The Third World Tour

Foundation for the Global Mission

From December 5, 197,1 to May 8, 1972, True Parents conducted their third world tour, visiting 15 nations. They held public speaking engagements in three major countries: the United States, Great Britain, and Germany.

True Father spoke publicly in the United States and significantly expanded True Parents' activities there.

True Parents traveled to London on March 16, 1972, where True Father addressed the public from March 20 to 22. The next day, March 23, they traveled to Essen, Germany, where Father delivered addresses from March 28 to 30. True Parents proceeded to the Netherlands on March 31 and continued their speaking tour through France, Austria, Italy, Greece, Israel, Iran, India,

Thailand, the Republic of China, and Japan finally returned home. Through this third world tour, they were able to spend some time in America directly educating members. They also improved the system for missionary activities in the US, preparing for a new era of mission work.

1. The third seven-year course begins in 1975, and we must start laying a foundation three years beforehand. If we cannot prepare this foundation, the worldwide seven-year course will be neither effective nor victorious. Therefore, I have set three years of preparation starting this year, 1972.

During this time, we must overcome all obstacles. I am responsible for connecting Korea to the rest of the world through the third seven-year course.

I will establish a foundation with important nations in the world, such as America so that they can engage in reciprocal relationships with Korea. Furthermore, I will not return to Korea until I have done so. The purpose of the third world tour is to establish that foundation. (055-269, 1972/05/09)

2. We conducted a marriage Blessing Ceremony in Korea in 1970 for 777 Couples from 10 different nations. This Blessing was bestowed to prepare for the third world tour. In addition, it had the purpose of connecting other nations to the foundation in Korea, thereby expanding that foundation horizontally. This is why those who participated in the Blessing Ceremony had to come to Korea.
(052-080, 1971/12/22)

3. I am planning to institute a global strategy through the third world tour. I have been trying to save Christianity in Korea, but from now on, I must work to save America and Christianity on the world level.

Therefore, I am preparing to work from a new angle and direction internationally. To achieve this, I need considerable resources. I have to prepare lecturers and young missionaries for this purpose.

The time will soon come when I will create a worldwide revival team representing Korea. We will have an organization that can dispatch revival teams all over the world.

Shortly, I will create another organization to form revival teams representing other nations to travel the world. The revival teams of several nations can work together as a single group, or they can conduct revival activities in several countries at the same time. (051-205, 1971/11/21)

4. We must prepare to set up a global foundation. Both at home and abroad, the time has passed for the Unification Church to be driven into a corner. We must shake up the world. Just as communism has realigned to advance into different parts of the world, so too must we realign heaven's side to expand globally.

To this end, I purchased the Yeouido property. I intend to build the world headquarters there. I bought the Cheongpyeong land to create a global training center.

And I bought land to establish an international university. We are in a time when we cannot advance into the world without being equipped externally, so I have been working to prepare our movement.

I feel that my mission during this world tour is to establish missionary outposts in at least 40 nations before I return to Korea. Then, within the next several years, we must set up missionary departments in more than 120 nations.
(050-236, 1971/11/07)

5. The Korean War started when North Korea attacked South Korea. At that time, the democratic world helped South Korea stave off North Korea's assault. Sixteen nations came to South Korea's aid, and this number comes from multiplying 4 by 4.

So why did these representative nations of the democratic world come and fight in Korea? From the providential perspective, Korea stands as their homeland, and they fought because the democratic world would not have been able to survive had they not shed blood for their homeland's independence. By doing so, the democratic world helped both me and their nations.

The democratic world helped me by liberating me from prison, and they helped themselves by protecting their nations from providential failure. Because of this, a path was opened that allowed the democratic world to receive God's blessings once again.

Now, however, America is declining, as is England. At this point, I am working to repay a debt to the democratic world. I have to lead America and England out of decline.

Only if the Unification Church completely establishes internal and external foundations for victory according to the proper spiritual standard, centering on the Holy Spirit, will it be able to lead the spiritual Christian realm in the democratic world. The purpose of the third world tour is for the Unification Church to connect to the world in this way. (054-198, 1972/03/24)

6. The middle year of the second seven-year course is 1971. The third world tour that I have launched this year has great significance.

I departed from Korea, traveled to Japan, and entered America via Canada because Canada, an extension of England, the Eve nation, is in the position of Eve to America. I overcame many obstacles to arrive in America, but difficulties will gradually diminish as time goes by.

True Parents is working to extend the victorious foundation that we harvested in Korea to Japan, Canada, and America. Satan worked hard to prevent True Parents from connecting America to our victorious foundation in Korea. This is why I faced so many difficulties in coming here, including resistance from

the US State Department. But since I broke through these difficult conditions, you were able to inherit the victorious foundation of restoration that heaven has built in Korea.

After my work in America, I will go to Germany, but I must first pass through England. If I can do all of this successfully, the difficult conditions will recede. The providence of restoration cannot be accomplished without adhering to the proper formula. We have to follow the formula precisely. (052-070, 1971/12/22)

7. My initial frontline strategy was to connect the world, focusing on three Asian nations: Korea, Japan, and the Republic of China. Now, however, we are entering a global age.

Because we could not defend Asia against communism, the entire world is being affected. America, as the second front line, must defend itself against the communist advance. If America cannot do so, it will be Germany's turn as the third front line to confront communism.

The year 1977 marks the 60th year since the Communist Party began in 1917. That's why I went to America and said, “In 1978, America will no longer be able to defend itself against the threat of the communist world.” Before this comes to pass, I am suggesting that Unificationists undertake three years to completely prepare and expand our defensive front line.

My third world tour is the cornerstone of this three-year preparation.

To follow up on my initial Japan Korea Republic of China strategy in Asia, we need to prepare a second line of defense. It should be an international phalanx in the form of Adam, Eve, and the archangel, based on three nations of the free world in the West. These countries are America, England, and Germany.

This is why I have been implanting Korea's foundation in so many countries around the world. I am connecting them to Korea. Now, the time has come when True Parents do not have to live only in Korea.

Once the third world tour is over, and I have returned to Korea and completed my responsibility here, the age of my living and working primarily in Korea will pass. (055-212, 1972/05/09)

8. Christianity is a religion of spiritual salvation, so its truth has been elusive. The history of restoration until now has been a history of restoring the archangel, the realm of spirit.

This is the reality of the history of the spirit world until now. Jesus died and is now in the spirit world. He accomplished the mission that enabled him to receive the love of God. A son should be able to go to his Father's house, but Jesus cannot enter there.

He remains in paradise. Therefore, the providence of spiritual salvation through Christianity took on the responsibility and mission of restoring the archangel.

So if the Unification Church, in terms of the spirit and the flesh, can create an ideal greater than that which Jesus created, as he was hounded to his death, the archangelic world will surely fall into submission.

The reason Jesus could not enter his Father's house is that there was no victory on the national level and thus no decisive victory over the archangel. For this reason, if we can break through the national level, the archangelic world will become obedient. If this happens, we will realize the original realm of the spiritual Adam. The purpose of the third world tour was to make this breakthrough.
(060-191, 1972/08/17)

9. The Unification Church has yet to establish a victorious foundation on the national level in terms of both the flesh and the spirit. However, if you look at the national and world levels from a spiritual and philosophical standpoint, we are standing at the apex of the world.

No one can match our ideas. The Unification Church will soon be officially recognized as a genuine religion. Externally, we may not have everything prepared, but in terms of content, we are more than prepared.

We have restored an Abel-type standard beyond the national level, and with that in place, we can begin to work on the Cain-type restoration. During my third world tour, I visited key nations of the Christian cultural sphere, which stands in the position of the spiritual Cain-type world, and proclaimed, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” I made this proclamation to America because it is the nation that represents the Cain-type world.

After proclaiming the position of Abel centering on spirit and flesh, Jesus was crucified. Therefore, we will start to enter the new era of physical restoration on the day I proclaim this nation from a spiritual position without risking my life or facing opposition, the day when I can stand in this position and be welcomed. This is how the Principle works.

I commenced the third world tour to expand such a foundation. Since I have accomplished this, Korea will be able to establish the internal foundation for physical restoration. (060-191, 1972/08/17)

10. This time in America will be the first time in my life to hold large-scale crusades. I plan to hold them in at least seven cities. If I spend three days in each city, the speaking tour will take 21 days. This is the very beginning of our journey in proclaiming the Word publicly.

You must all feel responsible for these plans. There will be opposition and persecution. But there will also be those who welcome us. Therefore, I am asking you to promote these rallies through the radio and newspapers. If you can prepare a detailed plan and schedule for each city, I will speak there. I am also going to hold rallies in Germany and England.

This is a historic effort. Since this is the third world tour, I must speak directly. I have long awaited this day. (052-078, 1971/12/22)

11. From a spiritual perspective, True Parents' leaving Korea indicates we have already gone beyond Korea. A spiritual milestone has been achieved whereby Korea must now follow the direction of the Unification Church.

This is because we have risen to the level where the present government and Christianity must support our path and movement.

From a spiritual perspective, we accomplished the indemnity condition to surpass the national level, going beyond the achievement of Christianity. During the three-year course of 1972, 1973, and 1974, I had to leave Korea and connect to the whole world based on my work in America, which is the world's central democratic country.

When you look at the Christian democratic world, the Adam nation is America, the Eve nation is England, and the archangelic nation is Germany. The 1972 speaking tour in these three nations was an effort to connect them from a spiritual perspective.

Jesus had to connect to Rome through Judaism. Corresponding to that, this was an aggressive tactic to proclaim the new gospel and connect it to the nations. (073-249, 1974/09/22)

12. In addition to seven cities in America, I spoke in England and Germany. Why did I choose cities in these three nations? It is because these countries are world leaders with influence on other nations.

However, no matter what, this is still a spiritual movement. Therefore, to connect the spiritual foundation with the physical realm, a connection must be made to Korea through these speaking tours.

As we entered 1972 on such a foundation, I started anew, mustering members from the leading nations of England, Germany, and Japan. Based on the spiritual foundation I made during the first world tour between 1972 and 1974, I gathered Unification Church members from around the world.

I brought them into harmony through this foundation. This is work that is done spiritually, not physically. I am not the only one who must make a spiritual foundation; the members, too, must do so as they become one.
(073-249, 1974/09/22)

Expanding the global mission

True Parents left Korea on November 21, 1972, and, after passing through Japan, arrived in America on November 23. While the trip was designated as their fourth world tour, in actuality, they remained in America to focus their efforts on expanding global missionary activities and to relaunch the One World Crusade, an international witnessing task force.

They returned to Korea eight months later, on July 22, 1973. During the fourth world tour, True Parents reviewed, expanded, and reorganized the One World Crusade task force so that it could transcend national boundaries and work on the global stage.

From November 23 to 26, 1972, in New York City, the first International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences was convened. It opened with a keynote, “The Role of Unified Science in the Moral Orientation of the World.”

13. I have now done all that I can through my focus on the nation and the Unification tribe. The time has come for you, for my sake and for that of the Will, to expand the scope of your responsibilities for the world and act globally.

In other words, you have simply followed me until now, but from this point on, you can no longer just do that. To be clear, only when you have shouldered my burden will I truly be able to assume my position. When I look at myself as an individual, I still have not been able to find my proper place.

This also holds from wider perspectives. Only when my family successfully assumes its proper position can I bless families to assume theirs. All blessed families, indeed, must assume their proper positions. If such a foundation spreads widely and one nation of righteousness is established, world restoration will be accomplished within a short time. (052-230, 1972/01/01)

14. The problem is whether you will be willing to take over my mission. If I fight for this nation and face persecution for its sake, then you should be resolved to endure an even higher level of persecution for the world's sake. Only then will the nation be protected.

In other words, if I am being attacked personally on a certain issue, the question is whether you would be willing to take responsibility for that issue and defend me before the world. I am completing my third world tour, and you, too, must embark on a new path to tour the world at least three times.

You should do this both individually and as a family. We need families who, when confronting any sort of ordeal, will take complete responsibility on their own and resolve to protect everything from Satan. (052-230, 1972/01/01)

15. If we look at the nations of the world, we can see that the Communist Party may easily sway America, along with Japan, Korea, and Germany. They are all being pursued by Satan's realm.

All the free nations have forgotten the purpose of this struggle and have no idea what direction to follow. Such a time is the Last Days. On the other hand, the Unification Church has already expanded the foundation of restoration through the individual, family, tribal, and national levels.

It has created a horizontal foundation for the world. Through the third world tour, I connected the results of my 20-year struggle in Korea horizontally to the world. (055-072, 1972/04/23)

16. We must advance toward the global age in the physical realm. If I tell you to face a life-or-death situation, you need to do so without reservation. We must create not only a mobile Korean front line but also a mobile international front line.

Because we must defend the front line both inside our movement and out, relating to both the communist and democratic spheres, the motto for 1972 is “Safeguarding the front line of unity.”

I am working toward this goal in America as well, and you cannot imagine how much Satan is wrestling with me. I can go to the American members and speak to them one, two, even three times, and they still do not believe what I say.

This is why, during the Third World, I took the lead myself while building a protective foundation. This time, I am going to give deeper education to the task forces. This is the goal of the 4th world tour. I will create a strong foundation and then gradually step onto the global stage. (065-223, 1972/11/19)

17. Although I had very little time during the third world tour, I met with ten US senators and 15 congressmen. I have now become a prominent person.

There was an article about me on the front page of The New York Times and another in The Washington Post. This was because Mr. Moon held revival meetings in seven of America's largest cities.

He rented out Lincoln Center and did things no one else imagined doing. When I asked to meet with US legislators, they were curious to meet me.

When we met, we discussed America's prospects. In addition, the fact that I warned them not to get entangled with the Communist Party likely challenged many of them.

I met with ten percent of the 100 senators and spoke with them in this way about the current international situation, and everything I said will surely spread around. So, when I go to America during the 4th world tour, they will all be curious about the influence I will have.

I never sought a single member of the Korean National Assembly, so why did I do so in America? It is because the United States is at the core of our future strategy. Korea is not the problem. (062-292, 1972/09/26)

18. In the not-so-distant future, I will embark on my 4th world tour. I will go to New York City, where we will hold the International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences on November 23, 1972.

I am the one who put this conference together. We must eventually bring the world's most distinguished people to Korea. In this way, Korea will be saved. In the future, Unificationists will pave the way for the world. A global environment for unification is imminent.

I will leave now and return in several months. I am not leaving Korea forever. Furthermore, I just quickly need to seek more American church members and bring Korean members to each of their homes. This is so we all can live together in harmony one day. That is why I need to create this foundation. (065-077, 1972/11/13)