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Hello again,
I have finished reading the 1st chapter of Part 1 of the DHP and I am pleasantly surprised. I find it much better than the 1st chapter of DP.
I am amazed at the 20+ pages of Bibliography at the end of the book. You must have invested a great deal of time to research all of the material that you bring into the 1st chapter. Even a person of a scientific background would have to give serious consideration to the points you raise.
What I appreciate the most is your explanations of the 5 Roles of the 3 Blessings. You take the time to clearly explain each one and what we need to do to accomplish each role.
In the DP we get an explanation that to accomplish the 1st Blessing we need to unite mind and body and, voilà, we achieve perfection. For 50 years, I have been scratching my head, wondering, what exactly does that mean? What do I have to do to ‘unite mind and body’? And what does it mean to be perfect? Will I never make another mistake?
Your explanation is fully and completely centered on us being aligned with HP’s DHP and being capable to make good decisions based upon that principle. You go on to say that, because of the free will that HP has given us, even after reaching individual perfection we can still make unprincipled decisions, but I suppose we will be capable of recognizing our mistake and quickly correcting ourselves.
Now, I begin the 2nd chapter.
I am happy to hear that you are studying Part 1 of the DHP and that you find it much better explained than DP. It is a nice surprise on my end as well, since earlier you mentioned that you are not too keen on “long theological discussions.” Part 1 is an absolute and essential starting point, as it is the foundational tool with which to explain how the rest of the restoration history leading to the present, with all of us connected to the Unification Movement(UM), has played out. Hopefully, you will continue your studies through the remaining 3 Parts. To understand how we came to exist connected to the UM and our providential existential identity, we need to comprehend the restoration history illustrated through all 4 Parts of the DHP text. This is because HP’s Creative Process is only once, and after the human Fall, the restoration history is equally one continuing history that has been repeatedly led to prolonged direction away from HP and His/Her Ideal by the failure of the 5% human portion, even though HP has never deviated from His/Her 95% limited involvement.
By the way, you mentioned about 20+pages of Bibliography in Part 1. Actually, it covers all 4 Parts of the DHP text. You will notice this Bibliography section is missing in the other Parts of the text because they are so much longer than Part 1, and it was difficult to include it repeatedly for practical reasons. It was also with the assumption that one cannot comprehend the rest of the Parts without Part 1, which contains the bibliography for all. I hope this helps.
Thank you for your thoughts here. I am now in Part II, just finishing Joseph’s course. I am so very grateful to you, Ye-Jin Nim for finding and sharing this content. Based on my current reading and the foundation of Part I, I can more deeply understand HP’s hopes for the OT CF’s and their families~ that they would ask Him/Her for Heart Principled True Love Wisdom, that was to rise above the current cultural norms. Thank you again. Understanding clearly how these CFs and their families were supposed to act in accordance with HP’s ideal, sheds light, for me, on the sorrowful indemnity and wilderness courses that these families and their descendants suffered. The truth can set us free and lead us, to also seek and find HP’s Heart Principled True Love Wisdom. Grateful. ~Sarah Nishioka
Thank you for sharing that you are progressing through Part 1 and now Part 2. Abraham/Sarah’s 3-generation clan-level course, which extends to the 4th generation, Joseph on the individual-level, is an important foundational course to understand why the central figures for the Third Try worldwide/cosmic-level course through the Israelites’ lineage did not come from the 3rd generation Jacob’s Abel-position wife, Rachel’s line, but from the Cain-position wife, Leah’s line. The 3rd-generation Jacob should not have repeated the Cain/Abel-positional wives and children from different mothers’ indemnity condition, which the 1st-generation Abraham/Sarah had newly introduced into the central providential families as an unprincipled indemnity condition. However, when Jacob and Rachel, the Abel-position wife, failed to undo this indemnity condition but instead increased the gravity of it by augmenting the number of Cain-position wives to 4, Heavenly Parent (HP) had no choice but to work with the Cain-position wife, Leah’s line, to reproduce the central figures at the time of the Third Try. This shows that Cain/Abel unequal positions are not fixed. Especially when the initial Abel-position person(s) make an unprincipled choice, when they should have maintained a position closer to HP’s DHP, the positions can always be reversed. This also shows that the central figures at a particular providential foundation, like Jesus/his bride, are not HP’s 100 percent “perfect” creation, as Christianity’s messianic theology claims. They are products of the good/bad choices of the lineages that produced them.
Hope you gain greater insight into the restoration process as you continue studying the DHP text.
Thank you for taking time to respond so completely. I think I can follow your step-by-step explanation.
Thank you, Ye-Jin, for the time and effort you put into finding and accepting your path and sharing it with us. After watching the 5 videos, I must say that your words resonate with me. I’m not interested in long, theological discussions, my only concern is how do I find the path to my place as Heavenly Parent’s child. What can you share with us about progressing on the path to restoring, as an individual, that direct personal relationship with Heavenly Parent?
You mentioned that you are not interested in “long, theological discussions” but is interested only about an individual’s path to God. However, this is an impossibility in DHP due to our inseparable dual–individual/collective–positioned existential identity. First and foremost, one would need to comprehend that all creations’ dual-positioned existential identity imitates HP’s movement from the Origin/Cause to Effect/Collective positions. Then, one needs to understand that the 5% human portion or fulfillment of all 5 Roles of the 3 Blessings means not just individual perfection but also perfection in the collective spheres. However, during the restoration history, which is not HP’s Ideal history but one that tries to restore or undo the wrongs committed by the human portion, since A/E’s family created Cain/Abel Unequal Position, which affects all levels of divided humanity, even what should have been one human lineage from A/E also became divided into internal/external. Humanity’s internal lineage would be central figures and their foundations creating ‘merit or demerit (indemnity conditions) for the age’ on behalf of humanity and the external lineage would be one’s immediate lineages, for instance, with different last names. All these points are discussed in Part 1. Only the successful restoration of all the sinful conditions plaguing humanity by the central figures/their foundation at the time of the providential expectation for up to the worldwide/cosmic-level course by way of their true examples of human perfection could create the foundational basis for others in humanity to make their own individual/collective efforts to reach HP. This is, in fact, what it means for HP’s Ideal reality, “kingdom of God” in Christian lingo, or “Cheon Il Guk” in Father Moon’s language. Note, however, “Cheon Il Guk” does not mean there is no longer absolute standard or DHP govening the entire creation. It is just that every human being would have become the embodiment of HP’s absolute standard or DHP regarding human value/responsibility and would be a self-regulating, ‘perfect’ being to make the most heart-principled, true-love choices both on the individual/collective-levels, coinciding with HP’s choices at all times. This is discussed in Part 3.