The destiny of husband and wife is like creating level ground by tearing down mountains and filling up valleys

Sun Myung Moon
February 25, 1970
Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book 3: True Love, Chapter 2: Section 4.2

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A husband and wife can be considered a pair; however just as every face differs, people's fortunes differ. They have different destinies in life. Even if the husband has a bad destiny, if his wife has a good destiny, her destiny can change the husband's destiny for the better. Conversely, even if the wife has a bad destiny, if her husband has a good destiny, this can change her destiny for the better. Therefore, we can say that the destiny of husband and wife is like creating level ground by tearing down mountains and filling up valleys. After creating level ground, they can plant trees, plough fields, and pursue a variety of plans for their love as they keep the ideals of husband and wife. From the standpoint of such principles, you should not just see the external appearance when you find your spouse. Marriage is a fearsome thing. (God's Will and the World - 543)

A happy family is one where when the husband returns home he discusses with his wife everything that happened while he was out, and this reveals new things to pioneer. A happy family is one where they join their strengths and research together. When the parents do this, the children will contribute their strengths and join in with them, expressing their hope to build such a family. (29-113, 1970.2.25)

Human beauty does not just reside in the face. It can be seen and felt from all directions. Beauty is threedimensional, like a ball. Whether seen from above, seen from the side, or seen from any direction, a person has his or her own perfect beauty. So you should not carelessly evaluate your wife's face. Many beautiful women are poor, but women who have virtue or good fortune are of a different type. We often see that even in the case of a woman with a pretty face, her face becomes strange after having just two or three children. So we can conclude that those who can maintain their beauty even after childbirth are beautiful women. (God's Will and the World - 543)

You are an Emissary who is Given a Special Order from God (A)

Sun Myung Moon
February 16, 1970
Selected Speeches of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, Volume 29, Excerpts from "Emissary and Father Land"

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Photo date and location unknown

You should realize that you are an emissary who is given a special order from God. Because of this, you should realize the fact that if you make even one mistake in following the order, this act will influence not only your own life, but affect a much larger environment in your fatherland beyond your imagination. The question is how many of you are convicted that you are the one who must fulfill the mission as Heaven's emissary to recover the sovereign authority of God's fatherland.

You must not conform to the environment by even one word. Your deeds should not conform to your surroundings. As you spend your time there, you must be recognized as a person who can offer solutions to many problems, as to benefit the town or region where you live. You should establish a higher standard for the community than your mission field where you work, to fulfill this responsibility of the emissary. You must be resolute at this position to give orders, make determinations and make promises; then you should develop a new movement.

Today, if you want to teach and convey this new word of truth, you should not just pass on the word by itself. You must first become the textbook of a human being in lifestyle and action. In other words, you must be the textbook of all aspects of human life. For example, you must be the model of how to deal with relationships between elder and younger in the village you are assigned. You must not be inferior to any one in any aspect of life.

The villagers recognize you saying, "Our village really needs you." When you try to leave the village, all of them together come to beg you to stay there. You must build such a foundation.

The Standard Bearers for the Restoration of Our Homeland

Sun Myung Moon
February 16, 1970

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When, in order to fulfill your responsibility, all of you pledge to be the new standard-bearers of this 3,000-ri peninsula, Korea will be embraced in our bosom. This is why if your eyes are shining as orbs of light, that light must be refocused on the glorious homeland. You have to become brave soldiers who can use your talents and power for the restoration of the homeland. Moreover, you must all know how to go forward in a dignified manner, having the conviction to stand as a sanctified person who is taking responsibility to restore the homeland.

You have to become a person who can establish the homeland, bring glory to that homeland, live immersed in that homeland, and be able to die in that homeland. Before this time, there was no one who could come in front of Heaven and take responsibility. This is a solemn responsibility that can be fulfilled only once and only at a given time in history; it cannot be approached carelessly. When you hear something once, you may think of ten things that are different from what you heard. But you must go forward, taking that one thing you heard and compare it with those different things.

For heavenly fortune to appear here, you must have the conviction not to be concerned even if the path brings you face to face with utter disgrace a thousand times, or if you die hundreds of times. If you go forward with this kind of conviction, God will protect the path you are taking.

The reason I say that is because each time in my life that I faced such a situation, I experienced that God did not leave me. So He will certainly protect you, too. As a central person with the mission to restore our homeland, whether you are assigned to a province or just a small village, you have to resolve to never give up, because there is no one but you to carry out this mission.

You must never betray the cause, and you must fulfill the responsibility that brings you into alignment with the heavenly commands. You cannot prevail on this path if you stand in the hinterland of your responsibility. You must accomplish this even if you cannot sleep, even if you cannot eat, and even while you are being pursued. If you die, you must die having already made this determination within yourself. When each of you can determine anew to achieve your mission in this decisive way, the paths you are to take will naturally open up in front of you. Otherwise, the world will become a world of darkness rather than the world of light and hope that I believe in, that I anticipate seeing, and for which I have raised all of you.

Prayer: Please Allow Us to Walk the Path of Life Together With You, Father

Sun Myung Moon
February 8, 1970

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Photo date 1960

Father! Through looking at the course of history and through our own lives of faith, we have come to clearly understand that heaven is an eternal place, but what determines whether one can go into that heaven is what a person has made an effort to do on his own on earth and the state of his heart.

As people who have come to know the will we worry about ourselves that we might not be able to walk the way we must for the will. We are those who cannot help but live day by day together with heaven and yet cannot help but live together with the earth.

But we know well that through our hearts which are like this you are seeking to appear in our daily lives. In order to do that we must realize the fact that you are judging the good and evil within us.

Following a lonely path of life like this, those of us who are looking at that and going forward, cannot help but admit that we are descendants of the fall who are not able to find any hope without you, Father. For those of us who are like that, only heaven is good, and we know the truth that it must be heaven which becomes our everything. Please allow this time to become a time of reflection and evaluation of how rewarding and how truly human are living together with heaven, and having the courage to die together with heaven.

In the course of history, those who left behind the name "great person" as a person of goodness, and those who left behind the name "saint" as one individual in the world of men, their names have remained in a holy way because their purpose of life was to live together with all humankind and to live together with you, Father. They did not become exhausted along the path of life, and in order to live together with you and together with all the people of the world, we know that they walked a path of limitless struggles in order to tie the end together with the beginning.

The many people who have come and gone throughout the course of history did that, but we, who have the name of being sons and daughters of heaven, who are shouldering the responsibility of the providence of restoration which must be completely resolved in the history of today, we ask you to allow us to know the fact that what we must do is already determined.

Your having called us in this way is not because we ourselves are fit for the calling, but you have called us as beings of hope through the course of the 6,000 years of pioneering filled with so much grief since the fall in order to establish the concept of creation which you were hoping for from before the beginning of history. When we realize that we are such beings, we cannot help but feel again the loneliness and misery of our father with his heart of grief-filled restoration.

Please prod us because we have not been able to become our real selves who can straighten ourselves up and call you our father, and let us admit that we have not been able to lay the foundation of holy devotion which allows us to attend our heavenly parents. In spite of the fact that more than offering anything of the world, we ourselves must become complete offerings who are able to offer ourselves as sacrifices to whatever you desire, we cannot express how many times we have forgotten this.

Father! The external conditions like physical appearance or any kind of worldly conditions are not the problem. Please allow us to be able to walk the course of our lives with earnest hearts which want to struggle for heaven, and want to witness to heaven and want to live for heaven from deep in our hearts.

Father! Even if while living for you it may sometimes seem like we are in a dreary, lonesome, lonely, and deserted place, we must realize that when we are assessed by you, we are considered as belonging to you. We earnestly desire that you will allow us to once again determine ourselves to stand by our own volition in the position of knowing that this is the original path we must go, and it is the original desire which humankind should pursue. We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.

The Path to Gain a Victory after Being Beaten First

Sun Myung Moon
September 27, 1970
Unofficial Translation

Excerpt from Japanese language God's Will and the World - What We Should Accomplish in Our Lifetime

In the Unification Church, those who worked for the sake of their own personal benefit all disappeared. However, when people work silently and diligently for the sake of the nation and world, whether other people are noticing and recognizing them or not, they become bound deeply to each other without the need for promises in words. Therefore, in prayer, also, it is most important to pray in a place where nobody notices that you are praying. Offer your sincere and best efforts where no one is aware of what you do. This kind of person is the one who remains until the end. Such a person becomes a treasure in the heart of God.

The Unification Church is investing its utmost effort to create such people. We are making such a diligent effort in order to create a quality of faith that can represent tens of millions of people. You must make up your mind to give yourself as a fertilizer to liberate heaven and free your descendants from this evil world.

A person who climbs up to the top of the mountain to shed tears--weeps for the sake of heaven -- is a more serious person than one who prays for the peace of the world. In this sense Jesus' three-consecutive prayers at Gethsemane were most serious ones, more so than any other prayers. If there is such a person, then heaven cannot but embrace him and have deep concern for that person. We must know that this type of person is the hope for the entire human race. Heaven moves centering on such a person. Someone who lives for the sake of himself cannot leave a light for others. But a person who lives for the sake of the nation, the sake of the world, and the sake of heaven is able to enter into the sphere of resurrection. The only thing that remains to the end is heaven. Those who live for the sake of heaven are able to last to the end.

40 day winter witnessing begins

Sun Myung Moon
December 25, 1970

A mobilized woman member of blessed family

A mobilized woman member of blessed family

During the period between December 20th, 1970 and January 30th, 1971, all other family members, than blessed family members already mobilized for propagation till the end of 1970 started for propagation into the country, at all hazards.

Provisional Completion of 16th Sunghwa Students

16th Sunghwa Student members

16th Sunghwa Student members

At 6:30 p.m. On December 25th, 1970 there was a ceremony of provisional completion of 16th Sunghwa Student members at Seoul church with the presence of over 100 high school students and Master encouraged the students giving prizes.

They had all night recreation after the ceremony.

Master Called at Wonju Church

Early in the morning of December 24th, 1970, True Parents accompanied by Mrs. Choi visited Wonju District Headquarters, Kang Won-do Province, southeast of Seoul and made delivery of congratulatory address in the dedication ceremony of the newly built church and returned Seoul late at night.

Printing Shop Gets a Large Sized Machine

In preparation for the publishing a weekly magazine, our printing shop in Soo Taek Ri got a large sized cylinder press, and the weekly will be published pretty soon.

Master Visited Hyun Choong Sa Shrine

At 10:00 a.m. of December 25th, True Parents accompanied by 70 family members getting the sealed tickets of Master visited Hyun Choong Sa Shrine worshipping Admiral Lee Soon-Shin who fought against Japanese naval force about 400 years ago in the Lee Dynasty and returned to the capital. 

You are not for yourself alone

Sun Myung Moon
October 30, 1970
11th Children's Day
1970 translation

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As you know, today is our 11th Children's Day and we will recollect how God has been going through hardships for this day.

But for the fall of the first parents of mankind, there would surely have been established 'God's day', 'Parents' day', `Children's day', and 'World's day' which would enable man to fulfill God's ideal of creation. But as ill luck would have it, the betrayal of Adam and Eve gave rise to the rupturing of the indivisible triangular and unified relationships of God, man and creation, namely the loss of a joyful and glorious day for God, the True Parents, True Children and creation.

For its restoration God, and many sages and the wise have made sacrifices.

Consequently, based on such a process, externally God has been enlarging the scope of the elect for the victorious foundation -- Jewish, Christian and world scope of the elect, whereas internally, forming family, tribe and race.

Therefore, the historical process of sufferings during the period between Adam and Jacob was for the revival of life based on the original heart.

The failure of Cain and Abel in offering sacrifices was restored through indemnity, through bringing Esau to Jacob's knee.

Even though there was an external sphere of Israel based on the triumph of Jacob, it came was next to impossible for the internal sphere of Israel to start. So for its internal foundation, in the three generations of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; Judah and Tamar began the struggle between Perez and Zerah from the blood of Judah, within their mother's womb.

In this struggle, Perez, the second son made indemnity for the first son on the basis of his victory.

In such a historical course, Mary bore Jesus for the blessed successor of Heaven at the risk of her life and honor. Jesus thus became the origin of love centering on God's begotten son.

But the Israelites, whom God had prepared during the 4,000 years, were ignorant of their mission to welcome Jesus as the Messiah.

Their distrusting Jesus led him to the most miserable troublesome life. Mary, his mother, was not the woman he could love. Joseph, his father, was not a true but a foster father, his brothers were half-blooded, and his relatives had nothing to do with Jesus.

God's elect, the Israelites rebelled against Jesus' heart of love and they had to go through a course for indemnity, namely sacrifice without forming a country for 2,000 years.

There may be no discount in the history of indemnity.

If a race failed in their mission, the race should go through a course of indemnity and if the race couldn't solve its problem, the world connected with the race should bear the burden.

Judging from the historical process for indemnity, there still remains the national and universal course of indemnity for our Unification Church.

As the Jewish order led the spiritual field of Israel, Christianity, guides the democracy all over the world, so our Unification Church can and should assume the leadership of the ideological and spiritual fields of the modern and future world.

Then who other than we can take the charge of it? Now, in what standpoint is the blessed family?

The blessed family is in the advanced position of the organized tribe centering on Messiah, restoring the position of the Jewish order, who waited to receive the Messiah.

We should bear in mind that the blessed families are more important than their individual circumstance, and should stand for race and world, heaven and earth.

Essentially, the national religion was not to be under the domination of Jesus, but of the families centering on Jesus for the high priest.

You should know how precious the family that stands for the heaven is. How can the heavenly tradition of the family be set up to succeed for God's desire for ever and ever? That's the primary question.

The 1960s have been the period for the base of individual victory and 1970s are the period for the family base. Now that it's already the third year of the second seven year course and I ordered the all blessed families, including the 777 couples, to be mobilized for witnessing from December 1st, 1970.

Race should consist of family, and the nation should be formed based on the family victory, that is to say, family is for race, race is for the world. So you should look for the tribe to make a new tradition as ancestors.

As such a time comes near, there will be a period of hardship for family.

Now by means of the international wedding of 777 couples from 10 countries, a horizontal world base centering on central figure was set up. Better fortune is with us now, 1970 -- 1972, and it's the watershed for the world.

It's the period of harvest for restoration, so we must establish the foundation of start for the world before the end of 1972.

There may be no excuses. You should march forward in conformity with the order.

Just like the North Korean refugees who crossed over the 38th parallel, let's go forward in an emphatic tone to the world of goodness.

When I left Pyongyang, I came out of the city with the faith that I'd continue to the process of suffering until I returned.

I have been looking for the day when I have the celebration of real emancipation of this country after driving out the communists in North Korea.

You should be pioneers in driving out the communists.

There are a lot of issues to solve at the earliest practicable date in the 1970's -- construction of the HSA Headquarters, social activities, education, etc...

At this point, you should say that though you die, the Providence will remain, even if you go through family hardships, you would follow Father's way.

The higher a mountain is, the deeper its valley is. If you want to climb over a high mountain, you must cross the deep valley. 

The International Wedding of 777 Couples Solemnized in Seoul

Sun Myung Moon
October 21, 1970

Entering of officiators (True Parents) for the ceremony.

Entering of officiators (True Parents) for the ceremony.

On October 21, 1970 between 10:30 and 12:30, The International Wedding of 777 Couples of 10 nations was solemnized at the Metropolitan Gymnasium in Seoul with the presence of over 15,000 guests under the auspices of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity in Seoul.

The couples were from Korea, Japan, Austria, The United States of America, France, England, Germany, Italy and Free China and many garlands of flowers were sent from Representatives, ministers and financial leaders, congratulatory telegrams from the foreign families, and Japanese former premier Nobusuke Kishi contributed the congratulatory message to the wedding.

At night between 7:30 and 9:30, there was a performance if men in the entertainment world in addition to the program of blessed couples.

Master talking at a welcome party for Japanese prospective couples at Sutoek-Ri.

Master talking at a welcome party for Japanese prospective couples at Sutoek-Ri.

The Meaning of the International Wedding of 777 Couples

(This explanation made for guests)

Through our history of seventeen years, The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity has been striving for the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth and for the eternal salvation of mankind, which are the essential missions of Religion. By your good assistance and cooperation, our Association has developed into a worldwide organization having national headquarters in twenty five countries.

At one time, through misunderstandings by society and established churches, we were forced to face many difficulties.

Flags of Unified Church welcoming the arrival of Japanese prospective couples at Seoul Railway Station

Flags of Unified Church welcoming the arrival of Japanese prospective couples at Seoul Railway Station

Ending all the trials and persecutions, we fought to reform the fallen world into a new bright world in our Heavenly Father's hands.

In the long run, we made a national base of the Truth, the Divine Principle, in Korea, and we opened overseas centers in Japan, The United States of America, England, West Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Holland, Spain, Free China, India, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Greece, Syria, Jordan, Ireland, Brazil, Lebanon, Luxembourg and the Republic of South Africa.

In the above countries, with the propagation of the Divine Principle, our members are full of hope to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on this globe, and are living in great happiness for their eternal rebirth in the Divine Principle.

Japanese members coming up the stairs of the station led by Ken Sudo.

Japanese members coming up the stairs of the station led by Ken Sudo.

One important thing which we should not forget is the fact that where the Divine Principle goes an Anti-Communism movement is promoted to defeat the Communist ideology, thus ensuring the realization of one ideal world.

The 777 couples were selected from the unified families in ten countries, Korea, Japan, America, England, West Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Free China and Holland and they joined with their eternal spouses at the ceremony.

Before this, there were several united marriage ceremonies of 36, Couples, 72, Couples, 124, Couples and 430 couples in Korea.

Prayer of Japanese members.

Prayer of Japanese members.

At each time, we could feel the deep meaning of them. We also know the fact that there were already some international weddings under the Divine Principle, in Japan, America and Germany in 1969, and now, there are many Children of Blessed Families in many countries.

But in scale, this International Wedding of 777 Couples is the greatest in comparison with the past wedding ceremonies, and such a large united wedding ceremony has never been in human history.

It is an important problem to us, concerning international significance the wedding ceremony has for Our Heavenly Father's work, and the influence the ceremony can have on the accomplishment of Father's will.

Under one truth of the Divine Principle, they will marry to work for God's will.

Celebrating prayer of the Officiators (True Parents)

Celebrating prayer of the Officiators (True Parents)

Program of the International Wedding of 777 Couples

October 21, 1970 10:30 A.M.

1. The Opening ceremony Presider -- Jong Bok Hong

2. Entrance of flags of the participating nations

The first rank couples of the International Wedding of 777 Couples.

The first rank couples of the International Wedding of 777 Couples.

3. Salutation to national flags

4. Address for the ceremony -- Young Hwi Kim, President of HSA-UWC

3. Entrance of bride's maids and bride's men

KBS TV broadcasting.

KBS TV broadcasting.

4. Musical performance of the naval band

5. Entrance of officiator -- Sun Myung Moon

6. Entrance of the brides and bride-grooms

A scene of "questions and answers" blessing vows

A scene of "questions and answers" blessing vows

7. Questions and answers

8. Celebrating prayer of officiator -- Sun Myung Moon, Founder of HSA-UWC

9. Exchange of the wedding presents

Couples leaving after the ceremony.

Couples leaving after the ceremony.

10. Proclamation

11. Gift of presents and bouquets to officiator

12. Singing in unison of celebrating song -- All participators

Holy Wine ceremony for Japanese members.

Holy Wine ceremony for Japanese members.

13. Congratulatory message -- Premier Il Kwon Chung and Minister of C and I

14. The congratulatory address -- Rep. In Soo Yook and Mr. Ryoichi Sasakawa

15. Greeting of the brides and bride-grooms

Car parade on the street of Seoul.

Car parade on the street of Seoul.

16. Three cheers of "Manse"

17. Leaving of officiator

18. Leaving of the brides and bride-grooms

19. Leaving of bride's maids and bride's men

20. Closing of the ceremony

All the couples arranging at the hall of the ceremony.

All the couples arranging at the hall of the ceremony.

The International Wedding of 777 Couples in Korea
Young Tyang Chang

The International Wedding of 777 Couples planned by the Holy Spirit Association of the Unification of World Christianity was held at the Changchung Gymnasium in Seoul. Korea on October 21, 1970.

From the viewpoint of general society, such large united wedding ceremony has not been held in human history.

Cheering of "Mansei" Japanese members)

Cheering of "Mansei" Japanese members)

But, we think that it is not necessary for us to be interested in such superficial problems.

It is an important problem to us only that what the wedding ceremony has a deep significance for Heavenly Father's work and the ceremony can have a great influence on the accomplishment of Our Father's Will.

Before this ceremony, there were several united marriage ceremonies of 36 Families, 72 Families, 124 Families and 430 Families. At each time, we could feel the deep meanings of them.

Farley Jones (President of American HSA-UWC) presenting a gift to True parents.

Farley Jones (President of American HSA-UWC) presenting a gift to True parents.

We also know the fact that there were already some international weddings under the Divine Principle, in Japan, America and Europe, and now, there are many Children of Blessing in many countries.

But in scale, this International Wedding of 777 Couples was the great, in comparison with the past wedding ceremonies. Because about 222 Couples were foreign of ten countries, including Japanese, American and European Families, and they came to Korea, firstly, to have their wedding ceremony under the Blessing of our True Parent's Hands.

By the sending of Korean missionaries to Japan and America in 1960, our Heavenly Father's Providence began on a worldwide scale, centering the Divine Principle.

MBC TV broadcasting of representative from ten countries.

MBC TV broadcasting of representative from ten countries.

After only a decade, our movement of the Divine Principle is now spreading into about 25 foreign countries and from ten countries of them, our foreign members with blue eyes and brown hair visited Korea to light the worldwide flame of the International Wedding of 777 Couples.

This would be the first in our Korean history and also in human history.

Now, we are able to have a great hope Restoration of all mankind, realistically.

Externally, through the WACL Conference in Tokyo, we could get about 60 comrade-countries to struggle against Communism, and internally, through The International Wedding of 777 Couples, we could get a spiritual relationship with ten foreign nation Families under one Truth of the Divine Principle.

singers [Jack Korthuis (Castle), Gladys Korthuis and Bonnie] from Las Vegas Unified Church (MBC TV).

singers [Jack Korthuis (Castle), Gladys Korthuis and Bonnie] from Las Vegas Unified Church (MBC TV).

From this time, we are really forced to march on to spread the Divine Principle to all mankind over the world.

Transcending racial conditions, we have to make oneness as the Children of True Parents. We have to make new combinations with all foreign members.

Race with race, nation with nation, we have to make a united front to struggle against Communism, the last for of Our Heavenly Father.

We believe that this is the only way to save all of mankind, perfectly.


List of Names of the International Wedding of 777 Couples

Rehearsal of the International Wedding Ceremony of 777 Couples at Sutaek-Ri

Rehearsal of the International Wedding Ceremony of 777 Couples at Sutaek-Ri