THEORY OF THE ORIGINAL IMAGE

An Abridged Version
 Unification Thought
• To present Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s
teachings on divine providence in a
systematic, philosophical way
– Godism or Headwing Thought
• Godism – God’s truth and His love core of
Unification Thought
• Headwing Thought – neither rightwing nor
leftwing – both sides from higher
perspective
 Goal of Unification Thought
• Create an ideal world of eternal peace and
freedom by offering fundamental solution to
all human problems
• Essential to have a correct understanding of
God as the Original Being
• Begins with Theory of the Original Image –
God’s attributes
Original Image of God
Divine
Image
Content
(attributes) Divine
The Character
Original
Image
Structure
(relationship
between
attributes)
 The Divine Image
• Correspond to the aspect of form
• Invisible – possesses a definite form
• Potentiality(raw material) and
determinative nature – appearance of form
• Contains two sets of dual characteristics
– Sungsang and Hyungsang and Yang & Yin
– Universal Image as well as Individual Image
 The Divine Image
SS & HS
Universal
Image Yang & Yin
Divine
Image Individual
Content
Image
(attributes) Divine
The Character
Original
Four
Image Position
Structure Base
(relationship
between Origin
attributes) Division
Union
Action
 Sungsang and Hyungsang
• Dual Characteristics: Original
GOD
Sungsang and Original
SS HS Hyungsang
• Cause and effect
• OSS fundamental cause of the
invisible and functional aspect
of created entities
SS
• OHS – fundamental cause of
HS
the visible, material aspect of
All things
created entities
 Sungsang
Inner
Sungsang
SS HS

Inner Human being

Hyungsang
Human animal Spirit mind

Mind
Instinct Instinct
plant (physical mind) (physical mind)

Life Life Life

minerals (autonomy) (autonomy) (autonomy)
Physico- Physico- Physico- Physico-
chemical chemical chemical chemical
character character character character
 Inner Sungsang
perception
understanding intellect
reason emotion Inner SS HS
will Sungsang
Cognition
• Perception: ability to know things
through our five senses
• Understanding: ability to
conceptualize by reaching logical
conclusions
• Reason: universal truths by the
process of abstraction
 Emotion and Will
• Emotion: faculty of feeling – ability to feel joy,
sorrow, anger, pleasure etc
• Will is the faculty of volition – desire, intend
and determine

intellect
Inner
emotion
Sungsang
will
SS HS

Inner
Hyungsang
 Inner Hyungsang
• Formal, object component within the mind
• Ideas, concepts, principles and mathematical notions
• Ideas – concrete representations or reflections of
individual created entities within the mind
• Concepts – abstract representations
• Fundamental principles – original cause of the natural
laws and of the normative laws that determine value
• Numerical or mathematical notions – ultimate cause of
numerical world – infinity of numbers, numerical
values and mathematical formulas
 Hyungsang
mineral plant animal human being
Atoms Atoms Atoms Atoms
molecules molecules molecules molecules
Cells, tissues, Cells, tissues, Cells, tissues,
structure, structure, structure,
shape shape shape
Sense organs, Sense organs,
nerve nerve

Physical body

• God’s hyungsang(OHS) – correspond to human body

• Fundamental cause of the visible parts and material
elements of all created entities
• Material element and energy
 God’s Hyungsang
purpose to
Pre-matter
form
(forming energy)
SS HS Pre-
Energy
purpose to Prime Force
act (acting energy)

• Stage prior to matter

– Pre-matter Universal Prime Force
– Forming energy (e=mc square)
matter
• Stage prior to energy
– Pre-energy
 Difference between SS & HS
• Homogenous or heterogeneous
• Monism vs dualism
• SS & HS – two manifestations of one
homogenous core element SS HS
• Absolute nature of God
– Energic mind or mental energy
– Energy and mind as one
• Creation - God’s absolute nature
separates – God’s mind(SS) and God’s
body(HS)
• Ontology: Unification Theory
• Prior to creation: Theory of Oneness
Dualism – Western Philosophy
Pure thought
Pure Eidos Thinking of Thinking
Pure Eidos Thought of thought
God Prime matter
Prime Hyle

• Ultimate cause of matter – pure

hyungsang(form) – prime matter
Eidos • Pure act entirely devoid of materiality
Form - pure thought
- thinking of thinking; thought of thought
Hyle
Matter • Prime matter is entirely independent from
God
Aristotle
 Aquinas and Augustine
Pure thought
Pure Eidos Thinking of Thinking
Pure Eidos Thought of thought
God Prime matter
Prime Hyle

• Thomas Aquinas: Aristotle’s pure form

Ex nihilo – out of nothing
and thinking on thinking
Eidos • Like Augustine: God had created the
Form world ex nihilo – out of nothing
Hyle • Compared with contemporary science
Matter where universe to be composed of energy
- created out of nothing?

Aquinas/Augustine
 Descarte: Dualism
• Descartes: three substances
- God, spirit and matter(extension)
• God is the only substance God
• Spirit & matter while dependent on God
- entirely separated from each other
- Dualism
• Great problem of Western Philosophy
Spirit Matter

3 Substances
 Dualism: Solution
Form
Spirit Physical
Matter

• Unification Thought notions of OSS and

OHS as two different manifestations of
one identical fundamental element
SS HS - Unification Theory
• Mind/body & Spirit/Physical
- Theory of Oneness
 Yang and Yin
• Sungsang and Hyungsang are
direct(primary) attributes of God.
• Yang and yin(masculinity and feminity) are
SS HS his indirect(secondary) attributes.
• God’s Original SS has both yang and yin as
its attributes and God’s Original HS equally
carries yang and yin as its attributes.
• Harmonized oneness (neutrality) of yang
and yin.
• Just like SS and HS – harmony and unity
before the act of creation.
• Oneness is separated into attributes of yang
and yin in the process of creation.
 Yang & Yin as Attributes of SS & HS
Yang Yin
Sungsang Intellect Clarity, Good memory,
distinctiveness, wittiness
Vagueness, forgetfulness,
Unclear ideas, Seriousness

Emotion Plesantness, Loudness, Joy, Unpleasantness,

Excitment Quietness, Sorrow,
Composure

Will Activeness, aggressiveness, Passiveness, tolerance,

creativeness, carefreeness conservativeness,
carefulness

Hyungsang Protuberant Parts,

protrusions, convex parts,
Sunken parts, orifices,
concave parts, back side
front side
 Attributes and substances
• Yang and Yin are attributes of SS
& HS
• SS & HS – individual substance SS HS
Yang and Yin attributes
• Eastern Philosophy
Yang & Yin – attributes or
substances
e.g. Sun(substance) is yang
sun brightness(attribute) is yang
fire(substance) is yang
heat(attribute) is also yang
Eastern Philosophy & Unification Thought
• Eastern philosophy – many
instances man is equated to
yang and woman yin
• UT is different – man and
woman possess both SS/HS
Yang Yin and Yang/Yin
• Yang-type & Yin-type united
Both SS/HS and Yang/Yin
SS level -Yang/Yin
body of SS/HS
masculine or feminine type • Man – substantial yang being;
HS level(body) – man has Woman – substantial yin
more yang elements and being
woman yin elements.
 The Individual Image
SS & HS
Universal
Image Yang & Yin
Divine
Image Individual
Content
Image
(attributes) Divine
The Character
Original
Image • All things differ in term of
Structure shape, kind and type
(relationship • Man – stature, body shape,
between facial expression,
attributes) personality etc
 The Individual Image
intellect
emotion Inner
will Sungsang

Individual
SS HS
ideas
Image
concepts
Inner
principles
Hyungsang
laws

• Varied characteristics of
each person
• Kind-specific differences
– species
Universal Image Individualized
intellect
emotion Inner
will Sungsang

Individual
SS HS
ideas
Image
concepts
Inner
principles
Hyungsang
laws

• Individual image – not another addition to the Universal Image but

rather Universal Image becomes individualized
• Different features of the faces of human beings – individualized
hyungsang(Universal Image)
• Different personality – individualized sungsang(Universal Image)
God’s Universal and Individual Image
Original Universal Image
intellect
emotion Inner
will Sungsang

SS HS
Original ideas
Individual
Image concepts
Inner
principles
Hyungsang
laws

• Every human being’s individual personality should be respected

– originated in the Individual Image of God
 The Divine Character
Divine One aspect of form
Image
Content
(attributes) Divine Function, character
The Character and ability
Original
Image • Omniscience, omnipresence,
Structure omnipotent, supreme goodness,
(relationship supreme beauty, supreme love,
between universal justice, Lord of
attributes) creation and judgment
• God’s most important
characteristics are Heart, Logos
and creativity
 Divine Character: Heart
“Emotional impulse to create joy through love”
intellect Inner
emotion H
H
Sungsang
will
SS HS
Ideas, concepts Inner
principles & laws Hyungsang
• Heart is the very core of God’s attribute - Sungsang
• Emotional impulse – irrepressible longing; desire springing forth from
one’s innermost being
• For God this impulse to create joy begins with the impulse to love
• Love is the unconditional impulse to create joy – not love as means to joy;
joy is the inevitable consequence of love
• Impulse to love – irresistible longing to love; irresistible desire to be with
one’s object of love
 Motivation of Heart Theory
God created H H
SS HS
humankind and all
things with Heart as
his motive. Solve
age-old controversies
on the origin and
creation of the All things
universe
 Universal Prime Force & Force of Love
purpose to Pre-matter
form (forming energy)
H
SS HS Pre-
Energy
purpose to Prime Force
act (acting energy)

• God’s prime energy comes into

existence on the energy of his Universal Prime Force
heartistic impulse
• similarly in the created world the matter
universal prime force does not
merely act as a physical force; the
force of love is also at work in it
 Culture of Heart, love and harmony
• Heart is the core of God’s SS
Foundation of intellect, emotion and will
Emotion •
a culture based on intellect, emotion and will that
•
realizes true value is called a culture of Heart
• Heart as its motive: practice and realization of love
resulting in a culture of Heart, love and harmony
Heart

Intellect Will
 Divine Character: Logos
perception
understanding intellect
reason emotion Inner
will Sungsang

ideas SS HS
concepts
Inner
Purpose principles Hyungsang
laws

ISS IHS • Divine Principle: Logos is “rational

principle” or ‘the Word”
Thinking & Necessity & • God’s thought, idea, design
practice freedom Logos inevitability
• Reason & law
Reason & Law
 Freedom/Necessity Purposeful/Automatic
• All things were created
Purpose through the Logos: reason and
law unified.
ISS IHS • Law(rules) more in lower
entities and reason in higher
Thinking & Necessity & entities
practice freedom Logos inevitability
• Existence and activity of all
Reason & Law things: union of freedom &
necessity and purposeful &
automatic
Law does not restrict freedom • Freedom is at work in
necessity and purposefulness
is in automatic
 Creativity
intellect Inner
emotion Sungsang H
will
SS HS
ideas
concepts Inner
principles Hyungsang
laws

Purpose

I,E,W Idea,law Purpose

Logos Pre-energy

Inner & Outer 4 PFs

Creation
 Heart, Purpose & Creativity
Purpose

I,E,W Idea,law Purpose

Logos Pre-energy

Creation

• Creativity: new entities through give-and-take between his dual

characteristics.
• The capacity to create a four-position foundation centering on a purpose
that is based on Heart is called creativity.
• Inner and outer give-and-take action between OSS & OHS
 Dominion of Love: Creativity
• Endowed human beings with
God’s creativity to dominate all things
• Original dominion: original love
creativity
• Farming, manufacturing,
production, reorganizing,
construction, invention,
Man Creation maintenance, transportation,
preservation, artistic production
etc
• New ideas based on love
• God’s creativity is needed
 God’s creativity, heart & love
• Human Fall: did not fully inherit
God’s creativity, Heart and love
– self-centered individuals
God • Weapons of mass destruction,
environmental pollution
- misuse of creativity
• Lost purpose centered on Heart –
Man Creation no true creativity
• Self-centered individualism
eliminated - creativity and
dominion centered on love of
God – world culture of original
true love
 Structure of the Original Image
Divine • Mutual
Content Image relationship
(attributes) between God’s
Divine
The Character attributes(SS/HS)
Original
Structure Four • Understanding of
(relationship Position
Image God’s attributes
between Base
attributes) - fundamental
Origin solution
Division
Union
- relationships
Action
Give & Take – Sungsang & Hyungsang
• SS & HS established correlative
SS relationship and created
H correlative standard – exchange
HS something with each other
• Two elements or individuals
- subject and object
- common purpose to establish
correlative standard
• Original SS – subject
Original HS - object
 Give-and-Take Action
Subject • Sungsang and Hyungsang establish
give & take action
SS - two distinct positions of subject
SS and object
HS - not equal footing
• Subject: active, central, dynamic,
Object positive, creative, extroverted
• Object: passive, dependent, static,
negative, conservative, introverted
• Subject – exert dominion
Object – receptive and responsive
 Conflict and Contradiction impossible
Subject • Give-and-take action within Original
Image: perfection, harmony and complete
smoothness
OSS • Opposition, contradiction, conflict cannot
SS exist within give-and-take action
OHS
• Reciprocal relationship between OSS &
OHS centered on purpose
Object • Heart and purpose cannot be their center
if there are conflict
• Development only centering on purpose
having give-and-take as mutual partners
 Four-position Foundation
• Give-and-take between SS &
Purpose Center
HS involves a
center(common central
SS HS point)
• Mutual relationship between
Subject Object SS & HS establish four
Result positions – four-position
foundation
• Sungsang is in the position
of subject and Hyungsang is
in the position of object
United Body – Multiplied Body
Heart Purpose

SS HS SS HS

United Multiplied
Body Body

Being New being(resultant entity)

existence new element, phenomenon,
maintenance individual being
unity growth & development
spatial movement
permanence of all things
Basic types of four-position foundation
Heart Purpose

SS HS SS HS

United Multiplied
Body Body

Identity-maintaining Developmental
• Four-position foundation
• Give-and-take action
• Inner 4PF
• Inner give-and-take action
• Outer 4PF
• Outer give-and-take action
2-Stage Structure of God’s Original Image
Purpose Give-&-take action
Object
ISS IHS Purpose
Subject
functional
SS SS HS

• Four-position foundation New

• Give-and-take action Creation
• Inner 4PF
• Inner give-and-take action
• Outer 4PF
• Outer give-and-take action

Identity-maintaining or Developmental
2-Stage Structure of Existence
Heart

ISS IHS Heart

SS SS HS

United
Body

Inner & Outer 4PF of the Original

Image : basic standard of all forms of existence
- resemblance
 Types of Four-Position Foundation
• Inner identity-maintaining four-position foundation
• Outer identity-maintaining four-position foundation
• Inner developmental four-position foundation
• Outer developmental four-position foundation
Heart
Developmental or Identity

ISS IHS Heart

SS SS HS

United
Being
Inner Identity-Maintaining Four-Position Foundation
• Inner four-position Heart
foundation within
the Original ISS IHS Heart
Sungsang identical
to itself: unchanging
OSS OSS HS
• Inner: realized
within mind United
• Identity- Being
maintaining:
centering on Heart
 Outer Identity-Maintaining Four-Position Foundation

• Outer four-position
Heart
foundation remain
identical to itself:
ISS IHS Heart
unchanging.
• State of Original
OSS OSS HS
Image prior to
God’s creation of all
United
Being things: harmonious
unity.
 Inner Developmental Four-Position Foundation
• Inner realized within the Purpose
mind
• Developmental: give- ISS IHS Purpose
and-take between
ISS(reason) and
IHS(law) centering on SS SS HS
purpose
• Purpose centered on New
Heart Creation
• New body – Word
- Logos
- Conception preceding
creation of universe
Outer Development Four-Position Foundation

Purpose • Outer: four-position

foundation with
ISS IHS Purpose new, multiplied
body
SS OSS OHS • Active and leads to
development
New • New body: things of
Creation
creation
Two-stage Structure of Creation
Purpose

ISS IHS Purpose

Logos OHS

New
Creation

• 2-stage Inner then Outer

• blueprint (concept)
• then create
• human production, creation and action
 Origin-Division-Union Action
Origin

[
Center

Temporal
Subject Object Division

Result Union

]
[ Spatial ]
• Center is established first. Next subject and object are divided
and begin to interact. Finally, the result appears.
• 4 types of origin-division-union(ODU)
inner identity-maintaining ODU
outer identity-maintaining ODU
inner developmental-maintaining ODU
outer developmental-maintaining ODU
 Unity or Conflict: Development
Thesis

Antithesis
Conflict & Struggles Synthesis

• Thesis-antithesis-synthesis – Communism’s Historical and

Dialectical Materialism
• Marx’s materialistic philosophy linked to Hegel’s dialectic
- logical foundation to Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis
• Materialist Dialectic – contradiction development occurs when
opposing elements of thesis and antithesis unite through struggle,
thus giving birth to all things
• UT – mutual relationships of GTA between subject and object
through unity - development
Deny purpose: Dialectic Materialism
Purpose
• Development through
smooth give-and-take
between subject and object
centering on common
Conflict & Struggles purpose
• Communism dialectic
Materialism denies purpose
• UT’s ODU considers give-
and-take action from
perspective of time
 Unity in the Structure
Center
• Original Image transcends time and
space; no position, right & left, up &
down, inside & outside, wide & narrow,
Subject Object
far and near – also no such notions as
before and after
Result
• infinitely small and large coincide and
all space comes together in one point
• realm where up & down, before &
after, right & left, and inside & outside
extend without limits
 Time: Original Image
Center
• past, present and future are united in the
one moment of the “now”.
• eternity in an instant – two are
Subject Object
intimately linked
• Original Image: one pure permanence in
Result
a state of oneness (united SS & HS, Yang
& Yin)
• Realm of the Original Image: “pure
united body”
• all phenomena of the universe including
time & space originate in that one point
• four-position foundation and ODU
action unfold into time and space starting
from this one point