8. Charles Templeton

(1915-2001). Died at age 85. Canada's legendary newspaper and magazine reporter, and CBC and CTV broadcaster and news director. Received two ACTRA (Association of Canadian Radio and Television Artists) awards and the B'nai Brith award in 1967. As a young man, he quickly rose to the top of protestant evangelism together with his close friend Billy Graham in the 1940s, but later went to the seminary and came out an agnostic. In 1995, he published a book entitled "Farewell to God: My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith."

"I am inspired by the greatness of the Divine Principle in its ability to unite the Four Great Saints as one."

There seems to be no accepted theory as to the world of the human soul. I, Charles Templeton, am now sending a message from the heavenly world, that is, the world after death. It would give me utmost pleasure if this message were to aid people on earth in improving their understanding of the world after death.

I am now in the Divine Principle lecture facility in the heavenly world. I will report to you on the unique life and incidents here. In the earthly world, there are many religions and denominations, and sometimes there is confrontation and friction among these. Here, though, there is no such thing. What is particularly surprising is that the Four Great Saints of the four major religions - Christianity (Jesus), Confucianism (Confucius), Buddhism (Buddha) and Islam (Mohammed) - are together here. I don't know if I will ever have another opportunity here to meet such great saints. Despite my humble position, I ventured to ask them, "What is it that made you one?" Jesus answered me, saying, "The Reverend Sun Myung Moon is the Savior, Messiah and True Parent of humankind. So it is only natural for us to accept the philosophy and guidance of the Messiah. I, Jesus, was the Messiah of the New Testament Age, but the Messiah of the Completed Testament Age is the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Yet my mission and his mission from the viewpoint of God's will, are one and the same." I still do not understand the meaning of Jesus' words. I do know that most of what the saints said is the same as what Jesus said.

Confucius said, "God is the vertical True Parent of humankind, and the Reverend Sun Myung Moon is the horizontal True Parent. Also, all people belong to one brotherhood and sisterhood. The Divine Principle has made this clear from many aspects. All people, without exception, must become one with one another centering on the True Parents." I do not understand what Confucius meant when he referred to vertical and horizontal True Parents.

Buddha answered me, saying, "Until now, the teachings of Buddhism were very vague on the fundamental reason for God's creation of the universe. Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the Messiah of humankind, has now taught us this through the Divine Principle.

He has also taught us clearly about what human beings are and about human life. It 10 should not be strange at all that we have become one with each other through the new truth." Buddha's reply made me feel that I had asked a very obvious question.

Mohammed spoke to me as follows: "The Divine Principle makes it completely clear that Allah (the absolute God of Islam) and God (the absolute God of Christianity) are one substantial Being. So the teachings of Christianity and those of Islam are fundamentally one. The teaching with the greater realistic meaning is that which says that God is the Parent of humankind, and that all human beings are His children. Also, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon is the Savior, Messiah and True Parent of humankind.

With the appearance of this new truth, we can but only move toward oneness. We always belonged to one brotherhood and one sisterhood, but we did not know this until now, and this is the reason so many religious bodies and denominations came into being.

We have all become one in God's love and truth. Now that we have done so and experienced resulting peace and happiness, we wonder why we were not able to do this before. The earthly world must become one, too, in the same way as the heavenly world.

We human beings can become one only when we live in attendance of the True Parents." In any case, these were their answers. I have yet to grasp the true meaning of their statements. I am merely reporting to you their replies as they gave them. They were all very gentle and humble. More than anything else, it was the Divine Principle that brought them together as one. I would like to emulate their character. I hope this will be of assistance to your lives in the earthly world.