Although we may find ourselves in a situation where we worship God as the center of our faith, our position is still unclear. Where then should we look for this position?
Although our subject partner is clearly established, we cannot feel it. We cannot perceive such a spiritual matter with the same certainty that we recognize things with our five physical senses. When we consider how we should approach this problem, it will become clear to us that we cannot begin by examining the subject partner. We cannot truly tackle this matter by examining God Himself. We should rather begin by looking within ourselves first.
Every person possesses a mind and a body. Although we possess a mind and a body, we cannot search for this position oriented towards our body. The search should rather be focused on the mind.
When we observe fallen people today, whether it be a thousand or ten thousand, can we observe that everyone has the same mind? Although the root may be the same, minds differ depending on the nature of their respective environments. They are not all the same. Why not? Our faces are different, our habits are different, and the feelings we experience are also different. In the same way, our horizontal line and the vertical line with which we form an angle are different. We must set the angle correctly.
How should this be done? With Heaven as the subject partner, we should stand as the object partner before this subject. God, the subject partner, has certainly given humanity the foundation on which they can respond to Him as His object partner. Therefore, within the foundation of the horizontal mind, there must be a standard for the mind that enables it to orient itself perpendicularly towards the vertical. This direction surely exists.
When you look at a horizontal line, it appears like a surface. But when it stands vertically, the standard for this vertical line will be different. How do you adjust to the zero point? When you take this path, there is surely a counter-reaction. Therefore, you must adjust to this zero point. In a power plant, there are many different types of gauges. Each gauge has something akin to a zero point from which the direction, force, and amount are measured. There must be such a zero-point standard.
What kind of standard is it? It is something that exists, yet does not exist, or something that does not exist yet is present. There is such a place. Those who practice Zen meditation use the term ecstasy to describe a similar state of mind. You should be able to reach such a spiritual level. Once you reach this standard, you will find something that will surely allow your horizontal standard to respond.
There is a gate in your mind, and it is called the gate of the mind. It does not open in only one direction. Since your mind rotates, the gate also moves. Without passing through such a gate, you, as a minus, cannot establish a relationship with the plus. Everyone possesses such a gate of the mind. When you pray, you get a different feeling depending on the time of your prayer. Prayer at 1:00 is different from a prayer at 3:00. You will understand this if you experience it. If you pray in a deep and mysterious state, you will know that your prayer, depending on the time, when you pray, is different. It will feel different. What you feel in the morning, at noon, in the early evening, and at night will all differ from each other.
Similarly, the level of our feeling within our respective state differs in the same way as our physical senses react differently to the changes in the four seasons. So it is in the realm of our mind. You should, therefore, know the best time to pray. That will be the time when the extent of your response to God is greatest. As you continue to immerse yourself in this sphere, you will find the gate. When God's gate and the gate of your mind become completely one and revolve around a certain standard, you will find the way to fully experience what God feels.
What should you do to reach this state? You must cultivate your mind.
Some religions have spread in step with God's providence and others in step with Satan. Since these religions are all mixed, it is extremely difficult to distinguish good from evil. The same applies to the realm of your mind. There is a good mind and at the same time an evil mind. Your mind may think, "Yes, I am good." But that thought itself is not so good. Our mind was formed as a result of the Fall. Consequently, there are some people whose minds are influenced by evil and the evil realm of Satan, while others are influenced by good. There are all kinds of minds.
What is then of utmost importance? The way you align the gate to your mind is of the greatest importance in your life of faith. Therefore, in your life of faith, always be alert regarding the times when the gate of your mind opens, and watch how you align it with the gate of God's mind. Always be prepared. In your daily life, you must always have the mental attitude of seeking God and adapting your mind to Him at any time.
Therefore, always be aware of the depth of your mind and try to open the gate to your mind. Then try to align it with the place where the gate of Heaven is located. In your life of faith, this is the most precious goal you can achieve. What happens as you gradually reach that object position? You will experience a new, three-dimensional feeling that you have never felt before. Somehow you will come to experience this unknown feeling.
In the past, you may have only experienced wintry feelings, but you will begin to experience not only autumnal feelings but also summer and spring. Why? The universe rotates, and our mind rotates as well. Just as the rotation of our planet causes the four seasons, so too does our moving mind allow us to naturally perceive the changing stages of sensitivity.
There are four seasons in the course of a year. A day is like a miniature version of a year. There are also four times during a day. The morning corresponds to spring, noon to summer, early evening to autumn, and the night to winter. In this way, there are four kinds of seasons in one day. There are also four times just for the morning, which corresponds to spring. You can feel spring, summer, autumn, and winter feelings already in the course of the morning. Just as large units are divided into smaller units, so are smaller units divided into subgroups on an even smaller level. Our mind is like this. In other words, the feelings that your mind feels are not always firmly determined. According to the seasons, it would be good to know that you correspond to spring, but you are not aware that you correspond to winter. Therefore, you should be able to distinguish what corresponds to the present time by gathering many different experiences and leading a rich prayer life.
What kinds of phenomena will occur when you are in such a state? In Korean, there is the word ahmshi (a hint). You can recognize its meaning through an example: A person passing by coincidentally sees a bird flying away from the wall of a beautiful house; even after the bird has flown away, the observation of this event still imparts a lesson afterward. Such phenomena will occur. Such things will actually happen in your daily life. The number of these meaningful observations will increase. You will gain insight into new contexts while listening to someone speak. Such experiences will slowly become more numerous.
Once you have passed this stage, what phenomena occur? You will begin to receive revelations in your dreams, but I do not mean the dreams while you are deep asleep. Saint Paul experienced the third heaven while he was half awake. Do not let such phenomena pass by you carelessly. Collect and analyze the data scientifically to find out what they want to connect you with. The result will surely appear. You will slowly come to realize that the revelations you had in your dreams and can hardly forget become 100 percent true in reality. You will have such experiences.
People or things you are connected with in the half-awake state of your dreams will appear in reality. You may believe you sang a song with someone in a dream, but you did not actually dream because you actually sang that song with someone by your side. Such phenomena will occur. That means that your mind has then entered an area in which it resonates with the spiritual realm like a tuning fork. You should consider such things very valuable.
What will happen next? Since God exists, where will He appear? God will not appear in the air but through your mind. Why have you not been able to experience something like that yet? Because your mind is not yet firmly established in its own existence and because you have become people who are dragged around by their bodies. The situation will surely be different once your mind is firmly established in its existence and forms a higher dimension of character, whereby you can declare it as another subject entity.
Once you reach a higher level through prayer, you will begin to talk with your mind. A state of resonance will occur. It will happen on a higher level, and you will physically hear what you say in your mind. You will enter such a state. At your initial stage, you will be given a hint or suggestion in your daily life. Therefore, believers must collect these many facts and experiences.
When you come into contact with people, do not treat them frivolously. Always ask yourself if they cannot teach you something. Always be hungry in your heart. Have a seeking heart that expects to receive something from these people. What is, after all, the self? You are always either a subject partner or an object partner in a relationship. That means you are in a fixed position as a subject partner or an object partner. Therefore, you will immediately know when a being appears that can become your subject or object partner. If you have people to whom you can testify, you will easily know what kind of people they are. Your spirit will joyfully approach them, and it will do so through thought waves. Every mind has its own wavelength. A butcher smells of meat, and a cloth seller smells of fabrics. Just as your body has its own smell, your mind also has its own unique smell. It will be possible to perceive the smell of the mind.
Our body has something like a sense of touch that makes contact with everything. Your mind emits something like invisible electronic waves to search for its object. Therefore, believers should think that they are in a reciprocal relationship with everything. Why is this necessary? Because we lost many kinds of relationships through the fall. The fall severed our bonds with nature, with the original human being, and with God. To reconnect the severed relationships of the world, you must always seek to be connected again yourself. These relationships can only be established if you act in this way. Without such an inner disposition, you will never succeed in building a relationship.
You all must have a heart that seeks something. After praying in the morning, you should feel that something good will happen that day. But do not think that something good will happen on its own, rather actively start looking for whatever it may be. This kind of inner disposition you should possess when you lead a life of faith. Therefore, feelings and experiences and their implementation into actions will give you life. All this happens during a half-awake state.
If you reach a higher spiritual level, what will happen then? You will begin to receive revelations and instructions. You must analyze the revelations. Instructions are given to you directly by someone, but with revelations, it is different, which is why they can lead to problems. You must always interpret revelations. Some revelations come verbally, others visually. You might, for example, have a vision where you see two deer drinking water from a spring on a beautiful spring day and then looking at a mountain in the distance. Such a vision symbolizes boundless hope and boundless happiness. Such phenomena will occur.
Such things are not a coincidence. Heaven does this to help you cultivate the field of your mind. Why must it be so? The field of your mind is not flat like a glass surface, but it is uneven. It possesses the form of a flat surface, but the form itself is uneven. So when a heavenly ray hits the uneven surface of your mind, it will be reflected in a direction opposite to that of the incoming ray, just like the reflection of light. Therefore, visions are all different. God works in this way to illuminate every part of your mind.
After the stage of revelations, you enter the stage where you have experiences like those found in the book of Revelation. At this stage, you enter the spiritual world and have various experiences there all day long; you will be connected with a distant world. You can reach the boundaries of a state where you feel God in your daily life. Unless your faith is based on such experiences, you cannot connect the realm of God's great Will with the realm of your daily life. Therefore, we believers without such experiences cannot trust. Faith that is based on such experiences is important. For this reason, you must strive to be enlightened in spiritual matters.
While our members pray, spiritual phenomena occur. Such things, called spiritual phenomena, exist in reality. The spiritual forces flow into our body like an electric force. If you had such experiences, then it would be clear to you. You will experience a force that penetrates your body and is stronger than your normal consciousness, as if you are coming into contact with high pressure. When you experience supernatural and superhuman feelings, your body will surely reject them, as your body carries fallen nature. Your body will surely reject this divine nature that comes from God.
If any kind of divine nature flows with power into fallen humanity, fallen people cannot be naturally cleansed by it. When this force flows in, it does not happen all at once, but it occurs in a back and forth between plus and minus, as sound waves are sometimes transmitted amplified and sometimes attenuated. This force sometimes comes strong and sometimes weak while stimulating our growth. You will feel vibrations and may even lose consciousness. Spiritual forces can have a very strong effect. All of this manifests as spiritual phenomena.
What will happen next as you continuously have such experiences? Your physical body and your physical fallen nature will be cleansed, and through this, you will be naturally moved to accept these works 100 percent. When that happens, you can also reach a level even higher without these spiritual phenomena, and you can then receive everything that Heaven teaches, without being overwhelmed by it. You must take this course to reach this stage of purification, and you must also go through the phases where you receive revelations and instructions.
Once you reach the stage of such experiences, your mind will issue instructions to you. You will suddenly become mute when you try to speak with someone or you will scold someone without consciously doing so. You will experience such amazing phenomena from time to time. Therefore, you must be able to control them. If you handle the situation incorrectly, people will treat you like a madman.
It is absolutely necessary to go through such a path where you have these experiences. You will become stronger when you reach the position of someone who has gone through the trials of life by feeling and experiencing what has entered your mind. You will not be influenced by anyone's remarks. Please understand that both spiritual experiences and their implementation are of utmost importance in your life of faith.
What should we do to reach this state? Generally speaking, there are two kinds of people. The first kind are the so-called intellectuals who seek truth. They accept only the things that seem reasonable and reject everything that is contrary. The other kind are people who understand things through feeling and intuition rather than through reason. In the Unification Church, they are respectively called the intellectual and the spiritual people. While intellectual people first seek external understanding and then try to apply it to the inner world, spiritual people first look at their inner feeling and then try to apply it to the outer world. We can call the former the inward types and the latter the outward types. These are the two kinds of people.
Because of this, intellectuals generally do not like prayer. When they think about it, it seems like superstition to them. They cannot trust prayer, and it gives them the feeling as if they have to deny their own existence. These are the intellectuals. They seek truth by forming theories. In contrast, spiritual people are born with an inclination to like to call upon the name of God. They simply like God and need no special reason or explanations for it. They do not mind skipping meals as long as they can call God Father. Such people exist.
Generally speaking, which type of people do you think is successful in creating a revolutionary movement? Intellectuals cannot do this. Those who have accomplished great things in the realm of faith were not intellectuals but were mostly simple and uneducated—they were spiritual people.
They live true to their feelings and do not care about the world. They do exactly what God tells them. There will be situations where what they do ultimately turns out to be exactly the right thing. As a result, they become great personalities in history. Saint Paul was originally an intellectual. But after being struck by a spiritual light from Heaven on the road to Damascus, he changed his attitude and lived from then on through faith instead of relying on his intellect. He felt that the inner search, not the outward search, opens up a revolutionary path. This led him to discard all external things and respect things that were of inner nature. Thus he became a pioneer of the new Christian revolution.
Because this is so, those who place their emphasis on reason cannot play a major role as great leaders of the religious world of the spirit. There are these two kinds of people, and you should know to which group you belong. Generally, spiritual people are not good at thinking, although they are spiritual giants. They may begin powerfully, but they become weak later. Since they are not consistent from beginning to end, they do not endure forever—they fall away at a certain point. On the other hand, those who are good at logical thinking and with the truth but are spiritually poor also cannot last long. Therefore, you must strive to connect these two aspects in your daily life.
It is said that you must serve God in prayer and in truth, that is, in spirit and in truth. This means that you must create a balance and reach a state of harmony. People should mediate between the Spiritual and Physical World. You should stand at the center of the Spiritual World and become people who are mediators because they stand at the center of the world of truth. Otherwise, you cannot reach the perfected position.
(76-125, 02.02.1975)