Sun Myung Moon
October 9, 1971
Excerpt
Selected Speeches of Sun Myung Moon 49-152 ~ 155 1971.10.9
Translator Choon-Boon Shin Morton
Central Training Center, South Korea
Photo date and location unknown
Sun-Gil Choi
It was not my choice that I married Sung-Jin's Mother. [Sung Jin Moon is Sun Myung Moon's first child and oldest son.] I did so only after I understood God's will. It was an order from God. She also met [me] according to the direction of God. Her name is Sun-Gil Choi (Often written as Sun-Kil Choi 최선길). The meaning of her name is: 최(崔) Choi (higher and grand), 선(先) Sun (first, front), 길(吉) Gil (good, lucky, auspicious).
The meaning of such a name indicates a woman who will have a rough destiny. Such name does not exist in the world. Is that so? However, if [she] goes beyond all reason, [she] will be cut off. As a woman she was great. Sung-Jin's mother was a great woman. She is a woman with special characteristics that nobody has. When she thinks she is right, no one in the world could stop her.
There is a story like this. While she was living alone with Sung-Jin, a man thought she was a widow and spoke to her in a teasing way. But she sued him as a violation of human rights and received compensation. That is the kind of person she was. Do you understand?
When she thought she was right, she was fearless whoever it might have been even it was Dr. Rhee [This may refer to Syngman Rhee, the first president of Korea]. With such characteristics, she was convinced she was right and became the ancestor of opposition to the Unification Church.
In order to ruin Teacher [True Father rarely referred to himself in first person ("I") but always his position, Teacher or Master in those days] she sold her house that she had bought with hard-earned money and hired detectives. I learned a lot because of her. To oppose the Unification Church she sacrificed her entire possessions. Such a tough and tenacious person she was. What did Teacher think then? "Ah, the story of a woman and a man. How long has been the tragic history woven by that love? And how many han [resentment] filled nations, peoples and tribes were born following that tangled relationship? It is from that tragic beginning that the Arab world, Communist bloc, and The Democratic world emerged," I thought. In the course of history, the day when woman opposes, […] become miserable. The man will be miserable.
You need to know that. Will be miserable. The man has to experience being strangled by the woman with a necktie. Do you understand? And be scratched on the face, too. The woman feels like beating the man to death in the night, and to beat to death also in the morning, in the day, and in the evening. And has the urge in her mind to stab the chest with a knife. That's Satan! Going through that kind of struggling course, the worldwide level indemnity is paid. That's why you are pushed so hard for more than 3 years course.
Women's shoes are considered bad luck [in Korea there is an expression that a woman betraying and leaving her man is "wearing the rubber shoes upside down."]... Anyway, Sung-Jin's mother actually slapped Teacher's cheek with her shoes held upside down, left cheek and then right cheek. Even as I received the beating...
To go on this path, you pass through such experiences. In that way, I have laid the foundation for today's unification ideology. I have built this kind of tradition.
Not only that, what happened to the men, women, and the grandmothers who were following the Teacher? They were persecuted and were forced to endure unspeakable acts and humiliation... They had to go through this kind of wretched course.
You hear this story for the first time, right?
"This enemy," they would say... Grabbing fistful of hair they would shake violently. The virgins were also beaten, and the grandmothers were also beaten, the aunts were also struck, and the girls had to be attacked. As for the men, grandpas had to suffer humiliation, middle aged men had to suffer, young men had to suffer and boys had to suffer, too.
It was not a joke. It really happened. Because restoration through Indemnity must be done through me, such energy was infused in the Unification Church. It was almost better to go to prison. Prison provided better shelter.
After passing through all sorts of hardships and privations, in 1960 the Holy Wedding ceremony could happen. You must know this.
Myung-Hee Kim
Who inherited the foundation in the mid-point after Sung-Jin's mother opposed Father? That is Hee-Jin's mother. (Myung-Hee Kim is Hee-Jin Nim's Mother - Hee Jin Moon is Sun Myung Moon's second child and second son.) She had to frequently cross the border. With a mission like Mary, Jesus in her womb, even though Hee-Jin's mother's belly was protruding like this, she took a smuggling boat and traveled to Japan ….There was no other way. I had to do that.
Since God's Will started centered on the relationship that was broken, the Will could not survive without focusing on a new relationship… one woman as the middle bridge.
It was the time when there was great turmoil in the Republic of Korea. At that time, police often summoned me because of incidents. Since I had to go to jail, I sent Hee-Jin's mother on a smuggling vessel to Japan. And I went to prison. Because Sung-Jin's mother lost all the foundation as object partner, she lost the foundation for the family, the nation, the church, the children, all was destroyed. She was not in position to raise children.
She destroyed everything including the foundation of the nation, and Teacher had to go to the way of prison. Do you think I did it because I liked it? Think about it. As a man who knows the way of principle…
Even so… because of I was driven into a corner by the Nation, by the Church, and even by own wife can I curse this nation, this church, this woman? Can I do this? I cannot do this. This is a country I have to love, a church to love, a person to love. And I have to love them more than I can love the enemy. That way you will be certified by your enemies. Because I understood it was the way to restore love and connect to the destiny, I went that path with gratitude.
Until now I have not been able to love the country from the depths of my heart where I shed tears. In this place I determined with a sincere heart (shim jeong) that I can love and die for that country with filial heart. Do you understand? Like Jesus died with a loving heart, I live and die for the Nation and for the People and for the Family and for the Children… alone.