Impressions after my first weekend seminar

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 These are my own impressions, which are not necessarily the views of every Unificationist member.

    This seminar was, for me, quite a shock. In just two days I found answers to questions which had absorbed me for a long time as well as answers to questions that I hadn't even asked. The explanation of the existence of God and the purpose of Creation was a surprise for me; to hear such topics delivered in a logical way with diagrams so that I could take notes. The atmosphere there also was of people sharing a big secret which gave a special tension to the presentations. Towards the end of the seminar I found out why; because we are living in the 'Last Days' right now with the advent of the Second Coming of the Messiah having already taken place! I was really expecting them to say the Messiah would be coming soon, at some indeterminate time in the future.

    I couldn't deny their conclusion however and so I was confronted (without being properly prepared for it) with the knowledge that my life from that weekend on was going to be irrevocably changed whether I joined this group or not.

    These were the main points that were covered in my first seminar of the Unification Principle teaching
 

 
Heard, for the first time, a clear and logical explanation about the existence of God.
 
Everything exists through relationships
Purpose of life is the realization of joy through the accomplishment of the 3 Great Blessings
 
Individual perfection
Perfection of the family (which is the 'school of love')
Perfection of ownership of all things (the creation)
 
Reality of the spirit world as the third (and final) stage of life
 
Purpose of physical life
Relationship between the physical self and spiritual self, and spiritual growth
 
Detective-like exposition in the 'Fall of Man' lecture about the origin of evil which brought to life
the 'Garden of Eden' story
 
Identity of Satan, meaning of the 'fruit' and the crime of the first human ancestors
The 'Fall of Man' was not an inevitable outcome but a wrong choice by our first ancestors
Relationship between the power of love and the power of the principle (law)
 
The 'Last Days' lecture put the concept in the right perspective; the last days occur only because history started in the wrong way, the history of goodness should be eternal.
 
explanation of the 'last days' scenes described in the Bible
last days have been set up twice already
 
time of flood judgment
time of Jesus
 
Mission of the Messiah
 
Jesus was introduced as the first true man
Salvation through the cross was a painful secondary course
the failure of John the Baptist explained through Jesus' and John's words from the Bible
the failure of the then prepared people to receive Jesus as Messiah is a lesson for us today
 
the Formula for Restoration and the Parallels of History
 
God's formula for restoration revealed from the Bible
 
reversal of positions of elder brother and younger brother
restoration of the birthright
procedure to follow to be able to receive the Messiah which produced specific time periods in history. Parallel time periods were shown between the 2000 year preparation to receive Jesus and the 2000 year Christian history to receive the 'Lord of the Second Advent'
 
The seminar was held at a large house in Dunbar, Scotland which is on the road south out of Edinburgh. I had driven there all the way from Glenmavis, near Coatbridge which is the other side of Scotland. Later when I was trying to invite people to come and check this out it was amazing for me that many people didn't want to even though we provided transport. Of course the newspaper articles at that time didn't help as we were depicted as crazy fanatics; but I feel that I was a very normal guy who just stumbled across something really big. I still feel that way.
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