Hi, and Happy New Year 🙂 We’re continuing our look at the Divine Principle book through the lens of Unification Thought. Last winter I’d quoted these last few sentences from the explanation of the First Blessing in the Divine Principle: “…when people realize God’s first blessing, they become God’s beloved who inspire Him with joy. […]
The Divine Principle from a Unification Thought perspective Picking up from where we left off in November, Being a Temple of God, we can continue examining the idea of “perfection” that’s mentioned in the First Great Blessing. The paragraph starts: “The key to God’s first blessing is the perfection of individual character. …to perfect his […]
The Divine Principle from a Unification Thought perspective Picking up from the previous post: Beyond Restoration – Hope for the New World, I’d like to continue breaking down the First Great Blessing. The paragraph starts: “The key to God’s first blessing is the perfection of individual character. …to perfect his character, he must form a […]
The Heart of God in the New Era — The Divine Principle from a Unification Thought perspective In the previous article, we’d been examining Unification Thought’s explanation of the Heart of God. Over the decades since I discovered the Principle, the effort to grasp God’s Heart has become an urgent concern in my life. It’s […]
The Divine Principle from a Unification Thought perspective In the previous article, we’d continued examining the First Great Blessing and were looking in particular at these excerpts from its sole paragraph: “…Such individuals…achieve complete oneness with Him…They experience the Heart of God as if it were their own. Hence, they understand His Will and live […]
The Divine Principle from a Unification Thought perspective: The Purpose of Creation In previous articles, I focused on different phrases that explain the First Great Blessing in the Divine Principle. They’re important because these blessings are our keys to lead a fulfilling life. So we’d looked at the significance of our unique individuality: The key […]
In the previous article, we’d examined the very first sentence about the First Great Blessing in the Divine Principle: The key to God’s first blessing is the perfection of individual character.… • Exposition of the Divine Principle, p. 38 This time, we’ll move down a few sentences in the same paragraph: …In order for an […]
In the previous article, we’d examined the fundamental structure by which everything in the universe can exist individually, interact with other things, and multiply as a result of that interaction — the structure that’s called the four position foundation. Then, on the basis of that understanding, the Divine Principle explains how the very purpose of […]
The Divine Principle from a Unification Thought perspective In the previous article, we’d been looking into the three object purpose, and because it’s so closely tied with the idea of the four position foundation, we’d begun looking into that as well. So I’ll continue from that point. What is the Four Position Foundation? It’s mentioned […]
The Three Objects Purpose In the last article, I had explained that the Universal Prime Energy is endowed to the universe by God and it allows the universe and everything and everyone in it to exist, to act, and to multiply. The next sections in the Principle of Creation are “The Three Object Purpose” and […]
