Here is an interesting passage from the 1983 speech Total Indemnity. Father explains how persecution creates the indemnity required for restoration. Including restoration of the individual. We as people on a religious path can benefit from persecution. The problem though is that it is very difficult for us really to be persecuted. Because the providence centers so fully on Father, persecution for all intents and purposes is always persecution of Father. This is ok in its way. It helps Father advance his purposes, and helps God advance the providence of restoration.
The problem however is for us peronally. We cannot really benefit from persecution of the movement, because we do not really own responsibility for the movement. Ultimately hatred from those who oppose Unification is always directed toward Father. Our persecution is relatively light. Even if people are picking on us and giving us a hard time, the person they are most interested to destroy is Father. Of course there are exceptions, such as underground missionaries who were captured and executed. For the most part though, true persecution is not really available to members. Father is just too too big a target.
This leaves us members with insufficient indemnity to support the pursuit of our own perfection. To cure that, an arena exists in which member persecution really can count for something, this is our life INSIDE (!) the movement. The suffering we experience there is true persecution. It harms us.
Unfortunately most members failed to recognize the essence of
these experiences and misunderstood them to be simply the result of a poorly organized movement and the shortcomings of underdeveloped leaders. 1000's of members left, or just went cold and unresponsive.
How sad. The cosmic realm of Unification is a careful ecology of indemnity designed for the fastest possible liberation of every one of us. It was hard for people to recognize that the abuse and mistreatment that happen WITHIN the movement, was because, it is the only genuine persecution available to us.
Here is the passage (from Total Indemnity, delivered April, 1983):
Please understand clearly that restoration is accomplished through indemnity and that this is the road to perfection. How about you, the members of the Unification Church? I always speak in a public manner and I may chastise a church leader during a speech. That is an example of restoration through indemnity. When I chastise that person in public, he is representing the world, and if he listens to me and accepts what I say, he is able to overcome the problem. When I do such a thing, certainly the problem becomes apparent. That sort of public chastisement is the best example of restoration through indemnity. What is the purpose of indemnity? It is for the sake of perfection — perfection of the self, perfection of the family, the clan, the nation, the world and the cosmos. And what is the result of the perfection of the cosmos? The ultimate result is the liberation of God.
The problem however is for us peronally. We cannot really benefit from persecution of the movement, because we do not really own responsibility for the movement. Ultimately hatred from those who oppose Unification is always directed toward Father. Our persecution is relatively light. Even if people are picking on us and giving us a hard time, the person they are most interested to destroy is Father. Of course there are exceptions, such as underground missionaries who were captured and executed. For the most part though, true persecution is not really available to members. Father is just too too big a target.
This leaves us members with insufficient indemnity to support the pursuit of our own perfection. To cure that, an arena exists in which member persecution really can count for something, this is our life INSIDE (!) the movement. The suffering we experience there is true persecution. It harms us.
Unfortunately most members failed to recognize the essence of
these experiences and misunderstood them to be simply the result of a poorly organized movement and the shortcomings of underdeveloped leaders. 1000's of members left, or just went cold and unresponsive.
How sad. The cosmic realm of Unification is a careful ecology of indemnity designed for the fastest possible liberation of every one of us. It was hard for people to recognize that the abuse and mistreatment that happen WITHIN the movement, was because, it is the only genuine persecution available to us.
Here is the passage (from Total Indemnity, delivered April, 1983):
Please understand clearly that restoration is accomplished through indemnity and that this is the road to perfection. How about you, the members of the Unification Church? I always speak in a public manner and I may chastise a church leader during a speech. That is an example of restoration through indemnity. When I chastise that person in public, he is representing the world, and if he listens to me and accepts what I say, he is able to overcome the problem. When I do such a thing, certainly the problem becomes apparent. That sort of public chastisement is the best example of restoration through indemnity. What is the purpose of indemnity? It is for the sake of perfection — perfection of the self, perfection of the family, the clan, the nation, the world and the cosmos. And what is the result of the perfection of the cosmos? The ultimate result is the liberation of God.
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