True Mother's hometown and the Cheongju Han clan
Korea has 4,300 years of history. This history includes the era of Gojoseon. The Korean people were called the Dongyi people, a people in the East who studied astronomy and interpreted the stars to ascertain heavenly fortune.
In every era of its history, Korea has upheld a national religion. In the eras of Silla and Goryeo, it was Buddhism, and in the era of Joseon, it was Confucianism.
When we trace back to the earliest history of Korea, we find a record that the Han clan preceded even the Gojoseon era. There we can find the origin of the Korean people, from a time even earlier than the Gojoseon era. (615-173, 2009.08.22)
The Korean alphabet was revealed during the reign of King Sejong, who promulgated it as Hunmin Jeongeum (訓民正音), meaning "the teaching of correct sounds for the people."
The name can be interpreted to mean that those who teach and learn what is right will continue, even if their country falls into ruin. I came to learn that the Dongyi people [here referring to the Korean race] have such a history and character. It is generally believed that Korean history spans approximately 4,000 years, beginning with the Gojoseon era.
However, the Han people already existed 3,000 years before the Gojoseon era, and their place of origin on the Korean Peninsula was Cheongju.
I am now working to systematically organize all the material that I have compiled and publish a book about the ancient history of Korea, one that does not treat Korea in isolation but demonstrates its links with the history of other Far Eastern nations. (613-043, 2009.06.03)
Pyeongan Province means a province, a home, a road, where you can settle down because it is flat. Jeongju and Anju are both located there. Mother's hometown is Anju, and mine is Jeongju. (266-272, 1895.01.01)
North Chungcheong Province is Mother's ancestral hometown. Cheongju is the original hometown of the Han family. Mother always boasts to me of Cheongju being the hometown of the Hans. Cheongju is made up of the Chinese characters Cheong (清) meaning "clear" and ju (州) meaning "village." (142-211, 1986.03.11)
Mother's ancestors lived in South Pyeongan Province. Mother's surname is Han. Where are the ancestors of the Han family? They are in Cheongju. Therefore, if our sons and daughters wanted to make their way to their mother's ancestral hometown, they would visit the land of Cheongju. (085-091, 1976.03.02)
True Mother's maternal grandmother's family name is Jo. Her family lived in a wealthy village, a community of tile-roofed houses where many government officials lived.
True Mother's maternal grandmother, the third generation of her ancestral line, was a direct descendant of Jo Han-jun. Coming out of such a meritorious family tradition, both her maternal grandmother and Dae Mo Nim greatly loved True Mother and devoted special attention to raising her.
Since Dae Mo Nim was often traveling all over the nation looking for the Lord, it was Grandmother Jo who raised True Mother. This family wanted more than anyone else to know all the secrets of the spirit world. (573-262, 2007.08.24)
The wealthy man who built the Dallae Bridge in Jeongju at the time of the Joseon Dynasty was Jo Hanjun. He was Mother's maternal ancestor.
There was a legend that the son of Heaven would be born through Jo Han-jun, but she was born as a daughter instead. There was also a prophecy that she would be born as a daughter, and because of it, a stone Maitreya statue came into existence on the hill in front of their home.
The statue was so magical that, in the past, anyone who wished to climb over that hill on horseback had to get down from the horse and bow to it; otherwise, his horse's hooves would get stuck to the ground and would not be able to move. (573-261, 2007.08.24)
True Mother's maternal grandmother, Jo Won-mo, was a direct descendant of Jo Han-jun. The character jo (趙) of her family name means "nation." It signifies that Dae Mo Nim's mother was in the position of a mother of the nation.
That is the way the generations of her family tradition connected through history. Here is a true story: After no one had repaired or maintained the Dallae Bridge in Jeongju for many decades, it started to deteriorate. Eventually, it reached the point that people could not cross the bridge, and the road was blocked.
Ruins of the broken bridge created an obstruction that caused the river to back up and overflow its banks, and it became buried under the sand and mud of the river.
There was also a prophecy: If a rock carved like a totem pole that stood beside the bridge became buried, then the nation of Korea would fall, but if that rock was exposed to the people, then a new heaven and earth would unfold in Korea. (455-261, 2004.06.26)
Hak Ja Han Moon
True Mother was born as a third-generation only daughter
For Mother to be born, there had to be three generations of only daughters, and, at the same time, those three generations had to have the foundation of having made preparations to receive the coming Lord.
Thankfully, Mother's lineage is such that the three successive generations of her grandmother, her mother, and Mother herself were all only daughters. (220-336, 1991.10.20)
Mother was born as the only daughter of three generations. Mother's grandmother was an only daughter, Mother's mother was also an only daughter, and Mother herself is an only daughter.
These three generations all worked together to receive the Lord of the Second Advent. Mother had to be born as the culmination of three such generations.
Otherwise, she could not have become the True Mother. Not just anyone can become True Mother. She has to emerge by the law of restoration through indemnity. (291-030, 1998.03.05)
Three generations of Mother's family made preparations to receive the Lord of the Second Advent. This can be traced back in history.
They were opposed by Protestants and Catholics. Rev. Lee Yong-do was severely persecuted for creating the New Jesus Church. Mother received a blessing after she became connected to the spiritual works and core believers of Korea. It was also important that she not have more than 12 people in her clan. (210-301, 1990.12.25)
Not just anyone can become the True Mother. The conditions in the providence to prepare someone to become True Mother were connected with providential relationships focused on the work to restore Eve. This required three women to meet internal and external conditions.
On that basis, True Mother could appear before the Lord and be joined with him in marriage. These three women were of three generations, representing the formation, growth, and completion stages. The unity of grandmother, mother, and daughter was like connecting the Old Testament Age, New Testament Age, and Completed Testament Age.
On that basis, Heaven could inaugurate the era for establishing the True Parents. Among those women, True Mother is the center. The person representing the formation stage is not the center, nor is the person representing the growth stage.
In the ages of history, all must pass through three stages. In the horizontal ages, all can stand on the level of perfection only with the fulfillment of the third stage – the completion stage. (212-076, 1991.01.02)
Mother is the representative of all women in the world. A single woman representing all women had to be linked to another such single woman, who in turn would be connected to Mother.
In other words, in the background behind her becoming True Mother, there had to be a connection of three generations. Originally, True Parents should have been an only son and an only daughter. Adam was an only son, as was Jesus. From the perspective of God's Will, the Lord of the Second Advent is also like an only son.
Since she has to help establish the will of the only son, Mothe, too, must be the eldest and the only daughter. That is why, in the providence of restoration, a man and a woman need to stand in complementary positions, become one, and rise above Satan's world to enter the Kingdom of Heaven together. (223-241, 1991.11.10)
The meaning of True Mother's name
True Mother's name is Hak Ja (鶴子). These characters mean "crane" and "son." Cranes fly over the Himalayas and then land on the plains, where they hatch their eggs. This symbolizes the mission that Eve is to fulfill. The character ja (子), meaning "son," symbolizes that she is the woman who yearns for the Son of God.
True Mother's mission is to climb over the Himalayas and give birth to sons and daughters in the world of peace. Cranes do not eat just anything; they eat only clean things.
They eat things that are nutritious but light. Once a crane starts to fly, it hardly changes direction as it flies high in the sky. For this reason, people in the East love cranes. (246-285, 1993.04.20)
Mother's name is Hak Ja, and why do you think it is Hak Ja? It could have been Hak Nyeo [woman, daughter], so why did it become Hak Ja? I thought, "Oh! They included the Chinese character ja (子), meaning 'son,' when they named her because they wanted to form a connection to the son of God."
Because she was originally born as who she is, she was given her name. Han can represent Korea and even the universe. Han also means "one'' and "the best." (120-274, 1982.10.17)
Mother's name is good. Hak Ja Han! For a woman to stand as a qualified object partner of Reverend Moon, she must be a scholar. Han can stand for the study of Chinese classics, but also the study of the subject of sorrow. She must be a scholar who has studied God more than anyone else.
If a woman can achieve that, she will advance to the position of God's object partner without fail. That is why both Mother's given name and her surname are auspicious. And now she has attained such a position. (232- 307, 1992.07.10)
Hak Ja Han Moon