father’s Words, and we became like Father’s daughters. So we saw and heard many things. I have a tendency to drag meetings because I learned a lot of things while serving Father directly.

Father told me to come to America in 1983. My initial thought was that Father probably took pity on me because I was his lonely daughter who lived alone and he wanted me to stay close to him and serve him just as Mrs. Ji Seng Ryeon or other wives from the 36-couples. I leaved alone for ten years after Father had gone to America so I thought Father simply wanted me to be next to him.

However, Father told me suddenly, “Ji Ja! Welcome, Kim Gwang Heh went back to Korea so we’ve got an opening now. Go to Colorado and become the regional leader there.” I answered “What? Do you mistake me for a man? Why would you make a woman do a man’s job?” I was actually disappointed. Mother however was event more extreme. “Hey. The Rocky Mountains are in Colorado so it’s the highest land. Since you are in such a high place, you will be able to serve God from the closest of places.”

I went to America after ten years of separation and Father sent me directly to the front line. I felt as if my heart of yearning for Father melted away pretty quickly, so to speak. There are times that we don’t know what Father is thinking. Father essence however is love and all that he does is out of love. Father is the kind of person who always worries about how he will guide people, like me, to feel his love and to resemble him.

Father told us “I want to meet you because you have the heart of wanting to meet me and not wanting to let me go. Otherwise, I would not even desire to come here.”

One day during his meal at East Garden, he asked Mr. Kamiyama, “Hey what is True Love? Talk about True Love.” Surprised in middle of his meal, Mr. Kamiyama answered in a mumble, Father yelled, “What is that? Put it into one sentence, one sentence!” so he became even more perplexed. He had the task of putting into one sentence the things Father has taught. It was obviously difficult. Father then said should I speak and began to give the following explanation.

“True Love is the heart that makes you want to see the person even though you just parted. Want to eat with the person even though you just finished your meal, want to sleep with the person even though you just woke up from sleeping together, want to talk to the person even though you just spoke, and want to keep talking to the person, and do such things with the person without an end.”

Since True Love is the constant yearning, we will stay together for eternity if we practice True Love.

The heart of such yearning will spring forth infinitely inside of a person who possesses True Love. True Love has a quality of infinity. False love however drives people to use each other and be conditional. Relationships based on such love will be destroyed as soon as they find no more value in one another other. At that point, they will have depleted each other. False love therefore cannot last infinitely.

I was not able to joyfully accept Father’s first command to become a regional leader, because I was someone who had just arrived in America. So I was hesitant for a long time. However, it was Father’s command so I headed to Colorado.

Colorado is very cold. The snow stays well into May. I was traversing to the middle of a mountain when I was suddenly embraced by cold breeze. I ended up catching a severe cold. I even thought I might die here. What I, useless?

I had a dream later that day where I saw Father in my dream. Father said to me ‘My body hurts so much. Put some medicine on it, please.’ The medicine was in Father’s hand. Father had a very severe rash on his back but he was completely cured when I applied the medicine. Father said “Oh, I can now lie down with my back on the floor.”

I felt at that time that ‘Even an inadequate child like me could still be helpful to Father.’ and I made my determination to work as a regional leader in Colorado as Father wished. Once I woke up from the dream, I thought ‘Oh, I must lessen Father’s pain. Oh well, Father wants me to work as the state leader of Colorado so I must do so.’

After the experience, Father explained to me the reason that I had to be a state leader in this way:

“Do you know why I’m doing this? I have brought you here to work in place of your husband who went to the spirit world. It is because you must connect the early period of Korean Unification Church, when there was Jeonseong and Shimjeong, to the young members of America. That’s why I have brought you.” I could not help but to obey Father’s Words.

This is before Father went to Danbury prison. In hindsight, I think Father wanted to call in the leaders who victoriously endured the hardships of the early periods in Korea in order to help the young American members at the time of great tribulation.

The importance of the life of donating

Father told the members to not only give one tenth of their income but give rather on third of their income.

He also explained about indemnity we must pay for failing to tithe.

Heaven punishes us with material things if we fail to tithe. People offered materials things to God in the age of The Old testament. Father told us that children became the offerings in the age of The New Testament and the parents are the offering in the Holy Testament age. Offering have developed though these stages. If we properly tithe, however, Father told us that the indemnity ends with material things.

If we use our material things improperly, our children will be punished, and then the parents will be punished if we do not repent and continue our improper practice. Therefore, we must properly tithe in order to prevent indemnity. Tithing creates a barrier that blocks hardships from coming to our family. Therefore, we must not donate with money, which is leftover.

Father says that in Principle we must tithe one third of our income. When I was going to the Headquarters church, there were more people who tithed 10 percent than those who tithed one third of their income. We should steadily tithe one tenth and we must try our best to tithe one third.

We do not lose by donating to the church. Proper tithing leads to our children’s well-being and family affairs will take their course smoothly. We must donate to the church first then offer a prayer of repentance so that we don’t wind up in the hospital; we also do this so that our children won’t suffer from ailments. We must block unfortunate occurrences from coming to us with material things first. If we fail to block the invasion of Satan with material things, our children will suffer from the indemnity, and the parents will suffer if it does not stop with the children. You have to offer in the order of material things, children, and parents. Donations are the most basic step in blocking all invasions of Satan. We must therefore diligently tithe.

There are many amazing stories that became possible through donations. Those who do not donate cannot even be called members. Please try your best to donate up to one third of your income. You will find a way if you put it into practice. Then our children will never have to go to the hospital and our house will be never burglarized. I live like that.

I have many experiences through the miracle of donation. I experienced miracles in my family, and when I was a school student.

If we do not donate or do church activities even after learning about Heaven’s Will, our family will suffer from spiritual difficulties. Children catch sickness or other difficult things may happen. Therefore, we must either do church activities or donate. If we cannot participate in activities, we should at least make donations. By tithing, we support and set the condition that for those working in the front line of the church.

My father was a lawyer. One day, he called his assistant and asked, “Mr. Kim. Did you calculate my tithing for last month and donate it to the church?” Mr. Kim said “It’s not been done yet.” Then father said “No wonder why things weren’t working out. Tithing hasn’t been paid yet.” I saw my father treating the donation to church in this way.

Lawyers are not paid certain amount every month like other salaried employees, so it is easy to forget to tithe if one is not mindful of it. My father however tried so hard to tithe constantly. He once told me “Gil Ja, there is nothing more profitable than tithing. If we give one tenth of our income, then the other nine tenth will be protected by Heaven.”

So I strictly participated in tithing once I joined the Unification church. I received 20,000 won as an allowance every month when I was a student. “The dormitory would cost 4,000 won back then. When I received my allowance every month, I would put 2,000 won in a yellow envelope and drop it in the donation box at the corner of the Ehwa University large hall. When I heard the envelope hitting the bottom of the box, I heard God’s answer, telling me “Gil Ja; I received your Jeonseong.”

I always felt so happy whenever I heard God’s answer. That was my to be with God, so I always spent the money on my personal things after first dropping the tithe envelope: whether it be morning or night. I feel that I was guided to join The Unification Church because of my observant tithing.

Father told us that everyone here on Earth must have their own secret passage through which they are closely connected with God, a passage only known to God and Themselves. I believe my passage was tithing. I never thought deeply about how the money was used. I only strictly tithed because that’ what I learned from my father.

I felt at ease whenever I dropped the tithing envelope into the box, and the rest of the 20,000 won was happily used. I never lived my life extravagantly. I paid 4,000 won to the dormitory and spent the rest to buy books. That was before I joined The Unification Church, and I purchased a Bible commentary to learn about the things in the Bible that I could not understand. I also purchased some pharmaceutical books. The bookstore at the entrance of Chungmu-ro-Seoul sold many Japanese books.

The price of those books arranged from 1,000 to 3,000 won. Where are they now? My father became angry with me and cut off my allowance after I was expelled from the school. I had to sell those books and live off, of the money for a few months. I would have starved to death if I had misspent the money. I was saved because I had invested in books. I felt as if God was giving me back the money I gave in tithing.

I received wisdom after I tithe. Heaven tells me where I should spend the rest of the money. Money is not wasted away. If I tithe, I become knowledgeable of where I should spend money and where I should not. If I do not tithe, my money disappears and I do not even know where I spent it all. You probably have such experiences as well.

Tithing is such a serious problem when we look at it this way. In truth, one tenth is not enough. We must donate one third.

Our donation cultivates our spirit and body, and it supports us. Tithing leads to more profit. Our good deeds will be recorded in the spirit world when we donate, and it is OK even if we die before being able to use it all. Our descendants will live in prosperity because of us.

When I worked as a traveling missionary in Japan, Father looked at me one day and said “Gil Ja! You should donate the money you receive from the members as much as possible.” Since then, I’ve been donating one third of the money I received from members. If someone gives me 100,000 won, I always donate 30,000 won. However, strangely enough, I do not feel any shortage of money. if I am ever in need of clothes or shoes, somebody always gives me what I need.

People are meant to live for such public purposes. Those who only live for their own sake will not receive help from others. People will not want to help such people. Therefore, we must save the church first and spend the rest of the money for public purposes.

The meaning of Hoon Dok

Father told us that when we give sermons, we should read his Words with members, summarizes the Words while trying to obtain deeper insight into the Will, and exchange our Shimjeong with each other.

Father had an opportunity to see a lecturer from House of world Peace and Unification giving Divine Principle lecture with a Divine Principle summary Red Hoon Dok chart in March 1999. Father noticed Mother walk into the room while the lecture was going on and He told her, “Mother, this is good. Anyone can give a Principle lecture using this.”

Then Father told me to go to Japan with Mrs. Erikawa. Mrs. Erikawa’s mission was to mobilize, and my mission was to educate. Father told me to educate 22,000 people as Principle lecturers so that they can be sent all over the world. Father always worried that there just weren’t people able to lecture about the Principle.

Father said that we should use examples from Father’s Words when we have to give examples during Principle Lectures.

Father gave me the mission to spread his Words to whole world until I take my last breath. That is why I have come to publish this book, which testifies Father’s Words relevant to the Principle.

I join the church when I was very young and I listened to Father’s Words from a very close distance. I sometimes dozed off because I felt my eyelids were heavy with sleep. Father told me don’t doze off, Satan will invades you.” But I only thought “How could Satan invade me when I can’t even see him anywhere.” Only wished that Father would stop speaking.

I now repent that I was so sinful. It was only natural, however, that I was tired since I woke up at seven and stayed up late until midnight. Nonetheless, the Words to which I listened are recorded in my spirit body; whether I listened to them while staying awake or dozing off. This is why sometimes the most appropriate things to say escape my mouth when I am meeting someone or something happens.

When I went to America, people there told me “Mrs. Eu is strong, honest, practical and she is a walking dictionary when it comes to Father’s Words.

When members told Father “Mrs. Eu speaks about things unknown to us that are very inspirational.” Father told them “It is because it is not Sa Gil Ja speaking but it is the spirit world speaking through her.”

If you to read Father’s Words continuously, you will feel that Father’s Words or the Principle is engraved onto your spirit self. If that happens then the Words that we need to tell others will suddenly appear in our mind.

I believe there are God’s living Words and love. There will soon come the age, the age of Hoondok, where those who read Father’s Words often will become more important. Whereas those who did not read father’s Words will become useless. At that time, Father would be able to pass into the spirit world without worries, we will stop different sects from appearing, and The Unification Church will forever grow. Reading Father’s Words, or Hoondok, is truly the ‘source of life’ and ‘source of love’ that are given to us by Father.

Father said that he had to think deeply and very seriously in order to find the term ‘Hoondok.’

The Chinese character of Hoon is made of ‘to teach word and river.’ In other words, it means river of words. Rivers take all sorts of garbage and release them into the ocean. Then the land become clean. It means that we will realize our shortcoming, repent our sins, and receive forgiveness by reading the Words.

Also, rivers flow horizontally whether its bed is high or low. It means equilibrium. It especially means the equilibrium of the chosen people. In other words, whoever reads the Words become the chosen people of God regardless of their race or their nation.

The next letter Dok consist of ‘words’ and ‘sell.’ In other words, the Words must be given to others just as salesperson would give his merchandise to someone. Just as it would be immoral for a businessman to not sell his items, even though he has them, just because he doesn’t like the price, it is sinful to not give the Words to everyone that exists.

Therefore, ‘Hoon’ is about receiving forgiveness and ‘Dok’ is about helping others to receive forgiveness. Hoondok has such meaning.

Father told us “Practicing Hoondok helps our faith to take root. The blood of those who have the will boils whenever they read the Words. Hoondok assemblies are held to proclaim father’s Words, to proclaim True Love, to proclaim the culture of Shimjeong in the Holy Testament, and to settle True Family.”

Hoondok is like spring rain; it must happen for long time if we want to be soaked by it. We will not be soaked with inspiration nor be connected with the spirit world if take a month off and continuously start and stop Hoondok.

Father’s Words that we practice Hoondok, are recorded as one of the victories he won in his battle against Satan. We must apply this idea of tradition and train ourselves until we can fulfill realm of cosmic liberation.

We unknowingly shed tears while reading Father’s Words because our Shimjeong unites with that of Father. Hoondok has such power. Hoondok is also like a storage battery. Father’s Words are not of this world but of Heaven. The spirit world also works according to Father’s Words. This is a serious reality.

Father’s Words are not the type of words that will simply fade away in history. They are the quality of words that must be kept eternally, as our last will to our descendants. Therefore, even though we may die, we must preserve these Words eternally. Such words, that are as important as treasures, are the Words we read every day. (The above words are all Father’s Words.)

A testimony to god’s word in regard to divine principle, Second edition July 28, 2013