Father spoke on September 9, 1999 establishing 9.9 Jeol (The Realm of Liberation of Cosmic Unification for the Parents of Heaven and Earth) at Central Training Center, Sutaek-ri, Korea
Father’s prayer
Loving Heavenly Father!
Today is September 9, 1999, 9 minutes and 9 seconds past 9 o’clock in the morning with True Parents at the age of 79. Centering on this condition, I have clearly revealed about the realm of number 9, which is Satan’s perfection number, thereby liberating everything that was shackled by the fallen relationship in the spirit world and the physical world, through the Principle viewpoint.
A realm of the unified ideal was to connect, centering on the blood lineage, the periods of fetus, infant, childhood (brother-sisterhood), engagement, marriage, parenthood, grandparenthood, and queen-ship. It was, however, blocked by Satan on all these steps up to the realm of kingship, producing the dividing line between mind and body.
The history of conflict between good and evil required much bloodshed from Abel’s realm on the side of Heaven in order to naturally subjugate Cain and take back the eldersonship. Unification Church members understand clearly the sorrow (han) of restoration history that required such bloodshed and sacrifice in order to cleanse the tainted lineage and properly regain God’s good blood lineage.
True Parents appeared on this earth to disclose a mainstream path for the fundamental solution to the problems of humankind. Humanity has walked a sorrowful path that diverged away from God over countless hills, because false parents united with Satan as their false spiritual representative and manifested satanic false love, false life, false lineage, false consciousness through their blood relationship with him.
The purpose of the providence of salvation is to fill up those hills. Your purpose for the ideal of creation was to establish Your lineage and mainstream tradition centering on the ideal of true love and thus realize the perfection of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven as the supreme victory of the history of the universe. Satan, however, violated the lineage and totally devastated Your purpose and ideal. From the position of false God, Satan established false parents, false children, false tribes, peoples, nations, and world. Humanity is lost in immovable confusion and is facing truly the last days of the apocalyptic world. It is Your ardent wish to totally uproot the evil lineage of false parents that produced the evil individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, and even Hell in the spirit world. The religious world until now has pioneered the course that enabled good people to subjugate evil people through natural submission, in order to realize God’s single-minded longing, over many sorrowful hills of history.
Adam on the side of goodness cannot strike evil. In the ideal world of creation, only love can connect with the realm of true life. Thus, the ideal of creation sought to welcome the unified world, the united Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven, and the eternal life was to substantiate and perfect this ideal.
Everything that begun by false parents is represented in the number 9 and Satan came to rule over from number 1 to number 9. God, therefore, toiled through the providential history of the Old Testament in order to liquidate the satanic number 9 centering on one chosen people.
This number 9, the highest satanic number, should be subjugated on the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, and cosmic level. True Parents and God, as horizontal and vertical True Parents, prepared the physical world and the spirit world. True Parents broke down vertically and horizontally all the barriers existing in hell on earth and hell in spirit world and established the straight path that leads to the Kingdom of Heaven centering on love. True Parents passed through the tearful history of struggle on the individual, family, tribe, (ethnic) people, nation, and world levels and expanded the ideal of the God-centered family on earth. As a result, the time is coming for God to be liberated and to freely rule over the whole world. Now the spirit world is welcoming the fourth anniversary of 7.8 Jeol, the declaration of the Cosmic Sabbath for the Parents of Heaven and Earth. We cannot enter into the new millennium unless we can totally liquidate all number nines that are clogged in the satanic world.
As the number 10 is added tomorrow, we can welcome the number that allows us to welcome the year 2000 from the year 1999. Centering on original familial love that is untainted by the fall, God can now return vertically from the individual to the family, tribe, people, nation, and world without hesitation. God’s original will desired the physical and spirit worlds to connect and form a spherical, unified world. We can now shout out the liberation of that will and “Mansei” to celebrate the liberation of the cosmos. Upon the foundation of the Declaration of True Parents’ Cosmic Victory on June 14, we can on this day declare the Realm of Liberation of Cosmic Unification for the Parents of Heaven and Earth.
The fortune for the unification of North and South Korea is coming. There was a gap and conflict between Eastern and Western culture because the East emphasized spiritual reform and the West emphasized material development. However, the unification of Eastern and Western culture is now at hand. The unification of North and South that can bridge the gap between the haves and have nots is coming. The ideal of the family centering on parents and brotherly love and the ideal of love that unifies the vertical and the horizontal are expanding to bring liberation to the Kingdom of Heaven.
Upon this day, we can finally proclaim the hegemony of the final and decisive victory that will totally abolish hell on earth and in spirit world, and manifest the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven. Through this, angels as well as ancestors in the spirit world can receive the benefit from blessed couples and be liberated. Therefore, families on earth and in the spirit world that were the base for the satanic world can now break down all barriers and declare the era of liberation. The top-down transfer of power from the age of satanic kingship, nation, tribe, family, and individual to God’s realm and standard is taking place. Thus, Satan’s very existence can no longer be permitted unless he follows the commands from God’s total authority and omnipotence. Such a worldwide foundation and heavenly fortune for the unification of North and South Korea have come to us.
True Parents can now abolish the number 9 in the name of the cosmic True Parents, carry out the annihilation of Satan’s work on earth and in spirit world, and declare a commemorative condition for welcoming the age of God’s substantial authority. Satan surrendered himself for he cannot cross this boundary line and enter into God’s domain.
We should resolve the environment from the national level, tribal level, familial level, all the way down to the individual level where mind and body are in constant conflict. From now, we should achieve unity between mind and body, between husband and wife, between parents and children, among tribes, peoples, nations and in the world.
Through their unity, God, the vertical parent, and True Parents, the horizontal parents, would unify everything centering on the vertical and horizontal standard. As the result, all nations and all people on earth and in the spirit world can now stand in the position of children and we can now declare the kingship of unified love centering on the entirety of vertical, horizontal, front and rear. We are indeed so grateful.
Satan has completely surrendered. According to God’s command, Satan and all his party, instead of destroying the formation of good families, should eliminate the impure elements in the society that hinder the perfection of family and assist the cosmic liberation of heavenly blessed couples, as of today. I declare with the shield of True Parents’ victory, that from today we are entering into such an era. The arch-Satan Lucifer has already surrendered. I declare that we can control in the name of God, all those groups of beings who are waging a guerrilla war in the lowest and darkest world. I also declare that they must voluntarily surrender themselves in front of the mainstream ideological system and cosmos.
They should follow from today the name of Yahweh and absolutely surrender and obey God’s proclamation. In so doing, they can change their direction 180 degree and acquire the name of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience. The evil ancestor Archangel can indemnify his failure to absolutely love and have faith in Adam and his opposition to the Parents of Heaven and Earth, by absolutely believing and loving humankind and all things and absolutely obeying and following the absolute realm of liberation. The fallen spirit world and hell can in that way be liberated.
True Parents announce this content and declare Ku Ku (9.9) Jeol to the entire cosmos in the name of True Parents. Evil world and good world unite with God and True Parents, so that only good will remain and be active. I now declare in the name of True Parents that we can welcome the era of liberation, the era of heavenly fortune, the era of God’s ideal Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven. Amen! Amen! Amen!
Editor’s note: So free an expression of heart and emotion was Father’s prayer that it challenged translators beyond their limits to render it in English. This translation by Jin Man Kwak was selected for Today’s World because it is the most simple in its expression, and thus the easiest from which to glean Father’s overall meaning. The painstaking efforts of Chong Moon and Lynne Kim in their (already published) translation are gratefully acknowledged here. In future years the providential timetable will no doubt permit more detailed study of the original words of our True Father.
Father’s Words (Excerpts)
True Parents have connected numerous people through the blessing, transcending national and racial boundaries so as to cut off the satanic blood-lineage in this substantial world. Through this, the liberation of individuals, families, tribes, peoples and nations is being accomplished here on earth, rather than in the spirit world.
A foundation of heavenly citizens who form families, societies and nations of heavenly love, exists on the earth. Thus, the entire spirit world and physical world can be united and bring about a universal and total settlement centering on True Parents. A unified realm of blessed couples in both the spirit and physical worlds can be established as individuals, families, tribes, peoples, nations and the world and cosmos achieve the perfection of the blessing.
The ideal of the Kingdom of Heaven will be realized centering on the original Adam, and a position of independent value attained by all families throughout human history. As a result, the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and in heaven will be actualized, and God as the center will be fully present. God is the vertical parents, and True Parents the horizontal parents, who can bring this world to an equal standard.
Chil Pal (7.8) Jeol declares the Sabbath for Parents of Heaven and Earth. A new era will begin centering on the numbers 7 and 8. Number 9 had been protected by Satan; thus we should completely transcend this realm by Ku Ku (9.9) Jeol.
To explain the significance of number 9: Satanic sovereignty was established over the numbers 1 through 9, and God preserved the condition of one-tenth tithing to restore this. Centering on this sanctified realm of one-tenth, God toiled to find one individual Abel, one Abel family, one tribe, one nation and ultimately one world. God worked through Christian cultural realm to bring this about. However, there have been Cain and Abel within Christianity: Catholics and Protestants became enemies, as in the situation of Adam’s family where the brothers became enemies. Both Catholics and Protestants, however, are on the side of God on the worldwide stage. Nevertheless, they should become completely united as we enter into the realm of the original Adam.
Jesus in the flesh was unable to become a parent after losing his body. He became a spiritual parent but not a substantial parent, and thus the feast of the lamb became necessary. The Lord of Second Advent should come and perfect the realm of True Parents through the marriage feast. Had Judaism united with Jesus, and had the marriage taken place, then Judaism and the state of Israel would have been unified. Moreover, the Satanic world, Rome, would have disintegrated and numerous nations would have united under the Abel nation, Israel. A cosmic pillar connecting the earthly world and heavenly world would have been erected by individuals, families, tribes, peoples, and nations under God and in God’s love. The Roman empire, representing Satanic authority, was ruled by military, political, and economic power, and yet it fell short of emerging as such a cosmic center. Had the two camps clashed, the great Roman empire would have perished.
Had a unified realm of the world’s religions been established, it would have unified the world. It failed to materialize, however, and instead Communism devoured the world with the full authority of the Satanic realm. The ideology of the material versus the ideology of the spiritual. God’s side versus Satan’s side. Atheistic communism completely denied the world of the mind and spirit through the philosophy and culture of materialism. It cried out, “God is dead.” But that cannot be so. The Unification Church emerged with a solution to such chaos.
A solution to the confusion of ideologies
The Unification Church should gather the races of all five colors and establish true brotherly love. The realm of brotherhood was shattered in Adam’s family; thus, we should realize brotherly love. The marriage that established the satanic lineage took place due to the breakdown of true brother and sister relationships. We should thus realize the global blessing that transcends nation and race, where we connect life and lineage through love centering on God and True Parents, while standing on the absolute standard of brotherhood and sisterhood. This is the worldwide blessing project of the Unification Church.
How much have we been persecuted for holding the international marriage blessings? We have received world-level persecution from individuals, families, tribes, peoples, nations, and the world. The world and the religions united and accused the Unification Church of destroying traditional families, relationships between parents and their children, between husbands and wives, and among brothers—and between national and global ideologies. We should, in a sense, shake up these things—so that we can stop the conflict between mind and body within the individual. Mind and body are constantly fighting. No matter how great a person may be, his mind and body are in struggle. God cannot intervene when there is conflict. Mind and body must be united. With what? Not money, knowledge, or power. Everything will break apart when those things are deemed primary.
It is indeed the Last Days. America, with all her pride in money, power and knowledge, cannot end the ceaseless war between the mind and body. Then, with what? Only true love. You should understand this. True love. What is true love? It is a love that seeks to live for others. It is a love that invests the whole of the self and then forgets. You should know this. True love that invests, forgets and invests again—and then wants to repeat that ten, a hundred, a thousand times, and is still not satisfied. You should understand that only such a mind can connect with the tradition of true love. Only such a heart can plant and nurture the tradition of true love. That is why the Unification Church teaches that individuals should invest and sacrifice for the family, families for the tribe, tribes for their people, peoples for a nation, nations for the world, and the world for the cosmos. God has been investing Himself until now in order to cleanse all the filth left by the fall, and to re-create the great cosmos.
No one else can achieve unity of your mind and body for you. No one can break the love between a man and a woman who have perfected such mind and body unity. No one can break the sons and daughters who are born from such parents and standing in front of Heavenly Parents. Such a family cannot be shattered. This is for the sake of absolute love, unique love, unchanging love, and eternal love. Taking after God’s attributes that are absolute, unique, unchanging, and eternal, human beings should become the subject of absolute love, unique love, unchanging love and eternal love. This way, they become representatives of the Creator, God.
Subject and object partners must engage in give-and-take action. That is why relational philosophy is on the rise throughout the world today. Everything is in relationship: parent-child relationships, sibling relationships, academic relationships, teacher-student relationships, government relationships, diplomatic relationships, and so forth. What happens when a relationship is expanded? Unification comes after relationship. Unity. Through unity a benefit must come. The creation of subject and object partners was for the purpose of expansion through give and take. Everything engages in relationships for the sake of mutual benefit.
America is the Elder son nation and Korea is the Father nation. The elder son and father have to become one. Do you understand? Cooperation between mother and son was important in the history of restoration; however, the age of mother and son cooperation is now passing. The heavenly fortune for the unification of North and South is coming through the declaration of 9.9 Jeol; when unification takes place, the age of father and son cooperation will dawn. Had Adam not fallen, another Eve could have been created very easily. Father engrafted Japan onto Korea because Japan has not been able to fulfill her responsibility until now.
Those who do not have mind and body unity cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. You should know that there is a seven-year course for the nation and family. It is a merciless course. The larger the snake, the more difficult it is for it to shed its skin. It is easier for smaller snake, but more difficult for bigger ones. How can a large snake find a hole big enough for its whole body to move through? It takes a great effort to squeeze itself and maneuver through its skin.
The Kingdom of Heaven will appear in front of your eyes after you go through the three-year course. You should understand that we are living in a great transition period. Who knows this in Korea? Christian ministers? Political leaders? Only True Parents know this. [Amen.] Who absolutely need True Parents? Individuals absolutely need them. Only True Parents have the teaching that can stop the conflict between mind and body.
All people of both past and present, without exception, absolutely need True Parents. To whom do True Parents belong? Absolutely, to whom do True Parents belong? They are mine. Mine. To whom do True Parents belong? [To me.] A man and a woman who possess True Parents are children who have inherited True Parents’ blood lineage. There is not even a trace of Satan’s blood lineage in them. Do you have any remnants left? To whom do True Parents absolutely belong? [To me.] A person who can claim absolute ownership of the True Parents is a person of absolute individual perfection. [Amen.] A woman who knows that the True Parents belong absolutely to her is a woman of absolute perfection. For what purpose do man and woman desire perfection? To make True Parents absolutely theirs.
I must struggle absolutely in order to possess the True Parents as absolutely mine. True love is like the sun. There is only one sun but sunshine fills up the entire universe.