The Reappearance of the True Parents and the Ideal Family
Reverend Sun Myung Moon
President, 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
President Hak Ja Han Moon, distinguished guests, and women leaders:
Today, I received much comfort through the words of President Han. As
I went along this single road following the order of heaven, my life
has been one of extraordinary suffering. The road establishing the way
of heaven is a straight road, and it allows for no compromise. This
road does not allow one to worry about honor or human dignity. It was
a lonely road on which one can live only for God's will.
Just as each individual has his own fortune, the family and the nation
also have a family fortune and a national fortune, and beyond this
there is the fortune of the world, and there is heaven's fortune for
all of heaven and earth. Even though a person may have been born with
a lot of fortune, when his family fortune declines he must endure
hardship. For a person who has both good individual fortune and family
fortune, when the national fortune declines, he cannot help but be
ruined.
Going beyond this, the national fortune and the direction of the world
is decided according to the direction and the progress of heaven's
fortune which is above everything and includes everything.
Establishing the way of heaven in the world means making the way the
individual or nation is going correspond to the fortune of heaven.
Today, let us think about the evils of Korea and the problems of the
world: economic depression, environmental pollution, political
irregularity, racial and religious strife, the decay of ethics and
morality, the collapse of the sense of values. Is there anyone who can
fundamentally solve these many evils and problems? It has not been
possible through human wisdom or effort. We have not been able to find
a solution to these problems by mobilizing economic power or
governmental power; rather, the evils of humankind are gradually
becoming worse.
Now humanity has to humbly listen to the voice of heaven and find the
road of resolution directed by God. This country and its people must
accept my teachings. This is not because I am trying to raise myself
up, but because it is the will of God. God has revealed the principles
of heaven through me, and He has given me the answers to the
fundamental problems of humankind.
My life has been truly difficult. I have been beaten, persecuted and
unfairly imprisoned by successive governments, and due to the
prejudice and malicious opposition of some Christian leaders, all
types of rumors have been spread about me. But, thanks to the
protection of God, I have laid a miraculous and victorious worldwide
foundation. Such a foundation has been without precedent since the
dawn of history.
In America, which is a prepared nation representing world
Christianity, I have a record breaking foundation that no other non-
white person has been able to achieve. Of course, I had to suffer from
racial discrimination and religious prejudice; I even had to surmount
unfair imprisonment. Nevertheless, I rebuilt the Christian foundation,
which was shaking at the roots; I educated and trained the youth who
were suffering from drugs and immorality, and I gave hope to America.
Neither the government of America nor the people can ignore my
foundation.
The same is true for Japan and Europe. Already there are Unification
missions in 160 countries which are developing every day. Each of
these missions has become the symbol of each kind of religious
activity and the symbol of the movement to rebuild ethics and
morality.
Unification by Giving True Love to Others
From the early 1980s I ordered world-level academic meetings to be
held with the theme of the collapse of the Soviet empire. In 1985 an
academic journal published an article, which has now become world
famous, prophesying for the first time the collapse of the communist
Soviet empire.
On the basis of such a foundation, I visited the Soviet Union and I
met Mikhail Gorbachev. Now in three of the fifteen republics of the
former Soviet Union, there is a movement to make Unificationism the
national religion.
Already tens of thousands of university students have studied my
teaching, and the Collegiate Association for the Research of the
Principle(CARP), which is the Unification Church university student
organization, has been organized in over 700 universities. This year,
tens of thousands of high school teachers and students will attend
Divine Principle training workshops.
Do you think this kind of activity is the result of human power alone?
It is real proof that the living God is working together with us.
Miracles are taking place as confirmed atheists change their views of
life and the universe to one centered on God, after five days of
Divine Principle lectures.
I have established a huge foundation in China. I prepared important
projects like the construction of the Panda industrial city many years
ago, and many underground missionaries have been working hard until
this day. Only God knows how much I have done to bring about the
unification of North and South Korea. The unification of North and
South Korea is not merely a visible and external unification; it is a
providential unification centered on God. It cannot be established
without going through my foundation.
The unification required by God's providence is not for unification in
itself; it is so that on the foundation of unification, eternal
freedom, peace and happiness can blossom. It cannot be unification by
force or where one side is miserable. It must be a unification by true
love in which each lives for the other and gives and gives again.
Therefore, the unification of the fatherland cannot be exploited for
the benefit of any individual, political party or government. When all
of our hearts and actions, colored with love, reach out to the hearts
of our fellow countrymen in the north, then true unification will
come.
In Order for World Peace to Come
Women leaders! Centered on God's true love, I have expanded supra-
denominational and supra-religious movements of reconciliation to the
worldwide level. Without reconciliation and interchange between the
divided religions, how can world peace be realized? Isn't it true that
today there is still appalling religious strife in the Middle East, in
Ireland, in the Balkans and in other areas?
Last year on August 27, I gathered together all the highest religious
leaders of the world and established the Inter-Religious Federation
for World Peace. We joined together in order to realize world peace
through the unity and cooperation of religious people. It is truly a
precious organization. There may be important differences among
religions, but there are just as many common points and all have the
purpose to seek for the Absolute Being.
It is an important fact that God established all religions with a
providential purpose for the whole. Therefore, they must unite
together. Just as President Han mentioned in her address, Christianity
teaches that man ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and
evil; this means that our human ancestors committed the sin of
disbelief and fell. If our human ancestors had not fallen, as God's
precious son and daughter -- namely, God's prince and princess -- they
would have inherited God's blood lineage; they would have inherited
their Father God's possessions -- namely, the creation. They should
have grown to perfection and become the ideal husband and wife of
love. However, through the fall, they changed from God's blood
lineage, they were robbed of God's possessions and they lost God's
heart.
God's providence of salvation as the providence of restoration for
complete recovery must take responsibility for the mission to restore
the blood lineage, to restore the realm of ownership and to change the
realm of the human heart. As a result of the fall, Adam and Eve came
to be one with Satan and they followed him to hell. The eldest son
Cain followed Eve and the second son Abel followed behind him.
God's providence of restoration has been carried out in such a way
that the condition to separate from Satan is established through the
second son, who starts later and represents the side of goodness,
subjugating the eldest son, who starts first and represents the side
of evil.
The basis of the providence of restoration is to send the restored
Adam namely, the Messiah -- who will change the blood lineage,
ownership and heart. However, the heartistic position of the original
son cannot be restored at once. The providence must be accomplished
gradually, starting from the position of the servant of servants.
In this world which is held under the power of Satan, Abel who is on
the side of good should complete the mission of the servant of
servants by living for Cain with true love. Then Satan cannot accuse
him, but instead cannot help but praise and recognize him. After that,
the missions of the servant, the adopted son, the illegitimate son and
the direct son are restored following the order of love and affection.
Restoration can only take place on each level when the Abel side lives
for Cain's side through true love, so that Satan cannot accuse him.
If Abel in the position of the true son and daughter makes Cain
surrender and they become one, the mother Eve can stand on that
foundation, and when Eve fulfills her responsibility, Adam can stand
on that foundation. Then for the first time God can come to dwell on
that foundation and the eight necessary stages of the vertical course
of the providence of restoration can be completed.
If we look at the stages of the providence of restoration
horizontally, there are also eight stages: they are the individual,
family, tribe, race, nation, world, cosmos and God. Jesus came as the
second Adam, the Messiah, but unfortunately the chosen people of
Israel did not know who he was.
Will today's Christians be able to recognize the Lord when he returns?
The Lord of the Second Advent will not literally return in the air on
the clouds. There are people who believe and are proclaiming that on
October 28 of this year, they will be taken up to heaven on the
clouds, but it will not happen like this. Please believe me, this kind
of event will never happen. The Lord who went through the cross will
return through the cross.
When Jesus died on the cross, there were three types of people
connected with Jesus' crucifixion. There was the first type, the thief
on Jesus' right who repented of his sins and testified to Jesus; there
was the second type, the thief on Jesus' left, who was a sinner who
did not repent and who vilified Jesus. The third type was Barabbas, a
criminal who surely should have been crucified, was saved when Jesus
was crucified instead.
At the time of the Second Advent, these three types are realized on
the world level. Western Christianity is the first type in the
position of the thief on Jesus' right. Although they still have
original sin, they believe in the Lord and they are in the position of
good. The materialistic, atheistic communist bloc is the second type
and is in the position of the thief on the left. Islam in the Middle
East is the third type and is in the position of Barabbas. Because
Jesus died instead of him and because Israel caused Jesus to die on
the cross, Islam came to occupy the land of the Middle East which had
been divided between the twelve tribes of Israel. The Lord of the
Second Advent, who is in the position of the reborn Jesus, has to
straighten out the worldwide achievements of these three types which
came about through Jesus' death.
In order to straighten out the Western world of Christianity, he has
to bring about a new movement of religious reformation, overcome the
atheistic ideology of communism and bring all the communist world back
to God's side. The ideology which can overcome the left wing and
right-wing ideologies and bring about a unified harmony between them
is my proposed Headwing ideology of Godism.
I Have Fulfilled my Mission as the Lord of the
Second Advent, the Savior and the True Parent
As I have mentioned before, the left-wing and right-wing worlds are
already being straightened out through the Headwing ideology. Also the
religion of Islam has started to promote reconciliation and
cooperation. A miracle took place last April when representatives from
eight Middle East countries took part in a mass holy wedding of the
Unification Church. I conducted the blessing ceremony through which
fallen people can be cleansed of sin. I solved the historical conflict
and settled the tension between the left and the right; furthermore, I
established the miracle of bringing about reconciliation with the
world of Islam.
These kinds of works cannot be performed through the ability or
planning of an individual alone. God chose me to be the Messiah and
during this time He has been performing His work of salvation.
I have fulfilled my mission as the Lord of the Second Advent, Savior
and the True Parent. I am proclaiming this in this place because the
time has come to do so. Those who accept this will be blessed. If this
race listens to me, how good that would be for this country. How good
it would be if the statesmen listen to me. Whether a person listens to
me or not is his individual responsibility; however, the time is
coming when all people of the world will want to listen to me.
People generally believe that the Messiah is thought only to be the
Lord of Glory and have the authority of judgment, but they are wrong.
God does not want to look at this sinful world. He has thought about
judging the world and wiping it out in an instant. However, the God of
true love always worries about the eternal life of humankind. You have
to know God's heart which has endured for so long, trying through true
love to make humanity comply of its own free will.
From the point of view of fallen man, the Messiah is the Savior, but
from God's point of view he is the True Parent, the True Son who will
realize the ideal of creation of true love, which was lost at the
beginning. The Messiah is the person who has pioneered the way of
sacrifice, dedicating his life to liberate God from His grievous
sorrow that was caused by the fall. He is not a person who stands only
in a glorious position. He always weeps together with God's heart, and
he is concerned about how to make Satan surrender.
He is deeply concerned and anxious about realizing God's purpose of
creation. He knows better than anyone else the heart of God. Who is
like a servant of servants, wandering and shedding endless tears in
the satanic world in search of His lost children, and unless he
completely liberates God from His sorrow, he cannot receive glory.
Complete the Ideal of the True Family
Leaders of the Women's Federation for World Peace! It must have been
difficult for you to have a succession of rallies, and you probably
complained when you heard this rally was going to be held within ten
days. However, if together with me you devote your heart sincerely
every day, then God's will of goodness shall be accomplished. I have
no intention of exploiting you. You need me. You must become one with
President Han and be like an extension of her, and in your family you
must educate your children and your husband properly. I want all of
you, under the ideal of true love, to receive God's blessing.
What I am most concerned about is for each of your families to
complete the ideal of the true family by becoming one through true
love. City, town, village, county, ward and block leaders of the
Women's Federation for World Peace: through you, morals can be
restored. If you expand this movement of true love, what movement
could be more patriotic than this?
There is a mountain of work to do. We have to spread a movement for
proper morals, a movement for the eradication of drugs, a no-smoking
and no-drinking movement, a movement for the removal of the red light
districts, a movement to expose immorality in the leaders of society
and to inspire and encourage the youth. When the Korean society based
on you women leaders becomes purified, and harmony is realized through
true love, then the cherished hope of the Korean race, the unification
of North and South Korea, will be achieved. Not only that, our nation
will come to lead the world, and a peaceful world will be realized.
You Must Become One with True Parents' Family
Women leaders! Until this day I have never directed my followers to do
anything that I have not first done myself. I sincerely ask you to
practice true love and devote yourself, even if it is one hundredth of
how much I have, and raise up a great movement of national salvation.
The most effective units of the Women's Federation Movement are the
town, village, county and ward. When the movement of true love rises
up in these basic units, then it will go through the level of
neighborhood and come to settle in the family. We have to go through
the original homeland before the fall and recover the family which has
been separated from God before we can hope for eternal settlement. God
has worked so hard. He has suffered so much to raise up the perfected
Adam. That is why the True Father came about. The true man of heaven
has been born.
Because the satanic world knows this man is the true groom, the master
who comes as the king of the Kingdom of Heaven and earth. individuals
in the world are trying to destroy him by uniting individuals,
families, nations, the world and the universe against him. From the
position of having to suffer all kinds of persecution, plotting and
slandering by Satan, he has gained victory on the individual, family,
national, world and cosmic levels and has become one with God. As the
first victor of history, he came to the satanic world of the
individual, family, nation, world and cosmos.
The True Mother, who has been in the position of following after the
True Father, has for the first time in history come to stand in an
equal position. Through her worldwide declaration of the liberation of
women, the True Father and the True Mother will take their children,
go before God, and inherit all the authority and power of heaven. They
will establish the original family, and reclaim the tribe, race,
nation, world and cosmos, and reorganize the perfect world of God's
will.
All men are in the position of the archangel. Therefore, they stand in
the position of having to give back all women. Women stand in the
position of being the extension of the True Mother, the perfected Eve.
From the position of the extension of Eve and on the condition of
becoming one with the True Mother, they come to the condition of
becoming one with the True Father. From this position they must
educate their sons and daughters in the thought of the True Parents.
Through this education the sons and daughters come to have the status
of being true sons and daughters and they should become one with their
mother. Then they should reeducate the worldly father and receive True
Parents' blessing. From the position of being grafted to the True
Parents, they come to learn the family duty of the True Parents.
Because Adam and Eve fell on the family level, restoration also has to
be accomplished on the family level. Restoration has to go beyond the
levels of county, ward and block, and settle in the family, and then
the families must meet the True Parents. The True Parents have gone
over the individual peak, the national peak, the world peak and the
cosmic peak, and have been victorious. However, in order to save each
family they have to come back to the cosmos, the world, the nation,
and return to the family. That is the meaning of this meeting.
The rally on April 10 was the True Parents' world rally, and its
purpose was so that rallies could be held on the national level, the
city level, the district level, down through the town, village,
county, ward and block levels, until they arrive at the family level.
By becoming one with True Parents' family, it is possible for you
leaders of the Women's Federation for World Peace to attain family
restoration and become absolute victors. You have to connect this to
your tribe. The True Parents have already assigned tribal messiahs all
over the world; if you receive education from them and become one with
them, the restoration of the nation also will be accomplished nat-
urally.
In this way the unification of North and South Korea, unification of
the world, and the unification of heaven and earth will be realized;
God, too, will be liberated. After this happens, we will come to see
an age of peace centered on God.
Let the True Mother and the women of the world join together to meet
the True Father who comes as the groom and, standing in the position
of the bride, let us restore the ideal family of creation.
I pray that you become members of the Family Federation for World
Peace and create families which will receive much blessing.
Thank you very much.