19.8.12

A S A P E AC E - L OV I N G G L OBA L C I T I Z E N, Foreword

A steady spring rain fell all last night, ending a winter drought.

It was so nice to have had the rain that I spent all this morning
walking about in the garden.  The  ground had that fragrant
aroma of moist earth I had missed all through the winter, and the weeping willow and cherry trees were showing signs of new spring buds.
I felt I could hear the popping sounds of new life sprouting here and
there around the garden. Before I knew it, my wife, who had followed
me out, was picking young mugwort shoots that had managed to poke
their heads up through the dry lawn.The night’s rain had turned the
whole world into a fragrant spring garden.
No matter how much commotion there may be in the world, when
the calendar turns to March, spring is on its way.  The  older I become,
the more it means to me that in nature spring follows winter and brings
with it flowers in full bloom. What am I that God, in each season, allows
the flowers to bloom and the snow to fall, so I might know the joy of
being alive? Love wells up from within the deepest recesses of my heart,
and I am overcome with emotion. I am moved to tears to think that
everything of real value has been given to me freely. In my life, I have
circled the globe many times over in my e"orts to bring about a world
of peace, and yet it is here in this garden in spring that I am able to taste
real peace. Peace, too, was given to us by God, but we lost it somewhere and
now spend our lives looking for it in all the wrong places.
To bring a world of peace, I have spent my life going to the most
lowly and secluded places. I met mothers in Africa who could only
watch helplessly as their children died of hunger, and I met fathers
in South America who lived by a river full of fish but couldn’t support their families by fishing. At first, all I did was simply share my
food, but they granted me their love in return. Intoxicated with the
power of love I went on to plant seeds and cultivate forests. Together we
caught fish to feed hungry children, and these trees were used to build
schools. I was happy even as mosquitoes bit me all over as I fished
all through the night. Even when I was sinking knee-deep into mud,
I was happy because I could see the shadows of despair disappear
from the faces of my neighbors.
Seeking the shortest path to a world of peace, I devoted myself
to inspiring change in the political process and to changing people’s
ways of thinking. I met then-President Mikhail Gorbachev of the
Soviet Union as part of my effort to bring reconciliation between
communism and democracy, and I met then-President Kim Il Sung
of North Korea for a serious discussion on how to bring peace to
the Korean peninsula. I went to a United States in moral decline
and played the role of a fireman responding to a call in an effort to
reawaken its Puritan spirit. I dedicated myself to resolving various
conflicts in the world. In my work for peace among Muslims and Jews, I
was not deterred by rampant terror. As a result of my efforts, thousands
have gathered for rallies and peace marches, with Jews, Muslims, and
Christians all joining together. Sadly, however, the conflict continues.
I see hope, though, that an age of peace is about to be inaugurated in
Korea. !e Korean peninsula has been trained through endless suffering and the tragedy of division, and I can feel in every cell of my body
that a powerful energy has been stored here and is ready to burst out. In
the same way that no one can stop a new season of spring from coming,
no human power can stop heavenly fortune from coming to the Korean
peninsula and spreading throughout the world. People need to prepare
themselves so that they may rise with the tide of heavenly fortune
when it arrives.
I am a controversial person. !e mere mention of my name causes
trouble in the world. I never sought money or fame but have spent my
life speaking only of peace. !e world, though, has associated many
di"erent phrases with my name, rejected me, and thrown stones at me.
Many are not interested in knowing what I say or what I do. They only
oppose me.
I have been unjustly imprisoned six times in my life—by imperial
Japan, in Kim Il Sung’s North Korea, by South Korea’s Syngman Rhee
government, and even in the United States—and at times I was beaten
so hard that the flesh was torn from my body. Today, though, not even
the slightest wound remains in my heart. Wounds easily disappear in
the presence of true love. Even enemies melt away without a trace in the
presence of true love. True love is a heart that gives and gives and wants
to continuing giving. True love is a love that even forgets that it already
gave love and gives love again. I have lived my entire life intoxicated
in such love. I wanted nothing aside from love, and I threw my entire
being into the e"ort to share love with my impoverished neighbors. At
times, the path of love was so difficult that my knees buckled under me,
but even then I felt happy in my heart, dedicated to loving humanity..
Even now, I am filled with love that I have not yet been able to give.
It is with a prayer that this love will become a river of peace saturating the drought-stricken land and following to the ends of the earth that I now place this book before the world. Recently a growing number
of people have been seeking to know more about me. For the sake of
those who are curious, I have looked back on my life and recorded my
candid recollections in this book. As for the stories that could not be
included in this volume, I hope there will be other opportunities for me
to convey them.
I send boundless love to all those who have put their faith in me,
remained by my side, and lived their lives with me—and especially to
my wife, Hak Ja Han Moon, to whom I am deeply grateful for struggling
with me to scale the most difficult peaks.
Finally, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Eun Ju
Park, president of Gimm-Young Publishers Inc., who poured out much
sincerity and dedication in the process of bringing this book to publication, and to everyone in the publishing company who labored in editing
the words I spoke so that the o.en complex content could be easily
understood by readers.
Sun Myung Moon,
Cheongpyeong, South Korea, March 1, 2009

18.8.12

GOD’S IDEAL FAMILY AND THE KINGDOM OF THE PEACEFUL, IDEAL WORLD – I


Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon gave this speech on the occasion of the founding of the Universal 
Peace Federation on September 12, 2005. It was also given in the UPF inaugural world 
speaking tour to 10 nations and in the rallies for the Return of the Homeland to God, held in 
180 nations in 2006. 
Distinguished world leaders, Ambassadors for Peace and blessed family members who have come
from all parts of the world in the hope of bringing about the realization of world peace and
building the ideal hometown in heaven and on earth:
I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all of you for coming together in the midst of
your busy schedules to take part in this rally to expand and elevate to a global level the Family
Party for Universal Peace and Unity, so that it may be reborn as the  Cheon Il Guk House for
Peace and Unification; to make the Universal  Peace Federation a model UN-type organization;
and, to make Cheon Il Guk the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world through the concerted efforts
of all the nations of the world.
Ladies and gentlemen, as we begin the twenty-first century, we find ourselves at a truly
historic turning point. We are at a point of decision. Can everlasting world peace take root, or are
we doomed to repeat the twentieth century’s dark and oppressive history of war and conflict?
The twentieth century was a period of ceaseless struggle, including that of colonized countries
to gain their independence, the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, and the Cold War.
Living through this era, I dedicated my life entirely to bringing about the kingdom of God, the
kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world. I have always prayed sincerely that the United Nations,
founded after the Second World War, would be an institution for peace, and that it would uphold
God’s will for the realization of eternal world peace.
The United Nations has indeed made important contributions to peace. Nevertheless, around
its sixtieth anniversary in 2005 there was a  broad consensus, both inside and outside the
organization, that the UN had yet to discover the way to fulfill its founding purposes. The number
of member states approaches two hundred, but the offices of these states do little more than
represent and even insist on their own interests. They seem inherently unable to resolve conflicts
and achieve peace.
For these reasons, I would like once more to declare today before all humanity the message I
gave throughout the Universal Peace Federation inauguration tour, launched last year on
September 12 in New York, which took me to 120 nations around the world. It is entitled, “God’s
Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful, Ideal World.”
The mission of the Universal Peace Federation is to renew the existing United Nations, a “Caintype” UN, and provide a new level of leadership as an “Abel-type” UN. It will unite heaven and
earth and form the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world.
This message should be engraved on the hearts of humankind. It is Heaven’s special blessing
in this era after the coming of heaven. It is also a warning to us that we should take to heart and
put into action.  2
God’s Ideal Family
Respected world leaders, what do you think is God’s ultimate purpose for creating human
beings? Simply put, it is to experience joy through relating with ideal families filled with true love.
What does an ideal family look like? First, each person in the family is an owner of true love.
When God first created human beings, He made Adam representing all men, and Eve
representing all women, with the intention that they  become  owners  of  true love.  The  quickest
way for them to cultivate a character of true love was to secure a parent-child relationship with
God, whereby they could live attending God as their Father. They were to have followed the path
of living as one family with God.
I invite you to enter into a transcendent state and prayerfully ask God, “What is the center of
the universe?” The answer you hear will undoubtedly be, “the parent–child relationship.” Nothing
is more important or more precious than the relationship between parent and child. This is
because it defines the fundamental relationship between the Creator God and human beings.
Then, what defines the parent-child relationship? Three things: love, life and lineage.
The first is love. We can love with true love because God, our True Parent, first loved us with
true love. God created human beings out of His absolute love, to be His partners in love. This
relationship forms an axis of love, linking God the Father with human beings as His sons and
daughters.
Could there be anything higher  or more precious than to be a son or daughter of God? If
anything were higher, then surely human beings would aspire to attain it. But there is nothing
higher. Do you think that when the omniscient and omnipotent God created Adam and Eve, He
secretly reserved the highest position for Himself and made Adam and Eve to be only second
best? We cannot imagine that God would do that to His children, to His partners who share
absolute love with Him.
As our eternal True Parent, God invested Himself 100 percent in the creation of human beings
and endowed us with the right to equal status with Him, to participate in His work as equals, to
live with Him, and to inherit from Him. God bestowed upon human beings all of His attributes.
Though God is the absolute being , He cannot be happy alone. Adjectives such as “good” and
“happy” cannot apply to any being that lives in isolation. They apply only where there is a dynamic
mutual relationship. Imagine a professional singer who finds herself on an uninhabited island. She
may sing at the top of her voice, but with no one to listen, will it bring her happiness? In the same
way, even the self-existent God absolutely needs a partner with whom to share love in order to
experience joy and be happy.
Next is life. How shall we live to become God’s partner and return joy to Him? In other words,
how shall we live to become children of God, people whom God delights to call “My son,” or “My
daughter,” because He sees in us a divinity equal to His own? How can we become God’s partners
in completing the work of Creation, partners who will inherit the entire creation? This is my
answer: We should emulate the ideal that God set up at the beginning of His creative acts. At the
beginning of the Creation, God acted upon the principle of living for the sake of others. In other
words, everything that He did was for the sake of His creations, whom He hoped would develop
into His partners of true love. The practice of true love is the nucleus of God’s creative activity.
Therefore, to become God’s children, our first responsibility is to resemble Him. We need to
embody true love. The way to embody true love begins with living as a devoted child, then a
patriot, a saint, and finally a divine son or daughter of God. At that stage we can experience the
innermost emotions of God’s heart and resolve the grief that He has experienced for tens of
thousands of years since the Fall of Adam and Eve.
God is almighty. It was not due to any shortcoming or lack of ability that He has been
imprisoned in great pain and has endured immense suffering behind the scenes of history. Rather, 3
there are provisions in the Principle of Restoration, which He has not been free to disclose, that
called Him to wait with forbearance until Adam and Eve’s positions, lost at the human Fall, were
recovered through the appearance of the perfected “Second Adam.” Although God is all-powerful,
He will not set aside the eternal laws and principles that He Himself established.
The Importance of Lineage
Do you know what has pained God’s heart the most, causing Him the greatest grief over the
long history since the Fall of Adam and Eve? God lost His lineage. And with the loss of His lineage,
He lost His right of ownership.
Let me talk about lineage for a moment. Lineage is more important than life and more
important than love. Life and love come together to create lineage. Lineage cannot be established
if either life or love is missing. Therefore, among the three qualities that define the parent-child
relationship—love, life and lineage—lineage is the fruit.
God’s lineage contains the seed of true love. God’s lineage provides the context and
environment for a true life. Hence, for us to become the ideal people envisioned by God, that is,
people of ideal character, and to create ideal families, we first need to be linked to His lineage. To
take it a step further, only when we are linked to God’s lineage is it possible to create God’s
homeland, the ideal nation. Only when we are linked to God’s lineage is it possible to establish
the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world. Please inscribe the importance of lineage in your hearts.
I cannot emphasize this enough.
Without lineage, neither life nor love can endure. You strive to set a good tradition, but it will
endure only through your lineage. Lineage is the bridge allowing the parents’ spirit to carry on
through subsequent generations. In other words, lineage is the first and final condition necessary
for parents to harvest the fruits of their love, the fruits of their life and the fruits of their joy. We
need to know this with certainty.
Yet when Adam and Eve fell, this lineage, more precious than life, was lost. The fruits of true
life and true love never matured. They became the fruits of Satan, lacking any relationship with
Heaven. From them descended the six billion people now inhabiting the earth.
God intended for the seeds He planted in the springtime of the Garden of Eden to grow into
a bountiful crop that He could harvest in the autumn. The ideal of God’s creation was to raise
Adam and Eve, His son and daughter, to the point where they would blossom in true love,
flourish with true life, and bear fruit in a true lineage. God desired to gather up owners—and
families—of eternal life, eternal love and eternal lineage, and to bring about His kingdom of
the peaceful, ideal world as their homeland.
God’s Suffering in Search of the True Parents
Instead, however, it was false love, false life and false lineage that infested the earth. God’s
love, life and lineage fell into the hands of the adulterer Satan, the enemy of love. Heaven and
earth were suffocated and transformed into hell. The world became a wretched place, far from
God’s presence. Yet humanity to this day lives in ignorance of this.
People are deluded into believing that the lineage of the enemy is the lifeline upon which the
world depends. This is the wretched truth about humanity descended from the Fall. That is why
we refer to this world as hell on earth. God views humanity’s tragic situation with a heart full of
pain.
After creating Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, God intended to marry them with His Holy
Blessing and bequeath to them Heaven’s right of ownership. God wanted Adam and Eve to inherit
from Him the ownership of the entire universe.  4
However, all of this came under Satan’s control because of the Fall. God is like a father who
labored and sweated his entire life to accumulate assets for his children, only to have a thief steal
everything overnight.
Who can comprehend the sorrowful, painful heart of God? God lost His lineage, lost His
children, and was forced to hand over the ownership of the nations and world to Satan. There
was only one way to recover this lineage and ownership. This was the path to win the natural
subjugation of Satan, to have Satan surrender voluntarily. What is the secret to accomplish this?
It can only be accomplished by the power of true love, when we love our enemies more than we
love our own children.
Has there ever been a time when God could rejoice with human beings as their True Father
and True Mother, enjoying the natural bonds of parent and child? Has God enjoyed even a year of
comfort with His children, knowing that what He created was good? The answer is no; God has
not experienced such joy for even one hour. And has anyone been able to comfort God in this
pain? No, because no one has known the reason for the unbridgeable gap that has separated God
from humankind for tens of thousands of years. No one has known why God and humanity are in
such a tragic situation.
The biblical account of Cain and Abel reveals the beginnings of human conflict even within
Adam’s family. It reveals the archetype for humankind’s unending history of struggle, war and
conflict. We are in conflict on many levels, beginning with the war between mind and body within
each individual and extending to wars between nations and even to the global conflict between
materialism and theism.
Extreme selfish individualism threatens our prosperity even today. We deem young people to
be the hope of humanity holding the promise for the future, but drugs and free sex enslave them.
Advanced countries seem to believe that material goods are all that matter. They recognize only
their own interests while ignoring the misery of tens of thousands who die of starvation every day.
Who can untie this ancient knot of Cain and Abel? It has been tightened for thousands of years
and grows ever more entangled. Do you think  the United Nations can do it? The UN at its
founding proclaimed a movement for world peace, and for sixty years it has dedicated itself to
this task; yet world peace still remains far distant. Peace among nations can never come when
those entrusted with the task have not resolved the Cain-Abel relationship between their own
mind and body. Therefore, the time has come to launch the Abel-type sovereignty for the
peaceful, ideal world that will set its course according to God’s will.
God longed with all His heart that someone would appear and resolve these tragedies, but no
such person appeared on earth. God waited and waited, looking for anyone who would take on
the role of the True Parent. If someone had come forward, I am certain that God would have
appeared in his dreams, carried the sun and moon to him, and showered him with lightning of joy
and thunder of ecstasy from the heavens.
In this sense, it is a miracle of miracles that for the first time in history a man has indeed
succeeded in attaining the position of Adam. He has secured the status of the owner of true love and
received God’s anointing as the True Parent of humanity. It is an amazing fact that his lifetime
coincides with yours, and that you and he breathe the same air. He is the horizontal True Parent,
who comes to rescue fallen humanity. I, Reverend Moon, gained the victory in that position. And on
that foundation, on January 13, 2001, I dedicated to Heaven the “Coronation Ceremony for the
Kingship of God.” By that ceremony I liberated and released God, our vertical True Parent who has
taken responsibility for the Providence of Restoration. In all of history, this was the highest and
greatest blessing humanity has ever received. This victory was absolute, unique, unchanging and
eternal. Through this absolute providential victory, God’s body and mind are completely liberated!
The Way to Peace through the Holy Blessing Ceremony  5
Respected leaders! Our bondage to the lineage of Satan has caused so much suffering
throughout history. Let us now boldly step forward to sever it and be grafted onto the root of the
lineage of the True Parents. Why should we foolishly continue to live and die as wild olive trees?
A wild olive tree, even if it lives a thousand years, will only continue producing the seeds of more
wild olive trees. Where can we find the path to escape this vicious cycle? It is through the Holy
Blessing.
The Holy Blessing Ceremony offers the grace of being grafted onto the true olive tree. It was
instituted by the True Parents, who bring God’s true lineage to humankind. Once you change
your lineage to God’s lineage, your offspring will naturally belong to God’s lineage. The Holy
Blessing is received in three stages: rebirth, resurrection, and eternal life. Once you receive the
True Parents’ Holy Blessing, you can give birth to pure, sinless offspring and build an ideal family.
The best way to receive the Holy Blessing is through a cross-cultural marriage. This contributes
to the enormous task of transcending the barriers of race, culture, nationality, ethnicity and
religion and creating one family of humankind.  In God’s sight, skin color makes no difference.
God does not recognize national borders. God does not stand behind the barriers of religion and
culture. They are nothing more than the devil’s tricks. The devil has used them to rule over
humanity as a false parent for tens of thousands of years.
Imagine two enemy families who have cursed each other throughout their lives, people who
would never dream of living together. What would happen if these families joined together through
a cross-cultural Holy Marriage Blessing? If a son from one family and a daughter from the other
became husband and wife, loved each other and built a happy home, would the parents in these
two families curse their own children? If that son loved this beautiful daughter of a hated enemy,
and she, as the daughter-in-law, were to gave birth to Heaven’s grandchildren as pure and clear
as crystal, the grandparents would smile with pleasure. In time the two lineages once soaked with
enmity would be transformed.
What method other than cross-cultural marriage will empower Whites and Blacks, Jews and
Muslims, Orientals and Westerners, and people of all races to live as one human family? The
ideal family is the model for living together in peace. The ideal family is the nest where we live
and learn to become one. There we have the foundation of love and respect between parents
and children, shared trust and love between  husband and wife, and mutual support among
siblings. For this fundamental reason, you should receive the Holy Marriage Blessing from the
True Parents and establish Heaven’s tradition of ideal families, even if it means risking your very
life.
A Life of True Love
Allow me to repeat myself: To resemble God, the original Being of true love, we should
become the owners of true love. We should embody true love and practice it in order to develop
our character. This is the way each of us can become true parents.
What is a life of true love? True love is the spirit of public service. It brings the peace that
is at the root of happiness. Selfish love is a mask of the desire to have one’s partner exist for
one’s own sake; true love is free from that corruption. Rather, its essence is to give, to live for
the sake of others and for the sake of the whole. True love gives, forgets that it has given,
and continues to give without ceasing. True love gives joyfully. We find it in the joyful and
loving heart of a mother who cradles her baby in her arms and nurses it at her breast. True
love is sacrificial love, as with a devoted son who gains his greatest satisfaction in helping his
parents. God created the universe out of just such love: absolute, unique, unchanging and 6
eternal, investing everything without any expectation or condition of receiving something in
return.
True love is the wellspring of the universe. Once we possess it, true love makes us the centers
and the owners of the universe. True love is God’s essence and the manifestation of His will and
power. When we are bound together in true love, we can be together forever, continually
increasing in the joy of each other’s company. The attraction of true love brings all things in the
universe to our feet; even God will come to dwell with us. Nothing can compare to the value of
true love. It has the power to dissolve the barriers fallen people have created, including national
boundaries and the barriers of race and even religion.
The main attributes of true love are that it is absolute, unique, unchanging and eternal, so that
whoever practices God’s true love will live with God, share His happiness, and enjoy the right to
participate as an equal in His work. Therefore, a life lived for the sake of others, a life of true love,
is the absolute prerequisite for entering the kingdom of heaven.
Respected leaders, you are now living in the age when all marriages can receive God’s Blessing.
God’s promises are coming to fruition. The kingdom of heaven on earth, God’s ideal of creation,
is being established before your eyes.
I have dedicated my life of more than eighty years solely for Heaven. It has been a lonely
path, stained with blood, sweat, and tears. Yet now it is bearing victorious fruit for the sake of
the world’s six billion people. From the spirit world, the founders of the world’s religions, tens
of thousands of saints and your own good ancestors are watching your every move. They will
punish you if you stray from the heavenly path.
In more than 180 countries, Ambassadors for Peace who have inherited Heaven’s will and
tradition are making serious efforts, day and night, to proclaim the values of true love and true
family. They are moving forward with full force to establish the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal
world on this earth.
In the Middle East, one of the world’s tinderboxes, Jews, Christians and Muslims have found
the resources in my philosophy of peace to engage in a new dimension  of dialogue. In past
decades my Unification Thought played a decisive role in ending the Cold War. Now I am
successfully leading behind-the-scenes efforts to bring about the reunification of my homeland of
Korea.
But I am not yet satisfied, because I began my life’s work at the command of Heaven. I have
come  as  the  True  Parent  of humankind with God’s anointing, and I am determined to keep my
promise to Him. I am determined to obliterate  all national divisions and barriers that have
poisoned this earth and to establish the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world, where all people
everywhere can live hand in hand.
Ambassadors for Peace are Heaven’s Secret Envoys
Respected Ambassadors for Peace, I believe you have learned many things through this
message from God. You represent Heaven, and as long as humanity continues to drift aimlessly it
needs your help. Please  take this opportunity to make a new determination to be Heaven’s
envoys, prepared to uphold Heaven’s command. With this in mind, I would like to summarize
today’s message so that we can all take up Heaven’s mission and inscribe it deep within our
hearts.
What did I say we lost by the Fall of Adam and Eve, who were created as God’s children? First,
we lost  the lineage given  to us by God.  Lineage is the most special among all the gifts parents
bequeath to their children. By the Fall, Adam and Eve inherited the false lineage of Satan and
descended to the status of his children. We must understand with certainty that all human beings
today, without exception, are descendants of the Fall and have inherited the lineage of Satan.  7
When God created Adam and Eve, He invested His entire being, 100 percent. He created them
based on the standard of absolute love, absolute faith and absolute obedience. He gave them His
lineage as the seed for their love and life. Likewise, from this moment on, God is re-creating you
as new people. The path is open wide for you to change your lineage through the Holy Wine
Ceremony that the True Parents have instituted. The Blessing is yours, either as newlywed
couples or as already married couples, that you may establish true families.
Second, the Fall caused the loss of the realm of siblings’ love, when in the family of Adam the
older brother Cain killed his younger brother Abel. God’s original family structure was full of
blessings, including love and harmony among siblings. The Fall degraded the sibling relationship
to a rivalry filled with envy and resentment.
To solve this problem in the lineage, I am leading humanity worldwide to join in cross-cultural
marriages. These marriages restore the original family structure, when those who are “Abel,”
relatively closer to Heaven’s side, take on the subject role and the position of the older brother.
Ladies and gentlemen, because I have spent my life discovering and disclosing these secrets of
Satan, it was inevitable that I would face persecution. At times the suffering was so intense as to
be utterly beyond words. Now, however, I am  victorious over all obstacles. I can therefore
declare the era after the coming of heaven, the age when the power of Heaven becomes manifest.
On this foundation, I am building a worldwide Abel-realm that brings together religions and
nations representing 78 percent of the current world population. To create a corresponding
worldwide Cain-realm, I am bringing together all those born with the Mongolian birthmark, which
includes some 74 percent of the world’s population.
Now these two, the worldwide Abel realm and the worldwide Cain realm, must become one and
unite with the Universal Peace Federation, which has been initiated as the Abel sovereignty. To
establish the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world, we must transcend religious affiliation and
nationality and remove all national boundaries and other barriers. I would like to reiterate that
this is the only way humankind will be able to achieve the original ideal of creation. It is our
destiny to fulfill this responsibility. By doing so, we will establish the original right of ownership
lost by the Fall of Adam and Eve.
As you form this new Abel realm, please remember that you are now charged with digesting
the Cain realm throughout heaven and earth. By doing so, you will create the conditions to
establish the new heaven and new earth, the kingdom of God on earth and in heaven, with God’s
complete authority.
A Project for Peace
Leaders from throughout the world, we are today marking the precious conclusion of the
history of God’s providence. On this occasion, let me take the opportunity to repeat the proposal
I have made for a truly providential and revolutionary project. This project is for the sake of the
establishment of the kingdom of peace that is the purpose of the culmination of the providence
for God and humankind, and also for the purpose  of establishing God’s homeland and original
hometown. From the historical point of view, the divisions of our world into East and West, North
and South were wrought by Satan. I am proposing that we build a passage for transit across the
Bering Strait that separates the North American and Russian land-masses.
This passage, which I call the “World Peace King Bridge-Tunnel,” will link an international
highway system that will allow people to travel on land from Africa’s Cape of Good Hope to
Santiago, Chile, and from London to New York, across the Bering Strait, connecting the world as
a single community.
God is warning us that He will no longer tolerate separation and division. Carrying out
this project will bind the world together as one village. It will tear down the man-made 8
walls of race, culture, religion and country, and establish the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal
world that has been God’s cherished desire.
The United States and Russia can become as one. The European Union, China, India, Japan,
Brazil and all nations, and also the world’s religions, can combine their energies to make this
project succeed. The success of this project will be decisive in establishing the kingdom of the
peaceful, ideal world, where people will no longer make war on each other.
Ladies and gentlemen, some may doubt that such a project can be completed. But where there
is a will, there is always a way—especially if it is the will of God.
The science and technology of the twenty-first century render it possible to construct a tunnel
under the Bering Strait. The construction costs are also not a problem. Think of how much
money the world is wasting on war. Humanity needs to realize that we are committing fearful
sins in the presence of history and our descendants.
Let us take one example. How much money has the United States spent on the war in Iraq
during the past three years? It is approaching $200 billion. That budget would be more than
enough to complete the Bering Strait project.
In this age, war is the most primitive and destructive means of resolving conflict, and will
never lead to lasting peace. Now is the time, as the prophet Isaiah taught, to beat our swords
into ploughshares and spears into pruning hooks. Humankind should end the perverse cycle of
war, which only sacrifices the lives of our children and squanders enormous sums of money. The
time has come for the countries of the world to pool their resources and advance toward the
kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world desired by God, the Master of this great universe.
Ladies and gentlemen, humanity is traveling down a dead-end street. The only way to survive
is to practice my teaching: the peace philosophy of true love, true life and true lineage. Now that
we have entered the era after the coming of heaven, your good ancestors are activated and the
heavenly hosts are sweeping down upon the earth. Soon the countries and peoples that appear
strong and mighty will change course and shift in this direction.
Our Mission
I leave you with a choice. There can be no perfection in ignorance. The message from Heaven
that I convey to you today is both a blessing and a warning to this generation. I will take the lead
in establishing true families, true societies, true nations and the true kingdom of the peaceful,
ideal world. Will you join me as I rise and gain strength in accordance with heavenly fortune? Or
will you remain captive behind the same old walls, all of them Satan’s handiwork—the wall of
your religion, the wall of your culture, the wall of your nationality and the wall of your race—and
spend the remainder of your time on earth in agony and regret? Heaven is summoning you to be
the wise leaders who will set aright this world of evil and establish a new heaven and new earth,
a new culture and an ideal kingdom.
The Universal Peace Federation, which was born through the concerted efforts of those here,
represents God’s victory, the fruit of the True Parents’ blood, sweat and tears, and the cherished
hope of all people. It will carry out the role of an “Abel-type” counterpart to the existing “Caintype” United Nations, representing a new sovereignty of universal peace, which I call Cheon Il
Guk. Please bear in mind that you are given the heavenly mission to build God’s substantial
homeland, the ideal world God envisioned at the time of the Creation.
Think of the peacekeeping work of the United Nations. Sometimes it withdrew its forces before
the mission was completed. The Korean War was one such example. For this reason, on October
20th in the Ukraine, during the world tour of 120 nations inaugurating the Universal Peace
Federation, I declared before the world the establishment of the “peace kingdom police force”
and the “peace kingdom corps” for the welfare and future of humanity.  9
These two organizations will safeguard order and peace in the new world. Humanity is still
ensnared in the traps of division and self-interest, which are remnants of the era before the
coming of heaven. These two organizations will be the vanguard for educating humanity in true
love in the era after the coming of heaven. The purpose of this education will be to create the
true individual, true family, true nation, true world and true universe.
I hope that you will put on new “true love armor” in this new age and be wise and brave
activists in the universal peace kingdom corps, for the sake of humanity’s future.
Please inscribe this warning from Heaven deep in your hearts. Remember that the only way to
inherit Heaven’s lineage and establish the realm of liberation and complete release is through the
Holy Marriage Blessing instituted by the True Parents. Furthermore, the Holy Marriage Blessing
provides the means to establish God’s ideal family and the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world.
I ask you to devote your best efforts, as the True Parents have, for the development and
success of the Universal Peace Federation, and toward creating God’s ideal family, ideal nation
and the peace kingdom. Please become true princes and princesses who can attend and live
together with God, the eternal Peace King and True Parent of humanity. Let us fulfill the dutiful
family way of devoted sons and daughters, patriots, saints, and members of the family of God,
and create the eternal kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world.
May God’s blessings be with you, your families and your nations.
Thank you.

Hoon Duk Hwe Contents in Preparation for Foundation Day:



Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon
"What I am about to proclaim to you today is part of the course of True Parents’ tour that is to proclaim the ultimate conclusion and fulfillment of all aspects of the providence of restoration during the lifetime of the True Parents. The path taken by the True Parents shall serve as a tradition and historic example; thus, I am proclaiming that all of you should model your life course on this path, become families that pledge to inherit and fulfill the will of God that True Parents have already accomplished, and be true to this pledge."
Hoon Duk Hwe May 8, 2012: True Father Said, "These are actually reversed in order. After the proclamation of the word of the Truth Body at the cosmic assembly, the firm settlement of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind is realized. Did you know they are reversed?"

REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON SPEAKS ON: 
Understanding Life and Death
The School of Life
The Unity of the Spirit World
The Value of Hope
Overcoming the Fear of Death
Our two Births
Three Stages of Life
Human Flight
Crossing the Finish Line
The Value of Righteousness
Face to Face with Death
Wisdom and Foolishness
How to go to Heaven
The Value of Living for Others
The Family and Spirit World
Religions and Nations in the Spirit World
God’s Call to World Leaders
The Life of Jesus as Seen from God’s Will, and God’s Warning to the Present Age, the Period of the Last Days
Jesus’ Love on the Cross, and Its Legacy
The Merit of the Thief on the Right
Jesus’ Death Gave Christianity Only a Spiritual Foundation
Jesus’ Three-Day Suffering Course
Even on the Cross, Jesus Was Concerned for Heaven and Loved His Enemies
Meaning of the Bread and Wine that Jesus Shared with Us
Call for religious unity by Reverend Sun Myung Moon

(Hoon Duk Hwe = Gathering for Reading and Learning)
Ka-jung Mange-se (Family Pledge)

  • English
  • Korean
  • As a Peace Loving Global Citizen

  • English
  • Spanish
  • Divine Principle Diagramed Lecture Manuals

  • One Hour Lecture
  • Three Hour Lecture Part I
  • Three Hour Lecture Part II
  • Divine Principle (Color Version)

  • Preface and Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chaper One THE PRINCIPLE OF CREATION
  • Chaper Two THE HUMAN FALL
  • Chapter Three ESCHATOLOGY AND HUMAN HISTORY
  • Chaper Four THE MESSIAH: HIS ADVENT AND THE PURPOSE OF HIS SECOND COMING
  • Chapter Five RESURRECTION
  • Chapter Six PREDESTINATION
  • Chapter Seven CHRISTOLOGY


  • INTRODUCTION TO RESTORATION
  • Chaper One The Providence to Lay the Foundation for Restoration
  • Chaper Two MOSES AND JESUS IN THE PROVIDENCE OF RESTORATION
  • Chapter Three THE PERIODS IN PROVIDENTIAL HISTORY AND THE DETERMINATION OF THEIR LENGTHS
  • Chaper Four THE PARALLELS BETWEEN THE TWO AGES IN THE PROVIDENCE OF RESTORATION
  • Chapter Five THE PERIOD OF PREPARATION FOR THE SECOND ADVENT OF THE MESSIAH
  • Chapter Six THE SECOND ADVENT
  • Index
  • Pyeong Hwa Shin Gyeong Peace Messages


  • Peace Message 1 - God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful , Ideal World - I Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon gave this speech on the occasion of the founding of the Universal Peace Federation on September 12, 2005. It was also given in the UPF inaugural world speaking tour to 10 nations and in the rallies for the Return of the Homeland to God, held in 180 nations in 2006.
  • Peace Message 2 - God's Model Ideal Family and Nation, and the Peace Kingdom This speech was given by both Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon during a series of assemblies for Ambassadors for Peace, Segye Times investigative reporters and other leaders in Korean society, which took place in March 2006, and in the rallies for the Return of the Homeland to God, held in 180 nations during the same year.
  • Peace Message 3 - The True Owners in Establishing the Kingdom of Peace and Unity in Heaven and on Earth - I The keynote address Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon gave on April 10, 2006, during the Third Assembly of the Mongolian Peoples’ Federation for World Peace, in the Republic of Korea.
  • Peace Message 4 - The Mission of the Clan Messiah in the Revolutionary Era After the Coming of Heaven The speech Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon gave at the “Korean Clans Joint Rally to Save the Homeland for the Sake of Universal Peace,” on June 1, 2006, at the Marriott Hotel in Seoul, Korea.
  • Peace Message 5 - Cheon Il Guk is the Ideal Heavenly Kingdom of Eternal Peace The speech Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon delivered on the occasion of the Entrance Ceremony for Cheon Jeong Peace Palace and the Coronation of the King of Peace in Heaven and Earth, on June13, 2006, at the Peace Palace in Korea.
  • Peace Message 6 - Address at the Groundbreaking Ceremony of the Times Aerospace Industrial Complex The speech Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon gave at the ground-breaking ceremony for the Times Aerospace Industrial Complex of the T.A. Korea, LLC, on June 10, 2006.
  • Peace Message 7 - God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful , Ideal World - II This message was delivered by Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon together with the three generations of his family in major cities worldwide, beginning with twelve cities in Korea on the occasion of the Victorious Liberation Rallies for the Homeland of Universal Peace and the Return of Heaven and Earth to God, beginning August 31, 2006.
  • Peace Message 8 - The True Owners in Establishing the Kingdom of Peace and Unity in Heaven and on Earth II The speech Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon gave at the Fifth Assembly of the Mongolian Peoples’ Federation for World Peace, on October 14, 2006, at Cheon Jeong Peace Palace, Korea.
  • Peace Message 9 - God's Ideal Family and the Kingdom of the Peaceful , Ideal World - III The speech delivered on behalf of Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon in 14,400 cities throughout 120 nations from October 22 to December 20, 2006, during the “120 Ambassadors for Peace Speaking Tour for World Peace.”
  • Peace Message 10 - The Family rooted in Absolute Sexual Ethics, which is the Model for God's Absoluteness, Peace and Ideal, and the Global Kingdom The speech Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon gave on the occasion of the Forty-seventy True Children’s Day, on November 21, 2006, at the Korea International Exhibition Center, Ilsan, Korea.
  • Peace Message 11 - The Mission of the Ambassadors for Peace in the Revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven - The speech Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon gave at the “National Rally for Ambassadors For Peace for Peace and Unity” at the Korea International Exhibition Center in Korea on December 8, 2006.
  • Peace Message 12 - God's Ideal Family and the Responsibility the Citizens of Cheon Il Guk are called to fulfill The speech Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon gave at the True Parents’ Birthday celebration (which was also Dr. Moon’s “Misoo”—his 88th birthday by Korean counting), at Cheon Jeong Peace Palace in Korea, on February 23, 2007.
  • Peace Message 13 - 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 March 17 in the Seventh Year of Cheon Il Guk (2007) - Hawaii King Garden
  • Peace Message 14 - The Value and Significance of the Family Pledge
  • Peace Message 15 - The Three Great Subject Partners Principle from the Viewpoint of God’s Providence The Founder’s Address at the WCSF 2007 Grand Opening Ceremony, which took place at the Yu Gwan Soon Gymnasium in Cheonan, Korea, on July 4, 2007
  • Peace Message 16 - 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. True Parents Address on Chil Pal Jeol in the Ssang Hab (combined) jubilee years, the 7th and 8th years of Cheon Il Guk August 7, Eighth Year of Cheon Il Guk
  • Peace Message 17 - True Father's Speech in Seville
  • True Family Gateway to Heaven

  • Gateway to Heaven
  • Owner of Peace, Owner of Lineage

  • Owner of Peace, Owner of Lineage
  • World Scripture

  • World Scripture and the Teachings of Sun Myung Moon
  • Cheon Seong Gyeong

  • True God
  • True Parents
  • True Love
  • True Family
  • Earthly Life and the Spirit World
  • Our Life and the Spiritual Realm
  • Etiquette and Ceremonies
  • Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity
  • Blessed Family
  • The Way in the Completed Testament Age
  • The Root of the Universe
  • The Pacific Rim Providence
  • Restoration of the True God’s Homeland
  • A Life of True Filial Piety
  • The Life of an Owner of Cheon Il Guk
  • True Families and the Family Pledge
  • Glossary
  • The Original Divine Principle

  • Lecture Guide
  • English Lecture Slides as used for May - June 2012 Workshop in Korea
  • 17.8.12

    World Assembly to Proclaim the Substantial Word of God and the Era of the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind

    Respected leaders from around the world, distinguished guests from home and abroad, ladies and gentlemen,


    On behalf of True Parents, True Family, the Republic of Korea, the United States of America, and Unification Church members worldwide, I sincerely welcome and express my deepest appreciation to you for coming to participate in this providential World Assembly to Proclaim the Embodiment of God’s Word and the Era of the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind despite your busy schedules.
    In this year alone, thousands of representatives and top leaders from 120 nations of the world
    honored us with their presence on several occasions, including our Golden Anniversary, Coronation,
    and various Legacy-of-Peace Memorial Festivals held at the UN building and in cities around the
    United States and the world—making for many wonderful events. Once again, I would like to express
    my appreciation on behalf of all the people of the Republic of Korea and all of humankind.
    Ladies and gentlemen, this is a very eventful time in God’s providence. A few months ago I celebrated
    my ninetieth birthday and took my first steps toward the hundredth year of my life. I have been blessed
    with a long life, beyond the average human lifespan. My wife and I arranged for today’s world-level
    celebration to commemorate our fiftieth wedding anniversary. From a providential point of view, this
    year is not simply the year of our Golden Anniversary; it is also a Jubilee year.
    We have fourteen children, of whom five have graduated from Harvard University. Among our
    forty-plus grandchildren, several are already studying there. Moreover, a great number of good men
    and women from 194 nations have come to recognize and follow us as the King and Queen of Peace
    and the True Parents.
    Throughout our lives, we have established many international organizations and institutions to
    promote world peace. We have invested unreservedly in many fields including interreligious
    cooperation, projects to benefit society, intercultural activities, sports, education and the media, and we
    have successfully led these initiatives with the aim of promoting peace and bringing salvation to
    humanity.
    After working to succeed in all these things, people would probably commend us, saying that we
    deserve to look back and pleasantly enjoy the rest of our lives with the good wishes of all people. They
    would probably encourage us to forget about everything and sit back and enjoy the successes achieved
    during the past ninety years!
    However, my wife and I cannot look at the lives we have led in such a worldly way. We have had to
    complete the mission of the actual True Parents, given to us by God, Who is Himself the vertical True
    Parent of all humankind. Now, with three years remaining in this mission to make God’s kingdom,
    Cheon Il Guk, a reality, we are leading each day of our lives with more seriousness than ever before.
    Throughout my life, I have offered myself for the liberation of God, the one and only True Parent of
    heaven and earth, to restore to Him His rightful position as parent, to save all of human beings who
    suffer in the realm of death, and to return them to God’s bosom. For this purpose I have persevered and triumphed, alone, over countless tribulations while leading the people of the world, who are like lost
    and unaware orphans searching for their parents, toward the goal of global salvation. Due to the Fall,
    brought about by our first ancestors, people are born into the false lineage. Every one without exception wanders in darkness even now, unable to break free of Satan’s bondage. Under such circumstances, how could my wife and I be anything less than completely serious in our lives as we show the 6.5 billion people of the world the way along the path toward the building of God’s kingdom on earth?
    Three Stages of Creation
    Ladies and gentlemen, God created human beings as His children. As the original absolute, unique,
    unchanging and eternal being, God created people by breathing His love into them to endow them
    with a soul. If not for the Fall, we would have been able to perfect ourselves as God is perfect, to fulfill
    the way of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, and to attain eternal life.
    But unfortunately, human beings are living as descendants of the Fall. In order to live a perfect life,
    all people without exception must receive life through the blessing from True Parents in the three
    stages of rebirth, resurrection and eternal life. Rebirth, in this context, refers to an individual attaining
    new life. Resurrection is when a family and nation attains new life, and eternal life refers to all of
    humankind attaining perfection and living forever in God’s homeland after establishing the kingdom
    of heaven on earth and in the spirit world by attending True Parents, the King and Queen of Peace.
    Your ancestors who are in the spirit world shall now return to this earth according to the time of the
    True Parents who directly govern all life and all things as the substantial entity of God who exists
    without form. They will go through the three-stage blessings of rebirth, resurrection and eternal life
    and complete the Original Divine Principle education — the education on absolute marital fidelity —
    organized by True Parents. Only then can they take part in the original authority granted by the
    seunghwa — ascension and liberation — and attain the qualifications to become citizens of Cheon Il
    Guk.
    We can see that each person’s life goes through three stages. Everyone is conceived through the grace
    of God and the love of his or her parents. The first stage of life is the long (yet short) nine months spent in the mother’s womb. No one is exempt from this! Whether we are conscious of it or not at the time, all of us without exception spend nine months in our mother’s womb. Even though a woman’s womb is smaller than some rice cookers, from the perspective of a fetus, it is larger than the entire universe.
    What about our birth into the second stage of our lives, which occurs on earth? How could we find
    words adequate to describe the struggle of a newborn baby as it is faced with a completely unfamiliar,
    new world? The first lonely cry of a newborn as it experiences the large and wide world that it finds
    upon exiting the womb represents the promise of a one-hundred-year future, the blessing and
    celebration of entering a new time and space.
    We have all received the blessing of birth that enabled us to live in the second stage of our lives.
    Although a hundred years is much longer than the nine months we spend in the womb, please do not
    forget that there is still a course we must follow to a higher end. Although we have all forgotten the
    standard of consciousness that we possessed in our mother’s womb, and though you may think that
    we are now enjoying our lives fully in this big, wide world with a higher standard of consciousness,
    there is yet one final stage of our lives, which is the way toward eternal life.
    That third stage occurs in the world of eternal life, the spirit world, which we enter upon ending our
    life on this earth. We were originally meant to enter the spirit world having first perfected our spirits
    during our life on earth. It is a world that cannot be imagined by people descended from the Fall, a
    world in which we transcend time and space. Just as the fetus in his or her mother’s womb cannot
    imagine life on earth, we, as people living and breathing air in this earthly world, cannot easily
    understand the spirit world, where we will be reborn in our spiritual bodies, living and breathing true
    love.
    Ladies and gentlemen, as people face death, they may tremble in fear and terror if they do not
    understand the true meaning of passing on. Although human history has continued for more than six
    thousand years, no one, unfortunately, has clearly taught the truth regarding death. Now, in the Last
    Days of history, I have been able to reveal this truth, this heavenly secret, as the True Parent of
    humankind.
    Ladies and gentlemen, the word “death” is sacred. It is not a synonym for “sadness and suffering.”
    True Parents have created the term seunghwa [ascension] to explain the true significance of death. The
    moment we enter the spirit world should be a time that we enter a world of joy and victory with the
    fruits born of our lives on earth. It is a time for those of us remaining on earth to send off the departed
    with joy. It should be a time for great celebration. We should be shedding tears of joy instead of tears of sadness. That is the way of the sacred and noble Seunghwa Ceremony. The Seunghwa Ceremony is the first step the spirit of the departed takes toward enjoying eternal life in attendance of God, within His embrace. At the moment of death, our spirits should feel more excited and thrilled than a newlywed
    bride feels when she goes to her groom’s home for the first time.
    In order to open the door for all people to experience this kind of precious eternal life, I held a
    Seunghwa Ceremony at the United Nations headquarters in New York on March 18 in honor of world
    leaders who had recently passed into the next world.
    The following are the names of those commemorated on that occasion:
    General Alexander Haig, a former U.S. Secretary of State, who with the UN forces saved my life by
    leading the bombing of the North Korean Hungnam Special Labor Camp where I was imprisoned
    during the Korean War; Mr. Kim Dae-jung, a former South Korean president, who won the Nobel
    Peace Prize; Mr. Hedi Annabi, a Tunisian diplomat and head of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti,
    who died in the 2010 Haitian earthquake; the one hundred UN workers who died alongside Mr.
    Annabi; Mr. Rodrigo Carazo Odio, a former president of Costa Rica, who is known internationally as
    “the Peace President”; Mr. Abdurrahman Wahid, a former president of Indonesia, who gave his entire
    life for the sake of his great nation; Mr. Steingrimur Hermannsson, a former prime minister of Iceland,
    who helped host the meeting of then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and United States President
    Ronald Reagan, which accelerated the end of the Cold War; Shaykh Hassan Cisse of Senegal, who is
    respected as a great scholar of Islamic authority; and Mr. Laxmi Mall Singhvi of India, who is praised
    as the “Ambassador of Reconciliation and Peace” by India’s 1.1 billion people.
    There are other people whom we would especially like to remember through this ceremony and
    send to the spirit world with the Seunghwa Blessing. I’m sure you have already heard about the recent
    sinking of the ship Cheonan in Korea where 46 sailors suddenly lost their lives in the course of duty.
    During my four-city speaking tour in Korea in April, my wife and I bestowed the grace of the Seunghwa Blessing on these unfortunate seamen who died.
    Later, during another event at Las Vegas, USA, I bestowed the Seunghwa Blessing on Dr. Reiko
    Kawasaki, a 17th-generation descendant of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the last shogun in Japanese history, who
    united the Japanese archipelago in the 17th century. She was a medical doctor from Las Vegas, and
    recently passed away after living a life of continuous service to others. Before her passing, she played
    an important role for the sake of the realization of world peace by setting a foundation for the future
    resolution of various issues in Korea, Japan and the United States, including political and economic
    issues. Thus, I have included her in the list of those who will receive this sacred Seunghwa Blessing.
    Distinguished leaders, although the lives of the people whose names I mentioned were altruistic and
    philanthropic, none of them can be guaranteed entry into the world of eternal life without receiving the
    marriage blessing and the Seunghwa Blessing of the True Parent [Rev. Moon] in this world today, in
    which the parent-child relationship between God and humankind was severed due to the Fall of the
    first ancestors. Please take this point seriously.
    Ladies and gentlemen, this era, when God has introduced the heavenly calendar, is a serious one. It
    is now the time in which all 6.5 billion of the world’s people must understand my teachings, which I
    bequeath as the True Parent who is responsible to give eternal life to all of humankind. Now is a time
    that you can share the good news of the coming of the True Parents throughout the entire world. The
    time has come to honor and inherit the tradition and spirit of the Korean people, from which the True
    Parents emerged, establish the heavenly tradition, and bring about world peace by uniting all 6.5 billion
    people of the world with the United Nations. With the start of the heavenly calendar, please do not
    forget that the Seunghwa Blessing Ceremony is a sacred rite in which anyone can inherit the worldview
    of a holy citizen of the kingdom of heaven and celebrate God’s liberation and all humankind’s liberation.
    In this way, the ideal of a family based on true love can be completed, and God and all people, the
    heavenly spirit world and the earthly physical world, can be completely united to usher in a reign of
    peace over the world. Please take this time to express your gratitude to God and True Parents for giving the keys of the Blessing Ceremony and Seunghwa Ceremony to all the world’s nations, allowing for the establishment of the traditions of God’s kingdom, Cheon Il Guk, through True Parents.
    Please join me in giving a round of applause to our Heavenly Father for His benevolence, through
    which we can receive the grace of precious life without Him asking for anything in return.
    One Family Under God
    Ladies and gentlemen, what is the path that humankind should take today? Even now tens of millions of innocent lives are being lost each year to war, disease, starvation and natural disasters that arise in all parts of the world. In every field you observe, from the individual to the collective level — whether religion, politics, education, culture or ideology — people are deeply mired in the swamp of self-centered egoism, raising walls around themselves. We now live in a world brought to ruin, where genuine communication has broken down.
    Ultimately, the problems afflicting humanity can only be resolved through the worldview of One
    Family under God, in other words, the ideology based on true love, which my wife and I, the True
    Parents, have learned from Heaven and have championed and taught throughout our lives. This is the
    only way for humankind to find the path toward peace and happiness.
    Ladies and gentlemen, we are living in a historic time of great cosmic transition. It is a time for a great
    cosmic revolution to change history, to unite the spiritual and physical worlds and to create the ideal
    kingdom of heaven that God has longed for since the beginning of time.
    We can no longer postpone or prolong the fulfillment of His wish. I have already proclaimed that
    January 13, 2013 will be “Foundation Day.” That day will be the actual beginning of God’s Kingdom of
    Cheon Il Guk. That day will be the origin. Yet, less than three years remain until then.
    Therefore, it is time for all people to be humbly obedient to Heaven’s decree. An unavoidable time is
    upon us today when we must invest ourselves completely with a life or death commitment for these
    remaining three years under the guidance of the True Parents who carry out the providence on earth
    as the substantial representatives of God, the king of kings. All the good spirits in the spirit world are
    mobilized and are already moving forward, a step ahead of you.
    Ladies and gentlemen, do you have any idea how much pain God suffered the moment our first
    ancestors, into whom God had invested His complete and unreserved devotion since time immemorial,
    fell and disappeared into darkness, becoming part of Satan’s lineage? Are you even remotely aware
    that our Heavenly Father — who endured tens of thousands of years of excruciating heartache so great
    that His bones shed tears and His flesh quivered — had to go through the long, dark tunnel of
    indemnifying the human Fall in order to save His lost children? How many of you have spent days and
    nights in tears, yearning to comfort our Father in Heaven?
    The Mission of the Korean People
    Ladies and gentlemen, God raised and prepared the Korean people over a period of thousands of
    years. All people of the Christian faith recognize that God sent His true son Jesus Christ to earth two
    thousand years ago to save humankind. However, Jesus suffered a miserable fate.
    The leaders of Judaism and the people of Israel were supposed to receive Jesus as the Messiah and
    follow him with absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience. They should never have allowed
    Jesus’ crucifixion to take place.
    He suddenly left this world, leaving behind the words, “It is finished.” Yet these words apply to
    salvation in the spiritual reality only. After two thousand years of preparation, his Second Coming, on
    the Korean Peninsula, has finally borne the fruits of his labor.
    From the past, the Korean people have worshiped God as the highest and primal ancestor of their
    forefathers. They called that single being and progenitor of all people the “One”—in other words, God.
    They served Him as the lord (who created night and day). Thus, all numbers begin from one and two.
    With the sense that He is their original ancestor, the Korean people have served God and thus the spirit
    of interdependence, mutual prosperity and universally shared values is alive in the soul and tradition
    of the race. They have maintained themselves over five thousand years of history, yet not once have
    they invaded or plundered another nation or people. The spirit of benefiting all mankind still flows in
    the veins of the Korean people.
    The spirit of filial piety, fidelity, and loyalty, which are the fundamental virtues of human life, are still
    alive and breathing in Korean history. These values can be found in the men and women of Korea and
    reflect the pride and spirit of the Korean people.
    I have inherited such traditional values as the true filial piety exemplified in the folk tale Shimcheong,
    about a devoted daughter who offered her life so that her blind father could see; the profound love and
    fidelity displayed by Choonhyang, who overcame the fear of death in order to keep the promise she
    had made to her husband; and the unbreakable loyalty exhibited by Admiral Yi Soon-shin, who gave
    his life to save his nation and people despite being abandoned by his king and other leaders. These
    lofty Korean values and traditions are not just matters of historical chance. Based on these values,
    Heaven has prepared this people; this was all part of the providence of creating a foundation to send
    the returning Messiah. On the foundation of such preparation, and riding on the energy of this
    peninsula, I finally came, having received Heaven’s seal as the True Parent of humankind and the king
    of kings.
    The Path Humankind Should Take
    Distinguished Guests, your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen:
    The path that humanity must now take is clear. What would give you cause to hesitate in the face of
    the D-day that Heaven has revealed through us, the True Parents? There are now only 903 days
    remaining. Heaven’s blessings will be with you on your ambitious and busy course.
    If you view the flow of history through eyes that focus on God’s providence, you can see that the
    changes of the times can be broadly classified into three stages. First is the “era of worldly matters,” in
    other words, a time when materialism took precedence. Next came the “era of human affairs,” a
    humanistic era when peoples’ knowledge and emotions took precedence in and dominated the world.
    However, these eras were transitional. They were courses of preparation necessary in order to enter
    the era in which people could rid themselves of their fallen nature, return to their original selves and
    live as one united family where they attend God as their father.
    The “era of heavenly affairs” is the final stage, in which human beings should follow the path of
    living for the sake of others. They should do this through establishing an absolute standard on the
    foundation of purifying themselves, both inside and out, through the holy Blessing Ceremony. This is
    the time of opening up the era of God’s kingdom, Cheon Il Guk, a time in which we can return to the
    heart of the one true God. Please engrave this point on your hearts.
    Once the actual era of Cheon Il Guk begins, the spiritual and earthly worlds will be connected and
    brought into oneness, and all things will be governed under the Union of the Spiritual and Physical
    Worlds, which will be established on earth for the first time. Moreover, the providence will be carried
    out according to the heavenly law and the heavenly way. Elections conducted in a purely secular
    fashion will disappear from the face of the earth. All people will become one family through crosscultural marriage and the World Peace Marriage Blessing, and we will enjoy tranquility and happiness in the sacred reign of peace. Let me say it again: this day is drawing near.
    As part of preparing for that time, a few months ago, on February 14, I proclaimed to all of heaven
    and earth the start of the new heavenly calendar. The Gregorian calendar and lunar calendar shall now
    stand in the positions of Cain and Abel and serve the role of supporting the heavenly calendar, by
    which we will record and indicate the progress of God’s providence.
    You must all now engrave True Parents’ teachings onto your bones and practice them in your life. We
    have no choice. If we do not prepare now, we will surely be left behind. We should learn from the
    courage and fortitude of the white-necked cranes that fly across the Himalayas — which are more than
    seven thousand meters high — in preparation for winter.
    My Final Words for Humankind
    True Parents have already prepared the last words I will give to humankind. These have been
    prepared based on my triumphs over six or seven life-or-death situations, including six periods of
    unjust imprisonment. I am leaving behind eight textbooks and teaching materials for humankind to
    use for all eternity. Altogether, these are published in almost a thousand volumes.
    They are The Sermons of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Exposition of the Divine Principle, Cheon
    Seong Gyeong [Heavenly Scripture], The Family Pledge, Pyeong Hwa Shin Gyeong [Messages of
    Peace], True Families—Gateway to Heaven, Owner of Peace and Owner of Lineage and World Scripture.
    These are textbooks you will have to read and study even after you go to the spirit world. They are not
    just teachings that come from the mind of one person; they are textbooks and teaching materials that
    teach the heavenly way that God has granted to His suffering children for their salvation.
    You should now set up the hoondokhae study tradition in your families using the books I have
    mentioned. That is the tradition where three generations of a family start each day by reading Heaven’s
    word, and lead a life of practicing what they read, with a new heart. Let’s create a world where people
    in the spirit world and the earthly world can both attend True Parents at the same time, and read the
    word on the heavenly path together.
    Once this happens, no matter how hard Satan may try to worm his way in to infest your lineage, once
    he encounters the hoondokhae tradition he will find no room to move. If a family is aligned with God
    as at high noon, where no shadow is cast, and still does not receive God’s blessings, who then could be deserving of them? When such heavenly families fill the earth, the world will automatically become the heavenly kingdom on earth and in the eternal spirit world, fulfilling the vision of one family under
    God.
    Ladies and gentlemen, last year, my memoirs, As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen, an honest and
    candid account of my life, were published. Through this book I share how I discovered God’s will for
    humankind and the path that we, as God’s children, should follow. My life has been a typical model of
    the saying, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.” I have as much faith in this book as in the
    hoondok textbooks and teaching materials I have mentioned. For this reason, I recommend it to you,
    believing that it will show you how to lead your lives according to true principles. It does not subtract
    or add anything to the ninety years of my life, which I have led under Heaven’s decree. I pray you will
    carefully read this articulation of true love and find great inspiration.
    I have already mentioned that a life of vertical “noon-time” alignment casts no shadow. If we can all
    shine as we live such glowing lives, there will be no chance for the shadow of sin to be cast. Those who receive the light will be indebted to the light. I pray that we can now wipe away the tears of people in misery and poverty, and lead an illuminated life of eternal true love that dissipates all darkness.
    Proclamation of the Era of the Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind
    Ladies and gentlemen, a month ago in Las Vegas, there was a special proclamation centered on God
    that was given by the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind on two separate days—one part
    at 2:20 am on the 8th day of the 5th month of the Heavenly Calendar (June 19, 2010) and the other at
    3:25 am, on the 15th day of the 5th month of the Heavenly Calendar (June 26, 2010).
    The number 3 from 3:25 am represents the three eras from the saying “Success comes at the third
    attempt.” It also symbolizes the Old, New and Completed Testament ages. Twenty-five minutes, or the
    number 25, is a quarter of one hundred. The True Parents have achieved ultimate unity and offered and
    proclaimed the era of [God’s] full transcendence, full immanence, full authority and omnipotence upon
    the standard of perfection, completion and conclusion.
    Furthermore, with the Seunghwa Ceremony for former United States Secretary of State General
    Alexander Haig, I proclaimed that the ceremony for the victory of the first, second, and third Israels,
    which completed the ceremonies for rebirth, resurrection and seunghwa during my lifetime, was
    transferred to Korea.
    Thus, Korea will now become God’s homeland and hometown. By proclaiming that Korea is God’s
    homeland, the Convention to Proclaim the Word that Firmly Establishes the True Parents of Heaven,
    Earth and Humankind could be completed in Korea on July 8, 2010.
    Through this proclamation ceremony, all the borderlines in the entire cosmos have been abolished.
    Consequently, centering on the autonomous God, heaven and earth shall exist eternally, night and day,
    under God’s reign and with the support of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind.
    Distinguished guests, at this serious and important time, a revolutionary and cosmic change must
    now take place in your lives. Let us summarize the message Heaven has given to us today in light of
    this.
    First, all blessed families should attend God at the center of their families and every day carry out
    hoondok education, which can completely unite parents and children. In other words, you should
    thoroughly teach the Divine Principle, the textbooks and teaching materials True Parents have
    bequeathed, True Father’s autobiography, and absolute marital fidelity taught through the Original
    Divine Principle.
    Second, Heaven has permitted the grace of the authority of seunghwa for rebirth and resurrection to
    be bestowed on the family unit. Here, a requisite condition is the complete unity between parents and
    children. In other words, you must establish the standard for absolute parents and absolute children,
    and establish an absolute family.
    Third, humankind has moved out of the authority of the era of restoration through indemnity, thanks
    to the grace of True Parents who have suffered hardships through which they sweat blood. Therefore,
    do not forget the fact that during True Parents’ lifetimes we all have the responsibility to liberate
    families, tribes, peoples, nations and the world from the authority of hell. Now that the era of restoration through indemnity has ended, what kind of era is dawning? The reign of tranquility and prosperity in the victorious authority centered on God and True Parents shall be eternal.
    Fourth, we are now entering the era of the authority of God’s direct dominion. Ladies and gentlemen,
    I have said that less than three years remain until the D-day proclaimed by Heaven. I beg that you
    inscribe in your hearts the fact that we have entered the era of the authority of the cosmic Sabbath in
    which your family members in the spirit world shall return to the earth to receive the Original Divine
    Principle education, and where eight generations will live together in a single family. Aju!
    Once again, I offer you my heartfelt thanks for your gracing this occasion with your presence and
    celebrating this providential event. I pray that you will live in good health and in the abundance of
    God’s love. It is my hope that we can offer greater glory and honor to God the next time we meet.
    I pray that the blessings of God, the king of kings, will be upon you, your family and your nation.
    Thank you very much.