March 31, 2007

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  This is a vector sketch in Corel 11. I am learning vector based art and its a lot of fun.  This was drawn with the artistic media tool.

  I am eternal drawn to the infinitely recombinable ways in which one can draw or create something -- whether in fabric, paint, scuplture, icing, dance, music -- it's infinite and amazing.  Creativity is such a phenomenal gift.  The ability to originate ideas and interpretations of something -- it's such an incredible experience.  When we reflect something good and true and beautiful, it reflects God.  Even a great white shark reflects God, so people do need to recognize God is not just flowery and sweet, like the gurly sketch I did above.  God also detonates supernovas as cosmic fireworks.

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  Absolute
  Sexual Morality

  The first
  stage is maintaining absolute sexual morality—in other words a
  standard of absolute sexual purity—prior to getting married.

  After we
  are born, we go through a process of growth. We pass through infancy
  and childhood in a very safe and secure environment under our
  parents’ love and protection. We then enter the time of
  adolescence, which signals the start of a new and dynamic life as we
  forge relationships on a totally new level with those around us, as
  well as with all things of creation. This is the moment when we begin
  to travel the path to becoming an absolute human being—internally,
  through the perfection of our character, and externally, by reaching
  adulthood.

  Yet, at
  this time there is an absolute prerequisite that human beings must
  uphold no matter who they are; that is maintaining their purity.
  Sexual purity is based on absolute model of sexual morality for human
  beings. God gave it to His children as their destined responsibility
  and duty, to be carried out in order to fulfill the ideal of
  creation. This heavenly path is thus the way to perfecting an
  absolute model of sexual morality.

  What was
  the single word, the one and only commandment God gave to Adam and
  Eve, the first human ancestors, upon their creation? It was the
  commandment and blessing to maintain an absolute standard of sexual
  abstinence until Heaven’s approval of their marriage. We find this
  in the Bible passage that indicates that Adam and Eve would surely
  die on the day they ate of the fruit of the knowledge of good and
  evil. If they had refrained from eating and observed Heaven’s
  commandment, they would have perfected their character and, as
  co-creators, stood with God, the Creator, as His equals. Furthermore,
  they would have taken dominion over the creation and become the lords
  of the universe enjoying eternal and ideal happiness.

  It was
  God’s blessing that He told them to preserve their purity so that
  they could be married with His Blessing as His true children, become
  true husband and wife, produce true children and become true parents.
  This deepens our understanding of this commandment: it was not
  something separate from absolute sexual morality, which is a
  principle of God’s creation. The profound truth that lay hidden
  within God’s commandment throughout history was this: human beings
  must inherit and live by a model of sexual morality that is intrinsic
  to God’s ideal for creation in order to perfect their individuality
  as God’s children, and establish themselves as lords of creation.

  Second is
  the absolute model of sexual morality in the relationship of husband
  and wife. More precious than life itself, this is the heavenly law of
  absolute fidelity.

  Husband
  and wife are eternal partners given to each other by Heaven. Through
  having children, they become the co-creators of true love, true life,
  and true lineage, and the original source of that which is absolute,
  unique, unchanging and eternal. This is because it is a heavenly
  principle that people cannot give birth to children by themselves,
  even if they live for a thousand years. How can people who preserve
  their purity before marriage and become bonded together in purity as
  husband and wife by Heaven deviate from the heavenly way and go
  astray, following the wrong path? Human beings are different from
  animals; if they understand God’s purpose in creating them as His
  children, they will realize that wrong path is one of betrayal and
  defiance to the Creator beyond imagination; it is a path of
  destruction along which they dig their own graves. Resulting from the
  human Fall, this path is outside the realm of the ideal of creation.

  Ladies
  and gentlemen, absolute sexual morality is the greatest blessing that
  Heaven has bestowed on humankind. Without adhering to the standard of
  absolute sexual morality, the path to the perfection of one’s
  character, to spiritual maturity, is closed. Furthermore, without
  securing the foundation of absolute sexual morality within a true
  family through perfected persons, it is impossible for God to
  establish His stature as a personal God and incarnate God. In order
  for God, the Absolute Being, to have direct dominion over our lives
  and to live and share joy with us, we who were created as His object
  partners and children must assume the form of a perfected family
  based on the standard of absolute sexual morality, as God does. Only
  within the boundaries of a family upholding absolute sexual morality
  is it possible to create relationships based on an ideal model of
  sexual ethics for life as it originally should have been. This life
  includes the three-generational realm of grandparents, parents,
  children and grandchildren. Please understand clearly that God’s
  eternal life and a human being’s eternal life are made possible
  only on this foundation.

  Therefore,
  if, upholding absolute sexual morality, Adam and Eve had achieved
  individual perfection—the perfection of their character—in
  accordance with God's will, and entered into conjugal relations
  through His Blessing, they would have attained complete oneness with
  Him. God would have dwelt within their union. Also, their children
  would have been linked to this holy order of love, enjoying a direct
  relationship with God as their Parent. In other words, the marriage
  of the perfected Adam and Eve, based on their absolute sexual
  morality, would have been God's own marriage. While God is forever
  God, also Adam and Eve would have become the embodiment of God. They
  would have become God's body. God would have settled inside their
  minds and hearts to become the True Parent of humankind in both the
  spiritual and physical worlds, on the foundation of absolute sexual
  morality.

  The
  Importance of Lineage

  Do you
  know what has pained God’s heart most, causing Him the greatest
  grief over the long history since the Fall of Adam and Eve? God lost
  His lineage. With it, God lost the basis of human brotherhood and
  even His ownership over the creation. God’s lineage is more
  precious than life itself. Without it, the fruits of true life and
  true love never matured. They became instead the fruits of Satan,
  lacking any relationship with God. From them descended the 6.5
  billion people now covering the earth.

  Ladies
  and gentlemen, lineage is more important than life and more precious
  than love. Life and love come together to create lineage. Lineage
  cannot be established if either life or love is missing. Therefore,
  among the three—love, life and lineage—lineage is the fruit.
  God’s lineage contains the seed of true love. God’s lineage
  provides the context and environment for a true life.

  Hence,
  for us to become the ideal people envisioned by God, that is, people
  of ideal character, and to create ideal families, we first need to be
  linked to His lineage. To take it a step further, only when we are
  linked to God’s lineage is it possible to create God’s homeland,
  the ideal nation. The kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world is
  established in this way through relationships based on absolute
  sexual morality.

  Please
  inscribe the importance of lineage in your hearts. I cannot emphasize
  this enough. This is because the parent–child relationship is the
  highest and most important of all relationships, and the model,
  lineal relationship between parent and child is the only way through
  which God’s lineage can be bequeathed and made to last forever. You
  must be clear on this point.

  Instead,
  false love, false life and false lineage have infested the earth.
  God’s love, life and lineage fell into the hands of the adulterer
  Satan, the enemy of love. Heaven and earth were suffocated and
  transformed into hell. The world became a wretched place, far from
  God’s presence. Yet humanity to this day lives in ignorance of
  this. People are deluded into believing that the lineage of the enemy
  is the lifeline upon which the world depends. This is the wretched
  truth about humanity descended from the Fall. That is why we refer to
  this world as hell on earth. God views humanity’s tragic situation
  with a heart full of pain.

  Furthermore,
  when, due to the Fall, Satan gained control of the realm of lineage,
  he also usurped the right of the elder son and the right of
  ownership. God is like a father who worked and sweated his entire
  life to accumulate assets for his children, only to have a thief
  steal everything in one night. Who can comprehend the sorrowful,
  painful heart of God? God lost His lineage, lost His children, and
  was forced to hand over the ownership of the nations and world to
  Satan.

  However,
  the life of Rev. Moon, whose task it is to complete the mission of
  the True Parents, has been one of sorrow, marked by inexpressible
  suffering and persecution.

  The third
  Adam, the True Parent, needs to indemnify and completely reverse all
  the failures of the first and second Adams. It is a mission to
  complete not only the mission of the Savior, Messiah, and Lord at his
  second coming, but also the mission of all those major figures on
  whom religions are based. With similarities to the process of God’s
  creation of the universe, his life has constituted the great work of
  the re-creation of humanity, where not even the smallest error is
  permitted. It has been a lonely course that cannot be fully
  comprehended by anyone.

  It has
  been a course that took him down thorny paths through the
  wilderness—paths that he had to follow while utterly alone. Not
  even God could acknowledge him. Hovering many times between life and
  death, even vomiting blood, his life has been one of establishing a
  model of sexual morality, the life of a phoenix that had to rise
  again to remain true to his promise to God.

  Though he
  was innocent, Rev. Moon has had to endure unjust imprisonment six
  times: for working in the underground independence movement when he
  was studying in Japan in his early days; for propagating the will of
  God in Pyongyang, which was under communist rule immediately after
  Korea’s independence; during the Syngman Rhee administration after
  Korea had been reborn as a free nation; and, furthermore, even in the
  United States, which proudly presents itself to the world as a model
  of democracy. Who on earth can understand the life of Rev. Moon—a
  life that has been one of perfecting a model of sexual morality? His
  has been a life of misery, which he has endured by biting his tongue,
  for the sake of comforting God, and for the salvation of the fallen
  people of the world who are suffering in the realm of death. Even
  now, if one person were to look into my heart and speak a word of
  sympathy, I would burst into tears and my tears would flow like a
  waterfall.

  There is
  only one way to recover the realm of lineage, the right of the elder
  son and the right of ownership. This is the path to win the natural
  subjugation of Satan, to have Satan surrender voluntarily. What is
  the secret to accomplish this? It is only by the power of true love,
  when we love our enemies more than we love our own children.

  excerpt from Rev. Sun Myung Moon's speech entitled

  God’s Model for
  Absoluteness, Peace and the Ideal Is the Family
  and Global
  Kingdom Upholding Absolute Sexual Morality

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