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The Founding of WFWP and the Proclamation of the Women's Era
The Women's Federation for Peace in Asia
The inaugural assembly of the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia was held on September 17, 1991, at the NK Hall of the Tokyo Bay Hotel, with 7,000 Japanese women in attendance.
At that event, True Mother gave her first public speech; its title was “The True Love Movement Bringing Salvation to Asia and the World.”
Subsequently, the inaugural assembly of the Korean chapter of the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia was held on October 31, 1991, at the Little Angel's Performing Arts Center in Seoul, with 2,000 women leaders in attendance.
At that gathering, Korean and Japanese women leaders were united in expressing their determination to work together to spearhead joint efforts to create world peace in Asia and throughout the world.
True Father told the attendees that the women of Korea represent Adam and the women of Japan represent Eve. He called on them to invest their hearts and souls into restoring the world, centering on True Mother.
1. We held the inaugural assembly of the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia in Japan on September 17, 1991, and the inaugural assembly of the Korean chapter of the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia on October 31 of the same year.
Within seven months, we held the inaugural assembly for the Women's Federation for World Peace, and over the next seven months, we will set up chapters throughout the world.
On November 20, 1991, we held a national-level assembly. No one, including the members in Japan, believed it was possible to hold that assembly so soon after inaugurating the Korean chapter. It had taken Japan five years to prepare for their first event.
They asked how it would be possible to gather 10,000 people for a national assembly in just 20 days. But we did it, gathering 15,000 people for the nationwide rally of the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia at the Seoul Olympic Fencing Arena. Four months later, about 160,000 people attended the inaugural assembly of the Women's Federation for World Peace.
By Mother taking leadership in this way, she came to stand right by my side. To go to the heavenly kingdom, both of us have to go together, and the children will have to follow us.
We have to teach them about this. To accomplish this, we must liberate women. Historically, during restoration through indemnity, women have harbored a great deal of deep sorrow in their hearts.
(229-312, 1992/04/13)
2. The time has come for Korean and Japanese women to join together and return to their original position. This was done through the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia when Japanese women and Korean women united. By completing her three speeches before the public, True Mother established the condition of Cain-Abel unity on the national level.
On April 10, 1992, in Seoul, more than 5,000 women came from Japan and joined the women of Korea for the first assembly of the Women's Federation for World Peace. That is how Korea became the elder Eve. By uniting, centered on the restored elder Eve, and with Japan in the position of Cain, Cain, and Abel became one on the national level.
Because the women of those two countries united with the True Mother, who has the authority to unite all women, they could stand in the position to represent her. Thus, the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia laid the foundation for the establishment of the Women's Federation for World Peace.
Until now, Eve has been following me, but with the declarations at these assemblies, Mother now stands at my side. In that way, we have established the authority of the Parents. (229-343, 1992/04/13)
3. In September 1991, we were in Alaska. We needed to prepare to unite the women of Japan and| Korea because Japan is in the position of the Eve nation. But at the time I could not see a way forward. Still, there was no one but me who could make it happen.
I needed Mother to go to Japan and hold an assembly of 7,000 people. When I first asked her to do this, she probably felt as if lightning had struck her. It is difficult to address an assembly of that size, especially in the presence of the prime minister's wife. But she accepted and carried out her task decisively. Returning to Korea, we connected this first assembly in Japan to the Korean launch of the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia.
After doing this, we established the Women's Federation for World Peace. Although Korea was the nation that took the lead in founding this organization, it could not be limited to Korea or even to Asia. Through the Women's Federation for World Peace, we are aiming to bring peace throughout the world. (232-196, 1992/07/06)
4. I told Mother that she needed to study Japanese because she would have to make speeches in Japanese, representing me, once we reached the world level. In Japan, if you want to move and melt hearts, you cannot do it by speaking only Korean. I knew that Mother was neither born in Japan nor had studied Japanese for more than a short time.
Nevertheless, I told her that if she could speak fluent Japanese, the Japanese people would be bowled over. That was why I asked her to study Japanese. Mother accepted unconditionally. She just said yes, without complaining, and followed me completely. In this respect, Mother is truly remarkable. (258-330, 1994/03/20)
5. The first time Mother stood before the public was at the assembly of the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia, at the NK Hall of the Tokyo Bay Hotel in front of an audience of 7,000. It was her first time speaking in public, but she carried herself with such dignity. How could she do that?
Mother had attended many international assemblies with me, so she had already experienced being the center of attention among prominent guests. Furthermore, when I gave speeches she listened and analyzed them. She learned that people are more attentive to your speeches if you vary the tone of your voice, going up and down.
She saw that a smooth and sincere delivery would impress and move an audience. (257-288, 1994/03/16)
6. The first time True Mother spoke from the stage was at the inaugural assembly of the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia. An audience of 7,000 had been gathered, including many famous and eminent Japanese women.
When Mother first stood on the stage, she looked around to gain an understanding of the audience before her. Then, through her speech, she moved everyone's heart.
The next time Mother spoke publicly in Japan, it was in front of an audience of 50,000 at the Tokyo Dome. Although she did not speak Japanese well, she was determined to deliver her speech in Japanese.
With only 15 days to prepare for the speech, she barely slept because she was so determined to establish herself as the True Mother in front of that Japanese audience.
To give a speech in front of 50,000 people would make even a man's legs shake, so for a woman to speak in front of such a large audience was not easy at all. Mother approached it with great seriousness, and she made the Tokyo Dome event a great success. (328-211, 2000/08/03)
7. After Mother's successful events in Japan, she went on to tour 40 countries. On that tour, Mother wanted to achieve a victory in the United States, the elder son nation, while speaking in English.
Now she tries to speak in every nation's language. If she has to speak in Spanish, or in any other language that she does not know, she will manage to do so. As long as she has 40 days to prepare, she can deliver the entire speech in that language.
She has that confidence, and she is willing to put in the effort. This is how she is, regardless of the objective; therefore, no one can equal her.
(328-212, 2000/08/03)
8. Japanese women and Korean women must join together and unite with True Mother. That is restoration. As a man, I restored the first and second sons. However, it is for Mother to restore the first and second daughters, centering on women.
I carried out the historical battle to have Abel restore the realm of the elder son. I restored the positions of the sons and returned them to God. I finished my part of the work. Centering on the United States and the Soviet Union, the authority of the elder son has been restored.
The time has come, therefore, for Mother to do her part in restoration. Thus, I am having Mother connect women from two providential nations, Korea and Japan.
For this, I am bequeathing my victorious foundation to her in my mission as the Messiah so that she can create her foundation of victory as Eve.
(224-092, 1991/11/23)
9. The age of women is coming. So, I gave the direction to activate the women in the church. Japan was chosen as the Eve nation about Korea, the Adam nation, so we had to begin in Japan. Mother has to bind together all the women of Japan, both in the internal realm of the church and in the external realm of society.
Therefore, I called Japanese women to the training center on Jeju Island and instructed them on matters that had remained unclear. I then assigned 100 women to each prefecture in Japan.
Japan is an island nation, so to bring the Japanese to Korea I had to begin the work on a Korean island before bringing them to the mainland. I chose Jeju Island. Mother had to function as a bridge between the Japanese women and the Korean women of the Unification Church so that the Korean women would accept the Japanese women.
If they had not, it would have been a big problem. The Korean women had to prepare themselves to accept the Japanese women. The sooner they were prepared to accept them, the quicker the Japanese and Korean women would unite. (222-218, 1991/11/03)
10. Initiating this movement to unite women from Korea and Japan was a record-breaking historical event. It was like heaven throwing fire into the world. That is why people's experiences of those events will resonate forever, like some melodies that capture our hearts.
Just by looking at photographs of the event, one can see that it was an occasion filled with grace. The intensity of those assemblies reached such a peak.
Does the love your mother gave you ever disappear from your heart? Does the love your parents gave you ever disappear from your heart? When lovers look at a picture of themselves, they are reminded of the love that never disappears from their hearts.
Likewise, anyone whose heart was deeply moved by that speech, which was so connected to heaven's love, is reminded, even by looking at the photographs, of the grace that was present on that day.
It is their connection to God's love that makes the teachings of the saints and sages so precious. Mother's speech is so precious because she speaks with a heart of love that connects us to God. Therefore, her speech transcends history. At any time, you can connect to that moment and the value that resides there. It has the power to revive people. (237-051, 1992/11/10)
11. As Japan is the Eve nation, Korea stands in the position of Adam. As Korea stands in Abel's position, Japan stands in Cain's position. Therefore, your Koreans must convey Axels's tradition and spirit to Japan.
Eve fell when she was 16 years old. Therefore, Korea needed a virgin girl to become a patriot imbued with tradition and spirit to offer everything for the love of her nation. That girl was Yu Gwan-sun.
Japanese women have to inherit their spirit; otherwise, there is no way for them to connect to Korea. So I discreetly sent some people to begin a movement to lift Yu Gwan-sun in Japan.
I told them, “Engraft Japanese women to the spirit of the martyr Yu Gwan-sun.” I am the only one who can do this kind of work. No one else can. If Japanese women are engrafted into this spirit, Japan and Korea will become one.
Therefore, I sent Mother to Japan in September 1991 to establish the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia. (229-150, 1992/04/11)
Inauguration of the Women's Federation and the liberation of women
On April 10, 1992, at the Seoul Olympic Stadium, True Parents held the inaugural assembly of the Women's Federation for World Peace (WFWP) along with the Seoul Assembly of the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia.
The event was attended by 160,000 people, including representatives of 72 nations, and presided over by True Mother, as president of WFWP. There, True Parents proclaimed, “The age of women is coming throughout the world.”
True Father announced, “Your chairwoman, Hak Ja Han, has walked beside me on my path of suffering and hardships, so please accept her as the representative of all women.
The women of this age will be the builders of an ideal world full of peace, love, and freedom. The rule of men has resulted in wars, violence, oppression, exploitation, and crime, but your women will put an end to that.”
True Mother toured the world repeating this proclamation of the age of women, meeting with and encouraging leaders, and launching a worldwide women's movement.
12. I brought all my enemies on the levels of the individual, family, tribe, nation, and world to surrender, and in the process I restored 4,000 years of history. Now I have returned to Korea. The time has come to press for the unification of North and South Korea and God's liberation.
After enduring 40 years of indemnity, the unification of heaven and earth, which should have been achieved shortly after World War II, is finally within reach.
Christianity is the bride's religion, in the position of Eve, but it did not fulfill the mission of the bride. Hence, True Mother must fulfill that mission and restore Korea. Christianity in the position of the bride religion should have done this, but it could not.
Mother must indemnify this. And the Women's Federation for World Peace in Korea, Japan, the United States, and Europe must indemnify the failure of Christianity to resolve this issue for Korea's sake.
At the end of World War II, there was an opportunity to unify the seven providential nations in that conflict: Korea, Japan, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, and Italy, even nations that had been enemies.
However, that opportunity was lost and the providence at that time failed. This would have to be restored. Indemnity needs to be paid. That is, Korea, Great Britain, the United States, and France failed to receive me and attend to me as the Bridegroom following the liberation of Korea. The Bridegroom was lost and later was found again.
Although they did not know it, for 40 years I prayed for those seven nations. To take responsibility for their failure, I had to send Mother out in front of the public for seven months and establish the Unification Church in place of the one unified world that should have arisen following the end of World War II.
I placed Mother in the position to represent all the leaders of the world, and in that mission she was victorious. Now we can march forward victoriously into the era when we can unite the world.
This will take place in the era of women. Since that era has come, I established the Women's Federation for World Peace in 1992. (239-242, 1992/11/25)
13. Now that Korea has restored the authority of the elder son, Korean women are in the position of the elder daughter, while Japanese women are in the position of the younger daughter. The two have to unite.
Indeed, with True Mother standing at the world level in the position of their mother, Japanese and Korean women came together to launch the Women's Federation for World Peace, holding the inaugural assembly at the Seoul Olympic Stadium.
The cooperation of the Japanese and Korean blessed families that united to establish this organization laid the foundation for Mother to stand as the female representative of Adam's nation and the global nation.
This was made possible because she could establish a subject-object partnership between these realms of Cain and Abel. This created an environment in which plus and minus united in the process of re-creation. (230-346, 1992/05/10)
14. Just as Mother is standing on the front line, all of you women must stand there as well. That is why Mother and I established a women's organization, the Women's Federation for World Peace. Like mothers, you have to educate all people as your children.
The House of Unification for World Peace is like a home in which this education can take place. We must establish this in every village of Korea. What should you do, as mothers, after you educate the people of your village as your sons and daughters? In a family, a mother brings the children whom she has raised to unite with the man who is the head of the family.
But in your case, you especially should bring the men, who are in the position of archangels so that they can be restored to the position of Adam. You have to educate the secular people who are in the position of archangels in Satan's world. (243-153, 1993/01/03)
15. Now that the Women's Federation for World Peace has been established, all women can come to God's side. Humanity is the vertical and horizontal expansion of the original family unit. No matter how many people makeup humanity, the family is its core. To restore this family, I am dispatching tribal messiahs.
There are three positions on the horizontal level: family messiahs representing the formation stage; tribal messiahs, the growth stage; and national messiahs, the completion stage. All of these positions must connect. As they expand horizontally, they must inherit everything through the vertical stages.
This is how we built a world-level foundation. True Mother had to connect this foundation to seven nations.
Eves foundation was thereby re-established horizontally centered on Korea. On that foundation, True Parents were declared to the world. (248-127, 1993/08/01)
16. Based on True Parents' standard, we must now establish a world-level domain of kingship for God's kingdom. Once we have a world-level foundation of a new group of people in nations throughout the world, North Korea's Kim Il-sung can be brought to surrender.
That is how the position of True Parents and the position of false parents can finally be reversed for the people of South and North Korea.
However, this cannot be done by men alone. We need to make this happen quickly in the mother's era.
This has been the goal of the providence I have led since 1991. Thus, on April 10, 1992, with the establishment of the Women's Federation for World Peace, Adam's nation and Eve's nation completely united and centered on Mother. On that basis, Kim Il-sung is bound to retreat. Never before had a victorious Eve existed in the fallen world. Now that the victorious Eve has come, the fallen world, Satan's world, must disappear. (230-286, 1992/05/08)
17. On April 10, 1992, we held the inaugural assembly of the Women's Federation for World Peace.
Spring has come for the first time in the history of the Unification Church. The spring of 1992 is the spring of the Unification Church. Until then, Mother's role was just to follow me.
She was indemnifying the fact that Adam just followed Eve into the Fall. However, the time has arrived for Eve to return to her rightful position, to return to her hometown, to prepare herself to be active, and to stand with honor.
Until now, I have fought alone, but currently, you are on the threshold of your hometown. Accordingly, each of you has to receive your partner and line up one after another in procession. That is why I declared women's liberation worldwide, centered on Mother. (229-202, 1992/04/12)
18. The unified world was supposed to have been completed during the seven years from 1945 to 1952, but that opportunity was lost. Therefore, we now need to complete it during the seven years from 1994 to 2000. Our task during these seven years is to unite the world.
Following World War II, the Christian cultural sphere, which is the bride's cultural sphere, failed to unite with the Bridegroom. Therefore, for these seven years, from 1994 to 2000, the women of the world must unite and attend to the perfected Adam who can make an impact on the family, the society, and even the world.
Now is the time when we can restore the opportunity that was lost after World War II to achieve the goal of building a unified world that fulfills the ideal of the kingdom of heaven.
This can be done by elevating Adam, who is already victorious on the levels of the family, tribe, people, nation, and world, and by paying off all the debts that the bride nations incurred when they did not receive the Lord, on the levels of the family, tribe, people, nation, and world. That is why I declared that this is the era for the liberation of women. (254-286, 1994/02/16)
19. Mother's year was 1992. In that year, she became the liberator of all the women of the world. The inaugural assembly of the Women's Federation for World Peace was held in Seoul, Korea, on April 10, 1992, with women representatives of 72 nations in attendance.
At the assembly Mother declared, “Let us now liberate all the women of the world.” The way this can be done is by following Mother. This means that women must change the color of their hearts to be the same as Mother's. Mother is the central root, the central stem and the central bud. She is the one who can unite all the women of the world.
Within just a year she has already made this organization, the Women's Federation for World Peace, into one of the most powerful women's organizations in the world. The rapid establishment of this women's organization shows that God's final providence is to connect to all women. (248-126, 1993/08/01)
20. The women of the world made all kinds of rough waves, which I had to traverse to resolve the issues that have existed throughout history. I could not fall into their traps; I had to overcome them and liberate them.
I had to lead them as an older brother leads his younger sisters; I had to guide them as a husband guides his wife; and I had to educate them as a father educates his daughters. Especially, I had to lead Mother in this way.
Consequently, when she could stand on equal footing with me, on April 10, 1992, I declared the liberation of women.
The fact that I declared the liberation of all women worldwide means that the persecution that the Unification Church has been enduring for 40 years is at an end. The church has overcome every level of persecution from the world – from the level of the individual to that of the family, tribe, people, nation, and world.
We have recovered the domain of John the Baptist as the Women's Federation for World Peace, which represents the Christian cultural sphere centered on the Unification Church. We did that, not on the national level, but on the world level. (245-137, 1993/02/28)
21. Although it took 40 years due to the prolongation of the providence, in 1992 True Parents finally established the realm of liberation, which should have been accomplished in the seven years following the end of World War II. Therefore, it is only now that the world can attend True Parents.
Until now, because of opposition, Mother had to stand behind me. But now the opposition has subsided and people are free to meet with Mother and me in a free and open environment. This could have happened at the end of World War II, when an environment of freedom had emerged in the United States, representing the free world, and where the bride religion was being prepared to receive the Bridegroom.
Now that we have gone over this hill, Mother can stand in a position equal to mine. That is why Mother can lead the movement to liberate women around the world. Mother can declare the liberation of women because the walls of the world have crumbled.
Satan can no longer actively oppose us, and therefore the time has come when Mother and I can meet with God directly and stand side by side before Him. That is why Mother can proclaim the liberation of women throughout the world.
(243-218, 1993/01/10)
22. In 1992, on the victorious foundation of having embraced both the right wing and the left wing, I finally declared the arrival of True Mother on the world stage.
The True Mother had been lost and was unknown to the Israelites during the Old Testament Age, and she was again lost to the New Testament Age, but finally, on April 10, 1992, I declared to the world that the True Mother had come.
This took place at the inauguration of the Women's Federation for World Peace, where we also proclaimed the liberation of women. Mother was introduced to the world, and women of the seven nations involved in World War II, represented by the women of 72 nations, united with her.
When I claimed that we would gather 160,000 women, everyone thought I was dreaming. Yet, we made strong winds blow and women from all backgrounds came. People came to these events without realizing why they were there. The night before the event they could not sleep.
In this way, we reached that numerical goal. That is how the Women's Federation for World Peace was born. We announced the liberation of women all over the world. In one year, we overcame 6,000 years of pain and sorrow. We proclaimed the arrival of unity and equality for women, which they had been waiting for 6,000 years. (245-140, 1993/02/28)
23. Before I declared the era of the liberation of women, Mother simply followed me. Because Mother was united with me in everything I did, my victories were also Mother's victories.
However, we had not yet overcome the final obstacle in Satan's world. Hence, we were still in a precarious position. To completely overcome Satan's world, we had to establish the realm for the liberation of women.
To do so, True Mother had to stand in a position equal to mine. True Mother had been in the position to just follow me wherever I went. She still needed to establish herself in the position of having perfected herself on the world level.
In addition to having nothing to do with the Fall, by seeking to fulfill God's Will, she had to reach the position where she and I could stand on the same plane. She accomplished this, and therefore we could finally proclaim the liberation of women throughout the world. (232-235, 1992/07/09)
24. Once I had Mother appear before the public, Eve could be restored and the archangel had to follow behind her. Now a wonderful fortune will come to Mother. The archangel has no relationship with True Parents in blood and flesh. He must be given rebirth.
However, Mother cannot do that by herself. That is why we are encouraging women from across the world to act as Mother's second selves. This is how the age of women is arriving in this era. (231-310, 1992/06/21)
25. How can Mother defeat all men, who are in the position of the archangel? If women everywhere unite, they can bring the archangel to surrender voluntarily. So women must bond tightly together and stir up their power like a hurricane throughout the nation so that men cannot budge.
This will unify the Korean Peninsula. To support this on the external level, I have been weaving all the nations of the world together through the Women's Federation for World Peace.
When the people of the world listen to Mother's speech and receive the Blessing, they will become one. This is the time when women will take the lead. Now, the people of the world will be restored by listening to Mother's words, the words of the heavenly Eve. (236-019, 1992/11/02)
26. Because Mother appeared before the public and proclaimed the age of women, all warts that have been attached to individuals, families, tribes, peoples, nations, the world, and the cosmos throughout history – even warts connected to hell – can finally be cut off.
We have to indemnify them all. False parents came and infected every level, creating hell up to the world level. However, as True Parents, we are clearing up everything. In addition, by engraving every family to ourselves, we are elevating every family to the position of unfallen Adam and Eve's family. This is how we are transferring all our victorious conditions to everyone. (233-189, 1992/08/01)
27. God's original plan was for me to start fulfilling the Will beginning in 1952, but that plan was frustrated. Everything was set back 40 years. Only in 1992 was I able to liquidate that debt.
Since, to achieve this, I had to establish a foundation in Asia, the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia had to inherit the realm of Eve. Korea is in the position of Japan's elder sister. If Korea wants to recover the authority of the elder sister, then Korea must inherit it from Japan, the Eve nation. This is what establishing the Women's Federation for Peace in Asia accomplished.
Then, when Mother created unity among the nations of the world through the Women's Federation for World Peace, this created a realm in which the world could not oppose Korea, and this realm became Mother's inheritance. Now, America cannot oppose the True Parents, the Soviet Union cannot oppose us, and Kim Il-sung cannot oppose us.
I already took all the necessary measures to block all opposition, so that Mother had a foundation to come this far. I already indemnified what Christianity was unable to accomplish for 2,000 years as a result of Jesus' death on the cross. I also connected the right wing, the left wing, and the Islamic world.
All of this preparation for Mother's public speech at the WFWP Assembly on April 10, 1992, was to create an environment conducive to uniting the Christian cultural sphere. The Christian cultural sphere is equivalent to the bride's cultural sphere.
We also needed a foundation upon which the four cultural spheres Christianity, the right wing, the left wing, and the Islamic world could come together so that Mother could stand at the forefront. This was the Blessing ceremony that we conducted on April 10, 1992, for married couples from around the world.
The participants included people from eight Islamic nations as well as Japan, the United States, Korea and Europe. We even had participants from the communist bloc, including China. It was through this Blessing ceremony for married couples that we connected the four cultural spheres and overcame those barriers.
Symbolically, we reached the standard to recover the situation following World War II. This meant we were in a situation to inherit the realm of the Christian nations that represent the bride – Great Britain, the United States and France, as well as the Eve nation and the now united Cain and Abel nations.
Thus, we were once again able to welcome the realm of the bride. Based on that, True Mother took her place, and women, whom Mother now led, were able to shout out and demand the liberation of all women.
Because Mother brought liberation to the Christian cultural sphere, the realm of the bride, and united it all thoroughly through the Women's Federation for World Peace, the world bonded with Mother like her second self.
That is why the winds of a typhoon are buffeting the women of Korea. From there, the winds to liberate women will blow through Japan, America, Europe, Oceania, and Russia. (243-320, 1993/01/28)
28. On April 10, 1992, I proclaimed the era of the liberation of women. That day, when Mother was reading her speech, it rained heavily. As her husband, in addition to giving a supporting speech, I was asked to write a commemorative message in Chinese calligraphy. I wrote, “The Advent of the Age of Women throughout the World.”
That was the day when Mother first appeared on the world stage. Ever since that day, whenever we had to carry out providential responsibilities, she has taken on enormously difficult missions such as the recent 120-nation speaking tour.
After finishing that tour, she returned to Korea but did not rest; instead, she went on to speak to students at colleges and universities, proclaiming the women's era. (484-048, 2005/01/20)
Hak Ja Han Moon