Chamshil Gymnasium, Seoul, Korea,January 27, 2004.jpg) Respected Current and Former Heads of State, Distinguished World Leaders, Ladies and Gentleman,
I would like to convey deep appreciation for your many expressions of congratulations on this occasion of the birthdays of my wife and mine. But this is not for us. I would like to offer all of this as glory to God who has protected us until today. Early in our lives we were called by God and have devoted our entire lives to fulfilling His will. Therefore I cannot accept your congratulations without including God in this celebration!
For my address this evening, I would like to talk about "God's Fatherland and the Peace Kingdom."
Ladies and gentlemen, what kind of world would have been realized if Adam and Eve, the first human ancestors, had not fallen? Adam would have become the head of that family, the tribal leader of that tribe, and the king of that nation. That world would have begun from that ideal of Adam, and would have become Adam's world where only the tradition, language, culture, and lifestyle of Adam would have existed. That world would have been Adam's fatherland as well as God's fatherland.
But unfortunately, human history began with the fall of the first human ancestors. Our world was reduced to being under the dominion of Satan, a world that had nothing to do with God. Humankind was originally meant to establish and live in a peace kingdom for eternity, with God as their True Parent. But instead, the human race became enslaved to Satan, the origin of evil, residing in a world ridden with sin and suffering. This has brought great anguish to God.
Please think about this in the context of your own life. Contrary to the will of the Creator, our minds and bodies are in constant struggle and conflict. Has there been anyone who has completely unified his or her mind and body? Among the six billion people of this world today, has there been anyone who has lived according to the original relationship, where the body is in complete submission to the mind? What about the societies and nations of today's world? The barriers of conflict and selfishness rooted in the mind and body of the individual exist even between societies and nations like an impregnable fortress. Human beings were supposed to live as brothers and sisters, yet the interracial strife that we see today still remains as a crucial problem threatening world peace. Religions originally had the mission of reviving human spirituality, thereby accomplishing the will of God by bringing humankind back to Him. But religions have abandoned their original mission and instead are lost in the swamp of prejudice and conflict. This has escalated to the point where today, we see them being used as tools for bloodshed and war.
Where does our original mind lead us? Does it indicate that we desire to live oppressed within the many walls and boundaries that surround us? It does not. The world that we desire is a place where no barriers or borderlines are seen. It is a world of freedom and peace. All people long for that kind of original fatherland. It is the fatherland that for thousands of years God has sought to establish. Likewise, it is the fatherland that humankind has longed for throughout history. Of course, when we talk about a "fatherland" it may denote a particular nation, but the original fatherland cannot be compared to any nation of the today's secular world.
To establish a nation there needs to be sovereignty, people and territory. When we look at history we can see the rise and fall of nations, the countless transitions of sovereignties and a great many lives sacrificed in the process. All these martyrs died in the hope that the original fatherland would someday appear. But that does not mean that the United States, or Korea, or any other nation can become the fatherland which these people have longed for. It would be a place where there is neither democracy nor communism. Such a fatherland would have no need for any religion. It is a world that does not commit the folly of trying to measure the value of a person by the color of his skin. It is a place that does not allow any form of boundary or national border, including the barriers that divide the mind and body within each individual, bringing pain to them all.
Ladies and gentleman, this very planet earth on which we live, the entire globe, is the very fatherland that humanity has longed for. It is the fatherland for which God has longed for tens of thousands of years. Humankind now has the responsibility to establish a global nation in line with God's standard and to remove evil from this earth by rendering judgment upon Satan who has been the archenemy in front of heaven until now. In so doing, a heavenly kingdom of peace on earth, with goodness at its center, will be brought about. We must never forget that this has been the desire of God, the desire of Jesus, and the desire of our ancestors who have contributed to the course of God's providence by going the path of martyrdom.
But that kind of ideal world is not created automatically. It is not something that anyone can have by just wishing for it. It is impossible to attain unless we, the offspring of the fall, receive a new blood lineage through the Marriage Blessing and practice a life of true love. Then what is a life of true love? In a nutshell, it is "living for the sake of others." It is living for the sake of others before you even wish for the other to do something for you. It is a life of living for the sake of the others and forgetting that you ever gave. It is not giving in hopes of receiving something in return. It is a life where you give and give, regretting nothing for not having given more. Even as you give, you bow your head in humility. Thus, Jesus said, "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." He also said that "For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." Even our almighty Creator, God, would not engage in creation and destruction at whim in disregard of the very principles of creation that He Himself set up.
Therefore, this is the reason why I have been conducting the Marriage Blessing providence throughout the past several decades. Humankind, who had inherited false life, false love and false lineage due to the fall of the first human ancestors, had no choice but to live this false kind of life. Thus my wife and I began our God-given mission as the True Parents. Throughout our lives we have walked a lonely path to carry out this heavenly decree to eliminate Satan, the devil, through the Marriage Blessing providence and, as the True Parents, to bequeath true life, true love, and the true lineage to humanity. We knew that God could not do anything about the false blood lineage because it had been planted by the false parents. Upon this victorious foundation of having fulfilled all the necessary indemnity conditions, my wife and I stand as the True Parents. We have been multiplying the true blood lineage by separating humanity from the blood lineage of the false olive tree and engrafting them to the true olive tree. A false olive tree will always remain as a false olive tree, even if a thousand years pass. Only by engrafting to the true olive tree can the lineage be changed.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the bright age of heaven is upon us now. Please accept my message with hope. The Marriage Blessing history began with just three couples in the 1960s has now reached 400 million couples around the world. Furthermore, there are more than 120 billion blessed couples living in the spirit world. The field of the true olive tree has now overwhelmed the field of the wild olive trees. All these blessed families are united in the life of living for the sake of others. The life of the true olive trees, through the true blood lineage, is now spreading like wildfire throughout the entire world. In this way God's Fatherland and Peace Kingdom, a nation of joy and happiness, a nation of freedom and equality with no walls or national borders will be realized on this earth.
For this purpose I founded the Peace United Nations' in New York, U.S.A. on October 3rd 2003. In doing God's providence, this Peace United Nations is developing initiatives of a revolutionary dimension that will rock heaven and earth. By educating each and every one of the six billion people on this earth, and giving them the Marriage Blessing, we are building God's fatherland, our fatherland, where the entire globe becomes our home, my home. Our goal is already set. The flag of the Peace United Nation is already waving high. The battle cry of victory is erupting across the world. Victories are won in America, Europe, Jerusalem, Palestine, Japan and Korea. Nothing is impossible with God and the numerous martyrs, patriots, saints and sages in spirit world running with us at our side.
They say, "blessed are those who have faith." On this meaningful day, I would like to ask you all to engrave this message in the deep center of your heart. I pray that you all join in the grace of the Marriage Blessing and create a great revolution of lineage. I dearly hope that you will all become the brave soldiers of heaven, courageously standing on the front line of God's providence in order to build God's fatherland on this earth, so that the Peace Kingdom can prosper for all eternity.
Thank you very much.
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18.2.13
World Summit on Leadership and Governance Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon Special Remarks God's Fatherland and the Peace Kingdom
19.1.13
Declaration of the Establishment of Cheon Il Guk Cheon Il Guk is the Ideal Heavenly Kingdom of Eternal Peace Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon
June 13, 2006
Highest leaders of all of the nations of the world, honored guests of Heaven who have gathered from every corner of the earth to celebrate this treasured historic and providential day, and people of the spiritual and physical worlds who are being reborn as citizens of Cheon Il Guk:
In the name of all humanity in the spirit world and physical world, numbering more than 300 billion, I offer boundless gratitude and glory to God, the Creator of all things, the eternal True Parent of humankind and Great King of the Cosmos.
I ask you to raise your voices high in praise for the victory of the True Parents of Heaven and Earth, the King and Queen of Cosmic Peace. They have personally completed the entire course of restoration through indemnity in order to save humanity, who, as descendants of the Fall, would otherwise be eternally destined to wander in evil and suffering, ever sliding down the path to hell.
You stand today in the venue of a tremendous event in providential history. This event is unprecedented and will never be repeated. It is the day when the King of Peace finally ascends in glory. Please recognize that, although they may not be visible to you, thousands and tens of thousands of your good ancestors of blessed families have come here. They are above your head now, joining with you in celebration of this awesome moment. All nature is rejoicing, and heaven and earth resound with choruses of Hallelujah.
If you truly understood the infinite value of this day, you would not be able to sit still. You would go throughout the world singing hymns of joy and dancing in ecstasy.
The Coronation of God’s Kingship
Do you know the significance of January 13, 2001? It was the Day of the Coronation of God’s Kingship. For countless years Heaven had been waiting for that event in eager anticipation. It was the greatest and most exalted celebration humanity had ever witnessed. On that day Reverend Moon, who had received the anointing as the True Parent of all humanity and traveled a path of indescribable suffering and pain until he had gained the final victory, offered his entire foundation to Heaven.
For tens of thousands of years, God had endured an existence full of lamentation and grief, even as He conducted His Providence with a parental heart. When that coronation ceremony was offered to Him, it marked the moment of His long-awaited liberation and release. On that providential day, we declared to all heaven and earth that we would attend God as the vertical True Parent and great King of the Cosmos, that we would unfurl and raise the banner of Cheon Il Guk, and that the new sovereignty of Heaven had begun.
For the next three years, the True Parents held firmly to the helm while the winds of heavenly fortune surged around us like a typhoon. We dashed forward as though each day were a thousand years. Then on the foundation of True Parents’ victory, we declared May 5, 2004 the Day of Ssang-hap Ship-seung. On that day, the True Parents brought to a close the Age Before the Coming of Heaven with its long years of grief, and opened theAge After the Coming of Heaven, the new era when we can build a new heaven and a new earth. This marked the beginning of a great and historic revolution to return the earth to God as a substantial reality.
Beloved citizens of Cheon Il Guk, today you are receiving amazing grace. You are participating in the coronation ceremony of the substantial King of Cosmic Peace, and you are being registered as citizens of Cheon Il Guk. Not only you, but also your ancestors by the tens of thousands will thank you throughout eternity for the grace they are receiving along with you today.
The Bible says “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness.” (Mt 6:33) Today you are witnessing the miracle of miracles: the establishment of Cheon Il Guk, the substantial sovereignty in the Age After the Coming of Heaven. God truly works in mysterious ways. By the first day of the new millennium, God had already placed Cheon Il Guk on the horizon. Who could have imagined though, that they would see the day when the King of Cosmic Peace would ascend to his throne? We thought it was just a dream, but we are witnessing it in our lifetime.
The Path of the People of Cheon Il Guk
Citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, this is a precious and blessed day of victory and glory. Now, as the King of Cosmic Peace, I will declare, on this thirteenth day of June in the sixth year of Cheon Il Guk, the fundamental duties and mission that every citizen of Cheon Il Guk should understand and live by as they walk the way of Heaven.
First, as God is the vertical True Parent and you are true children of God, you will establish the realm of three generations in your family, perfect the Four Great Realms of Heart, and attend God on the vertical axis for eternity.
Further, you will inscribe on your heart the need to uphold the Cosmic King of Peace, who is the horizontal True Parent, and to live with absolute obedience on the horizontal axis for eternity as a citizen of Cheon Il Guk. You will make living for the sake of others, which is the practice of true love, the standard of your life. You will establish a true family and raise true children who are sinless and pure, thus protecting God’s lineage and bequeathing it intact from generation to generation.
Second, no matter what the situation, you will live with your mind and body united as one. In my case as well, from the day I first determined to follow Heaven’s path, I resolved to keep this as my motto: “Before you desire to have dominion over the universe, you must first have dominion over yourself.”
God has given you a conscience as your guide in accomplishing this objective. Your conscience knows everything about you. It has complete knowledge of every action and step you take; it even knows your thoughts. Your conscience knows all these things about you before your teacher or your pastor knows. It knows them before your parents know. It knows them even better than God knows. So if you place your conscience in God’s position over your life, and go the way of absolute obedience, of “high-noon settlement”, it is certain that you will establish a realm of resonance between your mind and body and perfect their unity.
World Peace through Exchange Marriage
Citizens of Cheon Il Guk, the unification of spirit world has been completed. The issue now is the 6.5 billion people living on earth in the physical body. They struggle in agony in the midst of sin and suffering, yet they are your brothers and sisters. Your third mission is to educate them and bring them home as people of Cheon Il Guk.
You should educate everyone to understand that all human beings without exception are descended from the Fall and must change their blood lineage through receiving the Holy Marriage Blessing from the True Parents. You must continue the work of engrafting people onto the True Olive Tree, by having them participate in the grace of “exchange” (cross-cultural) marriage, until the day when all humankind, numbering more than 300 billion souls, is restored to God’s lineage.
Fourth, you are created to spend ten months in your mother’s womb, about one hundred years on earth breathing air, and then all eternity in the spirit world. You should understand that, just as proper preparation in the womb is required for a healthy life after birth, you must devote your earthly life to prepare yourself for the next stage of life in the spirit world. Never forget that in every time and place, and no matter what you are doing, your ancestors in the spirit world are with you. Be ever mindful to live in harmony with the spirit world. Communicate in prayer with the heavenly world with sincerity and dedication, so that you may become perfected in your spirit self while you are living on the earth.
Fifth, your talents and abilities are required for the management and governance of Cheon Il Guk. Now, therefore, cut away and cast off your mask of selfish individualism. It is but a remnant of the Age Before the Coming of Heaven. In order to belong to Heaven, you must change ownership by participating in the Ceremony of Returning Ownership, offering everything you own to God and then receiving it back from God.
In addition, all citizens of Cheon Il Guk will provide funds for the well being and peace of humanity, not by taxation but by voluntary contributions. They will demonstrate the model of offering the first three tenths of their income for public purposes. This cannot be an imposed tax; it has to be a gift that citizens offer willingly to Heaven with joyful hearts.
The Life of Citizens of Cheon Il Guk
Sixth, beloved citizens of Cheon Il Guk, in the Age After the Coming of Heaven it is possible to recover the ideal world of creation that was lost as a result of the Human Fall. God created all the earth’s creatures as our natural environment; they are absolutely needed for human prosperity. Human beings and nature are meant to share a realm of mutual resonance, with humans as the subject partners of love and nature as the object partner thriving under human management and beautified by human creativity. We can no longer tolerate actions that destroy nature and pollute the environment.
As citizens of Cheon Il Guk, please have the wisdom to protect and love nature. Return to nature and enjoy a life of liberation and complete freedom. To love nature is to love God and humanity. When human life resonates with nature, human character can blossom in perfection. The flowers of a true culture of heart, a true artistic world, will bloom. It will be the Garden of Eden, the original ideal where human beings and all creation live in complete harmony and express their original nature.
If you practice such true love in your daily life, how can God do anything but bestow great blessings upon you? You will live for all eternity in blessing and happiness.
Seventh, the Age After the Coming of Heaven that God and True Parents have opened is a time of dramatic change. As registered citizens of Cheon Il Guk, you have the mission to make this era blossom and bear fruit in blessing and glory. Therefore, please become Heaven’s emissaries, fulfilling the dual missions of the “Peace Kingdom Police Force” and the “Peace Kingdom Corps.” Serve humanity under the banner of the Universal Peace Federation, which is working to establish the position of the Abel-type United Nations. Worthy countrymen and women, if not you, then who, will nurture and protect the blessed families and this blessed planet Earth that God has given us?
Please become true princes and princesses who live in attendance to God as your True Parent, for He is the Peace King of the multitudes. Let us build the everlasting Peace Kingdom by attending the King of Cosmic Peace and fulfilling the dutiful family way of filial sons and daughters, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters.
Beloved people of Cheon Il Guk, I hope that you truly will celebrate and enjoy this precious and holy day. Brush off all your cares and worries and celebrate this day in joy while attending your Heavenly Father and True Parents with all your heart. The sincerity and dedication expressed by each of you brings even more glory to this day. The beautiful mountains, streams, trees, and flowers here in the vicinity of Cheong Pyeong Lake are showering their blessings upon you as you prepare to embark on your ambitious journeys. Your descendants, too, will take pride that you participated in this long-awaited day, and they will honor and praise you forever.
I pray that the abundant grace and blessings of God in heaven may be upon you and your families.
Thank you.
9.1.13
World Summit on Leadership and Governance Congratulatory Banquet Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon Founder's Address The Messiah and True Parents
The Messiah and True Parents
Shilla Hotel, Seoul, Korea,
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17.9.12
GOD’S IDEAL FAMILY AND THE KINGDOM OF THE PEACEFUL, IDEAL WORLD – I
Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon gave this speech on the occasion of the founding of the UniversalPeace Federation on September 12, 2005. It was also given in the UPF inaugural world
speaking tour to 10 nations and in the rallies for the Return of the Homeland to God, held in
180 nations in 2006.
Distinguished world leaders, Ambassadors for Peace and blessed family members who have come
from all parts of the world in the hope of bringing about the realization of world peace and
building the ideal hometown in heaven and on earth:
I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all of you for coming together in the midst of
your busy schedules to take part in this rally to expand and elevate to a global level the Family
Party for Universal Peace and Unity, so that it may be reborn as the Cheon Il Guk House for
Peace and Unification; to make the Universal Peace Federation a model UN-type organization;
and, to make Cheon Il Guk the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world through the concerted efforts
of all the nations of the world.
Ladies and gentlemen, as we begin the twenty-first century, we find ourselves at a truly
historic turning point. We are at a point of decision. Can everlasting world peace take root, or are
we doomed to repeat the twentieth century’s dark and oppressive history of war and conflict?
The twentieth century was a period of ceaseless struggle, including that of colonized countries
to gain their independence, the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, and the Cold War.
Living through this era, I dedicated my life entirely to bringing about the kingdom of God, the
kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world. I have always prayed sincerely that the United Nations,
founded after the Second World War, would be an institution for peace, and that it would uphold
God’s will for the realization of eternal world peace.
The United Nations has indeed made important contributions to peace. Nevertheless, around
its sixtieth anniversary in 2005 there was a broad consensus, both inside and outside the
organization, that the UN had yet to discover the way to fulfill its founding purposes. The number
of member states approaches two hundred, but the offices of these states do little more than
represent and even insist on their own interests. They seem inherently unable to resolve conflicts
and achieve peace.
For these reasons, I would like once more to declare today before all humanity the message I
gave throughout the Universal Peace Federation inauguration tour, launched last year on
September 12 in New York, which took me to 120 nations around the world. It is entitled, “God’s
Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World.”
The mission of the Universal Peace Federation is to renew the existing United Nations, a “Cain-
type” UN, and provide a new level of leadership as an “Abel-type” UN. It will unite heaven and
earth and form the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world.
This message should be engraved on the hearts of humankind. It is Heaven’s special blessing
in this era after the coming of heaven. It is also a warning to us that we should take to heart and
put into action.
God’s Ideal Family
Respected world leaders, what do you think is God’s ultimate purpose for creating human
beings? Simply put, it is to experience joy through relating with ideal families filled with true love.
What does an ideal family look like? First, each person in the family is an owner of true love.
When God first created human beings, He made Adam representing all men, and Eve
representing all women, with the intention that they become owners of true love. The quickest
way for them to cultivate a character of true love was to secure a parent-child relationship with
God, whereby they could live attending God as their Father. They were to have followed the path
of living as one family with God.
I invite you to enter into a transcendent state and prayerfully ask God, “What is the center of
the universe?” The answer you hear will undoubtedly be, “the parent–child relationship.” Nothing
is more important or more precious than the relationship between parent and child. This is
because it defines the fundamental relationship between the Creator God and human beings.
Then, what defines the parent-child relationship? Three things: love, life and lineage.
The first is love. We can love with true love because God, our True Parent, first loved us with
true love. God created human beings out of His absolute love, to be His partners in love. This
relationship forms an axis of love, linking God the Father with human beings as His sons and
daughters.
Could there be anything higher or more precious than to be a son or daughter of God? If
anything were higher, then surely human beings would aspire to attain it. But there is nothing
higher. Do you think that when the omniscient and omnipotent God created Adam and Eve, He
secretly reserved the highest position for Himself and made Adam and Eve to be only second
best? We cannot imagine that God would do that to His children, to His partners who share
absolute love with Him.
As our eternal True Parent, God invested Himself 100 percent in the creation of human beings
and endowed us with the right to equal status with Him, to participate in His work as equals, to
live with Him, and to inherit from Him. God bestowed upon human beings all of His attributes.
Though God is the absolute being , He cannot be happy alone. Adjectives such as “good” and
“happy” cannot apply to any being that lives in isolation. They apply only where there is a dynamic
mutual relationship. Imagine a professional singer who finds herself on an uninhabited island. She
may sing at the top of her voice, but with no one to listen, will it bring her happiness? In the same
way, even the self-existent God absolutely needs a partner with whom to share love in order to
experience joy and be happy.
Next is life. How shall we live to become God’s partner and return joy to Him? In other words,
how shall we live to become children of God, people whom God delights to call “My son,” or “My
daughter,” because He sees in us a divinity equal to His own? How can we become God’s partners
in completing the work of Creation, partners who will inherit the entire creation? This is my
answer: We should emulate the ideal that God set up at the beginning of His creative acts. At the
beginning of the Creation, God acted upon the principle of living for the sake of others. In other
words, everything that He did was for the sake of His creations, whom He hoped would develop
into His partners of true love. The practice of true love is the nucleus of God’s creative activity.
Therefore, to become God’s children, our first responsibility is to resemble Him. We need to
embody true love. The way to embody true love begins with living as a devoted child, then a
patriot, a saint, and finally a divine son or daughter of God. At that stage we can experience the
innermost emotions of God’s heart and resolve the grief that He has experienced for tens of
thousands of years since the Fall of Adam and Eve.
God is almighty. It was not due to any shortcoming or lack of ability that He has been
imprisoned in great pain and has endured immense suffering behind the scenes of history. Rather,
there are provisions in the Principle of Restoration, which He has not been free to disclose, that
called Him to wait with forbearance until Adam and Eve’s positions, lost at the human Fall, were
recovered through the appearance of the perfected “Second Adam.” Although God is all-powerful,
He will not set aside the eternal laws and principles that He Himself established.
The Importance of Lineage
Do you know what has pained God’s heart the most, causing Him the greatest grief over the
long history since the Fall of Adam and Eve? God lost His lineage. And with the loss of His lineage,
He lost His right of ownership.
Let me talk about lineage for a moment. Lineage is more important than life and more
important than love. Life and love come together to create lineage. Lineage cannot be established
if either life or love is missing. Therefore, among the three qualities that define the parent-child
relationship—love, life and lineage—lineage is the fruit.
God’s lineage contains the seed of true love. God’s lineage provides the context and
environment for a true life. Hence, for us to become the ideal people envisioned by God, that is,
people of ideal character, and to create ideal families, we first need to be linked to His lineage. To
take it a step further, only when we are linked to God’s lineage is it possible to create God’s
homeland, the ideal nation. Only when we are linked to God’s lineage is it possible to establish
the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world. Please inscribe the importance of lineage in your hearts.
I cannot emphasize this enough.
Without lineage, neither life nor love can endure. You strive to set a good tradition, but it will
endure only through your lineage. Lineage is the bridge allowing the parents’ spirit to carry on
through subsequent generations. In other words, lineage is the first and final condition necessary
for parents to harvest the fruits of their love, the fruits of their life and the fruits of their joy. We
need to know this with certainty.
Yet when Adam and Eve fell, this lineage, more precious than life, was lost. The fruits of true
life and true love never matured. They became the fruits of Satan, lacking any relationship with
Heaven. From them descended the six billion people now inhabiting the earth.
God intended for the seeds He planted in the springtime of the Garden of Eden to grow into
a bountiful crop that He could harvest in the autumn. The ideal of God’s creation was to raise
Adam and Eve, His son and daughter, to the point where they would blossom in true love,
flourish with true life, and bear fruit in a true lineage. God desired to gather up owners—and
families—of eternal life, eternal love and eternal lineage, and to bring about His kingdom of
the peaceful, ideal world as their homeland.
God’s Suffering in Search of the True Parents
Instead, however, it was false love, false life and false lineage that infested the earth. God’s
love, life and lineage fell into the hands of the adulterer Satan, the enemy of love. Heaven and
earth were suffocated and transformed into hell. The world became a wretched place, far from
God’s presence. Yet humanity to this day lives in ignorance of this.
People are deluded into believing that the lineage of the enemy is the lifeline upon which the
world depends. This is the wretched truth about humanity descended from the Fall. That is why
we refer to this world as hell on earth. God views humanity’s tragic situation with a heart full of
pain.
After creating Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, God intended to marry them with His Holy
Blessing and bequeath to them Heaven’s right of ownership. God wanted Adam and Eve to inherit
from Him the ownership of the entire universe.
However, all of this came under Satan’s control because of the Fall. God is like a father who
labored and sweated his entire life to accumulate assets for his children, only to have a thief steal
everything overnight.
Who can comprehend the sorrowful, painful heart of God? God lost His lineage, lost His
children, and was forced to hand over the ownership of the nations and world to Satan. There
was only one way to recover this lineage and ownership. This was the path to win the natural
subjugation of Satan, to have Satan surrender voluntarily. What is the secret to accomplish this?
It can only be accomplished by the power of true love, when we love our enemies more than we
love our own children.
Has there ever been a time when God could rejoice with human beings as their True Father
and True Mother, enjoying the natural bonds of parent and child? Has God enjoyed even a year of
comfort with His children, knowing that what He created was good? The answer is no; God has
not experienced such joy for even one hour. And has anyone been able to comfort God in this
pain? No, because no one has known the reason for the unbridgeable gap that has separated God
from humankind for tens of thousands of years. No one has known why God and humanity are in
such a tragic situation.
The biblical account of Cain and Abel reveals the beginnings of human conflict even within
Adam’s family. It reveals the archetype for humankind’s unending history of struggle, war and
conflict. We are in conflict on many levels, beginning with the war between mind and body within
each individual and extending to wars between nations and even to the global conflict between
materialism and theism.
Extreme selfish individualism threatens our prosperity even today. We deem young people to
be the hope of humanity holding the promise for the future, but drugs and free sex enslave them.
Advanced countries seem to believe that material goods are all that matter. They recognize only
their own interests while ignoring the misery of tens of thousands who die of starvation every day.
Who can untie this ancient knot of Cain and Abel? It has been tightened for thousands of years
and grows ever more entangled. Do you think the United Nations can do it? The UN at its
founding proclaimed a movement for world peace, and for sixty years it has dedicated itself to
this task; yet world peace still remains far distant. Peace among nations can never come when
those entrusted with the task have not resolved the Cain-Abel relationship between their own
mind and body. Therefore, the time has come to launch the Abel-type sovereignty for the
peaceful, ideal world that will set its course according to God’s will.
God longed with all His heart that someone would appear and resolve these tragedies, but no
such person appeared on earth. God waited and waited, looking for anyone who would take on
the role of the True Parent. If someone had come forward, I am certain that God would have
appeared in his dreams, carried the sun and moon to him, and showered him with lightning of joy
and thunder of ecstasy from the heavens.
In this sense, it is a miracle of miracles that for the first time in history a man has indeed
succeeded in attaining the position of Adam. He has secured the status of the owner of true love and
received God’s anointing as the True Parent of humanity. It is an amazing fact that his lifetime
coincides with yours, and that you and he breathe the same air. He is the horizontal True Parent,
who comes to rescue fallen humanity. I, Reverend Moon, gained the victory in that position. And on
that foundation, on January 13, 2001, I dedicated to Heaven the “Coronation Ceremony for the
Kingship of God.” By that ceremony I liberated and released God, our vertical True Parent who has
taken responsibility for the Providence of Restoration. In all of history, this was the highest and
greatest blessing humanity has ever received. This victory was absolute, unique, unchanging and
eternal. Through this absolute providential victory, God’s body and mind are completely liberated!
The Way to Peace through the Holy Blessing Ceremony
Respected leaders! Our bondage to the lineage of Satan has caused so much suffering
throughout history. Let us now boldly step forward to sever it and be grafted onto the root of the
lineage of the True Parents. Why should we foolishly continue to live and die as wild olive trees?
A wild olive tree, even if it lives a thousand years, will only continue producing the seeds of more
wild olive trees. Where can we find the path to escape this vicious cycle? It is through the Holy
Blessing.
The Holy Blessing Ceremony offers the grace of being grafted onto the true olive tree. It was
instituted by the True Parents, who bring God’s true lineage to humankind. Once you change
your lineage to God’s lineage, your offspring will naturally belong to God’s lineage. The Holy
Blessing is received in three stages: rebirth, resurrection, and eternal life. Once you receive the
True Parents’ Holy Blessing, you can give birth to pure, sinless offspring and build an ideal family.
The best way to receive the Holy Blessing is through a cross-cultural marriage. This contributes
to the enormous task of transcending the barriers of race, culture, nationality, ethnicity and
religion and creating one family of humankind. In God’s sight, skin color makes no difference.
God does not recognize national borders. God does not stand behind the barriers of religion and
culture. They are nothing more than the devil’s tricks. The devil has used them to rule over
humanity as a false parent for tens of thousands of years.
Imagine two enemy families who have cursed each other throughout their lives, people who
would never dream of living together. What would happen if these families joined together through
a cross-cultural Holy Marriage Blessing? If a son from one family and a daughter from the other
became husband and wife, loved each other and built a happy home, would the parents in these
two families curse their own children? If that son loved this beautiful daughter of a hated enemy,
and she, as the daughter-in-law, were to gave birth to Heaven’s grandchildren as pure and clear
as crystal, the grandparents would smile with pleasure. In time the two lineages once soaked with
enmity would be transformed.
What method other than cross-cultural marriage will empower Whites and Blacks, Jews and
Muslims, Orientals and Westerners, and people of all races to live as one human family? The
ideal family is the model for living together in peace. The ideal family is the nest where we live
and learn to become one. There we have the foundation of love and respect between parents
and children, shared trust and love between husband and wife, and mutual support among
siblings. For this fundamental reason, you should receive the Holy Marriage Blessing from the
True Parents and establish Heaven’s tradition of ideal families, even if it means risking your very
life.
A Life of True Love
Allow me to repeat myself: To resemble God, the original Being of true love, we should
become the owners of true love. We should embody true love and practice it in order to develop
our character. This is the way each of us can become true parents.
What is a life of true love? True love is the spirit of public service. It brings the peace that
is at the root of happiness. Selfish love is a mask of the desire to have one’s partner exist for
one’s own sake; true love is free from that corruption. Rather, its essence is to give, to live for
the sake of others and for the sake of the whole. True love gives, forgets that it has given,
and continues to give without ceasing. True love gives joyfully. We find it in the joyful and
loving heart of a mother who cradles her baby in her arms and nurses it at her breast. True
love is sacrificial love, as with a devoted son who gains his greatest satisfaction in helping his
parents. God created the universe out of just such love: absolute, unique, unchanging and
eternal, investing everything without any expectation or condition of receiving something in
return.
True love is the wellspring of the universe. Once we possess it, true love makes us the centers
and the owners of the universe. True love is God’s essence and the manifestation of His will and
power. When we are bound together in true love, we can be together forever, continually
increasing in the joy of each other’s company. The attraction of true love brings all things in the
universe to our feet; even God will come to dwell with us. Nothing can compare to the value of
true love. It has the power to dissolve the barriers fallen people have created, including national
boundaries and the barriers of race and even religion.
The main attributes of true love are that it is absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal, so that
whoever practices God’s true love will live with God, share His happiness, and enjoy the right to
participate as an equal in His work. Therefore, a life lived for the sake of others, a life of true love,
is the absolute prerequisite for entering the kingdom of heaven.
Respected leaders, you are now living in the age when all marriages can receive God’s Blessing.
God’s promises are coming to fruition. The kingdom of heaven on earth, God’s ideal of creation,
is being established before your eyes.
I have dedicated my life of more than eighty years solely for Heaven. It has been a lonely
path, stained with blood, sweat, and tears. Yet now it is bearing victorious fruit for the sake of
the world’s six billion people. From the spirit world, the founders of the world’s religions, tens
of thousands of saints and your own good ancestors are watching your every move. They will
punish you if you stray from the heavenly path.
In more than 180 countries, Ambassadors for Peace who have inherited Heaven’s will and
tradition are making serious efforts, day and night, to proclaim the values of true love and true
family. They are moving forward with full force to establish the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal
world on this earth.
In the Middle East, one of the world’s tinderboxes, Jews, Christians and Muslims have found
the resources in my philosophy of peace to engage in a new dimension of dialogue. In past
decades my Unification Thought played a decisive role in ending the Cold War. Now I am
successfully leading behind-the-scenes efforts to bring about the reunification of my homeland of
Korea.
But I am not yet satisfied, because I began my life’s work at the command of Heaven. I have
come as the True Parent of humankind with God’s anointing, and I am determined to keep my
promise to Him. I am determined to obliterate all national divisions and barriers that have
poisoned this earth and to establish the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world, where all people
everywhere can live hand in hand.
Ambassadors for Peace are Heaven’s Secret Envoys
Respected Ambassadors for Peace, I believe you have learned many things through this
message from God. You represent Heaven, and as long as humanity continues to drift aimlessly it
needs your help. Please take this opportunity to make a new determination to be Heaven’s
envoys, prepared to uphold Heaven’s command. With this in mind, I would like to summarize
today’s message so that we can all take up Heaven’s mission and inscribe it deep within our
hearts.
What did I say we lost by the Fall of Adam and Eve, who were created as God’s children? First,
we lost the lineage given to us by God. Lineage is the most special among all the gifts parents
bequeath to their children. By the Fall, Adam and Eve inherited the false lineage of Satan and
descended to the status of his children. We must understand with certainty that all human beings
today, without exception, are descendants of the Fall and have inherited the lineage of Satan.
When God created Adam and Eve, He invested His entire being, 100 percent. He created them
based on the standard of absolute love, absolute faith and absolute obedience. He gave them His
lineage as the seed for their love and life. Likewise, from this moment on, God is re-creating you
as new people. The path is open wide for you to change your lineage through the Holy Wine
Ceremony that the True Parents have instituted. The Blessing is yours, either as newlywed
couples or as already married couples, that you may establish true families.
Second, the Fall caused the loss of the realm of siblings’ love, when in the family of Adam the
older brother Cain killed his younger brother Abel. God’s original family structure was full of
blessings, including love and harmony among siblings. The Fall degraded the sibling relationship
to a rivalry filled with envy and resentment.
To solve this problem in the lineage, I am leading humanity worldwide to join in cross-cultural
marriages. These marriages restore the original family structure, when those who are “Abel,”
relatively closer to Heaven’s side, take on the subject role and the position of the older brother.
Ladies and gentlemen, because I have spent my life discovering and disclosing these secrets of
Satan, it was inevitable that I would face persecution. At times the suffering was so intense as to
be utterly beyond words. Now, however, I am victorious over all obstacles. I can therefore
declare the era after the coming of heaven, the age when the power of Heaven becomes manifest.
On this foundation, I am building a worldwide Abel-realm that brings together religions and
nations representing 78 percent of the current world population. To create a corresponding
worldwide Cain-realm, I am bringing together all those born with the Mongolian birthmark, which
includes some 74 percent of the world’s population.
Now these two, the worldwide Abel realm and the worldwide Cain realm, must become one and
unite with the Universal Peace Federation, which has been initiated as the Abel sovereignty. To
establish the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world, we must transcend religious affiliation and
nationality and remove all national boundaries and other barriers. I would like to reiterate that
this is the only way humankind will be able to achieve the original ideal of creation. It is our
destiny to fulfill this responsibility. By doing so, we will establish the original right of ownership
lost by the Fall of Adam and Eve.
As you form this new Abel realm, please remember that you are now charged with digesting
the Cain realm throughout heaven and earth. By doing so, you will create the conditions to
establish the new heaven and new earth, the kingdom of God on earth and in heaven, with God’s
complete authority.
A Project for Peace
Leaders from throughout the world, we are today marking the precious conclusion of the
history of God’s providence. On this occasion, let me take the opportunity to repeat the proposal
I have made for a truly providential and revolutionary project. This project is for the sake of the
establishment of the kingdom of peace that is the purpose of the culmination of the providence
for God and humankind, and also for the purpose of establishing God’s homeland and original
hometown. From the historical point of view, the divisions of our world into East and West, North
and South were wrought by Satan. I am proposing that we build a passage for transit across the
Bering Strait that separates the North American and Russian land-masses.
This passage, which I call the “World Peace King Bridge-Tunnel,” will link an international
highway system that will allow people to travel on land from Africa’s Cape of Good Hope to
Santiago, Chile, and from London to New York, across the Bering Strait, connecting the world as
a single community.
God is warning us that He will no longer tolerate separation and division. Carrying out
this project will bind the world together as one village. It will tear down the man-made
walls of race, culture, religion and country, and establish the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal
world that has been God’s cherished desire.
The United States and Russia can become as one. The European Union, China, India, Japan,
Brazil and all nations, and also the world’s religions, can combine their energies to make this
project succeed. The success of this project will be decisive in establishing the kingdom of the
peaceful, ideal world, where people will no longer make war on each other.
Ladies and gentlemen, some may doubt that such a project can be completed. But where there
is a will, there is always a way—especially if it is the will of God.
The science and technology of the twenty-first century render it possible to construct a tunnel
under the Bering Strait. The construction costs are also not a problem. Think of how much
money the world is wasting on war. Humanity needs to realize that we are committing fearful
sins in the presence of history and our descendants.
Let us take one example. How much money has the United States spent on the war in Iraq
during the past three years? It is approaching $200 billion. That budget would be more than
enough to complete the Bering Strait project.
In this age, war is the most primitive and destructive means of resolving conflict, and will
never lead to lasting peace. Now is the time, as the prophet Isaiah taught, to beat our swords
into ploughshares and spears into pruning hooks. Humankind should end the perverse cycle of
war, which only sacrifices the lives of our children and squanders enormous sums of money. The
time has come for the countries of the world to pool their resources and advance toward the
kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world desired by God, the Master of this great universe.
Ladies and gentlemen, humanity is traveling down a dead-end street. The only way to survive
is to practice my teaching: the peace philosophy of true love, true life and true lineage. Now that
we have entered the era after the coming of heaven, your good ancestors are activated and the
heavenly hosts are sweeping down upon the earth. Soon the countries and peoples that appear
strong and mighty will change course and shift in this direction.
Our Mission
I leave you with a choice. There can be no perfection in ignorance. The message from Heaven
that I convey to you today is both a blessing and a warning to this generation. I will take the lead
in establishing true families, true societies, true nations and the true kingdom of the peaceful,
ideal world. Will you join me as I rise and gain strength in accordance with heavenly fortune? Or
will you remain captive behind the same old walls, all of them Satan’s handiwork—the wall of
your religion, the wall of your culture, the wall of your nationality and the wall of your race—and
spend the remainder of your time on earth in agony and regret? Heaven is summoning you to be
the wise leaders who will set aright this world of evil and establish a new heaven and new earth,
a new culture and an ideal kingdom.
The Universal Peace Federation, which was born through the concerted efforts of those here,
represents God’s victory, the fruit of the True Parents’ blood, sweat and tears, and the cherished
hope of all people. It will carry out the role of an “Abel-type” counterpart to the existing “Cain-
type” United Nations, representing a new sovereignty of universal peace, which I call Cheon Il
Guk. Please bear in mind that you are given the heavenly mission to build God’s substantial
homeland, the ideal world God envisioned at the time of the Creation.
Think of the peacekeeping work of the United Nations. Sometimes it withdrew its forces before
the mission was completed. The Korean War was one such example. For this reason, on October
20th in the Ukraine, during the world tour of 120 nations inaugurating the Universal Peace
Federation, I declared before the world the establishment of the “peace kingdom police force”
and the “peace kingdom corps” for the welfare and future of humanity.
These two organizations will safeguard order and peace in the new world. Humanity is still
ensnared in the traps of division and self-interest, which are remnants of the era before the
coming of heaven. These two organizations will be the vanguard for educating humanity in true
love in the era after the coming of heaven. The purpose of this education will be to create the
true individual, true family, true nation, true world and true universe.
I hope that you will put on new “true love armor” in this new age and be wise and brave
activists in the universal peace kingdom corps, for the sake of humanity’s future.
Please inscribe this warning from Heaven deep in your hearts. Remember that the only way to
inherit Heaven’s lineage and establish the realm of liberation and complete release is through the
Holy Marriage Blessing instituted by the True Parents. Furthermore, the Holy Marriage Blessing
provides the means to establish God’s ideal family and the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world.
I ask you to devote your best efforts, as the True Parents have, for the development and
success of the Universal Peace Federation, and toward creating God’s ideal family, ideal nation
and the peace kingdom. Please become true princes and princesses who can attend and live
together with God, the eternal Peace King and True Parent of humanity. Let us fulfill the dutiful
family way of devoted sons and daughters, patriots, saints, and members of the family of God,
and create the eternal kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world.
May God’s blessings be with you, your families and your nations.
Thank you.
11.3.11
"As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen", Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon, March 5, 2011,Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas
"As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen", Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon, March 5, 2011,Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas
“Cosmic Assembly to Proclaim the Words of God's Substantial Body
that has Settled as the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind"
that has Settled as the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind"
Respected leaders from around the world, distinguished guests from home and abroad, ladies and gentlemen!
My family and I welcome you and sincerely thank you for gracing this assembly to commemorate the successful local distribution of 50,000 copies of my autobiography, As a Peace- Loving Global Citizen. Your coming here despite your busy schedule has made today;s event into a great success.
Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen,
The world is struggling with more problems than humanity has ever had to deal with before. Among the 6.5B people in the world, more than 900 M are suffering from malnutrition even this very moment. On average, every 6 secs a young child dies of malnutrition. The UN proclaimed that it would cut the number of people going hungry by the end of 2015.Yet, output of corn and other crops has dwindled due to global warming, and experts predicts that the number of people going hungry will instead double by the year 2020.What measures can be taken to address and resolve the serious problem of starvation? The answer lies in the ocean, which are a treasure store of renewable resources covering 3 quarters of the Earth. Our planet earth is dying due to pollution of every kind and depletion of resources. The ocean is a goldmine filled with raw materials that will revive this planet with the promise of a bright future for humankind.For the past 50 plus years, since 1960s. I have been investing in ocean industries and developing marine-related technology in order to free humankind from the suffering of hunger. In the 1980s I bulit the Good -Go boats and laid a foundation for ocean industries inthe US and around the world. In the 1990s invested in the ocean industry in S. America, esp in Brazil and Uruguay and created a global marine network connecting 52 nations of the world.
On this foundation, from the year 2000 I have been developing the city of Yeosu, situated on the southern coast of Korea, and Hawaii, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, to become hubs for ocean industry in the Pacific Rim era. I am now expediting preparations in Yeosu, which was selected as the host city for Expo 2012 Yeosu Korea centering on the foundation that I have laid there. In particular, on Feb 17, 2011 at an event for leaders from around the world, I introduced the Negative N. C. Resin Mold boat construction method which I had devised, and held a launching ceremony for the Cheonjeongho boat which was built using this new technology.
The world is struggling with more problems than humanity has ever had to deal with before. Among the 6.5B people in the world, more than 900 M are suffering from malnutrition even this very moment. On average, every 6 secs a young child dies of malnutrition. The UN proclaimed that it would cut the number of people going hungry by the end of 2015.Yet, output of corn and other crops has dwindled due to global warming, and experts predicts that the number of people going hungry will instead double by the year 2020.What measures can be taken to address and resolve the serious problem of starvation? The answer lies in the ocean, which are a treasure store of renewable resources covering 3 quarters of the Earth. Our planet earth is dying due to pollution of every kind and depletion of resources. The ocean is a goldmine filled with raw materials that will revive this planet with the promise of a bright future for humankind. For the past 50 plus years, since 1960s. I have been investing in ocean industries and developing marine-related technology in order to free humankind from the suffering of hunger. In the 1980s I bulit the Good -Go boats and laid a foundation for ocean industries inthe US and around the world. In the 1990s invested in the ocean industry in S. America, esp in Brazil and Uruguay and created a global marine network connecting 52 nations of the world.
Also, I recently have been appraising possibilities for the clean water resources f the Hoover Dam and Lake Mead, as well as the beautiful scenic spots in the surrounding area such as the Grand canyon, Bryce canyon, Zion Canyon, and Sedona. I consider these to be part of the Pacific Rim. I would love tomake this area into the largest and greatest tourist and leisure location in America, and evn the world.
I am working to make a paradise on earth,for which all future generations can be grateful and joyful, by preserving the natural environment, which God has given to humankind as a blessing, in its original state.
Ladies and Gentlemen, throughout my life I have taught the way of living for the sake of others, of practicing the true love of God. I have continuously made effort to promote the welfare and peace of the people of the world not only in the ocean industry but in a diversity of fields. On this foundation, from the year 2000 I have been developing the city of Yeosu, situated on the southern coast of Korea, and Hawaii, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, to become hubs for ocean industry in the Pacific Rim era. I am now expediting preparations in Yeosu, which was selected as the host city for Expo 2012 Yeosu Korea centering on the foundation that I have laid there. In particular, on Feb 17, 2011 at an event for leaders from around the world, I introduced the Negative N. C. Resin Mold boat construction method which I had devised, and held a launching ceremony for the Cheonjeongho boat which was built using this new technology. Also, I recently have been appraising possibilities for the clean water resources f the Hoover Dam and Lake Mead, as well as the beautiful scenic spots in the surrounding area such as the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Zion Canyon, and Sedona. I consider these to be part of the Pacific Rim. I would love to make this area into the largest and greatest tourist and leisure location in America, and evn the world. I am working to make a paradise on earth,for which all future generations can be grateful and joyful, by preserving the natural environment, which God has given to humankind as a blessing, in its original state.
Ladies and Gentlemen, throughout my life I have taught the way of living for the sake of others, of praicticing the true love of God. I have continuously made effort to promote the welfare and peace of the people of the world not only in the ocean industry but in a diversity of fields.
Last year, in 2010, I held the " Cosmic Assembly to Proclaim the worlds of God's Substantial Body that has Settled as the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind"- on three occasions. These gatherings were held in NY, Las Vegas and lastly, Korea. I am 91 years old this year but I have not ceased my efforts. I continue to stand at the forefront of bringing about peace for all humankind. In march last year, after the death of Gen Alexander Haig, I taught the world about the significance of the Seunghwa Ceremony, which prepares our way to eternal life during our life on earth.
I believe that all of you gathered here today may have read my autobiography, As a Peace Loving Global Citizen. Since its publication in early 2009 in Korea, it has continued to be loved by all Korean people, and has been a bestseller. It is in the process of being translated into 43 languages, including English, French, Spanish and Japanese. I recieved God's seal at the time of my birth and have been running forward for the past 91 years of my turbulent life unable to dream about living life as an individual. Above me was God whom I had to liberate; around me were my fellow human beings, all of whom needed to be saved from Satan's dominion of evil and sin. That was my mission, one that I could not forget, whether I was awake or asleep, and one that I had determined to give my life to fulfill. Already more than 90 years have passed since I began my mission. My work to build a peaceful world centered on God, both in the spirit world and in the physical world, has taken me across five ocean and and six continents. I am probably the an age when I should retire and enjoy the rest of my life in peace. However, I have never once deviated in my course to realize Heaven's will, and there is still much to do. I cannot simply depart for Heaven if, by doing so, I would be neglecting all the people of who are the victims of various crimes, starvation and disease.
I will enable the ideal of the true family to take root through an extensive global training program based on my teachings as expressed in my autobiography and the 8 great textbooks that I am passing down to the people of the world as part of my first will and testament. This responsibility belongs to my wife and me in our capacity as the True Parents of Humankind. Honored guests,My autobiography is not the record of an ordinary person's life. It is the True Parent's confession and journal in which my remarkable life of fulfilling God's will is frankly described. It is a record of my desperate batlles with Satan, which have been carried out in order to save humanity. The drops of sweat Terue Parents shed as they wrestled with the aixs of the earth while hovering between life and death, have heir expression in its pages. It ais a model and guide of truel ove, and of a true family that has overcome numerous life threatening crisis with the determination to sow sweat for earth, tears for humankind and blood for heaven. I hope that you will open the doors to your hearts and read my autobiography closely. Please take my hand as I walk on this lonely course of saving humanity. Let's not only secure your eternal life and that of your family, but let's also bring all of humanity to God so that everyone may receive that salvation and eternal life. I will enable the ideal of the true family to take root through an extensive global training program based on my teachings as expressed in my autobiography and the 8 great textbooks that I am passing down to the people of the world as part of my first will and testament. This responsibility belongs to my wife and me in our capacity as the True Parents of Humankind.
Honored guests, My autobiography is not the record of an ordinary person's life. It is the True Parent's confession and journal in which my remarkable life of fulfilling God's will is frankly described. It is a record of my desperate battles with Satan, which have been carried out in order to save humanity. The drops of sweat True Parents shed as they wrestled with the axis of the earth while hovering between life and death, have heir expression in its pages. It ais a model and guide of true love, and of a true family that has overcome numerous life threatening crisis with the determination to sow sweat for earth, tears for humankind and blood for heaven. I hope that you will open the doors to your hearts and read my autobiography closely. Please take my hand as I walk on this lonely course of saving humanity. Let's not only secure your eternal life and that of your family, but let's also bring all of humanity to God so that everyone may receive that salvation and eternal life. Our ultimate goal is to establish God's nation and His righteousness, so that we live attending God as the center. Jesus spoke of God's Kingdom. What kind of kingdom would that be? It would be the ideal kingdom of peace which takes the form of a true ideal family in which three generations-grandparents, parents and children- live together in mutual trust, respect and interdependence, and united in love. It would be a nation of God's sovereignty, the utopia of which humankind has dreamed. Korea is a nation that has preserved such traditions and generations live together as one family, has been passed down through Korea's 5000 year history. It is the family system that all humanity should use as a guide for family ethics. This is why Heaven prepared Korea from long ago to become the central nation of God's kingdom of Cheon Il Guk. The movement to realize a society in which all people become one family based on interdependence, mutual prosperity and universally shared values begins fromone single family. In such a society, everyone will break down the walls in their hearts, and boundaries between nations will be removed ona cosmic level. Therefore, findig and establishing a true family is our providential calling that will advance the establishment of the the God-centered kingdom of cosmic peace on this earth. Our ultimate goal is to establish God's nation and His righteousness, so that we live attending God as the center. Jesus spoke of God's Kingdom. What kind of kingdom would that be? It would be the ideal kingdom of peace which takes the form of a true ideal family in which three generations-grandparents, parents and children-live together in mutual trust, respect and interdependence, and united in love. It would be a nation of God's sovereignty, the utopia of which humankind has dreamed. Korea is a nation that has preserved such traditions and generations live together as one family, has been passed down through Korea's 5000 year history. It is the family system that all humanity should use as a guide for family ethics. This is why Heaven prepared Korea from long ago to become the central nation of God's kingdom of Cheon Il Guk. The movement to realize a society in which all people become one family based on interdependence, mutual prosperity and universally shared values begins from one single family. In such a society, everyone will break down the walls in their hearts, and boundaries between nations will be removed on a cosmic level. Therefore, finding and establishing a true family is our providential calling that will advance the establishment of the the God-centered kingdom of cosmic peace on this earth.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are living in a historic time of great transition. It is a time of great cosmic revolution to change the course of history, to unite the spirit world and the physical world and to create the ideal Kingdom of Heaven that God has longed for since the beginning of time. We can no longer postpone or prolong the fulfillment of His wish. Heaven has already proclaimed that January 13, 2013, will be "Foundation Day". That day will be the actual beginning of God's Kingdom of Cheon Il Guk. That day will be the origin. Yet, less than 2 years remain until then.
Therefore. it is time for all people to be humbly obedient to Heaven's decree. The fateful time is upon us today when we must build a world under the guidance of True Parents who are carrying out the earthly providence of God, the King of Peace, as His substantial body.
Ladies and gentlemen, at such serious time and yet blessed times, this revolutionary and cosmic change shall now come to your lives. Therefore, I would like to convey Heaven's message by summarizing the concluding remarks in my address given at the "Cosmic Assembly to Proclaim the words of God's Substantial Body that has settled as the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind".
First, all families should attend God as their center and everyday carry out education to completely unite the father, mother and sons and daughters. Education in the family should be thorough, parents and children should unite by coming together and reading the textbooks and teaching materials True Parents have bequeathed, as well as True Father's autobiography and other materials.
Second, the father, mother, sons and daughters in each family should attain the standard of absolute father and mother, sons and daughters who center their lives on God. In this way, they will establish an absolute family. Heaven has now permitted the grace of the realm of Seunghwa, which gives rebirth and resurrection, to be bestowed on whole families in which the parents and children have achieved complete unity under God. Thus, you must establish absolute families.
Third, you must open the reign of tranquility and prosperity-the victorious reign centered on God and True Parents-during True Parents' time on earth. Humankind has moved out of the realm of the era of restoration through indemnity, thanks to the grace of True Parents' suffering, which True Parents shed blood and sweat to overcome. Now, we must not forget that during True Parents' time on earth, we all have the responsibility to liberate the realm of hell, which includes families, tribes, peoples, nations and the world.
Fourth, do not forget that we are at a desperate point in time with less than 2 years remaining until we enter the era of peace under God's direct dominion. I ask you to inscribe in your hearts the fact that we have entered the era of the realm of the Cosmic Sabbath of true love. In that realm, all families should live together and share their joys as tribes spanning eight generations, centering on the vision of all humankind becoming one family.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are living in a historic time of great transition. It is a time of great cosmic revolution to change the course of history, to unite the spirit world and the physical world and to create the ideal Kingdom of Heaven that God has longed for since the beginning of time. We can no longer postpone or prolong the fulfillment of His wish. Heaven has already proclaimed that January 13, 2013, will be "Foundation Day". That day will be the actual beginning of God's Kingdom of Cheon Il Guk. That day will be the origin. Yet, less than 2 years remain until then. Therefore. it is time for all people to be humbly obedient to Heaven's decree. The fateful time is upon us today when we must build a world under the guidance of True Parents who are carrying out the earthly providence of God, the King of Peace, as His substantial body.
Ladies and gentlemen, at such serious time and yet blessed times, this revolutionary and cosmic change shall now come to your lives. Therefore, I would like to convey Heaven's message by summarizing the concluding remarks in my address given at the "Cosmic Assembly to Proclaim the words of God's Substantial Body that has settled as the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind".First, all families should attend God as their center and everyday carry out education to completely unite the father, mother and sons and daughters. Education in the family should be thorough, parents and children should unite by coming together and reading the textbooks and teaching materials True Parents have bequeathed, as well as True Father's autobiography and other materials.
The world of One Family Under God, where all people are equal and all nations are like siblings, is unfolding before your eyes.
My development plans, which are being pushed ahead centering on the Hoover Dam and areas surrounding las Vegas here in the Western US will soon become well known. They will contribute greatly to fulfilling the ideal of One Family Under God. I hooe that you will all participate in these grand projects which are for the sake of all humanity,and thus become reliable workers who pray and shed sweat together with us. If You become one with my consciousness, which is revealed in my autobiography, then this city of Las Vegas, which has been called Sin City because of the sin and evil within it, can become a major city of the world that establishes the foundation of the abel UN centering on Gdo, as a Shining City that is governed by God's true love. I have no doubt that Las Vegas can become a Shinning City, and moreover, a Sun City- a city with a bright future.
I pray in True Parents name that Heaven's Blessing will be with you, your family and your nation. Let's offer hopeful value to God when we arrive at the final point of this great historical transition.
Thank You.
Rev. Sun Myung Moon
2nd Year of the Heavenly Foundation, First Day of the Second Month by the Heavenly Calendar ( March 5, 2011)
Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas
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