Sun Myung Moon
July 7, 1992
Women’s Federation for World Peace Leaders Assembly
Sajik Indoor Stadium, Busan, Korea
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President Hak Ja Han Moon, distinguished guests and women leaders:
Today I received a great deal of comfort from the words of President Han. I have followed one road in response to the order of Heaven, and have experienced a life of extraordinary suffering. The road establishing the way of Heaven is straight; it allows for no compromise. It does not allow one to worry about honor or human dignity. It is a lonely road on which one can live only for God’s Will.
Just as each individual has his or her own fortune, the family and the nation also have a family fortune and a national fortune. Beyond this, there is the fortune of the world, and there is the fortune for all of heaven and earth. Even though a person may have been born with good fortune on the individual level, if his or her family fortune declines, that person will have to endure hardship. By the same token, if the national fortune declines, even a person with both good individual fortune and family fortune will be ruined.
Going beyond this, the national fortune and the direction of the world is objective to the direction and progress of Heaven’s fortune, which is above everything and inclusive of everything. To establish the way of Heaven in the world means to align the way of the individual and nation with the fortune of Heaven.
Today, let us think about the evils besetting Korea and the problems of the world. These problems include economic depression, environmental pollution, political lawlessness, racial and religious strife, the decay of ethics and morality and the collapse of values. Is there anyone who can bring a fundamental solution to these evils and problems? It has not been possible through human wisdom or effort. We have not been able to solve these problems by mobilizing economic and governmental power. In fact, the evils of humanity are gradually wreaking greater damage.
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. I say this not because I am trying to exalt myself; it is 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.
Achieving a victorious foundation amid adversity
My life has been truly difficult. I have been beaten, persecuted and unfairly imprisoned by one government after another. Prejudice and malice on the part of some Christian leaders led them to spread and then exploit wild rumors about me. However, thanks to the protection of God, I have miraculously laid a victorious worldwide foundation. It is a foundation that is without precedent in history.
In America, which is the prepared nation that represents world Christianity, I have built a foundation beyond that of any other non-white person. Of course, I had to suffer from racial discrimination and religious prejudice; I had to prevail over unfair imprisonment. Nevertheless, I rebuilt America’s Christian foundation, which was shaking at its roots. I educated and trained youth who were suffering from drugs and immorality, and I gave hope to America. Neither the government nor the people of America can ignore my foundation.
The same is the case for Japan and Europe. Unification missions are developing every day in one hundred sixty countries. Each of these missions represents a powerful religious activism; it is a global movement to rebuild ethics and morality.
In the early 1980s I called for world-level academic meetings to be held with the theme of the collapse of the Soviet empire. In 1985 our academic journal published an article that has now become world famous for being the first to prophesy the collapse of the Soviet empire.
It was on the basis of this foundation that I visited the Soviet Union and met Mikhail Gorbachev. I understand that now, in three of the fifteen republics of the former Soviet Union, citizens are working to make Unificationism the national religion. Already tens of thousands of Russian university students have studied my teachings and have organized branches of the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP), which is the Unification Church campus organization, in more than seven hundred universities. This year, tens of thousands of high school teachers and students from the former Soviet Union will attend Divine Principle workshops.
Do you think this scale of activity is the result of human power alone? It is real proof that the living God is working with us. Miracles are taking place as confirmed atheists, after five days of Divine Principle lectures, convert to a God-centered view of life and the universe.
I also have established a substantial foundation in China. I prepared trendsetting projects such as the construction of the Panda industrial city, and have had missionaries working underground. Only God knows how much I have done to bring about the unification of North and South Korea. The reunification of North and South Korea is not merely a visible and external unification; it is a providential unification centered on God. It cannot be done other than by working through my foundation.
The unification required by God’s providence is not for the sake of unification in and of itself. It is brought about 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 left miserable. It must be a unity in true love, in which each side lives for the other and gives and gives again. Therefore, the reunification of the homeland cannot be exploited for the benefit of any individual, political party or government. Only when our hearts and actions, colored with love, reach the hearts of our fellow countrymen and women in the North, will true unification come about.
The Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace
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, Ireland, the Balkans and other areas?
On August 27 of last year, I gathered together some of the highest-level 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. This organization has a supreme value. There may be important differences among religions, yet there are just as many common points, and all share the same purpose, to seek 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.
God’s providence of salvation
As President Han mentioned in her address, Christianity teaches that the first human beings ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This means that our human ancestors disbelieved, committed sin 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 and God’s possessions, the whole creation. They would have grown to perfection and become the ideal husband and wife of love. However, because of the Fall, they abandoned God’s blood lineage, were robbed of God’s possessions, and lost God’s heart.
We have to 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, making God’s providence of salvation the providence of restoration and complete recovery.
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 murdered the second son, Abel. God’s providence of restoration advances when the condition to separate from Satan is established through the second son. The second son starts later and represents the side of goodness. He has to subjugate, by natural surrender, 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 heart embedded in the position of this original son cannot be restored at once. God accomplishes the providence gradually, starting from the position of the servant of servants.
In this world held under the power of Satan, Abel, who is on the side of good, has to complete the mission of the servant of servants by living with true love for the sake of Cain. Then Satan cannot accuse him; in fact, he cannot help but praise and recognize him. After that, Abel restores the positions of the servant, the adopted son, the illegitimate son and the direct son, following the way 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 or daughter, makes Cain surrender and they become one, the mother Eve can stand on their foundation, and when Eve fulfills her responsibility, the father Adam can stand on her foundation. Then God can come to dwell on that foundation and can complete the eight stages necessary for the vertical course of the providence of restoration. If we look at the stages of the providence of restoration horizontally, we find there are also eight: the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, cosmos and God.
Head-wing thought and Godism
Jesus came as the second Adam, the Messiah, but unfortunately the chosen people did not recognize him. 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 this. They are proclaiming that on October 28 of this year they will be taken up to heaven on the clouds. It will not happen like this. Please believe me, this kind of event will never happen. The Lord who departed through the cross will return through the cross.
When Jesus died on the cross, there were three types of people connected with his crucifixion. There was the first type, represented by the thief on Jesus’ right. He repented of his sins and testified to Jesus. There was the second type, represented by the thief on Jesus’ left. He was a sinner who did not repent and who vilified Jesus. The third type was represented by Barabbas, a criminal who was saved when the crowd chose to release him instead of Jesus, and to crucify Jesus 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 goodness. The materialistic, atheistic communist bloc is the second type, in the position of the thief on the left. Islam in the Middle East is the third type, in the position of Barabbas. Because Jesus died instead of him, and because Israel’s rejection led Jesus to death on the cross, Islam came to occupy the Middle East, which had been divided among the tribes of Israel. The Lord of the Second Advent, in the position of Jesus, has to resolve the dismemberment of humanity that came about because of Jesus’ death.
In order to guide the world, he has to bring about a religious reformation in Western Christianity, overcome the atheistic ideology of communism, and bring the communist world back to God’s side. My proposed head-wing thought, Godism, is the philosophy that can overcome the left-wing and right-wing ideologies and bring about a united harmony between them.
As I have mentioned on other occasions, the left-wing and right-wing worlds are already being straightened out through head-wing thought. Also, we are tapping into the spirit of reconciliation and cooperation that exists in the religion of Islam. A miracle took place last April, when representatives from eight countries of the Middle East took part in a holy marriage Blessing. The Blessing ceremony that I conduct cleanses fallen people of the original sin. Thus I have solved the historical conflict and settled the tension between the left and the right. Furthermore, we witnessed the miracle of reconciliation in the world of Islam.
Heaven’s will for the Lord at his Second Advent
Such works cannot be performed through the great planning or inordinate ability of one individual alone. God chose me to be the Messiah, and through me He is 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 the people listen to me, how good that would be for this country. How good it would be if the statesmen listened to me. Whether a person listens to me or not is his or her individual responsibility; nonetheless, the time is coming when all the people of the world will want to listen to me.
People generally believe that the Messiah is the Lord of glory wielding the authority of judgment, but they are incorrect. Of course, God does not want to see this sinful world and He has often thought about rendering judgment and wiping it out in an instant. However, the God of true love always worries about the eternal life of each human being. You have to know God’s heart, which has endured for so long, trying through true love to make human beings do what is right of their own free will.
From the point of view of fallen men and women 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 true love that was lost at the beginning. The Messiah is the person who has pioneered the way of sacrifice, dedicating his life to liberate God from the grievous sorrow caused by the Fall. He is not a person who stands in a glorious position. He always weeps in concert with God’s heart. He is concerned with how to make Satan surrender. He is deeply concerned and anxious over 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 Satan’s world in search of His lost children. Unless he completely liberates God from His sorrow, he cannot accept glory from God.
Completing the ideal of a true family
Leaders of the Women’s Federation for World Peace, it must have been difficult for you to hold a succession of rallies, and you probably complained about being given only ten days’ notice that this rally was going to be held. However, if together with me you devote your heart sincerely every day, God’s Will of goodness shall be accomplished. I have no intention of exploiting you. You need me. You have to become one with President Han and be like an extension of her. In your families you have to educate your children and your husband’s 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, district and neighborhood leaders of the Women’s Federation for World Peace, through you, morals can be restored. Please 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 good morals, a movement for the eradication of drugs, a no-smoking and no-drinking movement, a movement to end prostitution, a movement to expose immoral behavior among the leaders of society and to inspire and encourage the youth. When you women leaders purify Korean society and achieve harmony through true love, then we can realize the cherished hope of the Korean people, the reunification of North and South Korea. Not only will our nation come to lead the world, we will see the advent of a peaceful world.
An effective Women’s Federation
Women leaders, to 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 yourselves, even if it is only one percent of what I have done, to raising up a great movement for national salvation. The most effective work of the Women’s Federation is done on the level of the town, village, district and neighborhood. When the movement of true love builds on the local level, then it will reach into the community and come to settle in the family.
We have to recover the original homeland, the world before the Fall, and restore the family, which separated from God, before we can hope for eternal settlement. God has worked so hard. He has suffered so much to bring forth the perfected Adam. That is why the True Father appeared. The true man of Heaven has been born. Because Satan’s world knows that this man is the true bridegroom, the teacher 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. Despite having to suffer enormous persecution, conniving 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 has overcome Satan’s realm on all levels: the individual, family, nation, world and cosmos.
The True Mother, whose position is to follow 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, 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, their responsibility is to allow all women to return to God. Women stand in the position of the True Mother, as extensions of the perfected Eve. From the position of the extension of Eve and on the condition of oneness with the True Mother, they come to a position of oneness with the True Father. From this position they are to educate their sons and daughters in the teaching of True Parents.
Becoming one with True Parents’ family
On the basis of this education and their oneness with their mothers, these sons and daughters come to have the status of true sons and daughters. Then they can reeducate their worldly fathers and receive True Parents’ Blessing. Thereby grafted to the True Parents, they will come to learn the family duty of true parents.
Because Adam and Eve fell on the family level, we have to accomplish restoration on the family level. Restoration has to penetrate the levels of county, district and neighborhood and settle in the family. Next, the family 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 through the cosmos, the world and the nation, and return to the family level. That is the purpose of this meeting.
The April 10 rally was the True Parents’ world rally. Its purpose was to provide a foundation for rallies on the national, city, county, town, village, district and neighborhood levels, until they arrive at the family level. By becoming one with True Parents’ family, it is possible for you, the leaders of the Women’s Federation for World Peace, to attain family restoration and become absolute victors.
Then you have to connect this to your tribe. The True Parents have already assigned tribal messiahs throughout the world. If you receive education from them and unite with them, the restoration of the nation will naturally occur. In this way the reunification of North and South Korea, of the world, and of heaven and earth will be realized. God, too, will be liberated, and we will see the 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 bridegroom. With you in the position of the bride, together let us restore the ideal family of creation.
I pray that you will become members of the Family Federation for World Peace and create families that will receive many blessings.
Thank you very much.