The Unification Thought Club // El Club de la Unificacion del Pensamiento!

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The Unification Thought Club HAPPY TRUE PARENT'S DAY 10-29-2008 THE UNIFICATION THOUGHT! I will base this discussions about the Original Mind, and the projections of it in the field of Religion and Science, by my own experiences with the Principle. First we analyse the Unification Thought book and define the Original Mind as the Sungsang and the Hyung Sang of our lives. A blue print of a house plus the architect will be the Sunsang part which is where the idea is originated and made into a reality, through the Hyungsang part, which is the scientific approach to the idea using Mathematical Principles, which makes possible for that house to stand. Because I have been a member of the Unification Church for 35 years, I will try to relate to you my experiences with those two parts of the Unification Thought. First the Sungsang developed in me as the manipulation of ideas for others, instead of doing it for myself, like starting a business on my own and becoming wealthy, like becoming a leader of a group that will preach an ideology that contradicts the purpose of the Universal Principle which is to bring joy to our Creator. Second the Hyunsang developed the love for learning and being involved with technical principles and research, I became an Electronic Computer Technician, and all I see is the Original Mind working through the progress of technology building a better and happier world, for all of us. That is the Divine Principle itself shining brightly inside of a fiber optic connection, or inside of a plasma television, with all the chemical gases inserted to a vacuum frame that will transform pixels into a moving picture. The Inventors are very close to the Original mind and therefore to the Principle. We inherited a beautiful mind from the Creator. Let’s enjoy it for a peaceful purpose not for our own destruction. Now let’s review the main concepts of the Original Mind. THEORY OF THE ORIGINAL MIND
Unification Thought begins with God. Its fundamental postulate is that God has created humankind and the universe in God's own likeness. Accordingly, it holds that in God there can be found the standard for solving actual problems of the individual and society. Consider the example of a watch, which is a man-made object. When a watch is broken, a jeweler repairing it takes as the standard the condition of the watch when it was made. For another example, a doctor wanting to cure a patient's illness call does so by using the condition of a healthy person as the standard. Something similar call be said about saving fallen humankind and society: Human problems can be solved only through knowing the standard of creation when God first created humankind and the universe, and then pursuing solutions in that direction. Since God created humankind and the universe in His own likeness, in order to solve actual problems, we must ask what kind of being God is; in other words, we must start with the attributes of God. God, humankind, and all other creations are "beings," but they are not on the same level. God is the Creator, whereas humankind and other creations are created beings. Thus, in Unification Thought, God is referred to as the "Original Being;" human beings and other creations, "existing beings." When questioning what God is like, we are actually asking about the attributes of God. We call the attributes of God the "Original Image," and we call the theory concerning those attributes the 'Theory of the Original Image." The question of what God is like is generally connected with that of the origin of the universe. The theoretical field that deals with the origin of the universe is called "ontology," which forms the very foundation of a thought system. Thus, a thought system, in most cases, has an ontology that is unique to itself, and upon that basis, it deals with the problems of human beings and society. God and the origin of the universe have traditionally been important topics of discussion in religions and thought systems. Yet, the traditional views of God and the universe provided by existing ontologism have not been able to put forward fundamental solutions to actual problems of human beings and society. This means that the traditional ontological views of God and the universe have themselves been insufficient; that is to say, they have not conveyed a correct understanding of God and the origin of the universe. Therefore, the need for a new view of God, and a new ontology, has arisen. THE ORIGINAL SUNGSANG The Original Sungsang, or God's Sungsang, is the part of God corresponding to mind and represents the fundamental cause of the invisible aspect, or functional aspect, of all created beings. The invisible aspect of created beings correspond to mind in human beings, to instinct in animals, to life in plants, and to physicochemical character in minerals. God's Sungsang is manifested in the created world in various dimensions, forming the different levels of invisible aspect. To specify, in minerals, God's Sungsang is almost dormant and manifests itself only symbolically. In plants, God's Sungsang manifests itself on a higher dimension. In animals, it manifests itself on an even higher dimension. In human beings, God's Sungsang manifests itself to the fullest degree. A further analysis of the original Sungsang shows that it contains the aspect of function and the aspect of form, which are called Inner Sungsang and Inner Hyungsang, respectively. The Inner Sungsang has the faculties of intellect, emotion, and will; and the Inner Hyungsang contains ideas, concepts, original laws, mathematical principles, and so forth. The Inner Sungsang is the subject part within the Sungsang and the Inner Hyungsang is the object part within the Sungsang. The intellect is the faculty of cognition; the emotion is the faculty of feeling -- the faculty to feel joy, anger, sadness, comfort, etc.; and the will is the faculty of volition the faculty to desire, to intend, to determine, etc. Furthermore, the intellect has the faculties of perception, understanding, and reason. Perception refers to the ability to receive representations, or images, triggered by an object. Understanding refers to the ability to make judgments by using concepts. Reason refers to the ability to infer by using concepts and to comprehend universal truths and the essence of things. (from the Unification Thought study guide) COMMENTARY ABOUT OUR MIND'S EVOLUTION! Let's disallow for a moment all the annals of history, and let's get back to the very first minute we inherited reasoning. !Then there was light and the morn was full with freshness of the plants that had been developed for thousand of years! the animals were us, and we roammed naked without any inhibitions, perhaps some hair in our asses, and some of us had big teeth, there was no lenght or measurement for time, but everything was harmonious and the continuity principle had at hand the formula to fulfill the day. Then,.... one sunny day, we felt asleep and when we woke up, there were leaves covering our bodies, (figuratevely please), we tried to get them off but we felt unconfortable, then we run to the pond and then, we looked our reflected images on the water for the first time, we got confussed for a while, but we came back many times to see if we were still there. For more about the Original Mind, go to: http://www.familyfed.org]