The Pantanal and the New Hope Farm

The Original Holy Ground

When True Parents first visited the Pantanal, they remarked that it was the place where all living things exist in their original state as was created by God. The Pantanal is in Brazil, which is also home to the Amazon River.

The Pantanal is where True Parents dedicated the Original, Root, and Victory Holy Ground. There they strived to establish the standard of loving nature as God created it.

By the conditions they made there, they sought to make it a new beginning point from which to build the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven during the era of the realm of the perfect Fourth Adam.

By establishing New Hope Farm in Jardim and undertaking various projects there, True Parents worked toward realizing a new community.

The purpose of True Parents' work in the Pantanal and Jardim was to establish a new center in the Americas for uniting North America, a Protestant realm, and South America, a Roman Catholic realm, to realize world peace.

1. The Pantanal exists in the state of nature as God created it. The fish, animals, and plants exist in their most pristine state. I imagine it is similar to the earth as it was when Adam and Eve lived.

That is why I have resolved to make the Pantanal the place where I will liberate the world from the suffering caused by the Fall of the first ancestors. There I will bring a new beginning for God and for the realization of the providential Will and the ideal of creation that has been His hope.

Also, I am determined that the Pantanal will become the starting point and base for the new kingdom of heaven in heaven and on earth, which will welcome the era of the perfected Fourth Adam.

Adam and Eve probably would not have lived in a cold region. God made all of creation for the sake of Adam and Eve. I believe that He blessed them with this kind of environment so that tens of thousands of generations of their descendants would care for and nurture it for the sake of their loving family.

That is why I view this place as the holy ground where God is making a new beginning. It is the original holy ground. It is the first one. It is where the Completed Testament Age can begin. It is now the starting point for families that can open the gate and enter the kingdom of heaven, in heaven and on earth.
(310-277, 1999/07/27)

2. In the Pantanal we must build a zoo, an insect zoo, a botanical garden, and an aquarium. It is the Original Holy Ground, Root Holy Ground, and Victory Holy Ground because nature can be seen there in its original condition, in the sense that none of God's creations there were wiped out by the Flood.

It is well protected and preserved so that we can love creation in its original state. It was made entirely for the sake of love.

The conclusion is that the fish, trees, shrubs, green fields, and animals all were created for our sake. God created them all for our sake. They were created for each of us, centering on love. Therefore, when we live for the sake of this world of creation, the world of peace can be realized on earth. (414-059, 2003/07/27)

3. Heavenly Father, the True Parents and the Unification Family stand at the forefront of the path that we must go. The era has arrived when we can bring Satan to submission and we can command him as the archangel.

Take this first step, I have set up the Pantanal as the base of the Original Holy Ground, Root Holy Ground, and Victory Holy Ground. May You enable us, the people of the world, to cherish this place, to offer our sincere devotion, and to gather all of heaven's blessings in this place, so that we may stand before You as one people, one nation, and one world.

We pledge that we will become true parents who will pass on these blessings to others.

Thank You for letting us have a new start as the Unification Family, representing the whole nation. May we stand in the position of Your partners by loving and protecting this place and by treating this place as Your body and as our own bodies.

O God, who is transcendent over all and immanent in all, with all authority and all power, please have dominion over us. We choose this place and offer it as the base of Your blessings, where we can enter the kingdom of heaven directly. We ask You to sanctify this place.

Through the devotion of our bloodstained hearts, may the grace of Your Blessing take deep root in this place, and cover the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven for tens of thousands of years.

May You guide us to fulfill the way of filial sons and daughters, patriots, saints, and divine sons and daughters forever and ever through the new lineage by centering on Your love.

I sincerely pray that all the families who have received the Blessing can unite, inherit the tradition of the True Ancestors, and pass it on to their descendants for all generations to come.

May they resolve to fulfill the way of filial sons and daughters. At this hour, we offer to You this place that we selected as the Original Holy Ground, Root Holy Ground, and Victory Holy Ground. (310-280, 1999/07/27)

4. In the future, Salobra, the Pantanal and Jardim, where I made the proclamations that united the spiritual world and the physical world, will become scenic destinations for tourists from around the world.

They are places where the water and the land meet. This is where we are determining all matters related to water and land, as a basis for continuing on our path. (293-272, 1998/06/02)

5. What I discovered this time is that the enormous region of South America, especially Brazil, is not simply a rough mountainous land. It gradually rises from flat land to reach a plateau about 1,000 meters high.

You have no idea how many rivers there are, because when it rains all the water flows down many slopes in all directions. If the land were mountainous only a few major rivers would be formed, but because the lands are flat there are numerous river courses.

The rivers flow and join together and divide again. The temperature also differs depending on the altitude.

Just as different species of fish live in different areas of the sea depending on the temperature, the fish in all the rivers likewise search for areas which have the appropriate temperature; there they go to mate and lay their eggs.

Even in regions several hundred kilometers away from each other, whether in the east, west, or north, if the temperature is the same, you will find the same species of fish living there. Thus, there is a wide variety of fish.
(267-269, 1995/01/20)

6. Fishing is the best activity for focusing your mind to offer sincere devotion, and you can keep at it 24 hours a day. That's why I have spent 25 years on boats. There was a time when I went out to sea as soon as I woke up in the morning. But now that I have established the realm of liberation of the True God, I do not go fishing as much as I did then.

I went to Kodiak and proclaimed Sa Sa Jeol, 4-4 Day. Ever since then, I no longer fish as before. Now I only love the fish; I do not worry about catching them.

It is the responsibility of True Parents and Unification Church members to love fish first, and then love all the rest of creation, and to prevent species from becoming extinct.

Here in the Pantanal and the Amazon Basin we find created beings all in their original state. All the things that God had created exist here untouched. If we leave them unprotected, they will all become extinct.

People who do not understand this come fishing here with nets although they are told not to; they do all sorts of things that must be restricted. Someone must love and protect this place.

To prevent the extinction of creatures in this region, I am offering fish from the ocean as a sacrifice in their place. Just as we needed to make sacrificial offerings to liberate God, we needed to offer sacrifices to protect all things of creation. (298-019, 1998/12/31)

7. During God's history of bitter sorrow, He brought the Flood Judgment. The Flood of Noah's time touched everything but the world of fish. Did the fish die during the Flood?

When the flood waters reached the tops of the mountains, fish that had been living in the mountain brooks were suddenly able to eat everything in the world as their food and take in its nutrition. The Flood Judgment was a time of total freedom for fish.

Human beings initially come from water in their mother's womb. Because God created us with that kind of beginning, I came here to the Pantanal, the wetlands of South America.

South America contains created beings in their original state as God created them, left almost untouched. In other parts of the world, many species have become extinct, but most of the species in the Pantanal and the Amazon Basin still exist. (296-020, 1998/10/10)

8. The law of nature demonstrates that the good digests the bad. Hence, only those who live with the authority of something eternal can be eternal victors in life. That authority comes from true love.

This means that we must appreciate the low valleys as well as the high peaks. Do I like only high peaks and dislike low valleys? No, I don't. That is why I have come to the Pantanal.

This place of lowland waters exhibits everything that is hidden in the world's watery depths. It is interesting to watch them. I can see all kinds of things here that I could not see in the northern hemisphere.

It is such a delight. In all the years I went to the ocean to catch fish, I never saw a fish that could sing. But here, all the fish can sing. After catching fish here and closely observing the fish, I was able to hear their songs, that are so different and so diverse.

You have no idea how magical it is to listen to the fish sing. They sound even more beautiful than an orchestra of human beings. (296-115, 1998/11/03)

9. Perdido, which is located in the vicinity of Jardim, has the most ideal land for farming, planting orchards, and planting forests. It is the best land in Brazil and the best land that I know of in all of South America.

Brazil and Paraguay in South America are mainly flatlands, but this place has mountains as well. Its natural features are exactly like Korea's. It has mountains and crystal-clear waters, rivers that empty into clear lakes. It is quite difficult to see a clear river in South America, but here there are clear rivers and waterfalls, which you can even swim in.

The land that we have purchased has 22 waterfalls, some of which are famous. One of these is called Iguazu, which is unequaled as a tourist site. That place also has many fish, including dorado and a wide variety of other fish. When you fish there, they tend to take your bait well.

Even when you are not fishing, if you put something to eat in the water they come rushing to eat it. Young children who visit there go wild; they want to live there.

People in that area wonder, "Why is Reverend Moon so interested in Jardim?" However, after coming and experiencing the heart and spirit there, they exclaim, "Wow, this is like heaven!" (279-200, 1996/08/04)

10. One thing that amazed me when I went to South America was the thousands of birds that gather together and sing in concert, "tweet, tweet, tweet." It was an incredible performance, just magnificent. I thought to myself, "So this is what a bird orchestra is!"

I believe that the best concert in the world would be one in which an insect orchestra, a bird orchestra, an animal orchestra, and a human orchestra performed together. I am sure God would be intoxicated with joy to hear the sound of all of them singing in harmony.

All the fish in South America can sing. The fish in the northern hemisphere cannot sing. In South America, it is always springtime, always like summer. The flowers are always blooming, and there is always abundant food to eat. So they have nothing else to do but to sing.

That is why even the fish sing all day long. But creatures in the North have to hibernate for four months. No wonder they cannot sing!

The zones with greenery and water make ideal places for people to live; they are ideal areas for all things of creation to live as well. We will make heaven in such a zone of greenery.

If people experience joy and happiness in an environment where human beings, animals, and all nature dance together to the combined sounds of a human orchestra, an animal orchestra, and nature's orchestra, this will take them to the best part of the kingdom of heaven. (285-243, 1997/06/05)

New Hope Farm in Jardim

True Parents first visited Jardim on December 8, 1994. At that time, they went fishing in the Pantanal and decided to build New Hope Farm and establish Jardim as the base from which God's nation would be realized.

The reason True Parents built New Hope Farm in Jardim is because the ecology there was untouched and protected. They saw it as the best place to establish an ideal community that would resemble the Garden of Eden that God had created in the beginning.

So True Father gathered people from all over the world in Jardim and trained them to live in a community as brothers and sisters in harmony with nature. Long ago, there were prophecies that Jardim would be "the place where the Lord will come."

11. The reason we are working to unite the world here in Jardim is because we urgently need to build a substantial foundation to bring the teaching that all the nations of the world are equal into actual reality.

I am doing this in Jardim because we need an environment that transcends nations. Jardim is like the original garden. By garden, I mean the Garden of Eden.

Interestingly, in the past, Catholic priests had prophesied that the Lord would come to Jardim. Hence many people said that the place where I built New Hope Farm was blessed.

At an altitude of 900 meters, it is a good region for agriculture; it is suitable for growing both grains that do well in tropical regions and vegetables from the cooler regions. Rice farming or any kind of farming can easily be done here.
(276-203, 1996/02/19)

12. Only when you love the land and all things of creation can you truly love human beings, who are the lords of the animals and all creation. Only when you love human beings can you truly love God?

If this is so, where would you go to love the land, the creation, and human beings? You need to go to New Hope Farm in Brazil. That place represents heaven and earth. It represents all the animals of the world's 160 nations.

You have no idea how many birds, insects, fish, and trees, whose names I do not even know, exist in that region. I thought, "Ah! When they make love, it must be so beautiful."

In the morning, I wake up to the sounds of birds. There are birds arrayed in the five cardinal colors. In the United States, people say that in autumn the insects sound like an orchestra, but in South America, the orchestra is made up of birds and fish. Every species of fish can sing. Knowing this, we truly need to love this land. (269-171, 1995/04/17)

13. Just as all creatures were placed in Noah's ark, all things of the creation will be included in the region of Brazil and Paraguay that centers on New Hope Farm. There will be a museum, a zoo, a botanical garden, a fish farm near the lake, and hunting grounds in the mountains.

Next, I will make a passage to the ocean. In this way, I am going to make it possible for everything in the world to exist here in this place. In the future, scholars, naturalists, botanists, agriculturalists, and scientists from all over the world will gather here.

I plan to set up the best industrial plants, bringing technology from all over the world.

Therefore, this place will become the ideal nation of God. All ideals since the time of creation will be realized here. It will become the textbook, the Garden of Eden for all humankind. (269-046, 1995/04/06)

14. I am going to make New Hope Farm the only farm of its kind in the world. I am going to make it into a ranch that everyone will visit. Ranch owners around the world will say, "Let's go to New Hope Farm to learn."

I am also thinking of building a museum that will exhibit rocks, plants, and animals. To support these things in the new nation that we are building, we will need to bring families, create villages, and build cities.

This will become God's nation, unprecedented in history, and it will be called the kingdom of heaven on earth. (270-032, 1995/05/03)

15. I love the ocean. I love the water. Water is the source of all life. Water can embrace and digest everything. In Jardim there is the Miranda River and the Plata River; they represent the dual characteristics of yin and yang.

The Plata River is clear, while the Miranda River is muddy. When the dear water of the Plata meets the muddy water of the Miranda, it immediately swirls around like a whirlpool.

Although the color of the water changes due to the mud, the river has the power to clear itself over time.

That is the teaching of God and True Parents. Water has the power to make living things grow to the top. It also has the strength to reach thousands of meters beneath the surface of the earth. Having this ability to relate with anything and everything is a characteristic of God's ownership.

Since the Unification Church has inherited this teaching, its members must be able to carry out their mission to represent God wherever they go, similar to the nature of water. We must become the power that can embrace and digest everything.

We must be able to stand proudly before all created beings, encourage them, and renew them. (276-140, 1996/02/18)

16. In Jardim there are two rivers, the Miranda and the Plata. One is muddy and the other is clear. The golden mud of the Miranda represents the color gold, while the clear water of the Plata the best water in the area represents the color silver. Gold is the color of the land of the earth, while silver or platinum is like the brightness of the realms of light in the spirit world.

So in Jardim, where these two rivers merge, I plan to establish the Water Palace and the Fishing Palace.

Two-thirds of the human body consists of water. All creation uses water. Water makes it possible for all living things to exist. This is the formula. All living things on earth can sustain their life by water.

This is a land that can represent all the required conditions. So if True Parents, together with the people of the world, come to embrace these two rivers, it will symbolize embracing all things of creation in heaven and on earth.
(268-285, 1995/04/03)