The Central Role of Women in the Ideal World
Mrs. Hak Ja Han Moon
President, Women's Federation for World Peace
This address was given on July 6, 1992 at the Rally for
Leaders of the Women's Federation for World Peace, Seoul,
Korea
My fellow co-workers and women members! I am very happy and honored to
stand before you as President of the Women's Federation for World
Peace today.
Let me express my deep appreciation to all of you members and
supporters who prepared this rally today.
Today, I would like to speak to you on the subject of "The Central
Role of Women in the Ideal World."
If someone asked you whether our world today is good or evil, what
would you answer? Without a doubt, you would answer that it is evil.
But it is not just the world of this age that is evil; we cannot help
but say that all the ages of the past and all the nations and the
world were evil. Therefore, our world has been one in which sin
continues to grow more than good deeds, war more than peace,
immorality more than righteousness, hatred more than love, and
division and discord more than unification and harmony.
No one wants this kind of evil world. Therefore, we cannot help but
investigate how we can establish an ideal world of true love
overflowing with peace, freedom and happiness and clear up this world
of evil. What all individuals and leaders of the family, tribe, race,
nation and world desire as well must be the establishment of a world
overflowing with freedom and happiness. Since the beginning of human
history, for thousands of years, humanity has been struggling toward
this kind of ideal and dream, but we have not yet established the
ideal world we desire.
Today, I would like to reveal to you the fundamental cause of these
problems. In addition, I intend to present the solution which will
make it possible to realize the ideal world which people have desired
so much. This is not content which comes from human speculation or
wisdom. As you already know, my husband, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon,
has devoted his entire life to solving these problems. During the time
I have lived supporting my husband, I have been moved and inspired
beyond words by his teachings and by his life of love for God and
humanity.
Be Fruitful, Multiply and Fill the Earth
If a wife, as she lives supporting her husband, gains deep insights
into the truth and is continuously moved and inspired by his life and
character, this is an occurrence which should be revealed to the
world. Why? Because the fundamental reason for this world becoming an
evil world where sexual license, criminal activity, conflicts and
corruption are rampant is the breakdown and disharmony in the basic
relationship between husband, wife and children.
At present, over five billion people are living on the earth, but if
we look at it in another way, only two people are living here. We
could say that a man and a woman, a husband and a wife, only two
people, are living here. Countless numbers of people are living
together and there are all kinds of relationships and problems, but at
the core of all of those problems are the problems and relationships
between two people, a man and a woman. When we look at things in this
light, it becomes important for us to investigate the way of heaven
that man and woman were to go when God created the first ancestors.
In Genesis it is recorded that after God had created the heavens and
the earth, He created the ancestors of humankind: a man, Adam, and a
woman, Eve. At the same time that He gave them the three great
blessings, and He gave them a portion of responsibility. The three
great blessings were: "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and
subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds
of the air, and over every living thing...." But to the man and woman
He also gave the responsibility: ". . . but of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat. . ."
This teaches us the purpose for which God created the universe and
humanity, and also shows us the basis for life. The blessing to be
fruitful means that all people born on the earth must grow to be
people of perfected character. The second blessing of life, to
multiply, means that, as a man and a woman with a perfected character,
they must establish the bond of husband and wife, give birth to
children, and raise them. God's purpose of creation is, as a husband
and wife fulfilling their duty as father and mother leading a family,
they should construct a far more comfortable, prosperous world and
establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
This purpose of creation was to be realized if the first ancestors had
obeyed God's commandment, ". . . but of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil you shall not eat...." But before the first ancestors,
Adam and Eve, were perfect, while they were still immature, they did
not keep God's commandment; because of Satan, they fell, and all
humanity became the recipients of an evil blood lineage.
Due to the Immoral Fall of the Original Human
Ancestors, Humankind Has Lost the Purpose of Creation
Ladies! What is the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil
that God told the original ancestors, Adam and Eve, not to eat? It is
not the real fruit of a tree. It is a way of expressing the husband
and wife love relationship that the first ancestors were to have in
the future. Due to the temptation of a third being, while still in an
imperfect state, the first man and woman entered into an immoral
sexual relationship. Actually, in the Garden of Eden, the third party
besides Adam and Eve was the archangel. In the Bible it is revealed
that Lucifer was the archangel who tempted Eve and committed an
immoral sexual sin. This was the fall of man, the original sin which
planted the root of sin in the world.
Man committed the sexual sin before his Father God, the Lord and
Master of heaven and earth, and the first ancestors had children out
of this immoral love; and the world of evil was realized. In other
words, they married centered on Satan and by planting false love,
false life and a false lineage they became ancestors of evil.
As human society expanded from the individual, family, tribe, race,
and nation to the world level, due to this immoral relationship
between man and woman, the root of the evil blood lineage was
established everywhere, at all times, and this world became hell on
earth: it became a false world filled with sin, war and fear. The
fallen ancestors, Adam and Eve, should have established the position
of True Parents as the eternal good ancestors of humanity, but they
fell to become false parents leaving a blood lineage of evil.
This is the first cause of all the tragedy and misery of humankind.
What could be more tragic or cause greater indignation than becoming
the descendants of false parents and all humankind losing their True
Parents? And how great must be the suffering and sorrow of God, the
Father of humanity, whose purpose of creation, to establish the true
ancestors of humankind and to multiply people of goodness, was stolen
by the blood lineage of sin through the immoral fall of the first
human ancestors.
Just as the cause of a disease must be discovered and treated in order
to save a person suffering from it, in order to liberate human society
from the suffering of such sin and misery, the fundamental cause of
this sin and misery must be revealed and corrected. The fundamental
cause is the fall of the human ancestors, the original sin.
Accordingly, unless the cause of the disease called original sin is
eliminated, we cannot pull up the root of misery and sin from the
world. No matter how many great men, heroes, scholars, politicians or
philosophers appear and try to straighten out the world through the
reform of the laws and systems or through the education of moral
principles, unless the original sin and the content of the fall is
clarified, it will be impossible. All remedies will prove useless.
That is because the original root of sin and misery is still alive,
and it will continue to sprout buds.
The Role of Religion:
The Salvation of Humankind from Evil
Religion teaches the fact that man fell, it reveals the contents of
the fall, and directly and indirectly shows God's providence through
which He seeks to save man completely from sin. Therefore all
religions are the most active prescriptions for saving the sinful
world. Religion is the fount of all education or teachings. The
teachings of the four great saints Confucius, Buddha, Jesus and
Mohammed and the teachings of the founders of other religions
transcended their ages and locations and have preserved the conscience
and morals of humanity, and have been the generative powers of
cultural development. Accordingly, all religions seeking to liquidate
the world of evil and to establish the ideal world which God and
people desire are co-workers and collaborators.
Among them, the scriptures through which God most directly revealed
His providence of salvation is the Bible. Through the Bible we can
know that the ancestors of humanity, Adam and Eve, committed the
original sin and became false parents, and that God's work in the
providence of salvation is to restore the lost purpose of creation.
The main point of the message of the Bible is that in order to give
rebirth to all, the Messiah or the True Parents must come in place of
Adam and Eve who became false parents. Adam should have become the
true father, and Eve should have become the true mother; that was the
purpose of the original creation. In order to restore the purpose of
creation back to its original state, God cannot help but carry out the
providence for the recreation of Adam.
That is the main point of the providence of preparing the chosen
nation of Israel and having Jesus born there. From the time Adam and
Eve fell and humanity multiplied with its blood lineage centered on
Satan, God immediately began working to separate the blood lineages of
goodness and evil. From Adam's family, God separated the second son,
Abel, who was in a position to relate to God, and the first son, Cain,
was in a position to relate to Satan. He sought to restore the order
of the creation to its original state by having Cain yield to Abel of
his own accord. Through Cain's murder of Abel, the history of struggle
to separate good and evil was extended for a long time.
The Mission of Jesus who Came as the True Father
After Noah, Abraham and Isaac, Jacob through the help of his mother,
was able to make his elder twin, Esau, yield of his own accord. Jacob
took a decisive role in the establishment of the chosen people of
Israel. Jacob's son, Judah, had twins Perez and Zerah through his
daughter-in-law, Tamar. Perez struggled with Zerah inside Tamar's womb
and, pushed Zerah aside, who was supposed to be born first. Instead
Perez was born first as the elder brother. The battle of the first and
second born is the battle of good and evil. Thus, when the younger
brother won over the elder brother while still in the womb and was
born as the first son, this achieved restoration within the womb.
Jesus Christ, who came as the Messiah forty generations later, was
born from the lineage of Perez, because of this restoration within the
womb. Conceiving and giving birth to Jesus was an act of extraordinary
devotion and risk in which Jesus' mother, Mary, put her life on the
line. Because God's providence of salvation is the providence of
restoration, God had to carry out a providence to cut the blood
lineage of sin. This sin has been transmitted from generation to
generation because the ancestors, Adam and Eve, had an immoral sexual
relationship due to the temptation of Lucifer, the archangel, who
became Satan.
This course from Cain and Abel until Jesus was born is the history of
the chosen nation of Israel. Due to the fall, Adam fell to the
position of a false father. Accordingly, following the course of
restoration of the struggle to separate good and evil, Jesus came as
the true father of humanity, that is, as the good second ancestor of
humankind. Because of that, Jesus had to restore as his complement a
woman in the position of Eve, and they had to become a couple, have
children and take dominion over creation. This was the purpose for
which Jesus came as the Messiah.
Thus Jesus came as the Messiah to restore the three great blessings
which God gave to Adam and Eve: be fruitful, multiply and have
dominion over all the creation. However, Jesus, who came as their
father and Messiah, was crucified by mankind. What an incredibly
unfilial act! What a horrendous sin! Jesus who died on the cross
promised that he would come again to the earth, that he would come as
a bridegroom, and that all people on the earth should prepare
themselves as brides and be ready. In Revelation. Chapter 19, it is
recorded that Jesus returns to the earth and holds the Marriage of the
Lamb. This refers to the restoration of the position of the true
couple and the True
The Messiah Reveals the Path of the
True Parents, the True Couple and True Children
Members and women co-workers! How can we straighten out this society
in which all kinds of sexual sin, immorality and corruption are
destroying our families? It will bring a destruction like Sodom and
Gomorrah's upon itself. The fire of judgment has already begun to
fall. The frightening disease, AIDS, is a warning from heaven against
the chaos of sexual immorality.
Jesus said he would come again in the Last Days of this evil world.
The returning Jesus will come as True Father of humankind. He will
show the way of the True Children, the True Couple, and the way of the
True Parents which all men and women must go. Only in this way can the
problem of sexual corruption, the original sin, be fundamentally
solved. This will be the true gospel which will save humankind from
the world of sin.
The mission of the Messiah, the Savior, is to teach the way to end the
tangled history of sin created when humanity lost the way of the True
Parents, the True Couple and the True Children.
Today, in this place, I proclaim to the whole world that my husband,
the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, has devoted his entire life to pioneering
this path of the Messiah, the True Parents. As you well know, my
husband Reverend Moon has revealed the purpose of the creation of God,
and through examining the original sin committed by the first
ancestors he has pioneered the future of humanity despite the brutal
opposition and persecution of this evil world.
According to the Divine Principle, the teaching of my husband, each
major religion is awaiting the return of its founder in some form: the
Maitreya, the True Man, the new Confucius and the return of Jesus will
be fulfilled by the return of one Messiah, the return of the True
Parent of humankind. All religions will be united into one. That
Messiah, the True Parent who comes, will not be the same Jesus who
died 2000 years ago, as some Christians believe, nor will he come on
the clouds in the air; rather, a new person who has inherited the
mission of Jesus is to be born on the earth. The country in which that
person is born is the nation of Korea; however surprising it may be,
the fact is that the Messiah, who is the True Parent of humankind,
comes as a Korean.
Unification is the Key to World Peace
When will the Messiah who is coming in this way appear? According to
the Divine Principle, the Last Days are the time when this evil world
comes to an end, and the Messiah is to return. Briefly, the Last Days
are from the end of the first World War to the year 2000 -- a period
of about eighty years. During this period the Lord of the Second
Advent, who is the True Parent of humankind, is to be born in our land
of Korea. This is the worldwide historical age of transition when the
Lord of the Second Advent is building the ideal out of the world
filled with sin, war and struggle.
Therefore, this era is an age of great chaos with the confrontation
and struggle between goodness and evil occurring in the mutual
relationships of all parts of the world: the individual, family,
tribe, race, nation and the world.
The Realization of World Peace Through the Power
of Women
Women leaders! What I am telling you today is not only for the
Unification Church members who are following my husband. Now leaders
from every level of society, in more than 160 nations, and many
thousands of young people, are following this teaching and shedding
sweat to build a new unified world overflowing with freedom and peace.
Already Korea is being looked to by many people from all over the
world as the country to which the True Parents of humankind have come,
and the number of foreigners who are visiting Korea to learn the
Korean language, culture and manners is rapidly increasing.
Our Women's Federation for World Peace has the fundamental remedy to
save our families which are threatened by the present day reality of
the degeneration of sexual morality, the proliferation of drugs and
all sorts of wantonness and sexual corruption. This is a worldwide
women's organization which was founded last April 10, in Seoul Olympic
Stadium with 150,000 Korean women, including representatives from 72
countries. We cannot wait any longer to save the society of tomorrow,
which is rotting with all kinds of immorality and corruption, and the
fallen social climate where men have oppressed women.
Finally we must endeavor to learn and practice the duty of the True
Parents, the true spouse and the true child. Through the organization
of the Family Federation for World Peace, we must make sure that
immorality and corruption will not be able to set foot anywhere in
this world. In this way, humankind must cleanse the evil blood lineage
and suffering which was caused by the original sin of fornication
committed in the Garden of Eden, which has lasted until today, and
quickly prepare to meet the new world.
Until now everyone has been helpless to stop the wantonness and
immorality which has been destroying humankind. But now a new truth
which can completely solve these problems has appeared in Korea in the
very age in which we are living. The truth which was revealed by the
True Parents will be the light which will bring about the unification
of North and South Korea and build a world of peace and happiness. Let
us learn this new truth and rise up and become women soldiers who will
end this world of sin, which has caused us to suffer since the
beginning of history. Let us build a unified world overflowing with
freedom, peace and happiness.
Let us go the way of the True Mother.
Let us go the way of the true wife.
Let us go the way of the true daughter. Thank you very much.
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