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Background
Cheon Il Guk is the abbreviation of Cheonju Pyeonghwa Tongil Guk (Cosmic Nation of Peace and Unity). On January 13, 2001, because of their authority gained through victory in the history of restoration through indemnity, the True Parents held the Enthronement Ceremony for God's Kingship.
On October 3 of that same year, on the occasion of the Foundation Day of the Nation of the Unified World, they spoke about the significance of Cheon Il Guk.
Cheon Il Guk is God's nation, the fruit of True Parents' vision of one family under God, to which they have devoted their entire lives. True Parents explained that Cheon Il Guk is 'the nation where two persons become one.'
It is the ideal world of interdependence, mutual prosperity, and universally shared values, where all people live as brothers and sisters attending God as the vertical True Parent and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind as the horizontal True Parents.
1. Have you ever heard of the Cosmic Nation of Peace and Unity? Have you ever heard that there is a nation of God? I'm asking whether you have heard about heaven on earth, the ideal world, and the utopia for which God longs. No one has ever heard these words before, but everyone longs for such a nation. It is not a delusion. It is reality.
Men and women, young and old, regardless of background, place,e and time, whether living in the physical world or the spiritual world, will all agree that the nation of peace, the nation longed for by God, is nothing apart from the Cosmic Nation of Peace and Unity, Cheon Il Guk.
Who can bring this nation to fruition? God created us as His sons and daughters. Thus, we are the ones who are responsible for realizing this nation. When this is done, the country will belong not only to God but to His sons and daughters.
It will be a nation that the sons and daughters can be proud of for eternity with God at the center. It is also the ideal nation of God's dream. In that nation, the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, and world can truly be happy.
(359-080, 2001/11/06)
2. Before we die, we must unite our mind and body. The wife must come to love God more than she loves her husband, and the husband must love God more than he loves his wife. You must also become a family that can love God's sons and daughters just as God loves them.
Families like that come together to form a tribe and such tribes come together to form a nation. Then these nations come together to form the world, and the world unites to form heaven and earth, the Cosmic Nation of Peace and Unity. God will be the ruler of that nation, we will be His subjects, and the whole world will be its territory. (357-195, 2001/10/30)
3. All of you need to enter the Cosmic Nation of Peace and Unity. This nation has no ties to Satan. All ties with Satan must be cut off, and you have to stand in the position of a messiah. You must stand in the position of individual, family, tribal, and national messiah. To live in this liberated heavenly nation, the mind and body need to become one.
Through achieving such oneness in my heart, the new cosmic nation on earth, the nation of Cheon Il Guk, becomes my nation. After the nation of the individual, there is the nation of the husband and wife. In this nation, husband and wife need to become one based on their mind and body having become one. You as an individual must be united, and you and your spouse have to be united.
This is the distinctive standard by which you can represent the perfected Blessing. This distinctive standard is the realm of the Blessing that encompasses both parent and child. It is the realm of the Blessing of heaven and earth.
(360-266, 2001/11/17)
4. The Cosmic Nation of Peace and Unity is where we can go beyond national boundaries and expand to the world stage. After resolving everything through the law of indemnity, Cheon Il Guk is the nation that leads us to the kingdom of heaven.
It is the united nation of the heavenly and earthly worlds. The heavenly and earthly worlds are two. Cheon Il Guk is the nation where these two become one. How can they become one? Through true love. What kind of peace does Cheon Il Guk embody? It is the peace that embraces heaven and earth. (365-106, 2002/01/05)
5. Centering on the original, innate love of God, I was able to love even Satan and lay a solid foundation to enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, Satan has no choice but to bless me, saying, 'You are headed to the world of liberation. Your wishes shall be fulfilled.
Wherever you go, your wishes shall be granted, and you shall have everything you desire.' When the words, 'The world is now liberated in the name of God, the True Parents and the True Family,' are uttered, he will say, 'Amen!'
Spring has come. No matter how much the snow has piled up, no matter how thick the ice is, now that spring has come everything will melt. Seeds must be sown in the spring. The seeds of goodness must be planted to the ends of the earth, displacing the seeds of evil planted by Satan.
The family is the seed of goodness. Satan planted only the seeds of the fallen Adam and Eve. We must now plant the seeds of the new family. (189-065, 1989/03/12)
6. The Cosmic Nation of Peace and Unity is not a nation meant solely for the Korean people. God desires to liberate all humankind, including hundreds of billions of ancestors in the spirit world, and even the world of angels.
Therefore, even though the road that leads to this is arduous and miserable, we must travel it. We must invest with the heart of a parent, of a husband or wife, of an elder sibling, or a younger sibling who has lost the person they love the most.
We must go forward, investing and forgetting that we have invested. Whoever lives like this, even if someone tells them not to, will naturally end up in heaven. (358-062, 2001/11/01)
7. The reason I have received so much persecution is that I have no nation. This is also the reason God has undergone so much persecution. Therefore, I am always thinking about how to find the nation, the homeland that is God's.
This is why I perform the mass marriage ceremonies, bringing together all five races of the world, even as the world curses me. Through this, we are creating one united tribe and people throughout the world.
Do you know how difficult this is? But isn't the work that the incorporeal God must do to bring the world to this point even more difficult? The work I am doing is less difficult than God's. This is why I said I would find a nation. This is why I have walked this path. (133-307, 1985/01/01)
8. Now all I have to do is organize a movement that can establish a new family, a new tribe, and a new nation. If I can accomplish this, not only Korea but also the United Nations and the whole world will continue to follow me and understand the direction they need to take. The formation of the new family, a family that Satan has not defiled, starts with True Parents.
The mission that remains is to expand the sanctified, unfallen nation. This is re-creation. God cannot give His love where the traces of Satan's filthy love remain. You must fulfill your mission.
Only then can you go to the heavenly nation and restore your honor as the perfected descendant of Adam. The Israelites went through the 40-year wilderness course but could not build the homeland.
However, I have lived through the 40-year wilderness course on the worldwide level and have re-created the people of Israel, making it possible to build a world-level kingdom. (268-120, 1995/03/31)
9. Moses was 80 years old when he sought the hometown and nation in preparation for the age of Jesus.
The failures that came about are then being restored centering on the blessed families. This is why there was a 40-year course to restore Canaan centering on the blessed families. It refers to the period when heaven and earth are to become one.
In the blessed families' course of establishing Canaan, heaven and earth were turned upside down. To create one person, I had the blessed families unite with one another in Jardim, Brazil.
Now that they have become one, doing the work to settle with one mind and one body, even with heaven and earth upside down, they will be able to return to Canaan without any resistance. Because they have completed these preparations, they are passing over the boundary line and landing in a new dimension.
Moses sought the hometown and nation on the level of a people. He was unable to accomplish that. But today, on my 80th birthday, I have overcome all impediments and realized the completion of the ideal family and the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven. (314-266, 2000/01/09)
10. Christianity did not unite after World War II and, centered on the United States, even went so far as to chase me away. We came to be just like the Israelites, cast out into the wilderness for 40 years.
Centering on the 4,300 years of Korean history, the course to establish Canaan and to complete the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven was prolonged. To finish this, the First, Second, and Third Israels and the Old, New, and Completed Testament Ages must be brought to a conclusion. Cheon (428-152, 2003/12/18)
11. Guk can begin only if this is completed, and it stands on the foundation of the settlement. (396-149, 2002/11/05)
11. The term Cheon Il Guk came into existence thanks to True Parents. After we completed God's kingship, we passed through the Settlement in the Realm of Life of the Parents of Heaven and Earth, and then the gatherings for the Harmony and Unity of Heaven and Earth, and finally the Ascension (Seunghwa) Ceremonies for Peace, Unification and the Liberation of Heaven and Earth.
With these completed, a new nation was necessary. True Parents declared Cheon Il Guk. The goal of the Family Pledge is to complete Cheon Il Guk. We must fulfill the Family Pledge for the sake of our mothers, our fathers, our siblings, our nation, our world, and the saints and sages and the entire heavenly world.
The conclusion is simple. Why did we hold the Enthronement Ceremony for God's Kingship? We did it for Cheon Il Guk. Why did we hold the rallies for the Settlement in the Realm of Life of the Parents of Heaven and Earth? We did it so that the citizens of Cheon Il Guk could settle and live.
Currently, all citizens of heaven and earth are resolving. Together, they are setting conditions for a united world from the level of individual resolution through all eight stages. On the worldwide level, they are making resolutions to gain success, focusing on a common purpose. (396-149, 2002/11/05)
Foundation Day
Foundation Day, which is the beginning of the substantial Cheon Il Guk, took place 13 years after the Enthronement Ceremony for God's Kingship. True Parents stood in the position of servants with a parental heart to establish Cheon Il Guk. They shed sweat for the earth, tears for humanity,y and blood for heaven, and walked a course of progress as pilgrims.
After the Holy Wedding in 1960, True Parents became victorious in taking the courses of true parents, true teachers, and true owners. Through the Blessing, they searched for and established millions of couples in the physical and spiritual worlds. To realize a peaceful world, they inaugurated many organizations in all fields worldwide. Through these countless internal and external foundations, they proclaimed the Foundation Day of Cheon Il Guk.
12. I am setting up the 13 years following the Foundation Day of the Nation of the Unified World holy day on October 3, 2001, as a general summation of my life, and it is emerging accordingly.
With 6,000 years as a foundation, the year 2001 launched the lead-up to the year 3000, at which point we can greet the 7,000th year. If you calculate the length of human history as expressed in the Bible, it comes to 6,000 years.
I must complete in just 13 years the responsibility that all men and women ought to have accomplished throughout the entirety of human history. Within 13 years, I have to complete everything that Adam was unable to fulfill.
I have to seek the lineage that Satan stole from God. January 13, 2013, is our D-Day. I will wipe everything clean in just these 13 years. (2010/02/01)
13. The fallen world is not a world of O's (representing good) but of X's (representing bad). Within a world of X's, there is no space for O's, but even one 0 can embrace millions of X's. January 13, 2013, is to be the D-Day proclaimed by heaven. What must we accomplish before this D-Day?
We must offer to heaven all the things that Satan stole. How can we gather and return all these things? Even God cannot complete this task by Himself. This is why True Parents have taken it on. Satan became the false parent, false owner, and false king, spreading his false lineage.
This is why no one knows about God or the spirit world. We are living without truly knowing our starting point, our root; no one truly knows where they are heading.
Certainly, that which we call the result, which comes from the Origin, defines the one path which we must go. There are not two paths. There is only one.
(611-046, 2009/05/05)
14. For 12 months to become a year there must be a center, a point of focus, which itself becomes the number 13. Generally speaking, the number 13 becomes the center for the number 12. As the number 13, Jesus was supposed to become the center of the 12 disciples, but he was unable to do so.
This is why he died. We need to seek such a center. I understood this concept even as a child. I am seeking the nucleus, the position of the number 13. That is why Foundation Day is on January 13, 2013. We need to align with the number 13.
(611-313, 2009/05/20)
15. There is a new providence for heaven until Foundation Day. We must resolve all issues surrounding the ideal of heaven and the ideal of liberation, according to God's wishes.
We must complete all our educational efforts in our providential and worldly missions during this time before entering the era of one world. Starting today, January 19, 2010, and centering on God, we must bring to fruition all our programs and resolve all problems, including those of Cain and Abel and those relating to Satan's lineage.
To enter the world of liberation, we need to complete all the education desired by heaven. Centering on our D-Day, we must dedicate ourselves to finishing that work. We need to resolve United Nations issues, national issues, and all related issues.
To complete God's agenda, all people gathered here today must decide and labor to fulfill it. If you work hard, the world will not fall into ruin. My challenge now is to tie up the loose ends and bring the providence to a conclusion. (2010/01/19)
16. Foundation Day marks the beginning of a new history; it is a genesis, an origin. It is a day that was necessary throughout all of human history and is a day that had to come to pass. This day did not come about easily. God created the heavens and earth because of true love. It is recorded in the Bible that He created the world in six days and rested on the seventh.
But Foundation Day was established as the 13th day, meaning that God created and guided the world during 12 days and established the 13th day as the day when His dreams were fulfilled.
He created everything from the tiniest amoeba to the largest animal, and finally, He created Adam and Eve. He then said, 'It is good. It is beautiful.' God then waited for the 13th day when a new world would begin. That was to have been the day when God's dreams were fulfilled. (True Mother, 2013/02/23)
17. God cannot rest in ultimate perfection with only an incorporeal body. The incorporeal God needs to settle and become the substantial Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind.
However, there has been no perfect couple on earth able to fulfill this role for God. Adam and Eve were unable to fulfill their portion of responsibility. Because there were no Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind, there was no one who had met the standard to be called True Parents. The ideal of True Parents remained unrealized.
When the Parents of Heaven and Earth unite in conjugal love, they will make a home where God can dwell peacefully. In their home untouched by the Fall, they will realize absolute sex.
Now that I have reached the level of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind, I am speaking more freely about absolute sex. When I speak about absolute sex, I am not referring to self-centered, individualistic sex.
Half of humanity consists of women, but they are only one of the two sexes that must be harmonized. If there is disharmony between the two, it is as if one's eyes don't look in the same direction, or one's nose is improper, or the limbs are not coordinated with each other. A woman and a man who have reached perfection must harmonize and become totally one. Marriage signifies the total oneness of man and woman as one body.
For the Realm of the Cosmic Sabbath, for the Parents of Heaven and Earth to come about, we must pass through the first era, that of Adam; the second era, that of Jesus; the third era, that of the Returning Lord; and the fourth era, that of the realm of Adam's heart.
There must be a foundation of harmony. One can fulfill the Blessing when one is harmonizing with one's partner and there is no conflict. By January 13, 2013, which is D-Day, we must enter through the great door, centering on the Blessing.
(610-012, 2009/04/10)
18. Now a new era has opened. You are extraordinarily lucky and blessed. Out of all humankind, only you have been able to usher in Foundation Day, which is unprecedented in history. It is like a dream. People who are blessed in this way must share their blessings with those around them.
This is your responsibility. The blessed families owe a tremendous debt to the Heavenly Parent and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind. You received the Blessing without payment. How do you think fallen people will be able to attend the Heavenly Parent?
All of our ancestors who have been going back and forth between the physical world and the spiritual world have been waiting impatiently for this day. Many people shed more blood and offered more sincere devotion than we have for the sake of fulfilling the providential Will. If we compare ourselves to those people, we are severely lacking. (True Mother, 2013/02/24)
The Enthronement Ceremony and the Blessing for Registration
For the first time in 6,000 years, a new heaven and new earth have opened, and a new day has dawned. On the 13th day of the first month of the heavenly calendar (February 22) in 2013, the Foundation Day of Cheon Il Guk was proclaimed.
On that day, a joyous fanfare praising the glory of heaven and the Blessing on earth resounded at the Cheongshim Peace World Center.
The True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind officiated the Enthronement Ceremony of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind in Cheon Il Guk, which could be viewed live from anywhere in the world on the Internet. They completed, concluded, and consummated the entire providence of restoration.
The holy vestments and holy crown of the True Father, who resides in the spirit world and has realized complete oneness with God, were enshrined.
Soon after, the True Mother, wearing blue vestments and a holy crown, entered the stage amid celebration in heaven and on earth, escorted by four of her grandchildren, carrying roses and lilies. The heavenly king's scepter symbolizes the power and authority of God and of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind, and the Cheon Seong Gyeong and Pyeong Hwa Gyeong, the Holy scriptures of Cheon Il Guk, symbolize rule by the Word.
These, along with the Royal Seal, were presented to the True Mother. The climax of the ceremony was True Mother proclaiming the Cheon Il Guk symbols and the Cheon Il Guk Foundation Day. Foundation Day holds deep significance as the substantial beginning of Cheon Il Gu and also marked the beginning of its founding year.
Following the Enthronement Ceremony of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind in Cheon Il Guk, the True Parents bestowed the grace of the Blessing, which allows all people in heaven and on earth to register as citizens of Cheon Il Guk. True Mother's sincere prayer and the affirmation of vows constituted resolutions toward completing Cheon Il Guk and a plea invoking God's grace.
The Marriage Blessing for Registration in Cheon Il Guk concluded successfully in joyous acclaim, ushering in a new era in which heaven and earth are one.
The Foundation Day celebratory banquet was a precious time to extol the victory of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind and inherit heavenly fortune and heavenly blessing.
True Mother awarded a special prize to 1,200 representative blessed families. This prize, which consists of a silken wrapping cloth embossed on every corner with True Father and True Mother's royal seals, embodies True Parents' will and desire for us to share our heavenly fortune and heavenly blessing with all people.
Diverse events were held during the week, mainly in Cheongpyeong, to commemorate the Foundation Day beginning the first year of Cheon Il Guk. Among them was the founding of the Wonmo Pyeongae Foundation and the hosting of a Summit Council for World Peace conference, in which leaders from Korea and around the world, including Unification Church leaders, participated.
At the service marking forty days after True Father's Holy Ascension, True Mother had granted holy wine to all the regional presidents so that they could distribute it to members around the world, cleansing all past sins and bestowing special grace with which to usher in Foundation Day.
19. Cheon Il Guk Proclamation: Most esteemed Heavenly Parent, You are the King of Kings, the King of Peace, and the True Parent of the Cosmos. Your benevolence is immeasurable.
We want to offer You the name of the nation, Cheon Il Guk, the national flower, the lily, and the national bird, the crane. In front of heaven, we want to dedicate the national flag and national anthem of Cheon Il Guk to You. On this day, January 13, 2013, I proclaim the first year of Cheon Il Guk. (True Mother, 2013/02/22)
20. Pledge for the Marriage Blessing for Registration: Offering glory and gratitude to the loving Heavenly Parent and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind, and representing all blessed families in Heaven and on Earth, and all humankind, do you, blessed families gathered here today, pledge to usher in the new history of Cheon Il Guk, inherit the tradition of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind, and establish the tradition of absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience in the Unificationist family, embracing the world and all of humanity, advancing with all your strength? (True Mother, 2013/02/22)
21. Proclamation of the Marriage Blessing for Registration: Our Heavenly Parent, I pray that glory will fill heaven, and that praise and exaltation for You will overflow on earth.
The True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind, thank You so much. You have worked so tirelessly. We know that we are unworthy to stand in this position before this tremendous blessing and grace, and yet heaven, so great and expansive, has embraced us once again. How can we be worthy to receive this grace, this overwhelming blessing?
We promise and pledge to You once more, Heavenly Parent, that until the day we peris,h we will march forward tirelessly toward the completion of Cheon Il Guk. Please help us.
We sincerely wish to stand before You as Your beloved sons and daughters who make You proud. O Heavenly Parent, assist us in this place. Since we earnestly request Your protection, please help us. Please spread Your Will throughout the whole world. Aju! (True Mother, 2/01/30222)
Sun Myung Moon