Total Investment

Sun Myung Moon
2012
Excerpts
Unofficial Translation
Life of Faith in the Era after the Coming of Heaven
From "Selected Speeches of Reverend Sun Myung Moon"

The origin of creation was the logic of "living for the sake of others" centered upon love. Greatness is determined by how much you invest yourself for the sake of your object partner. Here you can derive your life philosophy. Love can be reached through ideal voyage across the seas. In order for you to live purposefully toward your ideal destination, you need this life philosophy of living for the sake of others. Unless you live your life by totally giving yourself, you will not able to meet the path of true love. It is only possible when you invest yourself totally and completely live for the sake of others. You must make all these ideas as your foundation for your logic and philosophy of life.

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If you invest yourself totally and forget what you have given, you will definitely be placed at the center. This is Heavenly principle. If you really live like this among your siblings or friends, you will be the center of your siblings or friends naturally even though you do not wish. If you just live for your own sake, everything will disappear. Everything will be destroyed. A place where you live only for yourself is a place of destruction. Thus, it is Satan's plane. However, a place where you live for the sake of others is the Heavenly plane since it is where all people come together as one. You should organize the stage where you live according to this life philosophy and foundational principles.

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I try to forget whatever possible. Especially, I forget about all my troubles and miseries in my life. This is my life philosophy. I don't even try to remember them. For example, after maybe three years, your memory of someone's face will be vague. There is no need to remember such a thing. If God remembers the fall of man and repeating the painful incident in His mind over and over again until now, how can you possibly live? As if He had forgotten the fall completely, God has made the utmost efforts investing Himself for the purpose of re-creation. This is why God's love is the greatest of all loves.

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If you are going out to work as a day laborer, you must say to yourself, "I will work as an owner today!" Don't work as a temporary day laborer who was hired for the day. Knowing this essence of the principle, you work and forget, and work to forget about your labor. Then you will never get tired no matter how hard you work. I am now over seventy years old, but this has been my philosophy of life. I constantly want to invest more. Even though, my legs get wobbly, I want to give and invest more.

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There is an adage saying, "Be constant from the beginning to the end." However, that is not enough. So, you should not just follow the adage. You should follow this, "Start small and give increasingly to end up great." Even though you start out small, you must end larger than what you started. This is my life philosophy. I don't think it is difficult even if I face really hard challenges. If your root is shallow, when a Hurricane comes you will be blown away. You must deepen your determination for fulfilling your desire, so as to not be blown away no matter how strong the gusts bluster against you.

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Members of Unification Church should not be limited by the adage, "Be constant from the beginning to the end." Rather, they must follow, "Start small and give increasingly to end up great." You must end greater that the beginning. In the ideal world, if you keep trying to give, you will get larger and larger. However, in the process of restoration, it is "Be constant from the beginning to the end." Because the beginning and the end is the same, they can meet up. However, in our world, you should not get larger centering on your own sake alone. In the world of love, centering on true love, the end will be greater. We don't need a world expressed by another adage, "Being with large dragon's head but with tiny snake's tail."

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Even if I was captured and put into a prison, I will never back away because of my philosophy of "Start small and give increasingly to end up great." I will fight head on against a much larger enemy. Then, who will protect me when I will have a head-on collision? God will be my protector. God is our master and our subject partner.

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Even if I am put in solitary confinement in prison, as long as I do not relinquish my heart to serve God -- being in the prison or in the jaws of death -- Heaven will pull me out of it and place me at a position of His object partner. Moreover, Heaven will open a path for the realm of my liberation in all directions -- east, west, north or south. You must know that this is Reverend Moon's traditional life philosophy while he established the world-wide foundation, by preparing incremental and cumulative results.

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Rev. Moon's philosophy of life is to add one more step wherever I go. For example, when I climb a mountain and reach its summit, I will count from one, two, three from there. Then I will count eleven and twelve, as I step around. This one extra step that I take after reaching the final point is a condition through which new development takes place. In other words, if you make this one extra step, you will not perish. This is natural thinking as you compete against the satanic world.

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Rev. Moon has established this foundation despite receiving persecution in this world. Then, what is my philosophy of life that has sustained me. My thought is there is no stagnation. I reached almost 80 years old, however, even today; my philosophy does not allow me to stop or stagnate. I cannot be outdone even by young people. What is development? Development can mean renaissance. Then it will bring prosperity and finally reach the Heavenly Kingdom. 

Our Realization that Father's Life on Earth Was Near Its End

Peter Kim
August 31, 2012
Excerpts
Cheon Bok Gung
Seoul, Korea

I would like to say a few words, as one of True Parents' staff members, about how True Father left the hospital on August 12, traveled to Cheon Jeong Gung and then returned late the following day to the same hospital, Seoul St. Mary's, where he was then admitted to the intensive care unit. Our international president, Rev. Hyung Jin Moon, has given a detailed explanation of Father's situation at the last two Sunday services, on August 19 and August 26. A detailed letter on Father's condition from international vice-president Dr. Joon Ho Seuk was sent out on August 30. From his words you have gained some understanding of both the spiritual and practical aspects. He expressed that it is not important to know Father's precise medical condition, but rather, what is important is the prayer we are offering for him and what conditions we are making.

On August 3, Father was admitted to Seoul St. Mary's Hospital (known in Korean as Seong Mo -- Holy Mother Hospital) and over the ensuing ten days received every possible medical test, including several x-rays, PET CT blood tests -- every test he could possibly need. During the days that Father was receiving all these tests, we would sit with him. He would watch the Olympic Games on television. He would sit down for three, four or five hours at a time and cheer on the players, cheer the soccer games. This is how he spent the time.

Even though he was in some discomfort, he spent that period in an ordinary private room at the hospital, but not in the intensive care unit. On the morning of August 12, expressing his iron resolve, he gave the strong instruction, "I must go to Cheon Jeong Gung." The doctor wanted to stop him leaving the hospital. Hyung Jin Nim and Kook Jin Nim wanted to keep him there. Mother caught hold of Father and asked him to please remain there. She also wanted to stop him going. But Father, perhaps for some providential reason, was very stubborn. So on August 12, we brought Father back to Cheon Jeong Gung.

From the afternoon of that day to the evening of the next day, he remained at Cheon Jeong Gung for about twenty-four hours. During that twenty-four hours, we became deeply concerned about how Father looked.

On the third floor of Cheon Jeong Gung, Father went from this room to that in his wheelchair. Sang Soo Lee, Father's driver and personal assistant, mentioned that Father had said he would go to the East, West, North and South in Cheon Jeong Gung.

He went around holding people's hands. He entered the Hoon Dok Hae room and touched the table at which he and Mother would sit during Hoon Dok Hae. He touched everything with his hands, and now and then he would say, "Please be well."

Father looked at everything. Those things he could not touch with his hands he observed with his eyes. As he did this, he held Mother's hand tightly, and said "Mother, thank you." This he repeated from time to time. He asked True Mother and others who were with them to sit down. He said, "This is my last prayer," and then he prayed.

At the conclusion of his prayer, he said, "I have completed everything." All together during that day, as I recall, he said this four times.

During the night, he stayed awake and spoke to those who were caring for him and to Mother, cautioning them and giving guidance. Sometimes I couldn't fully understand what he said. But he continued on. And when morning came, Father said he must do a tour and see the different places in the Cheonwon [Heavenly Garden] holy ground and asked for a car to be brought. Father was actually not in any condition to go out in a car, however. Mother and the assistants all wanted to stop Father from going. Seeing Father's condition, and knowing the danger of his going anywhere in a car, we asked him not to go. Yet, how could we know the providential schedule set by Heaven? We wanted to stop him, but he was in no way swayed by our entreaties.

We brought him down from the palace to the Cheongshim Middle and High School in the SUV he always uses.

He stepped out of the car at the little park in front of the Cheongshim Middle and High School, and stayed there a short while. He looked at the little pond, and at first I thought that Father might have wanted to walk around. But after observing for a short while, he got back in the car.

We went back to Cheon Jeong Gung, and he remained there for a little. Maybe I am using rather plain language, but his breathing was labored, he was breathing quite rapidly and seemed to be in some discomfort as he sat on the sofa.

Seeing Father in this state, Mother asked Hoon Mo Nim and me in the hallway; "What is best to do for Father? Shouldn't I take him back to the hospital? You must help me." So we went back into the room and Mother took hold of Father's knees as he sat there, and Mother, while kneeling on the floor, said, "Father please come with me to the hospital. Let's go to your hospital, Cheongshim hospital." Normally Father would remonstrate and scold at such a suggestion, but on this occasion he gave his consent. Moreover, he said, "Yes, thank you Mother."

So they took Father straight to the Cheongshim hospital, (about 3 kilometers from the Cheon Jeong Gung). At the hospital, there is a room with a bed for Father, and all the furnishings; everything is prepared. (A section of Cheongshim International Medical Center was kept in readiness in case True Father should ever need treatment.) Father rested for a short while, and slept for about thirty minutes.

Over the preceding three weeks, Father had not been able to eat very much. When Mother begged him to, he would swallow one or two spoons of rice. While he was at the Cheongshim hospital we heard that he ate a few spoonfuls of rice soup and drank some water.

Then it seemed again as if his strength failed him, and he was coughing. He was in great difficulty. We didn't know what was causing this. Then I felt that Heaven worked through Mother. Seeing how Father was in such difficulty, Mother said something into Father's ear. As I understood later, what she said to Father was, "I will bring you back to St. Mary's hospital again." Mother was seeking Father's consent to this idea, and it seemed that Father gave his permission. Mother told them to bring the car; there was no time to prepare an ambulance. The car was brought down. There were two nurses from Cheongshim hospital attending him at his side. They brought two oxygen tanks. One of the nurses only had her indoor slippers on, having had no time to put on her shoes.

We have a big American SUV that Father uses. It has a special step that conies down that allows someone to get in easily. Moreover, if you take an ambulance, you have to lie down and be strapped in. So the doctor said to take the SUV that Father always used, in which Father had a special chair that he could sit on comfortably. Father sat in the car, put on his seat belt and was breathing from the oxygen tanks. The doctor said this would be best. So Father went in the SUV, with two nurses with him.

They sped to St. Mary's hospital. We did not know why, but on the way to the hospital, Father began breathing in quick breaths. When we were still fifteen or twenty minutes from the hospital, Father was hardly able to breathe.

You can imagine how the people in the vehicle felt at this point. The nurses didn't know what to do and could only tremble. The vehicle raced at such a high speed, often going off onto the shoulder to get around traffic, that we thought we might all die. We just raced along at a desperate speed and finally made it to the hospital.

At St. Mary's, Father's attending physical, Dr. Jeon, and all the doctors specializing in respiratory problems who had already gone home, as well as many nurses, came rushing toward Father. Some had not even taken time to dress fully, they came so quickly to give Father emergency treatment in a hospital room for general patients. I don't know exactly what medical equipment they were using during that time.... Emergency care was administered to Father for an hour or so in a very serious manner.

Father was brought to the intensive care unit. It was already after midnight. It took another hour and a half to set up everything for Father. We were then informed that Father was in a deep sleep, that we should not worry so much, and we could go home. We spoke with the doctor for a long time. We spent that night and early morning there. Then back again we went to the intensive care unit.

Dr. Jeon told us that if we had arrived at St. Mary's even thirty minutes later than we did, Father would have died. He asked who had made this correct decision so quickly. We told him that Mother had made the decision after looking carefully observing Father's face. She had been able to gain Father's consent also. He said he was truly impressed at Mother's having made such a wise decision....

Father's situation has been stabilized; he cannot move and is being treated continuously. With his holy body in such a situation, he is being given sedatives so he can continue to sleep soundly. Depending on the amount of the sedative administered, sometimes he has opened his eyes a little or moved his toes a little, while at other times he has not responded at all -- even when Mother approached him and said, into his ear, "Father, Father, I've come. I have a letter here from Shin Joon," and read it aloud to him.

About an hour before visiting time began, the amount of sedatives administered was reduced as much as possible to help him become conscious, and Mother and the True Children were led in to visit him. This is what the doctors did.

After that, when Mother held his hand tight or Kook Jin Nim held his hand and spoke to him about this or that, beginning with "We love you" and continuing to say other things, at times Father responded a little with his hand. Thus, we continued the process of helping Father in fighting his illness, comforting him and nursing him.

However, from yesterday, the sedatives were virtually stopped. The hospital where Father is, is one of the five best hospitals in Korea, isn't it? Seoul St. Mary's Hospital provides all kinds of services made possible by their state-of-the-art medical skills. Under the circumstances, the hospital, out of consideration, created an opportunity for Father to communicate with Mother and his family. So when Mother, accompanied by me, went in yesterday morning, Father's eyes were open. When Mother talked about Shin Joon Nim and Shin Pyeon Nim and how they had drawn pictures and written letters for him, he moved his eyes this way and that, and we felt that Father was responding to us. It had been a long time since I had seen this. He did not, however, move his hands, nod his head or give any other indications. While maintaining that state, he closed his eyes.

I am there every day with Mother and other members of the True Family as they are nursing Father during his illness, offering devotions and watching over him, and it hurts my heart to watch them.

Knowing that at various major hospitals in Korea there are renowned experts in diseases of the lung and respiratory system, Dr. Peter Kim and Dr. Bo Hi Pak took it upon themselves to drive to Seoul National University Hospital and seek out a second opinion on Father's condition. There, with the help of a doctor who had treated Dr. Pak some time before, they visited experts. Dr. Kim continues his description of events:

We pushed our way into the office of a Professor Han, without making an appointment in advance. He is said to be a distinguished authority in Korea on illnesses related to the lungs and the respiratory system. We found him in his shirtsleeves, and though he is like the godfather of that office, we went in. We asked him to sit down, explained Father's symptoms to him, and asked his advice. In tears, Dr. Pak and I asked for his opinion.

He told us that when a patient is admitted into an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with respiratory or lung-related illnesses, the doctor who is in charge of the ICU knows best how to deal with the symptoms and give treatment.

He then said that a Prof. Yu was in the room three doors away from his, and he suggested we go see him. So, we barged in on Prof. Yu. He was surprised, and protested, "How can you do this?" We explained to him about Father's condition and his symptoms. At the end of our explanation he said, "You don't need to say anymore." I asked him what he meant, and he said, "I am not a Unification Church member or even a Christian. I see ten, twenty, thirty patients a day with the symptoms you've described, since I am the doctor in charge of the ICU. I am well aware of how renowned Rev. Moon is, but since we are now in a doctor -- patient relationship, may I speak frankly about him?"

I immediately responded, "Please speak frankly." Then he looked into our eyes and stated, "He is too far gone. And I believe he has already been headed that way for quite a while. In fact, there is zero possibility of Rev. Moon regaining his lung function and being able to speak again and lead an almost normal life."

My dear members, think about it. When we heard from the lips of the most qualified doctor in Korea that the possibility was zero, Dr. Pak and I wept in front of him. Until then, we had continued to pray, and we had believed there was a remote chance; we had been ready to even grasp at straws. So when we heard what amounted to a sentence of death, we felt as if the skies were falling down upon us.

After sitting there weeping, Dr. Pak and I went down to the lobby and talked for a long time, asking ourselves, "Should we tell this to Mother or not?" Our conclusion was that we must tell her, and that the True Children should also be told about it. Therefore, after discussing the matter fully, we returned to St. Mary's hospital and told Mother and the True Children everything.

When we had finished speaking, Mother went into a small room, locked the door and wept her heart out. For a long time she stayed in that room, weeping, unable to come out. Then she said, "Oh, we must talk to the doctors in charge of Seoul St. Mary's Hospital and see what their opinion is!" So we called for Father's doctor and asked him frankly.

When we had posed the question, Father's doctor also said, "We were reluctant to say it outright in front of the patient's family members, who were clinging to him with religious faith and praying for him. We were waiting for the right time to tell them the same thing."

Prof. Kim, the doctor in charge of the ICU also said the same thing. Though we were dismayed and sorrowful, we then felt that we could not just sit there and do nothing. Mother and the True Children, feeling the urgency of the moment, had asked for Rev. Young Hwi Kim, Dr. Bo Hi Pak, Rev. Jae Seok Lee, and Joon Ho Seuk, the Korean church president, to come. Hoon Mo Nim was also there, because she had been the one who brought Mother to the hospital. So on August 28, they and Kook Jin Nim, Hyung Jin Nim and I sat down together and held an emergency meeting. (I call it that for want of a better word.)

We said many things in that meeting. Mother asked each of us, "So, Young Hwi, what do you think?" "Rev. Jae Seok Lee, what's your opinion?" After we had fully exchanged our opinions, she said, and it pains me to repeat it, "Now all we can do is pray for a miracle, but miracles are wrought by Heaven and we are not the ones who can decide. We should continue to offer devotions to the end, however, and the most important thing right now is to protect Father's holy body."

As we later observed, further complications began to appear from the very next day. Father's liver was failing rapidly, and his liver function deteriorated to the point where it could barely function at all. He still needed machines on both sides of him to pump oxygen into his blood at the maximum rate. He was suffering. We learned that the next stage of complications would be that his heart would be affected, and the moment this happened would be determined by how long his liver could continue to work. When his heart became affected, every organ in his body would fail.

Knowing this, Mother had said, "We must protect Father's holy body." She did not want them piercing him here and there, going into his arteries and veins, and the hospital had suggested certain procedures that would have required this. Mother became worried that Father might be placed in the same circumstances as Jesus when Jesus was crucified.

Since it was their medical opinion that recovery was impossible, why should they try to do things that were impossible? Therefore, we should protect his holy body. Such was the gist of what she said, and we need to understand Mother's heart and intention.

Mother also spoke based on the Confucian traditions. She said, "Father came as the Second Coming of the Messiah." (She had said something similar to Father's doctor, Dr. Jeon, even though he is not a member of our church.) She said, "Father came as the Second Corning of the Messiah because Jesus was unable to fulfill his responsibility, and we cannot defile the holy body of the returned Messiah if there is no possibility of his recovery, just because the hospital wants to do it as part of their procedure. And if Father were to pass away in any hospital or medical center away from Cheon Jeong Gung, which is his eternal holy ground and home, or the Chung Pyung holy ground complex, by Confucian tradition it would be said that he had passed away in a strange place, away from home. I cannot accept this."

I hope you realize how sorrowful and anguished her heart was as she said this. She then asked us to come up with a plan for what we should do. Everyone answered that we understood her intention and that we should take Father to Cheongshim International Medical Center, where the entire eighth floor could be prepared for his arrival. Thus, we were determined to take him away from the ICU, which was full of patients dying and screaming and yelling, not to mention germs flying everywhere. We were determined to take him to Cheongshim hospital but to continue to treat him with the best equipment and medical skills, which could be provided by the ICU of Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, the best hospital in Korea. We agreed to this unanimously. [All specialized medical equipment was transferred from St. Mary's to Cheongshim International Medical Center. Both Father's main doctor at St. Mary's and that hospital's ICU respiratory specialist accompanied Father in the ambulance and agreed to see him subsequently.]

Kook Jin Nim and Hyung Jin Nim also suggested to Mother:Mother, Father is not just your husband and our father. He is the cosmic, the first, and possibly the last public figure in all of the spirit world and the earthly world. Therefore, we should at the least disclose the process of Father's illness, and what condition he is in no to the blessed families and other members of the Unification Church, who have held true to their belief in True Father. Only then can they hang on to Heaven and pray for a miracle all together. Isn't that the case?

Consequently, Mother said yes, and everyone else at that emergency meeting agreed that it was a good idea. After all, the policy that Kook Jin Nim usually follows when running the foundation is transparency.

That is why we cannot hide True Father's condition. He has come in the public position of the returning Lord. We must inform our members honestly of the present situation, so that they can be aware. This was why you received international vice-president Dr. Seuk's letter yesterday. 

Establish a Third Homeland

Sun Myung Moon
April 25, 2012
Excerpts
Hoon Dok Hae
Cheon Jeong Peace Palace (HC leap month 3.5)

Father speaks to thirty-day workshop participants, soon after his arrival in Korea on June 11.

Now we have to establish a third homeland. Thinking of it, we understand it's a desperate effort, at the cost of any sacrifice and with complete investment. This is a mission we are called to fulfill. Since we know our calling, we must replace the past time when we couldn't become owners of our calling. "Everything should be renewed through me." That should be our determination.

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To welcome the liberation of the homeland, a person should have participated in the fulfillment of God's will in the past -- at least in one tenth, or one hundredth of that work. Everybody stands in unknown, unclear or indeterminate positions in relation to the accomplishment of the homeland's liberation. This is a huge problem, if you think of it. When I represent a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand people, or eight thousand people from one nation, I have to be a flag- bearer flying the flag; my determination has to be greater than theirs.

One point our Unification Church can be proud of is that I have already left you textbooks and teaching materials. Who do these textbook and teaching materials belong to? To True Parents, the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind; they are masters of settlement who compiled these works, and can say "The light of the homeland, pass by us." They have done all the work, so there is no persecution. No one can persecute us.

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I said, "Homeland, shine brightly!" and then I took responsibility for this and walked forward hoisting the flag at every pinnacle of victory. Had I not done so, the age of the safe arrival of True Parents would never have come. Now, I'm talking not about the safe arrival of True Parents, but about firm settlement. We have reached the age of settlement.

The True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind have therefore overcome everything that was blocking the liberation of the homeland. How great this is!

Centering on the overall purpose of the creation of the universe, the bloodline unites with the tradition. Tradition and the bloodline cannot exist separately. They need to be united.

And it is not just the mother and the father who need to be one; the children they give birth to need to follow in their footsteps. They need to give birth to children who become devoted sons and daughters, and they must form blessed families. When they have their families, the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind must be able to firmly establish themselves, beyond having appeared. In any place, in any of the four directions -- east, west, north or south -- they need to go beyond just safely appearing and firmly settle in, until they can say there is no need to go back and repeat things.

Then what is next for them as the True Parents? Firmly settling in concludes something, but within this what more is there to be done? It is the proclamation of the word by God's substantial self! Have True Parents achieved the proclamation of the word as God's substantial self?

Answer me! [They have.] They did not need to leave it for you to proclaim. Why? Because when the family of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind is perfected everything is to be completed.

What came next? The Cosmic Assemblies. I did not ask you to do those. The Cosmic Assemblies have all been concluded. The settlement of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind has been achieved, the proclamation of the word by God's substantial self has been achieved, and the realm of the perfection of heaven, earth and the universe has also been achieved. The pressure of the demands based on the textbooks and teaching materials written by True Parents and expressed through our church has passed.

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I had sons and daughters, thus giving birth to twelve tribes. Myriads of tribes will live and follow me as if tied to me by a rope.

True Parents have surmounted all the pinnacles, but you don't act and align yourselves. The foundation is already there; trees have been planted and grown. Give them water so that they grow branches and you will be able to reap new fruit a thousand and ten thousand fold. So, should you forget that you're standing on the ground of such victory that gives you the opportunity of harvest? What's your answer? [We should not forget it.]

So, when True Parents come out and you are asked, "Did you live with True Parents?," suppose you say, "No, I didn't." And when you're asked "Did you work with them?," suppose you say, "No, I didn't." Can a person who never lived or worked with True Parents participate in their wedding banquet? No, that's preposterous. What is it about in the end? Since a millennium was lost, we created D-day to make it up. When 144,000 heavenly brides are complete, the heavenly banquet of the joint wedding of 144,000 will come down to earth. True Parents will become substantial masters of settlement, masters of proclamation of the word, masters of completion of the universal world, but you have no foundation to be able to come back to earth. If you don't prepare for the pinnacle of the Feast of the Lamb, no chance for you to follow me or live with me will arise. You will pass True Parents by.

Where is your nation? If your nation is complete, you should help complete True Parents' nation. But did you help restore even a fraction of a percent of Father's land? I don't have land even of the size of the palm of my hand. You cannot abandon those raggedy belongings of yours, yet you're still saying that you attend True Parents?...

You own property, don't you? True Parents lived all their lives without any property. The environment is so different, but you should be able to be similar fruit and have the same attitude: "The Unification Church is my church and its victory is my victory!" Remember that clearly.

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We are teaching tribal messiahs in all parts of the world at this time, but the time for the family messiahs, tribal messiahs and messiahs for the people of different nations is almost over. The Original Substance of Divine Principle workshop for the tribal messiahs, through which they can inherit the position of the representative of the Returned Lord, is the final one. It is the final mobilization.

That is why this workshop should not end with just the mobilized participants. Before Foundation Day comes, you need to do your best to hold these workshops in your own nations, even if it means taking out a loan or borrowing money from others. If nothing else avails, you should ask those who have attended the workshop to come and serve as lecturers in the place of Jeong Ok Yu. In any event, you should carry them out before Foundation Day. Do you understand? [Yes.]

If you bring [groups of] fifty people, enough to form twelve tribes, six hundred people would come every month for the workshop. And if those six hundred people brought fifty other people each, per month, you would mobilize more than enough people for the workshop.

Why? They are your clan, and you are tribal messiahs! You may not be able to finish the task all at once, but you need to finish it by Foundation Day. Then, when everyone has attended an Original Substance of Divine Principle workshop, they cannot be sent to hell. This is until D-day. What that means is that they will not be sent to hell. Do you understand? [Yes.] This has already all been done in Korea. When you try hard enough you can achieve what you set out to achieve.

When you visit someone's house and ask, "Do you know Rev. Moon? Have you heard his teachings?" and they say that they haven't, you should ask, "Why not?" and tell them to attend the workshop before Foundation Day. When they have a set date by which they need to attend the workshop, they will attend it, and our training center will always be full. By Foundation Day, all 70 million Korean people should pay the workshop fee, attend it and be registered.

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What will happen if you are not registered in the nation? Give me your answer. Should you attend this workshop and be registered, or not? [We should.] That is the matter in question, and it cannot be postponed to a later date. I have given you clear instructions and clear answers, so let us now conclude with a prayer. 

Strong Korea

Sun Myung Moon
March 7, 2012
Excerpts
Convention to Launch the National Campaign for a Strong Korea

True Father spoke for an hour after Tongil Foundation chairman Kook Jin Moon's address on strengthening the nation.

Though my family may be in my hometown, I am not in an environment where I can meet them. In short, you could say that I am a great refugee among refugees. I do not have a nation. I am not a Korean. Military personnel and others who've come here, including those in high positions, may look at me with eyes wide open and think I look like a Korean, speak like a Korean and think like a Korean. Yet my thoughts are deeper than the time-honored ways of Korean history. Based on that, my speech today is entitled "A Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God's Will: The United States and the Future Direction of the United Nations and the World"...

In recent years, I began talking about Cheon Il Guk, God's new nation, and 1 have also been speaking about the God of Night and the God of Day, all of which no one else could understand. Everyone thought it was just a dream, but they will see that after ten, twenty or thirty years, all those terms will take root as traditions in history and become powerful. The Unification Church, which was buried on earth before, will reach the highest place, next to the sun. If something knows how to go up but not how to come down, it will perish in the end.

I see that many older people are here. We met with sincere hearts when you introduced yourselves. I am now ninety-four years old. My teachings come from seventy years ago and not now. Beginning seventy years ago, or rather, from the age of seventeen, I sat above everything and began my work with the determination that I would fight and either live or die and that I would see if I could win against one or ten.

I am giving a speech here as the True Parent, but even now I am not actually thinking about being the True Parent. You called me the worst possible things in the world, calling me "Jesus Moon," the ringleader of a shadowy cult. And you thought that I would die or disappear. Yet here I am....

Yong Gul Lee, vice-minister in the Ministry of National Defense (left) and Minister of Patriots and Veterans Affairs Sung Choon Park (right) both attended and spoke at the Convention to Launch the National Campaign for a Strong Korea in Seoul on March 7.

It is not about strong Korea. Rather, it should be a strong homeland! Whose homeland is it? It is the homeland of Korea, God's strong homeland! [Applause] When the Korean people talk about God's homeland, they talk about regaining God's homeland. Why regaining? Why didn't it stay liberated from the outset? It is sad to talk about having to regain something. I have held on to that word all my life. What does having to regain something signify? It means everything is in darkness and on the wrong path.

The Republic of Korea may come and go, and all its presidents may come and go, but everything that I said came true in the end. From decades ago, I was persecuted as I went around saying these things, and when I read what I said forty or fifty years ago, now at the age of ninety-four, 1 kneel down before those words and wonder to myself where they came from. I don't believe that they came from me. That is why I may seem like someone from a dream, or a peculiar person.

To get back to "A Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God's Will: The United States and the Future Direction of the United Nations and the World"... Who knows about this? Who does? Nowadays, Kook Jin and my other sons say that their father is the Returning Lord. Those rascals! I tell them not to say such things.

One thing I hope you will remember is that I first announced the regaining of the homeland more than seventy years ago.... So, what is the topic of today's meeting? Strong what? Korea. Let's make a strong Korea. Actually, it is not "strong Korea;" it should be God's strong homeland. Otherwise, we will perish thousands of times over. The well-known people here with names on their chairs may say our sons and daughters will live on and influence the history of another thousand years. But now, as I stand here today, how can I possibly know what will happen fifty years from now? Or a hundred years?

The 63 Building Convention Center hosted a crowd of 2,300 for the launch of the National Campaign for a Strong Korea.

You are all adults, so I believe you will pity this man who does not have anything, who has neither a nation nor a father or mother, for he was separated from them fifty-eight years ago. At the time of our separation, we were devout believers in Christianity. I was a devout Christian, as were my parents. My great uncle was a famous independence activist. Recently documents testifying to this fact have come to light, and what I had said about him, which had previously been thought of as fabrications, was proven to be the truth.

This is the second month of the third year of Cheon-gi by the heavenly calendar. What you are hearing today cannot be found even in encyclopedias. The people of this nation do not know about this; it will be the backbone and the mirror of the world of a new culture, and I worry about where they will end up. That is why I formed an organization in 2007 and made a declaration to open the gates of the world, which I could not have done before then. That declaration is right here before us, and I have instructed that it should not be changed by anyone and that nothing should be added to or subtracted from it.

A Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God's Will: The United States and the Future Direction of the United Nations and the World. We need the United States as well as Korea, China and all the nations. This is True Parents' message. Do you call me the True Parent? Who went and gave me that name?

It is not just the era in which the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind safely appear, but the era of their firm establishment. After that, as we passed the year 2000, I created textbooks and teaching materials with which to build Cheon Il Guk. I have been using them for more than ten years now. There were no textbooks before then. How much these texts are standing in the forefront! They record what I said before it actually came true. If you do not have these books, you will not know Korea's future prospects or where the country is headed.

United voices of mansei for God's strong homeland

Father's Prepared Text

Respected Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am delighted to meet you all today. I would like to welcome you, on behalf of my family.

Ladies and Gentlemen: I am well aware that this rally today is a launch ceremony paving the way for the Strong Korea movement to actively carry out its campaign throughout Korea. Therefore, on this occasion I will explain something of the profound providential plan God has had for the Korean peninsula throughout history. I will also speak about some aspects of God's providence dealing with the Pacific Rim Era that I have announced.

Distinguished guests, at the beginning of the seventh year of Cheon II Guk, I declared the beginning of a jubilee period in God's providence. God has greatly blessed us from that year. It is a time of jubilee the likes of which God and humankind have never experienced in thousands of years of history.

God's heart has been in pain throughout history because humanity has been confined under Satan's dominion. Humanity had endured oppression under the sovereignty of evil throughout the "era before the coming of heaven." That time has finally come to an end! 2007 was the zenith at which time it became possible for the gates to open wide to the revolutionary era after the coming of heaven, ushering in the time of a new sovereignty of goodness in which humanity could serve and attend God as the central being.

Without your being aware of it, Heaven's providence has been expanding in extraordinary ways. Now ambassadors for peace in 185 nations, numbering in the tens of thousands, have received my teachings and are working day and night in response to a special decree from God. Hence, today I would like to convey to you Heaven's message, which is entitled, "A Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God's Will: The United States and the Future Direction of the United Nations and the World." It is a declaration of God's plan for His dispensation and the direction humankind should take.

Ladies and Gentlemen: If you carefully examine the progress of history, you will undoubtedly discover God's plan and sense His presence as He tirelessly worked behind the scenes. Consider the history of civilization, which began centering on four of the world's great rivers. We are familiar with the Egyptian civilization that flourished along the Nile River, the Mesopotamian civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the Harappan civilization on the Indus River, and early Chinese civilization around the Yellow River. The center of civilization shifted over time to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea where the Mediterranean peninsular civilizations flourished in Greece and Rome. History continued to progress and the European continental civilization emerged. This continental civilization in turn gave birth to an island civilization, Great Britain, which flourished in the Atlantic sphere. The British Empire, which dominated the seven seas and wielded its might as "the empire on which the sun never sets," passed its splendid culture on to North America. We know these facts from history.

Civilization on the North American continent raised the banner of democracy, which was rooted in Christianity. It bequeathed to the world the principles of freedom of religion and respect for equal human rights as it led the struggle against fascism and communism, which had established atheistic, evil sovereignties. Through the victories of the First and Second World Wars, and the third -- the cold war -- it won victory over totalitarianism and communism.

On March 19, Kook Jin nim was one of several speakers at a Washington Times Foundation sponsored conference, "Asia Security Initiative: Peace through Strength and Cooperation," in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, attended by about seventy United States, Korean and Japanese congressmen. The Tongil Foundation chairman gave his "Strong Korea?" presentation.

However, that victory does not simply mean that America is great; the development of human civilization did not stop there. Victory came because God had chosen and raised the United States of America as the Second Israel, in accordance with His providential plan, and had raised and trained the American people through Christianity. God worked through America to bring His providence to its present stage of fruition.

Ladies and Gentlemen: The present time marks an important milestone in the development of civilization. Civilization has completed a circuit of the entire globe and has now arrived on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. History's course has come to the point under God's providence where it must be completed and concluded in the Pacific Rim region.

No force can stop God's providence now. Though there were both victories and defeats during the course of indemnity under the evil sovereignty in the era before heaven, now nothing can prevent the rise of the Pacific Rim Era. Herein lies the special reason that Heaven declared 2007 to be the beginning of the jubilee period.

Ladies and Gentlemen: The arrival of the Pacific Rim Era signifies many things. What do you think the world would have been like if Jesus had fulfilled the complete messianic mission during his lifetime on earth? Jesus came as the Savior and Messiah, to save all humankind. He did not come just to save the people of Israel, a small nation located on a corner of the Mediterranean Sea. At that time, Rome, based at the center of the Mediterranean, was the center of human civilization. Rome was ready to rule the seas. Heaven earnestly wished for Jesus to first teach and transform Rome and then rule over her empire. Heaven was eager for a civilization that could bring salvation to all humanity by employing Rome's strength. Yet, Jesus was cruelly put to death on the cross, as we know all too well through the biblical record.

After thousands of years of preparation, God finally was able to send Jesus to earth as His only son. There is no way to fathom God's heart as He anxiously watched Jesus' each and every action. Jesus' death was a tragedy that broke God's heart. It brought Him anguish even more extreme than the time when Adam and Eve, whom He created as the first ancestors of humankind, were lost from the Garden of Eden due to the Fall.

During the two thousand years since the crucifixion, God, in the background of history, has walked a suffering path that is beyond human imagination. Through this course, He prepared the United States of America to serve as the nation of the Second Israel. As a Christian nation that includes Catholicism and Protestantism, as well as the Orthodox world, the United States' mission is to bring harmony and unity to Christianity as soon as possible -- and moreover, in the twenty-first century, to fulfill the responsibility that had been the Roman Empire's, but which was not realized in Jesus' time. On America's shoulders rests the responsibility, within God's providence, to bring harmony and oneness among the world's seven billion people and to expedite the creation of a peaceful, ideal world. These are not simply the words of Rev. Moon. This is Heaven's decree to America.

Then how can we unify Christianity? God has already revealed the solution through me, Rev. Moon, the True Parent of humankind. Through me, God has given Christians the supreme command to practice lives of true love, to understand completely the reality of the spirit world to which we go after we die, and to establish model, ideal families -- true families.

What kind of love is true love? And what kind of family is a true family? The essence of God's absolute true love is not to have others serve you. Rather, it is to be the first to give, to serve and to care for others and to seek the greater good. True love gives, forgets that it has given, and continues to give without ceasing. True love gives joyfully. We find it in the joyful and loving heart of a mother who cradles her child in her arms and nurses her child at her breast. True love is sacrificial love, such as that of a devoted son who finds his greatest satisfaction through dedicating himself with all of his body and soul to helping his parents.

When we are bound together in true love, we will only ever be happy to be in each other's company. The attraction of true love brings not only the universe, but even God Himself, to follow us when we call on them. The value of true love is that it has the power to permanently dissolve the barriers that people, descended from the Fall, have created -- including national, racial and even religious barriers.

A meeting for the regional presidents of our worldwide church was held in Seoul on 3.3 (March 24). Representing True Parents, Hyung Jin nim prayed over and bequeathed Holy Candles to Establish the Heavenly Kingdom to each regional president. He and Kook Jin nim then spoke on the Strong Abel initiative, mentioning that this will become part of the worldwide providence [See page 2 for more on this]. Four international IWs were each given a letter of appointment to their new missions to assist the regional presidents and head up education in the Asian, European, African and South American regions. A discussion followed based on questions the presidents had about how to make progress in their respective regions. The meeting ended with Korean Family and Education Department vice- director Mrs. Mi Sook Chang inviting the regional presidents to send those involved in training Sunday school teachers to Korea for an educators workshop in April.

The main attributes of God's true love are that it is absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal. Therefore, whoever practices true love will share God's pleasures and pains, enjoy the right to participate as an equal in His work, and enjoy the same right of inheritance. Therefore, a life of service, in other words a life of true love, is an absolute requirement for entering the kingdom of heaven. A life of true love is the way to create all things; it is the mode of life of new families that live peacefully centering on God and form peaceful ideal model families.

The path is now wide open for anyone to establish a true family. The family is the model by which people are to live in service to one another. The warm environment of oneness based on love and respect between parents and children, mutual fidelity and love between husband and wife, and trust and mutual reliance among siblings is the manifestation of the model ideal family. This means that you need to establish a true family wherein the stem of true love emerges from the root of true love and bears the fruit of true love.

The responsibility of tribal messiahs, the mission of ambassadors for peace, and God's desire is to seek and set up families of Cheon II Guk, comprised of three generations -- grandparents, parents, and children -- that together serve the ever-present God as a united family.

You should form families that God will miss and yearn to return to after He has been away. You should raise families to which He can come freely as a parent visiting His children. This is what it means to live in service to God. In such a family, God is the vertical subject partner of everyone's conscience. Following God as its vertical subject partner, the mind of each family member stands in the position of that person's very own vertical subject partner. Each person must bring the mind and body into unity by following the mind.

It is in such a family that the four major types of love -- parental love, conjugal love, children's love and siblings' love -- which also form the four great realms of heart, are perfected. It is only in such a family that the relationships based on upper and lower, right and left, and front and rear can be linked together and the resultant spherical motion continue. This is how God's everlasting model ideal families, ideal nations and peaceful ideal kingdom can be formed. If the entire world were filled only with such families of true character, it would be a world of natural order in which the heavenly way and heavenly law would reign supreme. There would be no need for lawyers, prosecutors or judges.

Dear Peace-loving Leaders: Among the seven billion people on the earth today, almost five billion are our neighbors and relatives. They are our brothers and sisters of the Pacific Rim region. In other words, they are our relatives within the heritage of the Mongolian birthmark. Is there anything we cannot accomplish if we join together as one blood through receiving the blessing of marriage centering on God's peace ideal? The future of humanity is now in the hands of the nations of the Pacific Rim.

Ladies and Gentlemen: God's providence has now spread from the North American continent and blossomed in the island civilization of Japan, which is in the same position that Britain once held. It is now about to fulfill its destiny by reaching fruition on the Korean peninsula, the homeland of the True Parents, who have appeared as the Savior of humanity and the returning Messiah.

The Korean peninsula stands in the same position as Rome did in Jesus' time, in that it is considered a conflict zone transcending the spheres of religion and politics that must resolve all the world's problems. From a geopolitical point of view, the Korean peninsula persists as an arena of the most intense confrontation, despite the ongoing efforts on the part of all to secure peace.

The principles of restoration through indemnity make it inevitable that civilization will bear fruit in the Pacific Rim region, centered on the Korean peninsula. Fortunately, during the Korean War, the UN Forces, led by the United States, were, thankfully, mobilized to the peninsula. Yet, they did not recover the homeland and hometown of God's desire as they should have, according to God's will, and they left the job half done. As a result, global conflict and strife emerged, soon to be called the cold war. As a result of this, the Korean people lost their property and were displaced, leading them to search for God.

In order to restore this through indemnity, I established the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) seven years ago. I then organized the Peace Kingdom Corps and Peace Kingdom Police Force, comprising heavenly women who have received the marriage blessing, who love peace, and who are willing to serve and sacrifice for the work of the Universal Peace Federation. I have taken the lead in educating those involved with these organizations. These peace organizations stand in the forefront for actualizing a world of peace centering on God. They will create the peaceful, ideal world that God desires.

You may not be aware of this, but I have been assisting behind the scenes of the Six Party Talks that were being held for the sake of resolving the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula, and working to reconcile democratic nations with communist nations. I am presenting a solution based on the principles of peace and harmony rooted in the new ideology of the Heavenly Father.

At such pressing times, what exactly should the role of America and the United Nations be? Hawaii in the Pacific, located at the center of the Pacific Rim, bridge East and West, and link North and South. With the support and protection of the American continent, the Korean peninsula should become the homeland that protects and defends the Pacific Rim region by bringing together all the island nations of the Pacific. I say this because the future of humankind lies in the preservation of the Pacific Rim region centering on Korea, Japan and the United States.

As I was well aware of Heaven's plans for this region, I invested thirty-three of the prime years of my life in the United States, beginning in the early 1970s, for the sake of world peace. On that victorious foundation, I returned to Korea, where I am working to complete the providence of establishing God's homeland and hometown.

Ladies and Gentlemen: I ask that you analyze the current state of affairs in the world closely. Although the days of communism are gone, even now powerful nations are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to pursue their own interests aggressively at the expense of the powerless and small island nations. No small island nation by itself can deal with these powerful nations and their economic, political or even military ambitions. They are so powerful that if they wanted to, they could dominate any smaller nation in a single day, without shedding blood.

Only when peace and security are settled in the Pacific Rim can peace for all humankind be guaranteed. As I have mentioned, the small island nations by themselves cannot contend with the great tsunami of powerful nations moving into the region. The time has come, therefore, for all these small island nations in the Pacific Rim sphere to unite and build the homeland of the new, godly civilization.

The small island nations dispersed in both the northern and southern regions of the Pacific, on either side of the equator, as well as Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, Australia, New Zealand and other countries, should become like one country, forming a union to sustain peace to the Pacific Rim civilization. This will secure peace and stability for all people.

What I am saying to you is that you have the responsibility to protect and save the oceanic realm, which is a lifeline upon which humanity's future depends, from the environmental destruction and conflicts that are worsening by the day, and to shield its natural resources for the sake of peace in the future.

Ladies and Gentlemen: For the purpose of resolving these problems afflicting humankind, on September 12, 2005, I proclaimed throughout all of heaven and earth the establishment of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), which will enable God's providence to flourish. Now, it is possible for UPF to serve as an Abel-type counterpart to the UN in the era after the coming of heaven. It will renew the Cain-type United Nations and lead the way for millions of ambassadors for peace throughout the world who have taken up the ideology of the Heavenly Father, that is, my teachings -- which consist of the principles of true love and the ideal of a true family -- to without fail, fulfill the heavenly will of creating one family under God.

Ladies and Gentlemen: Through the cross-cultural marriage blessings that transcend religious denomination and nationality, the Universal Peace Federation will be the vanguard that carries out the great revolution of restoring the original lineage of humanity, hearkening back to Adam before the Fall. Some may laugh and say that this is impossible. Yet, where there is a will there is a way, especially if it is the God's will. The international and cross-cultural marriage blessings are conducted according to the teachings of Rev. Moon, who does God's work on His behalf. Please think about this: What do you think will happen if people from the United States and countries such as Russia marry across the boundaries of their nationalities through these marriage blessing ceremonies? The two nations will belong to one family under God, the eternal, absolute Lord of all creation. How could anyone aim weapons at, much less launch nuclear weapons at, a nation that many millions of grandchildren from their own lineage make their home?

The holy task of building the ideal kingdom of heaven -- the sacred reign of peace on earth -- by recovering our ideal homeland and hometown, is being carried out enthusiastically in all corners of the world. This is God's hope for engrafting the seven billion people of the world to the lineage of the true tribe.

Beloved Leaders, Ladies and Gentlemen: Please do not miss your chance to ride on the surging currents of heavenly fortune during this important and sacred jubilee. Take the lead in protecting and developing the realm of the oceans, which cover seventy-five percent of the earth. Where else will you find undiscovered treasure-stores of natural resources that hold the promise of reviving the earth, which is endangered by all kinds of pollution and resource depletion?

You have truly come to a significant event today. You should now join together under the Strong Korea banner. The scope of this campaign shall soon go beyond the Republic of Korea to rest of Asia, and become the beacon that shines beyond Asia to the world. The Universal Peace Federation's ideology shall be a cry for a strong Korea because at the root of Strong Korea is God's philosophy of peace based on true love. Is there an ideology or philosophy that can surpass this philosophy of peace and the ideal of God's true love? Heaven shall surely be triumphant!

On this meaningful occasion, please engrave this message on your hearts. The families of your good ancestors in heaven are already blessed. Numbering in the billions, they have come to earth today, and they are listening to this message with you. This is because it is only through you, their descendants, that they can perfect themselves and advance to the positions of true parents, true teachers and true lords and owners. You should not forget the fact that the spiritual and physical worlds live and breathe together in this way and walk hand-in-hand.

Your families should now find their place in history by fulfilling their missions as members of the Peace Kingdom Corps and Peace Kingdom Police Force of the Abel UN, which is advancing God's providence in the revolutionary era after the coming of heaven. History will forever remember you for leading a noble life of devotion for the well-being of humanity and world peace. I am now developing globally the Peace Kingdom Corps and the Peace Kingdom Police Force, which I founded. I hope to see the heroic sight of you holding the UPF flag [Universal Peace Federation -- the Abel UN] standing in the vanguard of the Peace Kingdom Corps and Peace Kingdom Police Force and shouting for a strong Korea.

I pray that you will engrave today's message in your hearts and use this message as material for educating your children, the youth in your country and the people of your nation. May God's blessings and grace be upon you, your families, the Pacific Rim and the Peace UN, and upon the launch of "Strong Korea."

Thank you. 

Day of Victory of Love

Sun Myung Moon
January 24, 2012
Excerpts

I waited until now because it had not been the right time. Now the time of the children has come. By entering the one realm of the liberation of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, the God of Night and the God of Day, God's family has emerged. In God's family there is the Heavenly Parent, there is a grandfather and grandmother, there is a mother and father, there is a couple, and then there are the two sons and their wives. All of these couples had been divided. On the basis of Heung Jin's passing, I must unite the divided paths of the spirit world. Since he was going there with the responsibility to bind things together, he was going into the position of an elder brother to Jesus. Since Jesus has an elder brother, he also has Parents.'

Until now Jesus had no parents. Thus, even if a person knew of the one tradition, because the blessing did not exist, it was discontinued. However, with True Parents connecting Heung Jin to the spirit world, he became an elder brother to Jesus, and connected the separated God of Night and God of Day through True Parents and so took his position. As this was concluded by this time, the era of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind is now passing by.

That is why you must receive the blessing centering on the tradition and resemble the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. Otherwise, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. That is why, second generation members, you should know that a serious time has come in which you will be unable to enter the kingdom of heaven if you fail to resemble that heavenly kingdom, teach from the position of a father and parent, and unite completely. I am not playing around.

True Parents conducted the Unification Ceremony of connecting the blood and sweat, tears, water from your nose, water from your mouth -- these channels of tears that flow and merge. That is where the substance of the Unification Ceremony arises. Listen carefully; from now on, read True Parents' speeches and connect to them, otherwise there is no meaning to participating in this occasion today. Do you understand? [Yes.]

Families especially should be aware of this. You must first understand this and teach others. What I mean is that the era of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind has come. Therefore, under circumstances where the Creator -- the God of Night and God of Day -- did not exist [for fallen humanity], as the God of Night and Day determines the position of the Parent, and as it established the position of the Parent of the cosmos, this will give rise to a family -- God's family -- for the first time.

If the Day of Victory of Love is not understood, God's family cannot arise. Do you understand? Heung Jin passed away because Heaven gave him as a sacrifice. You should all understand everything you hear in my speech today. These are such important times, but you have lived in ignorance for decades. For twenty-eight years, you lived without understanding these things. During this time, you stole, and the mothers and fathers [of the world] brought things down. You should repent, do you understand? [Yes.] If you do, clap your hands. [Applause]....

You must know that because of the Day of Victory of Love a bridge to the adult era was built. You did not know of this until now. You blessed families are thick-headed! You have lived to this day without even knowing that you were engaging in thievery and without understanding the position that you have been in. You must change from today....

You are brothers, so you should uplift your elder brothers. You should uplift your elder siblings' couples and create God's family.

In order to reconnect what had been severed, I abandoned my children for twenty-nine years until now. I was never able to kiss them when they were babies or hold their hands. What about you? What about your children? When you didn't have enough to eat, you stole in order to eat, but when you think about how I starved and was in prison...

[The Family Pledge is recited]

[While reciting verse two:]

That refers to God's family. It is not referring to your families!

[While reciting verse four]

You must live for the sake of the world. Yet, instead of doing witnessing, you eat and play! You must repent.

[After verse five]

Who is the one who has been thinking every day about the [Heavenly] Parent and about heaven and earth! You are all fake. You should know that you are a group of thieves that are betraying and stealing from this Pledge. You have wreaked havoc on the Unification Church. Because the time was not ripe, I had to go through hardships alone. There was no one but me. Since then, haven't I blessed the saints, the sages and your ancestors?...

I starved and went in and out of prison, yet what do you know about prison? You live off our assets and then suck the blood of those you have brought into the church. You have to repent. You should pay indemnity on account of your children.

[While reciting verse six]

Have you become representative families! You're all fakes.

[While reciting verse seven]

Do you know about the original bloodline?

[While reciting verse eight]

Absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience...

Among you all, is there a family that has achieved at least one entire verse in the eight verses? Show me. Answer my question. You have to repent. Do you understand? [Yes.] All that you own, the nations and all that is owned by your clan does not belong to you but was obtained through thievery, fraud, conflict and falsehoods. This must all be erased. Do you understand? [Yes.)...

Sit quietly. I will say a few words. In the past, after Heung Jin passed away, for the first, second, third and fourth year, people placed True Parents' photograph with greater respect than they had for their ancestors and offered a full bow to it and to our flag. Yet, midway, these blessed families discontinued all of that. This tradition must be rebuilt.

You who are below the ten saints that were blessed in the spirit world centering on God's family, centering on True Parents and centering on the people here, cannot rise above them. I built a bridge in the middle. Without their achievements of having laid the bridge for the blessing through the Day of Victory of Love, none of you would have the qualification to hold a position in God's family, which is tens of thousands of times more holy than any other! You are but a group of people that would have been growling, snarling and weeping bitterly in the bottom of hell. Do you think you are great just because you have been liberated? You do not even have any children.

God has no children. Neither do the ancestors, you...! Do you think you are in the position of ancestors? Decadent lives of this kind must be abolished during this time here! Do you understand? [Yes.] If you welcome this, raise your hands and applaud. [Applause.] You should awake up and march ahead from this day! Today should be different from yesterday! [Applause.] Stop! [Applause continues]

We are the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. We are heaven's representatives, the representatives of the parents on the earth, the king of kings, and the ancestors of all ancestors. You have been attending them until now, but being ignorant of the fact that True Parents have been fasting and living in hunger, you have eaten your fill, have not gone out witnessing, and have lived merrily with your children and with your wives. How will I forgive this sin?

As of today, you should awaken and quickly be registered! If you are tardy in this registration, thousands of generations will fall away in proportion to how late you are, even if you have been in the Unification Church for a long time. Have you liberated 210 generations of your ancestors? [Yes.]...

Some may come and say "Ahem. I have come to speak in private with the Rev. Moon of the Unification Church. Why does he not meet me?" [Father indicates his irritation over this attitude] From now only those who were invited can come here.

A year in advance, a name list of those who can participate from around the world should be prepared. You should know that those groups of beggars who eat and play around, who defraud others, who cheat on their spouse, who drink and who manipulate people do not even amount to a shadow. Do you understand? [Yes.]....

In the United States, people in her fifty states claim that they will go to the kingdom of heaven if they believe in Jesus, but that is all falsehood. Where will you find the millennium kingdom? Look to the Divine Principle. The Divine Principle. Do you understand? [Yes.]

The things I am saying and teaching you are a declaration about heaven and earth made from the position of the owner of a new world that shall come about. It is a proclamation and declaration; thus you should know that it must be upheld. Do you understand? [Yes.]...

From now, nations must first pay taxes to Heaven; they should devote funds to their nations after that. These taxes should be used in helping the needy. Do you understand what I am saying? [Yes.] The heavenly nation is not a nation where you or that nation sustains itself by receiving taxes! They are to save people in the world that are dying of starvation. Those that make war for their own benefit, those who kill others and exploit weaker nations are the devil's grotesque followers. They are the devil's kinsmen. You should be clear on this point.

Why do you live your life opposite from the Principle way when you know the teachings? Do you think you can get away with it just because I haven't done anything about it? No. You must take action now. You should mobilize your ancestors. All the police and global UN forces as well. You should become ancestors from now. Do you understand? [Yes.] If you do not act in compliance with the law, you will all be taken away. If the people who know this in this fearsome world do not follow [the law], regardless of whether the world itself is aware of it, they will be the first to be taken away....

True Parents are now the great owner of heaven and earth. They are the king of kings and the king of parents. Do you understand? What does this mean? What are True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind? This is the era of their being globally established. It can be the era for commencing the cosmic family....

We will be doing a rally today. Two days ago we continued [Hoon Dok Hae] for seventeen hours, the entire day...

If there is any indication that you are going around drinking alcohol, I shall pursue you from behind, report to your in-laws and round you up in a single location -- that is, if you go to some party and drink alcohol there. You will not be able to go around meeting women and dancing around without the members of the Unification Church knowing. Do you understand? I am telling you that from today you should be careful. These are my instructions. /