Introduction
Everyone is struggling to attain ______ and avoid misfortune.
Happiness
What are the 2 pairs of dual characteristics in every being.
1. Yang and Yin
2. Internal Natural and External Form
Humans beings are individual embodiment on the level of _____, and the natural individual embodiment on the level of _____.
Image and Symbol
List the three ordered stages of growth.
formation, growth, and completion stage
What do the incorporeal and the corporeal world form together?
Cosmos
Humanity through ____ has followed the path of searching for internal truth and through ____ for external truth.
Religion and science
The interaction generating all the forces the entity needs for existence, multiplication and action.
Give-and-take action
What are the 3 faculties of the human mind?
Emotion, Intellect, and Will
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
At what stage did Adam and Eve fall?
Top of the growth stage.
The certain element that the physical self provides the spirit self.
vitality element
Christianity sees the human contradiction within the mind as the result of _________.
Human Fall/Fall
Give 3 examples of yin and yang dual characterizes, given by the Divine Principle.
Positive/Negative (particles and atoms), Stamen/Pistil (plants), Male/Female (animals and humans)
Name and explain the 3 Great Blessings.
1. Be fruitful: the individual can attain individual perfection by uniting the mind and body through give and take action with God as their center.
2. Multiply: two perfected individuals joining together in loving oneness(husband and wife) and raise children.
3. Have Dominion: the perfection of a being's Dominion over the natural world by the four position foundation of dominion established centered on God
What is the principle difference between human beings and the rest of creation?
God gave every human being a portion of responsibility.
What was the creation of the universe modelled after?
Human beings
From the viewpoint of the intellect, the human fall represents humanity's descent into what?
Ignorance
Explain the 3 object purpose.
Any one of the four positions may assume the position of subject partner and engage the other three as its object partners, forming a communion of three object partners. When each of the four then acts as the subject partner and enters into give and take with the other three revolving around it, they fulfill the three object purpose.
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
The emotional force that the subject partner gives to the object partner is called ___, and the emotional force that the object partner returns to the subject partner is called ____.
love and beauty
What are the reasons God endowed human beings with a portion of responsibility?
1. Inherit the creative nature of God.
2. Participate in God's great work of creation.
3. Earn ownership over all of creation.
4. Rule over creation as creators.
What determines you going to heaven or hell?
The spirit becomes good only through the redemption of sins granted during earthly life. It is not God who decides whether a person's spirit enters heaven or hell upon his death; it is decided by the spirit himself.
The missions that the new truth must fulfill. (at least 3)
1. Unify knowledge of internal and external Truth
2. Lead fallen people to block the evil mind and attain goodness (remove the contradiction).
3. Reveal the Heart of God
4. Embrace all historical religions, ideologies, and philosophies and bring complete unity among them (bring humanity to a new world)
5. Guide fallen people to original state
Why is the 4 position foundation the root of the number 12?
As each of the 4 takes on 3 object partners, 12 object partners are created.
Describe how original value is determined.
The original value of an entity is determined when it participates as an object partner in a God-centered 4 position foundation by relating with a person as its subject partner.
Daily Double!!!
What is the difference between the realm of indirect dominion and the realm of direct dominion?
Indirect dominion: He [God] governs all things indirectly. We call this growing period the realm of God’s indirect dominion or the realm of dominion based on accomplishments through the Principle... Their [human] growth requires the fulfillment of their own portion of responsibility, in addition to the guidance provided by the Principle.
Direct dominion: Unite in the love of God to form a four position foundation and become one in heart with God... The realm of direct dominion is the realm of perfection.
List the three aspects of the position of human beings in the cosmos.
Rulers of the universe
The mediator and the center of harmony of the cosmos
Microcosm (encapsulates all the essences of the universe)