The fifty-first anniversary celebration of the founding of HSA-UWC/FFWPU, on May 1, 2005, at which Father gave the following speech, was attended by some 34,000 members and guests, many of whom traveled long distances to Yeosu to participate (see also page 6 overleaf).
Respected leaders of the Mongolian Peoples’ Federation for World Peace who have come from around the world, distinguished guests from Korea and abroad, beloved leaders and blessed Unificationist families:
On this significant day fifty-one years ago, May 1, 1954, I founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (HSA-UWC) here in the Republic of Korea.
Korea had just been ravaged by three years of war. At that time, the vast dream of the Holy Spirit Association, to unify global Christianity and restore humankind’s relationship with God by bringing all the religions and ideologies of the world into unity, seemed an almost impossible idea.
I was only fifteen years old when I received the call of Heaven to take up this work. While walking this path, I received cold stares and endured misunderstanding from the people of the world, but I could not pay them any attention. My entire life’s work has been dedicated to fulfilling God’s providence in accordance with Heaven’s mandate.
My dear distinguished guests, human history began on the wrong footing, starting with Satan’s treacherous betrayal. God, the True Parent of humanity, created Adam and Eve as our first ancestors. He wanted them to grow and mature to become His true son and daughter through their taking personal responsibility. Nevertheless, Satan induced Adam and Eve to commit the Fall. In so doing, Satan completely destroyed the path of true love, which is God’s most precious and noble gift to the human race. The Fall was caused when Satan ensnared our original ancestors by an act of immoral love. It was the world’s first and greatest tragedy.
Please pay attention to the decadence that is raging throughout the world like a wildfire. Satan is the king and god of immorality. This fact is recorded in the Bible. The people of the world became slaves to Satan; as a result they lost their sense of direction and have been struggling throughout history. Now the poison mushroom of free sex has infiltrated even your own living rooms in the shape of wife swapping.
For that matter, what shall Heaven do with the countless young people who reject their sacred right and duty to give birth to children or who become homosexuals and pursue lives of extreme individualism? These actions are destroying the highest and noblest order given by God–the family. How can there be any atonement for the despicable crime of incest committed between a grandfather and granddaughter or a father and daughter?
Today let us carefully look at ourselves. Let us reconfirm our noble duty to establish true families through preserving and fulfilling true love, true life and the true lineage as given by God. The status of the six billion people on earth has reached its absolute nadir. Let us advance the movement to restore it.
Of first importance is educating the younger generation to know and practice Heaven’s will. Our young people have to deal with a culture of extreme individualism, a culture lost in a swamp of free sex and homosexuality. For this reason, we have to teach them thoroughly about purity, pure love, pure lineage and a pure lifestyle.
Dear guests, if we lose the younger generation, there is no way to guarantee the future of humankind. And yet, an educational movement of this kind cannot be carried out only by employing human theories and human effort. If we consider history, we can see that Heaven, in the background, has been guiding humanity to this day.
Even though God lost Adam and Eve, His first son and daughter, He never abandoned humankind. Underlying history is His unfathomable grief and tear-filled course. God raised central figures of His providence, only to watch as they made mistake after mistake and repeatedly betrayed Him. Yet, God has continued to advance the work of restoration. Beginning by setting Abel apart from Cain in Adam’s family, God guided the history of separation from evil. Now, on a worldwide level, God is effecting progress in the restoration of His lineage by bringing together and uniting the Cain-type realm, which represents the evil side, and the Abel-type realm, which represents Heaven, the good side.
What is the purpose of the movement for finding our roots, which I announced a few days ago? It seeks to establish the true love, true life and true lineage of Heaven, because therein lies the fundamental root of the human race. For tens of thousands of years we have lived as false olive trees. The True Parents came as the true olive tree. Now the human race can be engrafted through the blessing to the True Parents and receive the root of the true olive tree. This represents a revolution in God’s providence.
For this purpose, I have designated the homogenous race characterized by the Mongolian birthmark, which embraces over seventy percent of the world’s population, to represent the Cain-type realm, and designated IIFWP to represent the Abel-type realm. I am having them explore the path to reconciliation and unification. This will constitute a movement to create a new heaven and new earth. Through the blessing given by True Parents, humanity will be recreated as a realm of kinship, that is, a realm of families bearing the Mongolian birthmark and sharing the blessed lineage.
Dear guests, more than half a century has passed since I first hung up the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity sign. At that time, having received Heaven’s seal of approval, I emerged on the earth as the horizontal true parent. Only God knows how much blood, sweat and tears I have shed for the sake of fulfilling His will. Now, a new heaven and a new earth are emerging. The kingship of peace centered on God is beginning. Please realize that today we live in an era when we can realize a new heaven and a new earth. In this era, even Satan, who had reigned since the beginning of history as the king of betrayal and falsehood, has surrendered to Heaven. We have entered the realm of restorative grace.
Peace does not come about where there is conflict. Reconciliation and forgiveness are prerequisites of peace and an ideal world. What we should do now, in concert, is break down all walls, even up to abolishing national borders. First, you should remove the wall of conflict that divides your mind and body. The moral training of Confucianism can be understood in this light. You strive toward the original state in which the body completely submits to the mind and thus one is free from pangs of conscience. We should break down walls, satanic remnants, in every field, beginning at the level of the individual and extending through the levels of the family, society, ethnic group, nation and religion. You should establish Cheon Il Guk, the Peace Kingdom on earth and in heaven, which is the ideal God envisaged at the time of creation.
A year ago today, I declared to heaven and earth that the era before the coming of heaven had passed and the time after the coming of heaven had arrived. Now, a year later, the world is going through many rapid changes. Countless leaders throughout the world are stepping forward in response to my call for a peace movement based on true love. Middle-school-aged, high-school-aged and college-aged representatives of our second generation make up the core of this true love movement, which is spreading throughout the world under the banner of Lasting Love. Satan, the evil power, has surrendered, so there is no one who can stop this pure love movement. Hundreds of billions of our ancestors have been mobilized to help us from the spiritual world. It is only a matter of time before the eternal Peace Kingdom is built on earth. You should all have hope and march forward determinedly.
The more effort you make, the sooner that day will come. In Matthew 16:25, Jesus said, “For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” You should invest all of your effort to expand the realm of families having the blessed lineage, who are in a direct blood relationship with God. With solid resolve, let us race forward for another half century toward the higher ground of peace. Heaven will protect you all. You will be victorious!
Today, through me, each of you has been given this noble mandate from Heaven. From now on, wherever you go, whatever you do, please remember that you are one true family, united around the central axis of God and True Parents. Please remember that Heaven will work through your conscience, and that you can mobilize your good ancestors through living an altruistic life of true love.
May God’s blessings be eternally with you and the true families you newly create.
Thank you very much.