Entering the era of global activities
Now that we have entered the 1970s, we must lay a foundation for global mission work.
Within a few years, I will no longer be living in Korea. I am now preparing to go and live overseas. I did not tell you before, but in Japan, they are preparing funds, and even if I go to live in the United States, they have said they will build a house.
The Unification Church is sending out missionaries to approximately twenty nations. Within this year, we will send missionaries to forty nations. I will do this, however much the Republic of Korea opposes us. Are the things that I am doing wrong? I have not been wrong until now. So holding on to that history, I will go forward.
Land and buildings as an economic foundation
The Unification Church’s time has come, so we must build a headquarters. I have done everything that it was my duty to do. To establish the condition of fulfilling your responsibility, you should prepare a house for me. Before you do that, I must prepare the great foundation that God has planned.
So, at the beginning of this year, I bought land in four areas, including on Yeouido [여의도 ], in Cheongpyeong, and for churches. Because we need to establish an economic foundation to restore the four-position foundation, I am gathering all our resources to continue this work.
We are beginning this project to establish the foundation we need in the future for the nation and the world. We have already finished over half of this beginning stage.
When I consider the headquarters, I should buy a house. Yet, following my conscience dictates that I cannot buy a home first. We must build Heaven’s temple first in principle; that temple must be a hundred or a thousand times bigger than a house, and I should only build a house after I have made that commitment.
Land for a world mission headquarters was bought on Yeouido in Seoul
I have prepared land in Yeouido for our church. Originally, I wanted to purchase an additional ten thousand pyeong, but I was unable to. Even so, I should buy another three thousand. That’s all that remains for sale.
Thereafter, we will build a church. Of course, what I want is to create a global headquarters. Maybe you’ve thought of that, but this must certainly become our global headquarters. I have a leadership role while I am on earth, which includes a financial role.
If I only buy a few pyeong and build a headquarters on it, that would be shameful. Ten, twenty, fifty years from now, many people will come from around the world to that historic, grand building, so many that overcrowding will be a problem. That is what I am thinking.
Unification Church members have to buy the land. Each person should buy one pyeong of land. They must do some kind of business activity or even sell their blood if necessary.
The devoted heart that prepares this money for the land in Yeouido will remain for eternity. We have to enable people to understand that the world headquarters is significant.
The Cheongpa-dong headquarters is not a global one. A global headquarters must be built in a new place. Because it has this significance, I have purchased land on Yeouido.
I have bought land because we must have somewhere to make a new beginning. Our global headquarters should be there. The land is 360 meters long and 162 meters wide. We have to erect our building there, and when we do, we will not just build a little house.
Yeouido will become the center of Seoul in the future. With God’s help, what I had forecast has turned out to be exactly right. A national square will be made in the future, won’t it?
The fact that the National Assembly was built in the corner of Yeouido tells us to buy the rest. When we bought the land in Yeouido, I gathered hundreds of millions of won over several months and paid each installment in cash.
We paid the third installment of nearly 600 million won joyfully, not grudgingly. We bought about 15,000 pyeong and somehow managed to raise the money.
Aid to build churches in the provinces
I gave a little financial support this time in the building of the churches. That is because you all were in the position of having offered your family as a sacrifice.
What are we trying to do by offering our families as a sacrifice?
We are trying to make the tribal standard. That is the church. The church in the future will become the base from which to connect to other churches. This is why I am giving a certain amount to help the churches in the countryside.
The reason I secured places for your throughout Korea is to uphold our dignity in society. This is not because of it being helpful to you.
I am telling you to make the foundation to succeed in building churches that are bigger than the large established churches, even if you have to sell the shirt off your back. I am not doing this just to help all of you. You must have the right way of thinking.
Religious leaders attend public Divine Principle lectures
This year, we gave Divine Principle lectures to more than a thousand ministers of other churches. They were deeply moved and made comments such as, “Oh, we didn’t know what kind of man Rev. Moon is.”
In the past, they got together to try to drive me out without knowing anything. When they look back now on what they did back then, they are afraid to even recall their past. The fact is that things have changed. The world has changed.
When we asked the clergymen to come to the Open Divine Principle Presentation, their superiors sent them official memos telling them not to go.
Even though those in high places told them not to go, those on the bottom slipped out one after another. Their bosses sent out official notices once, twice, or three times, and when that didn’t work, they decided to turn a blind eye to it.
No matter how many official notices they sent out, it wouldn’t have mattered. The clergymen came to us and received assistance from us.
Many of them stayed overnight, and they were thunderstruck. When they reflected on themselves, they realized that it was as if they were nothing. They were in trouble, and they bowed their heads in shame.
When they first came to one of our churches, their eyes were wide open in amazement, but when they left, their heads were bowed; they had met their match.
We have to continue this work even if it means going into debt. For Jacob to subjugate Esau, he offered all the wealth he had worked very hard for 21 years. We should use everything and everyone we have now to work for Korea’s sake, based on our work with other churches.
Divine Principle lectures for professors
From the beginning of 1970, we started inviting ministers from other churches to Divine Principle meetings and professors to attend Divine Principle seminars at Academy House because I believe this is the time to break through in all directions and connect with the nation’s situation.
We are spending a lot of money to have famous university professors research the Divine Principle so that they can offer criticism of it and comment on it in their fields. We want to make books about lectures quickly.
Those who read books that have a renowned professor’s stamp of approval wouldn’t be able to speak against them. Therefore, we need to hurry to make this type of book.
Centering on the extraordinary Unification Principle, we should publish a book within this year, and have it translated into Japanese and English, and position it to influence even the leaders in nations across the world.
When a book written by a professor is translated into several languages, it will be a source of pride to the professor who wrote it.
Three years of prayer and purchasing of the land in Cheongpyeong (1969–1971)
For land to be a good place, it has to be next to a lake or water. But the East Coast is too far from Seoul. There are a few cities concentrated on the West Coast, but the tides are extreme.
When the tides go out, it becomes a tideland, a quagmire, which is not suitable.
The only large body of water that is close enough to Seoul is Cheongpyeong Lake. After looking around at a place that took more than thirty minutes to get to from the beginning of Cheongpyeong Lake, I ended up choosing Songsan Village.
It is such a beautiful area. I have managed to secure the most beautiful place in the Cheongpyeong area.
The first time I came here and saw this land, I felt that it was an excellent place. So, I established myself here and began praying. I have spent my life dedicating myself with complete sincerity, and I began to create a path in prayer. It seems like only yesterday that I went up to the top of a mountain there by myself and prayed.
At that time, the group of tents we had erected became well known. It was thought that people with health problems were coming there to cultivate their minds, or that it was people from Seoul who had nothing else to do but pass the time. It wasn’t that.
At that time, I was checking out the whole area. Do you think I spent my time fishing? Because we have to acquire the land without spawning rumors, I had already dispatched people here three years ago.
It took me about nine months to buy the land because I had to buy it from more than a hundred landowners. It took an average of three days to make one contract. No one in the world could achieve such a feat. Do you think they sold those plots easily?
Building the Cheongpyeong training center
The position of assistant district leader was done away with and through this structural reorganization, about thirty people went to the countryside. I called those who had been district leaders to come and start digging the ground in Cheongpyeong.
The people staying in Cheongpyeong prepared the ground, digging for many days, but they still only slept for four or five hours a night. What I am saying is that the course of the Unification Church is one of pioneering. I ordered them to start preparing the ground from the beginning of July, so they started on July 2.
The rainy season had begun, and this was a problem. Even though the weather was bad, we proceeded with building, according to plan.
Even though it was raining cats and dogs yesterday, we had to go out to buy some building materials. To buy the materials, I had no choice but to go by boat, and I got thoroughly soaked by the rain. The rain was pouring down.
Yesterday, I asked those who had gotten hurt to step forward, and eight out of twenty-six had. A third of the men were injured. I looked at their faces and I noticed that none of them was gravely wounded.
They had nicked themselves with a pickaxe, or their foot was swollen because it had been pricked with a nail. Yet, they were claiming to be injured and limping around. So I told them that here we needed to have people who were genuinely injured, actually bleeding. “This is a place where indemnity needs to be paid.”
Even when the workers were laying stones to make the floor-heating system, I had to coach them. Yesterday, we called some people to dig up well, and they asked me where they should dig. “You’ve dug wells for decades,” I said. “How have you managed until now if you don’t know such things?”
Some thought the building would take two months to build, but we completed it in eight days.
When we were tiling the roof with slate, the contractors were supposed to come three days before they did. But the person who was supposed to keep in contact with them had gone somewhere, and the roofing tiles hadn’t been put up by the last day. We were in serious trouble.
Our church leaders were scheduled to come for a meeting on the twelfth. If we weren’t finished by then, everything would be ruined. Though the slate seller said he could not give me any tiles unless I paid him, I begged and persuaded him to help me.
Then I had to rent a motorboat to deliver the tiles. We finally got them on site at around 2:30 am. It was too late for the motorboat owner to go back, so he slept on his boat that night.
When he woke up the next morning, he saw that all the slate had been laid down on the roof overnight. He thought they had been laid temporarily to keep the rain off the roof.
He looked closer, though, and saw that the slate had been perfectly put down in a few hours overnight. That’s why people said the training center had been built by ghosts. [Laughter]
The building we erected in Cheongpyeong covers ninety-three pyeong [307 m2].
The hall itself is about seventy pyeong [230 m2]; about two hundred people can sleep in it.
We finished on July 10, but it took an extra two days to paint it. So it took ten days to finish the whole thing, but the construction itself took eight days. We held a meeting there on the twelfth, and we finished painting on the twelfth. We managed to hold the public opening without any difficulties.
When you look at it closely, you see that it has been colored to fit the landscape. It’s a flattish building, and it looks like a religious trainee prostrating himself as an act of atonement. [Laughter]
Cheongpyeong age of prayer and devotion
Every opportunity I get, I visit Cheongpyeong. Not that someone is waiting there for me. No one is. I go there because I miss the place where I endured hardships on the path I pioneered, and also because I miss the fields and mountains, the sound of the wind blowing, and the birdsong. I go there because I miss the feeling of being in contact with the heart-stirring world of Heaven through the flowing providence of nature.
Everyone, you miss spring, don’t you? When you live through summer and autumn, you come to miss spring. That yearning is something that no one can take away from you until you die.
I miss the hours I spent on building a connection to Heaven when I was challenged or when I was in meditation while enduring hunger.
Occasionally, when I feel the wind on my skin, it brings perceptions of the past back to the living environment of the present. Whereas in the past, they were motives that propelled me to move forward, in the present, they become motives for me to live everyday life, and Cheongpyeong is the place where that takes place. This is why I like it.
Some people may say that I have no reason to go there, but do you think so? It’s not like that at all. When I go there, I pave the course I need to follow, in my way.
It’s a serious task. When you are fighting in a war, carrying a sword becomes a way of life; I need to do that, too. I’m not pursuing my happiness there.
Not once in my life have I ever thought about how to live in comfort. I never think about how to put nice clothes on my children. I only think about what I should do for the nation and the world.
Visiting the mobilized members
I didn’t send you out and then just say, “This is good!” and live a comfortable life. In order not to become indebted to you, I traveled to every part of the country this year from January 1 until the end of July.
When I went to those areas and met the women who were witnessing there, they shed a flood of tears when they saw me. Even some of the ladies I used to see every day at the Headquarters Church, and who did not always greet m,e shed tears because they were so happy to see me. When we see this, we can realize that working for God enables us to meet someone with more joy than we could exchange for gold.
Even though I was the reason they were suffering, they begged me not to leave. After this kind of thing, even if I fail, or we all fail, this country will prosper.
The tears that have woven the tradition of the Unification Church will bring the Korean people to weep and will melt the hearts of all humankind.
Forty-day summer witnessing campaign beginning July 20
The husbands must become one with their wives, who are on the front line, and make prayer conditions for them.
Be it night or day, in your dreams or even when you’re talking in your sleep, you must have the kind of mind that prays to God, beseeching Him that your wife can become a victorious daughter who can receive God’s love. You have to have this kind of mind for these three years. It is a time of suffering on the family level that you have to pass through with your wife.
Workshops for nationwide church leaders
August 12–18, August 26–September 1, 1971
Tradition needs to be rightly established. If we fail to do that, we will perish.
Isn’t tradition established in connection with a nation’s patriotic philosophy?
In that light, this is the only time in which we can establish an ideological tradition. That you have ushered in this era with your wives is truly wonderful. It is even more difficult than achieving global unity.
The unification of the world begins right here. Therefore, you can be happier than any other people of any other era. That’s the position we’re in, and for this reason, both sadness and joy can be found here.
Therefore, you should know that it is your mission as Unification Church members, and especially as the leaders of local churches, to have the subjective character by which you can absorb both sadness and joy.
Didn’t I say that we should shed sweat for earth, tears for humanity, and blood for heaven, in the body of a servant and with the heart of a parent? That is what we must do.
When the last day comes, you should be able to say, Even if my body crumbles, I have no regrets about having worked for the providence. Even if my hands and feet were cut off and used in one way or another, if it is for the providence, I have no regrets.
Blessing of married couples
September 12, 1971
The day before yesterday, I held a Blessing Ceremony for married couples. An eighty-eight-year-old grandfather was among them, but I still blessed him. I asked him, “Do you wish to be married?” He was so embarrassed that he just smiled, unable to speak. He was just like a child. [Laughter]
The grandmother was also embarrassed, and she just bit her lips. [Laughter] Even though they were embarrassed, they knew they had to receive the Blessing. Old and young alike are grave in that kind of situation. Think about it. If you marry an old person, all you are going to do is take care of him or her.
Nevertheless, you do that, run errands for, and serve your spouse. If the person loves you, is it good or bad? Even though your spouse interferes in everything you do, the one thing that makes this all right is love. Those of you here who are unmarried, don’t listen when I say such things! [Laughter]
Meeting of the sixteenth group of Sunghwa students
October 8–10, 1971
In facing the path we have to take, how can we leave behind a national tradition in terms of worldview?
That road to restore a nation is a road of hardships, a road on which bloody tears will be shed.
The historic, time-honored philosophy of our ancestors is the starting point.¡¦ It can be discovered within my lifetime. Six thousand years of history have passed. It was a sad history. The story of my life is also sad, but you should create a joyful history centered on me.
Until now, I have told you only to work hard; I never told you to eat well and live in comfort, did I? However, the day will come when you can eat well, rest, and live in comfort.
The day before yesterday, I selected 142 middle school and high school students as the sixteenth group of Seonghwa students. I called them together and said, All those who want to go out to the front line, raise your hands. I asked each one of them, Will you go or not?
I separated those who didn’t want to go and am I educating those who said that they would go. We have to make a beginning. That’s why they are being educated in Cheongpyeong now. They are doing four hours of farm labor every day, as part of the official course.
To lay the foundation for the restoration of the family, I have sent everyone out of their homes to go witnessing for three years. I asked everyone to experience suffering. So, 1971 was the year our course began on the global level.
What is the purpose of this third world tour? It’s to establish ourselves in the United States and to make a financial foundation. Nowadays, we need money. If a man has money, he can do anything. The question is, how can we make money?
We are on our third tour. You may not be aware of this, but I am making plans on a global scale. Until now, I have tried to save Korean Christians, but from now on, I will save Christians around the world and in America.
Therefore, we need to approach this work from a new angle and continue our work in a new direction. We need to prepare to carry out international activities. To achieve that, we need considerable resources.
So during this tour I have the mission to establish mission headquarters in at least forty countries before I return. You have to know that it is the mission of the Unification Church family to establish mission headquarters in more than 120 countries within a few years.
Parting words to Korean members
The first thing that you must do while I’m away this time is be one in heart and pray. In the same way that I prayed for this country and its people because I will not be here, you also have to protect the country in my place.
I want you to hold prayer vigils. I want you to unite internally and externally and pray together for the day to come when North Korea and South Korea can unite.
The second thing I want is for you to publicize our church. Make sure that there is no one in Korea that doesn’t know about the Unification Church.
Originally, the work should have been done with the support of other religious groups, but because this hasn’t come to pass, we have to take on the added burden and accomplish it. Furthermore, the witnessing members on the front line haven’t become one with their local church leaders.
Some of you are too busy blowing your horn and are bent on self-promotion. You give me a headache. A truly devoted son or daughter would not say such things.
Even though he accepts his portion of responsibility without a word, he still has the attitude that he cannot raise his head in front of his parents because he is inadequate. Without such an attitude, you cannot be a devoted child. Of course, you are not qualified to be a patriot unless you can be a devoted son or daughter first.
In the Unification Church, we are trying to be this way. The world regards us as heretical now, but the day will come when people won’t be able to say anything critical of our church. On that day, the Unification Church will be lifted.
Knowing this, you have to be serious about the way you live, even for one day. You have to regard your daily life as precious. You should be earnest, and you should walk proudly, going forward step by step.
Overcoming obstacles at the start
We left Korea for Japan on the day before the government declared a state of emergency. We decided to leave Korea, but we couldn’t complete the formalities because it was Sunday.
We needed to receive the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Passport Department chief’s signature, but we were unable to. Even though it was a Sunday, we needed to depart, but we couldn’t because we didn’t have authorization. We were challenged. We had no choice but to wait.
Remarkably, we were able to meet the Passport Department chief thirty minutes before our scheduled departure. That was a miracle wrought by Heaven.
The chief had made plans to go on a picnic with his department staffers to Cheongpyeong Lake, it being a Sunday. He had woken up early in the morning, but he felt so stiff that he didn’t feel like going on the picnic.
So he called the others and told them he was not feeling well and couldn’t come. He got up and began sorting through things because he had nothing better to do. It was then that our people came to see him.
We flew to Japan. However, the visa I had was originally obtained to attend the Asian financial leaders’ conference, which had ended forty days earlier, unfortunately.
Had they inquired into it, I might have encountered some difficulty. I took the chance because I believed that God was watching over me.
As the immigration officials did their work, I stood on one side and studied them. I got a sudden urge to go to one portly official. So I went to him, and found that he spoke Korean very well. I told him I was Mr. Moon from Korea.
He spoke in Korean, and he asked, “Oh, are you from Korea?”
So I asked him, “How do you speak Korean so well?”
He said he had stayed for a while in Southern Gyeongsang Province. I thought it was a chance that Heaven was giving me. I made a joke by asking him how he spoke Korean better than an actual Korean. “You’re not Japanese,” I said, “You’re Korean.”
He said, “Give me your passport,” and he stamped it, just like that.
I was going to America, but I had not been able to get a visa, so I had planned to go to Canada and get a US visa there. But a week before leaving, I was told that I couldn’t do that. A Korean pastor had received an American visa from the embassy in Canada, and he had disappeared in America, and they were looking for him. So they said that they could not allow anyone from Korea to enter Canada. That was the case.
They asked me so many questions that I was held up there for an hour. In the end, they asked me how much money I was carrying. Then they told me that I would not be allowed to stay in America.
I was able to go to Canada on a fourteen-day transit visa and determined to arrange my passage to America from there.
When I went to the American embassy [in Toronto], however, I had more problems to deal with. I applied for a US visa, and they asked me to come back in three days. When I went back to see them, the ambassador told me that he had been informed not to grant me the entry visa. I asked him, “Why won’t you let me go to America?”
He had no choice but to tell me, “You are not allowed to enter America because records indicate that you engaged in communist activities in 1967.” I asked him to explain when it was that I had supposedly engaged in communist activities.
There were four of us there, and all four of us sent petitions to the U.S. Department of State through American senators, asking, “When in 1967 did Mr. Moon ever engage in communist activities?”
We also submitted complaints to the embassy, and we created quite a stir there. Our people on the East Coast, the West Coast, and even Washington, DC, were calling the embassy in Canada, and the embassy then made inquiries to the U.S. State Department. A petition saying that I had never done such a thing was sent to the American embassy in Canada.
Under the circumstances, they had to contact the Korean embassy and check whatever information they had about me in Korea, and in the end, it was proven that I was not a communist activist and that I was a leader in the Victory over Communism movement. That left them speechless.
So, on December 18, I arrived in Washington, DC.
The continuing providential course in Korea and Japan
I foresaw the things that are taking place at this time, so I launched the International Federation for Victory over Communism (IFVOC). You have to fight this diplomatic war in your lifetime, otherwise Korea, Japan, China, and America will perish.
The people in the American family should be fully aware that our family members in Korea, China, and Japan in the Victory over Communism effort are fighting that battle at the risk of their lives.
As you and I know, to save the Free World, we had a three-day fast here and a seven-day fast in Japan with a demonstration. People criticized that effort, saying we were crazy.
In the past, there had never been any counterproposals to communism, but now we have one. In Japan and Korea, the communists can’t touch, they can’t touch our truth, because our counterproposal is too strong.
There is a forceful North Korean communist clique in Japan, and the North Koreans there had already received information that I was coming to Japan on my way here. It was therefore necessary to have police and local officials protect my family and me. The police received threatening telephone calls.
The Japanese church did their best to protect me, even though I was in Japan for a week, but I could not have a large meeting with all the members there.
You know, there is only one place called Panmunjom [The truce village on the border of North and South Korea]. This is the collision point between democracy and communism.
Since that time, we have found no solution to this problem, which has extended throughout the whole world. It remains unsolved. This is a fortress against God; Panmunjom and the thirty-eighth parallel are anti-God symbols.
I sent all the wives in the blessed couples to the front line because Jesus’ mission was not fulfilled when he wasn’t able to marry and establish his family. To indemnify that, the wives must separate from their families.
If a bride and his family had been one with Jesus, the nation and Judaism could have been one with him. The three-year course (1970–1972) is to indemnify that.
The Jewish people were divided, north and south. Korea is divided into North and South. They are fighting as Cain and Abel did.
The northern side is Cain, and the southern side is Abel. North Korea’s leader, Kim Il-sung, is called the perfect communist. The whole world avows that he is the most severe communist ever….
The year 1971 is in the middle of the seven-year course, and I am on my third world tour, which has great significance. I left Korea, went to Japan, then to Canada, and now come to America. To come here, I had to fight many obstacles, but from now on, these difficulties will be eased.
Canada is Eve to America because it is an extension of England, which is Eve. I wanted to link to Japan, Canada, and America, a victorious foundation that we fought for and acquired in Korea. I had to come through Canada to America, and because Canada is in Eve’s position, I could do that.
Because I wanted to link the foundation of victories to America, Satan tried to stop me. That’s why so many difficulties arose related to my coming here. Those circumstances had to be overcome before you could inherit what Heaven has restored in Korea, the foundation of victories.
After visiting America, we will go to Germany, which will also be problematic. We will go from England to Germany. If that is successful, the circumstances can be overcome.
The Japanese government, all the Japanese political parties, and all the people worked for the admittance of Red China to the United Nations. Our church’s IFVOC was the only group to object.
From the standpoint of the Japanese people, our movement was insane. But we are separated from evil and are marching forward. We appealed to God to save Free China.
That was the seven-day fasting by the Japanese members on the street. At the beginning, people laughed at our fasting. But day by day, they came to think about it. At the end, we had many sympathizers.
The nation that should save the Asian archangel nation is the archangel nation of the world. That is why Japanese church leaders came to America and fasted with our members for Free China at the United Nations.
How many members here went to New York for fasting?
You did excellent work. I have directions for fasting. But how many did that willingly, with joyful hearts? So in Japan, despite opposition, we fulfilled our responsibility for Free China. And in America, we fulfilled our responsibility toward Free China.
I am planning to hold these meetings in at least seven cities. Three days for each city will be about 21 days. So if you like that and want to do that, make the plan. If you don’t, I will do it myself. This is the start of my public ministry. You should take responsibility for this plan. There may be objections or persecutions.
There may also be people who welcome it. The people will be divided into two groups. Use the radio and the newspaper. So if you plan the details of the cities and the schedule, I will speak. I will also hold meetings in Germany and England. So, for Sata, this is a great event. It is a historical event for me.
This is my third world tour, and I must speak this time. I have been waiting for this day. If I could speak English, I could speak directly. It is difficult to convey ideas through an interpreter.
I can’t speak English well because I couldn’t study it much in middle school; only about fifteen hours a year. That was during the Second World War when the Japanese government controlled Korea. I am studying English now, but it’s a difficult language.
For the Eve nation to inherit the victorious foundation that was made in Korea, I mobilized 700 blessed wives and sent them out to the rural areas. Through these wives, the Japanese members became one with me spiritually, and Japan can inherit that victorious foundation from Korea. The blessed wives in Japan are following the pattern of the Korean blessed wives.
We are setting the spiritual conditions to make Japan and Free China one. The talks between Nixon and Mao Tse-tung will come at the crest of history, the time when it is decided whether history goes to the heavenly side or the Satanic side.
Kim Il-sung will be sixty years old in April 1972. So, for Kim Il-sung, this is also the crest. Whether North Korea will invade South Korea will also be decided. The North Korean Communist Party and the people are strongly united with Kim Il-sung.
Therefore, if we are to prevent their invading South Korea, our members and our blessed couples must be united with me even more strongly. If our side is united and surpasses Satan’s side, they cannot invade. Korean members are now dedicating themselves and offering special prayers to prevent this.
Whether you, American members, are united with me more strongly than the communists are united with Kim Il-sung is the question.
With our members more strongly united than those who are centered on Satan, God’s side can overcome the communist nation. We don’t have a nation. Without that nation, we are always open to attack from Satanic sovereignties.
If we had so many members that we could exchange all the front-line troops with our members, then what could we offer?
And when the American government pulls out the American forces from Korea, even at that time, if American members stayed there on the front line of Korea, then what will the American government do?
Then, the nation of Korea will soon decrease. We have to know what a grievous result was brought about by the federal democratic Christians who are in positions of responsibility in this democratic world.
Not only American members, but members of every other country want to go to Korea to hold the front line; then, how will Kim Il Sung of North Korea attack?
Without even fighting, we can save South Korea.
Therefore, our most important thing is to influence the Christians and give them the truth—that is the most important thing. And evil always attacks when the equilibrium is lost.
Launch of the One World Crusade during the Third World Tour
The position of the Unification Church global team is one of having to sacrifice and do the mission in the place of worldwide Christianity and all the world’s people. I have decided to make a global-level organization in America and call it the One World Crusade.
Its headquarters will not be in Korea but in America. It is under my direct supervision. This name is to be registered in Washington, and these leaders should report to me every week.
Mobile teams will be made not just in Korea but in Japan, the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Members from those five countries will form the mobile teams to restore those five countries in front of Heaven. What are those mobile teams? They are Heaven’s peace army. They are the pick of the troops and can decide the fate of those nations.
Old people don’t go to the army, nor do they go to the mobile team. The mobile teams are formed as groups of people with the fire of new determination lit in their hearts, such that they can say to others, Come join us!
The American mobile team
I mobilized eighty-five members in America. I stationed leaders in thirty-five of the fifty states and made mobile teams with the remaining members. I divided them into two teams of twenty-five people each and bought two buses for them.
I plan to mobilize four hundred people this year and two thousand people next year so that we can have at least one mobile team in each state.
The German mobile team
The German people have a strong sense of self-reliance. If we teach the German people Unification Thought and heat them with fire that causes an explosion in their hearts, Europe will not be a problem.
The Germans are diligent, and they are a group that works like bears! [Laughter] I want to establish four countries—Japan, America, Germany, and England—as the vanguard.
I visited the German headquarters in Essen and noticed a bullet hole in the big glass front door. When I asked how this happened, I was told that it had been done by communists two weeks before.
The communists had made various threats, had tried blackmail, and had made many accusations through the courts to try to destroy our church. When we see this, we must realize that the German members are fighting to accomplish their objectives, even risking their lives.
That’s why I made the mobile teams and bought them six vans and six caravans that could seat twelve people each. They already had nine vehicles, so that made twenty-one.
We have to restore Germany within a certain amount of time. Having given this special direction, there was no more talk of day or night. I sent them out to march and fight, beating drums and playing trumpets.
Because there weren’t enough members in Germany, I transferred the Austrian members to make up the numbers for this mobile team. The leader of this team, Paul, had been a drill instructor in the Hitler era.
The team is experiencing nothing like the usual standard of living. They generally eat one meal a day. However, despite this partial fast, they are sounding the trumpet in the vanguard.
Our calling to save Cain
From Father’s speech in Canada on December 14, 1971
We are taught about the problem of Cain and Abel in the Principle. Abel should have separated himself from Satan, or Cain, and then come into the love of God.
Then by feeling and experiencing God’s grief and his brother’s grief, he should have been willing to sacrifice himself in their place and save his brother at the risk of his life, at the very cost of his life¡¦
Our members are in the position of Abel. So you must first be able to fight against Satan and separate yourself from the satanic world. That means you have to come into God’s love. But that is not all.
From then on, you must be willing to sacrifice yourself to relieve God’s grievous heart and that of the brothers and sisters in satanic bondage. At the price of your life, your sacrifice, you must be willing to take and save them from the satanic world.
God chose America to take the main role in building the kingdom of heaven on earth. However, the Christian spirit is collapsing, and waves of worldliness are rising here. Without a great spiritual change or reform, America will not be able to complete its mission.
I have come to set alight a new fire in the heart of this country’s withering spirit, and I intend to bring about reform that will revive the Christian spirit. I arrived in Washington on December 18, 1971, the same day that we actively started to expand our movement in America.
The day you awaken to the reason I came to America will be the day of true hope for America. I came on God’s instruction and with God’s Word.
To spread the Word of God, I intend to hold large public lectures in the major cities in America. I plan to do this in at least seven cities. This is the start of my course of publicly proclaiming God’s Word.
I also plan to hold such meetings in Germany and England. This is my third global tour, so I must speak in person. I have been waiting eagerly for this day.
A mobile team in Japan
We have to make a Japanese mobile team. At least four hundred people have to mobilize before I go back. Four hundred and eighty people. And they have to master the Divine Principle over the next six months.
I mean actual training. They’ll do street witnessing every day. They should witness on the streets, and they should go house to house, too. They should be trained in every area. They should spend two months studying each section of the Divine Principle.
It should be divided into three sections, and they should learn each section. If they don’t get more than a 70 percent average, they shouldn’t be allowed to go to the next section.
The people who don’t go through this course cannot become major leaders in the future. I’m making the top leaders, Mr. Oyamada and Mr. Kuboki, go through this course, too. You should also go out to raise funds occasionally.
Japanese and European members working in the United States
A hundred and twenty members this year, and a total of four hundred members over the next three years, are to be mobilized to America. Four hundred members.
What will they do during this time of mobilization?
They can’t speak the language. The Japanese members have gone to America and started doing cleaning work. That’s why we are operating a real estate business. We buy a house cheaply and completely renovate it.
They clean it up and paint, t, and then sell it again. Since Japan is the Eve country, it has to fulfill its mission as the mother and work for the people of the world.
That’s why they are responsible for feeding the world. I plan to set up the Japanese to represent Asia and establish a tradition.
England, which has only fifty members, promised to send a hundred members to America. So, since there are 150 members in Germany, you have to send three hundred. If that happens, it will become quite interesting. The European and American teams will compete.
A mobile team in Korea (June 1, 1972)
Three hundred and how many are on the first mobile team? [It’s 360.] Those people represent the days in a year. If you think of it in this way, you all have a common responsibility.
The mobile teams will spend a week in each area. They should continue even if there is no one left behind in the churches. They do not come under the Unification Church administration.
They’re directly connected to me. I am declaring that the mobile teams are in Abel’s position. It is the mobile teams that will determine victory or defeat in a nation, such is the authority I am bestowing on them. The week-long revival mobilization of the mobile team is our main force.
Then, what should the mobile team members do? You have to sell books. You have to sell our Divine Principle book or Communism: a New Critique and Counterproposal.
You have to sell as many Divine Principle books as possible. Buy thirty and distribute them to thirty people. You can give them to thirty people once a month; you can lend them the books for a month.
The threat of communism
When we look at the world’s current situation, we can sense that the democratic world is facing quite a pressing crisis. We understand communism threatens to sweep the entire world away.
Moreover, we know all too well that today’s Christianity does not have a system to surmount the communist threat, practically speaking, and that Christianity is not working to defend society or the world.
Founding of the Unification Thought Institute
(October 1, 1972)
We have already laid a foundation to move our global teams, so whenever they are given the order, they can carry out whatever they are told to do, even if it means going to the ends of the earth….
That’s why I am doing things now that you cannot understand. As a part of that, I have established the Unification Thought Institute. Unification Thought is a systematic exposition of the Principle, by which we can deeply analyze all the false philosophies and ideologies that shape the world today.
Ninety Little Angels’ performances in Europe and America (October 7, 1972–February 8, 1973)
Since Little Angels is now well-known, they are performing at the White House, currently the home of the Nixon administration. They have performed in front of the Queen in England, too. In Japan, the Little Angels are also scheduled to perform.
This time on their tour in Europe, England made a special request for two months. We also visited Germany, Spain, briefly, and France. People involved in booking acts in those countries made requests knowing that they wouldn’t suffer a loss if they welcomed us.
We will go to Las Vegas when the performances in Hawaii are concluded. Las Vegas is famous worldwide as a gambling city. The city brings in world-famous entertainers and gives performances to draw the plutocrats of the world. It thus absorbs enormous resources, with entertainment as the bait.
Therefore, to appear on a Las Vegas stage is set as the highest hope and dream of entertainers. People in charge of entertainment in that famous place asked the Little Angels to perform for a month.
The second Little Angels team in Japan gave 200 performances (November 9, 1972–March 4, 1973)
It takes vast amounts of resources to put on the Little Angels’ shows. Before performing, an enormous amount of funds must be invested. The media needs to be alerted on a wide scale. Numerous people are required for tasks of different kinds.
Why do we need to do this, despite the difficulties? I am not doing it through ignorance of the situation. In the future, the Unification Church in Japan and the International Federation for Victory over Communism should open new doors in the field of culture.
With this in mind, we rented the Nichigeki Theatre in Tokyo for forty days, the like of which has never been seen before or since. By renting a theater for forty days and nights and putting on performances, we have set a record never seen before in history.
Seeing this, people in the Japanese entertainment field called us insane. From their professional view, it is difficult to have the theater fully packed for just a week. So, they concluded that people who would perform day and night for forty days are daydreamers and abnormal people.
We need to establish our foundation not only in Japan but also in Asia. In Tokyo alone, we need to sell 170,000 tickets, and 320,000 in the entire nation. How many times the number of tickets we sold the year before last do we have to sell? We need to sell eight times the number we sold then.
Recently, the Shanghai Ballet Troupe of Communist China visited Japan, and the Yomiuri Daily and the Asahi Daily carried pro-China articles. The Sankei Daily, however, has maintained an anti-communist attitude until now, and it cannot change its course suddenly.
That’s why it wished to invite a performing arts group with an anti-communist stance. That was none other than the Little Angels. The Federation for Victory over Communism is connected to it. Thus, the Sankei Daily will take full responsibility.
Why are we doing this? It is for Korea. That is to say, Korean residents in Japan are getting involved in Chochongnyon and in propagating Kim Il-sung’s Juche ideology. So, at a time like this, it’s clear that Korea is a cultural nation and an ancient culture that even the Japanese are impressed by.
Sun Myung Moon
Liberation ceremony for the Moon tribe (August 5, 1973)
[Father’s prayer:]
I know that the Moon clan has not been blessed by You, Heavenly Father, until now. They have experienced much suffering throughout history as a clan, to carry out the mission of building a new nation.
Even my parents and brothers were sacrificed in that distant place far away, without any connection to the mission. Father, bless this time and liberate all our ancestors who had lived a good life so that wherever we go, we will have the privilege of being able to work freely.
I am asking, please open a new way for the Moon clan to uphold heavenly principles and carry out their mission as a good tribe in front of this person and the world. Heavenly Father…please permit us to make, in Your name, a new historic standard to substantially unite the spiritual and physical worlds.
As you can understand, I prayed for the liberation of my extended family in the Unification Church. Until now, I have never prayed for my family. I have never publicly prayed, “May God help my parents and ancestors in the spirit world.”
But I am going to watch over our clan and tribe from now on. By doing this work, the Moon clan’s spiritual standard can open the door to the standard of liberation, and then a unified sphere of benefit is created in the spirit world.
Through this connection, many clan and their relatives will be connected. Since our ancestors and their relatives are connected with other families through marriage, all people on the Korean peninsula are connected.
The forty-day workshop (Summer 1973)
When you hold a workshop, give a full set of Divine Principle lectures every three days. You have to give the lecture three times in ten days. You also have to give a course of lectures on overcoming communism every ten days.
During the forty days, you have to give VOC lectures four times and Divine Principle nine times. This is the standard for you to practice throughout the world. If only one person is at the workshop, you should still do this. Why do people sometimes leave the church after becoming members?
They are opposed by their family and by society, and because they don’t know the Divine Principle deeply. The final reason for falling away is the activities to raise money, even though they know the Divine Principle.
Making money is not easy, so they may give up. Therefore, we need training in raising funds first, and then in engaging in mission work.
Sung-jin blessing Ceremony (July 8, 1973)
The second seven-year course is the children’s course. It is the course for the blessed children, the children of the Unification Church. This relationship has to be established in my family before the end of the second seven-year course.
Therefore, I blessed Sung-jin. Three years in the seven-year course are equivalent to Jesus’ three years for the restoration of the spiritual world on the national level.
Japan, the Eve country, was to prepare a foundation of mother–son cooperation but failed to seize the chance to fulfill its responsibility. Therefore, I held Sung-jin’s Blessing Ceremony in Japan to restore that through indemnity.
He is put in a most disadvantageous position. Up to now, I’ve never taken him by the hand. I did this for my adopted sons. We are in a situation to restore the servant, the archangel, again.
Won-pil Kim has been doing that job until now. Sung-jin could not call me “Dad” until he reached twenty-eight years of age. When he spoke to me, he called me “Teacher.” This was for the sake of restoration through indemnity.
Sung-jin Nim’s personality
When Sung-jin was to go to Japan [to study] on September 5, 1970, I told him that he should maintain his father’s dignity through his good behavior. The matter of prime importance is his attitude toward the church; the second is toward the nation, and the third is the fact that he is my son….
Many rumors about Sung-jin arose, but during the thirty minutes when I met him, everything was settled. Sung-jin, firstly, is a straightforward person. He is not stubborn when he is confronting what is right, as I am.
If I had a son who lacked any sense of obligation, I would have to accept it. No matter what other people may say about him, I do not doubt him. That means I surely believe in him.
The Second ICUS (Tokyo, November 23–26, 1973)
I want you to know that ICUS (International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences) was created to establish the foundation through which we would influence the great scholars of the world.
The second ICUS was held in Tokyo. Scholars from every corner of the world, including famous scholars from Tokyo University, came.
As the founder of the conference, I was prepared to give a speech. However, though it is only logical for the head of an organization to give an address, they eliminated my speech and greetings from the program.
The conference was scheduled to take place the next day, and I arrived there and found that the organizers had caused this problem. So, through Mr. Kuboki, I informed them, “You can all go. This scientists’ conference is cancelled,” which was like a bolt out of the blue….
I turned everything upside down in that one evening. I told them, “You either make the correction on the programs, or you are dismissed.” Since I was paying for the entire conference, I had every right to do that. Isn’t that so? I was responsible for this. [Applause]
When this took place, they could only say, “Oh, we are insulted.” They made light of Korean people, and they had to make up for that. After I overturned everything, they stayed up all night to make the programs again.
They didn’t have a choice, did they? We had our print shop, so they made haste to print my name clearly on the programs.
Twenty-one-city lecture tour
(October 1, 1973–January 29, 1974)
We selected twenty-one cities and began a lecture tour in 1973. We finished it on January 28, 1974. In every city I visited in America, what do you imagine I did there? If there were any members of our church, I would let them invite their parents to the speech.
I told Bo-hi Pak and the president of the church in America to invite them to a big lunch or dinner and to treat them to good food. I said that I would pay all the expenses. I let the parents come to the party with their children. I created an atmosphere in which the children spoke well of their parents.
When their children spoke only of their parents’ excellence, the parents spoke about the praiseworthy character of their children, looking back on their school days.
And they finally confessed, with tears of gratitude, that they had stubbornly opposed the church without knowing that their children were leading worthy lives through the church movement. Many parents hugged their children tightly with tears of remorse, saying that they had opposed them only out of ignorance.
The True Children moved to the United States (December 18, 1973)
The question insight I were to leave my children here, would you be able to take responsibility for them and take care of them as I become more and more desperate? Not just Ye-jin, I have other children as well.
Would you be able to take responsibility for them in a place overrun by communists, no matter what?
In this regard, it would be advantageous in many ways to have them under their parents’ care. You should know that this is why I am considering taking them to the United States.
That does not mean that I am going to stay there for good. When I do return to Korea, it will be at a time when you can welcome me back with flags of victory raised high.