Hyun Jin Moon
New York Rally
July 14, 2001
Manhattan Center, New York, New York
Unofficial Notes
The New York event was
a great success, with a packed Manhattan Center
responding eagerly to Hyun Jin Nim’s message, which was
tailored toward youth and especially Second Generation.
These are unofficial notes taken by Mike Balcomb during
the speech, and are for private use only.
Young people have enough
energy to move the world and stir the cosmos. Do you have
enough energy to do that, yes or no? Are you going to be
victorious, yes or no?
Before I begin, as you all
know this is more of an internal event. As I’m Father’s son
it is hard for me to be confined by this little podium here,
so I want permission from all of you to use the whole stage
and even the whole auditorium as my podium. Will you give me
permission to do that? And a second question, since I have
been speaking constantly for 3 weeks and I am a little
hoarse, please allow me to carry this cup of water.
From now on, I will not
come and speak at rallies that have only 1500 or 2000
people, but I will make an exception here because I feel the
energy. Your loud call has just rung in my ears! In Japan
and Korea I had ten or twenty thousand people, with 2000
VIPs alone. Will speaking to you be more or less exciting
than that?
I sometimes think of VIPs
as being really VUPs -- Very Unimportant People. Why? A True
VIP has only one master, and that is God. There should be a
vertical line to God. But most VIPs are political or
religious leaders who end up being slaves to many causes.
They have to constantly kowtow to public opinion. Well, how
about you today? Are you VIPs or VUPs? VIPs! Then how many
masters do you follow? There can only be One.
I see many young people in
the front row here. In Japan, I tried to keep my message
within one hour and thirty minutes because there were many
VIPs. My experience with young people is that after one hour
your attention span is wavering! Yet, if you are VIPs and
not VUPs, and have only one master, then you should know
what that Master wants even if it takes the whole day!
The Beginning of a New Age
This year’s theme is
Service for Peace. This is not a motto that just came
lightly. We have entered the 7th millennium from
a historical biblical perspective, the third millennium
after Jesus and the 21st century. You can say
that all these important numbers converging like this
coincidence and happenstance, but it is not. Providence is
working whether we realize it or not.
What is the meaning of the
numbers 3, 7 and 21? 3 is a number of perfection, as in the
3 stages of growth. 7 represents completion, as when God
rested on the 7th day, the Sabbath after creating
man. And 21 is 3 times 7. These numbers reappearing indicate
that we have entered an inflection point in history, the
beginning of a new era when God’s providence is moving in
human history.
What is Service for Peace?
This is a message for a new generation, for a new era and a
new history. Yet it is rooted deeply in the providential
timetable of this age. On God’s Day, Father said that a
foundation of faith in True Parents alone is no longer
enough for Blessed families. This is a time when True
Parents bequeathed to us the ability to pray in our own
names. With that responsibility comes accountability. What
is that we must do? To live in accordance with True Parents’
teaching, and the fundamental part of that teaching is to
live for the sake of others.
Until this point, Father
and Mother took responsibility for the whole movement on
their shoulders. As a movement, we have enjoyed the course
of providence up to this point but now a new age has come
where we must take responsibility by living for the sake of
others, by offering service for the sake of others.
Hence the first word of
the theme, Service. What about the second word, peace? This
is the time when the original ideal of God must be realized.
And what was this ideal? The original ideal that God had was
to create an ideal family with the 3 kingships and the 4
realms of heart. It was to be the model family from which
the ideal kingdom would arise. Heaven and earth would not
have been two separate worlds but one.
Had Adam not fallen away,
God would have been grandparents, Adam and Eve the True
parents and their children, Cain, Abel and Seth would have
been the grandchildren. This would have been the building
block of the substantial kingdom. What is that kingdom? Is
it just a geographical boundary? No. Is it just in our
hearts? No, it is in the family. In Adam’s family God wanted
to build the foundation for his kingdom in three
generations.
But what happened? The
fall happened and sowed the seeds for the world of conflict
and destruction that we see today? It is a world of
struggle, conflict, war, plague and disease and
self-destruction. The world of peace is the antithesis of
this world we see today.
Our Legacy and Destiny
Stay with me now, for this
content is very important. You have to know your legacy as
blessed children. How and where you stand now is not just as
an individual alone, but also as a historical person who is
carrying on the providence of God.
How can you do that if you
do not understand what God did through history, what True
Parents did in 40 years? Without that, how can you mold your
identity? Without that understanding, the blessed families
will be a people without an identity, without a home. That
is not what should happen to the fruit of our True Parents.
The harvest should encompass the whole world. Then you must
understand this content well.
Today I am going to
challenge you as blessed children. I did not gather you here
just to have a fun time, but to prod you, wake you and
enlighten you as to what you should be. I may even kick your
butt, is that OK? In America that might be grounds for a
lawsuit, but if the purpose is to wake someone up to what
they should do, then it is OK.
When you visit any
country, you see in the young people what the country may be
like in 20 years time. America has a disease, a cancer that
shows most clearly in the young people. They do not have a
high vision. How many do you know yourselves that are
involved in drugs or promiscuity, playing Russian roulette
with their own lives and those of others? How many do you
know who are tied up in gang violence? All American leaders
realize that there is more than just an image problem for
young people of this nation.
A person who lives for
their own sake alone will destroy the family, tribe,
society, nation and even the world and God’s ideal. We’ve
entered an age in which a greater enemy is threatening us
than ever before. Do not think that just because communism
fell, we have entered into an age of hope. There is greater
and greater ethnic strife. Young people in the developed
nations are going to the altar of secular humanism and of
materialism with religious fervor. They are not un-religious
people. They directed their whole life course towards that
mistaken path.
Today we are going to
start a new alternative, a counterproposal that surpasses
any selfish individual dream, family dream or national
dream. And what is that vision? It is a time to create a
counter-counterculture revolution, new vision of living for
the sake of others.
In the world, people are
living for themselves and going destructively. But living
for the sake of others is the course of true love. The mind
has a quality of public interest and the body wants
self-interest. We should not just understand living for
others, but live that way and practice, live and practice.
That kind of individual will be prosperous, not destructive.
Learning through Doing
Why should we be a person
who lives in a family that is living for the sake of others?
Such a person can start a new revolution offering a new way
to young people of this world Do you want to be foot
soldiers who embody this message in spirit and truth? Do you
want to be an ambassador to the nation, world and cosmos?
Yes! This is what I like to hear.
I am starting to
"brainwash" you to live for the sake of others, to clean up
your thinking. Let me ask you a question, do you want to be
brainwashed or not? Think about it! True Parents have been
called the king of brainwashers for 30 years. As the son of
True Parents then, I must be the prince of brainwashers!
Maybe your grandparents accused your parents of being
brainwashed. Now here I am to inspire you to walk the course
of public mission.
What is the secret of true
"brainwashing?" I will tell you, so that you can become an
expert yourselves. The secret is to live for the sake of
others. If there is any spy that wants to write this up, I
gave it to you. I dare you to write that in the New York
Times!
Should we be on the
offensive or defensive? Should we shake and rock America,
yes or no? If you can build that kind of conviction, things
can happen. Just because your parents are blessed couples,
you still have to find your own faith and conviction. Do you
want to have the opportunity to do so? The secret lies in
action and experience.
Let’s think about the way
we learn. If I gave you all a Divine Principle test right
now, I would bet that almost all of you would pass. You have
had the full dose of Divine Principle lectures, haven’t you?
But are you living Divine Principle in your daily life and
in your home? If not, you nay not pass the real test.
I mentioned before that
there are two main schools of epistemology. One is learning
through reason, through concept and abstraction. The other
is learning through experience. This is the real learning.
Only when you experience something can you truly learn it.
Even in the scientific method, this is true. Theory can only
become scientific fact when there is direct evidence to
support that theory.
Experience-based knowledge
is the most important component of learning, but it has not
been stressed in the education of our young people. That is
why I told everyone in Japan that I will directly teach them
what it means to live for the sake of others. I mean
changing your life course, not just doing a 2 –3 year stint.
Being an owner means making a lifelong commitment, not just
for a moment!
This is why our young
people have to have their own faith and conviction that will
allow them to have confidence enough to pass it on to
others. Do you have that kind of conviction? Do you mean to
do it, even if you have to sacrifice your own school, and
your dreams, the life you wanted to aspire to? If young
people can do this, then there is hope. Young people have a
lot of energy. If it is focused and directed it can bring
about a world of change.
Peace has been a dream
that people have longed for from the beginning but they were
never able to catch it. Will it come from an Einstein, a
genius? No History is full of those kind of people but there
is no peace. How about military power, or political power?
Again, there has been no shortage of politicians and
soldiers, but there has been no substantial peace on earth.
If there were, we would be enjoying the fruit of peace.
Peace is something that
has to be passed down through the generations. Where do we
go to find the starting point of peace? We have to go back
to God, and the original ideal of God. That is Chapter 1 of
Divine Principle. The Principle of Creation outlines the
original ideal of God which is where we can find true peace.
This is what God has been preparing for consistently
throughout human history, and especially in the time of the
Second Advent.
The Foundation God
Prepared
In the Old Testament Age,
God prepared the foundation to build a mighty nation of
religious faith. Think about that foundation being built for
2000 years! When Jesus came there was supposed to be a new
world based on God, yet the people of the day failed to
recognize the central importance of God’s providence.
When Jesus went on the
cross it meant that another 2000 years until Father appeared
onto the world stage. As you know, we have entered the
settlement age, the era of the 4th Adam. It marks
a new period in providential history. It should have already
started many years ago.
When True Parents lost the
foundation of Christianity in 1945, they had to walk a
course of re-indemnification to restore the lost hope of
God. To explain all of this would take many hours, but you
should understand how much God prepared Christianity and
America for his will.
World War II had adjusted
the international political structure of the Europe. Among
the victorious allies, this nation stood in the position of
Abel. America was founded by the most Abel type Christians.
This is the only nation that writes on its money, In God We
Trust. The Declaration of Independence recognized the
Christian foundation and the Christian inheritance.
God had already prepared a
deep connection between America and Korea. American
missionaries opened up Korea. Christianity came first to
Korea in the 16th century, with the Catholic
church, but it did not really blossom until the American
missionaries came at the end of the nineteenth century.
Soon, Korea became world renowned for the fervor of its
Christian revivals. The missionaries at that time said that
this is the most prepared nation in Asia for the message of
Christianity. When True Father was born in 1920,
Christianity had already made deep inroads.
Where was the apex of
these revivals? It happened to be in the Northern Capital of
Pyongyang, not many miles away from Fathers hometown. It is
not by chance that the Moon family turned to Christianity.
The noble families of Korea were the first to be missionized
in Korea.
The environment of the
last days started erupting. It was like the time of Jesus,
with all the apocalyptic sects arising among Judaism. Among
the fervent sectors of Korean Christianity, there were many
apocalyptic sects. This was the age and environment in which
Father was born and grew up. God was preparing everything
for the coming of the Lord of Second Advent. You see how
even when it looks like nothing is moving, in fact history
is moving ahead in accordance with Gods vision?
After World War II, the
geopolitical focus of the world shifted away from Europe to
America. The world was forming into Cain and Abel camps and
Korea was quickly in the center of it. While I was in
Columbia, I studied the inter-war years in Korea (1920 –
1950) which show that the geopolitics of the world were in
fact being greatly defined by what was happening in Korea,
even though it was a small obscure nation. This is more than
coincidence. Then what was happening?
The foundation of Korean
Christianity was connected deeply to America. If Korean
Christianity had accepted Father, then that would have
spread quickly to America. The 20th century would
have gone in a very different direction from that time on.
But Father was rejected and Christianity did not unite.
Then Satan began to invade
Christian society. In the last 50 years such concepts as
homosexuality and free sex became legitimized. 100 years
ago, these were not acceptable. Self-centered individualism
was not acceptable. But with the rejection of God’s
providential will, we saw the rise of a secular humanism
that has ignored God and arrogantly credited all progress to
man alone. People moved toward a goal of material
satisfaction rather than spiritual happiness, more so each
year than ever before.
The Lost Generation
And where did these
anti-God sentiments develop? In the Christian democracies of
America and Europe. During my inauguration as the President
of YFWP, I spoke of the importance of creating a
counter-counterrevolution. Satan poisoned the ideals of the
Christian youth who should have responded to Father, based
on false seeds of false love.
The young people born
after World War II were 20 years old in the 1960s. They were
the ones who made the counter cultural revolution. These
were the baby boomers, the Second Generation Christians who
should have been born as blessed children in the Kingdom of
God! They should never have ended up the way they did! If
Christians had accepted Father, he could have given them the
blessing. They would have been like you are 30 to 40 years
ago!
However, the foundation
was lost and the Second Generation was not offered to God.
Instead it was lost in the abyss that Satan created to
destroy God’s culture, the abyss of self-centered
individualism that is the opposite of true love and living
for the sake of others. Instead of creating one united
family under God, this lost second generation went to attack
the ideal of the family through the lineage. Materialism,
drugs and free sex took these children away from the
spiritual path and put the body above the mind.
All the things that lead
to destruction emerged from this lost second generation.
This is why the age in which we stand today is so important,
and why the challenges that Father faced in 1945 still have
to be overcome today.
Jesus had to go to the
cross in similar circumstances of betrayal and rejection.
Yet Father knew that if he walked the course of the cross,
God’s providence would be delayed once again, so instead he
created our movement through the suffering and indemnity of
prison. It is on that foundation that the Unification Church
came into existence and that is the reason why during the
last 40 years there have been so many trials.
If True Parents had
wavered, we would not have come to this point. Yet don’t you
think that at every step of the way they were severely
tested? To restore and re-indemnify the 6000 years lost,
they had just 40 years! That is why the course of our
movement has been one of sacrifice.
If you do not know this
content, you may look at the past and ask, "Why did we do
things that way?" During the Inheritance and Development
tour last year, I talked about this history. I told our
older members to shed all their baggage, if they have any,
and to rise anew based on the new age of settlement and
Fourth Adam that has just begun. Yet at this time, many
parents and first generation became tired. Instead of
looking up to the future, they started looking down, down,
down instead of realizing that this is an age in which we
should be liberated, the start of a new age!
Do you want to talk about
the past or the future? I want to rise and see the stars
again. True Parents practiced absolute faith, love and
obedience, not only to God’s Will and providence, but also
to humanity itself. True Parents overcame all the impossible
barriers and walls to stand victorious, and to launch a new
age of settlement through the coronation of God’s kingship.
This is how we come to stand at the crossroads of history.
This is the history and legacy that you all belong to. Amen!
True Families and True
Peace
What does it mean for you
as blessed families and blessed children? During the Old
Testament Era, the covenant was written through the law.
During the New Testament Era, it was based on faith. Now in
the Completed Testament Age, it is based on blood lineage.
What does this mean?
As blessed families, what
special gift did you receive? The change of blood lineage.
This means that the ownership has changed. A "covenant
written in blood" means a vertical line from God, True
Parents and True Family. It is upon this foundation that
blessed couples were engrafted, representing the extended
true family. We must all work together!
Which relationships are
the most absolute and unchaining? Not friendships, not work
relations, but the family. Family relations. Blood
relationships. The family is where God lost humanity and
where He can claim humanity back again.
On his 50-state tour,
Father often asked the ministers, "Which is more important,
true love or true lineage?" They answered true love, but
that is not enough. From God’s perspective it is the
lineage. The children are more important than the spouse.
True Love is the glue that holds the relationships together.
That is why we talk about the Three Kingships and the Four
Great Realms of Heart. True love is the glue that keeps
parents and children, husband and wife brothers and sisters
together. This brings all the different parts together to
make up the ideal family.
When we talk about World
Peace we will find the solution not in politics or economics
but in the true family where the Three Kingships and the
Four Great Realms of Heart are substantiated. This is the
place that represents the continuum of past present and
future. The true family is where the relationships between
generations and sexes come together.
That is why the person who
comes from the true family will become a true peacemaker. If
you can make true peace in your family, then you have
already learned how to go beyond your family to the society,
nation and cosmos, not in an abstract belief but in reality.
The Service for Peace
themes summarize the cosmic age we have entered, and what we
as Blessed Families we need to know. We as blessed families
should know this, for it is the way we connect with God,
True Parents and True Family. True Love is the glue the
bridge that races, generations, sexes. Going back to
Father’s message, this is not the time to only believe, but
to go and live for the sake of others.
What can you do for the
World?
Will you take this message
to your families, your community, your school, the society
and the nation of America, then to the world and the cosmos?
It was in the 1960s, with the new presidency of John F.
Kennedy that a new movement of volunteers began, the Peace
Corps. It did not, however, contain the term service for
peace. Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for
you, but what you can do for your country!" I come to you
today to say, "Ask not what the world can do for you, but
what you can do for the world!"
This is the time of a new
counter-counter cultural revolution, to set things straight.
This is the task of the Second Generation of this age. Those
of you who want to take the challenges, who want to be the
foot soldiers, raise your hands! Are you going to be future
CARP members? Do you want to lead or follow? Who will lead
Service for Peace? You will! I want you to be not a CARP
member just serving time, but a CARP member who has
committed his or her whole life to building God’s kingdom on
earth.
Amen! Amen! Amen!
