Jain Journal 1997 01

SR No.: 520125
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 1997
Total Pages: 31
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 2 MB

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OHIRA: JAINISM AND UNIFICATION THOUGHT
in the history of religion). The restoration of man's fall ends here, thenceforth he is to start his history anew.
This is a brief account of the central history of the chosen people, to whom God was to send the Messiah. The history of the rest of the world is referred to as the peripheral history. The chosen people were responsible for fulfilling God's dispensation of establishing the Messiah, in which they repeatedly failed. We should note that religion begins after Abraham in the central history, while it is traceable already in the Old Stone Age caves in the peripheral history.
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The course of history that started with man's fall is, in other words, the development of God's providence in restoring man and the world, and restoring the original purpose of creation. God performs His providence with the Messiah in cooperation with man. And man's failure in fulfilling his part of responsibility has caused the continuous miseries of human society and the prolongation of the process of salvation.
Since man has taken the historical course that was not originally planned by God, there are two kinds of laws at work in our history, i.e. the law of creation and the law of restoration. Under the first kind, there are laws of (1) correlativity, (2) give-and-take action, (3) domination of the center, (4) completion through three stages, (5) period of the number six, and (6) responsibility. Under the second kind, there are likewise laws of (1) indemnity, (2) separation, (3) restoration of the number four, (4) conditioned providence, (5) false preceding the true, (6) horizontal reappearance of the vertical, and (7) synchronous period.
Struggles occur in the Last Days, according to the Unification view of history, between the good side and evil side, which are not necessarily violent ones, but will be the struggle of ideology. Values will also collapse in the Last Days, and thereby great social disorder will result. The present day disorder and chaos occurring in all levels of the family, society, nation and the world-illicit sex, family disruption, juvenile delinquency, social decline, and so on-are nothing but the reflection of the state at the time of man's Fall, where we have returned now in the Last Days.
Unification Thought proposes that we should return to God, for all this confusion of today arose from our loss of God. We have to understand Him correctly. He will then guide us according to His original plan and order. This concept is called Godism. It is also called Head-wing Thought, because it is capable of embracing both sides of ideologies, i.e. left-wing and right-wing. Finally, Unification Thought