God’s Essence: Harmonious Union of Male/Female

The nature of God: Understanding God’s essence and the divine oneness by observing the unity in nature

Part 1 of video message from Rev. Demian Dunkley, president of the Family Federation of North America, transcribed from video 1 (Lesson 1) in a series of lectures titled “Discourse on True Mother‘s Revelations”, posted on the education site of the Family Federation of the USA February 2025.

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The first presentation is “What is God‘s nature?” We’re talking about the essential characteristics of God.

Members of the movement know very well about the Principles of Creation, and Mother wants us to really teach from the Principles of Creation.

However, there are some differences in the way Mother emphasizes the key points in the Principles of Creation. She really emphasizes the pair system above all else.

Actually, there are many beautiful presentations:

about the four great realms of heart.
the relationship between the physical world and the spirit world.
the stages of growth, from immaturity to maturity of every living thing.

And these are all important. But for the purposes of this presentation, I’m just touching upon a few of the key points – as Mother wants us to focus – just so that this can be the basis of the remaining presentations.

So what is God‘s nature? What are the characteristics of God?

St. Paul — *Apostle Paul. From painting by Rembrandt (1606-1669). Photo: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Public domain image. Cropped*

In Romans, Paul illustrates that the nature of God is self-evident. It’s within us and within all creation.

“For since the creation of the world God‘s invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” (Romans 1;20)

What this means is – if we want to understand God‘s nature, or if we assume ignorance about God‘s nature – there’s really no excuse, because God‘s nature can be seen throughout all of creation.

*Lemon tree at the Amalfi coast, Italy. Photo: Donarreiskoffer / Wikimedia Commons. License: CC ASA 3.0 Unp*

Let’s look at that. If you want to know the nature of a seed, such as a lemon seed, then you look at the tree that that seed produces. A lemon seed produces a lemon tree. An apple seed will produce an apple tree, and so on. And this is true for everything.

The characteristics of creation, in all things, all of that diverse creation, beautiful creation, all comes from a beginning point. All of these characteristics of creation come from the characteristics of the original “seed”. And that original “seed” we call God.

Think about the beginning of the universe, often referred to as the Big Bang. That’s when the “seed” of everything first sprouted, you could say. From that moment, God poured all of himself into creating the energy that would form the entire universe.

And this energy didn’t just go, “Pop!”, and just burst out doing nothing. This is not idle energy. The energy itself fashioned itself according to a principle that is evident in all things.

And if we understand these core principles, I’m telling you, we can solve a lot of problems. We can solve a lot of problems in our own lives and in the way we govern ourselves, the way we take care of the world, and so on.

Let’s look at it. This energy has an inner nature that drives into the creation of particles. You can see right here.

These particles then form relationships and become atoms. Atoms, in turn, pair up with other atoms to form molecules.

*Animation of the structure of a section of DNA. Illustration: Zephyris / Wikimedia Commons. License: CC ASA 3.0 Unp*

And this continues a process that creates more and more complex interactions until finally DNA is formed. And DNA is amazing. It’s an incredible and intricate molecule that holds literally hundreds of millions of pieces of information, all formed with the same core principles, right?

And it’s DNA that makes life possible, which leads to the emergence of plants, animals, humans, and the complex systems that connect us all.

But what’s most notable – and this is what Mother emphasizes – is that everything was created in pairs. You might not be able to see at the atomic or subatomic or molecular levels, but you can see with the human eye that everything is created in pairs.

And the relationship between each of these pairs is what creates the energy and multiplies life itself.

So that’s why Mother really emphasizes this point about everything being created in pairs, all stemming from God‘s own fundamental nature – the pair, a combined harmonious pair as one of male and female.

All things come out from that place, you can see, created in pairs. And all of these pairs naturally, magnetically long to come together as one. And that creates a new energy and a new life, literally creating a new life and a new lineage.

In Genesis, we can see that the fundamental image of God is both male and female.

“God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1;27)

Everything in reality in this way has been created in pairs. When Jesus was being tested by the Pharisees, he said,

“Haven’t you read, that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’ and said, ‘For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.” (Matthew 19;4-6)

In this statement, Jesus himself is quoting Genesis to underscore that man and woman are created in God‘s image and are created to become one. It is the act of becoming one that reveals the divine image of God. Why? Because God is one, of both parts.

And when these two separated parts become one in love and in unity, now you have in substantial form between man and woman, the image, the substantial image and representation of God‘s nature, characteristics.

In other words, God‘s image appears when man and woman become harmoniously one.

And from all this, we can deduce that God‘s fundamental essence is the harmonious essence, the harmonious oneness. God’s essence is the harmonious oneness of both male and female characteristics. God is not just male, not just female, but both male and female as one. This is where we come from.

And because it’s evident in all of creation and even under the microscope, we can deduce that all of these created characteristics from the original “seed”, all of these various “fruits” that have sprouted into the universe, come from that one beautiful, divine original “seed”, which is God and God‘s heart and characteristics.

Mother Moon — *Mother Han in Gapyeong, South Korea, 6th September 2024. Photo: FFWPU*

True Mother said this,

“What you need to know is that God, our Creator, exists as God the Father and God the Mother, and that is the starting point of the creation of the heavens and the earth. (Mother Han, 15^th July 2019)

This is really the fundamental essence of what God wants to convey, that Mother wants to convey about God.

God is both male and female.

Continued in part 2

Featured image above: Illustration used by Rev. Demian Dunkley during his presentation. Illustration: FFWPU

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