The Emergence of the True Parents

1. Throughout history, men, and women were brought together. However, their connection should have taken place at a single starting point, with the True Parents at the center, and history should have begun with the True Parents as its origin.

In other words, if history had begun correctly through Adam and Eve, it would have resulted in a world of eternal goodness. Because history became twisted, its origin has to be re-created.

This entails dealing with the history that has transpired thus far. To straighten out this history, one man and one woman, as a couple, should become the True Parents.

Without them, humanity cannot pass into a new age in history. This is what the Unification Church has to do. My responsibility in guiding the Unification Church is to secure the position of the True Parents. This is an important mission that no one has thought of until now. (25-024, 1969.09.21)

Preparing the way for the True Parents

2. What was God's desire before the Fall of Adam and Eve? It was that Adam and Eve gave rise to a true bloodline, centered on the original True Parent, which was to grow into a tribe, people, nation, and world.

Thereby, God desired to establish the kingdom of heaven as the ideal of His creation. But the human Fall shattered the ideal for the Parents and the children.

In the end, the world became the way it is today. No one living on earth has ever had blood ties with True Parents. Hence, given the current state of the world, no one can directly relate to God.

The returning Lord is the one who comes as the True Parents. Therefore, the six-thousand-year history has been God's work to restore the lost standard of the True Parents, that is, the standard of perfected Adam and Eve. (15-328, 1965.12.07)

3. According to the principle of restoration through indemnity, the Parents must emerge without fail.

How good it would have been if Jesus, a pure bridegroom, had found a pure bride! However, Jesus came on a foundation whereby the stages of formation, growth, and completion were not completed during restoration through indemnity; hence, he had to lay a foundation of victory by fulfilling all these stages.

To create a foundation of victory, both internally and externally, first, he had to redeem the sin of fallen Eve, by taking the opposite course. For this, Jesus needed to prepare a room for the bridegroom and to find a bride, but he could not. Hence, Jesus fasted for forty days.

This became a source of bitter sorrow for God and Jesus. The hope and purpose of Jesus' coming was to save humankind, but due to his death on the cross, that task could not be completely fulfilled.

Therefore, Jesus has to come to earth again. When Jesus returns, what does he need to do first? Rather than meet with his disciples, it is to find his bride. Christianity is this bride who has been waiting for the coming of the bridegroom. (16-182, 1966.03.22)

4. For True Parents to come, there should be the foundation of true sons and daughters; likewise, for true sons and daughters to come, there should be the foundation of true servants.

This is why God has worked in the history of restoration for us to receive the era of the parents after we have gone through the era of the servant and of the children. People in the spirit world have helped us as we passed through and restored the era of the servant, the era of the adopted son, and the era of the children, and moved up to the era of the parents.

Externally, until the global foundation beyond the national level is established, True Parents cannot come to the earth. (13-281, 1964.04.12)

5. After the two-thousand-year history of the providence through the times of Noah and Abraham, God established the people of Israel through Jacob. He then had these people form a nation. To achieve this, an individual had to confront Satan on behalf of God from the position of a servant and be victorious.

Then an individual had to confront Satan and bring victory on behalf of God from the position of an adopted son, and then from the position of a child of His direct lineage. Without this, we could not receive True Parents.

This is why providential history has followed the long course from the Old Testament Age through the New Testament Age to the present day. By restoring the position of the servant and the position of the adopted son, God restored the position of the child of direct lineage.

This means God could establish the position of the True Parents, which was His purpose in sending the Messiah to earth, only after laying the foundation for that victory. (13-281, 1964.04.12)

6. Jesus, who came two thousand years ago, had to gain victory by fighting as a servant and as an adopted son, and then become a son of God's direct lineage. This was Jesus, position. After having him go through the positions of the adopted son and son of direct lineage, on the foundation of the people of Israel, he was to establish the position of the True Parents.

This was the purpose for which God sent Jesus and the mission for which Jesus came. However, because Jesus died on the cross, he could not achieve complete victory. Therefore, with the spirit world as the base, God has been pioneering the foundation for True Parents.

To this day, He has not yet secured the positions of the individual, family, people, and nation. He has had to take a long, roundabout way to establish the individual, family, people, and nation that are related to His Will. (13-282, 1964.04.12)

7. As we welcome this global era, God will certainly send the Lord, His promised bridegroom, who will choose his bride and lay the foundation for true victory. God has fought for six thousand years to this day to establish the position of True Parents, the original purpose of creation.

It is no exaggeration to say that the purpose of the six-thousand-year history of the providence of restoration has been to establish the True Parents. True Parents represent the six thousand years of all providential history. Their absence was the sorrow, pain, and tragedy of humanity. (13-282, 1964.04.12)

8. We can look at human history as one history of restoring the position of True Parents. Without this, there can be no true children, and without true children, there can be no true family, no true tribe, no true people, no true nation, and no true world or cosmos.

God has toiled for six thousand years to establish this standard. Jesus came to earth two thousand years ago as the first person to manifest the glory of the True Parents. But, since he was the fruit of history, it was not enough that he succeeded in this only on one level. He had to carry out the mission not only of the Son but also of the Parents. (13-283, 1964.04.12)

9. On this earth, physically and spiritually, Jesus had to go through the course of restoring the positions of the Son and the Parents. He had to fulfill his responsibility in both positions to establish the starting point of oneness with God. Only then would Israel have had the foundation for the individual, family, people, and nation.

Had this come to pass, the standard of the True Parents would have been established, both physically and spiritually. However, the people's disbelief in Jesus rendered this impossible. By the Principle of Creation, True Parents are to be blessed by God both physically and spiritually.

Yet, Jesus was unable to become the True Parent due to the disbelief of the people. Hence, even after he passed into the spirit world, Jesus has been preparing the foundation for people to attend the True Parents. What does this mean? This means that the Lord of the Second Advent should restore the position of the Parents, spiritually and physically. (13-283, 1964.04.12)

10. Since Jesus* death and resurrection, he has been working in the spirit world, not on earth; hence, all Christians have been relating to him as a spiritual Parent.

Thus, just as Jesus needed to inherit the blessing from John the Baptist, the Lord who returns to the earth has to inherit Jesus* spiritual foundation, which was achieved on the levels of the individual, family, nation, and world. The Lord had to go through that to establish the foundation for the True Parents on earth.
(13-284, 1964.04.12)

11. To attain the position of the Parents, Jesus, as the bridegroom, had to have His bride. Jesus and his bride, as the ancestors who have nothing to do with the Fall, should have been the True Parents of humanity.

Jesus was in the position of the True Father. Yet for him to stand as the True Father of humanity on earth, he needed someone in the position of the True Mother. Jesus completed his mission as a son, but he could not find a bride who could become the True Mother.

That is why he left the earth, remaining only a spiritual Parent. The resurrected Jesus, as the bridegroom, represents heaven. The Holy Spirit, as his bride, represents the earth. In this way, Jesus and the Holy Spirit established the standard of the spiritual parents.

Originally, the husband-wife relationship should take place on the horizontal plane in their substantial bodies. This is the purpose Jesus was originally meant to fulfill. However, since this purpose was fulfilled only spiritually, the spirit world and the physical world could not become one.

Thus, Jesus, who ascended to heaven as the bridegroom, and the Holy Spirit, who descended to the earth as the bride, have been working together to unite the spiritual and physical worlds. (12-226, 1963.05.15)

12. Had Adam and Eve gone through their childhood and reached maturity in the springtime of their lives, God would have blessed them in marriage. God was meant to wed them at that point in their lives, yet He was unable to do so. Christians refer to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

This term appears in Revelation to John, the last book of the Bible. What is the Marriage Supper of the Lamb? Adam and Eve, who should have been wed by God six thousand years ago, instead lived together centered on Satan and thus became the evil ancestors.

To rectify this, God has to find a new bridegroom and bride in the Last Days and prepare a supper to celebrate their marriage. That is the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Through this supper, the True Parents will be born. (23-163, 1969.05.18)

13. Because it is time in history to hold the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, the world has been changing ever since the Second World War. The United Nations has emerged and changes are taking place throughout the world. After the First World War, the victorious nations abused and ruled three vanquished nations as they wished, but that is not what happened after the Second World War.

After the Second World War, the victorious nations liberated the defeated nations. That is because it was time for the Parents to come. The numerous member states of the United Nations are brother nations.

Whether big or small, they are all siblings. Hence, through the United Nations, all nations should have equal authority, like siblings within one household. The True Parents have to come to the United Nations as flag-bearers of peace.
(23-163, 1969.05.18)

14. True Parents are the standard of the ideal world. Thus, their work must begin. True Parents come to connect the people of the world in one heart, to teach what is good and what is evil.

They come as the Parents to set a new tradition. In so doing, they will form a new kinship and see the world begin anew. To achieve this, the Lord will create a new family. This is the returning Lord to whom Christianity refers.
(23-164, 1969.05.18)

The background of True Parents' birth

15. As a condition for the returning Lord to be born, there should have been a nation. Yet at the time I was born, the Korean people had no nation. The Lord of the Second Advent had to come, but he had no nation. That is why an independence movement arose in Korea.

At the time, there was a nationwide movement in all eight provinces of Korea to recover our nation. This was a confrontation with Satan. I was conceived during that time and born in the first lunar month of the year 1920.

Heaven's providence was realized on the foundation of those who shed their blood for the patriotic cause, and on the foundation of the provisional nation that was formed in 1919 through the March First Independence Movement.
(229-315, 1992.04.13)

16. Because Eve fell at the age of sixteen, Yu Gwan-soon fought as a sixteen-year-old unmarried woman against the enemy Satan's nation, Japan, to establish Heaven's nation. Japan represents a female position. Yu Gwan-soon fought for the independence of her country, Korea.

Because its sovereignty had been lost, a conditional foundation had to be established to build God's nation. On that conditional foundation, I was born. I was born into a patriotic family and as I matured, I participated in the independence movement.

In history, Eve violated Adam, whereas Yu Gwan-soon, a sixteen-year-old girl, became a sacrifice fighting against Satan's empire. It is a wonderful fact that, on the foundation of her unwavering heart and spirit not to submit, a gate could open for Adam to pave the way forward.

Women should inherit Yu Gwan-soon's way of thinking. She suffered death, but because she was steadfast in her determination not to surrender, she set a condition for me to be born. (236-248, 1992.11.08)

17. Jesus was to have walked a seven-year course from the age of thirty-three, and then attain the position of parent as desired by God. He was then to attain the standard of restoring all things, thereby concluding and completely fulfilling God's Will by the age of forty.

This was the mission that Jesus was to complete. However, he died on the cross, and God's original Will remained to be fulfilled. Thereupon, the True Parent, the Lord who is to return, has to take responsibility for setting both internal and external conditions to fight Satan; thus, he had to go through a forty-year preparation period, a period of struggle.

Although externally, it was a forty-year period of preparation, internally it was a period of strife. By laying the spiritual foundation for victory, finally, he finally established the groundwork for the substantial foundation, spiritual and physical, on earth. (13-287, 1964.04.12)

18. You as individuals have not prepared a proper foundation for victory. But through your relationship with the True Parents, by making conditions to unite with them, you can establish the basis for victory on the levels of the individual, family, tribe, people, and nation. That is a seven-year course.

Thus, if you establish the national level of victory through your relationship with True Parents, God can finally begin to take dominion over the creation of all things. By having dominion over the creation of all things and establishing Heaven's family, God can establish one sovereignty, one people,e and one land, unshakable in heaven and on earth. From that moment, when God can begin a Sabbath rest for all eternity, His judgment will commence. (13-290, 1964.04.12)

19. Because the Unification Church has taken responsibility for and upheld God's Will on behalf of Heaven and True Parents, we have undergone many ordeals. By going through this process, you need to separate yourself from Satan's world.

Further, you should set the standard of true children by which to judge Satan's world, adopting the model of True Parents' victory. Unless we reach this standard on the levels of tribe, people, and nation, we cannot realize God's original Will for True Parents on earth.

You who are fighting on my side during this period are representatives of True Parents on the levels of the individual, family, people, and nation. As such, you have to take responsibility and fight, not only in Korea but also on the world stage. (13-287, 1964.04.12)

20. You may not know how much I have invested for the sake of the world. How many tears have I shed, how much sweat and blood have I spilled, and how many times have I sighed? My efforts were not just to feed myself or to make myself successful.

They were to liberate the earthly world, the spirit world, and God. My work is not based on a concept; it has such a historical background. Since I formed a substantial foundation for the ideal in this world, on the actual world stage, I have reached a level where the nations of the world can solemnly bow before me.
(210-364, 1990.12.27)

The qualifications to be True Parents

21. When the true son and true daughter join in union for the first time, centering on the True Parent, the horizontal love between a man and a woman and the vertical God come together.

This is a historic point, a fountain of explosive love. Then God, who has been striving to realize this ideal of original love, will appear. This fountain was lost because of the Fall. God's vertical love encounters the husband and wife's true love perpendicularly at the center, the place of the True Parents, the place that God hoped to see when He created Adam and Eve.

To be in the position of the True Parents, they should first be a true son and a true daughter, a good man, and a good woman. It is to establish the position where a man and woman representing East and West join together, harmonize with all of God's feelings and thoughts, and have not one shred of guilt.
(145-139, 1986.05.01)

22. The position of True Parents, where Adam and Eve have merged into complete oneness centered on God, is free from Satan's accusation.

The True Parents, who are the original starting point, can emerge only when they rise above the completion stage, where there is nothing that Satan can accuse. This is the origin of True Parents from the viewpoint of the Divine Principle.
(25-030, 1969.09.21)

23. God worked for six thousand years to prepare the foundation for the coming of True Parents and to have them attain victory during their lifetime. However, the believers on earth failed to unite with Jesus as the spiritual Parent and follow his instructions.

As a result, they could not bequeath the spiritual foundation that Jesus had prepared for the returning Lord. Therefore, to become the True Father, the returning Lord has to face tests on the levels of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, and world in the spiritual realm.

If he fails to prevail and establish a standard of internal victory, a standard of substantial victory cannot be established on earth. Therefore, the Lord inevitably has to wage an internal battle. (13-284, 1964.04.12)

24. The new world begins through the True Parents laying a new foundation on earth. New children, new tribes, new peoples, new nations, a new world and a new cosmos are to emerge through True Parents.

This is the hope of God's dispensation on earth. It is the purpose for which Jesus must come again. However, all this cannot happen in one day. Jesus first has to succeed on multiple paths, as a servant of servants, servant, adopted son, and son.

The foundation that was laid over six thousand years was lost, so the Lord who is to come has to establish the standard of victory by recovering the entire six thousand years during his life. Unless he establishes a true standard of victory by which he can judge history, he cannot emerge with his bride as the True Parent on earth. (17-127, 1966.12.11)

25. I believe that I have devoted myself to prayer more than anyone ever has; I have shed more tears than anyone; and I have repented more than anyone. Furthermore, in terms of passion, I think I surpass everyone.

Nevertheless, why am I walking a path that today's Christians oppose? It is because I do not doubt that my way is correct. No matter how many times I examine and analyze this path, I find there is no question of its veracity. I am convinced that history will work out according to these principles.
(17-127, 1966.12.11)

26. A new history begins with the new Parents. History cannot begin anew before the appearance of the Parents of Heaven and Earth. Thus, True Parents must emerge, and after they fight and defeat him, Satan must recognize the Parents of Heaven and Earth. Before they emerge, the re-creation of heaven and earth is not feasible.

With the appearance of these Parents, and once the new heaven and earth are created, a new history can commence. Sons and daughters who have grown up with God will live every aspect of their lives by God's Will and possess a new heart, the heart that God desired to see in Adam and Eve at the time of the Creation. Thereby, they will stand in place of Adam and Eve and fulfill what God desired Adam and Eve to fulfill. (17-128, 1966.12.11)

True Parents have to overcome all the history. They need to attain such a qualification and overcome the fallen world. They should pave the path for the future. That is what they have been doing to this day. They deserve respect and honor from others. You should recognize their qualifications.

At least some of you should be able to recognize them. That is how you can receive the Blessing from them. Then as husband and wife, you will not fight with each other. How can you fight if you know that what I am telling you about the True Parents is true? (52-098, 1971.12.23)

28. To be True Parents, they have to love the world of Cain. The Cain world is the world of the firstborn son, the world of the fallen son. Therefore, unless the True Parents make the condition of giving the love of Heaven fully despite the opposition of this world, they cannot restore Satan's world.

The firstborn son should be loved first. Since Satan is in the position of the first son in principle, he can say, “If God wants to love Abel, He needs to make the condition of loving the first son first.

Without showing me such love, there is no way for Him to love the second son.” This is within the Principle. The way of the mother, Eve, is to unite Cain and Abel and bring them to Adam. Without doing so, no matter how much the mother wants to give universal love, she cannot. That is the position she is in.
(124-074, 1983.01.23)

29. The Messiah can come only based on the foundation of restoring the lineage through indemnity.

In other words, even though the Messiah is born in Satan's world, in which all people are born with Satan's lineage, he should be born in an environment that Satan cannot accuse.

If he were born in an environment that Satan could accuse, that would contravene the Principle of Creation. Originally, God created Adam and Eve with the support of the archangel, who bowed down to them and presented no opposition.

In the same way, by the Divine Principle, for Jesus to be born on earth and emerge as the Messiah, there had to be no condition for Satan's accusation, even from the time Jesus was in his mother's womb. (55-296, 1972.05.09)

30. For the True Parents to emerge on earth, they should overcome the realm of Satan's accusation. They cannot appear in a position that Satan can accuse. What kind of being is Satan? He is a spiritual being.

Thus, only a person who can stand in the position to subjugate the spiritual Satan can become the True Parent. To subjugate Satan, hundreds of billions of people in the spirit world, centered on tens of millions of believers and countless good ancestors, have to unite with this central figure.

Without establishing the foundation of victory over Satan's realm and bringing joy and glory on that decisive foundation, he cannot establish the position of the True Parents on earth. (43-146, 1971.04.29)

31. What is the focal point of human desire throughout history, in the current age, and for the future? It is a true family with true love at its center. All people throughout history have hoped for a true family.

It is the center of hope for this age and the starting point of hope for the future. In other words, it is the fruit of history, the resurrection of history. It is the center of the entire world and the principled beginning point of the future.

A true person and that true person's family can emerge only as the fulfillment of all the hope felt throughout history. The bridegroom comes as a true person to have a true family. A true family is formed when the bride becomes one with the bridegroom. (44-132, 1971.05.06)

32. Once the True Parents appear, the purpose of a true person can be fulfilled and a true family established. The title True Parents can be praised eternally – from the past to the present, and into the future.

The fact that the True Parents have appeared on earth, that they are here, is the most joyful gospel of all gospels. In this world where the power of evil has brought about a realm of death and the loss of any sense of direction, people have turned to wickedness.

True Parents' appearance in such a world is the fruit of God's six thousand years of toil. This achievement is not just for the nation of Korea in the present day. Amid the aimless wanderings of countless people, True Parents have emerged as the central model to show humanity its destination and its direction.
(44-132, 1971.05.06)

33. The appearance of the name True Parents means that the ideal world of God's creation indicates the emergence of the eternal heavenly kingdom of the future, which should have begun in the Garden of Eden.

This is a historic event, needed at this time and in the future. From the perspective of all ages, the past, the present, and the future, the emergence of the name of True Parents means that the center of the universe has appeared on Earth. From here history starts anew, is straightened out, and bears fruit.

Because history bears fruit from this point on, this is where the past resurrects, the world is unified and put in order, and with this one world as the origin, the kingdom of heaven, which is too, is realized. That is why I say that the True Parents must come to the earth. (44-133, 1971.05.06)

34. Throughout the ages of history until now, the hopes of humankind have resided in the future. In other words, we have considered hope to be something belonging only to the future.

Thus, when we were asked where we were headed, the answer was that we were going toward one world that would be realized in the future. Looking to the future, we have been seeking one world. Therefore, if there is any way for the True Parents to be received by false humankind, everyone will rejoice.

This is because humanity hopes to meet the True Parents. As True Parents are humanity's highest hope, their coming marks the moment when the tradition for all time will be determined.

True Parents* appearance is the starting point of history's completion, instead of just the longing for that completion. In other words, it is not the beginning point of hope, but the fulfillment of hope. (44-133, 1971.05.06)

35. The path God has to go requires that He anchor His ideal on earth. To do so, all beings on earth should have the original mindset, but for that, we need True Parents.

If the True Parents do not appear, humankind will inevitably experience a miserable history. But once they come and make all the necessary conditions for their work by straightening out the history of misery and establishing a proper framework, from that point, the history of True Parents and true children will begin.

However, it cannot begin until the True Parents set the right conditions; neither can the history of true children nor a true world. This is because only when the history of True Parents and true children proceeds along the right course will it become the history of a true nation and a true world. (25-059, 1969.09.28) 36.

When True Parents liberated their ancestors, they became the True Parents of their family and True Parents of their tribe. Based upon this, they have to become the True Parents of their nation, the True Parents of the world, and the True Parents of the cosmos.

The cosmic level, True Parent is God. The Lord comes as the True Parents on the levels of the world, the nation, the tribe, and the family. The True Parents receive God's direct lineage. Hence, they are the son and daughters of God, who can go to the kingdom of heaven.

They can freely give birth to their sons and daughters. They are the same as Adam and Eve at the time of the Creation. I have already paved the paths that establish the True Parents at the levels of the family, tribe, nation, world, and cosmos, but you do not need to do all of that. All you need to do is to be the true parents at the family level. (335-301, 2000.10.07)

37. Throughout history, people have hoped for True Parents, who transcend history. History until now has looked toward the future, meaning that people pinned their hopes on the future.

However, hope in the Unification Church is not pinned on the future but on the past. The past I am referring to is not the past that existed long ago. Rather, it represents a reality transcending time and space the fruit of the past, the center of the present, and the beginning point of the future.

It is the center that integrates the whole. That is why I am saying that it transcends history. (30-236, 1970.03.23)