Father’s thinking is my thinking, and my thinking is Father’s thinking

Hak Ja Han
October 13, 2012
Ocean Cheon Jeong Gung on HC 8.28

My eyes became sensitive to light, so I need to use sunglasses. I’m sorry. During the forty-day period of preparing meals [for True Father] coming here has been difficult. Since I intend to sell the helicopter, I won’t have it soon. Coming here by boat is not easy. I am unsure that I will be able to come again this year. I went to bed worrying about that.

When I was offering the meal, I was told, “If it is okay with you to go to Geomun Island, I will have a meal there.” That means that Father’s thinking is my thinking, and my thinking is Father’s thinking. During the forty days, I felt I must come here and I was worried that I couldn’t. Yet, Father said he wanted us to come here, so here I am.

[To Sun-hee Davis, the church leader there] How many members do you have now? “We have about seven members now.” About seven. [Mother sighs.]

This is an important place, and you have to educate people here. In order to teach them quickly, fire must always be burning in the church. It shouldn’t go out. To that end, all of you must gather your resolve.

You shouldn’t lose sight of the honor of having lived in this era when you could attend True Father. It all depends on you. Shouldn’t you become a person Father wants to recognize in the spirit world? In order to do that, what should you do? [We need to continue witnessing and teaching.] We shouldn’t rest. I said we should establish a church that is alive and breathing. When life exists, movement must occur. Only something dead remains still.

Father loved this place. If you were determined to restore all the people on Geomun Island within a month and made supreme effort, don’t you think Father would help you? Father, who transcends time and space, would do great work through you if he were moved by the greatness of your sincerity and effort. Haven’t you been thinking like that?

The international situation is very hard to gauge. It is hard to fathom what China has in mind. You have to protect this place yourselves. You need to have Strong Korea lectures here. You should bring everyone on this island together. Don’t sleep at night, stay awake; make

this into a church where a fire is constantly burning. Wouldn’t Father, who is going around the world, be pulled to Geomun Island because of your sincere effort? I’m saying that this shouldn’t become a place Father bypasses as he goes elsewhere.

Think of the situation if I had not been here when Father went to the spirit world. What do you think? As people who have lived with True Parents and breathed the same air, your responsibility is very great. In the eyes of your descendants, you will naturally be graded; it might be determined for example, that you were a loyal patriot; you accomplished your responsibility, you became a person whom Heaven remembers, or you are someone who just walked past. Nobody can help you in this; it’s up to each of you. So will you exert your maximum effort, or not? [We will.]

True Mother Will Speak at Upcoming WFWP Conference in Las Vegas

Michael Balcomb
October 13, 2012

Dear Members and Blessed Families,

True Mother has confirmed that she will speak at the Women’s Federation for World Peace conference. It will be her first public appearance and first visit to America since True Father’s Seonghwa ceremony. Her speech is scheduled for 11:00 AM on Saturday, October 27th.

The entire WFWP conference runs from the evening of Thursday, October 26th through the end of Saturday, October 27th at the M Hotel and Resort in Las Vegas.

For further details on conference registration, including one and two-day accommodation options, please contact your local WFWP representative, or email Angelika Selle.

Thank you,

Dr. Michael Balcomb
Executive Vice President

True Mother Guides the Movement On

Hak Ja Han
October 1, 2012
Extracts
To American Leaders called to Cheon Jeong Peace Palace, on HC 8.16

While Father was still in the hospital, I told the regional presidents that at this point, “For us there is no stopping.” Now

that Father has ascended, we need to remember that our Unification Church originated from divine spirit and the truth. Though years have passed, the reality is that we have not seen our church membership increase or our members mature based on our hearts of love emanating from our Shim Jeong.

In the beginning, when Father was carrying out his ministry, once members came to the church, they never wanted to leave. They wanted to stay with Father, even if it meant staying up all night. If there was anything Father wanted done, those members wanted to do it for him, voluntarily and willingly. The life of faith our members led at the time was like that. So, though ours was a small church, it was overflowing with love, and we united and overcame the most difficult of times.

Many blessed couples in the Korean church have unforgettable stories. Married women who had joined the church before their husbands did went through many difficulties when their husbands were unsupportive. Moreover, we were all in a position where we had to go out to pioneer; everyone had to go, regardless of age or sex. Women who had families had to do pioneer witnessing as well; to do that, some even left their children in orphanages. The early days of our church were like that.

Thus, Korean church members had to make many sacrifices in advancing the blessing providence from the 36 couples to the 430 couples. (I believe Mr. Kuboki, the former president of the Japanese church, was blessed among the 430 couples; he represented his nation.) Thanks to such early efforts, we now have conditionally blessed up to 400 million couples worldwide, as you well know.

True blessed families that are united centered on True Parents should write Unification Church history. The president of our church in those early days, Rev. Eu, gave lectures all day long, even though he suffered from physical disabilities. Even healthy people find it difficult to give lectures for an hour or two, let alone all day long. Besides, he was undernourished because we were so poor at the time.

The people found and established through that process became the thirty-six couples. This is why we treasure the thirty-six couples, because the root of our collective Shim Jeong is in them. Therefore, all of us, including members in Korea, Japan and the United States, need to return to that beginning time when we were passionate and our church constantly overflowed with true love. We must begin anew.

Accordingly, we will have Divine Principle taught continuously in our churches and have workshops continuously.

Father has passed away. How long do you think I will live? Twenty years? Thirty years?

You should pull yourselves together mentally and physically, and do whatever it takes to unite and fulfill what you were unable to do for the Parents -- what you were unable to do though you only received love until now, even if it means making effort, spending sleepless nights. Even then that would not suffice. At this time, you had to see Father ascend earlier than you expected. I’m sure you are feeling deep pain over this. How much have you reflected on this?

As those of you who came to the ceremony may have seen, we sent Father off with a splendid ceremony. I still feel, though, that we could have done more. We should have sent him off on a pan-national, a global scale. As it was, what would we have done if the construction of the Peace Center in Chung Pyung had not been completed?

Therefore, from now on, we need to do our best, which means to witness. This is still a satanic world, so you need to implant the Divine Principle in people’s hearts, and nurture them to grow until they are ready to receive the blessing.

I spoke of two things at the leaders’ meeting. First, the revival of the church. Second, that I will provide money for scholarships to develop leaders among the first- and second-generation members of our church from all parts of the world. For this reason, though it is my heart’s desire to preserve everything True Father used as mementos,

I am going to sell the helicopter so that I can take part in cultivating leaders among our second generation worldwide.

This is proof that Father was concerned about the future and that he loved all the world’s peoples. I am going to use the money I raise from selling it, and add some more of my own, to carry out this important task. You may also donate whatever amount you wish to this initiative, even if it is just ten dollars. I am telling you this because I want you to know that I am going to spend this money with that purpose in mind.

We have the True Parents and the truth. Do you understand? That is why our future is bright. I will revive all of our churches. Our church in Korea needs to live and breathe. Therefore, through our actions and practices, blessed families need to set an example for others, and bring our neighbors and clans to follow us. The same is true for those in Japan. The leaders -- those in charge -- and the blessed families in Japan should also lead lives of this type.

I have already mentioned to you that you should begin each day by holding Hoon Dok Hae with your families. This was because I feel the urgency of educating our children, second-generation members.

Until now, you couldn’t find time to spend with your children because you were carrying out church work. Henceforth, however, you should begin your day together having Hoon Dok Hae with your children.

Please begin your day in this way.

We need to educate and nurture our second-generation members. No matter what position you are in, you need to think of the generations to come. Moreover, the leaders need to design the future. You need to reflect on how much a sense of urgency and vigor you have toward looking for someone who can take over your responsibility. If you haven’t achieved this, you should do your best to do so from now on, risking your lives if necessary. Do you understand what I am saying? [Yes]

Before Father passed away, he made plans and told me about them as we rode here in our car, saying things like, “Mother, I wish for something to be done here. I wish for these people to be nurtured in this way. I wish for this and that to be done here.” Now, I know that he had been asking me to do these things because he was preparing to depart this world. Every time he came down here, he always had something to say about what needs to be done.

You might think me greedy if I hope to live thirty more years, so within twenty years I should accomplish all that Father has left

incomplete and all that he desired to achieve. The truth is, however, that I am overburdened as things stand. Our most urgent task is to establish the true order and tradition, both internally and externally. Also, as soon as possible, we need to show ourselves and the rest of the world that the Unification Church is still going strong, growing and developing, so that those in the wider world can come to us of their own free will.

It is important for you to try hard in witnessing, but we also need these people to come to us of their volition, based on our providential achievements, guided by the thought in their hearts, Oh! This is my ultimate destination!

We also need to bring them to receive the blessing. This is called for in this era, right after True Father’ ascension, which is why we cannot delay any longer. I will continue on. At this time, don’t you feel the need for us to witness to as many people as possible? [We do.]…

I know that you have tried to show True Father’s glory and prestige to the world, but if you had witnessed to more people and restored the nation, they would have come even if we had told them not to. We need to effectuate that.

What is truly important is the number of people we can call our members, those who know the Divine Principle, not just the number of people that come to Sunday Service. Do you understand what I mean? [Yes]

We need to continue giving Divine Principle lectures in our churches. People need to be reborn through the teachings. When such individuals, families, tribes, peoples and nations can practice true love, that is where Cheon Il Guk is. That is the kingdom of heaven on earth. When this happens, each and every individual will find peace in his or her own heart.

I had a dream in the early days, right after Father and I married. In the dream, I was holding a child’s hand, carrying a package and walking along on a dangerous cliff-edge path. I couldn’t see what was in front of me, but I succeeded in following this path without falling over the edge of the cliff. At the end of the path, I reached a bright light. I believe that time is now.

Let us all work hard so that on Foundation Day many people will come flocking here, like the tide coming in, whether they are eminent members of society or ordinary people. Let’s make it a day on which large groups of people come flowing in like clouds.

This is why we need many capable people. This nation needs to become God’s homeland and True Parents’ nation as quickly as possible. I will begin by strengthening our internal structure, by developing leaders that can fully devote themselves to guiding members and managing churches.

I believe Father is also telling us, for the last time, You need to accomplish all this, and when you have done so and succeeded in your tasks, come back to me and I will embrace you.

Once again, I ask you to try to become people that True Parents and especially True Father will remember.

True Mother's Address to the American Leaders

Hak Ja Han
October 1, 2012
Cheong Jeong Goong
Chung Pyung Lake, Korea

Sun Myung Moon, Hak Ja Han, Hyung Jin Moon, Ye Jin Moon, and Yeon Ah (Lee) Moon

I called this meeting to encourage everyone to do their absolute best from now on. For the providence there is no stopping, only marching forward. The Unification movement started with the Holy Spirit and truth. Based on God's Shim Jung (heart), profound investment of heart was given by True Father from the very beginning. However, after many decades, when I look at our movement, I see that we didn't grow enough based on the practice of Shim Jung, true love and care for the members.

In the early days, when people heard the Divine Principle, they didn't want to leave. They felt so much love. In the early life of faith of members, no one wanted to go home even if they missed the curfew (in Korea after the war) and were stuck all night. They wanted to stay with Father and would often show up naturally without asking permission because their hearts were so moved. They just came based on the heart. Even though the movement's size was small back then, because of this unity and harmony the church could grow and progress.

In those early days of the providence, we heard many amazing stories and witnessed many spiritual experiences in our movement. When it came to pioneering, many wives gave up everything to develop the providential foundation that God needed. Our faithful women members, especially, gave up everything. They put their children in orphanages and sacrificed everything to build God's kingdom. Because of this, great persecution came. Many times the husbands who hadn't joined the church did not want their wives to support God's providence. But even though there was great persecution and suffering, these women did this in obedience to the calling they felt directly from God. That's the way the Unification Church started.

Until the time of the 430 couples, the Korean church went through incredible tribulation, but we won the victory and survived and grew. One of the 430 couples was Rev. Kuboki from Japan. He was included in the 430 couples as the first Japanese to be part of that Blessing, because he spearheaded the pioneer mission for the Unification Church of Japan. Because he had gone through that kind of sacrificial life, he could be part of the 430 couples. Over the years, our Father expanded the blessing to the 400 millioncouple level conditionally throughout the world, centering on our tradition. The Unification Church tradition is centered on Blessed couples. They become the foundation upon which True Parents can stand.

When we look honestly at our situation today, however, we can see that we didn't do our responsibilities correctly. As we know, some of the True Children's issues have become very serious in the United States. Though it is true that the True Children are accountable for their own portion of responsibility, the fact that such a tragic thing occurred is something that all leaders must take some responsibility for, because it happened while you were there.

According to the Principle True Father's mission was primarily to embrace and love the Cain children of the world more than his own. Because of that the True Children were often neglected. Because of the complete commitment that Father made to the public mission, True Children sometimes asked, "Is Father our father or father of the leaders?" Father rarely could sit down with the children because a condition had to be set to deny himself and his family completely while focusing on the rest of the families of our church and the world. Father never explained why he had to walk such a path in public life.

To try to compensate for this, True Father assigned three of the 36 couples to take a special role in caring for our three eldest children. (There was a providential reason for this, connected to the role of the archangels in the Garden of Eden.) It was their responsibility, on behalf of True Parents, to make sure the children could gain the proper foundation.

However, the three primary couples couldn't fulfill that mission properly. Of course, the True Children have their own five percent portion of responsibility, and no one can do that for them. Yet if the 36 couples who had been assigned that mission could have fulfilled it, then the True Children's path could surely be more likely to succeed. The fact that they couldn't do this is one of the reasons why the firstborn True Children were easily confused and misled.

I found myself called to stand with True Father in every situation, and by condition I could not intervene or help them in their responsibility either, we had to deny ourselves and our family for the sake of the world. If True Children had grown up with the proper education, and perhaps if they had stayed in Korea, it may have been easier for them. Yet as you know, in obedience to God's providence, Father brought our family to America in 1974.

As soon as we arrived in America, True Parents began to make every possible condition for America, touring the nation many, many times. True Father and I had to unfold and develop the providence relating to the whole world, working from America.

True Parents were bound by the Principle to put the world and all of the Cain children of the world first. We couldn't even eat meals with the children alone, always representatives of the Cain world had to sit closest to True Parents. When the True Children went to school they were often bullied and persecuted, externally because they were Asians, and internally because they were True Parents' children. At that time Asian and other minority children were not welcomed in many schools in America, especially where we lived.

True Parents suffered great anguish and sorrow that we could not intervene in the course of the children but could only try to educate and love others. A few years ago, when one of the eldest children's lives became very difficult, I cried out to Father and was deeply worried. I asked Father, "What can we do?" but he told me that even though our children were going through great suffering and were being attacked, we still had to focus first on the children outside of our own family. He would encourage me, saying "Mother, though our children suffer now because we are sacrificing our lives and our family for the world, God will eventually set the condition to redeem them."

Since Father's first mission was to take care of the children of the world, those children in Cain's position were loved before and more than Father's own children. So even though it is understandable that people will criticize and blame the True Children for some of their actions, I ask that those who have received True Love from True Parents, although in the Cain position, that you please remember this principle.

Knowing that because of God's strict principle you received True Parent's love first, it is important to love and embrace the children of True Parents when they go through difficulty. As the extended family of True Parents that you please remind others that we don't really have the condition to condemn anyone, for as Jesus said, "He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone." From this strict principle, even though we are hurting, we don't have the right from heaven's perspective, to casually pass judgment on the True Children. Why? This is True Parents' realm of responsibility. Though Father and I anguish over the path some of them have taken, only True Parents can restore them if they went astray, through the principle of indemnity. Father is working now from heaven to correct everything on earth and in heaven through the Principle.

American leaders and members know the situation in America, and you also know that you could not fulfill your responsibility to truly change America to become the Elder Son Nation. If America could have been transformed, then the negative influences of the secular and non-religious world could not have so much negative influence on our own blessed children or on all the families of America. Those who understand this principle and yet cast stones at the True Children will one day have to repent.

After True Father's Seonghwa, on September 17th, I proclaimed that I will directly inherit True Father's heavenly tradition. To do that, I will lead our movement starting with a thorough reorganization, first externally and then internally. The spirit of love should be there whenever someone comes to our church. They should immediately hear the Divine Principle.

Hyo Won Eu and Sun Myung Moon

Our first president, President [Hyo Won] Eu, gave lectures continuously. Even with a physical handicap, he spoke 18 hours a day. He couldn't even stand up, but sitting down he would lecture continuously every day. You who are gathered here know that even as a healthy man, when you give Divine Principle for several hours, you become very tired. However, Rev. Eu lectured 14 -- 18 hours per day, every day. Father himself would attend the lecture and listen to Rev. Eu. The 36 blessed couples were educated by True Father in this manner. That's one of the reasons the members value the 36 couples so much. They were raised with deep heartistic education by True Father, and through Divine Principle.

This is now a new period in history, a new time. This is the second phase of True Parents' course, centering on True Mother. True Parents are walking a new path in history that has never been done before. It is a path in which True Father, who is in heaven, is one with me on earth and is guiding the providence through me. Do you believe that? (Yes).

Father is taking us back to our roots again as he begins a new course of education in heaven and on earth. All of us have to have a new beginning based on overflowing of love and heart for people, and we all should now build our tribes and bring them to our church through witnessing.

America as the Elder Son Nation is now 40 years old in providential terms from our church perspective. America in God's eyes and from this viewpoint, has become an adult nation as a central nation in God's providence. Yet, we could not take care of the problems in the families of America (including our own) to truly lead and serve the world. God is sad that America, though it has done many incredible things for God's providence worldwide, could still not really come up to the level necessary to lead the world to understand True Parents and realize the Kingdom of God on earth.

God poured out more care for America than on any other nation in God's providence, and Father and I still have incredible hope that with Father's victorious Seonghwa, America will go through a profound awakening. From that perspective, we should repent and in particular take care not to accuse True Children. True Parents will take care of them. That's our responsibility, and True Children have their responsibility as well. Your love and understanding will help us fulfill.

I have heard reports that on different web sites there are many who are really criticizing True Children. As I was praying about this difficult situation I began to think, "What is the situation of those who criticize others, in terms of their own life and family?" All of us need to be careful, for from heaven's point of view only those who have fulfilled their responsibility can really give the constructive advice needed. Everyone has their own portion of responsibility.

In the American church, we must realize that the 40 years Father invested in America were the very central years of the providence. America has to rise up at this time.

Since True Father's ascension, Father, as the embodiment of the "God of the night", works directly through me as the embodiment of the "God of Day". Could Father fulfill his mission now in heaven without having me on earth? (No.) Father needs the God of Day, which is the role of True Mother. Without me, there would be no direct way left to build God's kingdom, because now Father has to dwell through me on earth and guide us. Because of this True Parents are still on earth and they are leading us in oneness with God from heaven.

First of all, we must all repent. Father's Seonghwa was absolutely the most glorious in all of eternity, and yet, I felt sad; for that Seonghwa to truly be comforting to God, all the current world leaders of every field and for that matter all the world should fully recognize Father. In that respect, we have to admit that we didn't do our mission well.

We are all grateful that we had the Cheongshim Peace World Center, so that Father could have a proper Seonghwa in a place that was holy. But who prepared that? Only the spirit world was able to prepare this. Heung Jin Nim and Dae Mo Nim clearly laid the foundation and raised the whole Chung Pyung activity for this important moment.

Eric Holt, you are the person working in finance. How much did America contribute to the Cheon Jeong Gung? Do you all know the miraculous conditions and spiritual phenomena that were prepared here through Heung Jin Nim and Dae Mo Nim? Some members deny this or criticize this because they don't know or understand this providence well.

However, if people are really mature in seeking understanding, and have participated deeply with the providence here, then they can understand. If, centering on True Parents you make the right conditions of unity with me, I will be able to reveal more of what's going on in this providence and its importance. This area is directly under True Parents responsibility, and I will directly guide the Cheon Jeong Gung and Chung Pyung.

Our utmost mission now is to bring members to the church, and we must also focus on educating and raising our second and future generations so they don't run away. We need to help them connect and reconnect. The American leadership and blessed families must now pay more attention to our own blessed children so that they can live the Divine Principle lifestyle and live for the church. It is not easy for the younger generations and all of our children who grow up in America and a world influenced by the modern, secular culture. However, we must educate our children and youth to understand that the life of faith is more important than external accomplishments and success.

When we think about God's own process of creation, God was really invested in creation and in nature. He created Adam and Eve to become His embodiment through obedience to His Word, the practice of true love, and by establishing a true family. But because of the Fall, we see a different reality. We are living in a satanic world. Therefore, to restore people we must first give Divine Principle education. As long as the young people in our second and future generations are centered on Absolute Sex as a guiding principle in their life, they will be protected. They must practice this way of life until they receive the Blessing. It's time that you take really good care of the second generation in America.

My first focus then will be on church reorganization and development. My next focus will be on the second generation and youth. I have decided, after much prayer, that a special international scholarship fund will be created. I want to grow this fund to be a major foundation to help Blessed children throughout the world, especially those who show an inclination toward leadership, and who have the heart to lead the world.

Even though I cherish Father's helicopter, which Father loved it so much, through prayer I could receive Father's guidance and direction from Heaven. I received his permission to sell that helicopter to prepare seed money for this scholarship fund. I reported to Abonim and He agreed that this money can be seed money to take care of the younger generation throughout the world. In particular, this scholarship fund will focus on whoever can become a great church leader. This fund will become huge in the future, and will be utilized to educate future leaders.

Last night, which was the Chusok Full Moon festival, I sat in the garden behind Cheong Jeong Gung and waited for the full moon to rise. Many evenings Father and I watched the moon come up in the sky. It rises on the east coast but due to the mountains it takes another two hours before it can be seen at Cheong Jeong Gung. I waited last night for those two hours together with Father. Father's presence was absolutely one with me, and I could see Abonim in spirit. I told True Father, "Please don't worry, Father. All of your foundation will expand."

You three Americans here, and Dr. Yang, do you pledge to me that you will fulfill your responsibility to raise the elder son nation to serve the world? (Yes)

Michael Jenkins, you will be in charge of all asset management and business in America. Remember as True Father taught us that these assets are not for America alone, but belong to the world providence. Rev. Holt, you have a new mission working with Rev. Jenkins, in the accounting area, to support this work. Together the two of you should develop the business foundation and the US asset base, so it grows in such a way that America can take care of the whole world properly. Remember, please work with profound heart, and work hard. Don't waste even a minute, and work to restore all the assets and properties that were lost because of the tribulation of the last few years. Grow this asset base so that America can truly lead the world. To do your responsibility you have to risk your life to fulfill your mission.

Yang Chang Shik: You couldn't fulfill the role of the continental director to oversee all the situations at the New York Headquarters. But I understood the situation, because you had to totally follow Father's direction to fulfill Father's Las Vegas Special Providence. But now, you must accomplish that responsibility.

Michael Balcomb, you have a doctorate from UTS, right? (Yes, Mother.) At this moment, I am appointing you as Vice President of the Unification Church, centering on Hyung Jin. You should absolutely unite with Hyung Jin, the new President of the Unification Church of America, whom I have appointed. Rejoicing in God's word, you should revive the American movement to inherit the proper tradition of True Parents and become a shining example to the world as the elder son nation.

I am thinking to do some special charity work in America. I want to help the people of Las Vegas, working through the Women's Federation for World Peace. Therefore, later this month I plan to visit Las Vegas and will speak at the WFWP program. Father started many providential works in Las Vegas, small and large, from the Hoover Dam and Lake Mead to different tourism businesses and most importantly the completion of the Peace Palace, which will become the Global Center for Family and Peace Education.

We have to complete and fulfill those projects and their purposes. I want to continue to show Father's legacy and deeply engrave this legacy into the heart of Las Vegas, where True Father lived his final most important years with True Love for all humanity. I want to fulfill Father's work to transform Las Vegas from "Sin City" to a Shining City. We must educate everyone, through the Divine Principle, that Father is the Messiah.

I conclude by saying actually this is the brightest time in all history. Though there is tribulation, everything is prepared for us now to quickly realize Father's incredible victorious fortune, which is coming to us. If we unite together properly, we can build God's kingdom very rapidly from now on based on the Shim Jung, the heart of God, and true love.

Do you pledge to fulfill this? (Yes.) That said, the four of you must totally unite centering on the World President, Rev. Hyung Jin Moon, centering on the Will of God. We are a proud and glorious people because we have True Parents and the Divine Principle. America is the gateway to the world. I will now conclude this meeting with you as the American representatives. You don't have time to stay here now. Go back to America. Hurry back and expand this work.

You American leaders should help educate the American families and especially those that are having difficulty understanding what's going on with the tribulation and trials, so they can unite with me and move forward with confidence. If they really can't understand, please ask them to come to Chung Pyung. Through study, prayer, and spiritual condition, they can come to a deeper understanding.

Being with True Father Before and After His Ascension

Hak Ja Han
September 23, 2012

True Mother wrote this message on the morning of 8.8 by the heavenly calendar (September 23, 2012), the twenty-first day after True Father’s Ascension. She gave it to Dr. Peter [Hyo Yul] Kim and asked him to bring it to the main church in Seoul (Cheon Bok Gung) and read it to the congregation. Mother later instructed that the message be translated into English and Japanese and sent out to the world.

My beloved members, upon True Father’s ascension, you all pledged in front of Heaven to do your best with deep love and devotion. We remember our hearts as we asked him to please not worry about what is happening in the physical world and to ascend to the spirit world comfortably. All his life, Father did not care about himself, but instead dedicated himself wholeheartedly to the liberation of God and the salvation of humanity. He therefore left behind him many remarkable accomplishments.

Father liberated God by exercising the prerogative given only to the True Parents, and he opened wide the way for God to directly govern the earthly world and the spiritual world. With this single-minded heart and will, he lived only for the sake of others, not looking after his own body. Never wasting a single minute or second of his life, he lived every moment with the feeling that he did not have enough time. Many were the times, therefore, when he missed meals. Father could not even think about taking the rest his physical body desperately needed.

Since he was born with a healthy body, if Father had taken care of himself he could have lived a longer life. During the last few years, however, he would say that each day felt like a thousand years; that was how busy he was.

He really did not want to go to hospital at this time, and since he was in charge of everything, I could not help him in any way. In particular, when he was traveling abroad he travelled from east to west and back rather than from north to south. He should have avoided long-distance travel if possible; if necessary, he could have gone back and forth once every two or three years. That was the medical opinion. However, in the past year alone Father traveled to and from the United States eight times. Why did he lead such a life?

He had set the date for Foundation Day, but he knew that he would pass into the spirit world before that day. This was why his lifestyle was one of not wasting even a minute or a second of his life. Knowing this, I wished to stop him with any excuse I could think of. Sometimes, I told him that I wasn’t well enough to travel with him. He would then reply that he would go by himself. In this way, he continued to live a taxing life.

Beloved members, just as the cars we ride in and the equipment we use in factories need to be oiled and maintained to last longer, we also need to make effort to maintain our youth in any way we can before our bodies age. Such is the era we are living in, isn’t it? Father, however, lived his life beyond all such cares. He followed a schedule of overexerting himself, speaking for more than ten hours during Hoon Dok Hae sessions and visiting Geomun Island or Yeosu by helicopter.

Overstraining himself repeatedly in such a way, in the end he caught a cold. Catching a cold at that age is a most fearful thing. Though he should have gone to the hospital and done something about it right away, some time passed before he would go. The cold worsened and developed into pneumonia. His lungs became weak, and in the end, his condition worsened and complications set in.

Though he did not want it, finally he had to be admitted to the hospital, by which time he had become very weak.

In early August, after all kinds of tests had been carried out over a period of ten days or so, he wanted to leave the hospital for a while. He found it difficult to stay in the hospital, saying that it felt like a prison. We had no choice but to have him discharged. That was on August 12.

After leaving the hospital, during the one day he stayed in Cheon Jeong Gung Father told his assistants, “I want to eat with Mother today.” I usually sat next to him during meals, but on that day he said, “I want to eat sitting face to face with Mother so I can see her face.” So, we set the table accordingly. However, Father stared at my face for a long time instead of eating. I believe he was engraving my face in his heart. I felt tears welling up inside of me, but on the outside I maintained a smiling face and asked him to try this dish or that, saying to him, “This one is quite good, and that is also delicious.” After that experience, I became more serious than ever, and I strongly wanted to make him take a nap. He, however, pressed his staff members to accompany him as he hurriedly visited various parts of Cheon Jeong Gung.

August 13 was an extremely sunny day. Despite the hot sun, and even though he had to be accompanied by an oxygen tank almost as tall as a man, he insisted on looking around the palace. Father did a tour of Cheon Jeong Gung. He visited the Cheongshim Middle and High School and the nearby small park, and drove around the Cheongshim Peace World Center and the Chung Pyung training center.

He then came and sat in the sitting room in Cheon Jeong Gung and asked for a digital recorder. Holding the recorder in his hand, Father thought deeply for about ten minutes and then spoke while recording what he said. As you may know from having heard his recorded voice, Father gave the same message three times on that day -- in the sitting room, in the master bedroom, and in Cheongshim Hospital.

He said, “Everything is done! Everything is done!” He then went on to pray, struggling for breath, “I will return everything back to Heaven.” He emphasized, “I have brought things to conclusion, completion and perfection.” And he took my hand and said, “Mother, thank you! Mother, please take care of things!”

What meaning could be attributed to his uttering such words? Every now and then, he said such things as, “The time has come for me to go. I know when I will pass away.” I am sure that during this time he was making his final preparations. What I am relating to you is only a small part of what happened before Father ascended; in truth, I experienced much more with Father during those days. When we had our meals, we usually sat next to each other, and he would be aware of my presence and would hold my hand firmly in his as he ate. Whenever I think about such things, I am very sorry, and it hurts my heart to think that I let him go without making him more comfortable. When I asked him to rest, he sometimes said, “I want to lay my head in your lap, Mother” and would take a very short nap.

Of late, he did things he had never done when he was healthy. Father, who had lived his whole life more energetically than anyone else, wished to stay close to me at all times when he became less well, and needed me and depended on me like a child does his mother.

Yesterday, I was told that a member had mentioned feeling empty after Father passed away and was missing him so much, and that if she could see my face she would be strengthened; so she had communicated a sincere plea for me to come to Cheon Bok Gung. Why am I unable to go there? I am still in the middle of the forty-day period of preparing meals [for True Father], today being the twenty-first day.

Even while working in Heaven, Father comes at mealtimes without fail. We have set the times to offer him meals as 7:00 am, 12:00 noon, and 6:00 pm. While on earth, he had been unable to follow such a schedule, but after passing into the spirit world, he always comes on time. I can actually feel it.

Every day, I converse with Father. I explain to him about the soy-bean-paste soup and other side dishes he had enjoyed during his time on earth and ask him to please help himself to them. Since I should offer these meals three times a day, I have no personal free time.

During Father’s lifetime, I was never able to serve him his meals on time, and this is why I must at least devote myself to this task during this time.

Dear members, at the moment of Father’s ascension, I promised Father that I would work to fulfill all that he had desired to do for humanity until my last day on earth.

That is why I am busy these days. I need to reorganize Korea’s presently complicated situation, and I intend to establish the tradition of marching forward centering on the Holy Spirit and the truth in our Unification Church. With the goal of nurturing our church to become a spontaneous one, I am receiving reports from many of our church officials and leaders and making new plans. Therefore, I ask you to please wait just a little while longer.

Given that the Lord at his Second Coming, the Savior, the Messiah, and the True Parent who had come to us for the first time in six thousand years has now departed, do you think forty days of devotion is enough? Would a hundred days of devotion be enough? The religious devotion of attendance has no end. Henceforth, I hope you will understand that everything that is carried out in Korea from this day onward will be centered on True Mother.

Our first goal is to do our absolute best and fight at the risk of our lives to firmly establish Cheon Il Guk by Foundation Day. I hope you will not forget that the responsibility to bring this nation and all its citizens to receive the blessing from True Parents lies with you. Only by working a hundred times or a thousand times harder than before can you repay the love and grace you have received from True Father.

Dear members, we will now make our Unification Church a living and breathing church, as it was in the early days. We will develop it into a spontaneous, creative and dynamic church, unrestricted by numbers or systems. We will make it into a church centered on the Principle and on love, which will be like a nest with the warmth of a mother’s embrace that will make us wish to go there and always remain there. As in the beginning time, we will make it so that the sound of Divine Principle lectures is constantly heard in our churches.

I hope all of you will be grateful for the work you do day by day and that you will be blessed. Please achieve the best results of your life. Foundation Day is not far off now. Once again, I ask all of you to please become such people.

True Mother’s Message: We will now make our Unification Church a living and breathing church

Hak Ja Han
September 23, 2012
Sent to Regional Headquarters and Mission Nations

Early morning of 8.8 by the heavenly calendar (September 23), the twenty-first day after True Father’s Ascension.

My beloved members,

Upon True Father’s ascension, you all pledged in front of Heaven to do your best with deep love and devotion. We remember our hearts as we asked him to please not worry about what is happening in the physical world and to ascend to the spirit world comfortably. All his life, Father did not care about himself, but instead dedicated himself wholeheartedly to the liberation of God and the salvation of humanity. He therefore left behind him many remarkable accomplishments.

Father liberated God by exercising the prerogative given only to the True Parents, and he opened wide the way for God to directly govern the earthly world and the spiritual world. With this single-minded heart and will, he lived only for the sake of others, not looking after his own body. Never wasting a single minute or second of his life, he lived every moment with the feeling that he did not have enough time. Many were the times, therefore, when he missed meals. Father could not even think about taking the rest his physical body desperately needed.

Since he was born with a healthy body, if Father had taken care of himself he could have lived a longer life. During the last few years, however, he would say that each day felt like a thousand years; that was how busy he was. He really did not want to go to hospital at this time, and since he was in charge of everything, I could not help him in any way. In particular, when he was traveling abroad he travelled from east to west and back rather than from north to south. He should have avoided long-distance travel if possible; if necessary, he could have gone back and forth once every two or three years. That was the medical opinion. However, in the past year alone, Father traveled to and from the United States eight times. Why did he lead such a life?

He had set the date for Foundation Day, but he knew that he would pass into the spirit world before that day. This was why his lifestyle was one of not wasting even a minute or a second of his life. Knowing this, I wished to stop him with any excuse I could think of. Sometimes, I told him that I wasn’t well enough to travel with him. He would then reply that he would go by himself. In this way, he continued to live a taxing life.

Beloved members,

Just as the cars we ride in and the equipment we use in factories need to be oiled and maintained to last longer, we also need to make effort to maintain our youth in any way we can before our bodies age. Such is the era we are living in, isn’t it? Father, however, lived his life beyond all such cares. He followed a schedule of overexerting himself, speaking for more than ten hours during Hoon Dok Hae sessions and visiting Geomun Island or Yeosu by helicopter. Overstraining himself repeatedly in such a way, in the end he caught a cold. Catching a cold at that age is a most fearful thing. Though he should have gone to the hospital and done something about it right away, some time passed before he would go. The cold worsened and developed into pneumonia. His lungs became weak, and in the end, his condition worsened and complications set in. Though he did not want it, finally he had to be admitted to the hospital, by which time he had become very weak.

In early August, after all kinds of tests had been carried out over a period of ten days or so, he wanted to leave the hospital for a while. He found it difficult to stay in the hospital, saying that it felt like a prison. We had no choice but to have him discharged. That was on August 12.

After leaving the hospital, during the one day he stayed in Cheon Jeong Gung Father told his assistants, “I want to eat with Mother today.” I usually sat next to him during meals, but on that day he said, “I want to eat sitting face to face with Mother so I can see her face.” So, we set the table accordingly. However, Father stared at my face for a long time instead of eating. I believe he was engraving my face in his heart. I felt tears welling up inside of me, but on the outside I maintained a smiling face and asked him to try this dish or that, saying to him, “This one is quite good, and that is also delicious.” After that experience, I became more serious than ever, and I really wanted to make him take a nap. He, however, pressed his staff members to attend him as he hurriedly visited various parts of Cheon Jeong Gung.

August 13 was an extremely sunny day. Despite the hot sun, and even though he had to be accompanied by an oxygen tank almost as tall as a man, he insisted on looking around the palace. Father did a tour of Cheon Jeong Gung. He visited the Cheongshim Middle and High School and the nearby small park, and drove around the Cheongshim Peace World Center and the Chung Pyung Training Center.

He then came and sat in the sitting room in Cheon Jeong Gung and asked for a digital recorder. Holding the recorder in his hand, Father thought deeply for about ten minutes and then spoke while recording what he said. As you may know from having heard his recorded voice, Father gave the same message three times on that day—in the sitting room, in the master bedroom, and in Cheongshim Hospital. He said, “Everything is done! Everything is done!” He then went on to pray, struggling for breath, “I will return everything back to Heaven.” He emphasized, “I have brought things to conclusion, completion and perfection.” And he took my hand and said, “Mother, thank you! Mother, please take care of things!”

What meaning could be attributed to his uttering such words? Every now and then, he said such things as, “The time has come for me to go. I know when I will pass away.” I am sure that during this time he was making his final preparations. What I am relating to you is only a small part of what happened before Father ascended; in truth, I experienced much more with Father during those days. When we had our meals, we usually sat next to each other, and he would be aware of my presence and would hold my hand firmly in his as he ate. Whenever I think about such things, I am very sorry, and it hurts my heart to think that I let him go without making him more comfortable. When I asked him to rest, he sometimes said, “I want to lay my head in your lap, Mother” and would take a very short nap.

Of late, he did things he had never done when he was healthy. Father, who had lived his whole life more energetically than anyone else, wished to stay close to me at all times when he became less well, and needed me and depended on me like a child does his mother.

Yesterday, I was told that one member had mentioned feeling empty after Father passed away and was missing him so much, and that if she could see my face she would be strengthened; so she had communicated a sincere plea for me to come to Cheon Bok Gung. Why am I unable to go there? I am still in the middle of the forty-day period of preparing meals1 [for True Father], today being the twenty-first day. Even while working in Heaven, Father comes at mealtimes without fail. We have set the times to offer him meals as 7 am, 12 noon, and 6 pm. While on earth, he had been unable to follow such a schedule, but after passing into the spirit world, he always comes on time. I can actually feel it.

Every day, I converse with Father. I explain to him about the soybean-paste soup and other side dishes he had enjoyed during his time on earth, and ask him to please help himself to them. Since I should offer these meals three times a day, I have no personal free time. During Father’s lifetime, I was never able to serve him his meals on time, and this is why I must at least devote myself to this task during this period.

Dear members, at the moment of Father’s ascension, I promised Father that I would work to fulfill all that he had desired to do for humanity until my last day on earth. That is why I am busy these days. I need to reorganize Korea’s presently complicated situation, and I intend to establish the tradition of marching forward centering on the Holy Spirit and the truth in our Unification Church. With the goal of nurturing our church to become a spontaneous one, I am receiving reports from many of our church officials and leaders and making new plans. Therefore, I ask you to please wait just a little while longer.

Given that the Lord at his Second Coming, the Savior, the Messiah, and the True Parent who had come to us for the first time in six thousand years has now departed, do you think forty days of devotion is enough? Would a hundred days of devotion be enough? The religious devotion of attendance has no end. Henceforth, I hope you will understand that everything that is carried out in Korea from this day onward will be centered on True Mother.

Our first goal is to do our absolute best and fight at the risk of our lives to firmly establish Cheon Il Guk by Foundation Day. I hope you will not forget that the responsibility to bring this nation and all its citizens to receive the Blessing from True Parents lies with you. Only by working a hundred times or a thousand times harder than before can you repay the love and grace you have received from True Father.

Dear members,

We will now make our Unification Church a living and breathing church, as it was in the early days. We will develop it into a spontaneous, creative and dynamic church, unrestricted by numbers or systems. We will make it into a church centered on the Principle and on love, which will be like a nest with the warmth of a mother’s embrace that will make us wish to go there and always remain there. As in the beginning time, we will make it so that the sound of Divine Principle lectures is constantly heard in our churches.

I hope all of you will be grateful for the work you do day by day and that you will be blessed. Please achieve the best results of your life. Foundation Day is not far off now. Once again, I ask all of you to please become such people.

Sincerely,

Unification Church
World Mission Headquarters

[1] A Korean tradition in which food is offered to a loved-one after he or she has passed away

Advance without Ceasing

Hak Ja Han
September 17, 2012
Cheongshim Peace World Center, Korea
Special Unification Church World Leaders Assembly for Victory on Foundation Day

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Distinguished guests from home and abroad, and blessed families around the world:

Today, we come to an exceedingly important turning point in God’s governance of His providence. It is unprecedented, historic and revolutionary.

My husband, the Reverend Dr. Sun Myung Moon, the returning Lord, Messiah, Savior and True Parent, who came as the root of the lineage of original goodness, has departed for the spirit world. Consequently, we now stand at a providential renewal point at which we have to inherit True Parents’ realm of victory and build the ideal kingdom of peace, one family under God.

Manifestation of True Parents

After being with True Father my whole life, his ascension from our midst brings me indescribable pain and sorrow. I know it is the same for all of you. Moreover, we cannot begin to fathom how sorrowful the heart of God is over the passing of True Father, who is the original substance of eternal love and the True Parent of humankind.

From another perspective, however, this is a time of hope. True Father worked in accordance with the heavenly laws, which God established at the time of the creation of heaven and earth, to conclude, complete and perfect the providential tasks on earth that no one in history had been able to fulfill. He is now transitioning to the spirit world to exercise dominion over both the spiritual and physical worlds and to initiate a new dimension of God’s providence. No spoken or written language known to human beings can possibly express the flood of emotion we experience as we stand at this juncture in the providence.

As you are well aware, Heaven led me to meet True Father in the pure and pristine years of my adolescence. By the providence Heaven had prepared, in the flower of my youth at the age of seventeen, I received the grace of the True Parents’ Holy Wedding, which holds historic significance throughout heaven and earth. I became True Father’s companion on the providential path, attended him throughout my life, and worked with him as we walked the way of the providence, which is governed by heavenly law. Although I was young when I set out on this path of the providence, I invested my entire being in fulfilling two primary missions. The first was to bring an end to God’s providence of restoration through indemnity, which was rife with bitter sorrow, within my lifetime. The second was to attend Father throughout his life in order to complete the realization of the ideal world of God’s Will.

God’s providential history of salvation has progressed continuously since the Fall of Adam and Eve, the first human ancestors. No one, however, could complete the providential course of restoration through indemnity, and humankind could only wait for the True Parents to come.

True Parents’ course began under desperate circumstances in God’s providence at a time when Satan reigned with full authority, exercising his sovereignty over the spirit world and physical world. What Satan, the progenitor of evil who had maintained dominion for six thousand years, feared most was the emergence of the True Parents, who would become the progenitors of goodness. You can imagine how Satan would fiercely and desperately oppose this and employ all manner of brutality in an effort to prevent it. Prior to establishing his position as a True Parent through our Holy Wedding in 1960, True Father passed through a providential course of immeasurable indemnity. True Parents were to come to humankind only once in history. Once they assumed their position through the Holy Wedding, they became the True Parents for all eternity.

True Father began his providential public life course at the conclusion of the Second World War in 1945. Heaven had prepared Christianity, especially Korean Christian spiritualist movements, on a foundation of two thousand years of conditions that Christians had made. Christianity should have fulfilled the mission of the providential bride by attending and upholding the returning Messiah, whom Heaven sent as the bridegroom, and then should have opened the providence of attending the substantial Bride. However, Christianity was unable to complete this providential responsibility. As a result, Father lost the entire providential foundation, both the spiritual foundation, the two thousand year history of Christianity, and the substantial foundation, the victory of the Allied nations in World War II.

Under these providential circumstances, fraught with immense difficulties and challenges, True Father had to act alone to once again carry out the providential course of restoration through indemnity, starting from the bottom of hell in the Hungnam Special Labor Camp. He endured and finally overcame Satan’s vicious attacks to establish a foundation of victory by separating from Satan. On that basis, True Father established the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity as the providential bride, in place of Christianity, and on that foundation, he received me as the substantial bride and conducted the historic Holy Wedding. As a result, in 1960 True Parents’ course could finally commence.

True Parents’ providential course

Distinguished guests, beloved blessed families, how can we describe God, our Heavenly Father, as True Father has revealed Him? God is not an aloof monarch sitting on His throne of glory and honor. Rather He is a True Parent of true love and heart who has traversed millions of miles in search of His prodigal children who fell into a state of death due to sin.

In his speech, “The Settlement of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, who, as God’s Embodiment, Proclaim the Word,” which he so treasured during his time on earth, True Father explained God’s plight:

Ladies and gentlemen, do you have any idea how much pain God suffered the moment human beings, whom He created as His children and into whom He had invested His complete and unreserved devotion since time immemorial, fell and disappeared into darkness, becoming part of Satan’s lineage? Are you even remotely aware that our Heavenly Father, who endured tens of thousands of years of excruciating heartache so great that His bones shed tears and His flesh quivered, had to go through the long, dark tunnel of indemnifying the Fall in order to save His lost children? Have you shed any tears even for a moment, yearning to comfort our Father in heaven?

That is how God is. True Father was the person who experienced God’s suffering with his entire being. With blood, sweat and tears, he triumphantly completed True Parents’ forty-year course, and finally in 2001 he offered to Heaven the Enthronement Ceremony for the Kingship of God.

Distinguished guests from home and abroad, True Parents’ forty-year providential course up to the offering of the Enthronement Ceremony for the Kingship of God was a path that crossed peaks of unimaginable misery. We were in a continuous life-and-death struggle against the Satanic forces of the evil sovereignty. We were repeatedly struck down and had to gather ourselves up each time to continue the battle. It was a course requiring our ultimate resolve, a course for which we had to invest every moment. No words can describe how many times True Father voluntarily chose to go to the bottom of hell. In order to bring the wilderness era to a close, he followed a treacherous course of indemnity that led him to suffer hardship in prison at Danbury. But that is what it took to conclude the six thousand year history of the providence for the salvation of humankind.

Despite being the long-awaited Savior of humanity, True Father led a life of constant indemnity. He endured imprisonment under the Japanese oppressors, North Korean communist authorities and the South Korean Liberal Party administration. What he said to me as he headed off to prison once more, this time in the United States, is still vivid in my memory. “Don’t worry’’ he encouraged me, “a new world of hope will be waiting on the other side of prison.” Despite True Father’s optimism, these incidents brought me overwhelming sorrow. I directly witnessed his noble life up close and walked alongside him. So when he went to prison my whole world seemed to collapse around me. I could only think of his dire circumstances, imprisoned in Satan’s den with his life targeted by communists. I fervently beseeched Heaven to protect his safety and health. Only Heaven fully knows these circumstances in the providence of restoration through indemnity.

The wilderness era finally ended in August 1985 on the foundation of victory established through True Father’s suffering in Danbury prison and the loss of Heung-jin, our second son who represented the True Children. With the Day of Total Victory as a turning point, a new providence began. True Father later met Mikhail Gorbachev and Kim Il Sung, communist leaders who were central figures in Satan’s realm, and won their hearts with Heaven’s love.

On that foundation, True Father established the Women’s Federation for World Peace in the position of the providential bride and placed me in the position of the first and only substantial bride in human history to attend the returning Messiah. I began to proclaim to all of heaven and earth the Second Advent of the Lord, the Messiah, the Savior and the True Parents. Based on this, I undertook the providence of mother-son cooperation for seven years while attending True Father, the center of the providence, and offered the successful conclusion to Heaven. Thus began the era of Cheon Il Guk, the nation of cosmic peace and unity.

On May 1, 1999, during the Day of All True Things, True Father bestowed a great blessing on me. As he presented me with an award for being victorious in the era of mother-son cooperation, never to be repeated in history, he firmly embraced me and whispered in my ear, “Mother, thank you for your hard work. You have scaled the summit of a great providential mountain.” I was immediately overwhelmed with emotion and began to weep. Memories of critical moments during those seven years, such as having to embrace Cain and Abel while contending with the opposition of leftist students on Korean university campuses, and of enduring all manner of dangers and concerns during hundreds of speaking engagements in one hundred eighty-five nations, flashed through my mind like a kaleidoscope as I received True Father’s consolation and blessing.

Respected peace-loving leaders and family members, I am so proud of you. Looking back, it has truly been an arduous course of restoration through indemnity. True Parents, however, brought a clean end to all of it. They have been victorious and have opened the gates to the era of Cheon Il Guk, when the era of God’s kingship, the era of God’s direct dominion, takes root. True Parents moved up from My Pledge to the Family Pledge and brought us from the era of praying in True Parents’ names to that of directly reporting to God in the name of our own blessed central family. They opened the Cheon Il Guk era, a new era of the providence, amid changes that previously could not have even been imagined.

On the basis of the substantiation of the culture of heart, we also vertically and horizontally expanded the True Parents-centered system of the absolutely good sovereignty under God’s kingship. Through the Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk and the Coronation of the

King of the Blessed Families on the occasion of my sixtieth birthday in 2003, the heavenly sovereignty put down vertical roots. Since then, True Parents firmly established it throughout the world through the coronation of the King of Peace in 120 clans and 120 nations. With the inauguration of the Abel UN through the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), we offered to Heaven the Cheon Jeong Gung Entrance Ceremony and Coronation of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. For the first time in human history, we firmly established the foundation for the substantiation of the ideal envisaged at the time of the creation. With the victory of True Parents’ fifty-year course, we ushered in a providential jubilee year and proclaimed the era of the heavenly calendar, marking 2010 as the first year of Cheon-gi (the Heavenly Foundation).

True Parents’ realm of victory

During the past three years, True Father did not let go of for a single moment the script of his speech, “The Settlement of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, who, as God’s Embodiment, Proclaim the Word,” He treasured this text and would explain it during Hoon Dok Hae whenever the opportunity arose. The following is an excerpt found under the subheading “My final words for humankind”:

These are textbooks you will have to read and study even after you go to the spirit world. They are not just teachings that come from the mind of one person; they are textbooks and materials that teach the heavenly way that God has bestowed upon His suffering children for their salvation.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have already mentioned that a life of vertical “high noon” alignment casts no shadow. If our lives are shining, there will be no chance for the shadow of sin to be cast. Those who receive the light will be indebted to the light. I pray that we can now wipe away the tears of people in misery and poverty and lead an illuminated life of eternal true love that dissipates all darkness. The True Parents have achieved ultimate unity, and offered and proclaimed the era of God’s full transcendence, full immanence, full authority and omnipotence upon the standard of their conclusion, completion and perfection.

Who is True Father?

Respected leaders of peace and beloved blessed families: At the dawn of this new providential turning point and new age, my greatest hope is that True Father’s providential stature will solidify. Throughout his life, True Father treasured every second and every minute as he invested his entire being completely for the sake of God’s Will. He relentlessly traveled to every part of the globe and even to the spirit world. It is my hope that his cosmic and providential achievements, the victories he accumulated with his own blood, sweat and tears, will become the eternal standard and example for all humankind.

First, True Father is humankind’s ancestor of original goodness, the True Parent. Adam and Eve, the first ancestors of humankind, fell and became our evil ancestors. As Jesus testified, they are the false ancestors. With the Fall of Adam and Eve, God lost the first created human beings. In other words, He lost His external form.

God carried out the providence of restoration and sent True Father as the ultimate, returning Messiah. Through exercising his own portion of responsibility, True Father illuminated the truth, God’s Word, and completed the providence of restoration through indemnity. Through the Blessing ceremony and the Seonghwa ceremony, he opened the paths of rebirth, resurrection and eternal life, establishing them for fallen people to walk in the physical and spiritual worlds. This enables people to inherit the original true love, true life and true lineage as they were at the time of creation. This inheritance can only come from the True Parents, the ancestors of goodness. Blessed marriage is the gateway for this inheritance.

Second, True Father is the owner of the eternal truth, or the Word. God formed the whole of creation through the Word. The Word is the truth and the substantiation of God. God’s love and heart are manifested in form through the Word. Adam and Eve, humankind’s false ancestors, transgressed God’s Word and committed the Fall. Hence, they were unable to substantiate the Word. Consequently, the Messiah had to search for the Word, the truth from Heaven, as part of his providence for the start of his mission.

In response to such demands of the providence, True Father discovered the fullness of the Word through setting many intense conditions, gaining victory in separating from Satan, and through receiving God’s approval.

Throughout his life, True Father led and directed the providence with the Word. Through the Word, he suffused the world with vitality and life. He lovingly nurtured with the Word while completing the providence of re-creation. As a result, during the jubilee years in True Parents’ course, he completed the eight great textbooks and teaching materials and established the tradition of Hoon Dok Hae. This, in turn, allowed the pathway to open up to firmly establish Cheon Il Guk through the Word and through the love within our worldwide families.

The authority of the teachings in the eight great textbooks and teaching materials is solely True Parents’, and this must be preserved as the eternal tradition, which is absolute for all future generations.

Third, True Father is the one who completed God’s providence of salvation. As stated in Exposition of the Divine Principle, history is the providence of salvation, which is the providence of restoration. Due to the Fall of the first ancestors Adam and Eve, a world emerged under an evil sovereignty with the false ancestors as the center. Humankind’s misfortunes, anguish, sin, alienation and war, caused by all manner of conflict and hostility, arose from the Fall of those first ancestors. God immediately began the dispensation to restore the world from one of sin and evil to the ideal world envisioned at the time of creation, in other words, a world of peace overflowing with happiness, altruism, service to others and love. This dispensation has continued throughout the course of history without ceasing even for a moment.

Nonetheless, God had to repeatedly prolong the providence of salvation, which continued amid the recurring need for indemnity and restoration, because of the failure of central figures and groups of people to complete their portions of responsibility. Two thousand years ago, God’s only begotten Son Jesus came as the Messiah. He was crucified because of people’s faithlessness. He subsequently ascended, though not before promising that Christ would return.

Two thousand years later, as Jesus intended and promised, True Father came as the returning Messiah and achieved victory in the providential course, paying all the historical indemnity during his lifetime. It is no exaggeration to characterize True Father’s life as a state of ceaseless tension and suffering. He endlessly battled Satan in life-and-death confrontations throughout the providence of restoration through indemnity.

In this way True Father concluded, completed and perfected the providence through a forty-year course as the Messiah, a forty-year course as the True Parent, and a ten-year course as the Peace King, the King of kings.

Fourth, True Father is the Peace King, the King of kings. God’s Will is the perfection of a peaceful, ideal world, a world where all people live as one great family under God. This refers on an individual level to personal perfection through mind-body unity and then the perfection of the family through the oneness of husband and wife, parents and children, and siblings. Expanding this concept, we are meant to create a world overflowing with love and peace, where our societies, our nations and the entire world come together as one.

Since the Fall of humankind, conflict between good and evil has been unending, replicating itself from the level of the individual to the whole of creation. In the end, the divisions between races, nations and religions have brought unfathomable suffering to humankind.

True Parents set as their lives’ providential goals the liberation of God, the salvation of humankind, and the realization of a peaceful, ideal world. They completely invested their lives in order to achieve these goals. Along with religious activities aimed centrally at a revival of spirituality, True Father initiated a peace movement for all humankind spanning the fields of politics, economics, society, culture, the arts, education, the media and sports. He indicated that a true family is the smallest unit of the kingdom of heaven, and he opened the gates to the true family Blessing and to even bless marriages between enemies. He made the ideal of one great human family a reality through the cross-cultural and international blessed marriages, which aim to resolve all conflicts. As a result, we could hold a coronation ceremony in which 120 clans and 120 nations crowned True Father as the King of Peace and the King of kings. Humanity’s dream is now becoming a reality.

Fifth, as the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, True Parents perfected God’s position, so that for the first time God could achieve on earth the perfection that He had envisioned at the time of the creation. True Father had begun the providence of restoration through indemnity from the position of a servant of servants. Each victory gradually eroded Satan’s sovereignty while increasingly elevating God’s stature toward its level at the time of the creation.

Two thousand years ago, Jesus revealed that God was our Father and that he was God’s true Son. You are aware that because of this Jesus was accused of blaspheming God, and he suffered the ordeal of the cross. On the foundation of Jesus’ sacrifice, True Parents substantially fulfilled restoration through indemnity on earth and restored honor and glory to God as the original Creator, in other words, as the True Parent who governs heaven, earth, and humankind.

In the course of accomplishing this, True Parents’ providential stature evolved according to the standard of the providence, and on that basis they achieved God’s liberation and complete freedom. On the foundation of the successive levels of the Messiah; True Parents; the Parents of Heaven and Earth; the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind; the King of the Blessed Families; the King of Peace; and the King of kings, True Father proclaimed in 2010 the settlement of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. That is, since God is the incorporeal True Parent of heaven, earth and humankind, True Father established True Parents as the corporeal True Parents of heaven, earth and humankind, who complete and manifest God’s true and essential nature in substance.

Beloved members, Heaven could assist True Father and I as we trod the providential course of restoration through indemnity, and the suffering we experienced on that course is beyond imagination. We even lost four children of the True Family, who became sacrificial offerings for the providence. Who indeed would dare to say they comprehend this painful course of restoration through indemnity? I have dedicated my very being to this work, sharing the joys and pains of life with True Father as his companion, overcoming innumerable trials and difficulties. On that victorious foundation, we, the True Parents, gained the right of equality in a providential dimension, the right to live together and the right to hold the same position, which Heaven bestowed upon us.

Our future path

Respected guests from home and abroad, beloved blessed families throughout the world, according to heavenly law, True Father will now make the spirit world his base and carry out the providence to expand Cheon Il Guk while freely traveling between the spiritual and physical worlds. True Father will come down to the physical world as the substantial being of the God of Night and shall preside over the providence in a state of oneness of heart, body, harmony and mind with True Mother, who shall continue to preside over the providence on earth as the substantial being of the God of Day. Through the victory of Foundation Day, Father will be with you in building the original Garden of Eden on earth. There is no stopping Heaven’s providence.

At this new transition point in this historic providence, I want to make clear that I have inherited True Father’s victorious foundation and shall stand in the forefront to lead the providence on earth. In doing so, I would like to convey the following to everyone:

First, we must absolutely value the tradition established by True Parents as much as we value our own lives, and we need to pass this down to our descendants in future generations. True Parents established the tradition of love and heart, the Word and principles, the rules and regulations of our tradition, and the tradition of the culture of heart. The Hoon Dok Hae tradition of reading the Word, which is the crystallization of True Parents’ course in the providence of restoration through indemnity, has to become the central practice in each family as well as in the churches and any gathering centered on Heaven.

At the same time, we must go forward in building a new order on earth. Please always remember that the order and tradition of organizations also have to form a perfect solidarity centering on the True Family as Abel, who are in turn centered on True Parents.

Second, we must realize the ideal of a blessed family, which Heaven has blessed us to be. The family is the cradle of true love, true life and true lineage and the basis for realizing the purpose God envisaged at the time of the creation. Based on the eight verses of the Family Pledge, you need to uphold through absolute faith the tradition of maintaining the lineage of absolute goodness.

Our vision for peace revolves around pure love, happy families and a peaceful world. Children must be raised and nurtured with love and through the Word within a tradition of conjugal oneness, through parents who attend Heaven with absolute love. Through Hoon Dok Hae, you need to foster the firm establishment of the Cheon Il Guk order in your families and fulfill the ideal of the Blessing in which the tradition of heart can take root both vertically and horizontally under the standard of high noon settlement.

Third, you have all received the benefit of being tribal messiahs. You need to work to fulfill that mission and responsibility until the time Cheon Il Guk is completed on earth. Tribal messiahship is the greatest of all blessings given to you by True Parents. Fallen people could not be blessed and appointed tribal messiahs were it not for True Parents’ foundation of victory in the providence of restoration through indemnity. That is why True Parents have consistently emphasized the tribal messiah mission during their lifelong governance of the providence.

The physical and spiritual completion of Cheon Il Guk on earth becomes possible when tribal messiahs fulfill their mission: conveying the Word to each of their clans, officiating in the Blessing of their clans, all the while practicing living for the sake of others. Your clans will thereby establish the sovereignty of goodness and realize a world of peace, one great human family. A victorious foundation established in each clan will automatically bring about the establishment of the Abel UN, and complete the sovereignty of goodness.

Fourth, all of us need to create a community based on the culture of heart and characterized by harmony and unity, centered on True Parents and the True Family. Each of you without exception found the path of God’s Will because you were chosen by Heaven, based on the merits of your ancestors and because of your own character. You faced immeasurable persecution in order to follow True Parents until entering this realm of victory today. That makes us all a part of a single family, a community of heart centered on the one True Parents. Division and conflict continue to afflict the world, yet because we are one with True Parents, the Unification family can be brothers and sisters who can easily transcend race, national borders and any other barrier.

If you can live an exemplary life of giving and living for the sake of others, this dream will surely come true. Especially as we are in this time of great transition in the providence, I ask that you bear this in mind and engrave in your hearts that we must become one with True Parents.

Our resolution for the victory of Foundation Day

Respected peace-loving leaders and beloved members of the Unification family, True Father in the spirit world is always with us. Existing without corporeal form, he is at our side, and will never leave us even for a moment. What do you think he desires from us at this time? It is to march forward without pausing. God’s providence will continue until all people are centered on True Parents and a culture of heart takes root overflowing with love and peace, thereby establishing a new order. Let us advance further based on the victory of Foundation Day. The hope it brings is so great that it will continue far into the future, so let us instill this great hope in the world and offer great glory to Heaven and True Parents.

Beloved members, I shall be faithful to True Father’s life and tradition. He set the example for us and led by example his entire life, doing his absolute best to achieve victory in the providence. The requests I have conveyed to you today are True Father’s last words as he was departing for the spirit world. I sincerely pray that you will engrave them deeply in your heart and that you will all become victorious.

I pray that God’s blessings and love will be forever with you, your families and your nations.

Thank you very much.

Let Us Inherit the Realm of True Parents’ Victory and Begin a Future Filled with Hope

Hak Ja Han
September 17, 2012
Cheongshim Peace World Center

True Mother prays at True Father’s Seunghwa

Before my speech, I would first like to say a word in greeting. My beloved members! Blessed families from all parts of the world! And distinguished leaders! I am truly grateful to all of you for returning love and devotion to True Father. I love you all. [Applause]

And I would also like to express my gratitude to the members of the Executive Committee and the Organizing Committee, as well as our church members who have all worked hard for the Seonghwa Ceremony.

At this time, I would like to call forward the following four people: Chiefs Bu-tae Kim, Sang-su Lee, Jong-ho Lee and Tae-san Kim. Please stand in front. Please greet True Parents with a bow and then face the audience.

[After they bow] Turn around. [Applause]

These men attended True Father night and day during his lifetime. We have successfully concluded True Father’s Wonjeon Ceremony. Henceforth they will continue to attend him as his Special Internal Security Guard, twenty-four hours a day, regardless of rain, snow, or seasonal change, embodying the devotion and love you have given. Please congratulate them. [Applause]

Bow once before returning to your seats. [They bow to the members] [Applause]

Before we begin... A little while ago, I received a sudden and unexpected shock. I am being well taken care of, so don’t worry about me. This being the case, Rev. Hyo-yul Kim will give the speech instead of me. [Applause]

The following script was read by Rev. Hyo-yul [Peter] Kim

Distinguished guests from home and abroad, and blessed families around the world!

Today, we come to an exceedingly important turning point in God’s governance of His providence. It is unprecedented, historic and revolutionary.

My husband, the Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon, the returning Lord, Messiah, Savior and True Parent who came as the root of the lineage of original goodness, has departed for the spirit world. Consequently, we now stand at a providential starting point from which we must inherit True Parents’ realm of victory and build the ideal kingdom of peace, one family under God.

True Father’s ascension brings me, after being with him my whole life, unfathomable pain and sorrow. It is the same for all of you. Moreover, we cannot begin to fathom the sorrowful heart of God, who is the original substance of eternal love and the True Parent of humankind.

From another perspective, this is also a time of hope. True Father worked in accordance with the heavenly laws -- which God established at the time of the creation of heaven and earth -- to conclude, complete and perfect all the providential tasks on earth that no one in history had been able to fulfill. He is now making his transition to the spirit world to exercise dominion over both the spiritual and physical worlds and to initiate a new dimension of God’s providence. No spoken or written language known to human beings can possibly express the flood of emotions we experience as we stand at this juncture in the providence.

The advent of the True Parents

As you are well aware, I was led by Heaven to meet True Father in the pure and pristine years of my adolescence. By the providence Heaven had prepared, I received the grace of the True Parents’ Holy Wedding, which is of historic significance throughout heaven and earth, in the flower of my youth at the age of seventeen. I became True Father’s companion on the providential path, attended him throughout my life, and worked with him as we followed the way of the providence, which is governed by heavenly law. Although I was young when I set out on this path of the providence, I invested my entire being in fulfilling two primary missions. The first was to bring an end, within my lifetime, to God’s providence of restoration through indemnity, which was rife with bitter sorrow. The second was to complete the realization of the ideal world of God’s will while attending Father during his lifetime.

God’s providential history of salvation has been progressing continuously since the Fall of Adam and Eve, the first human ancestors. No one, however, could complete the providential course of restoration through indemnity, and we could only wait for the True Parents to come.

True Parents’ course began under desperate circumstances in God’s providence at a time when Satan exercised sovereignty over the spiritual and physical worlds and reigned with full authority. Satan, the progenitor of evil, who had maintained dominion for six-thousand years, feared most the emergence of the True Parents, who would become the progenitors of goodness. You can imagine how Satan would fiercely oppose this and frantically employ all manner of brutality in an effort to prevent it. True Father passed through a providential course of immeasurable indemnity prior to establishing his position as a True Parent through our Holy Wedding in 1960. Humankind can receive the True Parents only once. The True Parents that emerged are the True Parents for all eternity.

True Father began his providential public life course at the conclusion of the Second World War in 1945. Heaven had prepared Christianity, especially Korean Christian spiritualist movements, on a foundation of two thousand years of conditions that Christians had established. It was to have fulfilled the mission of the providential bride by attending and upholding the returning Messiah, who was sent by Heaven to open the providence of attending the bride in substance. Christianity failed to complete this providential responsibility, however. As a result, Father lost the entire providential foundation -- both the spiritual foundation, the two-thousand-year history of Christianity; and the substantial foundation, the victory of the Allied Nations in World War II. In these providential circumstances, fraught with immense difficulties and challenges, True Father had to act alone to once again carry out the providential course of restoration through indemnity starting from the bottom of hell in Hungnam Special Labor Camp. He endured and finally overcame Satan’s vicious attacks, establishing a foundation of victory by having separated from Satan. On that basis, True Father established the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity as the providential bride, replacing Christianity, and on that foundation, he received me as the substantial bride and held the historic Holy Wedding. As a result, in 1960, True Parents’ course could finally commence.

True Parents’ providential course

Distinguished guests, beloved blessed families, how can we describe God, the Heavenly Father, as revealed by True Father? God is not the Creator sitting on His throne of glory and honor; rather He is a True Parent of true love and heart who has traversed millions of miles in search of His children who have fallen into a state of death due to sin.

In his speech, “The Settlement of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind and the Proclamation of the Word by God’s Substantial Self,” which he so treasured during his time on earth, True Father explained God’s existence as follows:

Ladies and gentlemen, do you have any idea how much pain God suffered the moment our first ancestors, into whom God had invested His complete and unreserved devotion since time immemorial, fell and disappeared into darkness, becoming part of Satan’s lineage? Are you even remotely aware that our Heavenly Father -- who endured tens of thousands of years of excruciating heartache so great that His bones shed tears and His flesh quivered -- had to go through the long, dark tunnel of indemnifying the Fall in order to save His lost children? How many of you have spent days and nights in tears, yearning to comfort our Father in Heaven?

This is how God is. True Father became the person that experienced God’s suffering with his entire being. With blood, sweat and tears, he triumphed in True Parents’ forty-year course, and finally in 2001 he offered to Heaven the Coronation [Enthronement] Ceremony for the Kingship of God.

Distinguished guests from home and abroad, True Parents’ forty-year providential course until the offering of the Coronation of God’s Kingship was a path crossing peaks of misery unimagined by anyone. In a continuous life-or-death struggle against the satanic forces of the evil sovereignty, we were knocked down repeatedly, but got up each time to continue the struggle. It was a course requiring lifeor- death resolve and the investment of our entire beings. We could not let our guard down for a single moment. No words are adequate to describe how True Father voluntarily chose to go to the bottom of hell, suffer hardship in prison at Danbury and follow a blood-ridden course of indemnity, in order to bring the wilderness era to a close, concluding the six-thousand-year history of the providence for the salvation of humankind.

Despite being the long-awaited savior of humankind, he led a life of constant indemnity, enduring imprisonment under Japanese oppressive powers, North Korean communist authorities, and the South Korean Liberal Party administration. What he said to me as he headed for prison once more in the United States is still vivid in my memory. “Don’t worry,” he said, “a new world of hope will be waiting on the other side of prison!” As someone who directly witnessed True Father’s noble life up close and walked alongside him, however, these incidents brought me overwhelming sorrow. My whole world seemed to collapse around me when I thought of True Father’s dire circumstances, imprisoned in Satan’s den, and having his life targeted by communists. I fervently beseeched Heaven to protect his safety and health. Only Heaven will remember these circumstances in the providence of restoration through indemnity.

The wilderness era finally ended in August 1985 on the foundation of victory established through the sacrifice of Heung Jin, our second son, representing the True Children, and through True Father’s suffering in Danbury prison. With the Day of Total Victory as a turning point, a new providence began. True Father later met Mikhail Gorbachev and Kim Il Sung, communist leaders who were central figures in Satan’s realm, and brought them to submission with Heaven’s love.

On that foundation, True Father established the Women’s Federation for World Peace in the position of the providential bride and placed me in the position of the first and only substantial bride in human history to attend the returning Messiah. I began to proclaim to all of heaven and earth the second advent of the Lord, the Messiah, the Savior and the True Parents. Based on this, I undertook the providence of mother–son cooperation for seven years while attending True Father, the center of the providence, and offered the successful conclusion to Heaven. Thus the era of Cheon Il Guk, the nation of cosmic peace and unity, began.

On May 1, 1999, during the Day of All True Things, True Father bestowed a great blessing on me. As he presented me with an award to congratulate me for being victorious in the era of mother–son cooperation, which will never be repeated in history, he firmly embraced me and whispered in my ear, “Mother, thank you for your hard work. You have scaled the summit of a great providential mountain.” At that moment, I was overwhelmed with emotion and began to weep. Memories of critical moments, such as having to embrace Cain and Abel while breaking through the opposition of leftist students on Korean university campuses, and of enduring all manner of dangers and concerns during hundreds of speaking engagements in 185 nations over seven years, flashed through my mind like a kaleidoscope as I received True Father’s consolation and blessing.

Opening the gates to the Cheon Il Guk era

Respected peace-loving leaders and my proud family members, looking back, it has truly been an arduous course of restoration through indemnity. True Parents, however, brought a clean end to all of this. They have been victorious and have opened the gates to the era of Cheon Il Guk, in which the era of God’s kingship, the era of God’s direct dominion, takes root. True Parents upgraded “My Pledge” to the “Family Pledge,” and brought us from the era of praying in True Parents’ names to that of directly reporting to God in the name of our blessed central family. They opened the Cheon Il Guk era, a new era of the providence amid changes that previously could not have even been imagined.

With True Parents at its center, the system of the absolutely good sovereignty under God’s kingship has been expanded vertically and horizontally with the substantiation of the culture of heart. Through the Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony Opening the Gates of Cheon Il Guk and the Coronation of the King of the Blessed Families on the occasion of my sixtieth birthday in 2003, the heavenly sovereignty put down vertical roots. It has since been firmly established throughout the world through the coronation of the king of peace for 120 clans and 120 nations. With the inauguration of the Abel UN through the Universal Peace Federation, the Cheon Jeong Gung Entrance Ceremony and the Coronation of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind were offered to Heaven. For the first time, the foundation for the substantiation of the ideal envisaged at the time of the Creation was firmly established. With the victory of True Parents’ fifty-year course, a providential jubilee year was ushered in, and we proclaimed the era of the heavenly calendar, marking 2010 as the first year of Cheon-gi.

True Parents’ realm of victory

Over the past three years, True Father did not for a single moment let go of the script of his speech, “The Settlement of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind and the Proclamation of the Word by God’s Substantial Self.” He treasured this text and would explain it during Hoon Dok Hae whenever the chance arose. The following is an excerpt found under the subheading “My final words for humankind”:

These are textbooks you will have to read and study even after you go to the spirit world. They are not just teachings that come from the mind of one person; they are textbooks and teaching materials that teach the heavenly way that God has granted to His suffering children for their salvation.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have already mentioned that a life of vertical “noon-time” alignment casts no shadow. If we can all shine as we live such glowing lives, there will be no chance for the shadow of sin to be cast. Those who receive the light will be indebted to the light. I pray that we can now wipe away the tears of people in misery and poverty, and lead an illuminated life of eternal true love that dissipates all darkness.

The True Parents have achieved ultimate unity and offered and proclaimed the era of God’s full transcendence, full immanence, full authority and omnipotence upon the standard of conclusion, completion and perfection.

Who is True Father?

Respected leaders of peace and beloved blessed families, as a new providential turning point and new age dawns, my greatest hope is that True Father’s providential stature will solidify. Throughout his life, True Father held dear to each second and minute as he invested his entire being completely for the sake of God’s will. He relentlessly traveled to every part of the globe, and even to the spirit world. I hope the cosmic and providential achievements he accumulated in victories won with his own blood, sweat and tears can become an eternal standard and example for all humankind.

First, True Father is humankind’s ancestor of original goodness -- the True Parent. Adam and Eve, the first ancestors of humankind, fell and became our evil ancestors. As Jesus testified, they are the false ancestors. With Adam and Eve’s Fall, God lost the originally created human beings. In other words, He lost His external form.

God carried out the providence of restoration and sent True Father as the final, returning Messiah. Through exercising his own portion of responsibility, True Father elucidated the truth, God’s word, and completed the providence of restoration through indemnity. Through the Blessing Ceremony and Seonghwa Ceremony, he opened a path to rebirth, resurrection and eternal life in the physical and spiritual worlds along which fallen humankind must walk. Consequently, the original true love, true life and true lineage, as they were at the time of the Creation, can only be inherited from the True Parents, the ancestors of goodness; and the gateway for doing this is blessed marriage.

Second, True Father is the owner of the eternal truth, in other words, the word. God formed the whole of creation through the word. The word is the truth and the substance. God’s love and heart are manifested in form through the word. Adam and Eve, humankind’s false ancestors, defied God’s word and committed the Fall. They were unable to substantiate the word. Consequently, the Messiah had to search for the word, the truth from Heaven, as part of his mission’s providence for the start.

In response to such demands of the providence, True Father elucidated the word through setting many intense conditions, gaining victory in separating from Satan, and through receiving God’s affirmation. Throughout his life, True Father led and directed the providence with the word. Through the word, he suffused the world with vitality and life. He nurtured with love while completing the providence of recreation. As a result, during the Jubilee years in True Parents’ course, he completed the eight great textbooks and teaching materials and established the tradition of Hoon Dok Hae. This, in turn, allowed the pathway to the firm establishment of Cheon Il Guk to open up through the word and through love within our worldwide families.

The authority of the teachings contained in the eight great textbooks and teaching materials is solely True Parents’ authority, and this must be preserved as the eternal tradition, without any change, for all future generations.

Third, True Father is the one who completed God’s providence of salvation. As stated in Exposition of the Divine Principle, our history is the providence of salvation and also the providence of restoration. Due to the Fall of the first ancestors, Adam and Eve, a world emerged under an evil sovereignty with the false ancestors as the center. Humankind’s misfortunes, anguish, sin, alienation and war caused by all manner of conflict and hostility all arose from the Fall of those first ancestors. God began the dispensation to restore the world from one of sin and evil into the ideal world envisioned at the time of the Creation -- in other words, a world of peace overflowing with happiness, self-sacrifice, service to others and love. This dispensation has continued without ceasing even for a moment, throughout the course of history.

However, the providence of salvation, which continued amid the recurring need for indemnity and restoration, was prolonged repeatedly because of the failure of central figures and groups to complete their portions of responsibility. Two thousand years ago, God’s only begotten son, Jesus, came as the Messiah. He was crucified and ascended because of the people’s faithlessness. He subsequently promised to return.

Two thousand years later, as was intended and promised, True Father came as the returning Messiah and achieved victory in the providential course, paying all historical indemnity during his lifetime. It is no exaggeration to summarize the course of True Parents’ lives as that of being in a state of constant tension and suffering. It has been a battle through life-or-death confrontations with Satan in the providence of restoration through indemnity.

Thus, True Father concluded, completed and perfected the providence through a forty-year course as the Messiah, a forty-year course as the True Parent, and a ten-year course as the Peace King, the King of Kings.

Fourth, True Father is the Peace King, the King of Kings. God’s will is that a peaceful, ideal world -- a world where all people live as one great family under God -- be completed. This refers, on an individual level, to personal perfection through mind–body unity, and the perfection of the family through the oneness of husband and wife, parents, siblings, and children. Expanding this concept, we are meant to create a world overflowing with love and peace, where our societies, our nations and the world come together as one.

Since the Fall, conflict between good and evil has been unending, repeating itself from the level of the individual to the entirety of creation. In the end, the divisions between races, nations and religions have brought unfathomable suffering to humankind.

True Parents set as their lives’ providential goals the liberation of God, the salvation of humankind and the realization of a peaceful, ideal world, and they have completely invested their lives for the sake of those achievements. With religious activities aimed centrally at a revival of spirituality, True Father initiated a peace movement for all humankind spanning the fields of politics, economics, society, culture, the arts, education, the media and sports. He indicated that a true family is the smallest unit of the kingdom of heaven, and he opened the gates to the true family blessing and blessed marriage between enemies. He made the ideal of one great human family a reality through the cross-cultural and international blessed marriages, which resolve all conflicts. As a result, a coronation ceremony was held in which 120 clans and 120 nations crowned True Father as the King of Peace, and the King of Kings. Humanity’s dream is now becoming a reality.

Fifth, as the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, True Parents perfected God’s stature, and for the first time on earth achieved the perfection that was envisioned at the time of the Creation. True Father had begun the providence of restoration through indemnity from the position of a servant of servants. Following each victory, Satan’s sovereignty was gradually eroded, while God’s stature was increasingly elevated toward its level at the time of the Creation.

Two thousand years ago, Jesus revealed that God was our father. You are aware that because of this Jesus was accused of blaspheming God, and he suffered the ordeal of the cross. True Parents, however, substantially fulfilled restoration through indemnity on earth, and restored honor and glory to God as the original Creator -- in other words, as the True Parent who governs heaven, earth and humankind.

In this way, True Parents’ providential stature evolved according to the standard of the providence, and on that foundation God’s liberation and complete freedom were achieved. From the Messiah and up through the levels of True Parents, the Parents of Heaven and Earth, the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, the King of the Blessed Families, the King of Peace, and the King of Kings, True Father proclaimed, in 2010, the settlement of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. That is, God is the incorporeal True Parent of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, whereas True Parents are established as the corporeal True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind to complete and manifest God’s true and essential nature in substance.

Beloved members, the suffering that True Father and I experienced in the providential course of restoration through indemnity, a course with which not even Heaven could interfere, is beyond imagination. We even had to offer four children of the True Family as sacrificial offerings for the providence. Who indeed would dare say that they can comprehend this painful course of restoration through indemnity? I have dedicated my life, sharing the joys and pains of life with True Father as his companion, overcoming innumerable trials and difficulties. On that victorious foundation, we, the True Parents, gained, in a providential dimension, the right of equality, the right to live together and the right of holding the same position bestowed on us by Heaven.

Our future path

Respected guests from home and abroad and beloved blessed families throughout the world, according to heavenly law, True Father will now make the spirit world his base and carry out the providence to expand Cheon Il Guk while freely traveling between the spiritual and physical worlds. True Father will come down to the physical world as the substantial being of the God of Night and shall preside over the providence in a state of oneness of heart, body, harmony and mind with True Mother, who shall continue to preside over the providence on earth as the substantial being of the God of Day. Through the victory of Foundation Day, Father will be with you in building the original Garden of Eden on earth. There is no stopping Heaven’s providence.

At this new transition point in this historic providence, I want to make clear that I shall inherit True Father’s victorious foundation and stand in the forefront to lead the providence on earth. In so doing, I would like to convey the following to everyone:

First, we must absolutely value the tradition established by True Parents as much as we value our own lives, and pass this down to our descendants, the future generations. True Parents established the tradition of love and heart, the word and principles, the rules and regulations of our tradition, and the tradition of the culture of heart. The Hoon Dok Hae tradition of reading the word, which is the crystallization of True Parents’ course in the providence of restoration through indemnity, should become the central practice in each family as well as in the churches and any gathering centered on Heaven.

At the same time, we must go forward in building a new order on earth. Please never forget True Parents’ tradition that the order and tradition of our organization creates a well-ordered unity centered on the True Family and Abel, with True Parents at the center. Second, we must realize the ideal of the blessed family with which Heaven has blessed us. The family is the cradle of true love, true life and true lineage and the basis upon which the purpose God envisaged at the time of the Creation is realized. Based on the eight verses of the Family Pledge, you should uphold, through absolute faith, the tradition of maintaining the good lineage.

Our vision for peace evokes pure love, happy families and a peaceful world. Children should be raised and nurtured with love and with the word within a tradition of conjugal oneness -- through parents who attend Heaven with absolute love. Through Hoon Dok Hae, you should foster the firm establishment of the Cheon Il Guk order in your families and fulfill the ideal blessing, in which the tradition of heart can take root both vertically and horizontally under the standard of “noon-time” settlement.

Third, you have all received the benefit of being tribal messiahs. Thus, you must work to fulfill that mission and responsibility until the time that Cheon Il Guk is completed on earth. Tribal messiahship is the greatest of all blessings given to you by True Parents, because fallen people could not be appointed tribal messiahs were it not for the foundation of victory in the providence of restoration through indemnity. That is why True Parents have consistently emphasized the tribal messiah mission during their lifelong governance of the providence.

The physical and spiritual completion of Cheon Il Guk on earth becomes possible when tribal messiahs fulfill their missions, passing on to each clan the word, participation in the Blessing Ceremony and a lifestyle of living for the sake of others. Your clans would thereby establish the sovereignty of goodness and realize a world of peace, one great human family. When a victorious foundation is established in each clan, the Abel UN will automatically be safely established on that foundation and the sovereignty of goodness will be completed.

Fourth, all of us must create a community based on the culture of heart characterized by harmony and unity, with True Parents and their True Family at the center. Each of you, without exception, found the path of God’s will because you were chosen by Heaven, based on the merits of your ancestors and because of your own character. You faced immeasurable persecution in order to follow True Parents until entering this realm of victory today. That makes us all a part of a single family, a community of heart centered on one Parent. Division and conflict continue to afflict the world but the Unification Family can become brothers and sisters who can easily transcend race, national borders and any other barrier. If you can show an exemplary life of giving to others and living for others’ sake, this dream will surely come true. Especially as we are in this time of great transition in the providence, I ask that you bear this in mind and engrave in your hearts that we must become one with True Parents.

Respected peace-loving leaders and beloved members of the Unification Family, True Father, in the spirit world, is always with us. He exists without corporeal form, but he will never leave our sides even for a moment. What do you think he desires from us at this time? It is to march forward without pausing. God’s providence must continue until all people are centered on True Parents and a culture of heart overflowing with love and peace takes root, thereby establishing a new order. Moreover, based on the victory of Foundation Day, we should further advance, instill such great hope in the world that it continues far into the future and offer great glory to Heaven and to True Parents.

Beloved members, I shall be faithful to True Father’s life and tradition. He set the example for us and led by example his entire life, doing his absolute best to achieve victory in the providence. The requests I have conveyed to you today are True Father’s last words as he was departing for the spirit world. I sincerely pray that you will engrave them deeply in your hearts and that you will all become victorious.

I pray that God’s blessings and love will be forever with you, your families and your nations.

Thank you very much.

After Dr. Kim finished reading her speech, Mother concluded with the following words:

Beloved members! How can a world centered on God, one world under God, be established? It is through the perfection of our ideal blessed families centered on true love. [Applause]

True Father deeply loves you. A few days before he left us, he bestowed a great blessing on you with the heart of preparing for Foundation Day. [Applause]

I don’t know if you saw this when you paid your respects to Father on the third floor of Cheon Jeong Gung. Together with the picture of True Parents placed on the side, Father instructed us to prepare four cushions of the same size, about this big [mother shows the audience]. He said that we should also prepare a piece of cloth that can amply envelop the four cushions piled on top of one another.

Father then asked that True Parents’ seal, which he had intended to use on Foundation Day, be brought to him, and he instructed that we should place the seal on the cloth in each of the four directions, east, west, north and south. [Mother shows the cloth embroidered with True Parents’ seal.] I don’t know if you can see this clearly, but this is it. [Applause]

True Parents’ seal is a stamp with both Father’s name and my name on it. [Applause] At first, Father said that we should stamp it on four different types of cloth, three hundred of each, making a total of 1,200. He then said that we will use those on Foundation Day.

Therefore, as you may realize from what you heard today in the speech, we cannot stop. The only thing we can do is to march forward, and realize the settlement of Cheon Il Guk on earth. That is why, as I said to you earlier, the perfection of blessed families and ideal families depends on whether you fulfill your responsibility or not. This blessing will be bestowed precisely on those families that fulfill their responsibilities.

Once again, I ask all of you blessed families in the world to participate in this blessing.