Sun Myung Moon
January 23, 2012
Translated by Tossa Cromwell
The following is True Father’s 2012 midnight prayer offered at the Cheon Jeong Gung (Palace of Heavenly Righteousness) in Cheongpyeong, Korea on 1.1 by the heavenly calendar in 2012 (Jan. 23,2012 by the Gregorian calendar).
Dear Heavenly Father, I hereby offer this prayer to you at midnight on the first day of the first month of the twelfth year of the heavenly calendar.
Heavenly Father, as the Creator who appeared in the Garden of Eden, you have worked to accomplish your purpose through three successive attempts, according to the attitude of “If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again.” You warned us that eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge would bring eternal ruin. If your will had been fulfilled in the Garden of Eden, then everything would have become perfect, complete and finalized from that first hour. This earthly world would have been blessed with a kingdom of heaven of victory, liberation and perfection centering on the nation of true love.
Heaven and earth would have become perfect and complete, attaining oneness with your true love and connecting to your tradition and lineage. Through the blessing of the realm of the eldest son and the realm of the eldest daughter – a son and daughter who both resemble you – a time of complete victory, liberation and perfection would have begun, and an eternal and immortal autonomous world of your ideal of creation would be conceived. That victorious world, which could have been completed, perfected and finalized, has even now not been perfected.
Representing the third attempt referred to in the saying, “If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again,” we have gone beyond the age of the soul onto the energy of the spirit self. On this first day of the twelfth year of the Heavenly Foundation of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, I proclaim in the name of the True Parents a new beginning from when it is possible for the nation of victorious dominance, which has inherited the spirit self of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, to enter a new time of liberation, perfection and royal authority, an autonomous time of our Heavenly Father’s full authority. The victorious dominant royal authority, based on the realm of liberation of 210 blessed generations in the physical and spirit worlds, will continue for eternity. Aju! Aju! Aju!