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General Introduction

1.Happiness How does happiness arise? When desire is fulfilled happiness Desire righteous (original mind) unrighteous (evil mind) true joy and happiness goodness feel conscience-stricken suffering false joy and happiness evil

Rom 3:10,11 …“None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands, no one seeks for God.” 2. Human Contradiction Rom 7:22-24 …I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self, but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members… goodnessevil individual originalevilmind

goodness evil individual originalevilmind farnily society nation world history

any being contradiction destruction human beings contradiction destruction Fall

ignoranceknowledge 3. Human Ignorance eternal happiness external ignorance internal ignorance mind body human beings external truth (science) external knowledge internal truth (religion) internal knowledge

a.Searching within the Resultant, Material World (science) 4. Paths in the Search for Solutions to the Fundamental Questions of Human Life fundamental questions of life remain unsolved necessary to elevate its gaze from the external and resultant world of phenomena to the internal and causal world of essence.

b.Searching in the World of Essence, Transcending the Resultant World of Phenomena (religion, philosophy) 1) Materialism communism fundamental questions of life remain unsolved Actual Situation of Today’s Christianity 3) Sexual immorality 2) Racism

Causes for the Inactivity and Weakness of Today’s Religions 1)Denying life in this world in quest for the life eternal; despising the pleasures of the body for the sake of spiritual bliss necessary to explain things in a scientific manner, i.e., logically and with proof. 2) The traditional doctrines are largely devoid of scientific explanations

5. Necessity for the Appearance of a New Truth external truth (science) internal truth (religion) human beings new truth Mind internal ignorance Body external ignorance

6. Mission of the New Truth 1)To unify knowledge by reconciling the internal truth (religion) and the external truth (science) 6) To explain the meaning of history 5) To solve the fundamental questions of life 4) To realize one great family of all humankind 3) To end the history of conflict and struggle 2) To reveal the reality of God and His Heart 7) To elucidate many difficult issues in Christianity

Jn 16:25 “I have said this to you in figures; the hour is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in figures but tell you plainly of the Father.” This new truth must appear as a revelation from God. Rev 10:11 … “You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.” Jn 16:12,13 “I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth...”

7. The Divine Principle and the Reverend Sun Myung Moon