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1. We begin by making the commitment to become people of true love in our own family and hometown.
2. We develop our character through the vertical ethic based upon filial piety within our family, patriotism within our nation, saintly love of humanity throughout the world, and holy devotion as a child of God.
3. We practice the four types of love within our family: children's love, brother-sister love, conjugal love and parental love. By doing so we perfect the three kingships, those of grandparents, parents and children, to establish the authority of the family, the nobility and virtuous love of a royal family. This begins the horizontal expansion of God's true love.
4. Thereby we grow our love and substantial service to develop the one great family of humankind. Thus we help create a world of freedom, peace, unification and happiness. Such a world is the image of God and fulfillment of God's purpose of creation.
5. Through the growth of love, true families establish the right order of mind over body and the true spiritual order guiding the physical world. Thus we can liberate the evil spirit world.
6. Through the liberation of the spirit world, heaven and earth are harmonized, and the energy flow of the cosmos is restored, giving blessings abundantly. The essential Blessing is that of marriage under the auspices of God, and this is available today, for people of all faiths, through the ministry of Reverend and Mrs. Sun Myung Moon.
7. Creation of true families under God's Blessing establishes the foundation for a culture of heart, flowing through the free development of emotion, intellect and will. The life blood of this ideal culture is maintained through sexual purity.
8. The fruit of true family life, then, is the culture of heart, or literal kingdom of heaven on earth.