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The garden that opens up the deepest realms of heaven; the lord who opens the gate to the realms of loyalty and filial piety v

The lord of loyalty and filial piety, who opens the gate to the garden, the garden which (in turn) opens up the deep (or deepest) realms of Heaven v

He will open and liberate the deepest heaven and turn it into a flower garden as the lord who opens the gates of loyalty and filial piety. v

  True Father, a detail, October 12, 2008 enlargement

True Father explained the following about Hyo Jin Nim in his message at Hawaii King Garden, Kona, Hawaii
October 10, 2008
From this translation of a report at FFWPU Korea

He lived a most difficult and miserable life in this world but he was splendid. In order for him to liquidate his lack of duty to his parents, he made more than 10,000 songs. In his lyrics, he meant True Father by the words 'My Beloved,' whom he absolutely loved and was united with. He was the elder son whose three generation can be kings.  v

True Father explained the following in his message at
Hawaii King Garden, Kona, Hawaii
October 12, 2008
Unofficial notes by Rev. Michael Jenkins

To open some of the links mentioned in this tribute, please register at the FFWPU Korea website.
To do this, go to this link, and then at the bottom of the page, click on the box farthest to the right (there are two boxes with a small orange strip;  choose the one farthest to the right) and fill out the information requested.  Then, once you're registered at FFWPU Korea, log in here (or in a pop-up window featuring a picture of two locks).

Likewise, register here to be able to login at the Cheongpyeong website and register here to be able to login at the FFWPU USA website.

You may want to join the networking website Facebook here.  Then search for and join the group "In Loving Memory of Hyo Jin Moon" to have access to more photos and comments about our elder brother.

It's helpful to have access to PeaceTV as well, as there are references in this tribute to some photos and videos of interest located there.

Please feel free to share this tribute to Hyo Jin Nim with others who would appreciate it, preferably by email.  If you should want to post any of it online, please make sure that it is posted at a secure password protected website—preferably one that's available only to central blessed families or others who are close friends of our Family—so that the pictures and information will be presumed safe from misuse.   Note that, with few exceptions, I have not made any effort to get authorization or permission to publish the pictures and excerpts in this email message.  When I have received permission to use someone's words or pictures, I've made a note of it by adding the words "used with permission." 

Many editor's notes, added for clarification, are written in gray type to differentiate these notes from comments in the original.

Links to pictured photos are marked either with a    or with words in gray type, such as:
Photo source.

Two of these    symbols indicate a link to an enlargement that's twice as large or larger than the one shown in this tribute.  For instance, at the following link, there is an enlargement of the portrait of  Hyo Jin Nim that appears at the top of this Introduction:

 Link to an enlargement of the photo of Hyo Jin Nim shown at this top of this Introduction. (There is also a copy of this enlargement at the end of this Introduction.)

The icon   introduces a link to additional photos or groups of photos.

Pictures marked with an asterisk * are not currently available for viewing online elsewhere.  These are either scans of pictures that we found in church publications (as indicated) or scans of photos that are a part of our personal photo collection.

There are a few pictures with neither an asterisk * nor a picture credit link.  This omission indicates that the source of these pictures is lost or otherwise unavailable. Such lost links will be noted: ll.

A few links that are no longer current. I will endeavor to repair these and update them.
The icon  indicates an available link to an audio recording (or other source) of music.

The icon     indicates an available link to a video.

This symbol  v  indicates the end of a quotation.

Numerical dates, such as 12/03/1962 are in the order used in the United States:

12/03/1962
mm/dd/yyyy
December 3, 1962.

This tribute is in seven sections:

Ascension, Seung Hwa Ceremony and Memorials

Early Years

Lifework in Music and Multi-media

Lifework in Ministry

Hyo Jin Nim's Family

2006, 2007, 2008

Since Hyo Jin Nim's Ascension

Acknowledgements

With deepest gratitude to all of you who contributed to this remembrance:

Heavenly Father, who must have had a hand in my interest in finding out the detailed reasons why our elder brother Hyo Jin Nim was called early in life to the spiritual realm            

Our elder brother Hyo Jin Nim, whose expression of love for our True Parents brought me to tears of repentance.  I have never seen anyone else show a more beautiful and heart-felt expression of love to our True Parents!

Yeon Ah Choi Nim whose sincerity on her visit to South Carolina on June 5, 2007 overwhelmed me. Her words at Hyo Jin Nim's Seung Hwa, "If you see something about me that you think is good, then you should know that this is because of Hyo Jin Nim," encouraged me to get to know Hyo Jin Nim better.

All the members of True Family whose demonstration of love and respect for Hyo Jin Nim during his Seung Hwa ceremonies inspired us, with special thanks to the following members of True Family whose words are quoted in this tribute:

All the others whose words, notes and translations are quoted in this tribute, including

The photographers and videographers, with special thanks to Ken Owens and Douglas Wetzstein
Those who submitted photos and texts to the Unificationist websites
The designers and publishers of our outreach and historical publications

And many others, including

The founders, webmasters, translators, and contributors to the websites from which most of the information in this tribute has come, with special thanks to Damian Anderson and Gary Fleisher

The artists of the paintings, background, line art and clip art images used

The anonymous scribes of some of the notes taken and other anonymous contributors whose work has been added to this tribute.

Your sincere efforts in conveying Hyo Jin Nim's words and expressions have helped us get to know why it is that so many of you who have had a chance to get to know Hyo Jin Nim, love and respect him from the depths of your heart. Thank you.

Contact me by email here, if you like:  mjdespres@bellsouth.net

Thanks, everyone, for reviewing these notes.

All the best,
Mary Jane Despres

Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States
March 2009

After you had passed through a particularly heartbreaking
crisis in your life, I remember you told us, smiling,
                      "It's true.  There is life after death." 

As you get to know another kind of life after death
now that you have ascended into the Spiritual World,
may you find that your life course here on earth has
adequately prepared you for each sacred responsibility
that Heavenly Father and our beloved True Parents
will ever request of you.