You Must Help Revive America

Sun Myung Moon
June 30, 1989
13th Commencement Address
Unification Theological Seminary
Barrytown, New York

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Given at the graduation ceremony read by President David S. C. Kim

On this happy and joyous occasion of the Unification Theological Seminary's 13th graduation exercise, I extend my heartfelt congratulations to 40 new graduates. At the same time, the administration, faculty and staff of UTS, who have helped these graduates complete their academic program, deserve to be congratulated.

Furthermore, I am pleased to receive a report from your beloved President, Dr. David S.C. Kim, that 22 of last year's graduates officially received the diploma for the Master's degree in Religious Education. These MRE degrees were conferred by the New York State Board of Regents and the President of New York State University on March 17, 1989.

You are greatly honored to receive this kind of prestigious Master's degree from the Empire State of New York. Therefore, my third "congratulations" goes to the 22 MRE degree recipients who are the Unification Theological Seminary's first degree holders.

I recognize this event as a sign of the Seminary's continuous advancement as a new age educational institution. I acknowledge the UTS Board of Trustees, the faculty, the administration, the staff, and the students for their steady effort and progress. I, the Founder of this Seminary, deeply appreciate this progress made under difficult circumstances.

Revival of Christianity

May I call attention especially to the significance of this year in which you are graduating. On this happy occasion I would like to directly address you graduates regarding the urgent need for the revival of American Christianity, as part of God's dispensation and the need for a global revival of world Christianity based on the revival of America. Who is responsible for these revivals? It is your mission, as graduates, to be responsible for the future destiny of America and the world.

The land of America was richly blessed by God so it could develop rapidly. This phenomenon did not just happen by chance. In the course of God's providence the nation of America was chosen for the sole purpose of restoring this troubled world to God's side. This nation was founded on the Christian ideal; therefore, America inherits the position of the second Israel from Christianity.

God's plan was to let America become a world-power, and then lead the free world of theistic countries in confronting atheistic communism. Thus, centering on America as His chosen nation, God hoped to restore the free nations to the "ideal" according to His original will.

However, the people of America, not knowing God's providence, went in the wrong direction, especially after 1945 and the victory of World War II. They did not fulfill their heavenly responsibility for restoration to God's side. Thus, since that time, America and the free nations have lost the ideal, bringing about the moral corruption of their young people. Such moral corruption can be seen by the existence of free sex, drug and alcohol abuse and homosexuality, not only in America, but throughout the world.

Confrontation with Communism

In addition, they have been plunged into a worldwide confrontation with the rising evil force of communistic power, which has now taken more than half of this world in their global conquest. Now America is at the crossroads of "life and death" and is on the verge of complete collapse. If America fails, God will have to raise up a third Israel to restore this failure and to save America and the world.

Therefore, we must work hard to revive America from a dangerous coma and the condition of "near death." Since the "heavenly doctor" has not yet pronounced America and the free nations dead, there is some hope.

How can we revive America from its present dying condition? That is the question. First, the nation of America and the American people must return to the ideals of God: to serve God, to believe in God, to pay awesome reverence to God, and to worship God. Second, they must recognize God as their Heavenly Father and all of humankind as their brothers and sisters. Based on Judeo-Christian faith, morality, ethics and values, they have to repent for their past failures and reject the present secular, satanic values. The most urgent thing we need to do is to revive the people of America and return to the Judeo-Christian value system.

Originally, Christianity was never intended to become individualistic, but it has developed into secular humanism and extreme individualism, abandoning the original values of the family and community. The family structure and the societal system have been separated to the detriment of both. We need to bring them back together based on the original Judeo-Christian ideal that this nation's Founding Fathers envisioned in the Constitution and fought for with their lives in the War of Independence.

Return to God

If the people of America return to God and revive their original values, then the free nations will automatically be revived and the rest of the world will be restored. With a high standard of value the free nations can easily influence the communist nations, where changes are already taking place. Russia, China and the Eastern satellite countries are now waging a battle to gain a democratic system, and a "pro- democracy movement" is taking place throughout the world.

I have much hope for the near future; a global revival and restoration is within our reach under God's providential scheme and timetable. Then, all peoples of the world will know God as their Heavenly Father and will understand His dispensation and His will. So, it is up to the people of America whether or not the world can be revived and restored to God, fulfilling the ideal world on earth which God had originally planned.

So, where do we begin? First of all, the revival of Christianity must come in America. Then, we must arrest the spread of worldwide communism and expose their global conquest strategy. Furthermore, we must stop the moral decay of the young generation in the world, and tackle the worldwide "mafia gang" operation that adds to the destruction of our youth. Finally, we need to mobilize the over 400 Christian denominations to protect their young generation as future leaders through interfaith and ecumenical action. Instead of fighting with each other over doctrinal differences and denominational insistence, they must form a united front, fighting social evils in the community and the world.

I have established the Interdenominational Conferences for Clergy (ICC) for the purpose of giving direction to American ministers to help America. You graduates can teach other Christian ministers about the infinite existence of the spiritual world of heart and love as a reality in our life of faith. Let your colleagues, Christian ministers, rediscover this religious sphere.

Tribal Messiahship

We cannot sit back and watch the nation of America and the world perish. We must stop it now! Revive them; restore them to the original ideal and condition! When you go out to your mission you will immediately engage in a war between good and evil. With the help of your fellow alumni, I believe that you shall win over this war and bring victory to God.

I am even more convinced that you shall bring total victory in your mission because in 1988 I began the "Tribal Messiah System." This system is your opportunity to restore this nation by becoming a messiah to your own family. By creating God-centered tribes, each of our movement's more than 20,000 Blessed families can become tribal chieftains and messianic families. The extended family structures established by these core families will develop into community and societal structures that can turn America around to fulfill its providential mission for the world.

Once America is revived, the other free nations will follow, and once the free nations are revived, atheistic communism will turn around and begin to move towards God's direction. In this way, America and the world can be restored based on the Tribal Messiah System. The Tribal Messiah Concept is God's thought and system. It is God's providence for America and the world. Thus, the construction of the Kingdom of Heaven starts through this Tribal Messiah System. In this way, we can re-structure the original Judeo- Christian values so they can be revived.

Tribal Messiah thought, or ministry, is practiced by me in my own daily life of faith, and has been proven as a valid system. In this way, I have made God's thought and system my own. I have created this supra-national "Historical Tradition" so that you may accomplish your mission in America and the world. I am the incarnation of Heavenly Father's thought, the Tribal Messiah Concept. You can learn-this concept by studying me; this is your challenge.

I pray that Heavenly Father's love, grace, mercy and protection be upon you in your future mission, and I hope that you can bring great and total victory in the "Revival of America and the World." One more time, my sincere congratulations to you graduates who will inherit God's Kingdom on earth.


UTS Graduates its Thirteenth Class
Richard Lewis
Unification Theological Seminary 1989

A final ensemble performance by students inspires the audience.

A final ensemble performance by students inspires the audience.

At the thirteenth commencement of the Unification Theological Seminary on June 30, there were thirty graduates from the two-year Religious Education Program and ten from the three-year Divinity Program.

Founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon in 1974, the seminary admitted its first class of 50 students in 1975. It was granted a provisional charter from the State of New York in November of 1986. At that time its programs were registered as master's level programs. The students who entered the seminary that term, i.e. in the Fall of 1986, were the first to complete their studies in the newly recognized Master of Religious Education program. However, until the seminary receives its absolute charter, the degrees are granted jointly by the seminary and the State.

Rev. Baughman was the M.C. at the Commencement Ceremony and the Invocation was given by Dr. Shawn Byrne.

After the conferring of the degrees, seminary president David S.C. Kim encouraged students to practice "Unification Optimism."

"Live for the sake of others and spread God's word," he said. "This will not be easy. There will be a high degree of ups and downs after graduation, but just remember this day as a day of joy in your life."

Today's graduates face a big responsibility in the modern world because it is "crying out for the word of God," said graduate David Fraser Harris. He told the graduates that it is not money, knowledge or material items that are the key to happiness. "Always remember that Rev. Moon taught that God is the essence of true love and happiness," he said.

"I recognize this event as a sign of the Seminary's continuous advancement as a new age educational institution," said Father in an address to the students read by Dr. Kim.

Father said Americans went in the wrong direction morally after World War II. This country was established to restore the world to God's side. However, America and other free nations have lost this ideal. He cited examples of moral corruption such as promiscuity, drug and alcohol abuse and homosexuality. He encouraged graduates to "work hard to revive America from a dangerous coma and the condition of near death."

Graduates: Religious Education

Robert P. Anson, Jr. (Indiana)
Alex M. Basabe (Philippines)
Pierre Beauregard (Canada)
Bruce Biddle (Ohio)
Alison Byer (England)
Catherine Cappelli (Australia)
James O. Carron (Maine)
Charles Damon Catlett (Washington, D.C.)
Gregory Bruce Davis (Illinois)
Marshall D. De Souza (England)
David A. Fraser Harris (Scotland)
Paula Fujiwara (California)
Catherine Gueissaz (Switzerland)
Samuel C. L. Harley (Canada)
Takeo Honda (Japan)
Yasuhiro Ida (Japan)
Shuji Kajita (Japan)
Marilyn Kerins Angelucci (Rhode Island)
Jin Kun Kim (Korea)
Robyn Ledesma (New Zealand)
Onsongo N. Machini (Kenya)
Robert Maynard (Vermont)
Kenneth Nakamura (Hawaii)
Celeste M. Simms (Pennsylvania)
Myra Stanecki (California)
Steve M. Tamayo (Wyoming)
Nelson R. Toapanta (California)
Donald M. Trubshaw (England)
Reiko Wills (Japan)
Abdoulaye Wone (Mauritania)

Graduates: Divinity Program

Michael Allen Brazil (California)
Peer Martin Brunnschweiler (Michigan)
Stephen Child (Texas)
Andre W. Jenkins (Pennsylvania)
Genevieve Lataillade (New York)
David C. Mackenzie (Scotland)
Carol Ottosson (Minnesota)
Junichiro Owaki (Japan)
Jane Pridgeon (England)
Clifford W. Yank (California)


Spread 'Unification Optimism' Worldwide
David S.C. Kim
June 30, 1989

President David S. C. Kim presents degrees to the graduates.

President David S. C. Kim presents degrees to the graduates.

Congratulatory Remarks given at the Unification Theological Seminary Graduation

I have to confess something to you before I continue. Can you guess what it is? Actually, I had a great deal of trouble thinking of what to say to you. You, who have heard me speak each morning for the last two or three years, must surely be tired of hearing me by now. However, today will be my last address to you, so please bear with me.

Our Seminary, founded by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, is rapidly becoming more and more international in flavor and emphasis as our recruiting policy and procedure expands to include other nations. This year, over twenty-seven nations have sent students and our doors are now even open to communist China. Why this trend?

The nations of the world are becoming dependent upon each other as they realize they can no longer remain independent and continue to survive. Also, cross-cultural contact is more frequent than before and both inter-religious and intra-religious dialogue is becoming commonplace. Even Marxist/Christian and Christian/Buddhist dialogue is more and more popular. The two conflicting ideological camps of communism and democracy are trying to find common grounds for coexistence, prosperity and global welfare. This was never imagined possible just one decade ago. It is truly interesting to observe today's world affairs.

According to our church's teaching, this is God's providential plan as prophesied in the Bible -- the Last Days. This means, according to Unification Principle, that this is the time of the new Messiah's appearance. You graduates are qualified to understand and teach the contents of Unification Principle, especially in the area of interfaith work and world ecumenism. Even our faculty reflects this ecumenism as they represent Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Confucianism, Judaism, Greek Orthodoxy and so on. They have shown you how great variation can coexist and work together for the good without destroying each other while promoting the higher goal of worldwide well-being. They have been doing this here for the last fourteen years, since our inauguration in 1975.

Therefore, be optimistic and positive, even in pessimistic and negative situations. Based on this belief, I coined the phrase "Unification Optimism" as a term for the new age. Live for the sake of others, spread the word of God and propagate God's true love, even to your formidable enemies. By doing so, evil will naturally surrender to God's side. Thus, permanent peace, order, joy and happiness will be realized on earth. This is the "Kingdom of Heaven on earth" which Jesus referred to when he said, "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven."

Today, we all celebrate your success and accomplishment in academic as well as spiritual maturity. Your future path and mission are not necessarily static and easy, but will sometimes be cyclical, mobile and tough. In other words, there will be a high degree of ups and downs in the course of your life after graduation. Please remember this day of joy, happiness, power and spirit as you are bouncing up and leaping forward from this launching pad. Continuously and steadily advancing your work and mission, you are following in the footsteps shown to us by our Father as model followers of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. By doing this, you can positively and constructively influence this sick and troubled world and have great impact on its restoration to God's side.

We are proud of you all because you are the ambassadors of Heavenly Father and the special envoys of Reverend Moon and the Unification movement worldwide. You must also feel proud of yourselves. You deserve to be recognized and highly congratulated. May God bless you forever and, again, my congratulations to you.


Graduate Response
David Frazier Harris

David Frazier Harris

David Frazier Harris

President Kim, distinguished faculty, honored guests, ladies and gentlemen. My task this morning is to represent our 13th graduating class of 40 graduates, first of all in thanking you for what you have done for us. Some of you -- our parents -- raised us.

Some of you -- our friends -- encouraged us in our life of faith. Others -- our faculty -- guided us through the paths of learning at this seminary. Still others -- our brothers and sisters -- literally fed and housed us by your support for this precious place where we have been privileged to study. We are acutely aware that mere words cannot sufficiently express our gratitude to you all. And we cannot forget that the education we have received here has not been just for ourselves but for the sake of God and His work in restoring this world. As I speak, I find myself turning to the words of one of the early Holy Songs written by Rev. Moon:

"How can I return the blessing Though in all my life I will try? I can never stop feeling how unworthy am I."

If we look back over the past two or three years, we have been living in a rapidly changing world with democratic elections in South Korea, and the first signs of a turn to democracy in Poland, Hungary, the Soviet Union and even China. Each of us, too, has had the opportunity to change and grow in special ways -- in our many different fields of study (philosophy, psychology, church history, world religions), in field education projects (RYS) and campus clubs (Soul of Russia), in our daily life of serving one another and in our prayers here in this chapel and outside on the grounds. For me, perhaps the greatest lesson has been to get to know those to whom we owe a special "thank you." I am referring to those without whom a building like this would not be standing: the pillars of the Christian faith, the saints, the disciples of Jesus and great prophets of ancient Israel. I sincerely feel that while I have been here these have become my friends and I want to take them with me!

As I look forward to the months and years ahead, I think I am quite representative of our class if I say I shake a little. We have grown in confidence and in understanding. Indeed we feel a special bond between us. For the first time a student of the second generation of our movement has graduated from this seminary. Yet all this leads also to heightened expectations of responsibility to a world which is crying out for the word and the love of God. We are called to a ministry transcending denominations, faiths and nations, to a ministry which reaches beyond the church to all fields of life -- business, education, charitable work and ecological concerns. And it is here that we will have to prove -- in our lives -- the words of thanks that we give with our lips today.

As we leave Barrytown, we leave with knowledge in our pockets. Our founder and inspiration, Rev. Moon, is fond of reminding us that the essence of God is neither money, nor power, nor knowledge, but it is true love. As Paul tells us in First Corinthians, without love we are nothing. But there is another side to this coin. Because of man's fall, our God became a God of loneliness and suffering, betrayed by His children. So it was the most religious people who touched God in that misery. Hence the loneliness and poverty of the prophets and the saints. But surely God should not have to suffer like this forever, surrendering His own creation to a secular world.

Somehow, someday, someone has to reclaim everything, including knowledge, for God. With faith and knowledge our lives can be bricks in the building of God's Kingdom. In this way we can give our thanks, not only to all of you, but to God.

On behalf of the graduates, I would like to thank you all and pray for God's blessing on each and every one of you.

Chairman of the Korean Family-Clan Chairmen's Association installation ceremony

Sun Myung Moon
June 23, 1989
Inaugural Address
Seoul, Korea

Father and Mother receive honorary crowns during the installation ceremony.

Father and Mother receive honorary crowns during the installation ceremony.

Respected President Seok Woo Sohn, eminent guests, and head and leaders of each clan representing the Korean people!

Today I thank you for your single-minded effort in preparing this meaningful ceremony to install me as the Chairman of the Korean Root-Finding Association.

As you might already know, I am founder of the Unification Church, the International Science Conference, the Assembly of World's Religions and the World Media Conference. While guiding the global Unification movement, I have been made chairman or honorary president of many important organizations. However, seen providentially, the significance of this ceremony is very remarkable.

Deeply hoping that this movement can bring the opportunity for finding and better attending God who is the Root of all beings and of life itself, I happily accepted this chairmanship.

From time immemorial, Koreans have put emphasis on clans, and have regarded ancestors and the root of their clan as most precious. Some say that such a tradition came from the fact that Korean history was the history of an agrarian society based on a collective, sedentary life-style with villages whose members had the same family names. Others feel the origin of such a tradition was the Confucianist teaching whose core was the familial ethic. But the ultimate origin is in a deeper place.

From early times, Koreans have respected Heaven and treated filial piety as the most fundamental virtue. This was Heaven's plan for specially raising this people. God has been raising this people to worship ancestors and to be filially pious to their parents in order to make them the people in the world who best attend Him, the Root and Parent of all humankind. Therefore, centering on matchless respect for Heaven, loyalty, filial piety and etiquette, Koreans have been taking care of their clans and lineages.

All of you as representatives of clans and lineages have been working to preserve our precious tradition by teaching it to our next generation. But, the Korean society is going through the process of rapid industrialization and urbanization, causing the communitarian spirit to disappear and the position of the family, challenged from many sides, is also changing. Recently we are faced with a crisis in which our traditional culture and good customs are totally shaken. Such an unhappy situation is worsened with the conflict between generations and the confrontation between labor and management.

In such a situation, the Root-Finding Association should develop not only into a movement for finding and attending the ancestors of each of us, but into a movement which confirms that all of us are descendants from the same root. Genealogies on the lineage-level should be unified into a genealogy of an entire people.

Clan-level root consciousness should be sublimated for a higher root consciousness as a centripetal force of all humanity. Originally we were not created in a relationship where one cannot survive without eliminating another. We are a community receiving resin from the same root. Our movement should not be restricted to the people-level. We should call everybody's attention to the fact that the root of various races is ultimately one, and should educate humankind to harmonize through one root and to live as a community on board the same boat called Earth.

True Parents join in a ceremony-closing mansei cheer.

True Parents join in a ceremony-closing mansei cheer.

All leaders should open their minds

With the development of science and technology, humankind has come to need international cooperation now more than at any time in the past. Global communication and joint projects for resource mobilization are urgently needed. The global environment and atmosphere should be preserved for the survival of our descendants. We in contemporary society cannot predict the future of the world and are uneasy with ideological confrontation between east and west, mass-production of modern weapons, international terrorism and crimes, prevalence of decadent trends, and so on.

All leaders should open their minds, cooperate internationally, harmonize for the purpose of the whole and solve urgent world problems. Now, more ever, we should understand all humanity as one organic community, demolish barriers between races, harmonize and unify cultures.

That being so, with what can we eliminate barriers between races and realize the ideal world? How can we fundamentally remove the obstacles to peace?

How varied are opinions even at the lineage meeting, and how difficult it is to make harmony and unity even in one family! If only the clue for a solution could be found somewhere. Where is the starting point for harmony of different cultures and traditions toward one world family without wars, and toward a world of happiness? The fundamental answer can be found only when humankind realizes that God, who is the root of all beings, is also the beginning and root of each of them and then follow the heavenly laws.

The purpose for me to have communicated with God and wandered in search of the heavenly laws, and gone through a course of spiritual discipline and practice throughout my 70-year life, was to provide the solution for this fundamental problem. Just as a man lives with his mind (not with his body), the end of humankind can come anytime if the fundamental problem in our relationship with God is not solved.

Respected leaders of clans and lineages! The origin of this universe is not simply material or based on spontaneous genesis. There is God the Creator who is the primary cause of the universe. He is the absolute, eternal, unchanging goodness.

All beings and phenomena in the universe are created according to God's basic design -- the purpose of creation. The purpose of creation is to feel joy. Joy, however, cannot be felt by oneself. In order for a certain subject to feel joy, its object is needed. The best kind of joy is felt when subject and object have give and take of love reciprocally.

Humans are God's sons and daughters whom He created in order to feel joy eternally through loving them infinitely. They are the closest objects to God. In this way, God created a son and a daughter as ancestors of humankind. They are called Adam and Eve in the Bible.

Humans are God's sons and daughters

God, who is absolute, cannot make another strand of true love except this first son and daughter who are His objects of True Love. No matter what they are called, humankind, the objects of God's True Love, originated from one ancestral couple.

What kind of world would have been realized if our ancestors, Adam and Eve, had completed God's love, had give and take of true love with each other and multiplied good descendants? They were supposed to build an ideal family to attend God as their vertical, incorporate Parent, coupled in love, and then become horizontal parents. If, originating from that true family, a prosperous clan (that is, Adam clan) had been formed and developed into a people, nation, and finally a world population, that world would have been happily filled with God's love and goodness.

Such a world is none other than the Kingdom of Heaven: through this kingdom God's purpose of creation would have definitely been realized on earth. All humanity was to live in the earthly Kingdom of Heaven and then later go to the spiritual Kingdom of Heaven. In this way, God's purpose of creation was to realize a great family centering on God, making all of humankind one family.

The good family laws of Adam centering on God would have immediately become a tradition handed down from generation to generation. There would have been a unified world where there was only one language coming from one root, one culture and one heavenly sovereignty. Can we imagine evil, injustice, ideological conflict or wars in such a world?

But, what is today's reality like? We ended up with a world which is the opposite of God's Ideal. In an individual, mind and body are in conflict with each other. And in families, lineages, clans, societies, and nations which such individuals form, contradiction, disunity and struggles continue.

This world is a perpetuation of the misery derived from immorality, decadence, inequity, violence, wars and massacres, confusion of values, conflicts between cultures and traditions resulting in ideological confrontations.

I don't have enough time for a detailed explanation. However, in order to restore this world to its original state, Heaven has brought saints to light the heavenly way and educated mankind through various religions. It is not easy to practice goodness in an evil world. That is why so many righteous people have been sacrificed and why the true way should be that of self-sacrifice and unconditional offering.

By trying to find our "real root" through the root-finding movement, we reach our ancestors' predecessors who were the ancestors of humankind. The way to find the root of goodness is to overcome evil and injustice of a million different kinds. But we cannot find the true root without knowing God and the Heart that faced our human ancestors.

Father delivers his Chairman's address to the general audience at the Little Angels Performing Arts Center's main concert hall.

Father delivers his Chairman's address to the general audience at the Little Angels Performing Arts Center's main concert hall.

Through this people and this land God intends to realize a new heaven and new earth

Seen externally, a tree changes its appearance and color. But, after eliminating all the changing elements one by one, we see that there remains seeds and life which are fundamental to the root.

Similarly, the true root-finding movement which will return humankind to its origin by following the direction of restoration has to digest and solve all elements of evil. We should be engrafted to God's Life and True Love to become purified sons and daughters of God.

It is not accidental that Korea is proud of its time-honored wonderful genealogical records and has become a center for genealogical research. To be modernized, become rich, and live well externally should not be the only goal for Koreans.

Through this people and this land God intends to realize a new heaven and new earth of true love and to make a foundation for happiness for mankind.

It is a miraculous blessing I have brought to this people. Based on a revelation from God, I have shed light for the first time throughout human history on God's Heart and the Purpose of Creation. The Unification Movement of True Love which I am guiding, centered on a religious ideology I created, has already been confirmed as a movement that can save the life of the world beyond East and West, cultural spheres, nations and peoples.

Giving rise to spiritual and moral revolutions, it is being spread like a prairie fire in 137 countries. I am not preaching the theory of true love here. I am talking to you on the foundation of globally practicing true love through the suffering way -- risking my physical life because of global misunderstanding, extreme persecution and religious prejudice. I accomplished this motivated by God's True Love and Life Force.

Respected representatives of clans and lineages! This root-finding movement should become a true love movement based on God. In our lives we should inherit the teachings of saints, particularly Jesus -- who is the embodiment of true love. All of us should become heroes who face each other through God who is our Root. We should extend our love relationships to overcome the conflicts of this age, demolish barriers of age-long disharmony and realize a harmonious world. Especially, I understand that unification of South and North Korea should be accomplished on the foundation of homogeneity as one people through activating the Root- finding movement of true love.

Now is the time when everyone should humbly return to the root and through love become one with each other. We should not sacrifice the whole to benefit the individual. The global situation is such that we cannot hesitate any longer. We should, through the practice of love, materialize the blessing which God gave to our people. Let us all stand up and connect all peoples to our movement to realize, at any cost, the ideal of harmony of mankind through the True Root, the Lighthouse of True Love.

May God's Blessing be with you and your families! Thank you.


Report on the ceremony installing Father as the Chairman of the Korean Family-Clan Chairmen's Association
David Hose

Dr. Sohn Seok Woo

Dr. Sohn Seok Woo

The Korean Family-Clan Chairmen's Association is called the Korean Root-Finding Association in Korean (KRFA). It is a national organization made up of the leadership of literally all (about 275) of the Korean traditional family, or clan, names. Literally embracing the entire Korean population, the KRFA was organized to stand for traditional Korean values, culture, and the unity of the Korean people. Guided by a deep inspiration, the President of the KRFA, Dr. Sohn Seok Woo, made contact with our True Father and asked him to become the Chairman of this significant organization. In personal conversation, Dr. Sohn gave testimony that he was guided in spirit that if the Korean clans came together in unity, then a great figure would be sent to lead them. His conviction has been that Father is that figure.

The morning of Friday, June 23rd, dawned clear and hot here in Seoul. At the Little Angels Performing Arts Center, activity had been going on since the previous day to prepare for the ceremony and program installing our True Father as the Chairman of the KRFA. While the public installation was to take place at 12 noon, a very significant and smaller private ceremony, the Il Shim Shik (One Heart Ceremony), took place at 10 a.m. in True Parents' quarters on the Center's third floor. This ceremony was participated in by our True Parents, 12 elder blessed leaders from the Korean Unification Church, and 12 leaders chosen from among the KRFA leadership. The participants, all dressed in white gowns, were guided by the Master of Ceremony, Rev. Kwak, in offering three full Korean bows to True Parents. This was followed by the presentation of two beautiful traditional Korean crowns. From a restorational perspective, the ceremony signified the unity, in one heart, of the Cain and Abel brothers centered on their common root from Hananim and True Adam and Eve. This quiet but rich internal event was certainly the core of the later, more public installation in the main performance hall at noon.

Well before noon, the main hall of the Performing Arts Center was crowded with KRFA representatives and much of the leadership of the Korean Unification Church. Panning across the auditorium, one could see a whole cross-section of Korean society: prosperous looking urban couples dressed in Western clothing, as well as traditionally clad old gentlemen with Korean straw hats and long chin whiskers. There was a distinct sense of historical Korea in the hall.

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On the stage to the left of the podium sat various representatives of the KRFA including President Sohn; just to the right of the podium sat Father and Mother, joined by Hyo Jin Nim, Hoon Sook Nim, Dr. Bo Hi Pak, Rev. Chung Hwan Kwak, President Young Whi Kim and several other Unification leaders from Korea, Japan and America.

President Sohn started the ceremony with an introductory welcome and speech about the KRFA, and the privilege of having Father as its new Chairman. Father was introduced and gave a speech which really put the vertical historical perspective on the day's events and the KRFA.

After Father's speech, interrupted a number of times by warm applause, Father and Mother were each presented incredibly ornate and beautiful Korean traditional crowns. Given along with floral bouquets, the crowns were particularly noteworthy and gave one the feeling that an important moment of recognition was taking place.

Congratulatory speeches followed. Dr. Ahn Ho Sang, modern Korea's first national Minister of Education, led the addresses. He was followed by Dr. Pak, Dr. Osami Kuboki and Dr. Mose Durst. These last three speeches were especially important for helping the KRFA membership, generally not Unificationist, get a better grasp of Father and his worldwide activities.

After the closing of the public ceremony, the performance hall quickly emptied of the 1800 person capacity crowd, as everyone scurried toward cars and buses for the short trip to the Sheraton Walker Hill Hotel, for a luncheon banquet provided and hosted by the "new Chairman." Another special moment took place during the lunch, when Father announced the creation of a new scholarship fund for the sons and daughters of the KRFA membership. In making his presentation, Father stressed the importance of the future and the young people as the nation's future leaders.

After lunch, the scene switched back to the Little Angels Performance Center for a congratulatory dance program by the Little Angels. This was the capper for a memorable day. There is little doubt that the KRFA membership will soon find their new Chairman to be a man who will take the organization deeper, wider and higher than its own founding goals.

How Great Love Is!

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Belvedere, Tarrytown, New York USA
June 11, 1989
Unofficial Notes from 9:00 am Speech

There are two kinds of people: men and women. How different are they? Very similar? No, there are great differences. However, they have the same eyes, limbs, and so on, seven openings in the body. Each has a torso, head and three sections to each limb, (giving twelve sections for the four limbs). Also each finger has three sections (twelve for each hand) plus two for each thumb. Even when the baby is growing in the womb, the thumb is inside the fingers. The thumb represents God the two sections of the thumb representing the duality of God. This also represents all things heaven and earth. We walk by moving our feet and our arms move too. The rhythm between the two represents the relationship between heaven and earth. In the spiritual world, and on earth we have parents and children. There are twelve tribes in heaven and on earth. The lunar calendar has twenty four "months" in a year. It is centered on the cycle of the moon divided by two. What calendar should we use, the solar only or the lunar as well? We need night as well as day.

When you look at a man's face, the eyes move, representing God. Why are they in the middle and on a horizontal plane? What if they were vertical? It would be very difficult. They need to be horizontal in order to measure distance. The nose represents man. Even though there are two eyes, they are always focused on one thing, and there are two nostrils, but only one nose. The mouth represents the earth. All this study of the structure of the human face is called "phrenology".

With big eyes, too much light gets in, so small eyes are better, they see everything. All eyes have a white background, no matter what the race. Ears have three layers inner, middle and outer ear. God created man like this to symbolize all things.

Man and woman have all the same parts with the exception of one function which has corresponding parts that are either indented or protruded. Man and woman must be equal, but how will this be achieved? Through the nose, eyes, mouth? No, these won't work. Only one part can unite the two completely. For women, the most important organ is the womb so she can have children. The deepest part in a woman is inside the womb. What connects them, manpower or woman power? Who is the subject of love, man or woman? The man. He is the subject of control, the core. The object is peripheral, moving around. All motion is circular, centered on the core.

When a man and woman hold hands, the man's hand is big and rough, while the woman's is small and soft. The man should hold the woman. The woman can then the be center. So we have to keep a balance, give and take between the man and the woman so as to create motion. There is high and low in nature, mountains and valleys. We see this everywhere in nature. Likewise in human relationships.

America is the flattest continent, and here there is democracy and equality. India and China have the tallest countries Himalayan mountains. Height represents the spiritual side. The physical side is represented by the flat lands. Looking at the world as a whole, there is a good balance. Electricity has single phase and double phase. An electric light seems to be on constantly, but actually it is going on an off very quickly at about one sixteenth of a second. But this "on-off" speed is faster than that to which our eyes can respond.

In China there are 1.3 billion and in India, .8 billion. So in those two countries alone there is nearly half the world's population. They are like the mountains. They do not wobble if the winds blow.

The deepest religions emerge in the heights. Where did religions emerge? In temperate climates whereas the emergence of ancient civilizations was in tropical climates. Which is a more ideal beginning spring or autumn? The twentieth century is like autumn. Modern civilization belongs in temperate climate (autumn). As autumn wears on, the leaves fall down, and we can only see the branches. After autumn we move into winter and then on into spring. We have had to move on through a winter of communism. Even though we may hold on very strongly to a season, we cannot stop time and therefore, inexorably we will move on into spring. The west must go north (through communism) and on to the far east. In the far east, the whole of civilization has to find a new direction. In Korea we have communism (in the north) and Democracy (in the south). Christianity is the basic religion. We have everything mixed up in Korea.

So we should find some harmony between communism and Christianity. The West represents the female, and the East represents the male. Geo-politically we need man and woman, peninsular and island. We can deduce that this is where all the problems of civilization can be resolved. Korea represents man/manhood, and Japan represents woman/womanhood. We need a new thought, theology and blend of religions and ideologies.

Democracy represents humanism. Communism represents materialism. Christian theology from the south represents God. Christ emphasizes that we only need God and nothing else. Liberation theology recognizes the need for the material world, but they place God below man, this is their problem.

The law of motion says that the large is attracted to the small, and the small to the large. Those areas in countries where we can solve these problems are countries that take these things seriously. Life and death is a cycle and centering on a core, it needs to take place. We see summer, autumn, and winter civilizations, but not spring (eastern civilizations). Spring should have been first, but because of the fall of man, we lost the spring, so it will appear last.

Western civilizations based upon humanism and materialism are at their highest peak in America, but it does not touch God nor the highest half in mankind. Father's character includes all civilizations and all seasons, but he still does not settle down. Buddhism too and Christianity, democracy and communism are in turmoil. Everything is in turmoil, struggling to find peace and unity. Creating the solution is our destiny.

God, mankind and all things must come into harmony. How is this to be done? Humanism cannot do it. Materialism definitely cannot do it. Godism cannot either only love can bring harmony. God is love and alone cannot be happy. No matter how great God is, he needs love. Only love can bring unification.

We've seen all civilizations striving for unity, but this has not been achieved. No matter how excited the sex organ is, it has to find a love partner to conclude. Without a love partner, there is no fulfillment. It is not good. It is this simple.

Japan and Korea were enemies for years. Man and women are also enemies. Father saw a movie where a woman said that men make life miserable, and vice versa. But Jesus said to "love your enemy". Jesus' ideal is to dwell inside the enemy through love. Day and night, front and back all meet in the ideal.

Father is already experienced in matching. If Father asked you for your preference, you would choose the worst match. If you hate a man, then that is the most ideal one for you. Even if men hate women, they have to love each other eventually. If in fighting you move into unity faster, then that's OK.

So all religions need to get together to make the ideal. All ideologies are the same is that true? No, they fight and argue. But as soon as a man and a woman get together and touch each other then everything can be solved. After love, everything becomes peaceful. No matter what the argument is, a person will do anything, or go anywhere to be poked with the needle of love. Does democracy have that needle of love, can it excite like that? No. Do other religions and thoughts have that needle of love? No. So we have to declare that they are at an end.

Look at Korea from the perspective of spiritual power. Korea has been attacked and pounded for thousands of years 931 times. They never gave in and yet the country has survived. No big country has not attacked Korea. But no one has ever digested them. Only great love, great goodness and great justice can digest Korea.

Father comes from Korea so he has a similar character. Lovism is the only power. If Korea can have something that can embrace all things by lovism, then the unification of the world can begin in Korea. Spring can then come. Korea has very clear distinct seasons. Father didn't say this. Many people have come to Korea and said the climate is "like home" (the ideal).

Korean women keep their chastity. They would rather die than move from one husband to another. Korean people have nothing, but even during the Japanese occupation, they did not want to marry. Father matched chaste women to all races very generously. Korean people understood that Father could do this. They think Father is a great patriot and say he must have a reason. They understand.

Westerners are flamboyant. Koreans are the real women for American playboys. Once an American finds out the value of Korean women, then they accept. Through love alone, Father creates unity between four enemy countries and creates a family system. All four nations gave up saying, "Oh, Reverend Moon, do what you want". Father grows by being hit. Now those who once hit Father kneel down and accept him.

We may say that Father has a strange thought, but he knows how everything moves. Father was born in Korea, and even there, people didn't like him in the beginning. But with the passing of time, they have become proud of Father. The Japanese say Father is Asian. American's say that he is so Western. After all that has happened, are people angry or happy? Up, down, left and right, all people and all colors now welcome Reverend Moon. Do you like or not like Father? (Like!) Is that true? Raise your hands you strange people!

You already know how great love is. Father is a champion and king matchmaker. Of 2500 Japanese/Korean couples, not one opposed Father. Were the parents unhappy? Those matched answered, "Our parents are not getting married. I am!" How proud are you to be matched and married by Father? Wherever we go we will have so many stories to tell. At the Cultural Olympics we will see Father give the Blessing to the whole world. He might charge a fee for this! "mani" much much money for a matching fee.

Do you welcome me, temporarily or forever, and with what? True love power, not true love philosophy. Sometimes you have to follow Father's behind, but you wouldn't like that the smelly gas.

The only way for the West to survive is that you have to endure the coldest winter in order to get to spring. Moonies have that seed inside. The seed has two parts, surrounded by a shell. It needs the cold weather to crack the seed shell so that it can come out. God is so scientific. So we need a severe winter of communism. You need life inside in order to live beyond into spring and summer. When winter is over, the seed breaks out in spring, and True Parents love can spread all over the world like an umbrella, giving one world culture. How wonderful!

"Yes", the Korean "ne" sounds like "no". So pronounce it correctly. Godism, humanism, and materialism have all been tried in western air, but all were spat out. But one thing is staying. Westerners tried everything from free sex and streaking (all Satan's ways) to homosexuality and lesbianism and separation of the family through divorce. All these miserable situations are hell. Father came to turn this around. This turn about is absolutely needed. You are participating today, and you must absolutely follow, and not in a mediocre way. I heard many times "Reverend Moon should go home". But now some famous guys have said, "Welcome Reverend Moon". I even have a green card.

Is Father good or mediocre? (Good!) Is being changeable good or not? (Not good!) Did you always like me? Why did you change so fast? Because of true love. Did you see true love? It doesn't have a shadow. How can you understand that true love is good? If you don't have unity, how can you know? Many people say Reverend Moon is a smart liar. But you can see Reverend Moon has love.

In the courtroom we made The Washington Times in order to save this country, to defeat liberalism. Is that true? (Yes!) Famous leaders now acknowledge this. I went through Fraser, Carter and Mondale to defeat liberalism.

Western dress tends to be all in one piece. Men's dress is more complicated and strict ties socks, etc. They loose all that good time. When you go to the bedroom, if it takes a long time to take off your clothes you loose precious time. Women have it easy getting dressed in the morning. But they need many different parts to put on, then they won't have time to dominate men!

Women have to be like queens with many rings--in the ears, nose, mouth, navels etc. Women should take a long time to dress and undress. That will keep you in the right place and out of trouble! Father says that men don't have to wear ties, just pants and a jacket. If you take too much time to dress, this is no good.

Are Western women the same as Eastern women? Yes or no? Look at Adam and Eve in the garden. Man was very active, looking at everything, climbing trees. Woman had lots of time so the archangel was there to talk with her.

In Korea, women's minds are like a reed. If one woman is the next village wears yellow, then all the women want yellow. Men are like a rock. Eagles and big birds never sit on branches, but only on rocks. Father saw eagles in Alaska catching salmon. He saw some on branches, but this is not often the case, they usually rest on rocks. Man is like a rock. Eagles don't often flap their wings like small birds. Rather they soar in the air. When he sees his prey, he just goes straight down at great speed. Man is like a rock, and it doesn't matter what is around him. He just does what he has to do rain, snow, or sun it doesn't matter.

Women are very different. A basket of flowers is the symbol of a beautiful woman. For kings give flowers, but for women give jewelry, something that is unchanging and lasts forever. Men are unchanging, so they need something changeable. Women change, so they need something unchanging.

A diamond is hard and unchanging as are gold and pearls. When we want to show that we don't change, get diamonds. Do the women want to shop for the diamonds by themselves? No, they want their husbands to do that. This shows unchangeableness from your husband. What is more unchanging? Love.

Love is to bombard your wife with unchanging things. If the husband is dying in hospital, you will sell all your jewelry to save him. Why? Because true love is more precious than anything else. For women it's clear, they follow men. But what about men? They should follow love and follow Parents.

Children become like the parents. You resemble me, so I like you. Men and women should follow what? Love, after making unity. Then follow parents. This is the original ideal formula. We must combine as one to combine with God. So as a couple becomes one, as night and day and spring and summer become one, God has a dwelling place. Ideal love couples are welcome everywhere.

Often the American concept is that parents are bad, couples are bad, men are bad, women are bad. Why? Because they don't belong to the ideal.

Why is love so great? Because all five billion here on the earth are born out of this one plan, under this one flag. Including you. You are a result of that love, whether it was good or bad love. If we were born out of bad love, we have to indemnify it. Children born out of good ancestry with a good love motivation are different. There is servants blood and king's blood, and they cannot be the same. Satan utilized this fact to raise the lower people up and destroy the kings etc, using arms and power. If God had that kind of hatred, man would have been wiped out a long time ago. So in fact, Satan does not have the right to destroy with hatred either.

WW II was the time of arms and fighting Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini.

After WW II was the time of legs farmers and workers communism. Ancient times were ruled by arms and power. No matter how great legs are, they are for the arms and head and body. Only true love can bring harmony between the legs, arms and head.

Look at Americans. They are proud of their two hundred years of history, but they are forgetting about the rest of the world's history. This is a sure sign of punishment. Realistically, we can only be proud of love. Who made the different colors of race, who made it? Money or power? No, God. Blacks and whites are born of love. Which race is closer to true love, white or black? We need a good criteria to decide what is right and what is wrong. The only enduring thing is the standard of true love. Every person needs true love. If a country is bad, it is so because of bad culture which has a bad origin bad love.

Love should embrace every color and welcome everything. Before we talk about culture, we have to talk about love. Judgment should be passed on the standard of love. A culture must center on true love, making it a love culture. Humankind doesn't know that. Where do you get that love culture from? From the government? No. Reverend Moon came and taught us the ideal of original love and original culture. Such love can embrace everything past, present and future.

Peace, happiness and harmony will all come from a love culture. How can we escape from the fallen world and its agony and misery? Who made such a world? Satan. This is Satan's world. We can escape it only by establishing the love culture.

We don't need money, power or knowledge. Why did Reverend Moon appear on earth? To make the love race. Thank you Reverend Moon! Those who do not care for a love culture, raise your hands. The larger the action of love, the bigger it become. It doesn't matter who is the center, man or woman. If we make one world centering on love, even heaven will come in. Your ancestors are looking down on America and saying, "Why are you separating? Even the bees and ants know how to make unity". Which do you prefer to belong to Reverend Moon or America? (Reverend Moon!) Why? I am a different color. But what can bring all the different colors together? Power? No, love. Moonies are a love race, with true life and true love. Those who want to become part of the love race, raise your hands.

We should educate our children that we are different. The love race is different. This is what God originally wanted, an original masterpiece, not a copy. America is a copy, it is made up of deviated love. This is very different to original love. True love is not self-centered, it is for the sake of others. You don't have to smile to show original love, but you can smile inside in your mind and spirit. Your eyes and fingernails should be the expressions of love.

We are the love race, but still we are a minority. But seeds are always small, even those of huge trees. God wants this love to become huge too.

Father is a fisherman. He wants to make us all fishermen, and for us to eat fish three times a day raw fish for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Cooking reduces the goodness. Dry the fish and eat it out of your pocket!

How great love is. All things, even queens and millionaires, how much they crave for love, but here is a race that is born out of love and lives crazily in love. When the world hears this they will welcome it so much. Wear love glasses, then everything is the color of love. Even when Father touches a face, it is so natural to offer praise to God. There is no impurity. This is why enemy countries came to love Father. If Father was not married, so many would come after him. We know true love is more precious than American love.

There are so many Moonies behind the iron curtain. Some have been killed. Some are sick in Africa. Father never wrote to them. But they get power enough because like the sun, Father rises every day and casts love everywhere. In more remote countries, the same sun rises and even the animals and plants are grateful to Father.

In our future life, there will be no war or conflict. History has produced many philosophers, both good and bad, but mankind usually followed the bad. There are many saints and religious people, but not many true followers. All are waiting for the second coming. At the second advent, if Jesus comes again, how many Christians will face judgment?

China is trying to subjugate its people by force, but by love would be so much better. If the government could teach a love demonstration, it would be welcomed by everyone, every time. If we demonstrate for love, then America will rise up. We know what love demonstrations are. In order to connect, we have to be like a rubber band, and bind together with love.

We know that this is a wise way. The winner is the one who gets persecuted and yet upholds love. Digest even the enemy and like fertilizer, encourage the growth of love. The quicker the world rots, the faster we will grow. It is good fertilizer. Dig your roots deep.

When bad people find true love, they change quickly. Mediocre people linger on and on. The bad don't usually mind dying, but mediocre people want to live on. Dash for martyrdom if American's were willing to sacrifice, then change would come more quickly. There needs to be more missionaries from America to communist countries.

Father doesn't want to be in debt to children, parents, God, Heaven or Earth. Work intensely for the sake of true love and then we have no ground to complain. How fantastic it is that we have ideal love. Why do we continue to sit and listen to love? Because it doesn't tire us. We learned a great deal today.

If a woman dances like crazy, but she has true love, then all will come and respect her. You cannot praise her too much. If someone hits me for love, then it is no problem. Go out to the world and die for true love and for future generations. Then the future will kneel down and respect you. That is good. In the Bible, when it says we must be willing to die, and then we will live, needs to include "for the sake of love". Also Jesus should have said, "I am the way, the life and the love". He needed to complete the description. A woman waiting to meet the bridegroom of true love should wait alone. Don't let anyone touch you. Only open everything for that one partner of true love. This will bring true happiness.

If your husband kisses you, kiss back more strongly, just like electric power. Love is like power, you cannot separate from it. Human culture is now going from the West to the East, and centering on Father, it will return again from the East to the West.

The American way is any way a variety of ways. But the true love way is only one way. It is absolute. Do the work of God so much that you get dizzy. Is such a person a happy person or not? Such a person is happy, like Reverend Moon. So is Reverend Moon happy? He has no time for rest, play or sleep. Is he happy or not? Unhappy, but for true love.

Which would you prefer? To live or die for your children, for myself or for all heaven and earth? The last. When we go to the spiritual world, if we can say we lived for the sake of our country and world, I gave up my family and country for the world, then that person will become the center in the spiritual world. God knows me well. Love is the final point. I am proud to be a true love man. From all four corners the world people will bow down and say, "I will serve you". Think about it. In all history, people have been working and researching for true love. If we become the key holder of a great big secret warehouse and pass along true love to all, how wonderful it would be. How wonderful it would be to make this a reality.

If we pass these fliers and brochures out, if they are not received, put them back in the warehouse and they'll turn to gold. That's true! There's no time to rest or sleep. Spend all your time working hard.

God pulled on the root of true love and found on the end of the root that most infamous Reverend Moon with Mother and True Children following (like potatoes on the roots). Often they don't like true love action, how about you? You say you like it, but actually you don't like it.

How can we follow bad-tempered Father? How many of you are still attached to this root? In all of Sodom and Gomorrah, there were only five righteous men. On what side would you stand? God's love side or on the perishing side?

Father doesn't mind sweating (his jacket and tie were soaked) and he doesn't mind the time passing. What's time in true love? The outside world would never understand what we receive from Reverend Moon. We receive true love so we want to teach them and become the king and queen of true love. This is Tribal Messiahship. Do you want to become kings and queens? (Yes!) Good. Everyone has an equal chance, but you have to work hard and it doesn't come free. Even dumb people who work hard serving everyone become kings and queens. The smart ones will not necessarily make it. Only those who work day in and day out.

Do you understand? Go and die for true love. While you were young, your mother repeatedly talked about you getting married. You didn't like to hear that , but inside it was OK. Why? Because of true love. If Father talks to you saying, "You must die for true love", you mustn't mind hearing it. If you sleep and Father smashes you, say, "Thank you Father". Don't ask for damages! Does God love Reverend Moon? (Yes!) Which religious leader has been persecuted more than Reverend Moon? This is like a quiz program! The immediate answer is "Reverend Moon". As a result there are so many changes and Father is bringing the true love power. Is it good or bad for Father to speak longer and longer? Father wants to do more, to save even one person who can learn something from what Father says.

Father knows how to make essence. Father knows how to make things short and condensed, when necessary. Father's warehouse is full of material. He can give a ten hour or a ten year sermon. There is so much stuff in his warehouse. I want to teach you everything to make it clear, so there will be no problem. Father feels good. What about you? Can you speak for five hours? Father doesn't notice the time, and we don't either. But now our stomach is telling us something.

Would we like to live in a hut or a mansion? Wherever love is. If your husband is Russian, then will you love Russian love or only "my love"? If my husband is Russian and he is my love, the "Russian" has no place. All that is important is that "he is my love". People have been wandering and looking for true love. Now we have found true love, we have to think seriously how to pass this revolution on.

The nose represents man. The Westerner has a long and sharp nose. If the base is wide, they can encompass more. Someone with a wide and long nose will become rich one day.

All US Presidents have wider noses, except Carter. He has a sharp cutting nose. Bush needs a trunk strong support!

Many famous people visiting E.G. say the Korean situation is very difficult. But no matter, I have paid indemnity for all of Korea, so it doesn't matter what communism says, they cannot make any action.

All western countries came against me, centering on America, and even put Reverend Moon in jail. They thought, "Now the troublemaker has disappeared". But were they wrong!

So we should do silent love demonstrations for everyone, even as Father did in Danbury. Make a good family and show that to the world. You don't need Father to remind you again and again. Love-parents and love-children, this is what we should become. With this as our tradition, the future is full of hope. If we can continue on this way for the rest of our lives, and for generations to come, then we have true hope. You are very ambitious and have big guts. God bless you!

Ten Points -- Guidance for Leaders

Sun Myung Moon
June 5, 1989
Leaders Conference
World Mission Center
Translator: San Kil Han

At East Garden on In Jin Nim's birthday and Shin Kwon Nim's first public appearance, August 19, 1989. Left to right: Father, In Jin Nim and Mother holding Shin Kwon Nim. (Photo: Ken Owens / New Future Photo)

At East Garden on In Jin Nim's birthday and Shin Kwon Nim's first public appearance, August 19, 1989. Left to right: Father, In Jin Nim and Mother holding Shin Kwon Nim. (Photo: Ken Owens / New Future Photo)

During the Leader Conference, Father gave ten special points to the leadership to be conveyed to all Unification Church members.

Each individual should make a 40-day prayer condition, skipping one meal a day. For 40 days pray to completely change yourself and our church!

We have all gone together with Father through an indemnity course, for the sake of other people. When it comes to tribal messiahship, however, it is directly for yourself rather than for anyone else. Previously whatever you gained was like a war trophy, but now your results are about to go into direct ownership. You will be able to accomplish this based upon the tradition of parents' love. The parental love which you exercise will gain results for not only your family, but for your tribe. Together we are going to Heaven.

During these 40 days, you should pray to understand everything Father has said. We must remember all that Father has taught us recently. Do not be conceptual about it, but make it realistically and practically your own. You should pray and study with absolute focus. You can learn so much at this time about living your life to nourish your tribal members as their messiah. "Messiah" is a savior. Father suggests you pray like this: "I am completely new at standing in the center of this savior situation. Help me to make this foundation."

During this 40-day period and the 7 days after it, you can solve every problem. After that, your tribe will be thankful for their tribal messiah.

This is much the same situation as when Jesus ascended into heaven 40 days after he resurrected. During these 40 days we must pray hard to come back to the original position with a prepared foundation.

1. Reassessing or Checking Leaders

Until now anybody could be put into a leadership position. But at this time the leaders must have qualifications. It has been a wartime situation in the past and during wartime anything can happen. But now we need a peacetime system. So we should reassess our leaders to see if they are qualified.

2. 40-day Training

Everyone, including the leaders, must go through 40- day training. Those who did not go to 40-day training under Rev. Ahn should schedule yourself to go through that course, the sooner the better. After receiving 40-day training, you will be able to teach people back in your own hometown. My purpose in doing this is to make you great messiahs.

3. Selecting a Qualified Lecturer

That means you have to listen to the members giving a lecture to determine whether they are a good lecturer or not. If they are good, then they are selected.

4, How to Train and Give Good Influence to Members through Sermons

We have to give many instructive lectures to positively influence members. The best reference material for that is Father's words. You can pick any topic from the vast numbers of pages of Father's words.

Father is a religious leader and has given a sermon literally every Sunday and Holy Day. I had so many things to teach you. I want to speak as much as possible, covering as many topics as possible, so in the future you won't say, "Father why didn't you leave that behind?" A short sermon would be easier, but three hours is much better for us to remember than 30 minutes. My sermons paraphrase and amplify the Principle, for only then do we begin to understand the Divine Principle. We cannot fully understand the Divine Principle just by reading it.

The secret of a good sermon is to pray for more than three times the length of your speaking time. The more we pray, the more influence and impact that lecture carries. People will be moved to tears, depending on how much we pray.

5. Attending Morning Service and Making Your Life and Extension of it

We often attend morning service, pray, listen to a sermon, and then go back to our "normal" life. This is incorrect because our normal life should be an extension of morning service. We should be no different in what we say and the way we live.

We should be able to give the sermon like a conversation or natural speech. We don't have to be formal when our sermon and our life are consistent with each other.

6. Strengthening Economic Activities

The leader's duty is to not only lead his tribe in daily life, but to be responsible for economic matters. We can start many things with only our imagination as our limit. Fundraising is the state leader's responsibility.

Many ministers in the established Christian churches don't know how to make money so they are at the mercy of the congregation. No matter how great a religious leader you may be, if you lack the ability to make money, then you won't have power or authority. You have to really go out of your way to earn money, because it is not easy.

One way is fishing. Fishing can change all of your old concepts, including the way you think. Father has ridden in his boat for 9 or 10 years catching tuna. You were always encouraged to participate in Father's sea-going adventures. Your future generations will be very proud of you when they see a picture of you catching tuna with Father. How precious that picture will be!

The United Nations represents the four global directions, but they are not linked in one direction. If a man's mind can unite with a high level path in the spiritual world, it would have one direction. An example of this is Jesus, who is no longer alive but still works in everyone's heart. That is the most effective way.

While I was fishing, I was also cultivating a formula that can work everywhere. Use your valuable time wisely. When you visit the mayor or the state governor, don't assume a prideful position to them. Instead treat them as if their position was similar to yours, like an elder brother. Using your creative imagination, you can find a way out of any difficulty.

When I am fishing, I am also thinking, beginning in Korea, and then moving to the Itinerary Workers in 40 countries. I think about past history, of what was good or what was bad. Sometimes I calculate all the right things that could have happened. I can remember the first time I visited a certain place, how many members were there, and what has happened to them since then.

What is our present situation -- are we going up or down? Check yourself clearly. Think about how difficult Father's life has been, but how young I look. My mind is always leading the providence through the spiritual world. Following that, my spirit says, "Act more, with greater strength and agility." When I am riding the boat, I am often sitting for 12-15 hours at a time. I don't take a nap, but tirelessly watch the sea for that special fish.

7. Create a Social Leadership system.

Our life of faith work should not stop at the individual, family or church level. We should exert influence to lead the society into a life of faith by creating a social leadership system. We should develop the church into a system through which we can easily lead society into God's desired direction. Our church should function as an efficient system to achieve our goal of leading the world back to God.

8. Tribal Messiahship and the Tradition of True Parents.

After Moonie and Sunnie, where will we move? "Kingie." "Kingie" is messiahship. I am working very hard to make that kind of messiahship or kingship.

9. National Central Figures

What is our ultimate goal by becoming a tribal messiah? Our ultimate goal lies in the nation that we have to save. We need national-level central figures. First such a leader must be trained; then after the training, an organization must be built centering on them. By making that kind of foundation we will automatically connect with the national purpose.

10. Training for a World Coalition

Father will apply a similar activity from America to the whole world, even behind the Iron Curtain and Bamboo Curtain. Why must we work in this way? It is the only way to save and liberate God. Some members who were working underground in communist countries have passed into the spirit world. Some are waiting there for Father's coming. I have never reported these sad situations so openly to you before.

Why are we making such an expanding organization and working with top-level leaders? We have to save the whole world.

I trained well in very difficult circumstances. There is no situation that I have not imagined and no training that I didn't go through. There is no tall tree in my neighborhood that I didn't climb. Even though I was a rather heavy child I would go climbing. My mother spent her life worrying about me every day.

Father makes good strategies because he trained well everywhere and can do anything. We need to go through many kinds of training before we can feel the same as Father. 

Foundation for a the Nation

Sun Myung Moon
June 5, 1989
Leaders Conference
World Mission Center
Translator: San Kil Han

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We have all been concentrating on making the dispensation of restoration worldwide. The HSA president in Africa may be American. Why? To connect the flow of culture and make it supranational. If we don't do that, Americans, for example, would just keep their American culture creating a great hindrance to world unity. Isn't that easy to understand? We must always think we are one tribe. No matter where we live or what color we are, we are one love race with the same cultural background. So a conference like this is always part of a systematic training which we will need to conduct our worldwide dispensation. Although we are living here in America and working for the sake of America, we always have to keep our international goal in mind.

The kind of activity we have been doing will be a thing of the past. Why have we done things in such an inefficient, crude way that is sometimes without results and without a clear idea of progress? Its sole purpose as to let people know that the Unification Church exists and what the Unification Church represents. Until now, we have been spread out too widely so that we could cover the entire territory. We lost man-hours by thinly spreading our energies. From now on, we will concentrate in one area, invest in it, and be consistent about everything to bring results in that area.

Just think, if we advertised for 40 days through NBC and CBS about what we are doing, how effective would it be? We couldn't create that result if we worked for 400 years the way we are doing now. Until now, we had no choice. When Father worked the way he did here in America, his goal was always never to sacrifice even one life, not to have one martyr. So we spread out to let the public know about us. Compare this to Jesus' time. If, after the crucifixion, a foundation had been established so the people could at least know Jesus was not bad, then Christianity could have been saved thousands of martyrs. This is what Father had to think in the beginning. So I came here and had to fight against the Fraser attack just to win over that area. That opposition was overcome. Now all over the United States, they at least know the Unification Church is not bad. This will save us from having to pay the price of martyrdom on the worldwide level. That's what I wanted.

Peak of Worldwide Persecution

So 1976 was the peak of the persecution -- not only here in America, but all around the world. I grasped that opportunity and in 1975 sent out missionaries to all 120 countries that drew the persecution towards us all at one time. So Rev. Moon was put in jail in America like a bandit. What kind of legal standard is America making for the future? In the end, it gave the image to all the world that America lost to Rev. Moon and that Rev. Moon actually won over the administration's persecution. That's a most historical event. That was my strategy, to overcome all the persecution all in one time; after that, none of it bothered us.

We must understand what was done here in America to make the worldwide foundation on which we are standing. We had to fight against unjust persecution by the American government, which was like the Roman Senate. We must have that kind of heart and courage. Once we understand how much it took for Father to fight against them and win, we have to inherit that 100% so we will be absolutely confident that whatever persecution comes in the future is peanuts when compared with the foundation we are standing on.

Even if you don't help me, but only follow and attend me, no matter how difficult the persecution is, then it is no problem. I am the center; the center works all night, never minding the season, never taking a vacation.

You must be the kind of leader that has strong and stable roots. From there God can help you. The spirit world can help if you have that kind of winning attitude. That kind of help from the spirit world always and forever brings result for one purpose.

Satan, through the power of communism, wants to pull out those roots. No matter how great communism's power is, it cannot deny or pull out our situation. You have to live life strongly for God. Otherwise, the spirit world cannot help you. Spirit world is always helping Father. Why? I took one direction and didn't quit. Once I stood in that place, I was steadfast, allowing no weak link. No matter how much I wanted to weaken my standard, I could not. Even if I wanted to push out that strong foundation, I could not shake it. Stand in one place steadfastly so that the spirit world can stay close to us.

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Gaining the Assistance of Spirit World

How can the spirit world help you? You assess point 1, looking at point 1, hearing point 1, talking about point 1, testing, smelling, touching, feeling point 1 -- always one! You say, "I am a God's son, I am the center!" No matter which way it is pulled, the Unification root cannot be taken up.

Not just in America, we have to make a new reformation from this point -- a revolution. We are not an American movement; we are a worldwide movement. Many kinds of cultural backgrounds are in our movement. We have the background of the spirit world. The many generations of your ancestors are following one way. No matter what, your ancestors are here. From throughout human history, many famous people are here. They cannot say, "I want to work only this way." There is only the way of the Principle; that is the only foundation, the only pattern, and everyone must follow it.

What kind of pride do we have? The only pride we can have is making this way our very own.

From now you have to change both your mind and your body, appearance, everything -- even your atmosphere. Otherwise, the American movement will not become prosperous, but suffer miserably. From now, what kind of attitude will the leaders have toward me? You must reform and revolutionize yourself. Up until now it has been the nighttime. Now it is noontime. At noontime you can see everything and everyone. Do you know that the modern American situation needs strong one-direction leaders? Otherwise, you cannot save this country. There are maybe 700 thousand students in the universities here, but all the intelligence of the university professors cannot save the youth. It takes more than the American educational system. Even famous organizations cannot save the present American situation.

You know it in your heart! Only the Unification Church can help. There must be a 180 degree change -- otherwise we cannot have hope for the United States. It is a miserable situation. America itself is crumbling. This is not America's problem alone -- all over the world this problem exists. That kind of evil spreads out all over the third world infecting the new generation of youth. They know clearly "This is bad." But they cannot cut off or separate from it. This is the agony of American youth. When I was in jail, I saw that type of youth many times. By their appearance and talking, you would think "He is a smart, handsome guy." They said to me while I was there, "I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't cut away from it by myself." Who can solve this? Only the Unification Church can do it -- otherwise there is no hope forever in America! Now I am worrying about this point. Spiritual world exists more than the physical reality. High level purpose, whole purpose -- I can create that enlightenment. That means you must have that kind of spiritual enlightenment to open the spirit world gate. Do you have that kind of power? Spiritual power is vertical power.

In your life of faith as a member of the Unification Church, you have to ask yourself, "How much have I taken care of the youth? Really, am I a center leader or Satan's leader?" You know that answer very well. Can you clearly visualize God's viewpoint of the position of state leader? Compare yourself with that vision. Clearly understand yourself: Am I really the representative of God, the spiritual leader, the high level Unification leader of this state in America in place of Rev. Moon? Compare yourself and realize how much more you have to grow.

Look at the churches in America. They are losing membership and have little hope. If you see a huge church building, open the door and go inside. As you close the door observe who is sitting in the chairs. Their few participating members are mostly senior citizens. Can God look down and feel, "You are my church's owner"? How can churches regain their honor? No matter where you look, you see that kind of situation in the churches.

How old are all of you? In your thirties and forties. Your youth is gone and soon you will be in the same situation. This is a very serious situation if no one helps you.

One World Language

So we'll decide how we should deal with this kind of circumstance. I already proclaimed that beginning in 1990, I will not use an interpreter, but will speak only in Korean. Do you remember? Should or shouldn't I do that? I always do what I promise.

How can we participate in the providence with Father? Can we learn Korean in just another six months? You may think, "What kind of irrationality is that?" You might think such a statement is pure tyranny. Did you forget that I learned a foreign language in a short time? How difficult it was for me to learn English! Are we going to complain or are we going to say, "Father, no matter how impossible this is, that is the way it must be." Or you might say, "Father, since you speak English, why don't you continue to teach in English?"

I know that might be more convenient, but the Divine Principle says that we should teach using only the True Parents' language. There is no question if that is the way it should be or could be; it must be that way eventually. We will learn that it is unprincipled to wait until we go to spirit world to learn Korean there. They will demand that we should have learned the True Parents' language while we were on earth as Father told us. Our ancestors will really accuse us for our failure, because we were the ones who had a chance to do it, not they.

How can you avoid that judgment? Think how miserable you are if you are standing in that position. You are younger than Father who is now 70 years old. Seventy is the grandpa age. I had no time to study English because guests were constantly visiting East Garden, often until midnight. I was always waiting for them, seated in one place.

After they finally left, I would study English. I could not speak in English, nor could I understand the words at the meetings. English idioms are the most difficult concept; I memorized them all, because I couldn't understand them.

To do that took a lot of time out of my schedule. Late evening was the only time I had to memorize. In my mind I made the decision to do that. Later as I would get into bed, I'd think, "Last time I memorized those words. What were those words?" I would completely forget and would have to memorize them again. I repeated one idiom over 20 times.

Sometimes I would forget names. I knew the face, but not the name. So I would study that name 20 more times. Now that I'm getting old, I have to refresh my memory more frequently. Please realize that is the kind of serious situation I studied in endlessly. Compare yourself with me. You are 10 to 20 years younger than me.

I came to the Western world standing in the parent's position to Western children. The children were talking but I couldn't understand them. I thought, "I need to learn English" So I started to study it. In summation, I always took the responsibility to understand. So you cannot complain about having to learn Korean in front of me. I did it and have complete confidence in you who have an easier way than I did.

The primary reason you have to absolutely learn Korean is the spirit world. Another reason is that Father's words are published in 200 full volumes. These are a priceless treasure nothing on earth can equal. Are we going to study Father's words by translation or in their original form? That's why we have to learn Korean.

The Korean language can meet any challenge in phonics, composition, pronunciation and spelling; its pronunciation is very versatile and comprehensive.

The Korean language can meet any challenge in phonics, composition, pronunciation and spelling; its pronunciation is very versatile and comprehensive.

Significance of the Korean Language

The other day on a boat, I spoke to one professor. He was asking me if we shouldn't form an association for the Korean language. I thought it was very appropriate and something that church members should have suggested, not a nonmember. The professor had been drawing references from Father's words, whereas church members didn't even know where we could find that point in Father's words. Scholars are very quick in this respect and one of them began to feel the need to learn and promulgate Korean by forming a study group. They understood that Father had already proclaimed we should learn Korean. This particular scholar thought he would be the first to learn Korean in Europe.

Have you ever heard of a leader who doesn't have a command of the original language? It is miserable that scholars can act on the need to learn Korean but church leaders cannot. Doesn't it stand to reason when I pointed out, "Don't you think we need to learn Korean?" that I was speaking as a result of what I did so intensely all of my life? Now I am going to give it to you through the Korean language. How can you not want to understand or receive this by reading or listening to my words directly in Korean? If we go to spirit world after listening and learning Father's teaching from an English translation, then how can we raise up our heads and proudly say, "I have heard Father's words"? Certainly, I would not be happy: "After all I have done, you didn't even learn Korean." All spirit world is looking down at you learning my words through translation. Your mind will be in agony in spirit world, for you accepted the translation way after I said so many times to learn Korean. When you go into spirit world, how can you meet me if you speak only English? I knew that it would take a long time and how difficult it would be.

Should or shouldn't I use an interpreter in 1990? You said "no", Father shouldn't use an interpreter. That means you are about to become dumb, having ears but unable to hear. Dispensationally, this is the time to learn Korean. During the seven year period of 1985-1992, everything must be completely done. Tribal messiahs must all speak Korean.

Already our second generation is learning Korean in the Little Angels' School in Korea. The numbers of children are rapidly increasing, so I am thinking we need more middle schools and high schools in Korea to accommodate them in their efforts to learn Korean.

Expanding God's Lineage

Why is it so necessary? What is the first verse of pledge five? "We are proud of the one sovereignty, proud of the one people, proud of the one land, proud of the one language... " Father's main project has been to restore one nation. Everyone wants to lead their own culture into the highest level that is humanity's highest desire and purpose. The next part is: "We are proud of the one language and culture centered upon God, proud of becoming the child of the one True Parent, proud of the family who is to inherit one tradition." We are proud of belonging to the blood lineage inheriting Father's tradition. But God's linage cannot just appear. I had to establish a place for the relationship of parent to exist. The most important task and highest purpose of the Principle is to get rid of Satan's blood lineage. How about you? What kind of blood runs in your veins? Vertically, God the Creator and horizontally, True Parents, are combined to eliminate the wrong blood lineage and to create a new blood lineage which will be the salvation of man from Satan's world. It will be completely separated from Satan who can never touch it again, for we have a new root. One is the root of the true olive tree and the other of a wild olive tree. All the wild olive branches must be cut away to receive the grafting of the true love branch, making that tree's fruit the same as that of the true olive tree. Otherwise, there could be no salvation and no one could enter heaven. This is the Principle. I have been living my life guided by this perspective.

The seventh part of the pledge is to work to create the world of one heart. That means one brotherhood, all around the globe and even in the spirit world. The base of world peace is parents. The word "parents" then means "the root of all peace." Accept the True Parents and from there everything can be solved. The fallen world wants parents, so parents are the highest point of purpose and that is why tribal messiahship means parentship.

Messiahship's true mission is parentship, so tribal messiahship is the highest gift you could receive from Father. You don't realize that yet, but you should pray to understand, "What is salvation?"

Which would you prefer: to use the same language in the spirit world you are using here or to learn a different language all over again when you go to the spirit world? Before you answer, please think about this concept from the viewpoint of the Principle. There can be only one language spoken because this world and the spirit world are united with the same central love. So, by 1990, there will be no translating.

Realization of God's Words

Also, by that time, I won't be in America as much as I am now. At that time, we should not complain, "Oh Father, you used to come and talk to s. Why do you not come to us and teach us anymore?" There will be a lot of things we cannot even imagine that will happen during these next 10 years.

Forty years ago, when I gave a talk, no one, not even those who wanted to, could believe it would happen. But as the 40 years went by, they saw that it not only happened, but that I was actually making it happen. Now at this juncture, I am saying the same thing again. The chances of my words becoming a reality are better than 40 years ago. In 1983 when I said there would be no interpreting as of 1990, you might have thought: "How could that happen?" But now we're at the threshold of 1990 and that event is about to happen. Should we or shouldn't we actually carry out this plan? That means unless you learn Korean, you are not going to be able to come to conferences. At any rate, we better start learning Korean seriously.

Japanese members thought they might be an exception because Father speaks fluent Japanese. But that is not so. It should be easier for them to learn Korean.

This is a public statement because we must have a tradition. Not only does it apply to this year but a thousand years from now. We should begin sometime and now is the time. If you don't speak Korean, then you should send a representative who does speak Korean. Since this is a big decision for both myself and all of you, if you have any objections you have to voice them now. Later, you can never say, "Oh, impossible, impractical." If you have some reason to oppose, please say it now. What about non-members? This will be up to Father to decide. In those circumstances, I may speak English, Japanese, or use an interpreter. But as far as our family members are concerned, there will be no translations. I will only speak Korean. Those who say, "Yes Father, we must do it" raise your hands. I realize the grave importance of this situation. On the other hand, what advantages can you see? A book could be written without needing to be translated into 100 different languages, eliminating the waste of time and materials in such repetition and interpretation. How convenient it will be to need only one book that everyone can understand. Our offspring would have an easier time. It takes a great ancestor to make this accomplishment a reality. Who is that great ancestor? All of us.

Korea's Special History

What about the quality or degree of excellence of the Korean language for this type of worldwide usage? Is it going to be an inferior language? No! The Korean language is a language that can meet any challenge. Theoretically, you can learn the 24 characters in 30 minutes. So in 30 minutes you can master the basic building blocks of the Korean language. After that, you should be able to spell it at will. The pronunciation of the Korean language is very versatile and comprehensive. Everyone can understand Korean because its pronunciation is very accurate. There is no sound the Koreans cannot make. So the Korean language is the highest level in all areas: phonics, composition, pronunciation and spelling. It's no accident that a person such as Father would be born in such a culture. How could I have been born in an underdeveloped country with a primitive or very poor language? It would have caused so much pain and difficulty to the rest of the world. This is not the case with the Korean language.

Do you know what is being talked about in the scholastic world? They are proving that the origin of the Chinese language and culture is Korea. It is not a Korean, but several Chinese scholars who are saying that. Other Chinese scholars really don't like this information. The Japanese people have already solved the problem for they have no way of denying that Korea is their ancestral root.

Korea is the birthplace of an ancient civilization that started thousands of years ago. The longest history of civilization belongs to Korea. So it is no accident that I was born in Korea. Historically Korea was invaded by other countries more than 930 times. But not once was the Korean sovereignty lost; somehow it managed to keep its lineage. There were times when Korea volunteered to belong to China, seeking protection from a big country. With the exception of those times, Korea was never ruled over or annihilated. Prior to Korea's history, no one knows. We have reason to believe the Koreans were scattered about, living in what is now Manchuria and northern China. The Great Wall was built to protect China from the Korean race. So Koreans were very near at that time and were a very courageous and righteous people. Even Confucius, who represented a standard of ethics to millions of people, said Korea was the most ethical country in the East. Throughout history the Russians fought against the Oriental peoples. When an Oriental person died, they could search the body to identify it: a Japanese person would always carry a dagger or some weapon, as did also the Chinese; but Koreans never carried a weapon. The only thing a Korean carried was a flint to make a fire.

On the Chinese Siberian border, sometimes a stranger would wander in the wilderness and knock on the door for help. The Chinese homeowner would ask, "Who is it?" If the answer would come, "I am a Korean," then they would open the door. When Koreans were given lodging they would never steal. That's why the Chinese opened their doors very easily. But if the answer would be, "I am Chinese or Japanese" then they would not open the door.

The second generation of 2,500 Korean-Japanese couples opened a national foundation that Satan cannot invade.

The second generation of 2,500 Korean-Japanese couples opened a national foundation that Satan cannot invade.

Bringing Unity to Korea

Although it has been invaded over 930 times, Korea has never retaliated or attacked another nation. Genghis Khan was a legendary figure who occupied all the European countries. History says that he was invincible. But that is not true, for he was very badly defeated when he tried to invade Korea.

Koreans are very courageous people but never wage war against another country. How did the Koreans defend themselves? Once the Koreans realized there was an impending danger they forged a great unity. That's how they survived.

Never in Korean history has anyone brought more unity to Korea than Father. How could Korean people get married in mass ceremonies like that without unity? Conventionally, only poor people married 2-10 couples at a time; well-to-do and respected people do not get married in numbers of two or three thousand couples. We are the first ones to do that. What better way can unity be proven?

To marry even one Korean with a Japanese would be difficult. But Father made 2,500 couples like that overnight! There were not just couples with a Japanese husband and Korean wife, but the more difficult couples of Korean husbands with Japanese wives. Many people wondered what historical resentment was going to surface in these couples. But when the Korean people knew that Father was behind it, they knew there would be good results. They didn't worry about it because they know that Father loves Korea and would never do anything detrimental to the Korean people. Japan also knows how much Father loves the Japanese people. The same is true here in America. Now, when American people comment on our weddings, they say, "Rev. Moon wisely matched and married them!"

In the Cultural Olympics, Father is planning to bless hundreds of thousands of couples at one time. The prerequisite will be 40-day training. If you are a serious person, then you would know how difficult it is to get married nowadays to the right mate. You are lucky you didn't have to go through that!

That's actually the number one recognition about Father around the world, isn't it? He is the world's biggest, safest, most guaranteed matchmaker. That's Father's first title. We are not proud enough of our Blessing. There will be a day very soon where we will proclaim ourselves to the whole world saying, "We are a couple blessed by Rev. Moon."

If you are ever going to study China, Korea, Japan or any Far Eastern country, you cannot learn through the limitations of the English language. But through the Korean language, you can learn everything anywhere. If you learn Korean, you can learn Japanese and Chinese very quickly after that. If you learn Chinese characters, you can communicate with half the people in the Orient through writing. It's very complicated and a lot of headache too, but think about the bright side of it: Without the Oriental language and Oriental race, Father would never have emerged and the problems of the world would never have been solved. How could you summarize what the universe, God, and the history mankind are all about within an hour as Father has done? We can do it now because Father has taught us.

Is there any encyclopedia or literature that we can find in the library for such solutions? Divine Principle is the king of all knowledge. Without it, knowledge could never be organized, because we don't understand God. Sin confuses everything. There's no clear theory about God or the purpose of man.

Beginning of Recognition

Maybe you didn't go to an Ivy League college, but were in the Unification Church instead for 10 years. In those 10 years, you learned 100 times more than those scholars. For example: One person who was educated at an Ivy League school began to work at The World and I. In the beginning he thought he was the center, because he is intelligent; but he was quickly awestruck. He thought the Unification Church and The World and I were nothing. At first, he didn't recognize the value of our members and looked at them as having no credentials with little, if any, educational background. Soon he found that all of the members are very learned people because of the Principle.

The scholars of the world thought Rev. Moon was someone lower than they, but they were caught by surprise. Do you understand who we are? We are a very capable church, with a very capable leader. No one understands Father. If established Christianity in America and Korea had recognized and embraced Father, what could have happened? Father would have been known all around the world and the world's problems would have been solved years ago. In that sense, how much the world has lost! How much damage has been done to the world for not recognizing my value? But the world waited until things could not get any worse before they embraced Rev. Moon. Fifty years have been wasted! If I did not know God's Will I would never have had anything to do with America and surely America would have perished. But I selected America as the archangel country. Then I did everything I could for this country. The result of my efforts is why we are blossoming today. Now that I have spoken about this in detail, we American members can begin to understand who we are.

I know that America, Germany and Japan are historical enemies. After what the Japanese did to Korea, how could Father select them as the Eve country? "Love your enemy" is perhaps the only explanation that can be offered. Imagine if people in the Christian nations fifty years ago had understood this as God's Will and embraced Father? America, France and England would have formed the major dispensational nations. How much faster the world would have been restored with no opposition or sacrifice! I came to America to save and educate this country, but they opposed me. The French and English did the same thing. Why? Because of satanic influence.

Uniting Historical Enemies

The Japanese are historical enemies to Koreans, but Father claimed Japan, which is of much value to Satan. I made Japan even more valuable by putting it in the Eve country's position. Following this, Japan had to be perfected. Most of the core elder members of Japanese church came from deeply religious backgrounds. Mr. Kamiyama's father is a Christian minister, which is very rare in Japan. Mr. Oyamada was trying to be a minister. Many of you have not heard Mr. Kuboki's testimony of how he came to join the church in the beginning so many years ago. Heaven intervened directly and told him, "Give up your membership in your present church." He was about to be made an heir to that church's leadership. He obeyed and came to the Unification Church. Mr. Furuta also came from a big, prestigious religious organization. He was their hope, but he was told by God to come to the Unification Church. Spirit world went into full swing to bring all these people to the church.

When Father sent out the world missionaries in 1975, he made trinities of missionaries from three countries -- Japan, Germany and America -- to indemnify the loss of America, England and France after World War II. It would have been ideal if these countries had inherited God's Will. Japan represented Eve, America represented Abel, and Germany represented Cain. Those three combined indemnified the various positions that had been lost. Father brought the three major dispensational countries that had been lost to Satan's side back to the heavenly side.

The following is human history in a nutshell. Because of the Fall, Adam and Eve gave birth to Cain and Abel; they are symbols of the fall. This created a pattern that expanded throughout history. At the onset of World War II, England was in Eve's position, France was in Cain's position, America was in Abel's position. Opposing them was Japan in the Eve position, Germany in the Cain position, with Italy completing the trinity. When the Allies won over the satanic side, they should have come to Adam's nation, God's nation. As a result of the Fall, both Adam and God's position were lost. How can we find the original Adam who was lost? Prepared nations on God's side should have connected with Adam, making unity of the four nations. As a result, the whole earth could have united into one. The establishment of God's nation would have followed. This was the grand plan for restoration.

Crucial Point in History

History went through this course. The year 1945 was so crucial after the victory of World War II; these Eve, Cain and Abel nations should have searched for the Adam nation. Japan had occupied Korea for 40 years as an indemnity condition. Satan knew God had been preparing this project for so many years so he wanted to destroy the Adam country. If these two countries had united, that would have been the end of restoration. But this did not happen, so Father selected Japan as Eve's nation, America as Abel's nation and Germany as Cain's nation. My 40-year indemnity course consisted of selecting these enemy countries and embracing them. They continued to rebel. Overcoming them with love took 40 years of Father's time.

If the enemy countries of Japan, Germany and America were not selected, then I would not have received such opposition. They why did I do it this way? Because God lost this foundation, then I had to restore it back to God as a condition to recreate what was lost. America is where God lost everything, so Father wanted to gain everything back for Him through this country. According to God's direction, Father brought it all together in this particular pattern to restore the Christian foundation. Father did that through the Unification Church. We brought 7,000 Christian ministers to Korea to restore and revive Christianity. Some 40,000 members were educated in America to replace its lost foundation. Because Satan interfered with restoration history and didn't allow events to happen as they should, Father created what was needed with his own hands. Only through the dispensation can American people begin to understand what Rev. Moon did.

If no one was able to determine if Rev. Moon and the Unification Church were good or not, why do so many people oppose him? Because Satan took everything, Father was alone. There was no one who took God's side like Rev. Moon.

The Korean people opposed Rev. Moon because the Korean ministers listened to American ministers in their denominations who told them Father was a heretic. Then Father had to come to this country to restore everything that God had lost. After much pain, Father finally restored this foundation and brought it to Korea and Asia. America and Asia are now connected, and we're getting close to the establishment of God's nation.

Recent Dispensational Victories

The 1988 Korean Olympic Games were so meaningful. From the external point of view, so many young people who participated represented Satan's champions of the second generation. They were healthy physically; but Father brought them spiritual health as well. The missionaries of 120 countries represented God's second generation. God and Satan chose one place where 120 nations were present at the same time; God's second generation carried gifts to them and connected them with the Unification Church by helping and embracing their nation's champions wherever they could in Korea. Only one leader emerged above all others: Rev. Moon. Even the Soviet Union listened to me and returned their thanks to me by giving me a medal. All those things make a condition of indemnity. Now you understand that my coming to the United States made many conditions for victory over Satan's side.

The second generation of more than 2,500 couples on God's side completely opened the national foundation. The Korean/Japanese couples, centering on God and True Parents, will produce a new blood lineage based upon their country's foundation. With the creation of that kind of foundation, Satan cannot invade any national foundation we make. In other words, Father restored the foundation for God's nation through this Adam country/Eve country marriage foundation. Satan cannot accuse that kind of foundation; he will have to bow down. With that kind of foundation made in Korea, Satan's world of communism will have to bow down. This is the Principle. No matter how Satan's communist world sends its power, it cannot invade, kidnap or infiltrate those representing God's side.

You have to know in this time of accomplishment that Satan's accusation is gone. Why? Because I made this national level Adam and Eve marriage foundation. With that kind of foundation established, Satan automatically must follow the foundation for the original world. At that point, Adam and Eve together with Abel and Cain will combine into one. Through that, America will live.

Rev. Moon represented God's side and helped the spiritual fortune of the United States. This foundation will provide the way of salvation for the United States. This is the Principle, not Father's words. This is the formula course. The way of indemnity is a universal iron law. When the English tried to control the Chinese, they introduced them to opium. This intentional act of creating drug addiction is the root of the indemnity of widespread drug addiction in the Western world today. So, no matter what wrong action has been committed in the past, unless indemnity is paid, there can be no peace anywhere in the world.

Father had to reindemnify the lost worldwide foundation.

Father had to reindemnify the lost worldwide foundation.

Father Reindemnified Everything

Father selected Japan, America and Germany as primary nations, yet all of them came against Father. What about France and England who were also to serve as God's foundation? They too opposed me. Seven countries came against me so I had to reindemnify. God knew the foundations he wanted by winning World War II, but all of them were lost. The 40 years of indemnity that Father had to endure was due primarily to the failure of America, Japan, England and France. When Father chose Japan to be in Eve's position on God's side, how blessed was that country? When Germany was chosen for God's side, how blessed was it? Then Father chose America. From the perspective of the providential viewpoint, at any time in history has God chosen a man or country a second time? No, but Father set up a Cain/Abel salvation situation where he could save these countries twice if it was needed. When Father chose America, he took responsibility to restore this nation to God's original point. Left alone, you Americans didn't understand enough to save your nation.

You have a unique position that is completely separated from Satan's claim. You have to know this in the future in your position as leaders. How can you take on the future? The most important mission at this time is America's providential mission. How carefully have you lived your life on this earth? How often did you receive painful persecution for God's sake? How well do you know that path? Are you forgetting it?

During this important time, Father has been fighting a most serious war on the front line. But the question God will ask you is, "How much did you help Father?" It was agonizing because you didn't even know my situation. Every area was blocked and I had to find out how to open each door. I found the way to turn the whole thing around.

There was one previous time in history that this kind of foundation was made. It was in Moses' time! How will you react when you receive incredible persecution? Salvation was disappearing in this world until Father took responsibility for the past. Jesus took the way of the cross in order to guarantee a point of salvation for mankind. You as a leader must take responsibility in the same kind of serious way as did Moses, Jesus and Father.

The first time you heard Father's words, you couldn't understand much. Missionaries from Japan, America and Germany, representing the second generation, united for God's side, and made the condition for the future salvation of the world. How blessed is that activity. That was the deepest purpose of Father choosing representatives from three enemy countries to send out as missionaries. At the time, people thought I was wrong. Think about it: three enemy nations who cannot unite, how can that save America, France, England, the Free World or anything? Now they understand Father's words. You are in the same situation as Father was. People may hit their bosom and cry out, "How foolish I was for not listening!" They will realize, "There is no solution." Only Father's forgiveness will give salvation.

Gift of Tribal Messiahship

It is at this point in time that I have given the tribal messiahship Father has known the way for a long time when you didn't have any idea of this concept. How much blessing is tribal messiahship? During Jesus' time, John the Baptist was a tribal messiah, as was Zachariah. Together they represented the unity of Joshua's tribe which would have opened the way for Jesus. But they couldn't accomplish a united tribe.

By sending out three nations centering on Father, there was a four position foundation sent to every country in the world. No nation can accuse or persecute us. I was taking Adam's position, but mankind decided that it was a mistake to follow me. So Father repeated the process. Who else could take this mission? Only God and True Parents. Children in the fallen world have Satan's blood. Individualism can't remove it. You must realize your position. Everything has been cleared up and given to you in your tribal messiah mission. Tribal messiahship means true parentship. True Parents did it just like that and their lives will bear witness in their children. When Father sent out 21,000 blessed couples as tribal messiahs all over the world, they had to overcome the attitude, "Father I cannot be sent out."

You have to all be brothers united centering on True Parents. You must be strong about that. In the beginning, Unification members said to me, "Father, you are the parent; why don't you do it?" So pitiful for Father! Even the 36 Couples didn't know that. I made a wide victorious foundation. In the future, people will feel so much happiness. I wanted to completely pay the necessary indemnity. Now, Unification members can go anywhere and not be accused. Please show some guts in whatever you are doing and always ask God. By standing in that central position your opposition will immediately crumble and heaven will open up. This is a powerful philosophy.

Korea opposed Reverend Moon, but in the actual showdown, who won? I won over every nation that came against me. Rev. Moon is gaining influence all over the world. Looking back, the providential viewpoint is so clear. God and Rev. Moon saw that.

Create More Activity

After what I have done, where do you stand in comparison? During this time, it is your turn. How can we win when you don't have the result or even the effort. So I'm telling you now that you have a short time to make more tangible results. To do that, you have to create more activity. Otherwise, it will be a miserable situation. Originally, I took the same position to God's foundation in the four corners of the world. From now until 1992, you have to make good result. Can you do that?

Now, no one opposes us seriously. This is why Father proclaimed the Cultural Olympics. Cultural unity is so important for world unity to be fulfilled. Imagine so many people from different countries coming together to get married at the same time! Those who come from a certain village and marry in Seoul at the World Cultural Olympics will go back and report to their village what they experienced. How excited the people will be.

Do you understand what Father is saying? If people had recognized Father earlier and then you were sent out as tribal messiah, your position would have been quickly recognized. However, God's foundation is coming into place now. On that foundation, you are now working as a tribal messiah. At the time of World War II, God's nation lost that foundation which we are now restoring centering on Father. It was Father who received the focus of all the persecution.

For 40 years, Father has made the conditions to restore these nations to God's sovereignty. He has singlehandedly fulfilled the responsibility for this task in place of the national leaders of these countries. That is God's principled viewpoint of messiahship.

America didn't know that at the time, only God, Rev. Moon and Satan knew. Why did the democratic world come against the Unification Church without researching our doctrine? They completely denied us. That was Satan's work again.

No matter how strong a net Rev. Moon tried to make, Satan would cause people to fall out. Rev. Moon made a net of double strength, but Satan tore it down, not only in this world but in the spiritual world, too. Now, good ancestral spirit men can come down at any time. They represent the archangel's side.

The archangelic world saw the first Fall caused by the worst archangel. Now good archangels are on this earth helping Adam's family, tribe, nation, and world. That is the archangelic world's mission. Satan cannot accuse if all your good ancestors come down to stand behind you -- behind YOU! I am holding the gate open to the only clear way of following the Principle. You have to take your training course on the track that Father made.

Restored Archangelic Realm

The spirit world is ready and eager to help you. Just like when Adam spoke, everything was carried out just as he said. We should have that kind of feeling now. Adam spoke and spirit world carried out his directions. We must have the same confidence as the original Adam.

The time of Cain and Abel struggle is gone; brothers won't fight each other now, for they are looking for parents. The tribal messiah's role is to connect them to the parents. During the brothers' time there is war and conflict; but during the parents' time there is only peace. Even if there is scattered conflict, it doesn't affect your work.

No one opposes us today, especially when they understand what Rev. Moon is doing. What will happen now? All will seek God's nation and we will guide them to that with Satan playing the role of a witness to you. With brotherism, Satan can oppose because he has so much claim on them. But not when it comes to parentism.

There is only one way leading to victory. All you need to do is to inherit my tradition. I put all of my heart into this mission, absolutely confident that it would work. Likewise, we have to do that.

Now you look back and are in a good position to understand me, although when I initially spoke about these things, you couldn't understand me.

I had the determination 40 years ago to make all enemy countries become peaceful brothers. Now it has been achieved. Do you think Father speaks and just hopes that somehow it will happen? No! I am a realistic person and worked towards this end. Please go back and read Father's words: everything is there. The discrepancy is only that we listened and then forgot.

Are we proud of all that Father has done without any help? Yes! So we should not dishonor Father's achievements. Preserve your own dignity by upholding Father's victorious foundation. How about our situation? It is a blessing we didn't expect. We don't deserve it, but we have it. We are saved, but we have to deserve that salvation. Even if we don't do anything, Father may save us. But how miserable such a situation will be when we reach the spirit world.

So what is the surest way to be sure to deserve our blessings? Be victorious in tribal messiahship. We are in a better position than Jesus. It is as if Zachariah's and Joseph's family were in peace at Jesus' time. We got blessed and can now achieve all aspects of the dispensation. That's the foundation we are given to stand on through the tribal messiahship.

The dispensational time has really changed. The Cain and Abel relationship was repeated time and time again in history. But after the Parents have emerged that pattern will never repeat itself. All we must do is have faith and carry on. If we really become serious with absolute confidence in this historical foundation, and do the tribal messiahship, the world will come into one.

This is the last command that God can concretely give to mankind. If you do this, you will achieve the goal. After that, God will not have to issue another commandment.

Vertical and Horizontal Parents

I am quietly a parent to everything. Parentship means not complaining, no matter what is going on. This is my teaching. Follow that absolutely righteous way.

Where the vertical and horizontal connect is the central point of God and True Parents' dwelling place. Father has emphasized this many times. The vertical parent is God and the horizontal parent is True Parents. This is parentship! God and True Parents' desires are the same. Following this way leads to prosperity. Following the way of parentship will create the embodiment of all levels of love: individual, family, tribal love. Following the way of parentship is the only way of building that concept of love into a system of perfection. No matter how hard you search, this is the truth. The principled way is the foundation that you must stand on. There are no exceptions. Father followed that same path; he invested his whole life to this way. You have to follow Father's steps. You cannot take a different way, for this is a marching time and you must follow me. You have to know that.

Step on that path and stay on it forever. Educate your children about the Principle -- you haven't been doing that. A thousand generations of your ancestors must go the same way and a thousand generations of your descendants, too.

There is only one Principled viewpoint. You cannot arrive at this viewpoint by simply talking with each other. Father received all the persecution, in place of God. Even God is walking the same path.

That is what the tribal messiah is all about. Father has gone through that same position and made it successful. On that foundation Father is trying to bequeath it to you. Your original mind will help so that you automatically feel like parents to your tribe. You will be able to take care of them with a parent's heart and mind. But you don't have to wait for your original mind to wake up -- it may take a long time. Father is trying to tell us everything -- our position, what we can expect, and how to do it. Father is teaching us everything and placing us in a victorious position. How amazing that the situation has changed even from the last time Father spoke of tribal messiahship. Until now, we had to pray to God and get the answer. Sometimes it is very difficult to get an answer. But now all we have to do is live the principled life and report.

You have to become a true man. What is it that Father needs to teach you? You lost your parents and now you've found them; you found your brothers and sisters and even found your true tribe. Father taught us everything, yet still in the corner of our mind something is lacking. That feeling has no place. Father gave you a spouse, and the best one at that. What else are we waiting for? We have everything.

I am giving this priceless gift to you free with only the condition to not dishonor my tradition. I am talking about the universal True Parents' tradition. Don't dishonor it by committing a wrong action. If you have questions you can ask them to Father during a question and answer period.

According to how many tribal members we have, registration will take place. We have to belong to one of the twelve tribes and which one will be determined at that time. The world will be divided into 12 tribes, which are the same as spirit world's 12 pearly gates. This is a pre-registration time; we are qualifying now. We should qualify while Father is alive on earth. You must have strong guts. You must know you are standing on the True Parents' firm foundation and not even wobble.

When I left Korea for America, I told all Korean members that Korea will undergo a lot of complications, but Unification Church members shouldn't worry about it, because our position is firm. That's what's happening now and our members are so confident. We should be confident here, too. Whatever happens in the world or America, we should not even vibrate.

Leaders Conference - June 5, 1989

Rev. Sun Myung Moon
June 5, 1989

We have all been concentrating on the dispensation in America. From now on, the dispensation of restoration will be worldwide. Individual assignments will be international. The HSA President in Africa may be American. Why? To connect the flow of culture and make it supranational. If we don't do that, Americans would keep just their American culture creating a great hindrance to world unity. Isn't that easy to understand? We must always think we are one tribe, no matter where we live or what color we are, we are one love race with the same cultural background. So a conference like this is always part of a systematic training which we will need to conduct our worldwide dispensation. Although we are living here in America and working for the sake of America, we always have to keep our international goal in mind.

The kind of activity we have been doing will be a thing of the past. Why have we done things in such an inefficient, very crude way that is without results and without a clear idea of progress? It's sole purpose was to let people know that the Unification Church exists and what the Unification Church represents. Until now, we have been spread out too widely so that we could cover the entire territory. We lost man hours by thinly spreading our energies, without gaining a tangible result. From now on, we will concentrate in one area, invest in it and be consistent about everything to penetrate that area. We will use our newspapers to introduce America to what we are doing and why.

Just think, if we advertised for 40 days through NBC and CBS about what we are doing, how effective would it be? We couldn't catch up to that result if we worked for 400 years the way we are doing now. Until now, we had no choice. So when Father worked the way he did here in America, his goal was always never to sacrifice even one life, not to have one martyr. So Father spread out to let the public know about him. Compare this to Jesus' time. After the crucifixion, Jesus couldn't establish his foundation so the people could at least know he was not bad. If only that foundation could have been laid, then Christianity could have been saved thousands and thousands of martyrs. This is what Father had to think in the beginning. So I came here and had to fight against the Fraser attack just to win over that area. That opposition was overcome. Now all over the United States, they at least know the Unification Church is not bad. This will save us from having to pay the price of martyrdom. That's what I wanted. Worldwide, not just in America, they know we're not bad and that's quite different from Jesus' time.

So 1976 was the peak of the persecution--not only here in America, but all around the world. I grasped that opportunity and in 1975 sent out all the missionaries to all 120 countries that drew the persecution towards us all at one time. The Carter administration was trying to influence all the countries of the world and that's why they were investigating the Unification Church everywhere around the world. They gathered all that material, analyzed that information and used it in court. So Rev. Moon was put in jail in America like a bandit. What kind of legal standard are they making for the future? In the end, it gave the image to all the world that America lost to Rev. Moon and that Rev. Moon actually won over the administration's persecution quite clearly. That's a most historical event. That was my strategy, to overcome all the persecution all in one time; after that none of it bothered us.

We must understand what was done here in America to make the world foundation on which we are standing, by fighting against unjust persecution by the American government, which was like the Roman Senate. We have to have that kind of heart and courage. Once we understand how much it took for Father to fight against them and win, we have to inherit that 100% so we will be absolutely confident that whatever persecution comes in the future is peanuts when compared with the foundation we are standing on.

Unite with Father, then the American government is fighting alone. Even if you don't help me, only follow and attend me, no matter how difficult the persecution is, then it is no problem. I am the center; the center works all night, never minding the season, never taking a vacation. Think about that!

You must be the kind of leader that has strong and stable roots. From there God can help you. The spirit world can help if you have that kind of winning attitude. That kind of help from the spirit world always and forever brings result for one purpose. God plants deep roots everywhere.

Satan, through the power of communism, wants to pull out those roots. Therefore, communist power stays at the bottom of society in the cultural area instead of becoming the universal power. No matter how great communism's power is, it cannot deny or pull out my situation. You have to live life strongly for God. Otherwise, the spirit world cannot help you. Spirit world is always going to be helping Father. Why? Father took one direction and didn't quit. Once I stood in that place, I was steadfast, allowing no weak link. No matter how much I wanted to weaken my standard, I could not. Even if I wanted to push out that strong foundation, I could not shake it. Stand in one place steadfastly so that the spirit world up can keep close to us.

How can the spirit world help you? You assess point 1, looking at point 1, hearing point 1, talking about point 1, testing, smelling, touching, feeling point 1--always one! You say, "I am a God's son, I am the center! My major aim is to stand here. Anyone who wants to go must go by me. You will take your place as center post and master of that boat. No matter which way it leans, the Unification net cannot be taken up. You all are world leaders.

We have to make a new reformation from this point--a revolution. We are not an American movement; we are a worldwide movement centered on the Fatherland. Many kinds of cultural backgrounds are in our movement. We have the background of the spirit world. The many generations of your ancestors are following one way. No matter what, your ancestors are there. From throughout human history, many famous people are here--they cannot say, "I want to work only this way." There is only the way of the Principle; that is the only foundation, the only pattern, and everyone must follow it.

What kind of pride do we have? The only pride we can have is making this way our very own.

Ever since Father came to America 15 years ago, I could not trust any American leaders' words. So for a long time, you have complained to me: "When will there be a time for the democratic way?" How can there be a democratic time? In terms of restoration, can democracy bring about God's purpose? No! Clearly no! Until now, I couldn't take an interest in the American way. My interest was turned the other way toward making and maintaining a foundation for world restoration. I am the center. You have to follow. No matter how great are the American leaders, no matter how rich they are time, who can take that kind of responsibility? It is not America or the American people. How can they grow up? How can they be educated? Father studied this point

From now you have to change both your mind and your body, appearance, everything--even your atmosphere. Otherwise, the American movement will not become prosperous, but, rather suffer miserably. From now, what kind of attitude will the leaders have toward me? You cannot know that until you reform and revolutionize yourself. Up until now it has been the nighttime. Now it is noontime. At noontime you can see everything and everyone. Do you know that the modern American situation needs strong and correct leaders, one-direction leaders? Otherwise, you cannot save this country. No matter how strongly the leaders want to save this American ship, they cannot do it. Neither the State department nor the American Armed Forces can do that. There are maybe 700 thousand students in the universities, but all the intelligence of the university professors cannot save the youth. It takes more than the American educational system. Even famous organizations cannot save the present American situation.

You see it in your heart! You hear it in your heart! Only the Unification Church can help. There must be a 180 degree change--otherwise we cannot have hope for the United States. It is a miserable situation. America itself is crumbling. This is not America's problem alone--all over the world this problem exists. That kind of evil spreads out all over the third world infecting the new generation of youth. They know clearly "I know this is bad." But they cannot cut off or separate from it. This is the agony of American youth. When I was in jail, I saw that type of youth many times. By their appearance and talking, you would think "He is a smart, handsome guy." They said to me while I was there, "I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't cut away from it by myself." Who can solve this? Only the Unification Church can do it--otherwise there is no hope forever in America! Now I am worrying about this point. Spiritual world exists more than the physical reality. High level purpose, whole purpose--I can create that enlightenment. That means you must have that kind of spiritual enlightenment to open the spirit world gate. Do you have that kind of power? Spiritual power is vertical power. Vertical power is the place where vertical motion occurs.

In your life of faith as a member of the Unification Church, you have to ask yourself, "How much have I taken care of the youth? Really, am I a center leader or Satan's leader?" You know that answer very well. Can you clearly visualize God's viewpoint of the position of state leader? Compare yourself with that vision. Clearly understand yourself: Am I really the representative of God, the spiritual leader, the high level Unification leader of this state in America in place of Rev. Moon? Compare yourself and realize how much more you have to grow.

Look at the churches in America. They are losing membership and have little hope. If you see a huge church building, open the door and go inside. As you close the door observe who is sitting in the chairs. Their few participating members are mostly senior citizens. Are they the owner of the churches? Can God look down and feel, "You are my church owner?" How can churches regain their honor? No matter where you look, you see that kind of situation in the churches.

How old are all of you? In your thirties and forties. Your youth is gone and soon you will be in the same situation. This is a very serious situation if no one helps you.

So we'll decide how we should deal with this kind of circumstance. I already proclaimed that beginning in 1990, I will not use an interpreter, but will speak only in Korean. Do you remember? Should or shouldn't I do that? I always do what I promise. We promised we would learn Korean by then so we must do it.

How can we participate in the providence with Father? Can we learn Korean in just another six months? You may think, "What kind of irrationality is that?" You might think such a statement is pure tyranny. Did you forget that I learned a foreign language in a short time? How difficult it was for me to learn English! Are we going to complain or are we going to say, "Father, no matter how impossible this is, this is the way it must be." Or you might say, "Father, since you speak English, why don't you continue to teach in English?" I know that might be more convenient, but the Divine Principle says that we should teach using only the True Parents' language. There is no question if that is the way it should be or could be, it must be that way eventually. That's what Divine Principle dictates. In the spirit world we will learn that it is unprincipled to wait until we go to spirit world to learn Korean. They will demand that we should have learned the True Parents' language while we were on earth as Father told us. But for whatever reason, we didn't do it. Our ancestors will really accuse us for our failure, because we were the only ones who had a chance to do it, not they.

How can you avoid that judgment? Think how miserable you are if you are standing in that position. You are younger than Father who is now 70 years old. Seventy is the grandpa age. I had no time to study English because guests were constantly visiting East Garden, often until midnight. I was always waiting for them, seated in one place.

After they finally left, I would study English. I could not speak in English, nor could I understand the words at the many meetings. English idioms are the most difficult concept; I memorized them all, because I couldn't understand them. To do that took a lot of time out of my schedule. Late evening was the only time I had to memorize that completely. In my mind I made the decision to do that. Later as I would get into bed, I'd think, "Last time I memorized those words. What were those words?" I would completely forget and would have to memorize them again. I repeated one idiom over 20 times.

Sometimes I would forget names. I knew the face, but not the name. So I would study that name 20 more times. Now that I'm getting old, I have to refresh my memory more frequently. Please realize that is the kind of serious situation I studied in endlessly. It wasn't so easy. Compare yourself with me. You are 10 to 20 years younger than me.

I came to the Western world standing in the parent's position to Western children. The children were talking but I couldn't understand them. I thought, "I need to learn English" So I started to study it. In summation, I always took the responsibility to understand. So you cannot complain about having to learn Korean in front of me. I did it and have complete confidence in you who have an easier way than I did.

The primary reason you have to absolutely learn Korean is the spirit world. Another reason is that Father's words are published in 200 full volumes. These are a priceless treasure nothing on earth can equal. Are we going to study Father's words by translation or in their original form? That's why we have to learn Korean.

The other day on the boat, I spoke to one professor. The professor was asking me if we shouldn't form an association for the Korean language? I thought it was very appropriate and something the church members should have suggested, not a non-member. The professor had been writing a letter, drawing references from Father's words, whereas church members didn't even know where we could find that point in Father's words. But others noticed and wrote the suggestion to Father. Scholars are very quick in this respect and one of them began to feel the need to learn and promulgate Korean by forming a study group. They understood that Father had already proclaimed we should learn Korean.

This particular scholar thought he would be the first to learn Korean in Europe. Then he would put all the Unification Church leaders under him in Europe. He didn't clarify that directly to Father, but that's what was going on in his mind. Have you ever heard of a leader who doesn't have a command of the original language? It is miserable that scholars can act on the need to learn Korean but church leaders cannot. Doesn't it stand to reason when I pointed out, "Don't you think we need to learn Korean?" that I was speaking as a result of what I did so intensely all of my life?

Now I am going to give it to us through the Korean language. How can you not want to understand or receive this by reading or listening to my words directly in Korean? If we go to spirit world after listening and learning Father's teaching from an English translation, then how can we raise up our heads and proudly say, "I have heard Father's words"? Certainly, Father would not be happy: "After all I have done, you didn't even learn Korean." All spirit world is looking down at you learning Father's words through translation. Your mind will be in agony in spirit world for you accepted the translation way after I said so many times to learn Korean. When you go into spirit world, how can you meet me if you speak only English? I knew that it would take a long time and how difficult it would be.

Should or shouldn't I use an interpreter in 1990? You said "no", Father shouldn't use an interpreter. That means you are about to become dumb, having ears but unable to hear. Since Father said it, we should do it. Dispensationally, this is the time to learn Korean. During the seven year period of 1985-1990, everything must be completely done. Now that we know the native land of the Unification race we should have a native language. Also, tribal messiahs must all speak Korean. One day there may be a Korean member assigned here, just to supplement that responsibility.

Already our second generation is learning Korean in the Little Angels' School in Korea. The numbers of children are rapidly increasing, so I am thinking of buying more middle schools and high schools in Korea to accommodate them in their efforts to learn Korean.

Why is it so necessary? We cannot speak many languages and expect to create one country. What is the first verse of pledge five? "We are proud of the one sovereignty, proud of the one people, proud of the one land, proud of the one language . . . " Father's main project has been to create one nation.

Everyone wants to lead their own culture into the highest level--that is humanity's highest desire and purpose. The next part is: "We are proud of the one language and culture centered upon God, proud of becoming the child of the one True Parent, proud of the family who is to inherit one tradition." We are proud of belonging to the blood lineage inheriting Father's tradition.

But God's lineage cannot just appear. I had to establish a place for the relationship of parent to exist. The most important task and highest purpose of the Principle is to get rid of Satan's blood lineage. How about you? What kind of blood runs in your veins? True Parents' bloodship. Vertically, God the creator and horizontally, True Parents. These are combined to eliminate the wrong blood lineage and to create a new blood lineage which will be the salvation of man from Satan's world. It will be completely separated from Satan who can never touch it again, for we have a new root. One is the root of the true olive tree and the other is a wild olive tree. All the wild olive branches must be cut away to receive the grafting of the true love branch, making that tree's fruit the same as that of the true olive tree. Otherwise, there could be no way for salvation and no one could enter heaven. This is the Principle. I have been living my life guided by this perspective.

The seventh part of the pledge is to work to create the world of one heart. That means one brotherhood, all around the globe and even in the spirit world. The base of world peace is parents. Without parents there is no peace. The word "parents" then means "the root of all peace." Accept the True Parents and from there everything can be solved. The fallen world wants parents, so parents is the highest point of purpose and that is why tribal messiahship means parentship.

Messiahship's true mission is parentship, so tribal messiahship is the highest gift you could receive from Father. You don't realize that yet, but you should pray to understand, "What is salvation?"

Which would you prefer: to use the same language in the spirit world you are using here or to learn a different language all over again when you go to the spirit world? Before you answer, please think about this concept from the viewpoint of the Principle. There can be only one language spoken because this world and the spirit world are united with the same central love. So, by 1990, there will be no translating.

Also, by that time, I won't be able to come to America as freely as I do now. There will be a lot of people visiting me so they should know where I can be found. I will be found in one permanent place. At that time, we should not complain, "Oh Father, you used to come to us and talk to us. Why do you not come to us and teach us anymore?" Also, maybe there will be a condition that only those who speak Korean will be allowed to come. Will you say, "Then Father, I won't go to Korea to visit you." It's fine with me. But is it going to be fine with you? There will be a lot of things we cannot even imagine that will happen during these next 10 years.

Forty years ago, when I gave a talk, no one, not even those who wanted to, could believe it would happen. But as the 40 years went by, they saw that it not only happened, but that I was actually making it happen. Now at this juncture, I am saying the same thing again. The chances of my words becoming a reality are better than 40 years ago. In 1983 when I said there would be no interpreting as of 1990, you might have thought: "How could that happen?" But now we're at the threshold of 1990 and that event is about to happen. Should we or shouldn't we actually carry out this plan? Should I stop using an interpreter in 1990?" That means unless you learn Korean, you are not going to be able to come to conferences. At any rate, we better start learning Korean seriously.

Japanese members thought they might be an exception because Father speaks fluent Japanese. But that is not so. It should be easier for them to learn Korean.

This is a public statement because we must have a tradition. Not only does it apply to this year but a thousand years from now. We should begin sometime and now is the time. If you don't speak Korean, then you should send a representative who does speak Korean. Since this is a big decision for both myself and all of you, if you have any objections you have to voice them now. Later, you can never say, "Oh, impossible, impractical."

If you have some reason to oppose, please say it now. What about non-members? This will be up to Father to decide for they don't have the knowledge that we have received. In those circumstances, I may speak English, Japanese, or use an interpreter. But as far as our family members are concerned, there will be no translations. I will only speak Korean. Those who say, "Yes Father, we must do it" raise your hands.

I realize the grave importance of this situation. In fact, it is a revolution. On the other hand, what advantages can you see? A book could be written without needing to be translated into 100 different languages, eliminating the waste of time and materials in such repetition and interpretation. How convenient it will be to need only one book that everyone can understand. It is difficult to learn a foreign language, so one language would mean no foreign language study. Our offspring would have an easier time. It takes a great ancestor to make this accomplishment a reality. Who is that great ancestor? All of us.

What about the quality or degree of excellence of the Korean language for this type of worldwide usage? Is it going to be an inferior language? No! The Korean language is a language that can meet any challenge. Theoretically, you can learn the 24 characters in 30 minutes. So in 30 minutes you can master the basic building blocks of the Korean language. After that, you should be able to spell it at will. The pronunciation of the Korean language is very versatile and comprehensive. Everyone can understand Korean because its pronunciation is very accurate. There is no sound the Koreans cannot make. So the Korean language is the highest level in all areas: phonics, composition, pronunciation and spelling. It's no accident that a person such as Father would be born in such a culture. How could I have been born in an underdeveloped country with a primitive or very poor language? It would have caused so much pain and difficulty to the rest of the world. This is not the case with the Korean language.

Do you know what is being talked about in the scholastic world? They are proving that the origin of the Chinese language and culture is Korea. I believe that. It is not a Korean, but several Chinese scholars who are saying that. Other Chinese scholars really don't like this information. The Japanese people have already solved the problem for they have no way of denying that Korea is their ancestral root.

Korea is the birthplace of an ancient civilization that started thousands of years ago. The longest history of civilization belongs to Korea. So it is no accident that I was born in Korea. Historically Korea was invaded by other countries more than 930 times. But not once was the Korean sovereignty lost; somehow it managed to keep its lineage. There were times when Korea volunteered to belong to China, seeking protection from a big country. With the exception of those times, Korea was never ruled over or annihilated. Prior to Korea's history, no one knows. We have reason to believe the Koreans were scattered about, living in what is now Manchuria and northern China. The Great Wall was built to protect China from the Korean race. So Koreans were very near at that time and were a very courageous and righteous people. Even Confucius, who represented a standard of ethics to millions of people, said Korea was the most ethical country in the East. Throughout history the Russians fought against the Oriental peoples. When an Oriental person died, they could search the body to identify it: a Japanese person would always carry a dagger or some weapon, as did also the Chinese; but Koreans never carried a weapon. The only thing a Korean carried was a flint to make a fire.

On the Chinese Siberian border, sometimes a stranger would wander in the wilderness and knock on the door for help. The Chinese homeowner would ask, "Who is it?" If the answer would come, "I am a Korean," then they would open the door. When Koreans were given lodgings, they would never steal. That's why the Chinese opened their doors very easily. But if the answer would be, "I am Chinese or Japanese" then they would not open the door.

Although it has been invaded over 930 times, Korea has never retaliated or attacked another nation. Genghis Khan was a legendary figure who occupied all the European countries. History says that he was invincible. But that is not true for he was very badly defeated when he tried to invade Korea. This fact is backed by scholarly proof and findings. Koreans are very courageous people but never wage war against another. How did the Koreans defend themselves? Once the Koreans realized there was an imperial danger they forged a unity never seen before. That's how they survived.

Never in Korean history has anyone brought more unity to Korea than Father. I have brought Korea into the real and essential unity. How could Korean people get married in mass ceremonies like that without unity? Conventionally, only poor people married 2-10 couples at a time; well-to-do and respected people do not get married in numbers of two or three thousand couples. We are the first ones to do that. What better way can unity be proven?

To marry even one Korean with a Japanese would be difficult. But Father made 2500 couples like that overnight! There were not just couples with a Japanese husband and Korean wife, but the more difficult couples of Korean husbands with Japanese wives. Many people wondered what historical resentment was going to surface in these couples. But when the Korean people knew that Father was behind it, they knew there would be good results. They didn't worry about it because they know that Father loves Korea and would never do anything detrimental to the Korean people. Japan also knows how much Father loves the Japanese people. The same is true here in America. Now, when American people comment on our weddings, they say, "Rev. Moon wisely matched and married them!"

In the Cultural Olympics, Father is planning to bless thousands of couples at one time. The only prerequisite will be 40-day training. Whoever wants to be blessed after 40-day training will come and receive it. This is one blessing where the couple will not separate eternally. If you are a serious person, then you would know how difficult it is to get married nowadays to the right mate. You are lucky you didn't have to go through that!

That's actually the number one recognition about Father around the world, isn't it? He is the world's biggest, safest, most guaranteed matchmaker. That's Father's first title. We are not proud enough of our Blessing. There will be a day very soon where we will proclaim ourselves to the whole world saying, "We are a couple blessed by Rev. Moon."

If you are ever going to study China, Korea, Japan or any Far Eastern country, you cannot learn through the limitations of the English language. But through the Korean language, you can learn everything anywhere. If you learn Korean, you can learn Japanese and Chinese very quickly after that. If you learn Chinese characters, you can communicate with half the people in the Orient through writing. It's very complicated and a lot of headache too; you'll end up wishing that the Orient language never existed. But think about the bright side of it: Without the Oriental language and Oriental race, Father would never have emerged. The problems of the world would never have been solved.

How could you summarize what the universe, God, and the history mankind are all about within an hour as Father has done? We can do it now because Father has taught us. Is there any encyclopedia or literature that we can find in the library for such solutions? Divine Principle is the king of all knowledge. Without it, knowledge could never be organized, because we don't understand God. Sin confuses everything. There's no clear theory about God or the purpose of man.

Maybe you didn't go to an ivy league college, but were in the Unification Church instead for 10 years. In those 10 years, you learned 100 times more than those scholars. For example: One person who was educated at Harvard was working for the Media Research Institute of Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He was the chairman of the Political Research Center. Everyone recognized him as an expert when he joined The World & and I. In the beginning he thought he was the center, because he is intelligent; he was quickly awestruck. Now he is very humble. He thought the Unification Church and The World & and I were nothing. At first, he didn't recognize the value of our members and looked at them as having no credentials with little, if any, educational background. Soon he found that all of the members are very learned people because of the Principle.

All the scholars of the world thought Rev. Moon was someone lower than they, but they were caught by surprise. Do you understand who we are? We are a very capable church, with a very capable leader. No one understands Father. If Christianity in America and Korea had recognized and embraced Father, what could have happened? Father would have been known all around the world and the world's problems would have been solved years ago. In that sense, how much the world has lost! How much damage has been done to the world for not recognizing my value? But the world waited until things could not get any worse before they embraced Rev. Moon. Fifty years have been wasted! If I did not know God's Will I would never have had anything to do with America and surely America would have perished. But America was selected as the archangel country. Then I did everything I could for this country. The result of my efforts is why we are blossoming today. Now that I have spoken about this in detail, we American members can begin to understand who we are.

I know that America, Germany and Japan are historical enemies. After what the Japanese did to Korea, how could Father select them as the Eve country? "Love your enemy" is perhaps the only explanation that can be offered. Imagine if Christians fifty years ago had understood this as God's Will and embraced Father? America, France and England would have formed the major dispensational nations of the archangel country, Eve country, Adam's country, and so on. How much faster the world would have been restored with no opposition or sacrifice! I came to America to save and educate this country, but they opposed me. The French and English did the same thing. Why? Because of satanic influence.

The Japanese are historical enemies to Koreans, but Father claimed Japan, which is of much value to Satan. I made them even more valuable by putting them in the Eve country's position. Following this, Japan had to be perfected. Most of the core elder members of Japanese church came from deeply religious backgrounds. Mr. Kamiyama's father is a Christian minister, which is very rare in Japan. Mr. Oyamada was trying to be a minister by himself. So Father selected these people and put his own ministers in Japan. Many of you have not heard Mr. Kuboki's testimony of how he came to join the church in the beginning so many years ago. Heaven intervened directly and told him, "Give up your membership in your present religious group." He was about to be made an heir to that church's leadership. He obeyed and came to the Unification Church. Mr. Furuta also came from a big, prestigious religious organization. He was their hope, but he was told by God to come to the Unification Church. Spirit world went into full swing to bring all these people to the church.

When Father sent out the world missionaries in 1975, he made trinities of missionaries from three countries--Japan, Germany and America--to indemnify the loss of America, England and France after World War II. It would have been ideal if these countries had inherited God's Will. Japan represented Eve, America represented Abel and Germany represented Cain. Those three combined indemnified the various positions that had been lost. Father brought the three major dispensational countries that had been lost to Satan's side back to the heavenly side.

The following is human history in a nutshell. Because of the Fall, Adam and Eve gave birth to Cain and Abel; they are symbols of the fall. This created a pattern that expanded throughout history. At the onset of World War II, England was in Eve's position, France was in Cain's position, America was in Abel's position. Opposing them was Japan in the Eve's position, Germany in the Cain position with Italy completing the trinity. When the Allies won over the satanic side, they should have come to Adam's nation, God's nation. As a result of the Fall, both Adam and God's position were lost. Before I came, there was no Adam nation. How can we find the original Adam who was lost here? Prepared nations on God's side should have connected with Adam, making unity of the four nations. As a result, the whole earth could have united into one. The establishment of God's nation would have followed. This was the grand plan for restoration.

History went through this very course. The year 1945 was so crucial after the victory of World War II; these Eve, Cain and Abel nations should have searched for the Adam nation. Japan had occupied Korea for 40 years as an indemnity condition. Satan knew God had been preparing this project for so many years so wanted to destroy the Adam country. If these two countries had united, that would have been the end of restoration. But this did not happen, so Father selected Japan as Eve's nation, America as Abel's nation and Germany as Cain's nation. My 40-year indemnity course consisted of selecting these enemy countries and embracing them. They should have been happy but they continued to rebel; so Father had to overcome them with love. This took forty years.

If the enemy countries of Japan, Germany and America were not selected, then I would not have received such opposition. They why did I do it this way? Because God lost this foundation, then I had to restore it back to God as a condition to recreate what was lost. By these countries uniting with Korea the world would be in God's hands.

Why did Father bring people from every country, especially those from Germany and Japan, to America? America is where God lost everything, so Father wanted to gain everything back through this country. Everyone involved opposed Rev. Moon because they already belonged to Satan. So Father rearranged everything in America according to God's direction. He brought it all together in this particular pattern to replace the Christian foundation. Father did that through the Unification Church. We brought 7000 Christian ministers to Korea to restore and revive Christianity. Some 40,000 members were educated in America to replace the lost foundation of Christianity. Because Satan interfered with restoration history and didn't allow events to happen like they should, Father created what was needed with his own hands. Only through the dispensation can American people begin to understand what Rev. Moon did.

If no one was able to determine if Rev. Moon and the Unification Church were good or not, why do so many people oppose him? Because Satan got hold of everything, Father was alone. There was no one who took God's side except Rev. Moon.

The Korean people opposed Rev. Moon because the Korean ministers listened to American ministers in their denominations who told them Father was a heretic. Then Father had to come to this country to restore everything that God had lost. After much pain, Father finally restored this foundation and brought it to Korea and Asia. America and Asia are now connected, and we're getting close to the establishment of God's nation.

The 1988 Korean Olympic Games were so meaningful. From the external point of view, so many young people who participated represented Satan's champions of the second generation. They were healthy physically; but Father brought them spiritual health as well. The missionaries of 120 countries represented God's second generation. God and Satan chose one place where 120 nations were present at the same time; God's second generation carried gifts to them and clearly connected them with the Unification Church everywhere by helping and embracing their nation's champions wherever they could in Korea. Only one leader emerged above all others: Rev. Moon. Even the Soviet Union listened to me and returned their thanks to me by giving me a medal. All things like that make a condition of indemnity. They were turned around completely. Now you understand that my coming to the United States made many conditions for victory over Satan's side.

The second generation of more than 2000 couples on God's side completely opened the national foundation. The Korean/Japanese couples, centering on God and True Parents, will produce a new blood lineage based upon their country's foundation. With the creation of that kind of foundation, Satan cannot invade any national foundation, cannot attack the Unification Church or Rev. Moon who is standing on the nation's foundation. In other words, Father restored the foundation for God's nation through this Adam country/Eve country marriage foundation. Satan cannot accuse that kind of foundation in his world; he will have to bow down. With that kind of foundation made in Korea, Satan's world of communism will have to bow down. So China will have to meet with me and eventually will follow and dedicate itself. This is the Principle. No matter how Satan's communist world sends its power, it cannot invade, kidnap or infiltrate those representing God's side.

You have to know in this time of accomplishment that Satan's accusation is gone. Why? Because I made this national level Adam and Eve marriage foundation. With that kind of foundation established, Satan automatically must follow the foundation for the original world. Satan's forces will automatically crumble. At that point, Adam and Eve together with Abel and Cain will combine into one. Through that, America will live.

Rev. Moon represented God's side and helped the spiritual fortune of the United States. This foundation will provide the way of salvation for the United States. This is the Principle, not Father's words. This is the formula course. The way of indemnity is a universal iron law. When the English tried to control the Chinese, they introduced them to opium. This intentional act of creating drug addiction is the root of the indemnity of widespread drug addiction in the Western world today. So, no matter what wrong action has been committed in the past, unless indemnity is paid, there can be no peace anywhere in the world.

Father selected Japan, America and Germany as primary nations, yet all of them came against Father. What about France and England who were also to serve as God's foundation? They too opposed me. Seven countries came against me so I had to re-indemnify. God knew the foundations he wanted by winning World War II, but all of them were lost. The 40 years of indemnity that Father had to endure was due primarily to the failure of America, Japan, England and France. When Father chose Japan to be in Eve's position on God's side, how blessed was that country? When Germany was chosen for God's side, how blessed was this country? Then Father chose America. From the perspective of the providential viewpoint, at anytime in history has God chosen a man or country a second time? NO! Rev. Moon, as God's child, can do that. Why? Because Father set up a salvation situation where he could save these countries twice if it was needed. When Father chose America, he took responsibility to restore this nation to God's original point. Left alone, you Americans didn't understand enough to save your nation.

Before Father left for Korea last November, there was an American leaders conference. This country's people, who had been Father's enemy, gathered in one place to dedicate themselves to Father's work. They were sent out from the highest level. This many kinds of people or leaders Satan cannot control; he can only contact them through Rev. Moon. There is absolutely only one way now! You have a unique position that is completely separated from Satan's claim. You have to know this in the future in your position as leaders. How can you take on the future? We are getting low on leaders. Most important mission at this time is America's providential mission. How carefully have you lived your life on this earth? How often did you receive painful persecution for God's sake? How well do you know that path? Are you forgetting it? In the future, God's nation will issue some kind of ticket based on your active training. We will check it, then if found wanting you will be given some kind of active time.

During this important time, Father has been fighting a most serious war on the front line. But the question God will ask you is, "How much did you help Father?" It was agonizing because you didn't even know Father's situation. Every area was blocked and he had to find out how to open each door. You didn't know how difficult Father's situation was. Father found the way to turn the whole thing around.

There was one previous time in history that this kind of foundation was made. It was in Moses' time! How will you react when you receive incredible persecution? Salvation was disappearing in this world until Father took responsibility for the past. Jesus took the way of the cross in order to guarantee a point of salvation for mankind. You as a leader must take responsibility in the same kind of serious was as did Moses, Jesus and Father.

The first time you heard Father's words, you couldn't understand much. Missionaries from Japan, America and Germany, representing the second generation, united for God's side, and made the condition for the future salvation of the world. How blessed is that activity. That was the deepest purpose of Father choosing representatives from three enemy countries to send out as missionaries. At the time, people thought I was wrong. Think about it: three enemy nations who cannot unite, how can that save America, France, England, the Free World or anything? Now they understand Father's words. You are in the same situation as Father was. People will hit their bosom and cry out, "How foolish I was for not listening!" They will realize, "There is no solution." Only Father's forgiveness will give salvation.

It is at this point in time that I have given the tribal messiahship. Father has known the way for a long time when you didn't have any idea of this concept. How much blessing is tribal messiahship? During Jesus' time, John the Baptist was a tribal messiah, as was Zachariah. Together they represented the unity of Joshua's tribe which would have opened the way for Jesus to marry. But the Israelites couldn't accomplish such a united tribe.

By sending out three nations centering on Father, there was a four position foundation sent to every country in the world. No nation can accuse or persecute us. I was creating a worldwide foundation. I was taking the Adam's position, but mankind decided that it was a mistake to follow me. God and Father knew that; so Father repeated the process. Who else could take this mission? Only God and True Parents. Children in the fallen world have Satan's blood. Individualism can't remove it. You must realize your position. The second generation or is making the indemnity payment for everything. Everything has been cleared up and given to you in your tribal messiah mission. Tribal messiahship means true parentship. True Parents did it just like that and their lives will bear witness in their children. When Father sent out 21,000 blessed couples as tribal messiahs all over the world, they had to overcome the attitude, "Father I cannot be sent out." Father cannot recognize such an attitude publicly.

You have to all be brothers united centering on True Parents. You must be strong about that. In the beginning, Unification members said to me, "Father, you are the parent; why don't you do it?" So pitiful for Father! Even the 36 Couples didn't know that. Father made a wide victorious foundation. In the future, people will feel so much happiness. Father wanted to completely pay the necessary indemnity. Now, Unification members can go anywhere and not be accused. Please show some guts in whatever you are doing and always ask God. By standing in that central position your opposition will immediately crumble and heaven will open up. This is a powerful philosophy.

Korea opposed Reverend Moon, but in the actual showdown, who won? Father won over every nation that came against him. Rev. Moon is gaining influence all over the world. Looking back, the providential viewpoint is so clear. God and Rev. Moon saw that.

After what Father has done, where do you stand in comparison? During this time, it is your turn. How can we win when you don't have the result or even the effort. So I'm telling you now that you have a short time to make more tangible results. To do that, you have to create more activity. Otherwise, it will be a miserable situation. Originally, Father took the same position to God's foundation in the four corners of the world. From now until 1992, you have to make good result. Can you do that?

Now, no one opposes us seriously. This is why Father proclaimed the Cultural Olympics. Cultural unity is so important for world unity to be fulfilled. Imagine so many people from different countries coming together to get married at the same time! Those who come from a certain village and marry in Seoul at the World Cultural Olympics, will go back and report to their village what they experienced. How excited the people will be.

Do you understand what Father is saying? If people had recognized Father earlier and then you were sent out as tribal messiah, your position would have been quickly recognized. However, that God's foundation is coming into place now . On that foundation, you are now working as a tribal messiah. At the time of World War II, God's nation lost that foundation which we are now restoring centering on Father. It was Father who received the focus of all the persecution.

For 40 years, Father has made the conditions to restore these nations to God's sovereignty. He has single handedly fulfilled the responsibility for this task in place of the national leaders of these countries. That is God's principled viewpoint of messiahship.

America didn't know that at the time, only God, Rev. Moon and Satan knew. Why did the democratic world come against the Unification Church without researching our doctrine? They completely denied us. That was Satan's work again. No matter how strong a net Rev. Moon tried to make, Satan would cause people to fall out. Rev. Moon made a net of double strength, but Satan tore it down, not only in this world but in the spiritual world, too.

Now, good ancestral spirit men can come down at anytime. They represent the archangel's side.

The archangelic world saw the first Fall caused by the worst archangel. Now good archangels are on this earth helping Adam's family, tribe, nation, and world. That is the archangelic world's mission. Satan cannot accuse if all your good ancestors come down to stand behind you--behind YOU! I am holding the gate open to the only clear way of following the Principle. You have to take your training course on the track that Father made.

The spirit world is ready and eager to help you. Just like when Adam spoke, everything was carried out just as he had said. We should have that kind of feeling now. Adam spoke and spirit world carried out his directions. We must have the same confidence as the original Adam.

The time of Cain and Abel struggle is gone; brothers won't fight each other now, for they are looking for parents. The tribal messiah's role is to connect them to the parents. During the brothers' time there is war and conflict; but during the parents' time there is only peace. Even if there is scattered conflict, it doesn't affect your work.

No one opposes us today, especially when they understand what Rev. Moon is doing. What will happen now? All will seek God's nation and we will guide them to that with Satan playing the role of a witness to you. With brotherism, Satan can oppose because he has so much claim on them. But not when it comes to parentism.

There is only one way leading to victory. All you need to do is to inherit Father's tradition. Father put all of his heart into this mission, absolutely confident that it would work. Likewise, we have to do that.

Now you look back and are in a good position to understand me, although when I initially spoke about these things, you couldn't understand me.

40 years ago I had the determination to make all enemy countries become peaceful brothers. Now it has been achieved. Do you think Father speaks and just hopes that somehow it will happen? No! I am a realistic person and worked towards this end. Please go back and read Father's words: everything is there. The discrepancy is only that we listened and then forgot.

Are we proud of all that Father has done without any help? Yes! So we should not dishonor Father's achievements. Preserve your own dignity by upholding Father's victorious foundation. How about our situation? It is a blessing we didn't expect. We don't deserve it, but we have it. We are saved, but we have to deserve that salvation. Even if we don't do anything, Father may save us. But how miserable such a situation will be when we reach the spirit world.

So what is the surest way to be sure to deserve our blessings? Be victorious in tribal messiahship. We are in a better position than Jesus. It is as if Zachariah's and Joseph's family were in peace at Jesus' time. We could get blessed and can now achieve all aspects of the dispensation. That's the foundation we are given to stand on through the tribal messiahship.

The dispensational time has really changed. Cain and Abel relationship that is repeated time and time again in history. But after the Parents have emerged that pattern will never repeat itself. All we must do is to have faith and carry on. If we really become really serious with absolute confidence in this historical foundation, and do the tribal messiahship, the world will come into one.

This is the last command that God can concretely give concretely to mankind. If you do this, you will achieve the goal. After that, God will not have to issue another commandment.

I am quietly a parent to everything. Parentship means not complaining, no matter what is going on. This is Father's teaching. Follow that absolutely righteous way.

Where the vertical and horizontal connect is the central point of God and True Parents' dwelling place. Father has emphasized this many times. The vertical parent is God and the horizontal parent is True Parents. This is parentship! God and True Parents' desires are the same. Following this way leads to prosperity. Following the way of parentship will create the embodiment of all levels of love: individual, family, tribal love. Following the way of parentship is the only way of building that concept of love into a system of perfection. No matter how hard you search, this is the truth. The principled way is the foundation that you must stand on. There are no exceptions. Father followed that same path; he invested his whole life to this way. You have to follow Father's steps. You cannot take a different way, for this is a marching time and you must follow me. You have to know that.

Step on that path and stay on it forever. Educate your children about the Principle--you haven't been doing that. A thousand generations of your ancestors must go the same way and a thousand generations of your descendants too. There is only one Principled viewpoint. You cannot arrive at this viewpoint by simply talking with each other. Father received all the persecution, in place of God. Even God is walking the same path.

That is what the tribal messiah is all about. Father has gone through that same position and made it successful. On that foundation Father is trying to bequeath it to you. Your original mind will help so that you automatically feel like parents to your tribe. You will be able to take care of them with a parent's heart and mind. But you don't have to wait for your original mind to wake up--it may take a long time. Father is trying to do is to tell us everything our position, what we can expect, and how to do it. Father is teaching us everything and placing us in a victorious position.

How amazing that the situation has changed even from the last time Father spoke of tribal messiahship. Until now, we had to pray to God and get the answer. Sometimes it is very difficult to get an answer. But now all we have to do is live the principled life and report.

You have to become a true man. What is it that Father needs to teach you? You lost your parents and now you've found them; you found your brothers and sisters and even found your true tribe. Father taught us everything, yet still in the corner of our mind something is lacking. That feeling has no place. Father gave you a spouse, and the best one at that. What else are we waiting for? We have everything.

Father is giving this priceless gift to us free with only the condition to not dishonor my tradition. Father is talking about the universal True Parents' tradition. Don't dishonor them by committing a wrong action. If you have questions you can ask them sometime to Father during a question and answer period. You will automatically lead a spiritual life.

According to how many tribal members we have, registration will take place. We have to belong to one of the twelve tribes and that will be determined at that time. The world will be divided into 12 tribes and we should belong to one of these 12 tribes, which are the same as spirit world's 12 pearly gates. This is a pre-registration time; we are qualifying now. We should qualify while Father is alive on earth. You must have strong guts. You must know you are standing on the True Parents' firm foundation and not even wobble.

When I left Korea for America, I told all Korean members that Korea will undergo a lot of complications, but Unification Church members shouldn't worry about it, because our position is firm. That's what's happening now and our members are so confident. We should be confident here too. Whatever happens in the world or America, we should not even vibrate.

Each individual should make a 40 day prayer condition, skipping one meal a day (It doesn't matter which meal is skipped). Pray to make a new church of this Unification Church.

We went together with Father through an indemnity course, trying to do something for the sake of other people. When it comes to this tribal messiah it is directly for yourself rather than for anyone else. Previously whatever you gained was like a war trophy, but now we are about to go into direct ownership. You are able to accomplish this upon the tradition of love, parent's love. The parental love which you exercise will gain results for not only your family, but the tribe of your people. Together we are going to Heaven.

Until July 15th, you should pray to understand everything Father has said, even if you have to refer back to Father's words over the last few days. We must remember all that Father has taught us recently. Do not be conceptual about it, but make it completely your own. Be realistic and practical about it! For 40 days pray to completely change yourself and our church!

You should pray and study until your relatives and family members think you are actually crazy. You can learn so much at this time on how to make expenses and living your life to nourish your tribal members as their messiah. "Messiah" is a saver. Father suggested you pray like this: "I am completely new at standing in the center of savior situation. Help me, for we don't have the money we need for a living foundation. How can I make this foundation?"

Take this 40 day period and 7 days after the end of the 40 days, you will solve this problem anywhere. No problem you can do it. Follow my word for 7 days, that's all. After that, you cannot complain to me and they will be thankful for their tribal messiah.

This is much the same situation as when Jesus ascended into heaven 40 days after he resurrected. During these 40 days we pray hard to come back to the original position with a prepared foundation.

I. Reassessing or checking the leaders.

Until now anybody could be put into a leadership position. But this time we have to question the qualifications of a leader. It has been a wartime situation in the past and during wartime anything can happen. But now we need a peacetime system. So we should reassess our leaders to see if they are qualified.

II. Everyone, including the leaders, must go through 40-day training.

How about all of you? Is there anyone here who did not go through 40-day training in the church? Rev. Ahn is doing 40-day training. Those who did not go to 40-day training under Rev. Ahn raise your hands. Please stand up. You should schedule yourself to go through that course, the sooner the better. AFC leaders should also go through 40-day training; it's good for you. And Father knows it is difficult for you to have someone substitute for you; but that's why you should have trained someone already.

Rev. Ahn teaches well. The harder the training, the better it is for you. Easy training doesn't mean anything. After receiving 40-day training, you will be able to teach people back in your own home town. Father's purpose in doing this is to make you great messiahs.

Actually Father admires American members because they are so docile. Father at times would rebel against something that you do not. You are a gentle and good people. You should be good not only in heart, but you should also fulfill your promise. In other words, don't just be agreeable and then not keep your promises; he would rather have you disagree but do it.

III. Selecting a qualified lecturer.

That means you have to listen to them giving a lecture to determine whether they are a good lecturer or not. If they are good, then they are selected.

IV. How to train and give good influence to members through good sermons .

This means we have to give many instructive lectures to influence them. The best reference material for that is Father's words. You can pick any topic from the vast numbers of pages of Father's words and you can start to write.

Father is a religious leader and as such, Father has given a sermon literally every Sunday and Holy Day. Mother often says, "Father, considering your age, please try to speak less." But Father couldn't help it because he had so many things to teach you. You obviously didn't get everything and Father doesn't want to leave anything undone so later you won't say, "Father why didn't you leave that behind?" This is an expression of Father's conscientious preaching within all his sermons. Father wants to speak as much as possible, covering as many topics as possible. So naturally the sermon becomes longer. Father can average everything in 5 minutes or 30 minutes. It would be easier. But three hours is much better for us to remember than 30 minutes. If you want 30 minute instruction, you need to read the Divine Principle, not listen to Father's sermon. Father's sermon paraphrases and amplifies these principles for only then do we begin to understand the Divine Principle. We cannot fully understand the Divine Principle just by reading it.

The secret of a good sermon is to pray for more than three times the length of your speaking time. The more we pray, the more influence and impact that lecture carries. People will be moved to tears, depending on how much we pray.

V. The morning service attendee and making it an extension of life.

In other words, we often attend morning service, pray, listen to a sermon, and then go back to our "normal" life. This is incorrect because our normal life should be an extension of morning service allowing no difference to exist. We should be no different in what we say and the way we live.

Like a good lecture, we should be able to give the sermon like a conversation or natural speech. If you are standing and see the birds, you ask them: "Where are you flying? Are you going to find your partner or are you hungry and want some food? If you fly to me, it is possible I can help you." Or you may see the insects walking in a certain direction, "Why are walking there? Do you want to meet me or talk to me? What are you going to say?" In other words you don't have to be formal when our sermon and our life are consistent with each other.

VI. Strengthening the combined economic activity.

The leader's duty is to not only lead his tribe in daily life, but to be responsible for economic matters. We can start many things with only our imagination as our limit. We can bring all the family members together to fund raise in support of our activity. We have done many things which many members mistakenly thought were our tradition, such as the state leader making someone else go fund raising. Don't do that! If we need to fund raise, then we do it with our brothers and sisters. When the Japanese members first came, many state leaders made the Japanese members fund raise to support the church. We shouldn't do that, for fund raising is the state leader's responsibility. Father earns money, but then he shows us how to support our activity.

Look at the mistake of ministers in the Christian church--they don't know how to make money so they are at the mercy of the congregation. Sometimes the congregation will actually chase away the ecclesiastic person. No matter how great a religious leader you may be, if you lack the ability to make money, then you won't have power or authority. You have to really go out of your way to earn money, because it is not easy. Father will make you a great religious leader who can also earn money.

There is big money to be made in boat fishing, long-line fishing. The line can extend 40 miles. You think about the purpose of that one line. Sometimes it shocks people by how many fish it catches. How excited people get!

Sometimes the sea is calm like the glass of a mirror. It is very mysterious when looking at the huge ocean. One time there can be a roaring wave, as tall as a mountain visiting you: "Hello, how are you?" But when the sea is calm, the world appears to be totally flat. You may prefer that kind of wave or viewpoint, but I don't like that kind of world. I like to talk with the tall wave that is visiting me. It is wonderful to see how high the waves are when I look around. There are always waves that are still higher, making me appear so small. The wave says: "How much guts you have, man. I admire you. God bless you." How wonderful it is to ride such a wave, swim in such a wave, or fish in it.

Fishing can change all of your old concepts, including the way you think. Father has ridden in his boat for 9 or 10 years catching tuna. You were always encouraged to participate in Father's sea-going adventures. Haven't you had many such experiences of catching tuna? Your future generations will be very proud of you when they see a picture of you catching tuna with Father. They will admire you and feel indebted to you. Especially when they see a wave hit the boat, making it surge upward into a roaring wave, while you were with Father fishing. How precious that picture will be! You cannot buy such a precious gift or more hopeful position. How wonderful that will be for your descendants, how much they will admire and envy your position.

Remember when Father was going out on the Hudson River, catching striped bass in April. In the future, many students will come there. Someday, after many years have past, students will visit you because you were catching bass with Father on the Hudson River.

What do the fish think about as they swim under the water? When Father is pulling fish out of the water onto the boat, they want to jump out of the water to come with me. "I am so miserable can you save me?" Father thinks, "But God gave you to me for eating. Is that great thing or sad one?" The fish answers, "I know that is a great thing, but I am worried about my blood bursting out, that's not so good."

You can talk to any life form whether it is small like a pinpoint or big and noisy. Like the fish who are constantly talking to each other and making friends in the world. They'll gather in one place and talk about what other fish are saying. Fish hear a sound and will say: "Yea, those on the boat are making that problem. The fish cry out."

Through sharing, emotional world and spiritual world can connect everywhere. United Nations represents the four global directions, but they are not linked in one direction. If a man's mind could unite with a wide, spiritual path from a high level in the spiritual world giving it one direction. By man standing firm in this one place of access how happy the spiritual world would be. An example of this is Jesus who is not dead, but still works in everyone's heart. That is the most effective way.

When I ride on the boat, I have the fisherman's world, king-size imagination. Every day on board, I was cultivating a formula to work everywhere we planted the seed. How can it work? I knew what kind of soil was good for which kind of grain.

The "ridge" is an imaginary, connecting line on top of a mountain range. That kind of center or ridge happens in all worlds of life: fish world, flower world, business world, industrial world, and the artists' world.

For example, Father created The Washington Times --layout, production--to break into every aspect of the media world. We continued that for 5 years until we inherited all of their merit as determined by the vertical world. How did he do it? Father experimented with a variety of ways. He visited there many times.

Father described a process of earning the trust of the shipyard captains to learn all they know. Eventually they will want to work for you in your shipyard. That is the natural way.

Use valuable time wisely. When you visit the mayor or the state governor, don't take a prideful position to them. Instead treat them as if their position was similar to yours, like an elder brother. No matter how serious the situation you can say, "I like you as my brother. I would like to take you to lunch." Invite him to a great Chinese restaurant. "You don't have the money? Well, use public money and pay back later." Why not? For God's purpose you are trying to accomplish this relationship.

How can you settle in one place? Using your creative imagination, you can never be stopped for very long. By following that direction you can find a way out of any difficulty.

So when I am fishing, I am also thinking. Beginning in Korea, following the Itinerary Workers to 40 countries. I think about the past at a particular time, of what was good or what was bad. Sometimes I calculate all the right things that have happened. I can remember the first time I visited a certain place, how many members were there, what kind of member they were at that time, and what has happened to them since then. Did they disappear or are they in a center somewhere?

How about our present situation--are we going up or down? How high have we gone? Where will we end up? Check yourself clearly. They are studying you in spiritual world most deeply, concentrating on thinking/imagination world.

Think about how difficult Father's way has been throughout his life; but how young I look. Don't you think so? My mind is always thinking, leading the providence through the spiritual world. Following that, my spirit says, "Make more action, more strength, and move faster." When Father is riding the boat, reporting everyday why he did that, why he needs that, he is often sitting for 12-15 hours at a time with no problem. He doesn't take a nap or sleep, but tirelessly watches the sea for that special fish.

Once Mr. Kamiyama was checking the fish, but after all day on the boat, his body situation was miserable. Father mentioned that fact to him, and Mr. Kamiyama asked, "How can you know that Father?" "Because God is looking down at you and spiritual world is taking a moving picture where all the Kamiyama phenomena appears. How can you deny it? I know for I live with the same situation." If Rev. Moon does something, it is immediately known in the spiritual world. How wonderful to have that kind of help while working towards restoration! Stretch your imagination is what Father is saying.

VII. We should create a social leadership system.

We should not stop our life of faith work on the individual, family or church level. We should exert influence to lead the society into our life of faith by creating a social leadership system. We should develop the church into a system through which we can easily lead society into God's desired direction. Making the church into this type of social leadership system, will help our church function as an efficient system to achieve our goal of leading the world back to God.

VIII. Tribal messiah and the Tradition of True Parents.

After Moonie, Sunnie, and whatever comes after that, where will we move? "Kingie." "Kingie" is messiahship. Messiahship means parentship. King means the representative of the spiritual center of all nations. Think how hard Father is working to make that kind of messiahship or kingship. You are only now hearing this, never before. Good troublemaker. Everywhere Father was, made trouble. In some remote area that parents visited, they stayed one night and immediately there was trouble in that place. People would complain, "Last night some stranger visited us and made some kind of bad phenomenon. We had to chase him out." The village leaders gathered to say, "Since you have come to our village, bad things have happened. You must leave." I have heard that many times. I made trouble everywhere, even in the United States.

IX. National Central Figures

In other words, what we are trying to express is national leadership type of people. What is our ultimate goal by becoming a tribal messiah? Our ultimate goal lies in the nation that we have to save. We need a national central figure. First we have to train such a leader; then after training them, we have to build an organization centering on them. Making that kind of foundation will automatically connect with the national purpose.

X. Training for World Coalition.

Father will apply a similar AFC activity from America to the whole world. We will bring them and train them in AFC, this will include sending them behind the Iron Curtain and Bamboo Curtain. They will train in an unlimited scope of activity.

Sometimes you may see a hard working Unification Church member immediately disappear as if he dropped out of the U.C. and came against us. Later, this same person will suddenly reappear in front of you. You will ask him: "Where have you been? How many years since we last saw each other?" He will answer: "Seven years. I stayed at my home." But they, just like Father, were always there working underground. I have sent out many people like this. Why must we work in this way? It is the only way to save and liberate God. Some of those members have passed into the spirit world: "I go to the spirit world now; I have responsibility for your life. I will lead you to a higher level." Some are waiting there for Father's coming. I have never reported such things to you. This is sad reporting that cannot be said so openly. Only Father knew that. How serious Father's situation was at the time.

Why are we making such an expanding organization? We have to save the most precious, most valuable whole world. Father opened this foundation to work with top level leaders.

There's a boat with a giant net about 2000 meters long and 100 meters deep. It needs 100 persons working on board. Father would like to train you on that boat for one whole summer with no salary for working.

I trained well in very difficult circumstances. There is no situation that Father has not imagined and no training that Father didn't go through following that imagination. There is no tall tree in Father's neighborhood that Father didn't climb. He would always challenge himself to climb every tall tree. One day he went after a favorite bird which nests in a big, very tall tree whose branches are very soft. Even at that time Father was a rather heavy child and would go climbing. Father's mother spent her life worrying about Father every day because that's Father.

When a big snake would appear in the village, everyone was kind of shaken and said, "Someone should catch that". It was always Father who caught it and dangled it by it's tail. Father discovered that a snake can never reach its tail with its mouth. The extent of its reach is only two-thirds of its own length. So he knew his hand was always safe.

There's nothing that Father didn't do. We should do that before we can feel the same as Father. Father makes good strategies and good tactics because he trained well everywhere and can do anything. So automatically Father could become a famous leader. Father is a great leader because Father did that.

Now what should Father do? Maybe we just better wait two more hours then eat dinner.

FR: That is the more convenient way. I like that, how about you?

Actually in this kind of conference, Father should receive reports. Until now, Father didn't get any report. To get all the reports how much time it would take--how many hours. Then after reporting, we will have dinner. Or should we go right to dinner and skip the reports. (laughter) Father is asking. FR: Father is asking means we are taking the democratic way.

TR: During the last one and half years, Father has been decreasing the budget for you. Please select one representative from among yourselves to come in front of the brothers and sisters to report how you are doing and how you managed to run your own organization. Please give Father and all of us an overall report of what you expected when Father told us about AFC and what did you find on the way while doing the activity, and what is your perspective as of this moment, how hopeful is it for the future of America--a comprehensive report. It doesn't have to be long, but comprehensive.

Like Father, let's dress this way: putting on necktie. Dress formally--that's nuisance. (Loud applause) From now on you have permission to come before Father this way. New dress code for summertime. This is the most economical way of dressing. FR: Wearing is most convenient way, feeling is very convenient. Easy to wash and very inexpensive. How much saving there is? Suit dealers will oppose us because we aren't giving them any business. And if we need suits, we can easily put a jacket on top of the shirts. (Thank you Father).

FR: Everyone can be grateful for the CAUSA movement's conferences where they teach very well, educating the participants and connecting them to this one direction way, effective way. Is that true? Let's give a big hand to Tom Ward. I have received many reports that the San Diego conference was well done, well done and very effective. You have to make another conference of 450 people--all the great American leaders--turn them around and make one direction. How amazing our behind the scene activity will be! Don't you think so? We are making a second revolution in the United States. A new country was born here, coming.

TR: So there are all kinds of response because we are stirring up the country. Some politicians really hate us or hate Father because it's not according to his principle; but others really fear Father; while still others really love Father. This group says this is the only way to set the country straight.

FR: Our members really loving Father, American leaders behind them, and behind them the Free World. That is good phenomenon or bad? Good and effective! Through this way, good leaders can control the youth. They have power and they have money. I needed to use that kind of power and money. There was only one way--through teaching and educating these leaders. Then no problem.

TR: Now American leaders came to understand that America can be loved; that they and we all can love and resurrect America. They are grateful for this to Rev. Moon. Personally they are grateful--American leaders. Now they really have the vision, thanks to Father.

FR: What do you think? Father's making the AFC movement was good or bad? Good! It has done well or bad? Well! Our CAUSA movement? Great! You don't know it, but behind the organization there are others.

TR: So the political activity, AFC is adequate to be the center. Education: it has been proven over and over again that CAUSA can do the job adequately. What about the money? Who should make money? Nobody proved that yet.

FR: Having a meeting is good. After that, collecting money and making an amount. After that, Happy World. (laughter) Otherwise, no happy world. We understand that.

TR: Father devised a plan for economic activity already--a plan that works. Through this organization and concept, Father has already set aside money, the leadership of economic activity can be ours. Let's hear. If we all go along with him, we will make it a success. Let's all join in listening to Mr. Joo.

The Day of All Things and the Right of Ownership

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
World Mission Center, New York, NY USA
June 4, 1989
Unofficial Notes from 9:00 am Speech

Do you own something? What do you have? You have Father and Mother, brothers and sisters and your country, but you don't have your world and your heaven. Man has the desire to own larger and larger things. There have been many countries, culture and civilizations. Religion has now advanced into a few large groups. We have come to the point where man wonders which direction to take with these four religious blocks.

In addition to these four religions blocks, there exist several large countries for example, USA USSR, China and Japan. How can they harmonize, and which direction should they take. This is the challenge facing mankind now. The religious blocks are the internal and the big countries are external divisions. How can we know the direction to harmony? God has helped guide history so far, so it is God's problem as well.

A religion has to do something to provide the guidance to bring harmony. Somebody has to come. Some religious group has to be big enough and controversial enough. What is that group? Externally, big countries also have to say that that group has become influential and powerful, even if they don't understand. Also they should pay attention and not ignore nor oppose that group. Other religious groups also feel threatened as they loose influence, and the big countries are fearful as they have never seen such a group before.

What is that group that fits this description Unification Church. The democratic world does not like this group's concept of unity. They like independence. From this viewpoint, the Unification Church is not an ordinary group. It has great influence. All professors like and love the Unification Church. Serious religions leaders and politicians have come to like the Unification Church. This is one church that is different from others and has a solution. If a country has a problem, they come to the Unification Church and Reverend Moon.

Look at fifteen years ago. In this country, everyone was a Liberal. It was fashionable. If you proclaimed yourself as a conservative, you would be out. Now Liberals have been declared as a hindrance to progress. The Conservatives are ahead. This is shown by three strong Presidents.

We saw Fraser, Carter and Mondale as central Liberals. Who knocked them out and applied a strong brake to this Liberal movement? White people couldn't stop them. But a yellow man came and told them the way to go.

A couple of days ago a senior General from the Bush administration came to Father and said, "You are the man who saved many Generals from Liberalism. You brought about the conservative revolution in the United States". So naturally who became the problem? Our American Reverend Moon. He's not even a citizen. He only has a green card.

Why is he doing so much for America? Actually he is doing it for the sake of the world. Religious leaders too have been attacking Reverend Moon. But they have come to learn that he is their solution. In Japan, the Nishokasai(?) group chairman, gathered all his members and told them that, "Mr. Kuboki who was originally a member of our group, left and joined the Unification Church. We originally denounced that, but that is wrong. We should now go and embrace him and the Unification Church." Why did he do that? The more people persecute Father, Father loves them more, so they are finally turned around.

This is an iron rule. If someone opposes Father, but Father embraces them, then Father will prevail.

Is this Korea or America? America. Then why are you sitting on the floor so tight? In American churches you have comfortable chairs. So this can't be America. There are also so many colors of faces here. In America, whites and blacks and Spanish don't like each other. But what about in the Unification Church? Is there anyone we don't like? No. Black people realize that Reverend Moon is fighting for them. So whatever color you have when you join, it just fades away. That is Reverend Moon's thinking.

So all races are making unity with Reverend Moon. If Father takes one tenth of the money he is spending in the United States and spends it on Black people, he could bring them into unity with him.

Until now, the United States, Germany and Japan have opposed Reverend Moon. All Father did was love them. So now they are turning around. They are changing whereas Father is unchanging. Who is more righteous, the changing or the unchanging?

So gradually they are coming to understand and like Reverend Moon. In the media world they now understand more. All scholars are coming to Reverend Moon. The situation is now ripe. When Father says to someone, such as a financier or a politician, "I would like to meet you", they say, "O.K.". Chinese leaders met Father after five years of preparation. Father only took five months to prepare. But they were very impressed with Father's insights and vision.

So if this is a group which made conflicting politicians and financiers turn around, and follow his thought, then Reverend Moon deserves a lot of thought and study. Reverend Moon now has the power to influence anywhere in the world. How wonderful God's strategy is.

Without Reverend Moon, Bush would not have been elected. Some Republicans may take offense at this, but they are ignorant.

Even our members cannot say to Father, "I wish you were white." That day is long gone. Because we are catching that power we welcome and love Reverend Moon. The congregation here do you love Reverend Moon? "Yes!" There is such a mixture of religions here Catholic, Baptist, Protestant, Pentecostal, Buddhist, Hindu, and you all say, "Yes I love Reverend Moon." People might say that Unification Church is where people change their direction/religion, but will you change again? "No!" Why can you say that? ("Because you are my father!") But the father and child relationship is very difficult. It takes a complete change of blood lineage just to be able to say that you are my child. This is the deepest change of your blood. You have to go through a lot before you can say you are my child. If I don't know that you are my child, how can you say that you are? However, if you can do that, unification is no problem. Possessing the Principle is not as easy as saying "yes".

In this real, historical world, it is happening that all people who didn't like Reverend Moon are now coming to like him. This is a very serious event. Father did not have anything, but America has many departments, for example, the Department of State, Defense, etc. However Father who doesn't have any arms is marching forward and going up at all times noontime, night time, working time, great!

If white, black, yellow and red people like Reverend Moon, what about all things? Do they like him too? If it is true that all things have a higher intelligence than men, and men like Reverend Moon, then all things will push to like Reverend Moon too. Father was fishing the last sixty days. Father thought to himself, "If I fish anymore, I will become a professional". The striped bass predicted they would come to me, and they did. After some time, the black fish predicted they would come, and they did. The bass who represent white people, and the black fish who represent black people were both caught by Father to make racial harmony. The people now say, "Let us all follow after Reverend Moon, because when he becomes a billionaire, we can be a part of that achievement." Are they wise? Yes. In Korea, the last survey of the Fortune 100, showed Tongil as number forty eight. It is now twenty eight and going up to number one. It is strange, Father never had time to do business. He was either in jail or spending money. But still it is going up. Why? All other people make money to build up their own bank accounts. But Father doesn't do this . He is always spending it. However the money comes to Father and says, "I'll fill up your account". Money follows Father better than you do. All things want Father to be number one, to be on the top of the mountain. How wonderful.

So what is the topic today? "The Day of all Things and Ownership". Reverend Moon does not like the attitude of rich people who just take. Reverend Moon uses money for saving humanity and serving God. So this Day of All Things, (the 27th Day of All Things), all things are coming to Father's position to build up God's ownership. Father is the root so all things will come to Father. All things know how great they are and that they are greater than the people. You can't talk to the clouds and the streams, telling them to go one way or the other. They won't follow your direction. Money is the same. It will flow to where it is spent best, where it is spent unselfishly. Money says, "I know where to go".

Father doesn't need money. It is to save humanity and to serve God. Those who need money, raise your hands. You must be honest, God may answer you! One thing Father knows, no church members will go without food. In that respect, you are experts. Wherever you are, you know how to raise money by fund raising. One sister is wearing a beautiful chima chogori. So you can ask, "How can I get that?" Work for three days!

Stir up everyone, make so much noise that they cannot sleep. After waking people up, they can help you. How wonderful Reverend Moon and Moonies are. You can take God's vertical true love power. Father is not the only one who can do this, you can do it as well. Become a second Reverend Moon. Take your position as God's true children. No matter if there is a fence in the way, just go strongly through it and win the victory. How powerful is that concept! We all love Father, and if all things love Father more than us, should we not give all things to Father? Are you going to let your money go to Father, or are you going to stop it? With what expression are you going to do that? Especially American women, can you do that happily? ("Yes!") When? Now, tomorrow, or the future?

Ownership is the key. Reverend Moon doesn't have one penny for himself. How about you? Today is the Day of All Things. Everything belongs to God and then True Parents. Fallen people claim their ownership. However America is not God's country. American parents and teachers cannot give it back to God. American leaders cannot do that either. Only Reverend Moon can.

Unification Church members all over the world are making trouble. Is this good or bad? Make trouble so people cannot sleep at night. Bark and make noise so that you can claim back the ownership for God.

How fearful would be a bad Reverend Moon. Khomeini died, right? Such a bad leader. Even outside people know that. Father does not like speaking in English, Korean is better suited for him. Father is a seventy year old grandfather, yet he has had to learn English. Why? For the Western world. Father has no time, even travelling at night. So where did he make the time to learn English? Last night he went to sleep at two o'clock. That's spiritual power!

So if all things you possess prefer Father's bosom over yours, would you give them to Father? ("Yes!") Why? Because we have good reason to do that. If you want to reach the top, if you want to reach Father who is sitting at the top, then we should let our money go to the top, then the money will turn around and ask you to come up.

We have to know this fact, that Father, even in prison, kept loving and serving America. The Chinese saw these deeds and now say, "Even though we can't trust Americans, we can trust Father". Father has also proclaimed the equalization of technology. Up to this time, the advanced countries have exploited the less advanced by selling technology. Father says, "No charge." and freely gives it out. From Germany and Japan, Father now owns the highest technology in the auto and steel industry. All the world looks at how Germany, Japan and Reverend Moon deal with their technology. They see Father is most righteous, so scientists come to him. Father is now offering the highest auto and steel technology to China, free of charge. China is bound to modernize. Without Father's help, it could take fifty years. But with his help it will take twenty years, saving thirty years. When this fact is realized all the Chinese can give Father one dollar each, that's $12,000,000,000! So which is the better business deal? The American concept of lending money with interest, or Father's way? Father doesn't like interest.

How can we erase historical mistakes with all things? The only way is to apologize, and do the opposite. Who won between Father and America? Father. Just one battle, or all the battles? All! All Americans have to praise Reverend Moon. During Danbury, a lawyer asked, "What did Father do?" The answer, "Good actions." Many inmates constantly criticized and complained against America and American people, but Father never complained once. So even the Danbury inmates understood Father. We should do more for America than them. All the inmates were waiting to persecute Father, to beat Father, and even kill him when he arrived. This is so easy to do in prison. However, they found out Father's way, changed their attitude completely, and became Father's disciples. Why on the Day of All Things does Father speak this way? In prison there are many intelligent and courageous people. Father has thought and said that if America gave all its prisoners to Father, he could make a formidable army. It costs $80,000 per year per prisoner to keep them. This is much better than us. Would you like to go? Problems are not solved by money, but by education.

All things are doing a silent demonstration, "We want to return to the original owner". They ask God, "Why did you create us to suffer under unrighteous owners?" Historically, so many people have abused all things, and violated all things. All things protested to God, "Why didn't you separate humans from us, we have suffered so much. Finally, with Reverend Moon, we have one person who understands our situation." They hail the great day, The Day of All Things, and they hail Father for creating this day. They all thank and support Father and are all members of the Unification Church.

So when fund raising was done, all things knew that fund raisers should not go first to the rich people who are owned by Satan, but go to the low and middle income people. Sure enough, they gave. Now, middle and upper income people can give. This means that the end days are near. Father wants to send a special fund raising team to a Republican party! All things will rejoice. (For that purpose, I push you out.)

Here we have white and black people, and a variety of races. In unifying, you are doing a world-changing activity, and we will save the nation and world. We stand on the historical foundation and we will go the formula way. Father always does things to make preparations. Nobody understood the IOWC, visiting all those different places, but it was to connect them to Father. Many other activities such as the "African mobilization" were to unite the various spheres with Father. For who did Father do this? The Unification Church? No! To protect America and the free world. In Washington, the political world is shaken now. Father wants to use America to protect and save the world. That is God's concept.

Many people say that Reverend Moon is not a religious leaders but a political leader. Father does that to save America. After time passes, people will understand clearly. Is Father the only one who has to work? No you do too. All things have to be returned back to God where they can be used to serve mankind. The archangel nation USA has to give to Eve Japan, who gives to Adam Korea, who gives to Parents and God. This is the reverse of the fall. We see this trend in the world. Individuals have to give to the group who gives to the country, who gives to the world, who gives to God. Thus God and those whom God loves have ownership. (All people).

Up until now, we need to be ashamed of owning what we are not qualified to own. We can only own something on the foundation of true love.

America (AA) has given to Japan (Eve) who has given to Korea (Adam). Korea is now at a most serious point. All the world's religions, economies, governments, and media want to come to one owner. If you think, "This is mine and I own it", that's Satan's thinking. God's way is, "First God, second Parents, and third children". This is the Principle perspective. Our mission is to change the ownership of all things. Korea is most important. You have to go there and teach this ownership concept. So you have to learn Korean. After 1990 there will be no translation. I hate translations. Who made them? Satan! We need one language Korean.

Raise your hands, who is the owner of those hands? God and True Parents. In the center we have God, on the right side we have Parents, and on the left side we have children, to make horizontal unity. You cannot think, "These are my hands". It's God's hand, my parent's hand, and then my hand. How much have you used these hands as "my hands"? How much have you used your body as "my body"? How bad this is. The ownership must change. We need new owners. In the fall we lost God, lost our parents and lost our family. In the Bible, Jesus said, "You are not my mother, my brothers or my sisters". However, now, centering on the messiah we can create a new family, a new tribe and centering on Korea, a new nation.

Whatever we talk about, we come back to the question of ownership. Always set conditions to make clear God's ownership. The ownership must be with God. Return everything to God. Dedicate ourselves to God. Dedicate my day to God. Father has done this all his life. Father is always thinking how to forget his tiredness and go on. When people drop away, Father knows that at least, "I am going on without giving up".

(To the second generation) Are you the second generation children? Be careful. Don't think about sex or kissing. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve, as they were growing up never kissed. They didn't even know about it. They noticed differences between themselves. However when they kissed, it was a very serious action. The most fearful relationship is the man-woman relationship. This is what Satan violated. With a big iron poker, he put holes in Eve's holy place. That is the most secret holy place. It's now become very cheap. Only a husband has the ownership over a woman's holy place. This is God's concept. Be careful. If sisters are often looking at men, a mistake can be made that cannot be corrected. You must be careful.

The ownership must be God's and Parents. Father has spoken for a long time, for what purpose? To teach. Many time he spoke twelve hours without going to the toilet. That is training. Do we know more about ownership? "Yes!". Everything needs to be owned by God and Parents. We can do this with the help of the angelic world.

After WW II, America almost lost everything. However Father selected America as the Archangel nation, so Father is now giving so much to America. Forty years ago, Father selected Japan as the Eve country, so Father is working so hard for them too. Father has made so many blessed interracial marriages. America-Japanese, American-Korean, and Korean-Japanese, this is choking Satan.

Those who really understand and who wish to liberate all things, please pledge by raising your hands. These are beautiful hands. God bless you!

Day of All Things and Ownership

Sun Myung Moon
Day of All Things
June 4, 1989

Through history, religious understanding has expanded and developed until now there are four major religious groups. Powerful countries also exist, such as the United States, Russia, China, and Japan, which should harmonize with the four great religious blocks. The question facing mankind now is: What guidance and direction will enable these large countries and major religious groups to interact harmoniously? God has helped guide history to this point, and if God exists, this question will be just as much a problem to Him as to the rest of mankind.

History has now come to this point. Politicians in those large countries are working very hard to discover how to relate with each other and which direction to take. Some group has to rise up to provide guidance. How do we recognize them? Such a group would be stirring up a lot of controversy; it would be so big and influential that people could not dismiss it without notice. Large countries, like the Soviet Union and America, and other religious groups may feel threatened and afraid and say, "Oh, that group has become too influential, too powerful. We should not let them grow further." At best, however, they should feel, "If there is a group with such influence, we simply cannot ignore or continue opposing them. We should pay great attention and be seriously concerned because this group might be of positive influence to history."

What is that group that is religious and so good and so influential that people might be afraid? [The Unification Church!] The Unification Church is a strange and unique group. This is one group that professors around the world seem to like, and may even fall in love with. Not only that, other religious leaders, especially those who have been seriously seeking God's will, instantly come to like the Unification Church. Many politicians and statesman also fall in love with the Unification Church, knowing that this is one church that is different from the past and seems to have solutions. More and more, if a country or a big organization has a serious problem that they have not been able to solve, they do not consult their own consulting firm or group, but may instead come to Rev. Moon, to the Unification Church, and say, "We have this problem. What shall we do?" They know that we will provide them with some very useful advice,

A couple of days ago, a major political leader came to me and said, "Rev. Moon, you have made a much-needed second revolution in the United States." The leaders of some countries are recognizing that wherever I reach, good is being done. Our members are working continuously to be effective and bring constructive results.

Religious leaders have been denouncing me, but as time goes on, they see that actually I can provide a solution. "Without him, all of our religious groups must decline, so before that happens, we must come and learn from him." This is the trend now.

For example, in Japan, the Lisjokoseikai, the largest religious group with four million members, has as its chairman Mr. Niwano, who is getting very old. He is about to die, but he gathered all of his congregation and said, "Mr. Kuboki, who used to be our member, went to the Unification Church. We denounced that, but now we see it was very necessary. So please embrace Mr. Kuboki. Do not treat him as an enemy but as a friend." Why did he leave that request? Usually when people are opposed and persecuted, they retaliate or they at least express some complaints, but I did not. The more they persecuted us, the more I tried to embrace them and do good for them, pray for them. Finally they saw that, after all, the Unification Church is not a bad entity and Rev. Moon is not a bad person, but an incredibly good person. So they turned around.

It is an iron law that if someone opposes another in every way he can, but still does not overcome him, then he will be overcome by the person who is persecuted. If you embrace and embrace, eventually the other will surrender to you.

Some lawyer visited Danbury after I left. He asked the prisoners, "What did Rev. Moon do during his stay in Danbury?" They told him that while I was there people thought more about good actions and attitudes. Everyone respected me. But when I left, immediately the atmosphere changed. There was fighting everywhere.

Many prisoners complained to me about our government. But I said, "That is not the religious way or the way of a real man." Sometimes at lunchtime, the prisoners would come to talk to me, one by one, and share about their life, asking me to keep it secret. They wanted to confess the painful things in their minds and hearts, and knew I would not use it against them. I always kept a constant attitude, an unchanging heart. Now, when those who were in jail with me get out and meet someone who is against us, they say, "I lived with Rev. Moon more than one year. He is a righteous man. I haven't found his kind of noble thinking and acting in any other person in the United States." They testify for me more than you do. They call Mr. Kamiyama: "I want to meet Rev. Moon, I miss him so much."

So even the Danbury people know about what I did in prison better than you. Shouldn't you do better than they in understanding me? We should do more for the sake of America than the Danbury people. Bill Shepherd said that all the inmates there had been waiting for Rev. Moon to find out whether I was really bad. If I was, Bill was determined to persecute me. It's so easy within prison to hurt another person, and even kill him. But Bill found out the American government was wrong; he changed his mind completely and became my disciple.

Many of the men I found in prison were courageous, intelligent people. I felt that if the American government would entrust all the correction facilities to me, through education I could make a formidable group out of these righteous people. It is not money which can solve problems, only proper education.

Here in this country and in the world, whites don't like blacks, and blacks don't like whites. The Spanish people don't necessarily like blacks nor whites and vice versa. But what about the Unification Church? Is there anybody we don't like? When you join the Unification Church, all of your sense of skin color fades away. Thus the problem of racial prejudice is completely solved. Isn't that true? If you can overcome any obstacle, then unification is no problem. It's revolutionary that all people, white, black, yellow, who did not like me many years ago, are now coming to like me. This is not a simple happening. I could have retaliated against the people who persecuted me, but I didn't simply because it is not me; our teaching is quite different.

For many years, America, Germany, and Japan have been opposing me, but gradually they are changing. Nobody did anything to make that happen except that I constantly and steadfastly loved them. Now they say, "Maybe we need Rev. Moon. We definitely want Rev. Moon to help us." Though these countries are always changing, I have been consistently pursuing the path of eternal goodness, so gradually they are coming to understand and like me.

In the media world, people are also understanding more about me than ever before. Scholars are following me and what I stand for. Now if I want to see any important person, he will come. I say, "I would like to meet you," and that person says, "Yes, I would like to meet you, too." The situation and environment have changed that much.`

So if this is the group that has brought conflicting politicians and economists into general unity with the direction I am going, then this group and this person Rev. Moon should really deserve attention and study.

Look at all of you here. You have many different backgrounds: Jewish, Catholic, Presbyterian, Muslim, and so forth, yet you all say, "Yeeeees, I like Rev. Moon." People might say, "Oh, the Unification Church must be the place where people who change their religion all go." Will you change again, or will you never change from this point on? What can enable you to say you will never change from this point on?

Father and children are related by blood lineage. It takes a complete change of blood lineage before we can say, "I am your son and you are my father." Can you say to me confidently: "You are my True Parents"? You have to go through a lot before you can seriously and sincerely say that. Do you have that kind of deepest relationship with me through your blood lineage? I don't know, so how can you know it? I am the teacher; I who am in the father's place doesn't know that. How can you know? How can we be sure about this serious point? Making the sound "yes" is easy but actually doing it not so easy.

This is the 27th Day of All Things. All things are now coming to me because I have the route to God, and all things will find the way to restore their ownership to God. Now God can begin to own things as He should. All things know that they are automatically connected to me. How much greater they are than you!

If white people, black people, all the rest of the people of different countries like Rev. Moon, then what about all the things of these countries? If things happen to have a higher intelligence than human beings, and all men are loving and following Rev. Moon, then all things will push to be the first to follow him--even before man.

Now all things are silently demonstrating, asking to return to the original owner. All things have protested to God: "Why did You create us and make us suffer as the slaves of unrighteous owners?" Historically so many people exploited all things, using them to do evil, which they did not want to do. All things will continue to protest to God, saying, "Why did you not separate human beings from us so that we didn't have to suffer so unrighteously, so miserably, throughout the history of creation?" Only one person in this tremendous universe understands what has been going on between all things and mankind. Now all things are hailing me, thankful that I understood their situation and included the Day of All Things as equal in importance to God's Day, Parents' Day, and Children's Day. All things will say thank you to Unification Church members for understanding them and treating them correctly.

Other people make money and build up a bank account; they focus on the future of their children, retirement, etc., but I am always spending for the sake of the world. I never have any penny in my pocket for me--all is dedicated to God's ownership, all money and property. There is no penny of property in my name. My bank account is zero. Then money says, "It's okay, I will pay your debt. If you continue spending, I will pay my own debt." So obviously all things and money like and follow me; I am not trying to make money. Though I don't want to be rich, all things want to be mine because I help them fulfill their purpose. Money knows its purpose and power is for saving humanity, for serving God. Money follows me better than the Unification Church members do!

All things want to belong to God. On earth they belong to True Parents after they reach toward God's way. From the fallen world all things are going back to God. You have to know that.

It is no use to talk to a cloud or stream and say, "Don't move in that direction. I want you to flow in the other direction." Both move according to natural law. So also we cannot say, "Money, flow in my direction," because the money will flow where it is supposed to, to where it will be spent with more effectiveness for the sake of others.

Money prefers to be spent in that way, not in a selfish way. Money, like water, knows where to flow.

A serious question now: You all love me, but if other Americans love me more than you, should you or should you not give all you possess to me? Things love me more than you love me. Are you going to stop your money from flowing to me, if the money loves me more than you do? Will you let it go with a happy expression or a grievous one? When can you do that--now, tomorrow, future, before dying? Have you already done it or now you want to do it?

So if all things which you possess prefer my bosom to yours, would you send them to me or not? Why? Because when something is to reach the top where I am, it wants to get there as fast as possible. If you are staying only in the middle, then you should let the money go: "Yes, you want to go. I don't want to hold on to you. You are free to go wherever you wish." Then since you are also connected to the money, it can help you to rise up to where I am. It will say, "Oh, my previous owner, please come. Let's walk faster toward the highest place, to Father."

All things that are being foolishly used will return back to God so He can use them to save mankind and even Himself. The desire of all things is to be released from the archangel's hand and be returned through Eve's hand to Adam, to Parents, and God. If Adam and Eve had matured to embody true love, then all things would come to be owned by them. To restore, things must go the reverse way: Until now America (the archangel nation) has been leading the financial world. Now Japan is assuming greater leadership and after that, Korea will rise up.

Why is America the archangelic country? I selected it because after World War II, America was about to be washed away down the drain. That is why I am doing so much to help this country to accomplish its mission and connect with Japan and Korea properly. Forty years ago, I selected Japan to be the Eve country. To bless many America men with Japanese women is opposite to Satan's taking Eve in the beginning. Satan sees this and chokes, almost dying.

So now we see a trend in history for absolute ownership of the individual to gradually shift to group ownership. All things will eventually return to God's ownership and be owned by those whom God loves. All things want to go the way that fulfills their eternal purpose.

Satan took ownership of this world, but our mission now is to cultivate new ownership for God. Upon God's ownership can come ownership for our church, our family, and each individual. God is the rightful owner of the universe, but He lost everything. We have to claim everything back for God.

Until now, we needed to be ashamed of owning something when we were not eligible or qualified to own anything. Do you own something? Do you have something in your possession? What do you have? You have a father and mother and brothers and sisters and your country. But your world and your heaven you do not have yet. We only start owning on the foundation representing heaven and earth--not until then.

Why do you use money? For saving humanity, for serving God? Those who need money, raise your hands. One thing I know: No Unification Church member will go without food. No matter where you go you will never starve because you know how to fund-raise. If you want to have a nice Korean dress, you work for three days, and then you can buy one.

You have learned how to overcome limitations of time and money. With this power you can do even more than I have. Go out and stir up good controversy. You can become God's famous true child, winning His pride forever. How wonderful your future time can be!

Compare the Korean political situation with that of the United States. Which is more serious? In this time the most serious problems financially and politically are in Korea. Korea is going the way to make the formula to solve the world's problems. Only by following me is there a solution--to make God's world with love.

I have disregarded my own country in order to work to save America. Korea cannot save all the world, but America is a world leader, so I worked to save America first. Then am I the only person who has to do this work? What about you? You have a much more advantageous position to work for America than I. You have the same language, culture, and lifestyle. In the future you have to go to Korea and teach ownership. Of course from there everything will spread out to all four corners of the world. The Korean language will be spoken everywhere. In the ideal world, there will be a unified culture and a common language.

Having so many different languages is a result of the fall--a way Satan has divided and confused us. Only religious power centering on God's love can end the confusion and unite everyone into using one language. Compared with how difficult it was for me to learn English, it should be no problem for you to learn Korean. I am nearly 70 years old and a grandpa, but still I learned English. Why? In order to help my Western world children better connect spiritually with my words. But I actually don't feel good speaking English because I cannot express what I feel. Now I have proclaimed that after 1990 I will not use an interpreter. I hate interpreters.

Sometimes I think I must be a bad leader because you only half follow. This life is difficult--nobody likes a severe situation. I'm sorry. But think about me. Who has really helped me? I learned how to fulfill every responsibility, no matter how difficult. Being willing to endure a severe situation is good. Many times I met with members till midnight, and then after that is my study time. Last night I slept two and a half hours. How could I stand this lifestyle for more than 40 years? With spiritual power--not flesh power!

I have proclaimed the equalization of technology. Until now, the so-called advanced nations have been exploiting the advancing countries by selling them military power and technology for high prices. But I have said, "I will not charge anything. I will give the technology to everybody else, free." All the people in the world see that my dealing with technology is the most righteous. I am now in the process of providing the highest level of technology to advancing countries.

The Chinese people saw how I was treated here in America and how I never became angry or revengeful. Instead I kept on loving and acting for the sake of America. They know who I am. That is why the Chinese are now saying, "America we cannot trust, but Rev. Moon we can trust." I am now giving computer, automobile-making, and steel-making technologies to China free of charge. China is bound to modernize, no question about it. If China did it by herself without my help, perhaps it would take 50 years to achieve a certain level. With my help they can achieve this level within 20 years, saving 30 great, valuable years. Political figures and economic figures in China had been preparing for five years while I prepared only five months, but when we met each other, I was way ahead of them in thinking and planning for the sake of that country. They were just flabbergasted. Our way is to give, and then automatically we can receive their support.

During all these years no one understood why I made the members work so hard, visiting every town, city, state, and remote countryside, working in every corner of America. I have been spending to help save humanity. God expected me to make an effective foundation so that the United States can fulfill its historical destiny--to serve the world.

All things knew that the members who were fund-raising should go to middle and lower income people who are relatively more free of Satan than are the rich. Sure enough, all of our members experienced that without exception when they went to low income people, they gave. So all things have been realizing that when this trend goes up from low income to middle income, now upper income people will start giving, and surely the Last Days are very near. Our fund-raising was part of the preparation for the future. Now one Unification Church member can be more effective in helping to save America than ten people who have not had such experience.

Raise your hands. Who should be the owner of those hands? They should be True Parents' hands, and after that, God's hands, returning back to God. With God in the center, on the right is the Parents' place and on the left is the children's place, connecting horizontally and vertically with love. My hand connects with my Parents' hands, which connect with God's hand, and then again to Parents' hands and my hand. Think of your hand, "This is not my hand; it is my Parents' hand, God's hand." Until now, how much was your hand used for evil purposes? How about your mouth? How bad has your ownership of your body been? In the future, only a real man after restoration deserves ownership. We lost God, True Parents, True Family, True Children. Now we must take ownership and go the most lovable, valuable, and enjoyable way.

The Bible says that your family is your fearful enemy and that we must deny ownership of them: "You are not my parents, my children, my brothers, even my countrymen." But from now I am sending you out as tribal messiahs to embrace your tribe and take true ownership. From these a new nation can grow. Centering on Korea, all nations will come to follow the way of God and True Parents. Even now we see totalitarian nations heading toward a more democratic way.

In the Soviet Union's hierarchical system, if one high level person united with me, immediately all 270 million people could be educated with the Principle. With its single party system, it is possible to change the Soviet Union in one night. But America is different; everybody goes his individualistic way, so how difficult it is to make one nation.

The younger second generation really should take precautions and do not even think about sex. They shouldn't even see their parents kiss each other (?). In the Garden of Eden, did Adam and Eve kiss each other? While they were growing, they certainly noticed their physical differences because they were naked. But that was all. They didn't know why. They just wondered, "You have a big one here, and I have something you don't have," but that was the extent of it. When they kissed, that was a serious action.

We don't understand enough how serious the man and woman relationship is. The place of sex is meant to be holy, but Satan invaded it. The husband's sex organ is owned by his wife, and the wife's is owned by her husband. God is clever and wise. If something is not yours, you can't misuse it (?).

Clearly woman was born for man and man for woman. Both are looking all around for the other. The first time one sees the other naked, all kinds of feelings are stirred up. You cannot sleep or stay in one place. In love, neither man nor woman can control himself or herself. You must be so careful not to be too close to anyone except your spouse. You cannot undo a mistake of this kind. This is a very serious point.

Now do we know more about ownership? Everything should be owned by Parents and God through the help of the spirit world, which is the angelic world. We must return everything to God; even we dedicate ourselves to God. My day is not my day at all--it belongs to God. Just as I have been living all my life for God, so should you live your days for Him. I have always been finding out how to forget that I am tired and go on forever, if necessary, until the mission is fulfilled. Even if everybody else drops away on the left and right, still I know that somebody is going this way without giving up.

At last ownership will be restored to True Parents and God. Without restoring ownership you cannot get into heaven. This is the Divine Principle. "Divine" means it cannot change. No matter how difficult our life is, we have to return to the original ideal. This is the desire of God, True Parents, and all the saints. If you are working to follow True Parents' purpose and way, then you will reach heaven--no problem. For example, if you want to study, what is your purpose? It should be for God, humanity, and for our tradition centering on True Parents. I spend long hours talking. Why do I talk so long? For God and humanity.

Do you want to liberate all things still owned by unrighteous people and return them to God? If so, please pledge yourselves to be the instruments to do that. You have to memorize this point. No more thinking: "I don't like that, I don't want to do that." You must stop pursuing things which have no value and instead go in a noble direction. Everything, including your blood lineage, must change ownership. Otherwise you cannot be an original ancestor of the ideal way. Those who pledge to do this, raise your hands.