I’d like to introduce you to my friend Grace. She approached me a couple months ago with an offer to teach Holy Yoga to our local Faith Fusion community. I’ve taken yoga classes before, but what she was offering was a little bit different. A yoga practice that is centered on prayer and scripture reading from the […]
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 […]
In the previous article, we’d touched on the Universal Prime Force. In the Exposition of the Divine Principle textbook, the topics that follow are the Three Objects Purpose and the Four Position Foundation, and then the section closes. The next major section addresses the Purpose of Creation. But for this article, I’d like to take […]
In the last article, I had explained that the Universal Prime Force 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. (To avoid confusion, I must mention that in Unification Thought, the translation from Korean is written as Universal Prime Force, […]
Unification Thought is a philosophical expression of the teachings of Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Those teachings were first published in English as the “Divine Principle”, but that book is very theological in nature. It contains numerous remarkable insights on the Bible which, when strung together, provide a profound understanding of God, humans, and the universe. […]
This article is the last in a series of three, on the concept of the “three great subjects”. In the Appendix of the textbook New Essentials of Unification Thought, the notion of three great subjects is described in this way: “The three great subjects thought is an expression coined by Rev. Sun Myung Moon. The […]
This article is the second in a series of three, on the concept of the “three great subjects”. In the Appendix of the textbook New Essentials of Unification Thought, the notion of three great subjects is described in this way: “The three great subjects thought is an expression coined by Rev. Sun Myung Moon. The […]
