Hyo Jin Moon
Absolutely Unite with Heavenly Father
Belvedere, Tarrytown, NY USA
January 22, 1989
Unofficial Notes from 6:00 am Speech
How
many of you just returned from Korea? Maybe some of you
would like to share some of your experience there.
(Three brothers and sisters share some testimony).
Do you
feel happy about the Blessing? It is very important for
us, right? I'd like to share about the depth and meaning
of the Blessing as much as I can.
Heavenly Fathers ideal was to have Adam and Eve
absolutely united with Him. Based on that and true love,
Heavenly Father would expand His love. The reason that
man was created was to fulfill God's ideal of true love.
He needed an object, someone for give and take. The
ideal of love comes from give and take between two
beings, a subject and an object, it can't happen with
just one person. Based on this give and take the ideal
would have been realized, but God's desire to
substantiate this ideal was not completed because of
mans failure. Throughout history, all indemnity has
centered upon restoring the ideal relationship between
God and man, back to the original intention of God. Man
had a responsibility, it could not be fulfilled
automatically. Man had to participate in this making of
God's ideal. In order to receive from Heavenly Father,
the object has to have the quality of love which God
wants to have give and take with, otherwise there is no
reciprocation between God and man on the ideals of love.
The ideal is only attained with the presence of God. For
this to happen man had to fulfill something, what was
it?
All of
the creation was initiated by God, the whole universe.
Just as He gave His effort, investing every ounce of
Himself, everything to create His vision and ideal, man
too has to give everything he has, man has to fully
participate in this effort. We like to put emphasis on
"my existence", we have strong feelings of self
existence, why? Because through investment of our total
effort we can obtain the ideals of God. We have to give
every ounce of our effort to earn our place to receive
Heavenly Fathers love. That is why all of us seek to
know ourselves. We must be responsible to obtain the
ideals of God. It doesn't matter who you are, what color
you are or what race you are, be like God, act, think,
like God to receive His ideal.
No
matter how miserable reality is we seek the ideal,
something intangible. We want to belong to the Garden of
Eden before the fall. It is every man and woman's
responsibility if they want to receive Heavenly Fathers
love. What was that responsibility? To know that we must
understand the fall of man. Men and women did not live
up to the expectation and will of God. He expected them
to obey and to unite but they failed to do so.
Absolutely unite, no matter what, no "maybes" --
unconditionally unite. In order for man and woman to
receive from God they must absolutely obey and unite
with God, no exception to this rule. The ideal lies in
the will of God. We are the part of creation meant to
respond to God, so we should be responsible, we can not
be on a separate course than God.
The
ideal of man rests absolutely on man uniting with God.
No matter how tempting anything might be there is no
excuse, no exception. We cannot expect to say" Just
forgive me because this and that happened and I could
not resist". As a man you cannot put conditions on the
will of God, that is where the fall lies, men and women
put their conditions on Gods love.
We were
given the blessing to participate in fulfilling true
love. Who screwed up? Not Heavenly Father, but men and
women, the fault lies in you. How can we restore this
fall?
The
reason God is trying to save man is the fulfillment of
His ideal. That is why this fallen mind can even think
and dream of going back to the ideal and receiving God's
love. The object must be worthy to receive God's love.
This years motto is the Unification of Korea. It is a
very specific motto, last year it was the fatherland.
The fatherland can be anywhere. How can Father claim
this? On what grounds is he thinking of unifying Korea,
does anyone know?
Father
has directed a mobilization of 7000 members to Korea,
why is this happening? What does the Blessing of 36
couples stand for? If Adam and Eve fulfilled, they would
have been true parents, multiplying to a larger level.
Since this was not substantiated the second Adam and Eve
had to come. At the time of Jesus, the tribal level, if
his family would have united, Jesus would have chosen a
true mother, and would have substantiated on a tribal
level. To see the necessity of unity between North and
South Korea we have to look at the significance of the
division of the Northern and Southern Kingdoms. Through
Elijah, God wanted to cleanse the divided Kingdoms. The
ten tribes of the north were worshippers of Baal. Elijah
brought fire from heaven and burned all the idols of
Baal in the north. Based on that in the future Israel
would be able to prepare for the coming of the Messiah.
Because
Abraham failed in making the symbolic offering, his
responsibility was passed onto Jacob, the son in the
Abel position. Through him, preparation to receive the
Messiah was made. Jacob was the one who went to Haran
and for twenty one years worked to win conditions set by
Satan.
Jacob's
son Joseph became the next central figure. He was sold
by his brothers. Their relationship was not so good
because of the dreams he had, they made his brothers
jealous. One day they decided to murder him, but Judah
said that they should sell him into slavery instead. He
was sold into slavery in Egypt where he later went to
prison and was called to translate dreams. Finally he
became the prime minister. The course of Joseph was the
model for Jesus because he became prime minister at age
thirty, uniting his tribe. He could have become king,
restoring everything and uniting the world.
If
Elijah had wiped out all the worshippers of Baal, he
would have created the national foundation to receive
the Messiah. It then would have been much easier for
Gods will to be accomplished. But there were still 7000
priests of Baal living. Elijah failed because God had
told him to wipe them all out. Since he failed at this
point, he had to return later to work through John the
Baptist.
The
reason for the mobilization of 7000 members to Korea is
to restore this historical failure, to enable north and
south to unite. The 36 to the 6000 couples Blessings
have belonged to that era. The significance of Kook Jin
Nim's Blessing and the Blessing of the 72 couples of the
second generation is to substantially construct Heavenly
Fathers nation. We need ideal representation of Heavenly
Fathers family, tribe and nation. The second generation
is the fruit and essence of the ideal reciprocation. If
Adam and Eve fulfilled, their children would have been
Blessed, created an ideal tribe and would have spread
and multiplied, creating an ideal world. The
significance of the second generation blessing is that
they are the seed of blessing. They have been cultivated
to the point where they can receive the Blessing and
create ideal tribes. Without propagating this ideal
course you cannot erect the ideal nation. The reason
Jesus had twelve disciples, was to symbolize children,
seventy two apostles symbolize the tribe and later 120
at the time of Pentecost signify the national
foundation.
If
there had been unity between Joseph and Zachariah, Jesus
would have moved ahead quickly. John the Baptist's
responsibility was to cleanse the culture, and unite
those worshipping idols with the Jews.
Centering upon True Parents family, my brothers
matching,and the seventy two Blessed couples, you were
Blessed-- couples from all over the world. All colors,
all races will create the ideal nation. The lineage
comes from one absolute couple. [Missed some text here
as pen ran out of ink]. That is the significance of the
mobilization of 7000 members. We need 7000 heavenly
representatives in order to fulfill this national
foundation. Many of you are excited about the present
time. Father is going through much suffering because of
failures. Father had to make all preparations. He had to
take on the burden and indemnify all failures himself.
How
many of you are truly learning Korean? (About half of
the members raised their hands.) I'm sorry that English
is not my first language. If you truly value the
principle and understand its content, at least all of
you should raise your hands. I do not care how well you
speak, at least raise your hand.
Another
thing that bothered me, there were so many blessing
candidates that came from broken blessings especially
among western members. Father was not pleased. If you
cannot treasure the value of the Blessing from God where
is your value? Lets get one thing clear, how many of you
truly value the Blessing? How come so many were broken?
Think of that.
Father
has sacrificed his life, his body and mind to give you
this kind of blessing. It did not happen whimsically. He
has been victorious. He did not falter. Do you think his
victory was easy? How many of you went to prison? How
many of you were tortured? How many of you have had
nothing to eat except scraps left for the dogs? If we so
called Unification Church members do not see the
significance of the Blessing, no one can. If you cannot
solve the problem between just one man and one woman,
how can you solve the problems of the world?
All of
us want something in our lives. We want joy and
happiness, the essence is receiving joy and happiness.
How does that come? Through reciprocating with some
object. What is ideal give and take? Does it center upon
wealth? Power? Authority? Or love? What is love, how
does it come about? Love blossoms when one gives oneself
for the sake of love, living for something greater than
yourself. In the relationship between man and woman
their main objective should be to live for the sake of
their families. If you give everything for the sake of
your mate, your mate receives love.
In this
world people want others to give everything to them.
Especially with their sexual partners, they want the
other person to give everything and make them feel good.
One man might think "If this woman does not do what I
want her to do I can go find another one". What is your
main object when you start your family? Your greater
value lies in your family. I hear people saying "My
husband and I are total opposites, we are too different,
extreme opposites, we cannot exist together". I say "So
what? Men and women are total opposites".
Lets
say that one couple has been struggling for six years.
They tried but could not unite. Then one day the husband
sees a beautiful woman walk by and he discovers that she
is perfect for him, she can fill all his needs and he
can fill all of hers, so they go off together. Is this a
happy ending, will they live happily ever after?
If you
are blessed your main ideal is to fulfill a blessed
family. Try to fulfill with the heart Father has always
been showing you. I do not care what your problem is.
In
North Korea, if you go against Kim Il Sung, disagree
with his teachings or want to do things your own way,
you are dead, you will be killed. With Fathers way, even
if you give up on Father, quit your blessing, even if
you spit on him, would Father try to kill you? No, he
has forgiven even the worst of his enemies.
America
is a significant Christian nation, like the second
Israelites, because of the good foundation that this
country was founded on. If, in 1945, the United States,
Great Britain and France would have united with Father,
worldwide restoration would have happened very quickly.
Korea, the United States, everybody has failed. Because
of this Father has prepared a providential foundation.
After
Great Britain failed, Heavenly Father had to choose
Japan as the Eve nation. It is the biggest enemy of
Korea, there is only hatred between many Japanese and
Korean people, even now. The Japanese always thought
that the Koreans were even lower than the animals.
Heavenly Father always has to choose opposites. Germany
was chosen as Cain, because America and Germany are
completely different. The reason that Father recently
blessed the Korean and Japanese couples is to unite the
Adam and Eve nations, upon that we can substantialize
the ideal nation. In the 72 couples, Father stuck Mr.
Kamiyama's daughter in, resolving the past, uniting
these nations to create the ideal nation. Korea
represents the origin of nations like Adam. Through
Adam, God will propagate His love to the rest of the
world. Other nations can come back to God through the
substantial reunification of Korea. Without restoration
of Korea, Heavenly Father cannot fulfill.
Many
things are happening in Korea, they are opening up.
There is talk of a unifying election. It is not
unrealistic. There are many things that I cannot say
until it happens. I'd like to trust everyone here but
like the Molko case, people have failed in the past.
People call themselves members, then turn around and
sue, saying that they were manipulated and brainwashed.
The most troubling thing is that the court is allowing
this to go on, supporting the deprogrammers. You have to
be strong and live up to your commitment. It is an
oriental saying that even the tiger leaves something
behind when it dies, it leaves its skin. How much more a
man should do!
Maybe
it is because it is getting closer to 1990, every time I
speak to you I push you about learning Korean. Every
time I speak in English I lose all my energy, its
strange. In Korean I can go on for hours. English drains
me. If you understand Korean the depth of Fathers speech
is incredible, every word has incredible meaning. I
understand Fathers heart completely. When I see you
sitting here with so many different thoughts lingering
about your mind, it makes me so angry. You need to
understand his heart, more importantly you need to
understand principle. Father asked you to learn Korean
five or six years ago. Everyone is just busy with their
families, you forgot your providential responsibility.
How many people are in the New York area? If 1000 people
made $100 a week for the church, that would be
$100,000.Dr. Durst came to Father to report this court
case. Even though we are using our own members as legal
staff, it is still costing $30,000 each month to sustain
this legal fight. My Father has done everything for
America. He educated 7000 clergy, we have all the
necessary foundation to work. The least we can do is
maintain the church.
When
the Washington Times first started it was costing $80
million . How much do you think you donated? None. All
of it came from Japan and Korea, and even now Father has
to give money to maintain the American Unification
Church. That amount has to go down, these are only
insignificant examples of the suffering and toils of
Father.
You
have to do everything that Father tells you to do. I was
excited about my recordings, I felt like it was
something that I could do for Father. He told me not to
distribute the tapes in Korea. That is okay, maybe it
will never even happen in my lifetime, but it is okay. I
wanted to generate something for Father but Father does
not want me to be known as an entertainer. I said fine,
whatever you wish.
The
ideal attitude of children is that it does not matter
what I think, only what Father thinks. We should
reciprocate. Everything we are and have came from the
unity of Father and Mother. You have to do something in
order to receive. Your responsibility is not just to
prosper with your family, you are responsible to the
providence, Gods will comes first. Create the ideal
world, that is living for your children. Only some are
giving this effort, that will not work, everybody has to
do it. As horizontal true love grows (True Parents), the
vertical true love (God) will grow more and more.
Heavenly Father can match what we have. He is waiting
for the object to reciprocate His true love and ideal.
We want to receive love quickly, we do not want to
prolong this anymore. Do not create a fluctuating line
of faith, but a straight line, so that there will be a
ninety degree angle created between the horizontal love
of True Parents and the vertical love of God. Because
our horizontal line wavers, Heavenly Father has to
follow our conditions to keep that ninety degree angle.
It should be the other way around, we have to follow
Gods ideal. Keep that horizontal line completely
straight. Only upon this ideal foundation can you have a
holistic joy. If you have a wavering line there is lots
of conflict, problems and unnecessary feelings. When
there is a model UC member, he can go directly to True
Parents. It is up to you. You must understand the
Principle and fulfill it. There is one principle formula
and everyone has to follow it, no exceptions. As much as
there are changing things in the world there are
unchanging things. When things meet their final subject
all will be able to come together. Only mans spirit and
original mind will live forever and become unchanging.
Then you can truly rejoice and appreciate.
I will
always repent as long as I am breathing. Living with
True Parents every day is a learning experience. You can
never say you completely understand love. When I expect
one thing, Father gives me another. I get confused, I do
not understand. I think "What did I do wrong?" So I stop
and contain myself and say "I know the principle, I know
what my relationship with Father should be, so even
though I do not understand now, I will contain myself".
Later, I can realize that I was getting too emotional,
and I can see what Father was doing. I just have to stop
in the moment and follow principle.
God
only wants a horizontal foundation, that is the only way
he can reciprocate.
When a
baby is small, the parent is the servant. If the baby
cries because it is hungry, you run to feed it, then you
run to change the diapers. Until the child grows and
becomes aware of what is going on around him, the
parents have to take total responsibility, giving
everything for the sake of the child. When the child
grows to the point of taking responsibility he has to
follow the principle course.
With
everything I say I am trying to plead with you to
understand and follow principle. Please have a set of
values absolutely in union with True Parents value. Then
you can separate good and evil, without having this
value, please do not make any judgments. They will not
be correct, but will only be based on fallen values. It
is a problem without the right set of values.
Visiting Father at Danbury was my first experience
seeing Father in prison. He stunk because he could not
wash. He did not want to show his body to other people.
He respects his body as Gods body, not everyone can come
close to him. The way those people treated my Father! I
hated them! He never hurt anyone, he was only trying to
help people. It was your negligence. We were trying to
comfort him but he was comforting us. All those selfish,
arrogant inmates came to respect him, do you think that
happened easily? It was only because Father loved them
and served them.
The one
thing that makes me angriest is the so called UC members
who use and manipulate forgiveness for their own selfish
purpose.
The
time is coming for a lot of things to be happening but I
can not say it until Father says it first.
China
has one and a half billion people, that is one quarter
of the world's population. If they can unite with Father
then there is no problem. Father has all the technology
to offer them. Father has always stressed mutual
technological sharing. They are opening up from Marxism
because their country faces economic disaster.
You
know what outcome will result if you follow principle
and fulfill your responsibility. You think we can get by
with less effort than people outside? From now on, no
more excuses. If we can all fulfill then I can just come
out here and sing and that will be Sunday service! Every
day can be a celebration.
Tradition is a way to link everyone together to the
whole, it is a connection. Father has proclaimed the age
of tribal messiahship. You had better be worthy of that.
Do not try to just reason with your rational mind. Do
not just stand there with your head, do you think you
could do what Father has done?
As soon
as I graduate I will follow Father to Korea. All of
Fathers children will go to Korea, can you take care of
yourselves?
From
now on I want our meetings to be closer, we can do that
right? I do not like to yell and scold, just ask the
second generation, they spend a lot of time with me and
I am not like that.[One sister asks Hyo Jin Nim to sing
a song for us. He mentions a song he has just learned
that is a favorite of Mothers. Soon after beginning he
stops with too many tears. Then laughing he says. . . ]
You
guys shouldn't do that to me. [Then asks brothers and
sisters to pledge their support to True Parents].