Tongil Machinery Factory, Sutaek-ri, inaugurated April 15, 1966 (and expanded the following year)
I go to the factory every day at present because we are in an era when we must restore all things and the nation. You have to offer your utmost dedication. All of you should, but as you are unable to, I am doing it.
Offering a donation to build a factory is to connect to the conditions being established. You have to publicly establish a standard related to material things and incorporate that standard into your lifestyle.
Doing business was not my purpose at the outset, but considering our circumstances, it was inevitable that I would go into business, which is why I implemented an emergency strategy this year.
Without having a single penny, I have built a large factory, which we are now running successfully. No other person in the world would do business in this way. I am probably the first in history to do it.
All of you, look at how I established Tongil Industries. At times, I climbed that hill and visited the factory three times a day. I often went twice a day, and certainly at least once a day. Why did I do that? I had to work hard and with sincerity to become a major player in global industrial circles.
I knew that only when my devoted effort, generated from my blood and tears, had touched the heart of Heaven, moved the hearts of all the industrialists who have gone to the spirit world, and brought the people on earth to surrender, could the factory be brought under Heaven’s ownership. That’s why I offered my sincere, dedicated effort.
The people at the factory may think, “Rev. Moon must be busy. Why does he come to the factory every day? He doesn’t have to come every day.” Yet, they’d be wrong.
You may think that what you saw yesterday evening and what you see this morning aren’t entirely unique, but if some development occurred since yesterday, seeing that difference creates a great inspiration.
Even if you are making the same machine, if you check and see something has improved since yesterday, no matter how small the development, it is exciting. This is where we are hoisting our flag. You can sing praises to God and establish conditions in front of Him.
Exposition of the Divine Principle released (May 1, 1966)
In the Unification Church, President Hyo-won Eu has been playing the role of the adopted son. Therefore, I will not approve a Divine Principle book written by anyone apart from President Eu.
I will not approve of anyone else dealing with my teachings. No matter how well a person may be able to write, I will not give my teachings to anyone apart from them. I’m telling you that all Unification Church members must follow him.
The Divine Principle book is fearsome. Many people make light of it, saying it is a book written by President Eu. If I had written this book, what would have happened? All those who might make light of it would be in trouble.
You could go to the spirit world and see. Even if some mistakes appear in the book, you should not be contemptuous of it. If you do, you will be accused. You must know why it was written in that way.
The Divine Principle will not change even after a thousand years…. I know that in the Divine Principle written by President Eu, some points need to be corrected. But I have said nothing because he wrote it with his deepest sincerity.
Trying hard in campaigns throughout the nation
The six-year course will be over soon. Thanks to Heaven’s intervention and protection, we have been able to come this far, although we have met difficult circumstances because of the cold attitude and accusations of people in society.
The time has come for all 30 million people in Korea to recognize that our nation cannot be saved without our teachings.
When you work in the countryside, you will encounter many difficulties. I remember that when I went on a tour of the rural locations, where thousands of members were assigned during a forty-day training period, I cried after I left them and returned home.
I have never forgotten that, even now. During this tour, I met some of those who were young in those days. I found them to have grown enough spiritually to be able to take leadership positions in country areas.
When I visit the churches in the provincial areas, I see our Unificationists living in really miserable situations. Whenever I see this, I pray to God, saying, “Father, please be with them!
Whenever I was in an environment like that, you were always with me. Didn’t you tell me, though, that I still had a lot more work to do? Please allow these members to experience similar bonds with you.”
Special workshop for district leaders nationwide, on July 5–8
We must visit every single village and hamlet without exception and convey these teachings. By the conclusion of the seven-year course, we must make sure that nobody can say that they haven’t heard of the Unification Church.
We should hold revival meetings in October. I hope you can all exert your best efforts and fight on well. You should not do less than the members in other countries.
What you need most is someone to carry on after you. If possible, you should convert people who already have a foundation in a life of faith and raise them to become your successors. If you can do that, you will be able to gain many times greater results.
Establishing the headquarters of the Christian ecumenical movement (November 7, 1966)
The path of religion is one of sacrifice and service. For religion to sacrifice and serve, separating it from Satan’s world is necessary. I had to choose the way of religious faith because I had to walk the path of indemnity.
Centering on Christianity, we must make our Unification Church stronger within Korea and unite the many religions. For that purpose, since 1965, we have been promoting an ecumenical movement.
In other words, we must develop our ecumenical activities, centering on Christianity, so that the Unification Church can be recognized as having common ground with the Christian churches. Furthermore, the Unification Church must be recognized on the national level as having the highest doctrine. That is the purpose of starting the ecumenical movement.
International marriage
The other day, Mr. Kirpal Singh came from his country to visit me. I talked to him about international marriage.
How should we unite the world in the future?
How can we build a foundation for an exchange of hearts? These are important issues. I am going to promote marriage between Japanese and Korean young people, which is what God wants. He does not want young people to stay comfortably within Korea. God wants everything to be done in a manner that is acceptable from His viewpoint.
For women living in communist countries, their highest hope is to marry laborers. However, the daughters of the Unification Church must become greater than those communist women.
In-Jin nim and Heung-Jin nim as young children
What kind of families developed from the original thirty-six couples? They are the ancestors, humankind’s ancestors, restored within the satanic world from our fallen descendants.
Based on these restored ancestors, humankind is transformed, renewed, and enters the kingdom of heaven. For that purpose, blessed families, which are in the external position, and the True Parents’ family, which is in the internal position, must unite based on my family. The four-position foundation is the basis of the family standard. Thus, it represents the number four.
Looking at my family, when Heung-jin was only a year old, if someone asked him to get him something, he would [forcefully] say something like, “You want me to get you what?” and throw everything around him or pick up something large and throw it down with a bang.
That’s the difference between men and women. In-jin is Heung-jin’s older sister. This [Father may be indicating a box] has both her older brother’s and her belongings.
She would take out everything to pick out her doll. She doesn’t like big dolls. She plays with small ones. I wondered, “How can they be so different when there is only one little difference?”
In-jin is also very entertaining. You had to wear an inflated plastic inner tube[6] if you were going to go to Cheongpyeong at night. I asked her, “If I made you wear a tube and threw you into the lake, do you think you would be able to cross to the other side?”
She said, “Yes, I would.” She was saying that she would be able to cross it even if it took her all night. This was quite a dangerous place, so I asked her if she wasn’t scared. She replied, “Why would I be scared? I have God with me.”
Seeing this, I exclaimed, “Oh, it is commendable that these children would have such faith.” If a child were to cross the waters at night all alone without knowing anything, think of all the challenges she would face. I asked her if she knew what was there. In-jin replied that God was there. You need to have that kind of faith.
The concluding year of the seven-year course (1967)
This is the year of our all-out advance. We must devote all our efforts to sacrificial work because we must indemnify the national sins that remain. We are now crossing the last ridge of the seven-year course.
This seventh year is the year of the Sabbath, so True Parents must rest. If parents rest, children need to take responsibility for their parents’ behalf.
A campaign for doubling membership in four stages
If Koreans who can not distinguish between right and wrong sign a membership form and become members simply because their hearts are moved to do so, they will stand on Heaven’s side through that condition.
Because restoration is through indemnity, not many people are being restored. That is why I say that you should not worry if membership is not increasing much in terms of numbers.
Why do we witness? To multiply. Multiplication does not arise through a vertical relationship. It is only possible when you unite and engage in mutual interaction horizontally.
Therefore, you must become one with members horizontally, centering on the church leader. Only then can there be development in all dimensions.
The people you should concentrate on witnessing to are people in authority, the ones with real power.
You must bring three people into the church each month, twelve altogether between June and September. Those who oppose the Unification Church are mostly your relatives and friends. You must pray for them and witness to them with a sincere heart.
I have given instructions that the lectures presenting the counterproposal to communism should all have been given by the end of September. People in the police and the intelligence agencies support and defend us nowadays.
Even many volunteers embrace us. Therefore, I am saying that you should eagerly hold revival meetings for six months from October and kindle a fire under the nation’s 30 million people.
Completion of the economic foundation
Until now, I have been emphasizing the importance of economic restoration through business so that it may become a foundation for supporting you. It is also to help create a stepping stone for God to work and to uplift your hearts.
This year, we must safeguard our economic foundation. If you do business, members of the established churches will say that young members of the Unification Church are engaged in business and that the Unification Church is not a religious organization.
You must not pay attention to them. No matter how difficult it may be to make sales, you must be more sincere and serious than anyone else when you do business.
Managing the factory
When you are in the presence of something in the public realm, you must be humble. I have fought ideologically both in the spirit world and on earth. You should increase your level of devotion to the business side.
You should strive until other people respond to that and until you build a foundation to support the factory. We must still make great effort, which is why I don’t pray to Heaven to ask for money…
Now we should build an economic foundation and go forward. A global economic foundation is needed to restore the world. That is why I am going to operate factories.
Manufacturing and selling Yehwa air rifles
Because of God’s protection today, we are working with these air shotguns. These air guns fully reflect our strengths—our resourcefulness, our global and historical reach, and the progressive nature of our movement.
You must know that by manufacturing air shotguns, we can come to occupy an advantageous position in the global economic sphere.
This year, we should not only build an internal foundation should also break through the KRW 300 million target. I am saying that we must establish an economic foundation. This is an absolute necessity.
So, anyone who professes to be a Unification Church member should buy a gun. I am not telling our company to sell them. Rather, I am asking you, members, to purchase the guns [from our company] and then go out and sell them. That is why I am assigning quotas to each member.
If you put a label on this gun and pass it down, then those in your future generations will say, “This is the treasure that our ancestors bought at the time when they were creating an economic foundation during the seven-year course.” You should all resolve to do so at the district leaders’ meeting.
It was difficult to get a tax exemption on the guns. We quietly carried out a plan without saying anything to our members. The Minister of Finance, newly assigned this year, revised the tax laws on more than seventy items.
Because even noodle sellers have to pay taxes now, having our Yehwa guns exempted from taxes is a great accomplishment. We had to convince them to implement that, considering the tense relationship between South and North Korea and the fact that South Korea needs to prepare itself in case the North becomes hostile.
We are now living in a time when such measures have become necessary. We helped them see that from now on, all South Koreans will need to be trained to use guns. This is why our guns will surely become a necessity. Thus, we persuaded them to make our guns a special case.
My thinking is to sell as many guns as possible. If we can sell about twenty thousand guns this year, I think we will be able to make about sixty thousand passes through our hands next year.
That is why you should distribute as many as you can. You should distribute them to government offices and individuals. We are now making three hundred guns a day, which means we can make a hundred thousand in a single year.
Manufacturing machine tools
From now on, we must manufacture machine tools. I’ve been making the necessary preparations for the past two years. After almost a year of research, I have become quite familiar with machine tools. I’ve been going without sleep at night, constantly thinking about this and nothing else.
Originally, when we began preparations, I expected to reach a certain level within three years, but we have achieved that in a year and eight months.
For that reason, all the leaders in charge of manufacturing machine tools have become confident, saying, If only we do as Father instructs, we can make anything. What kind of machines will we make? We are going to manufacture lathes…
We plan to produce the machines and sell them inexpensively… It will take three years to reach the point of being able to produce the machines. We should be able to make seven hundred of them each year. So, that means we must make two machines each day.
Strategizing for a financial foundation
From now on, we need to divide our members into two groups—those who can stand at the forefront and take actual responsibility for church development, and those who can’t—and we need to build a financial system in the background.
What I am planning to do right now is to establish factories in every district and region. At present, Korea is promoting its second five-year economic development plan.
Keeping in step with that, I plan to build factories in a hundred and fifty regions in Korea’s eight provinces to establish an internal foundation for our church.
The providential era and the ecumenical movement
The time has come when the young brother, Abel, can meet the older brother, Cain. That means it has become possible for the Unification Church to have a dialogue with the established Christian church. That is why we must promote this ecumenical movement within the seven-year course…
In one sense, fulfilling this goal requires people imbued with holy spiritual power. We should carry out a campaign to organize into groups the many spiritualists who are up in the mountains.
Everybody needs the Holy Spirit to work with them. Once you have felt their grace, your heart will later feel slightly empty [in their absence]. It doesn’t matter if these people do not become our members. We need to have people who are in a midway position.
We must promote the fulfillment of the will externally through our outreach activities and internally by bringing together people who have received grace. In this way, they should serve the role of a beacon for saving the Korean churches.
People who have spiritual experiences have been entirely ignored in the churches. It should not be like that.
Even I cannot do things by myself. One wrong step and a big problem will arise. I make decisions that conform to the global circumstances and the program of the spirit world. We should acknowledge spiritualists and discern whether they are Cain-type or Abel-type….
From 1965, Grace began again to work within the Christian churches. They had lost God’s grace by opposing the Unification Church. Now the Unification Church has existed for twenty-one years.
Therefore, Christian churches are also placed in a position of being able to once again greet the spring. Once Abel’s altar is decided, Cain must also prepare an altar.
A three-year intensive campaign (1966–1968)
We held a big event to commemorate the first anniversary of our ecumenical movement. Some five hundred people participated. This surprised the members of other churches. However they looked at it, they could see that the Unification Church was behind it, and so they did their best to stop us.
However, they failed to follow through on their strategies. Now, they are even thinking of nurturing us. That’s their attitude at the moment. You have no idea how fearful they are of the Unification Church.
From now on, when you visit other churches with confidence, you will find their members trembling in fear. That’s why we have become such a problem for other religions.
I am planning to expand our church more widely this year. Last year, we focused on contacting the higher officials of other churches so that they could serve as protective walls surrounding us.
The other day we held a three-day symposium, inviting fourteen Christian church ministers. Some twenty people in all participated. Over the past year, through our ecumenical movement, we did what no other association of Christians could have done. We have invested a substantial amount of money in this ecumenical movement.
Until now, they have never been able to bring together religious leaders from different denominations. But thanks to these meetings, more than twenty religious denominations got together to talk their hearts out.
After sitting side by side and talking to leaders of other churches, whom they had always thought of as enemies, they found that such meetings were not unpleasant.
These religious leaders came to the interreligious meetings and confessed that they were the ones who had ruined their churches.
Until now, they had thought that it was God’s will to fight with other denominations, but eventually, they found that they had committed a grave sin in front of God. Thus, they officially repented for their actions and took a step forward. Now our interreligious activities are flourishing more than ever.
At first, Christian newspapers also tried to confront us and destroy us. Now, however, newspapers such as the Gospel Times came to apologize to us and ask for our forgiveness, saying that they would never attack us again.
Christian Today, the United Christian Newspaper, and all the press organs that opposed u, now feel they must stop attacking us and nurture us instead.
Japan leg of the global tour (June 12–August 10)
I have chosen seventy members to take responsibility to do God’s will with sincerity, to closely unite and to pray until I come back. I will give them those responsibilities and leave for Japan.
They must pray all night on Saturday; they must pray at the Holy Ground every day; and they must witness and restore more than one person during this period. I want you to pray not for me but rather for the members scattered in Japan, the United States, Germany, and all over the world…
I think that this is a very important time… Members in foreign countries expect great things from Korea. After coming to know God’s will, they are likely to think of Korea and me as the best and the highest. I do not take lightly those people who offer their sincere heart…
What we have done for Korea’s sake must be publicly recognized by the spirit world. Therefore, we must go through trials. On my first world tour, I took with me holy stones and earth.
This time I am going to take my sincere heart. I will take some church leaders with me to inspire overseas members. If all people can be revived by my doing so, I would not mind it if I were to die…
I said to the Japanese leaders, “I will not come to Japan unless you listen to what I say.” As a result, over the ensuing year, the church developed to a considerable degree.
The last time I visited Japan, I felt that I must unify Japanese members’ hearts with the fatherland of faith. Accordingly, this time I took with me leaders from the church headquarters and sent them to local regions in Japan to make connections of heart between Korean and Japanese members.
Soon after I arrived in Japan, I held a two-week workshop, and then I visited the different districts for thirteen days. After completing all that, I visited about ten of our important factories in Japan to see how they were doing.
We have a factory in a city called Kanagawa. In the evening after work, our young members go out and collect discarded items to sell as scrap. As they follow that difficult lifestyle, they long to hear news from the headquarters.
During this time in Japan, I gave instructions that more than one thousand Divine Principle lecturers be trained and sent to the forty-seven prefectures across Japan by the end of March next year and that two hundred and thirty college graduates be selected and trained as lecturers by that time.
I went to Japan considering giving the Blessing to Japanese members, but they had not even dreamed of receiving it. They asked me if it could be in another two or three years. I felt very satisfied.
They said they felt could not yet stand before God because they had not been able to put aside their situations and live and work truly for the sake of Japan. This is the proper attitude to have.
Countering communism in Japan (1967)
When you go to Tokyo, you will see signs with red lettering hung out in the open by Japanese communists for all to see. Moreover, even at midday they proudly advertise the Communist Party in front of Tokyo Station or Shibuya Station.
The number of Communist Party members in Japan is estimated to be anything from 130,000 to 170,000. However, the number of people they can rouse into doing collective action is between 2.8 million and 3.5 million.
Their power is at work in all parts of Japan at all times, and the most cunning and brutal of those people are the ones who belong to the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon)forefront of which the forefront of which is pro-Pyongyang. As an activist group among communists, they are at the forefront of all their activities. This is the situation in Japan.
The reality being what it is, if we set up a system focused only on Korea to counter the communist system, we will be unable to fight against communist camps spread throughout all of Asia.
To fight them, we need to get Japan to participate in our counter-communism movement, and I have been thinking a great deal about ways to do that.
For this visit, I thought to myself that I need to somehow open the way. So as soon as I arrived in Japan, I visited the South Korean Embassy and the Korean Residents’ Union in Japan (Mindan), which is pro-Seoul, and presented them with the results I had achieved in Korea through my anti-communism talks.
I went on to demand strongly of them that I be allowed to give presentations countering communism, focused on the Korean residents in Japan. Embassy officials, claiming they represent a nation, acted imperiously toward me.
Mindan, claiming that officials under their chairman were important government ministers in South Korea and that they represent the six hundred thousand Korean residents in Japan, treated me high-handedly.
Thankfully, God had sent our church district leader, Chang-lim Choi, to Japan. First, he gave an address to about 450 representatives of the Women’s Association who had gathered from 47 prefectures in Japan, and emphasized time and again to the vice-chairperson that all Korean residents in Japan needed to hear the anti-communist information to unite their ideology.
Rev. Choi arrived at the venue, greeted the person in charge of the meeting, and spoke with him for more than thirty minutes to persuade him to allow Rev. Choi to speak. He began by explaining how the name Victory Over Communism Enlightenment Group was first given to us back in Korea.
He elucidated that it was not a government organization, but that it was influencing all parts of Korea and every home there. He then went on to emphasize that the women needed this education so that they could take a stand ideologically.
Thus, he was given twenty minutes to speak at the conference of women representatives from all regions across Japan. At the time, representatives from the embassy and Mindan first gave addresses, which were followed by short speeches from representatives of the Ladies’ Society. Lastly, Rev. Choi stepped onto the podium to give his speech.
He spoke for his twenty minutes and was applauded twelve times. His audience was mesmerized by the speech, and they were all very moved by him. Some said, “He is quite short, but I have never heard someone speak so eloquently before.”
The manager in charge of the meeting and the leaders of the pro-Seoul group also said that they were deeply moved. That meeting served as the basis on which we could continue our work in comfort, and we went to see them day after day to negotiate with them about hosting anti-communism speech meetings.
The number of conservatives in Japan is about 1.5 million, fewer than half the number of leftists. We must draw Mindan members in Japan to our side, certainly. We must give anti-communism lectures to the people in Japan through that organization. If only we could get support from the Japanese government, communism would not be a problem.
We are preparing to lay this foundation in Japan to promote what this country [Korea] cannot. By doing those things, we will resurrect Korea and the rest of Asia.
So, during my stay in Japan, I instructed that more than a thousand Divine Principle lecturers be trained and sent to all forty-seven prefectures by the end of March next year and that 230 college graduates be selected and trained as Divine Principle lecturers also by the end of March next year.
I instructed the Japanese leaders to hold training sessions each month and report the names of those who have passed the test to our headquarters in Korea. I asked them to make preparations for cooperation with the Korean residents and to awaken Japan as soon as possible.
Response from the Media
During my stay in Japan of about forty days, journalists came to the Unification Church headquarters and tried to interview church leaders. Today, when I was leaving for Korea, reporters were waiting for me at the airport.
We paid no attention to them. Foreign correspondents in Japan from the press, such as AP and UPI, also came. Reporters came even after I returned to Korea today.
Staying in a small town (August 23–September 15, 1967)
I am now staying in Paldang in Gyeonggi Province to give gifts to the established churches, just as Jacob gave gifts to Esau to consummate his twenty-one-year course. This is to complete Jacob’s blessings.
Therefore, at this time, our family members must sacrifice everything and give to the established churches. We have the mission to help martyrs’ bereaved families, who have served God with all their loyalty, even in difficult circumstances.
Countering communism in Korea
During the past year, we have given our counter-proposal to communism to 1.5 million people. These 1.5 million people were not illiterate either. They are mostly influential people in their provinces.
What fraction of the 30 million people of Korea is this?
It is one twentieth. One in twenty South Koreans has heard this message. The listeners ranged in age from their twenties to their forties.
They are core members of society. The numbers alone tell us that we have built a foundation upon which we can have a commanding influence.
CARP in Korea and Japan
CARP originally started in Korea, but Japanese CARP has now become world-famous through the press. Currently, the Japanese Diet and even the police support this CARP movement.
Forty-nine news publications covered the CARP activities. Akahata (Red Flag), the Japanese Communist Party newspaper, regards CARP as one of the three main targets to attack. I heard that CARP was reported on in Communist Party newspapers in China and the Soviet Union as well.
Preparation in advance for the Blessing of 430 couples
I am going to conduct three matches and reach the number 430 by January 15 next year.
As the consummation of the seven-year course this time, I am going to give the Blessing to 430 couples because we must have more than 660 blessed couples. The number six is the number of Satan, God’s enemy. We must go beyond the number six. Therefore, within seven years, 760 couples, including already married couples, will have received the blessing.
Un-jin nim
Un-jin Nim,was born on December 24, 1967
Our daughter Un-jin’s name means “grace.” You will rarely come across a baby who, from a very young age, cries when she is not brought to pledge service on Sunday. She played all day long, became tired, and fell asleep.
Then, knowing Un-jin had exhausted herself the day before, her sister didn’t bring her to Pledge Service. Un-jin woke up and cried until all our ears ached. This happened more than a few times.
From a young age, she was genuinely interested in God. When she was one or two years old, she would sit still, look up at the sky, and think. When asked what she was thinking about, she would answer, I am thinking about God. I saw this several times.
Occasionally, she would say that something strange was following her. She could not catch it even if she tried. When she looked behind her, she couldn’t see it, but she knew that something was following her.
Whenever she told me that, I told her that good spirits, angels, good ancestors, or great saints were following her to protect her. She asked, What are saints? I told her they are people like Jesus, the Buddha, or Confucius.
Witnessing to one’s tribe
Just as the first seven-year course was for the parent to carry out his work as the Messiah, in the second seven-year course,e you must fulfill the mission of a messiah by restoring your tribe.
If you receive the Blessing, you must raise a family and establish a tribe. You should carry out the tribal messiah mission centering on your tribe rather than for the sake of your nation. After erecting the national level foundation during the first seven-year course, the second seven-year course is to erect the foundation of tribal messiahship.
I will send those who recently joined our church to the front line for three years and allow them to experience hard times. Next, I will send blessed members like you back to your hometowns.
During the second seven-year course, blessed couples will be sent to their tribes to fulfill their tribal messiah mission. They will be given the qualification to represent the Messiah at his second coming.
Sun Myung Moon