President Hak Ja Han Moon, distinguished guests, and
women leaders: Today, I received much comfort through
the words of President Han. As I went along this single
road following the order of heaven, my life has been one
of extraordinary suffering. The road establishing the
way of heaven is a straight road, and it allows for no
compromise. This road does not allow one to worry about
honor or human dignity. It was a lonely road on which
one can live only for God's will.
Just as
each individual has his own fortune, the family and the
nation also have a family fortune and a national
fortune, and beyond this there is the fortune of the
world, and there is heaven's fortune for all of heaven
and earth. Even though a person may have been born with
a lot of fortune, when his family fortune declines he
must endure hardship. For a person who has both good
individual fortune and family fortune, when the national
fortune declines, he cannot help but be ruined.
Going
beyond this, the national fortune and the direction of
the world is decided according to the direction and the
progress of heaven's fortune which is above everything
and includes everything. Establishing the way of heaven
in the world means making the way the individual or
nation is going correspond to the fortune of heaven.
Today,
let us think about the evils of Korea and the problems
of the world: economic depression, environmental
pollution, political irregularity, racial and religious
strife, the decay of ethics and morality, the collapse
of the sense of values. Is there anyone who can
fundamentally solve these many evils and problems? It
has not been possible through human wisdom or effort. We
have not been able to find a solution to these problems
by mobilizing economic power or governmental power;
rather, the evils of humankind are gradually becoming
worse.
Now
humanity has to humbly listen to the voice of heaven and
find the road of resolution directed by God. This
country and its people must accept my teachings. This is
not because I am trying to raise myself up, but because
it is the will of God. God has revealed the principles
of heaven through me, and He has given me the answers to
the fundamental problems of humankind.
My life
has been truly difficult. I have been beaten, persecuted
and unfairly imprisoned by successive governments, and
due to the prejudice and malicious opposition of some
Christian leaders, all types of rumors have been spread
about me. But, thanks to the protection of God, I have
laid a miraculous and victorious worldwide foundation.
Such a foundation has been without precedent since the
dawn of history.
In
America, which is a prepared nation representing world
Christianity, I have a record breaking foundation that
no other non- white person has been able to achieve. Of
course, I had to suffer from racial discrimination and
religious prejudice; I even had to surmount unfair
imprisonment. Nevertheless, I rebuilt the Christian
foundation, which was shaking at the roots; I educated
and trained the youth who were suffering from drugs and
immorality, and I gave hope to America. Neither the
government of America nor the people can ignore my
foundation.
The
same is true for Japan and Europe. Already there are
Unification missions in 160 countries which are
developing every day. Each of these missions has become
the symbol of each kind of religious activity and the
symbol of the movement to rebuild ethics and morality.
Unification by Giving True Love to Others
From
the early 1980s I ordered world-level academic meetings
to be held with the theme of the collapse of the Soviet
empire. In 1985 an academic journal published an
article, which has now become world famous, prophesying
for the first time the collapse of the communist Soviet
empire.
On the
basis of such a foundation, I visited the Soviet Union
and I met Mikhail Gorbachev. Now in three of the fifteen
republics of the former Soviet Union, there is a
movement to make Unificationism the national religion.
Already
tens of thousands of university students have studied my
teaching, and the Collegiate Association for the
Research of the Principle(CARP), which is the
Unification Church university student organization, has
been organized in over 700 universities. This year, tens
of thousands of high school teachers and students will
attend Divine Principle training workshops.
Do you
think this kind of activity is the result of human power
alone? It is real proof that the living God is working
together with us. Miracles are taking place as confirmed
atheists change their views of life and the universe to
one centered on God, after five days of Divine Principle
lectures.
I have
established a huge foundation in China. I prepared
important projects like the construction of the Panda
industrial city many years ago, and many underground
missionaries have been working hard until this day. Only
God knows how much I have done to bring about the
unification of North and South Korea. The unification of
North and South Korea is not merely a visible and
external unification; it is a providential unification
centered on God. It cannot be established without going
through my foundation.
The
unification required by God's providence is not for
unification in itself; it is so that on the foundation
of unification, eternal freedom, peace and happiness can
blossom. It cannot be unification by force or where one
side is miserable. It must be a unification by true love
in which each lives for the other and gives and gives
again. Therefore, the unification of the fatherland
cannot be exploited for the benefit of any individual,
political party or government. When all of our hearts
and actions, colored with love, reach out to the hearts
of our fellow countrymen in the north, then true
unification will come.
In
Order for World Peace to Come
Women
leaders! Centered on God's true love, I have expanded
supra- denominational and supra-religious movements of
reconciliation to the worldwide level. Without
reconciliation and interchange between the divided
religions, how can world peace be realized? Isn't it
true that today there is still appalling religious
strife in the Middle East, in Ireland, in the Balkans
and in other areas?
Last
year on August 27, I gathered together all the highest
religious leaders of the world and established the
Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace. We joined
together in order to realize world peace through the
unity and cooperation of religious people. It is truly a
precious organization. There may be important
differences among religions, but there are just as many
common points and all have the purpose to seek for the
Absolute Being.
It is
an important fact that God established all religions
with a providential purpose for the whole. Therefore,
they must unite together. Just as President Han
mentioned in her address, Christianity teaches that man
ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and
evil; this means that our human ancestors committed the
sin of disbelief and fell. If our human ancestors had
not fallen, as God's precious son and daughter --
namely, God's prince and princess -- they would have
inherited God's blood lineage; they would have inherited
their Father God's possessions -- namely, the creation.
They should have grown to perfection and become the
ideal husband and wife of love. However, through the
fall, they changed from God's blood lineage, they were
robbed of God's possessions and they lost God's heart.
God's
providence of salvation as the providence of restoration
for complete recovery must take responsibility for the
mission to restore the blood lineage, to restore the
realm of ownership and to change the realm of the human
heart. As a result of the fall, Adam and Eve came to be
one with Satan and they followed him to hell. The eldest
son Cain followed Eve and the second son Abel followed
behind him.
God's
providence of restoration has been carried out in such a
way that the condition to separate from Satan is
established through the second son, who starts later and
represents the side of goodness, subjugating the eldest
son, who starts first and represents the side of evil.
The
basis of the providence of restoration is to send the
restored Adam namely, the Messiah -- who will change the
blood lineage, ownership and heart. However, the
heartistic position of the original son cannot be
restored at once. The providence must be accomplished
gradually, starting from the position of the servant of
servants.
In this
world which is held under the power of Satan, Abel who
is on the side of good should complete the mission of
the servant of servants by living for Cain with true
love. Then Satan cannot accuse him, but instead cannot
help but praise and recognize him. After that, the
missions of the servant, the adopted son, the
illegitimate son and the direct son are restored
following the order of love and affection. Restoration
can only take place on each level when the Abel side
lives for Cain's side through true love, so that Satan
cannot accuse him.
If Abel
in the position of the true son and daughter makes Cain
surrender and they become one, the mother Eve can stand
on that foundation, and when Eve fulfills her
responsibility, Adam can stand on that foundation. Then
for the first time God can come to dwell on that
foundation and the eight necessary stages of the
vertical course of the providence of restoration can be
completed.
If we
look at the stages of the providence of restoration
horizontally, there are also eight stages: they are the
individual, family, tribe, race, nation, world, cosmos
and God. Jesus came as the second Adam, the Messiah, but
unfortunately the chosen people of Israel did not know
who he was.
Will
today's Christians be able to recognize the Lord when he
returns? The Lord of the Second Advent will not
literally return in the air on the clouds. There are
people who believe and are proclaiming that on October
28 of this year, they will be taken up to heaven on the
clouds, but it will not happen like this. Please believe
me, this kind of event will never happen. The Lord who
went through the cross will return through the cross.
When
Jesus died on the cross, there were three types of
people connected with Jesus' crucifixion. There was the
first type, the thief on Jesus' right who repented of
his sins and testified to Jesus; there was the second
type, the thief on Jesus' left, who was a sinner who did
not repent and who vilified Jesus. The third type was
Barabbas, a criminal who surely should have been
crucified, was saved when Jesus was crucified instead.
At the
time of the Second Advent, these three types are
realized on the world level. Western Christianity is the
first type in the position of the thief on Jesus' right.
Although they still have original sin, they believe in
the Lord and they are in the position of good. The
materialistic, atheistic communist bloc is the second
type and is in the position of the thief on the left.
Islam in the Middle East is the third type and is in the
position of Barabbas. Because Jesus died instead of him
and because Israel caused Jesus to die on the cross,
Islam came to occupy the land of the Middle East which
had been divided between the twelve tribes of Israel.
The Lord of the Second Advent, who is in the position of
the reborn Jesus, has to straighten out the worldwide
achievements of these three types which came about
through Jesus' death.
In
order to straighten out the Western world of
Christianity, he has to bring about a new movement of
religious reformation, overcome the atheistic ideology
of communism and bring all the communist world back to
God's side. The ideology which can overcome the left
wing and right-wing ideologies and bring about a unified
harmony between them is my proposed Headwing ideology of
Godism.
I Have
Fulfilled my Mission as the Lord of the
Second Advent, the Savior and the True Parent
As I
have mentioned before, the left-wing and right-wing
worlds are already being straightened out through the
Headwing ideology. Also the religion of Islam has
started to promote reconciliation and cooperation. A
miracle took place last April when representatives from
eight Middle East countries took part in a mass holy
wedding of the Unification Church. I conducted the
blessing ceremony through which fallen people can be
cleansed of sin. I solved the historical conflict and
settled the tension between the left and the right;
furthermore, I established the miracle of bringing about
reconciliation with the world of Islam.
These
kinds of works cannot be performed through the ability
or planning of an individual alone. God chose me to be
the Messiah and during this time He has been performing
His work of salvation.
I have
fulfilled my mission as the Lord of the Second Advent,
Savior and the True Parent. I am proclaiming this in
this place because the time has come to do so. Those who
accept this will be blessed. If this race listens to me,
how good that would be for this country. How good it
would be if the statesmen listen to me. Whether a person
listens to me or not is his individual responsibility;
however, the time is coming when all people of the world
will want to listen to me.
People
generally believe that the Messiah is thought only to be
the Lord of Glory and have the authority of judgment,
but they are wrong. God does not want to look at this
sinful world. He has thought about judging the world and
wiping it out in an instant. However, the God of true
love always worries about the eternal life of humankind.
You have to know God's heart which has endured for so
long, trying through true love to make humanity comply
of its own free will.
From
the point of view of fallen man, the Messiah is the
Savior, but from God's point of view he is the True
Parent, the True Son who will realize the ideal of
creation of true love, which was lost at the beginning.
The Messiah is the person who has pioneered the way of
sacrifice, dedicating his life to liberate God from His
grievous sorrow that was caused by the fall. He is not a
person who stands only in a glorious position. He always
weeps together with God's heart, and he is concerned
about how to make Satan surrender.
He is
deeply concerned and anxious about realizing God's
purpose of creation. He knows better than anyone else
the heart of God. Who is like a servant of servants,
wandering and shedding endless tears in the satanic
world in search of His lost children, and unless he
completely liberates God from His sorrow, he cannot
receive glory.
Complete the Ideal of the True Family
Leaders
of the Women's Federation for World Peace! It must have
been difficult for you to have a succession of rallies,
and you probably complained when you heard this rally
was going to be held within ten days. However, if
together with me you devote your heart sincerely every
day, then God's will of goodness shall be accomplished.
I have no intention of exploiting you. You need me. You
must become one with President Han and be like an
extension of her, and in your family you must educate
your children and your husband properly. I want all of
you, under the ideal of true love, to receive God's
blessing.
What I
am most concerned about is for each of your families to
complete the ideal of the true family by becoming one
through true love. City, town, village, county, ward and
block leaders of the Women's Federation for World Peace:
through you, morals can be restored. If you expand this
movement of true love, what movement could be more
patriotic than this?
There
is a mountain of work to do. We have to spread a
movement for proper morals, a movement for the
eradication of drugs, a no-smoking and no-drinking
movement, a movement for the removal of the red light
districts, a movement to expose immorality in the
leaders of society and to inspire and encourage the
youth. When the Korean society based on you women
leaders becomes purified, and harmony is realized
through true love, then the cherished hope of the Korean
race, the unification of North and South Korea, will be
achieved. Not only that, our nation will come to lead
the world, and a peaceful world will be realized.
You
Must Become One with True Parents' Family
Women
leaders! Until this day I have never directed my
followers to do anything that I have not first done
myself. I sincerely ask you to practice true love and
devote yourself, even if it is one hundredth of how much
I have, and raise up a great movement of national
salvation.
The
most effective units of the Women's Federation Movement
are the town, village, county and ward. When the
movement of true love rises up in these basic units,
then it will go through the level of neighborhood and
come to settle in the family. We have to go through the
original homeland before the fall and recover the family
which has been separated from God before we can hope for
eternal settlement. God has worked so hard. He has
suffered so much to raise up the perfected Adam. That is
why the True Father came about. The true man of heaven
has been born.
Because
the satanic world knows this man is the true groom, the
master who comes as the king of the Kingdom of Heaven
and earth. individuals in the world are trying to
destroy him by uniting individuals, families, nations,
the world and the universe against him. From the
position of having to suffer all kinds of persecution,
plotting and slandering by Satan, he has gained victory
on the individual, family, national, world and cosmic
levels and has become one with God. As the first victor
of history, he came to the satanic world of the
individual, family, nation, world and cosmos.
The
True Mother, who has been in the position of following
after the True Father, has for the first time in history
come to stand in an equal position. Through her
worldwide declaration of the liberation of women, the
True Father and the True Mother will take their
children, go before God, and inherit all the authority
and power of heaven. They will establish the original
family, and reclaim the tribe, race, nation, world and
cosmos, and reorganize the perfect world of God's will.
All men
are in the position of the archangel. Therefore, they
stand in the position of having to give back all women.
Women stand in the position of being the extension of
the True Mother, the perfected Eve. From the position of
the extension of Eve and on the condition of becoming
one with the True Mother, they come to the condition of
becoming one with the True Father. From this position
they must educate their sons and daughters in the
thought of the True Parents.
Through
this education the sons and daughters come to have the
status of being true sons and daughters and they should
become one with their mother. Then they should reeducate
the worldly father and receive True Parents' blessing.
From the position of being grafted to the True Parents,
they come to learn the family duty of the True Parents.
Because
Adam and Eve fell on the family level, restoration also
has to be accomplished on the family level. Restoration
has to go beyond the levels of county, ward and block,
and settle in the family, and then the families must
meet the True Parents. The True Parents have gone over
the individual peak, the national peak, the world peak
and the cosmic peak, and have been victorious. However,
in order to save each family they have to come back to
the cosmos, the world, the nation, and return to the
family. That is the meaning of this meeting.
The
rally on April 10 was the True Parents' world rally, and
its purpose was so that rallies could be held on the
national level, the city level, the district level, down
through the town, village, county, ward and block
levels, until they arrive at the family level. By
becoming one with True Parents' family, it is possible
for you leaders of the Women's Federation for World
Peace to attain family restoration and become absolute
victors. You have to connect this to your tribe. The
True Parents have already assigned tribal messiahs all
over the world; if you receive education from them and
become one with them, the restoration of the nation also
will be accomplished nat- urally.
In this
way the unification of North and South Korea,
unification of the world, and the unification of heaven
and earth will be realized; God, too, will be liberated.
After this happens, we will come to see an age of peace
centered on God.
Let the
True Mother and the women of the world join together to
meet the True Father who comes as the groom and,
standing in the position of the bride, let us restore
the ideal family of creation.
I pray
that you become members of the Family Federation for
World Peace and create families which will receive much
blessing.
Thank
you very much.
