3 Great Blessings
What are the 3 Great Blessings in order?
Perfection of the individual, perfection of the family, governance over the natural world.
What emotional force does the subject partner give to the object partner?
The subject partner gives love to the object partner.
What are the 4 Great Realms of Heart? Must be in order.
Children’s love, sibling’s love, conjugal love, and parental heart
God gave us responsibility out of ____
Love
Spirit mind and physical mind.
Which is the most important Blessing to accomplish?
The first blessing
Between love and beauty, which is active and which is passive?
The force of love is active and the simulation of beauty is passive
What are the top two important realms to establish true love?
It is both the children’s love and brother and sister’s love.
What are the 3 faculties of the mind?
Emotion, Intellect, and Will
What kind of goodness does the conscience guide us towards?
A person's own concept of goodness.
Not God's definition of good.
What are the 4 positions in the 2nd Blessing?
God, husband, wife, children
What is the key to resolving all issues in society and our personal lives?
Understanding and pursuing God’s purpose for love and beauty.
Out of the Three Great Blessings, which 4 position foundation represents the building blocks of God’s ideal world?
It is the 2nd Blessing, which is the perfection of the family
What are the 3 responsibilities we have?
To develop a relationship with God
To seek Truth
To live a life of Goodness
The universe resembles what?
Human beings. A person’s spirit self encapsulates all elements of the spirit world while his physical self encapsulates all elements of the physical world.
Explain why the order of the three Great Blessings is important.
The perfection of the individual serves as the foundation for the other 2 Blessings.
Without fulfilling the first blessing first, we see many problems arise in our families and in our governance of the world.
We can’t keep God at the center without fulfilling the first blessing.
What is the definition of beauty according to the divine principle?
“The emotional force that the object partner return to the subject partner”
Why did God design the family?
God designed the family so that we can experience and inherit all kinds of his heart.
Why do we have Responsibility?
Human beings are meant to inherit the creative nature of God and participate in God’s great work of creation.
God intends human beings to earn ownership and become worthy to rule the creation as creators in their own right just as God governs them as their Creator.
What are the 3 positions of human beings?
Rulers of the universe
Mediator and the center of harmony of the cosmos
Substantial encapsulation of Cosmos (microcosm)
When did God give us the Three Great Blessings?
When Creation was finished
After creating Adam and Eve
Gen. 1:28
What are the three purposes for love and beauty?
To manifest God's love, to establish the foundation of perfect joy, and to realize the wellspring of goodness.
What is God’s Heart?
God’s Heart is to seek irrepressible emotional impulse to seek joy through love
What do we need to do in order for us to fully mature and develop a higher capacity to love others and to act morally?
Make constant effort to understand and inherit God’s Heart to love since the origin of our heart is God’s Heart.
Why does God not govern the universe directly?
The universe does not of itself have internal sensibility toward God. God gave human beings with sensibilities to all things in the universe and gave them the ability to rule over the universe directly.