This is a translation of True Father’s speech and prayer given on August 28, 1971, at Chung Pyung Training Center, on the occasion of the second workshop for Korean center leaders. This was just prior to Father’s departure from Korea to begin his worldwide ministry in America.
In September of 1991, during a visit to the Unification Theological Seminary, Barrytown, New York, Father made an important condition centering on this speech. He read the text of this speech between midnight and 4 a.m., which coincided exactly with True Mother’s delivery of a major address to a gathering of seven thousand Women’s Peace Federation members in Japan.
Father then told the seminarians to translate the speech into English and that all blessed members should read it. [This speech begins with profound insights into the mind/body relationship and continues with explanation of the significance of the early blessing groups. We have excerpted portions from the last third dealing with the restoration of Eve, the establishment of the Mother.]
The fifty years that Father has walked so far is the history of Unification Thought. You have to inherit the history of tradition and the world that Father is trying to establish, and preserve it completely. It is for the future. What is the content of it? Centering on Father, that which was established was to unify the whole world. What is the origin? It is True Parentism. The beginning of culture starts from the parents. This moment only exists at the time of Father’s life. This short period becomes the standard of universal history. That is why I am so serious. On this foundation, the family and the nation have to be established. So, what is the main ideology? One has to walk the sacrificial way for the sake of the whole. This is the main ideology of Unification Thought. Do you understand?
In the sixties we celebrated the Blessing when all of Korea was persecuting us. We must take Eve back. A byproduct of the battle for taking back Eve is the persecution and abuse that the Unification. Church faces.
The family comes into existence through Father. The way of the family is the way of restoring through indemnity the griefs of women. In the Bible’s history there is no content centering on the woman. Until now the vertical history has been the history of finding the subject. The six thousand years was for finding and establishing an Adam. After finding Adam, Eve has to be found. In the world of men, women are absolutely necessary. All the miserable situations have been experienced together with women. The vertical history has to be indemnified horizontally. Father declared the first seven year course, based on Father’s individual victory, because Father had to prepare the standard for the horizontal family level indemnity centering on women.
This is all principle. It is not guesswork. By doing these things, women’s history can be indemnified in this age. When did women pay the indemnity? What Mother is doing with the seven year course is just that. She is doing everything that is difficult in a woman’s work. She has to keep absolute faith.
Adam and Eve are enemies. Right? They are enemies who have placed death for each other in the place of life. To make them able to be welcomed as benefactors, even from the position of being enemies, Father has walked the indemnity course by fighting for seven years. Do you understand? In order for a man to inherit that victorious foundation on the horizontal level, you must also make a victorious foundation centering on a woman.
You are going downwards in order to prepare a horizontal foundation. If there comes a man who chooses a foundation based on unity and makes a victorious foundation, the woman must absolutely trust that man. Therefore, the woman who does not know anything is the best for being Mother. Why? It is for increasing the quantity of value by adding the condition of absolute faith. Do you understand? The person who can be Father’s object has to be under twenty years old. It is the age when Adam and Eve fell. At the age of forty-one, Father received an eighteen-year-old girl who had no worldly knowledge. Thinking in terms of the problems of the world, it is almost absurd. It was not because there weren’t any others. There were plenty of women who had graduated from universities and who had other such credentials.
What has to be done in selecting Mother? She cannot be chosen from a complete family. Mother’s mother had to become a kitchen maid in this place. It means being loyal from the humblest position. She was in a circumstance equal to living in prison, but that was all her blessing. Unification Church life means not feeling resentful even when living a prison life and suffering. It means thinking that everything is my fault and always attempting to be loyal to heaven. Seen from this point of view, everything is chosen according to the principle of restoration. Moreover, what kind of course does the person to be Mother have to go through in terms of lineage? It is not simple.
Then, does only man have to be restored through indemnity? It cannot be solved without a woman standing in the position of being victorious. Right? Therefore, in the second seven year course, the church was not the serious issue. I had to bear the family level course. Do you understand?
You must solve the indemnity course of the woman. Who must solve this? It is not the woman but the man who must solve it for her. Eve was made from Adam. Is that not right? Because Adam lost his dominion over Eve, Eve fell. Therefore, in order to restore this the man must indemnify even what the woman did and seven thousand years of history of resentment, through the family seven year course.
You are the people who have to inherit such a tradition and ideal. Therefore, I’m telling you to walk this path as a real man.
If you eat less than your children and wife, if you sleep in a worse place than them, if you suffer much more than they do, how could they complain? It is simple this way.
How many times have you starved for the sake of God? These are things which I have established, persevering through incredible difficulties and sufferings. When I see your lifestyle, I don’t feel happy. I think I might have to go through such a path again. You can only stand on the foundation of Father; you cannot stand by yourself. Centering on the family, inheritance is possible.
Because Adam and Eve both have fallen, in order to inherit the world centering on the family, we have to present the content of indemnity. Otherwise, the process of inheritance is not possible.
Because of whom are you standing on this incredible position to receive a foundation? It is because of your wife whom you really dislike to see. Do you like or don’t like your wives? You’re not standing in this position because of your merit. You can stand in this position because of a woman. Also a woman doesn’t stand here because of herself, but because of a man. The reason that you met in this position is because of each other. Without each other this is not possible. The family is established centering on man and woman, and in a family man and woman must meet and become totally united.
Centering on True Parents you met. You have to bear children and unite centering on your children. Therefore, it is the duty of you who have families to receive God’s spirit and God’s love, and implant it in the right place. What is the way which our family must walk? We must become the true ancestors of goodness by implanting the model of the heavenly family. We must become the foundation for the blessed Kingdom of Heaven which Satan cannot influence, but only God can. From this, the name of True Parent comes about. Here God’s victory emerges and true sons and daughters are able to be received, and all things can be embraced. You can receive Parent’s Day, Day of All Things, Children’s Day and even God’s Day. Where do we receive them? Isn’t it in the family. [Yes.]
If I do not accomplish this task and go to the spirit world, then I would be contrary to this law. Therefore, the woman you meet is the person whom you have been waiting and longing for, for six thousand years, and whom God looks over and parents have introduced. Isn’t love reached through God and parents? That is why the path of salvation which Unification Thought is teaching is not individual salvation. If the family is not saved then nothing can be saved. It is the salvation of couples and children. If we are not able to save our children then we must wait in the spiritual world. Thus in the spirit world the educational law is established. Everyone must go to the spirit world in a single line. Do you understand? In the spirit world there is an educational system, and all the things which were not able to be accomplished on the earth are taught and everyone must pass over together.
Anyone alone cannot receive salvation. That is why even I have much interest in Mother. It’s not simply because I like Mother, but from the Principle perspective I want to love her more than she loves me; that’s why I am thinking very much about it. Each spouse has to do like this.
Do you teach your children that “True Father became as he is because he received love from God. He receives love from God and he is your grandfather. I received more love from this grandfather than anyone else and I am one with the grandfather. That is why I am the world’s best father. So I am the best in the world when it comes to loving you”? Are you the best in loving your children? You must instill these kinds of thoughts into them. If this lineage is not polluted and succeeds for centuries and millennia, then ancestors in the spirit world and the descendants on the earth will receive blessings ten thousand fold.
Inherit the tradition from your forefathers. Properly bequeath that tradition to your descendants. If we are to subjugate Satan who opposes this Will, we must be liberated from the ordinary path as a family. Do you understand? [Yes.]
One should not go comfortably by oneself. You may be an individual here but you stand in the position to resolve the fate of the whole. In order to grant the condition that you have crossed over as a whole family, I have now educated your wives to enable them to create their own foundation in relationship to God. Therefore, knowing that it is such a time, you must determine to be responsible for solving the problems of Korea, Asia, and the world. That is why we must determine that even if the Unification Church perishes we must save the world.
Because of the fall of Adam and Eve we have lost the love of mother, the love of wife, and the love of younger sister. We have lost three great loves. From a woman’s perspective, she has lost the love of father, the love of husband, and the love of older brother. Your wife is a holy being who has now appeared in front of you as a representative fruit of the feminine image of three ages; therefore, you must be grateful to Heavenly Father.
I have to raise my wife as my daughter. After that, I raise her as my wife; and then educate her as the mother and establish the name of other. Isn’t it opposite? I have raised her. If my age is compared with Mother, then her age is comparable to the age of my daughter, isn’t it? Mother is like a daughter, and it is more difficult to say that she is like a wife or a mother. That’s why I use the word of “Omma” (mother) to Mother. Sometimes when I return from some place, I report everything to Mother, as if I was a little child. That is restoration.
You must become a man whom a woman cannot be suspicious of even if she tries to. Therefore, whatever you do you must first discuss with your spouse and then do it. Do you understand? “God’s will is like this, the path which we must walk is like this, shall we do this or not?” In such a fashion you must explain by deciphering the Principle. When you ask, “Do you have any objection?” she should say, “No, I don’t have any objection.” The way which men must walk is the way through which they strip off everything which women made mistakes about. Isn’t this so? …
When you face any difficulty, if you consider your wife as a mother and discuss with her as “this is so and so,” then she will shed her tears in the place of a mother. If she sheds the tears then she will not become more distant from you …
If we become a couple in which the spouses can truly become one by holding hand in hand and truly trust each other, this is none other than a most blessed couple, isn’t it? Raise your hand if you promise that you will live like that from now on. All of you should try. If you bear children then those children are born by inheriting the fortune of the Unification Church and Father. So, do you like to bear good children?
Now I am only quietly observing. Some people, I have matched with a cripple. How would such a couple live heartistically? I have much interest in that. We are not the people who live for the present. Consider that we are born for history. Think because of mistakes of my ancestors in history, in order to indemnify that in my generation, I became a cripple. But the ancestors as a whole are not bad. The history itself has not gone wrong. Therefore, don’t be resentful. Think of the fact that in the heartistic world, that position does not become miserable but it becomes a place where one can be connected with blessing. In such a family would God come or not? If the relation of three great loves are fulfilled, then the four position foundation is established. God dwells there.
In that place of attending God we must live for centuries and for a millennium. That place is the foundation for the Kingdom of Heaven. If this is realized then we can receive God’s love and we can inherit God’s lineage and thus are able to love everything which God possesses. Such an incredible position is the position of the blessed couple. Do you understand? One must give up one’s own family, wife, and children for the sake of the world. This love is in accordance with God. Don’t live with the mindset of a haphazard, stupid person. If one lives with seriousness, then nothing in the universe can break this mind. Anyone who tries to break such a serious mind will decline. If you march like this in the future then wherever you go the satanic world will crumble.
During the process I have toiled together with Mother, and God always worked ahead of everything; this is marvelous. Now a new era has come in front of us, this shining historical era. If you loose this time then your cherished desire will not be fulfilled. Your desire is not aimed at just tomorrow. It is the establishment of the four position foundation centering on the devotion toward and the bond with True Parents, in order for your descendants to inherit this after millions and billions of years.
The position in which you are sitting today, bonded, and centering on Father, is the position that your ancestors for tens of thousands of generations have been longing for. Right now everyone in the spirit world is longing for and devoting themselves to it. Today I myself am devoting all my heart centering on this. You must clearly understand that such an amazing position is the position of the blessed couple. Do you understand? [Yes.]
FATHER’S PRAYER
Heavenly Father, I understand that a day of sorrow occurred to Your mind, which wished that Noah be better than Abel, and again a sorrowful incident approached Abraham’s family whom You had chosen hoping that they be better than Noah. I also understand that You have established the victorious foundation through the journey of battles, longing for better offspring centering on Jacob.
We understand that upon such a foundation, Moses bearing the responsibility of national leadership was to be more absolute than Jacob. That is why he left Egypt and spent eighty years in Midian, in the barren wilderness. We understand that John the Baptist should have had even more devotion and made more effort than Moses, yet we feel and behold through our own eyes how the Israelites became the people with thousands of years of sorrow.
Heavenly Father, thinking that Christians to follow should have invested more devotion than the Israelites, and that the Unification Church should invest more devotion than established Christianity as the third Israel set apart to fulfill God’s will, this son standing in this place understands clearly that I have to invest more devotion than anybody in all of history.
You understand very well about the situation of this son who feels deeply ashamed when I think about how inadequate I am, how many imperfections I have in front of Your dispensational will which longs for absolute perfection, as time passes by, as I relate to You with a sense of mission.
I have not sought recognition by others, nor started with the expectation of recognition by anybody; however, I know very well the fact that You sympathize with me, going ahead of me and clearing my path. Not one person, but numerous spiritualists and many people whom I have encountered, testify that this person is the most miserable person in the whole world; however, I am not a miserable person. You know my mind, which wants to perceive that I was an unfilial son who did not yet realize that You are more miserable than I am.
The Unification Church was able to remain until this day not because of anyone’s accomplishment or merit. I understand that it is only because You functioned as an invisible root and became the driving force which eliminated every obstacle, this Unification Church was able to remain at this place today.
I understand well that when the question is raised concerning who is in the important position to be responsible for navigating the fate of the Unification Church, it is not the insignificant church leaders who are here today, but a person who cannot even speak “Heavenly” of the Heavenly Father and wails and speaks “Father” and again cannot close his mouth, for his mind is so aroused by Your piercing heart; I know that You are looking for such a person.
Father, please let this period be a time to reflect back at the most shameful past, to shed the ignorant self that promised results of insignificant value, and to pledge oneself to Your solemn teaching.
We now understand; I am my own enemy. Where I am victorious over myself, You are there. We must understand that You who drive us to be victorious over ourselves have already been victorious within Yourself. When we think of how great Your suffering endurance had to be and how much Your grief had flowed into You, especially as You are omnipotent and omniscient, until You stand over all those things, we can only dare to understand and fathom it. Please look down with mercy upon us who are lamenting for we are unable to reach Your situation from this place.
Father, here at ChungPyung at this time Your young children have gathered not to find something. They came looking for a place where they can again be drenched in Your deep heart and again experience Your heart. Facing difficulties is not a problem. We came here with our earnest desire to find the place where the relationship with You will never be shaken eternally and eternally, and where the bond be never unbound.
We understand that we must win over this world. We must win over Satan. When we observe this, we realize that the destined course of the Unification Church is a course overcoming misery after misery. Father, You know very well about the heartache that we feel, knowing that the nation is in a difficult position yet we are unable to stand in front of this place. Because You know the heartbreak that You feel when You know the difficulty of this world yet are unable to stand in front of the world, You easily know our heartbroken situation.
We should be proud to have Heavenly Father who has persevered through so much suffering in order to prepare the way for us before this time has come. Before being proud of anything of our own, we should be proud of Father. Before we venerate anything of our own we should venerate Father. Before looking forward to be recognized with all our value, we must feel indignant about Father being unable to be recognized. I know through my own experience that when the children, who can really live for You, perceive Your miserable situation, not knowing how to properly respond to You, feeling empathy toward You, and cry out in tears “Why must Heavenly Father walk this miserable path? When will we bring about the day of liberation for You?” then You can be liberated from that miserable situation.
Your children who are gathered here, please don’t let them shed tears for their own children. If their children are miserable, let them realize it is because You are miserable and let them pray embracing You. When You look at us tearfully praying “Please Heavenly Father, do not be in such a situation” Your heart aches thousand, ten thousand times more. When realizing this we must comfort You in such a situation and tell the children with prayerful heart that “Although you stand in a lonely, miserable place now, your descendants will not perish, and your future will not be bleak. This I will prove to you. Don’t feel resentment because we can’t feed and clothe you now.” Let them know that such parents are holy parents.
Because I could not clothe and feed my wife like others sometimes I would see her groaning in the sickbed. At such times, instead of worrying about the difficult situation and environment, I thought of how much misery would Heavenly Father’s heart feel when He sees His children go the heavenly way in such a situation. And even if my wife collapses and I fall down, I would pray for Heavenly Father’s heart to not be miserable and shed tears, then I would be liberated from such a situation again and again. Father, please let them realize that when they become crazy about loving Heavenly Father, and when they become crazy about caring for Your will, they shall never perish.
Now our bloodline which gushes forth as the blood of an artery from the heart and our bosom must be connected with Heavenly Father. Therefore we must reach the place where our blood can be identical with the blood which pours out from Your artery and Your bosom. In order to reach that place, I realize that I must die and You must survive. Heavenly Father, I earnestly pray that You would grant me to walk this path gladly.
Because You love this place, ChungPyung, You have made this place as it is. This is the ground that You have sanctified through much dedication. I pray earnestly that this meeting can plant the tradition such that in this place the tears of dedication can be entangled, in this place every occurrence can be related with You more closely, thus all people of all nations can visit this place and long for You through their tears and tears, through their difficulties and sufferings.
Even if we are in the situation of naked, orphaned, persecuted people, the place where You walk together with us is not a miserable place but a happy place, that place is the place where the Kingdom of Heaven will be resurrected, and that place is where the happy settlement of the future will spring forth; thinking these things, we must go forth again, straightening our tired bod y. Stimulating the spirit and vigor in our lifeless eyes, looking over the far away mountain, we must go forth again. Heavenly Father, I desire earnestly that You will allow us to be Your children who struggle to go first on the thorny path that we must walk through, rather than belatedly following the footsteps which You have left.
We have not yet understood our holy Father’s heartbroken mind to achieve restoration. We have not understood that in Your victimized inner mind, which endured so far with a pledging, bleeding heart, there is a grieving and longing mind which pleads to us; “Oh my son, please become a son of subjugation and victory.”
Let us understand clearly that although we have become the children of disappointment and despair living under the pressure of wretchedness, in the midst of this, Heavenly light approaches, and that light becomes the dividing path; the new Kingdom of Heaven is opened here and thus the luminous Heavenly glory begins.
Father, please allow us to pledge, from this time on, the energetic steps of tomorrow. Please let them understand that if they can become the sons who already determine themselves to go like this once they become such a person, to go like this once they receive such a wife, to go like this once they bear such a child, and carry this out in action, and if these sons can go forth in the way of Your will, then Your day of new prosperity can rest in a safe place.
Please allow us to fruitfully cross over this hill, which we must cross in any case, and allow us to not become smallminded men when we are at the crucial juncture of determining our destiny. I earnestly wish and plead that You would allow them to be bold and courageous, and to become the victorious fighters who can introduce Heavenly Father by petitioning all people.
I ask Your favor once again that now all the things which we undertake from this first day on can be embraced in Your glorious bosom, and I also hope that You will grant that this day be blessed. At this time when August has almost passed away, please grant a new start for the Unification Church and allow the binding of hopeful Heavenly fortune to be fulfilled.
We must think that by the one who knows and the one who is unknowing, the person who is ignorant and the person who is enlightened, the heaven and earth will divide. I again ask Your favor to please protect, enlighten, and guide all the children who are gathered here so that they may become wise people and that they may appear in front of Your blessed presence.
I pray all these things in the holy name of True Parents, amen.