The Value and Significance of the Family Pledge. God has the providential mandate to fulfill His ideal for the creation to an absolute standard, He instituted and proclaimed the Family Pledge. It is God’s blessing to human beings that they would establish the prototype of all true families—of ideal families on earth—and return eternal joy to God. It is an essential tool for building the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven in which your families can live while directly serving and attending God.

The Value and Significance of the Family Pledge
Beloved blessed families!
Today, on this meaningful occasion, I would like to explain about the providential value and
significance of the Family Pledge. It serves as Heaven’s most precious and blessed guideline,
given to us for our lives.
The fact that we now have the Family Pledge is truly the greatest of all blessings. It came
from Heaven as a gift to all humanity on May 1, 1994, the day when the Family Federation
for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU) was inaugurated. The Family Pledge was given
when the Completed Testament Age, which brings to fulfillment the Old Testament Age and
the New Testament Age, was proclaimed. It is to serve as a milestone and guiding principle,
piercing through the darkness of the age before the coming of heaven, and opening a new
heaven and earth in the era after the coming of heaven. It is also the blueprint for the
building of God’s kingdom of peace and unity in heaven and on earth in the era of the
creation of a new heaven and earth.
Father and Mother Moon, the True Parents of humankind, emerged victorious from the
battles they had fought throughout their long course of indemnity that lasted forty years
after Father Moon founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World
Christianity (HSA-UWC) in 1954. On that foundation, we were no longer required to recite
My Pledge as individuals. We were to recite and practice the Family Pledge together as true
families, the basic units of triumphal entry into the kingdom of heaven.
This Family Pledge is filled with the pain and suffering of God and True Parents, and it
should not be recited without tears. It is something that people should recite forever, long
after they discard the mask of religion in the fallen world and attain liberation. This is
because the family is the basic unit of the kingdom of heaven.
The Family Pledge is the absolute standard and constitution for the establishment of
God’s kingdom of Cheon Il Guk
Ladies and gentlemen, have you ever heard of the phrase “Family Pledge” anywhere in
the world? It has appeared for the first time in human history. In the beginning, God lost the
true family through the Fall of the first man and woman. He had created them to be His
children and the first ancestors of humankind. Consequently, as God has the providential
mandate to fulfill His ideal for the creation to an absolute standard, He instituted and
proclaimed the Family Pledge. It is God’s blessing to human beings that they would
establish the prototype of all true families—of ideal families on earth—and return eternal joy
to God. It is an essential tool for building the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven in
which your families can live while directly serving and attending God.
The precondition to properly recite the Family Pledge is first and foremost to attain a state
of complete mind and body unity, which is the state of “one heart, one body, one outlook
and one harmony.” This means that we must reach the standard of perfecting our character
through absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. Our body should fully obey
the orders of our conscience, which was given to us as our first parent, teacher and owner.
Furthermore, all of our family members must perfect the basic framework of the unity of
the mind and body, the unity of parents, the unity of husband and wife, the unity of parents
and children, and the unity among siblings, centered on Heaven’s will. In other words, all of
us are to perfect a sphere of unity in true love. Only then can we recite the Family Pledge.
That is why the Family Pledge serves as the absolute standard and constitution in the
creation of the kingdom of peace and unity in heaven and earth, beyond the Completed
Testament Age.
From now, people will succeed in life not as individuals but as families. This means that
only true model families that acquire the recognition and respect of all people can stand in a
position that can lead the world. The perfection of the family is Heaven’s greatest and
highest blessing, but it is also a fearsome responsibility. It is the cornerstone of the building
of Cheon Il Guk. Creating true families is the shortcut to acquiring citizenship in God’s
Kingdom.
Beloved blessed families, the Family Pledge is the greatest of all prayers. It is the record
of True Parents’ complete victory. It is the code of law that reveals the teachings of the
Completed Testament Age, the age of “justification through attendance.”
At the heart of the Family Pledge is the true family within the framework of true love. The
Family Pledge serves as a bridge, connecting our lives to God. It is like an explosion of true
love that completely captivates God. The Family Pledge is the energy and wisdom that
brings true love to the center of the connections between the vertical and horizontal, north
and south, and front and back, initiating eternal spherical motion. The Family Pledge is the
key to the gates of the kingdom of heaven. The gates to the kingdom cannot be opened by a
key made of gold or silver; they can be opened only by the key of a true family perfected
through true love. That is why all eight parts of the Family Pledge have as a primary clause,
“Our family….centering on true love.”
Ladies and gentlemen, the age of justification by attendance means the time of attending
God in our lives. Wasn’t the first of the Ten Commandments revealed in the Bible about
loving God?
In the era after the coming of heaven, God is revealing Himself in front of all people as the
True Parent. That is why the movement that attends the True Parents represents Heaven’s
authority and power, and is incomparable to any force of this fallen world. What can prevent
you from living a life of attendance that enables you to observe the living God with your
own eyes and to experience Him with all your senses?
For the first time since the Fall of our original ancestors, history is governed by the True
Parents. The original source has emerged that allows us to return to a new world through
the internal relationship with True Parents. That relationship can bring Satan to submission.
It is the center through which God is to be liberated. You all should offer thanks for the
amazing grace of being able to live together with the True Parents and to receive their
instructions directly.
When you are completely one with True Parents, your nation, people, tribe and family can
prosper. The True Parents are the embodiment and encapsulation of all glory in heaven and
earth. Once you clearly understand their value, would you exchange the True Parents for all
the money in the world? Their value is such that they cannot be replaced even at the price of
your life.
Explanation of Each Part of the Family Pledge
1. Seek our original homeland and build the kingdom of God on earth and in heaven
The first part of the Family Pledge is “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges
to seek our original homeland and build the kingdom of God on earth and in heaven, the
original ideal of creation, by centering on true love.” You should know that being able to
recite the Family Pledge is one of the best pieces of news in all of history.
The “ideal of creation” refers to the ideal world with God at the center. It is the ideal of
creation to build the kingdom of God on earth and in heaven. However, since that ideal
could not be attained due to the Fall, we must achieve it through restoration. This means
that we must build the kingdom of God on earth and in heaven, the original ideal of
creation, by seeking our original homeland.
Because the family was lost due to the Fall, we must now build God’s family. This is not
an individual’s task. It is rather the task of our families, the owners of Cheon Il Guk.
Centering on true love, our families must “seek our original homeland and build the
kingdom of God on earth and in heaven, the original ideal of creation.”
The “original homeland” referred to here is the original homeland centered on families.
That is why all of you must go back to your own hometown and establish God’s kingdom on
earth and in heaven. Once you restore your hometown, your nation and the world will be
unified naturally. Then, there will be nothing further for you to worry about.
People who have lived on earth in a unified family centering on God’s true love, where
the kingdom of God on earth and the kingdom of God in heaven are one, will become a
family of the heavenly kingdom. We no longer live in the age of individual salvation.
Religions, and Christianity in particular, talk about the salvation of the individual, but that
will not suffice. God’s will is for the salvation of the family. Restoration must occur in the
family because the Fall destroyed the ideal for the family. That time has now come. In all of
history, this has never before happened on earth. Finally, the family has entered the era of
settlement.
It is through families that we must build the kingdom of God on earth and in heaven, the
original ideal of God’s creation. Because we lost the family, our families must restore that
kingdom. The original homeland is centered on families, not on a nation. That is why I am
saying that you must return to your hometown. If you still have a family there, you must go
back to your hometown and build God’s kingdom on earth and in heaven. Once we restore
our hometowns, our nations and the world will naturally harmonize. The heavenly kingdom
on earth and in heaven will automatically be established. This is to unfold centering on true
families.
“Our family pledges to...build the kingdom of God on earth and in heaven, the original
ideal of creation.” Here we say “build.” Why do we use that word? It is because we must
create God’s kingdom. It will not come about by itself. We must build it ourselves. This
current world is already hell on earth, and it is connected to hell in the spirit world. We must
recreate this world and turn it around 180 degrees.
Again, it is the mission of all families who have received the Marriage Blessing from True
Parents to seek the original homeland and build the kingdom of God on earth and in heaven,
the original ideal of creation. It is not just as individuals, but as families, that you must
complete the building of God’s kingdom. This is your first pledge as blessed families.
2. Perfect the dutiful family way of filial sons and daughters, patriots, saints, and divine
sons and daughters
The second part of the Family Pledge is “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to
represent and become central to heaven and earth by attending God and True Parents; we
pledge to perfect the dutiful family way of filial sons and daughters in our family, patriots in
our nation, saints in the world, and divine sons and daughters in heaven and earth, by
centering on true love.”
“Our family… centering on true love.” True love refers to love that appears where there is
unity between mind and body, between husband and wife, and between parents and
children. If you fail to practice this standard of true love, then you will surely be in trouble
when you go to the spirit world.
That is how fearsome the Family Pledge is. You should always live by it. If in your family,
the father were to violate even one part of the Family Pledge, then the mother and children
would all be jointly responsible. The entire family would have to take joint responsibility for
it. The significance of Eve’s Fall was that it brought about the Fall of Adam’s entire family.
This part of the Family Pledge also states “… by attending God and True Parents…” We
human beings were originally to attend and honor God and True Parents, but we were
driven away due to the Fall. As a result of the Fall, we lose the value of our existence unless
we attend God and True Parents.
God is the vertical true parent and the True Parents are the horizontal true parents. We are
to be born from the union of these two sets of true parents. God is the vertical parent, and
perfected Adam and Eve are the horizontal parents. On the foundation of these two sets of
parents becoming one, we can also achieve unity, and be connected to God and Heaven. For
this reason, nothing can be accomplished unless we attend God and True Parents.
Then, what kind of family is a family that represents and becomes central to heaven and
earth? It is the ideal family that God envisioned prior to the Fall of Adam and Eve. The
representative and central family in heaven and on earth refers to the family that represents
heaven and grows this relationship with God in expanding circles through the eight stages
in both the vertical and horizontal realms on earth. What I am saying is that the family
comes to the position where God representing heaven and the True Parents on earth are
united perpendicularly.
At the center of such a family, you must become a filial son or daughter; in such a nation
you must become a patriot; in such a world you must become a saint; and in such a heaven
and earth you must become a divine son or daughter. “We pledge to perfect the dutiful
family way of…divine sons and daughters. Each family member, as an individual, should be
able to attain the position of a divine son or daughter. When such divine sons and daughters
who are members of the same family gather together, a family of divine sons and daughters
is formed. This is what we are pledging.
We are pledging to represent and become central to heaven and earth by attending God
and True Parents. For this, our family must determine to fulfill the dutiful family way of
filial sons and daughters in the family, patriots and virtuous women in the nation, saints in
the world, and divine sons and daughters in heaven and earth—everything that Heaven
desires. We are saying that we will, as parents, educate our children, educate citizens in the
nation, educate saints in the world and make them qualified to become family members in
the heavenly kingdom both in heaven and on earth—that is, members of families of divine
sons and daughters.
That is why we say, “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to represent and
become central to heaven and earth by attending God and True Parents; we pledge to perfect
the dutiful family way of filial sons and daughters in our family, patriots in our nation,
saints in the world, and divine sons and daughters in heaven and earth, by centering on true
love.”
3. Perfect the Four Great Realms of Heart, the Three Great Kingships and the Realm of
the Royal Family
The third part of the family Pledge is, “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk,
pledges to perfect the Four Great Realms of Heart, the Three Great Kingships and the
Realm of the Royal Family, by centering on true love.”
The Four Great Realms of Heart and the Three Great Kingships would have been fulfilled
had Adam and Eve not fallen. But for the Fall, they would have fulfilled these and become
God’s royal family. This part of the Family Pledge refers to restoring fallen people and
making them into the royal family. The families who receive the Marriage Blessing need to
fulfill this mission.
Conjugal love should take place where the Four Great Realms of Heart and the Three
Great Kingships are achieved. For a man and a woman to receive love from each other, they
need to stand in such a position. Otherwise, they are not to love each other. Yet these realms
and kingships cannot be realized without love. That is why man absolutely needs woman,
and vice versa.
Blessed families should strive every day to achieve this goal. However, it cannot be
fulfilled with only a theoretical faith where you think that you should be able to fulfill your
goal simply because God does it in such-and-such a way. This is a practical matter and it is
set right before your very eyes.
4. God’s ideal is the creation of a universal family encompassing heaven and earth
The fourth part of the Family Pledge is “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges
to build the universal family encompassing heaven and earth, which is God’s ideal of
creation, and perfect the world of freedom, peace, unity and happiness, by centering on true
love.”
God’s ideal is that the world becomes one family, or household, under God. If those who
have actualized the Four Great Realms of Heart and Three Great Kingships recite the Family
Pledge, there should be only one family under God rather than two families, or many. By
building the universal family encompassing heaven and earth—the ideal of God’s creation—
we should establish that one family under God.
To give you an example using air, when there is a lack of air in a low pressure system, air
from a high pressure system flows in and fills it up. Similarly, water in a higher place will
automatically flow down to fill up a lower place. Equilibrium is the ideal.
In the world today, there are advanced nations and underdeveloped nations. In the
advanced nations people have a lot, and end up discarding leftover things, whereas people
in underdeveloped nations lack many things, especially food. They may even starve to death.
Twenty million people die of starvation each year. Do you think that is God’s will? What the
advanced nations are doing is oppressing the universe’s natural system of interaction. If this
continues, the advanced nations will be unable to avoid divine punishment. Heaven will not
let this go unnoticed. Already signs of judgment are appearing in various places. One of the
signs is the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases, and another is drug and alcohol
abuse. Both free sex and homosexuality are the madness of the lowest of the human race.
God detests such behavior the most; Satan, on the other hand, praises such behavior the
most.
I, Rev. Moon, am leading a movement to save the tens of thousands of people who are
dying of starvation and malnutrition each day in the underdeveloped nations, even if it
means making people go hungry in the consumer paradise of advanced nations such as the
United States. Despite disorder in the human race, the natural world is constantly trying to
maintain equilibrium.
When we pledge to “build the universal family encompassing heaven and earth, which is
God’s ideal of creation, and perfect the world of freedom, peace, unity and happiness” the
word “freedom” here does not mean only the freedom of an individual, but the freedom,
peace, unity, and happiness of all the people of this world as one family under God. It refers
to a world whose people are living in happiness. That is why we should develop movements
in all villages, towns and cities throughout the world. In any place of wealth, we need to set
up structures through which it can be shared.
Ladies and gentlemen, a world of one universal family is a world filled with families who
have received the Marriage Blessing. When you go to the spirit world, you will find people
from all over the world living together. All five colors of the human race are gathered there.
The question is who among these people is truly prepared with a family ideal that can unite
the past, present and future? Such a person will become a central leader in the spirit world.
That is why we must train for this while we are on earth. We have to receive that training on
the basis of mind and body unity.
There are many people in this world who betray their conscience and act according to
their body’s desires. They hoard money, commit fraud, come up with schemes, and defame
others. However, money accumulated in this way will eventually strike them back in the
form of a rod of judgment.
It is the same in the spirit world. No matter how learned a person may be, if he uses the
knowledge he has gained for his own sake instead of for the greater good, that knowledge
will come back and strike him. That person will be thrown into hell. We should live for the
sake of the world centering on the ideal of one global family, God’s ideal. Yet, if we ignore
the world and live only for our own sake, the world will judge us.
I have not asked you to recite the Family Pledge centering on my family. You are to
pledge centering on your own families. Everyone is equal. I, Rev. Moon, will pledge
representing my family, but on behalf of all families. That is why we say, “Our family,
the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to build the universal family encompassing heaven
and earth, which is God’s ideal of creation, and perfect the world of freedom, peace,
unity and happiness, by centering on true love.”
5. Stagnation leads to death
 The fifth part of the Family Pledge is “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to
strive every day to advance the unification of the spirit world and the physical world as
subject and object partners, by centering on true love.”
We must first think about the spirit world. It is in the position of the subject partner, and
the physical world is the object partner. Do you think there are more people living in the
spirit world or on earth? The population of the spirit world is far greater than the population
of the earth.
The spirit world is the subject partner, yang, and the physical is the object partner, yin. In the
same way, the mind is in the subject partner position and yang to the body, which is in the
position of object partner, yin. The body represents the physical world and the mind the
spirit world.
If we act in such a way that we do not recognize the mind and the world of the mind as the
subject partner, we are bound to go to hell. If we have lived in such a way that our body has
led our mind, we should now live so that our mind leads our body and subjugates it. I am
saying that such a time has come.
In our daily life we should have a consciousness that the spirit world is the subject partner.
Unless we reach perfection on earth—the object partner—we shall not be able to establish
the foundation for perfection when we pass into the spirit world. There is a direct
relationship between the two worlds. Only when the spirit world is linked to us every day,
every year, throughout our entire life, it becomes our second sphere of activity and place of
residence when we go there.
In other words, “the unification of the spirit world and the physical world as subject and
object partners” means that the two worlds must constantly move towards oneness. To
strive every day to advance this unification means to develop and progress. We are
prompted to do it quickly. We must not stop. If we do, we are already falling away toward
hell and death.
Stagnation leads down to hell whereas pushing forward leads to development. To sleep long
hours and be lazy, gluttonous and self-indulgent are not acceptable in relation to God’s
providence. We should keep ourselves busy. Life is short. Run without resting, just like me.
Run even without sleeping. Only then can you be connected to the world that you hope for.
How can you be connected to the world that you do not even think about? This is how
oneness is brought about. We should think about both the spirit world and the physical
world as partners.
6. Become a family that moves heavenly fortune
The sixth part of the Family Pledge is “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges to
become a family that moves heavenly fortune by embodying God and True Parents, and to
perfect a family that conveys Heaven’s blessing to our community, by centering on true
love.”
“Our family pledges…by embodying God and True Parents...” You are a family that
embodies God and True Parents. The families that embody God and True Parents are the
families that mobilize heavenly fortune. When we say that we pledge to “become a family
that moves heavenly fortune… [and] conveys Heaven’s blessing to our community,” we are
not saying that we want to be blessed by God and enjoy a good life just for ourselves. We are
saying that we are all ultimately to become part of the royal family and that everyone should
be a citizen of God’s kingdom of Cheon Il Guk.

We are making a vow to become a channel of God’s blessing, sharing His blessing equally
with all the people of the world. The family of God and the True Parents is one family. There
is only one set of True Parents. However, since there are many blessed families throughout
the world, God wants all of them to become channels that share the blessings of God and
True Parents with others. You should strive to become such a family. This means that you
are trying to enable everyone to receive many blessings.
7. Perfect the world based on the culture of heart, which is rooted in the original lineage
 The seventh part is “Our family, the owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges, through living for
the sake of others, to perfect the world based on the culture of heart, which is rooted in the
original lineage, by centering on true love.”
In our path of faith, the most important point is not to defile the original lineage. That
means that your descendants should not stain their lineage in the same way as Adam and
Eve did when they fell. That is why we say, “Our family pledges… to perfect the world
based on the culture of heart, which is rooted in the original lineage...”

The world of God’s heart, the world in heaven, the world on earth, and the world of True
Parents’ heart are all one. That is why we say that our family pledges “to perfect the world
based on the culture of heart...” This is our ideal. The culture should not be two, but one. The
cultures of the fallen world are complex and varied. Without establishing the world based on
the culture of heart, there is no way for us to connect to heaven on all levels, from the
individual to the family, tribe, people, nation, world, and eternal world.
Without that heart, the individual, family and tribe cannot be connected. Without a world
based on the culture of heart, there is no way for us to make connections from the individual
up to the cosmos. The world thus far has been going up and down in a zigzag fashion, and
that is why it has not yet been able to reach the final destination, even after many thousands
of years. Yet in the world based on the culture of heart, we can reach that destination right
away. This is possible only through true love.
8. Perfect the realm of liberation and complete freedom in the kingdom of God on earth
and in heaven
The eighth part is “Our family, the Owner of Cheon Il Guk, pledges, having entered the
Completed Testament Age, to achieve the ideal of God and human beings united in love
through absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, and to perfect the realm of
liberation and complete freedom in the kingdom of God on earth and in heaven, by
centering on true love.”
In your family you must bring the royal family into being by becoming a couple where
each of you is united in mind and body. You should know that this is God’s ideal for the
creation, the fulfillment of the Completed Testament Age. The family where the man and
woman are united in true love is the beginning of kingship. Originally, Adam’s family was
to be the royal family. From there, the king of the tribe, the king of the people and the king of
the nation were to emerge. Then this kingship would have automatically continued on into
the eternal spirit world. From the earth, it would have been connected eternally to that
kingdom.
 The words “Completed Testament Age” refer to our having advanced into a new age. It is
the time when the world will be united, creating a peaceful world that begins with the
family and progresses to the tribe, people, nation, world and even to all of heaven and earth.
It represents the whole; it is not confined to the family unit. We were able to enter the
Completed Testament Age only after going beyond the level of the world and that of the
whole. Through the new family that perfects the Four Great Realms of Heart and the Three
Great Kingships, we can go beyond the realm of the world and achieve the required model
for the Completed Testament Age. When this happens the world will become one unified
world—the ideal heavenly kingdom of peace.
Ladies and gentlemen! Absolute faith, absolute love, absolute obedience! These constitute
God’s ideal of creation. God began creating all things based on absolute faith. He initiated
His Creation for the sake of His object partners of absolute love. Absolute obedience means
that there is no awareness of “self.” It is a state of absolute zero—complete nothingness.
When God empties Himself and returns to nothingness, a natural and reciprocal circular
motion begins. Because you give everything out and have nothing more to give, everything
will come back to you. This is the origin of interaction in the universe, and the principle that
everything comes back to you after you invest completely.
For this reason, you must not insist on your own way. If you do, you will come to belong
to the devil. You must not let Satan use anything that comes through your five physical
senses. Make it so that your eyes, nose, mouth, feet and hands are used as if they were God’s.
And try to live your life based on this standard of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute
obedience! God always has compassion for and assists such people. When you let go of
yourself, God can be with you.
Ladies and gentlemen, God created you as His absolute partners of love, totally investing
Himself. He created you because He needed you as His genuine object partners of love.
Without having a substantial form, either in the physical world or in the spirit world, God
was unable to relate to His children. That is why He had to acquire a physical form. That
form is of the perfected True Parents.
God wanted object partners of love on earth that He could love. That is why He began His
Creation. God created us human beings as His absolute object partners of love, and granted
us the ability to reproduce so that we might live for eternity through our descendants. This is
the essence of God’s creation.
The purpose of creation is God and human beings united in love
God is the root of love, the root of life, the root of lineage and the root of the kingdom
of heaven on earth and the kingdom of heaven in heaven. Had Adam and Eve not fallen,
God would have entered their hearts when they married and realized a loving oneness
with them. God would have become the vertical True Parent, and Adam and Eve would
have become the horizontal True Parents. We would have been born with the flesh and
blood of these two sets of parents. Our mind would have become the vertical self and our
body the horizontal self, and we would have led lives based on one heart, one body, one
outlook and one harmony.
In such a way, we are to perfect the unity of our mind and body by achieving unity with
God in love and thus becoming His sons and daughters. Once we are in this parent–child
relationship, we become God’s princes and princesses. We can enjoy a parent–child
relationship with God and inherit everything from Him. When we, as His children, become
husbands and wives, and unite totally based on true love, we become a family that lives by
attending God. That family becomes a base for peace and the ideal. When a man and a
woman, each being one half, unite together, they become the base through which they fulfill
God’s ideal love as His partners.
In other words, through the perfection of human beings as beings of infinite value through
true love, God also perfects true love, and completes the world of the ideal of creation where
His eternal, ideal love dwells.
In the relationship between God and Adam’s family, God was to be the first generation,
Adam the second generation and Adam’s children the third generation. God was to be in
the position of the grandparent, Adam in the position of the parent, and the children in
the position of the sons and daughters. In such a way, when three generations are firmly
secured in your families, the grandparents stand in the position of God in His kingdom.
They also are in the positions of the king and queen of the original physical world and
spirit world. The parents stand in the position of the central king and queen
representing the present kingdom of heaven on earth. The children, who represent the
future, are in the position of princes and princesses who inherit the kingdom of heaven
on earth and in heaven.
In this way, Adam’s family and clan were to live as the royal clan with God as its center.
After their life on earth, its members were meant to go to heaven and live in the eternal
world. That is the purpose that we were meant to fulfill. Heaven is where people go to
after living together on earth and attending their grandfather, who represents Heaven,
as if he were God, attending their parents as the king and queen of the present world,
and loving their children as the future princes and princesses. Heaven is the only place
where peoples’ desires, hopes and happiness are fulfilled.
The eighth part of the Family Pledge shows the way for us to live in the kingdom of
heaven on earth. It is a path that is possible only through a life of absolute faith,
absolute love, and absolute obedience. At the time of creation, God totally invested
Himself with absolute faith and absolute love based on the standard of absolute
obedience.
The conscience represents three great subject partners
Ladies and gentlemen, the conscience comes first and precedes your parents, your
teachers and even God. Many people do not realize its value because the body has been
dominating the conscience. That is how it is in this fallen, hedonistic world—a world in
which many focus on physical pleasure and having fun. If we depend solely on money,
we will become lost. We will be driven into reckless relationships of love that lead us to
ruin.
We have lost the true love that was to be created from the unity of God and human
beings in absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. The first people were
meant to become perfect without knowing anything about the Fall. They were to create a
realm of unity with God. Yet everything was lost.
That is why we must establish the realm of the unity of heaven and earth. We must
dissolve all the sorrow that we caused God for not having done so. Without releasing
that pain and suffering, there can be no liberation for God or for human beings.
Internally and externally, I have been resolving all of that. That is why I call this the
perfection of restoration. It is the completion of restoration. That is what I am
proclaiming this now. It is because it must be brought to a conclusion in the right way.

Heaven’s tradition is the constitution of your family
Beloved blessed family members! The question now is how you will guard the pure and
true lineage that you have received from God. The Fall occurred in the Garden of Eden,
even though it was an undefiled place. It will surely not be easy to protect the pure
lineage in this evil and corrupt world of sin. So, the people born in this sinful world, no
matter how much they suffer, must take responsibility such that the children of future
generations receive and maintain the Marriage Blessing. It is their responsibility to
create a pure and pristine environment that will never again be defiled.

Consequently, your families should not be secular families immersed in old habits. What
is the best way to live for the future? It is to thoroughly educate your descendants. It is
also essential to live an exemplary life for the sake of your descendants. Despite
difficulties during the wilderness course, the people of Israel overcame the seven tribes
of Canaan. In the same way, you must also gain victory in your own battle, no matter
what hardships you have to endure. Parents must plant the way of Heaven, even if they
die doing so. If you live for the sake of Heaven and the True Parents, your children will
be blessed with heavenly fortune and naturally come to inherit the heavenly tradition.
The people of Israel entered the land of Canaan, but later perished. Why? It is because
they eventually succumbed to the existing environment and adopted the prevailing
habits and customs. The Israelites were tempted by the extravagant lifestyle of the
Canaanites who ate better food and enjoyed a more comfortable life than theirs. The
Israelites ended up coveting power and began to place their priorities on wealth and
knowledge. They even began to marry gentiles—as long as they were from rich families.
In this way, they betrayed the spirit of the chosen nation and ended up losing the
heavenly tradition.

The lessons we learn from the Family Pledge come from universal, cosmic principles, not
from any form of individualism. We should not try to avoid the various hardships that
we face in our lives. We must boldly break through our circumstances and win the
victory! To do this, our families must be armed with the tradition of the Family Pledge.
It is not, however, a task for just your families, or for a single generation. You must
firmly and solidly establish the heavenly tradition over at least three generations. You
have the mission of establishing a lineage that secures the tradition of the chosen people
from generation to generation.

You must broaden your base of true love and unite the hearts of all peoples. Light a
candle, offer incense and pray to become families that can unite the hearts of all peoples.
Live and die to create a bond of true love with all peoples and with heaven and earth. If
you live this way, God will protect your families through all ordeals and tribulations. It
is God’s desire to plant His seeds of love in such families.

Ladies and gentlemen, you must all establish the victorious tradition of a true and good
family based on the Family Pledge. The life that you lead in this revolutionary era after
the coming of heaven should be one of a victor. The bright light from the Pacific Rim era
is illuminating your path. God, the source of true life, true love and true lineage, is with
you in the homeland of the Korean peninsula and throughout the world. True Parents,
to whom God has given the Blessing of eternal value, are also guiding you on your path.
Be assured that there is nothing you cannot accomplish on the path ahead!
May God’s blessings be with you and your family for eternity!

A Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God's Will The United States and the Future Direction of the United Nations and the World Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon March 17 in the Seventh Year of Cheon Il Guk (2007) Hawaii King Garden

A Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God's Will
The United States and the Future Direction
of the United Nations and the World
Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon
March 17 in the Seventh Year of Cheon Il Guk (2007)
Hawaii King Garden
Respected Ambassadors for Peace and leaders from throughout the United States, including Hawaii,
distinguished guests from Japan and Korea who have come from afar to honor this occasion with
your presence, ladies and gentlemen! Together with my wife, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, and my family,
I extend my heartfelt welcome to you all.
Ladies and gentlemen, my heart is intense and filled with emotion as I stand before you today. It is
not because of the Misoo celebrations being held around the world to commemorate my eightyeighth
birthday. Neither is it because, owing to the fact that I am as healthy as a young man, I am
filled with the hope of living beyond my hundredth birthday.
The reason I am so serious is at the beginning of this year, 2007 (the seventh year of Cheon Il Guk), I
declared a jubilee year in God’s providence, a jubilee year the likes of which God and humankind
have never experienced in all the thousands of years of history. Heaven has greatly blessed this holy
year.
God’s heart has been in pain throughout history because Satan’s dominion entrapped humankind
within its evil sovereignty, in the shackles of the era before the coming of heaven. That time has
finally come to an end and, from this year on, the gates to the revolutionary era after the coming of
heaven can be opened wide, ushering in the era of a new sovereignty of goodness, in which
humanity can serve and attend God as the central being.
Without your being aware of it, Heaven’s providence has been expanding in extraordinary ways.
Now numerous Ambassadors for Peace in 185 nations have received my teachings and are working
day and night in response to a special decree from God. Hence, today I would like to convey to you
Heaven’s message, which is entitled, “A Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God’s
Will: The United States and the Future Direction of the United Nations and the World.” This is a
declaration of God’s plan for His dispensation and the direction humanity should take.
The Progress of Human History
Ladies and gentlemen, if you carefully examine the progress of history, you will undoubtedly
discover God’s plan and sense His presence as He tirelessly worked behind the scenes. Consider the
history of civilization, which began centering on four of the world’s great rivers. We are familiar
with the Egyptian civilization centered around the Nile River, the Mesopotamian civilization
between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the Indus civilization on the Indus River, and early Chinese
civilization centered around the Yellow River. Civilization shifted over time to the shores of the
Mediterranean Sea where the Mediterranean peninsular civilizations flourished in Greece and Rome.
History continued to progress, and the European continental civilization emerged. This continental
civilization in turn became the fertilizer for an island civilization, Great Britain, to flourish in the
Atlantic sphere. The British Empire, which dominated the seven seas and wielded its might as “the
empire on which the sun never sets,” passed its splendid culture on to North America. We know
these facts from history.
Civilization arrived on the North American continent and soon took on the armor of democracy,
which was rooted in Christianity. This civilization raised the banner of the freedom of religion and
respect for equal human rights in its struggle against communism, which sought to establish an
atheistic sovereignty of evil. Through victories in the First and Second World Wars, and the third—
the Cold War—it won victory over totalitarianism and communism.
However, that victory does not simply mean that America is great, and the development of human
civilization did not stop there. Victory came because God had chosen and raised the United States of
America as the Second Israel, in accordance with His providential plan, and had raised and trained
the American people through Christianity. God worked through America to bring His providence to
its present stage of fruition.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is in the present time that the issue of the development of civilization
becomes important. Civilization has completed a circuit of the entire globe and has now arrived in
the Pacific sphere. Human history has now come to a point in the providence where it should
conclude and reach fruition through the Pacific Rim region.
No force can stop the providence now. Though there were both victories and defeats during the
course of indemnity under the evil sovereignty in the era before heaven, nothing could prevent the
rise of the Pacific Rim Era. Herein lies the special reason that Heaven declared this year to be a
jubilee year.
Our Mission in the Pacific Rim Era
Ladies and gentlemen, the arrival of the Pacific Rim Era signifies many things. What do you think
the world would have been like if Jesus had fulfilled the complete messianic mission during his
lifetime on earth? Jesus came as the Savior and Messiah, to save all of humanity. He did not come
just to save the people of Israel, a small nation located on a corner of the Mediterranean Sea. At that
time, Rome, based at the center of the Mediterranean, was the center of human civilization. Rome
was ready to rule the seas. Heaven’s desire was that Jesus first teach and transform Rome and then
rule over her, in order to bring salvation to all humanity through the vehicle of Rome’s brilliant
civilization. Yet, Jesus was cruelly put to death on the cross, as we know all too well through the
biblical record.
After thousands of years of preparation, God finally was able to send Jesus to the earth as His only
son. There is no way to fathom God’s heart as He anxiously watched Jesus’ each and every action.
Jesus’ death was a tragedy that broke God’s heart. It brought Him anguish even more extreme than
the time when Adam and Eve, whom He created as the first ancestors of humankind, were lost from
the Garden of Eden due to the Fall.
During the two thousand years since the cross, God, in the background of history, has walked a
suffering path that is beyond human imagination. Through this course, He prepared the United States
of America to serve as the nation of the Second Israel. As a Christian nation that includes
Catholicism and Protestantism as well as the Orthodox world, the United States’ mission is to bring
harmony and unity to Christianity as soon as possible, and, in the twenty-first century, to fulfill the
responsibility that had been the Roman Empire’s, but which was not realized in Jesus’ time. The
responsibility, within God’s providence, to bring harmony and oneness among the world’s six and a
half billion people and to expedite the creation of a peaceful, ideal world, is on America’s shoulders.
These are not simply the words of Rev. Moon. This is Heaven’s decree.
Then how can we unify Christianity? God has already revealed the solution through me, Rev. Moon,
the True Parent of humankind. God has given me the supreme command to practice a life of true
love, to understand completely the reality of the spirit world to which we go after we die, and to
establish a model, ideal family—a true family.
Then what kind of love is true love? And what kind of family is a true family?
True Love and True Family
Ladies and gentlemen, God’s absolute true love does not instill a desire to have one’s partner exist
for one’s own sake. Rather, true love’s essence is giving, living 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, such as that of a devoted
son who finds his greatest satisfaction in dedicating himself with all of his body and mind to
helping his parents.
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 precondition for entering the kingdom of heaven.
The path is now wide open for humanity to establish true families. The family sets the pattern for
living together in harmony. The warm environment of oneness based on love and respect between
parents and children, mutual fidelity and love between husband and wife, and trust and mutual
reliance among siblings is the manifestation of the model, ideal family.
This means that you need to establish a true family wherein the stem of true love emerges from the
root of true love and bears the fruit of true love. In this manner, the three generations of grandparents,
parents, and children should live together as one family and serve the eternal God. God desires to see
such families, and it is your responsibility as tribal messiahs and Ambassadors for Peace to seek after
and establish them—families of Cheon Il Guk, the kingdom of God.
You should form families that God will miss and yearn to return to after He has been away. You
should raise families to which He can come freely as the Parent visiting His children. This is what it
means to live in service to God.
In such a family, God is the subject partner over your conscience, acting vertically. Following God as
your vertical subject partner, your mind stands in the position of vertical subject partner over your
body, bringing your mind and body into unity. That is where parental love, conjugal love, children’s
love, and siblings’ love—in short, the four realms of love or the four realms of heart—are perfected.
Only in such a family can the upper and lower, front and behind, left and right be connected as one
and spherical motion ensue. This leads to God’s everlasting, model ideal families and nations, and
His peace kingdom. If only the entire world were filled with such true families! It would be an
orderly world where people govern themselves by the heavenly way and heavenly laws, with no
need for lawyers, prosecutors or even judges.
The Future of Humankind Is Rooted in the Future of the Pacific Rim Region
Peace-loving leaders from the Pacific Rim region!
Among the 6.5 billion people on the earth today, almost five billion are our neighbors, relatives, and
brothers and sisters belonging to the Pacific Rim region. In other words, many of us share the same
root as the sphere of the Mongolian peoples. There is nothing we cannot do if we receive the
Marriage Blessing and pull together centering on God’s ideal for peace! The future of humanity is in
our hands.
God’s providence has now spread from the North American continent and has blossomed as an
island civilization, the Japanese archipelago, which is in a position similar to that previously held by
the United Kingdom. It is now about to fulfill its destiny by coming to fruition on the Korean
peninsula, the homeland of the True Parents who have emerged on the earth as the Savior of
humanity and the returning Messiah. The Korean peninsula, which stands in a similar position to that
of Rome in Jesus’ time, is regarded as an area of conflict between the sphere of the religions and the
sphere of politics, which have the mission of resolving the world’s problems. From a geo-political
point of view, the Korean peninsula is emerging as the arena of most intense confrontation despite
the ongoing work to secure world peace.
The principles of restoration through indemnity dictate that civilization must bear fruit in the Pacific
Rim region, centered on the Korean peninsula. Fortunately, during the Korean War, the UN forces,
centering on the United States, were mobilized to the peninsula. Yet, they did not recover the
homeland and hometown of God’s desire as they should have according to God’s will, and they left
the job half done. As a result, global conflict and strife emerged, taking the name “the Cold War,”
during which time people were deprived of their possessions and displaced, leading them to search
for God.
In order to make up for this through indemnity, I established the Universal Peace Federation (UPF)
and then organized the “peace kingdom corps” and the “peace kingdom police force,” comprising
women on Heaven’s side who have received the Marriage Blessing, who love peace, and who are
willing to serve and sacrifice for the work of UPF. I have taken the lead in educating those involved
with these organizations. As the peace organizations that stand in the forefront of actualizing a world
of peace with God at its center, they will create the peaceful, ideal world that God desires.
You may not be aware of this, but I have been assisting the Six Party Talks now being held for the
sake of resolving the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula and reconciling the democratic nations
with the communist nations. I am presenting a solution based on the principles of peace and
harmony rooted in the new ideology with the Heavenly Father at its center.
At such intense times, what exactly should be the role of America and the United Nations? Hawaii in
the Pacific and Norfolk on the Atlantic bridge East and West, link North and South, and represent the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and all the great oceans of the world. With the support and protection of
the American continent, the Korean Peninsula should protect and defend the Pacific Rim region by
bringing together all the island nations of the Pacific. I say this because the future of humankind lies
in the preservation of the Pacific Rim region centering on Korea, Japan and the United States.
As I was well aware of Heaven’s plans for this area, I invested thirty-three of the prime years of my
life in the United States beginning in the early 1970s, for the sake of world peace. I first visited
Hawaii and prayed at a critical moment when I was on my way to meet Kim Il Sung of North Korea
in 1991 with the purpose of bringing an end to the Cold War era. On that victorious foundation, I
have now returned to Korea and I am working to complete the providence of establishing God’s
homeland and hometown. This year, in particular, a jubilee year in the providence, I visited Hawaii
as the first stop on a trip to America.
Ladies and gentlemen, I ask that you closely analyze the current state of affairs in the world.
Although the days of communism are gone, even now powerful nations such as China and Russia
are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to aggressively pursue their own interests with the
powerless and small island nations. Regardless of what nation it may be, no small island nation by
itself can deal with these powerful surrounding nations and their economic, political or even military
ambitions. Those nations are so powerful that, if they wanted to, they could dominate any of the
smaller nations in a single day, without shedding blood.
Only when peace and security are settled in the Pacific Rim can peace for all humankind be
guaranteed. As I have mentioned, the small island nations by themselves will not be able to stop the
incredible tsunami of powerful nations moving into the region. The time has come, therefore, for all
these small island nations in the Pacific Rim sphere to unite as one and build the homeland of the
new civilization. The small island nations dispersed in both the northern and southern regions of the
Pacific, on either side of the equator, as well as Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, the
Solomon Islands, Australia, New Zealand and other countries, should become as one country and
form one union to sustain peace throughout the Pacific Rim civilization. This will secure peace and
stability for all people.
What I am saying to you is that you have the responsibility to protect and save the oceanic realm,
which is a lifeline on which humanity’s future depends, from the environmental destruction and
conflicts that are worsening by the day, and to shield the natural resources for the sake of peace in
the future.
True Parents’ Work for Peace
Distinguished guests, I have surmounted and triumphed over a course of inexpressible suffering and
tribulations. I have not lived for personal glory or comfort. Even as I walked a thorny path, hovering
in a state between life and death, I received Heaven’s seal and was made fully aware of the
destination of God’s will. Thus, I held dearly to Heaven’s command to bring salvation to humanity
as I returned like a phoenix and continued my turbulent life.
In Jerusalem, in 2003, on the foundation of the victory attained through such blood, sweat and tears,
I had Jesus proclaimed as the king of kings before heaven and earth with the acknowledgement of
Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Following this, in 2004, I was acknowledged as the king of peace
both in a United States Senate office building and at the Korean National Assembly. Subsequently, in
June 2006, we held the Coronation Ceremony of the True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace in
Heaven and on Earth.
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Ladies and gentlemen, on September 12, 2005, I proclaimed throughout all of heaven and earth the
establishment of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), which will enable God’s providence to
flourish. Now, it is certainly possible for UPF to serve as an “Abel-type” counterpart to the UN in
the era after the coming of heaven. UPF will renew the “Cain-type” UN and lead the way for
millions of Ambassadors for Peace throughout the world who have taken up my teachings, teachings
centered on the Heavenly Father—which consist of the principles of true love and the ideal of true
family—and, without fail, fulfill the heavenly will of creating “One Family Under God.”
The International and Cross-cultural Marriage Blessing
Ladies and gentlemen, the Universal Peace Federation will be in the vanguard of carrying out the
great revolution of restoring the original lineage of humanity back to that of Adam before the Fall
through the International and Cross-cultural Marriage Blessing held on the interreligious and
international level. Some may laugh and say that it is impossible. Yet, if it is God’s will, there will be
a way. What do you think will happen if people from the United States and Russia marry across the
boundaries of their nationalities through the international and cross-cultural Marriage Blessing,
according to the teachings of Rev. Moon, who is doing God’s work? The two nations will belong to
one family under God, the eternal, absolute Lord of all creation. How could anyone harbor
antagonism toward, much less point weapons at, a nation which many millions of grandchildren
from their own lineage make their home?

Distinguished guests, you who have been called by God! The holy task of building the ideal
kingdom of heaven—the sacred reign of peace on earth—is being carried out enthusiastically in all
corners of the world, through the recovery of our ideal homeland and hometown. This is God’s hope
for changing the 6.5 billion people of the world to the lineage of the true tribe. At this very moment,
people are competing to fulfill their responsibility to hold hoondok rallies and Marriage Blessings in
twelve thousand locations in each of the 185 nations of the world.
The Coming Culture of Women
Ladies and Gentlemen, you have truly come to a meaningful occasion today. Please do not miss your
chance to ride on the currents of heavenly fortune that will surge together during this important and
sacred jubilee year. Take the lead in protecting and developing the realm of the oceans, which cover
seventy-five percent of the earth. Where else will you find a new treasure-store of natural resources
that hold the promise to resuscitate the earth endangered by all kinds of pollution and resource
depletion?
The oceanic era that has begun represents the women’s era. Transcending nations and oceans, the
Pacific Rim region must fulfill its mission as the main vehicle for creating the culture of the oceanic
sphere, which is the sphere of women’s culture. Please take this to heart.
I also say to you, please engrave this message on your hearts. The families of your good ancestors in
heaven are blessed. Numbering in the billions, they have come to the earth today, and they are
listening to this message with you. This is because they too must perfect themselves through you,
their descendants, and advance to the positions of true parents, true teachers, and true lords and
owners.
Furthermore, they must become one in heart and body with the True Parent, the king of kings. From
the original position before the Fall, they must uphold the True Parents’ standard absolutely, take an
active role in carrying out their works, and be mobilized for the creation of the kingdom of heaven
on earth and in heaven through a life of service and attendance. Please do not forget that in this way,
the spirit world and the physical world unite as one living entity, and move and breathe together.
There is one more special request I would like to ask of you today. Please immerse yourselves in the
contents of my peace messages, to the point where you virtually know them by heart, and make them
the guidelines for your life. These messages of peace are a summary of my teachings that can be
found in more than a thousand volumes of True Parents’ speeches. God will stand at the forefront.
The spirit world and the physical world will unite to protect and aid you in creating the peaceful,
ideal world of God’s desire in which you can enjoy eternal liberation and complete freedom.
Again, I sincerely wish that you will engrave on your hearts the words I have conveyed to you, and
utilize them in educating your children, other young people, and the citizens of your nation. Aju!
May God’s blessings be with your families, your nations, the Pacific Rim region and the Peace UN!
Thank you very much.

A Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God's Will - The United States and the Future Direction of the United Nations and the World Sun Myung Moon October 14, 2007

A Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God's Will - The United States and the Future Direction of the United Nations and the World

Sun Myung Moon
October 14, 2007
Sun Moon University, Korea

Respected representatives of the Universal Peace Federation's Peace Kingdom Corps for God's kingdom of Cheon Il Guk, ladies and gentlemen! It is truly a pleasure to be able to meet you here today. Together with my family, and on behalf of the seventy million people of my homeland, the Republic of Korea, I extend my heartfelt welcome to you all.

I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation to you, your comrades and to your nations for the sacrifices you made during the Korean War to uphold the founding ideals of the United Nations and the noble cause of protecting world peace.

Ladies and gentlemen, God's desire is to save humankind from evil and sin, and to actualize the ideal He envisioned for all that He created. From the viewpoint of God's providential plan, the Korean War was not a simple war involving one country. It was a historic, righteous war that played a decisive role in bringing God's providence to fruition.

Due to constraints of time, I cannot explain in detail today the profound providential plan God has had for my life's work and for the Korean peninsula. I would therefore like to speak about aspects of God's providence dealing with the Pacific Rim Era that I have recently announced.

Distinguished guests, at the beginning of this year, 2007 (the seventh year of Cheon Il Guk), I declared a jubilee year in God's providence, a jubilee year the likes of which God and humankind have never experienced in all the thousands of years of history. Heaven has greatly blessed this holy year.

God's heart has been in pain throughout history because Satan's dominion entrapped humankind within its evil sovereignty, in the shackles of the "Era before the Coming of Heaven." That time has finally come to an end and, from this year on, the gates to the revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven can be opened wide, ushering in the era of a new sovereignty of goodness, in which humanity can serve and attend God as the Central Being.

Without your being aware of it, Heaven's providence has been expanding in extraordinary ways. Now Ambassadors for Peace in 185 nations, numbering in tens of thousands, have received my teachings and are working day and night in response to a special decree from God. Hence, today I would like to convey to you Heaven's message, which is entitled, "A Providential View of the Pacific Rim Era in Light of God's Will: The United States and the Future Direction of the United Nations and the World." This is a declaration of God's plan for His dispensation and the direction humanity should take.

The Progress of Human History

Ladies and gentlemen, if you carefully examine the progress of history, you will undoubtedly discover God's plan and sense His presence as He tirelessly worked behind the scenes. Consider the history of civilization, which began centering on four of the world's great rivers. We are familiar with the Egyptian civilization centered around the Nile River, the Mesopotamian civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the Indus civilization on the Indus River, and early Chinese civilization centered on the Yellow River.

Civilization shifted over time to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea where the Mediterranean peninsular civilizations flourished in Greece and Rome. History continued to progress and the European continental civilization emerged. This continental civilization in turn became the fertilizer for an island civilization, Great Britain, to flourish in the Atlantic sphere.

The British Empire, which dominated the seven seas and wielded its might as "the empire on which the sun never sets," passed its splendid culture on to North America. We know these facts from history.

Civilization arrived on the North American continent and soon took on the armor of democracy, which was rooted in Christianity. This civilization raised the banner of the freedom of religion and respect for equal human rights in its struggle against communism, which sought to establish an atheistic sovereignty of evil. Through the victories of the First and Second World Wars, and the third -- the Cold War -- it won victory over totalitarianism and communism.

However, that victory does not simply mean that America is great, and the development of human civilization did not stop there. Victory came because God had chosen and raised the United States of America as the Second Israel, in accordance with His providential plan, and had raised and trained the American people through Christianity. God worked through America to bring His providence to its present stage of fruition.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is in the present time that the issue of the development of civilization becomes important. Civilization has completed a circuit of the entire globe and has now arrived in the Pacific sphere. Human history has come to a point in time in the providence at which it should reach completion and fruition through the Pacific Rim region.

No force can stop the providence now. Though there were both victories and defeats during the course of indemnity under the evil sovereignty in the Era before Heaven, nothing could prevent the rise of the Pacific Rim Era. Herein lays the special reason that Heaven declared this year to be a jubilee year.

Our Mission in the Pacific Rim Era

Ladies and gentlemen!

The arrival of the Pacific Rim Era signifies many things. What do you think the world would have been like if Jesus had fulfilled the complete messianic mission during his lifetime on earth? Jesus came as the Savior and Messiah, to save all humankind. He did not come just to save the people of Israel, a small nation located on a corner of the Mediterranean Sea.

At that time, Rome, based at the center of the Mediterranean, was the center of human civilization. Rome was ready to rule the seas. Heaven's desire was that Jesus first teach and transform Rome and then rule over her, in order to bring salvation to all humanity through the vehicle of Rome's brilliant civilization. Yet, Jesus was cruelly put to death on the cross, as we know all too well through the biblical record.

After thousands of years of preparation, God finally was able to send Jesus to the earth as His only son. There is no way to fathom God's heart as He anxiously watched Jesus' each and every action. Jesus' death was a tragedy that broke God's heart. It brought Him anguish even more extreme than the time when Adam and Eve, whom He created as the first ancestors of humankind, were lost from the Garden of Eden due to the Fall.

During the two thousand years since the cross, God, in the background of history, has walked a suffering path that is beyond human imagination. Through this course, He prepared the United States of America to serve as the nation of the Second Israel. As a Christian nation that includes Catholicism and Protestantism as well as the Orthodox world, the United States' mission is to bring harmony and unity to Christianity as soon as possible, and, in the twenty-first century, to fulfill the responsibility that had been the Roman Empire's, but which was not realized in Jesus' time.

The responsibility, within God's providence, to bring harmony and oneness among the world's 6.5 billion people and to expedite the creation of a peaceful, ideal world, is on America's shoulders. These are not simply the words of Rev. Moon. This is Heaven's decree.

Then how can we unify Christianity? God has already revealed the solution through me, Rev. Moon, the True Parent of humankind. God has given me the supreme command to practice a life of true love, to understand completely the reality of the spirit world to which we go after we die, and to establish a model, ideal family -- a true family.

Then what kind of love is true love? And what kind of family is a true family?

True Love and True Family

Ladies and gentlemen!

God's absolute true love does not instill a desire to have one's partner exist for one's own sake. Rather, true love's essence is giving, living 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, such as that of a devoted son who finds his greatest satisfaction through dedicating himself with all of his body and mind to helping his parents.

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 precondition for entering the kingdom of heaven. This is the new way of life in a family where people live peacefully centering on God. It is the ideal model of peace for all creation.

The path is now wide open for humanity to establish true families. The family establishes the pattern for people to live for the sake of others. The warm environment of oneness based on love and respect between parents and children, mutual fidelity and love between husband and wife, and trust and mutual reliance among siblings is the manifestation of the model, ideal family.

This means that you need to establish a true family wherein the stem of true love emerges from the root of true love and bears the fruit of true love. In this manner, the three generations of grandparents, parents, and children should live together as one family and serve the eternal God. God desires to see such families, and it is your responsibility as tribal messiahs and Ambassadors for Peace to seek after and establish them -- families of the kingdom of God.

You should form families that God will miss and yearn to return to after He has been away. You should raise families to which He can come freely as a parent visiting His children. This is what it means to live in service to God.

In such a family, God is the subject partner of your conscience, acting vertically. Following God as your vertical subject partner, your mind stands in the position of the vertical subject partner of your body, bringing your mind and body into unity. That is where parental love, conjugal love, children's love, and siblings' love -- in short, the four realms of love or the four realms of heart -- are perfected.

Only in such a family can the upper and lower, front and behind, left and right be connected as one and spherical motion ensue. This leads to God's everlasting, model ideal families and nations, and His peace kingdom. If only the entire world were filled with such true families! It would be an orderly world where people govern themselves by the heavenly way and heavenly laws, with no need for lawyers, prosecutors or even judges.

The Future of Humankind Is Rooted in the Future of the Pacific Rim Region

Peace-loving leaders from the Pacific Rim region!

Among the 6.5 billion people on the earth today, almost five billion are our neighbors, relatives, and brothers and sisters belonging to the Pacific Rim region. In other words, many of us share the same root as the sphere of the Mongolian peoples. There is nothing we cannot do if we receive the Marriage Blessing and pull together centering on God's ideal for peace! The future of humanity is in our hands.

God's providence has now spread from the North American continent and has blossomed as an island civilization, the Japanese archipelago, which is in a position similar to that previously held by the United Kingdom. It is now about to fulfill its destiny by coming to fruition on the Korean peninsula, the homeland of the True Parents who have emerged on the earth as the Savior of humanity and the returning Messiah.

The Korean peninsula, which stands in a similar position to that of Rome in Jesus' time, is regarded as an area of conflict beyond the spheres of religions or politics which have the mission of resolving the world's problems. From a geo-political point of view, the Korean peninsula emerged as an arena of most intense confrontation despite the ongoing work to secure world peace.

The principles of restoration through indemnity dictate that civilization must bear fruit in the Pacific Rim region, centered on the Korean peninsula. Fortunately, during the Korean War, the UN forces, centering on the United States, were mobilized to the peninsula.

Yet, they did not recover the homeland and hometown of God's desire as they should have according to God's will, and they left the job half done. As a result, global conflict and strife emerged, which came to be called the Cold War. During this period, people were deprived of their possessions and displaced, leading them to search for God.

In order to make up for this through indemnity, I established the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) and then organized the Peace Kingdom Corps and Peace Kingdom Police Force, comprising the women on Heaven's side who have received the Marriage Blessing, who love peace, and who are willing to serve and sacrifice for the work of the Universal Peace Federation.

I have taken the lead in educating those involved with these organizations. As the peace organizations that stand in the forefront for actualizing a world of peace centering on God, they will create the peaceful, ideal world that God desires.

You may not be aware of this, but I have been assisting the Six Party Talks now being held for the sake of resolving the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula and reconciling the democratic nations with the communist nations. I am presenting a solution based on the principles of peace and harmony rooted in the new "Way of the Heavenly Father."

At such intense times, what exactly should be the role of America and the United Nations? Hawaii in the Pacific and Norfolk on the Atlantic bridge East and West, link North and South, and represent the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and all the great oceans of the world. With the support and protection of the American continent, the Korean Peninsula should protect and defend the Pacific Rim region by bringing together all the island nations of the Pacific. I say this because the future of humankind lies in the preservation of the Pacific Rim region centering on Korea, Japan and the United States.

As I was well aware of Heaven's plans for this area, I invested thirty-three of the prime years of my life based in the United States beginning in the early 1970s, for the sake of world peace. I first visited Hawaii and prayed at a critical moment when I was on my way to meet Kim Il Sung of North Korea in 1991 with the purpose of bringing an end to the cold war era.

On that victorious foundation, I have now returned to Korea and I am working to complete the providence of establishing God's homeland and hometown. This year, in particular, a jubilee year in the providence, I was in Hawaii on the first stop of a visit to America.

Ladies and gentlemen, I ask that you closely analyze the current state of affairs in the world. Although the days of communism are gone, even now powerful nations such as China and Russia are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to aggressively pursue their own interests with the powerless and small island nations.

Regardless of what nation it may be, no small island nation by itself can deal with these powerful surrounding nations and their economic, political or even military ambitions. Those nations are so powerful that, if they wanted to, they could dominate any of the smaller nations in a single day, without shedding blood.

Only when peace and security are settled in the Pacific Rim can peace for all humankind be guaranteed. As I have mentioned, the small island nations by themselves will not be able to stop the incredible tsunami of powerful nations moving into the region. The time has come, therefore, for all these small island nations in the Pacific Rim sphere to unite as one and build the homeland of the new civilization.

The small island nations dispersed in both the northern and southern regions of the Pacific, on either side of the equator, as well as Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, Australia, New Zealand and other countries, should become as one country and form one union to sustain peace throughout the Pacific Rim civilization. This will secure peace and stability for all people.

What I am saying to you is that you have the responsibility to protect and save the oceanic realm, which is a lifeline on which humanity's future depends, from the environmental destruction and conflicts that are worsening by the day, and to shield the natural resources for the sake of peace in the future.

True Parents' Work for Peace

Distinguished guests, I have surmounted and triumphed over a course of inexpressible suffering and tribulations. I have not lived for personal glory or comfort. Even as I walked a thorny path, hovering in a state between life and death, I received Heaven's seal and was made fully aware of the destination of God's will. Thus, I held dearly to Heaven's command to bring salvation to humanity as I returned like a phoenix and continued my hectic life's work.

I have come to be recognized by various leaders of religion, academia, politics and others, both here in America and throughout the world, as the champion in eight areas of spiritual knowledge and discipline.

The first has to do with knowledge of God. Until now, God has been known only as an all-knowing and all-powerful being. People think God is sitting on the throne of honor and glory as the absolute master, having nothing to do with the created world of all things. There is another side to this, however.

From the time I first embarked on a journey to fulfill God's providential calling to me, I came to know that the relationship between God and human beings was that of parent and child. I learned that God became the Parent of pain, sorrow, and lamentation ever since He lost His first children, Adam and Eve.

Throughout my life, I have been doing my very best to dissolve God's pain and sorrow and bring liberation and total freedom to His heart. Finally, on January 13, 2001, through the coronation ceremony for God's kingship, I was able to restore His throne of glory and power and offer it to Him.

The second area has to do with the reality of Satan. Throughout history, human beings have not known the identity of the devil, Satan, who caused the human Fall, which led to all kinds of evil.

For fourteen years, I labored desperately to discover all the secrets of the spirit world through many bruising spiritual battles. Finally, I discovered the real identity of Satan, the origin of all evil. Taking one step further, I also came to uncover Satan's strategy and tactics to multiply his power.

After I discovered Satan's strategy of defiling the human blood lineage through the Fall, I became totally committed to restoring God's original blood lineage. The heavenly strategy developed for this purpose, and now widely known throughout the world, is the International and Cross-cultural Marriage Blessing movement.

The third area has to do with understanding of the human condition. Where are we human beings from, how should we live, and where should we go? Why are our mind and body fighting, and why do we struggle in conflict? What is the meaning of life and death? Does the world after death truly exist? If so, how should we live on earth?

The answers to these questions and others are expounded in detail in the Principle of Creation that God revealed to me.

I have the intuitive ability to look into the hearts of men and women and predict their destiny. That is why many young people throughout the world come to me hoping to be matched with an ideal spouse.

The fourth area has to do with knowledge and understanding of the spirit world. The spirit world, the world after physical death, is a world that really exists, and to which all humans are bound to go as an extension of their earthly life. Human life is one continuous stream from conception and life in the womb all the way to an eternal life, after physical death ends our earthly life.

Those who discard their flesh after having received the Marriage Blessing, eradicating original sin and perfecting their spirit self, go through a sacred ritual of Seunghwa at the end of their physical lives that allows them to be welcomed and celebrated on their path to the heavenly nation and eternal life.

We should understand clearly that the numerous saints and sages who have lived on earth throughout history are now actually living in the spirit world. They are assisting God's providence for the earth, reborn as absolute good spirits after having received the Marriage Blessing from the True Parents.

Each moment in our earthly life is recorded in the spirit world exactly as it takes place. On the day when we go to the spirit world, our life's record will become the basis for judgment. That is why all human beings should practice a life of true love and sacrifice themselves for a greater cause.

The fifth area has to do with knowledge of Jesus. I came to grasp the terrible tragedy of the crucifixion of Jesus. He came as God's son, the Savior and Messiah, but he was rejected and opposed, even by the people that God had prepared. It was God's will that Jesus, as the second Adam, should fulfill the model of a God-centered ideal family, and engraft all humankind to him.

Christianity became the foundation of Western civilization through Rome, and then became the nucleus of the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean civilizations. It has always stood in the position of the Bride to receive the Lord at his Second Coming. Therefore Christians in particular must comprehend the sorrowful heart of Jesus, who was driven to the cross, unable to fully unfold God's will for him.

My teachings clearly explain the truth about Jesus' mission, the limitation of salvation through the cross, and the reason and purpose that he should return.

The sixth area is in the knowledge of the core contents of the Bible and other religious scriptures. These are books of secret revelation that enable human beings, trapped in ignorance after the Fall of the first human ancestors, to return to God.

Many of the important issues in scripture are described in metaphors and symbols. The meanings of these metaphors and symbols are to be fully revealed only by the Messiah sent by Heaven. Hence, Jesus was able to disclose the core contents and deep meaning of the Old Testament.

In the same way, God's secrets regarding His providence of salvation, hidden throughout the Bible, are now being revealed by my teachings. The Bible is a book of revelations that concealed the secrets of God's ideal for the creation, the Fall, and the path of restoration. The Divine Principle revealed to me by God lucidly answers all the questions that are raised in the various scriptures.

The seventh area is in the knowledge and understanding of the goal of human history. History is not merely a record of events that take place by coincidence. It is flowing in a clear direction and with a clear purpose. It is a history for the providence for the re-creation of human beings' original state, through indemnity -- a history of restoration for their salvation.

Because of this insight into the origin and direction of history, I was able to successfully predict the sudden end of communism and dialectic materialism, in a speech delivered at the 1985 Professors World Peace Academy Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, a time when the Soviet Union was still at its peak.

Today, I am declaring that it is time for all nations and religion to break down their barriers. Through this, the era of "One Family under God" will arrive and last forever.

God is leading history. With the help of heavenly fortune, centering on the Abel UN, we will now make rapid progress toward a world transcending religions and nations, God's kingdom on earth, which in Korean we call Cheon Il Guk.

The eighth area concerns true family values. God's ideal of creation is to build God-centered true families. It is the goal of His salvation providence to restore the ideal of the true family, the ideal that Adam could not fulfill in his own family. In this way, it is to establish the foundation for the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven.

The Marriage Blessing movement that I have been leading is no ordinary wedding ceremony. It is a sacred ritual through which to eradicate the original sin and engraft human beings to the true lineage of God.

True families are the wellspring and foundation of true love, true life and true lineage. Through true families the true nation, true world, and true kingdom can be built. Families centered on the True Parents can become the base for the perfected relationships within the Four Realms of Heart and the Three Kingships, and become the foundation for the kingdom of heaven.

On September 12, 2005, I founded the Universal Peace Federation. Then, in order to build "One Family under God" through the twin strategies of proclaiming God's Word and conducting the Marriage Blessing, I completed three world speaking tours with my wife, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, our children and our grandchildren. In this way we were able to successfully have three generations fulfilling the Marriage Blessing ideal within one family.

Afterwards, 120 Christian representatives in America as well as 1,200 religious leaders and 12,000 Ambassadors for Peace from across the world traveled consecutively throughout 190 nations, representing their own nation by spreading the Peace Messages of the True Parents and sharing the Marriage Blessing. This tour helped spread true family values as the universal values of humankind as we establish a new God-centered civilization.

As mentioned above, I have become well known as a champion in each of these eight areas. The support of all humanity is urgently needed for everything to be fulfilled. With God's grace, we will soon win the victory!

In Jerusalem, in 2003, on the foundation of the victory attained through blood, sweat and tears on the basis of the unity of the True Parents and all humankind, I had Jesus proclaimed as the king of kings before heaven and earth with the acknowledgement of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Following this, in 2004, I was acknowledged as the king of peace both in a United States Senate office building and at the Korean National Assembly. Subsequently, in June 2006, we held the Coronation Ceremony of the True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace in Heaven and on Earth.

Ladies and gentlemen, on September 12, 2005, I proclaimed throughout all of heaven and earth the establishment of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), which will enable God's providence to flourish. Now, it is possible for UPF to serve as an "Abel-type" counterpart to the UN in the Era after the Coming of Heaven.

It will renew the "Cain-type" United Nations and lead the way for millions of Ambassadors for Peace throughout the world who have taken up my teachings, "the Way of the Heavenly Father" -- which consist of the principles of true love and the ideal of true family -- and, without fail, fulfill the heavenly will of creating "One Family Under God."

The International and Cross-cultural Marriage Blessing

Ladies and gentlemen, the Universal Peace Federation will be in the vanguard of carrying out the great revolution of restoring the original lineage of humanity back to that of Adam before the Fall through the International and Cross-cultural Marriage Blessing held on the inter-religious and international level.

Some may laugh and say that it is impossible. Yet, where there is a will there is a way, especially if it is the will of God. Please think about this: what do you think will happen if people from the United States and Russia marry across the boundaries of their nationalities through the International and Cross-cultural Marriage Blessing, according to the teachings of Rev. Moon who does God's work on His behalf?

The two nations will belong to one family under God, the eternal, absolute Lord of all creation. How could anyone harbor antagonism toward, much less point weapons at, a nation which many millions of grandchildren from their own lineage make their home?

Distinguished guests, you who have been called by God! The holy task of building the ideal kingdom of heaven -- the sacred reign of peace on earth -- is being carried out enthusiastically in all corners of the world, by recovering our ideal homeland and hometown.

This is God's hope for changing the 6.5 billion people of the world to the lineage of the true tribe. At this very moment, people are competing to fulfill their responsibility to hold rallies featuring the teachings of peace and the Marriage Blessing in twelve thousand locations in each of the 185 nations of the world.

The Coming Culture of Women

Ladies and Gentlemen!

You have truly come to a meaningful occasion today. Please do not miss your chance to ride on the currents of heavenly fortune that will surge together during this important and sacred jubilee year. Take the lead in protecting and developing the realm of the oceans, which cover seventy-five percent of the earth. Where else will you find a new treasure-store of natural resources that hold the promise to resuscitate the earth endangered by all kinds of pollution and resource depletion?

Now, the oceanic era that represents the universal women's era has begun. The culture of the oceanic sphere constitutes the sphere of the original women's culture that transcends nations and oceans.

In order to create this culture, the sphere of the Pacific Rim civilization should fulfill its mission as the main vehicle for successfully passing through the labor pains of the birth of a revolutionary era of God-centered civilization, with all women becoming one in heart and body centering on the True Mother. Please take this to heart.

I also say to you, who have come to this meaningful occasion, please engrave this message on your hearts. The families of your good ancestors in heaven are blessed. Numbering in the billions, they have come to the earth today, and they are listening to this message with you. This is because they too must perfect themselves through you, their descendants, and advance to the positions of true parents, true teachers and true lords and owners.

Furthermore, they must become one in heart and body with the True Parent, the king of kings. From the original position before the Fall, they must uphold the True Parents' standard absolutely, take an active role in carrying out their works, and be mobilized for the creation of the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven through a life of service and attendance. Please do not forget that in this way, the spirit world and the physical world unite as one living entity and move and breathe together.

There is one more special request I would like to ask of you today. Please immerse yourselves in the contents of my peace messages to the point where you know them virtually by heart, and make them the guidelines for your life. These messages of peace are a summary of my teachings that can be found in more than a thousand volumes of True Parents' speeches.

God will stand at the forefront. The spirit world and the physical world will unite to protect and aid you in creating the peaceful, ideal world of God's desire in which you can enjoy eternal liberation and complete freedom.

You should now find your place in history by fulfilling your mission as a member of the Peace Kingdom Corps and Peace Kingdom Police Force of the Abel-type UN, which is advancing God's providence in the revolutionary era after the coming of heaven.

History will forever remember you for leading a noble life of devotion to the well-being of humanity and world peace. I am now developing globally the Peace Kingdom Corps and the Peace Kingdom Police Force, which I founded. Who, if not leaders such as you, can stand in the forefront of these two organizations under the banner of UPF (the "Abel UN")?

Again I sincerely wish that you will engrave on your hearts the words I have conveyed to you, and utilize them in educating your children, young people, and the people of your nation. Aju!

May God's blessings be with your families, your nations, the Pacific Rim region and the Peace UN!

Thank you very much.