The Seventh Principle: Be sexually pure to create the culture of heart

LESSON 30: The True Family Culture

1. Interdependence.

We recognize our interdependence and help one another.
For example, at meals we think of all the people who helped grow our food and bring it to the table.
All nature is interdependent; we realize we are within the symbiotic web of nature.

2. Common prosperity.

We would never want to prosper at the expense of another's poverty, or even permit others to go hungry.
When people are wealthy, their conscience guides them to perform charity.
Tithing is a principle by which everyone gives to the higher purpose.
- Government taxation is a false substitute for tithes given from the heart. It is forced, collected with grumbling and resentment, and spent unwisely.
- Conservatives want to eliminate big government and many welfare programs. Will the poor go hungry or will the people, churches and charities be able to fill the need? Or will families be able to grow to encompass their poor relations?
- What is missing is a restoration of true love and true heart within true families and tribes. Through true love and true family life, not through political programs, common prosperity will come. Vibrant religious communities do not have their people on welfare rolls.
True love will inspire the equalization of technology and expertise.
There will be more travel and communication to share the heart and situation of people in different nations and cultures.

3. Universally shared values.

Beyond the smaller values of nationality or race, we will together promote the righteous values that we all share, working for liberty, justice and peace for everyone.
- The world's religions share common values. Therefore we are witnessing expanding programs of inter religious cooperation and dialogue.
The quality of love in the family naturally expands to relationships at all levels of society.
- Businesses will operate to some degree like a family, displaying empathy, teamwork, community life outside the business, common fortune, desire for mutual success
- The nation will have the atmosphere of a family, with everyone feeling responsible for the national destiny, strong support for the government, the leaders having parental heart toward the people and respecting their advice, shared concern for natural resources, etc.
- The world will be one nation. There will be spiritual leadership, and the political leaders will have secondary position, in continual healthy relationship with the spiritual leadership.

4. Society is like a single organism, moving in love.

Thus, everything is in harmony in the order of love, as it is in the natural world.
- This is impossible without a culture of heart, because selfishness always creates conflict.
- Love contains the principle of order within it; therefore if everyone is living by the law of true love, society will function in an orderly way.
The vibrations of true love in one family resonate with all creation and the spirit world.
The cosmos operates under the law of love. Mankind will naturally adjust to the variability of nature. Nature will respond to the true love of men and women (ROM. 8:23: "The creation itself is groaning in travail, waiting for the revealing of the sons of God"). The human spirit will manifest a collective beneficial influence upon nature, enabling it to function in proper harmony.
The cosmos is guided by the mind of God, which underlies all creation with one heart, purpose and principle.

5. Ultimately, no religion is needed. Our life is naturally one of attending God and living together with one heart in true love.

1. Art and literature: tastes will change as people come to appreciate true beauty.

The beauty of the faithful wife, the filial son, the patriot who sacrifices to serve the nation, will inspire creators. Artistic creations exalting and revealing true love in the vertical ethics, the realms of heart and the kingships will intoxicate, educate and motivate all people to closeness with God, who is also intoxicated. Ultimately, all of life is a work of art.
Such true themes will overshadow the superficial beauty of contemporary celebrities.
People will be revolted by commercial sex and violence. Its destructive power will repulse them and they will no more want it around than they want poison gas around.

2. Science, philosophy and religion.

These will be unified as a single truth (natural law).
Science, in particular medicine, will leap forward as the material and spirit worlds together become the objects of research.
Relativism and value-free research will be replaced by universally shared values which guide research to the true benefit of humankind. The first object of investment and development will be to feed, house and educate in harmony with the physical and spiritual environment.
God's existence will be universally recognized.
Religions will be recognized as distinct witnesses to the one truth, each valued for unique insights and character, even as we admire various artists. All religions will find their purpose mutually fulfilled through the Blessing.

3. Ethics, law and politics.

Righteousness based upon the true public interest will be respected above all.
Expediency and showmanship, in particular for the sake of currying public favor, will be spurned.
Righteous, godly people will enter political life as the arena of public service. They will exalt the ethic of service. Partisanship will be replaced by desire for consensus of heart and love.
Constitutional law will reflect divine law.
Nationalism will be replaced by love for the unified nation of the world, one harmonious civilization covering the entire globe.
By the power of love, this civilization will have far greater variety and richness than do today's impoverished societies. Climate, geography and unique families and individuals will display amazing creativity, in their interactions, lending to the joy of life throughout the planet.
International communication and transportation will create cosmopolitan citizens, at home everywhere in the world.

4. Educational curricula to reflect this reorientation.

Schools will promote the ethic of sexual purity. Sexual morality is at the heart of personal growth, true family life and creative culture.
Schools will adopt a generalized theistic standpoint, affirming the value of all religions, not a sectarian one.
Teachers will first of all be good role models.
- They will manifest the heart of God to their beloved students. They will share the heart of parents to counsel them and promote their welfare in all areas of life.
- The teachers communicate closely with their students' parents. Parents are the first teachers, teaching heart and norm in the home environment.
School teachers mainly teach external knowledge and techniques. The creation itself is also a school of love, and teachers will inspire students to learn its lessons.

5. Economic prosperity.

The goal of generation of wealth and availability to all consumers at fair prices will guide economic decisions on all levels of economic life.
Equalizing wealth of rich and poor nations.
Encouraging each individual to take initiative work hard. Education and fair evaluation of the talent of all people.
The value of the individual will not be based upon economic wealth. Therefore the CEO and the janitor who have their mind and body united and a healthy family, will feel equally happy and privileged.
We will perfect and sustain our prosperity through science.
Earth will be a garden; nature will flourish. With international cooperation and common values, we will be able to farm the oceans, harness the tides and wind, restore the balance of nature, make the mountains "clap with joy," and reach for the stars.