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1. After the First World War, expectations were high that a world of peace would emerge, a world free from war, based on the League of Nations. But less than three decades later, war broke out again. Nevertheless, people's innate inclination to pursue peace remained unchanged.
We desire to advance toward a world of peace, even if we have to die for it. That is why the League of Nations was dissolved after the Second World War and the United Nations was founded. In the belief that all people are brothers and sisters, we entered an era when the victorious nations gave the defeated nations their independence, and protected and nurtured them in the name of brotherhood.
Now the military conflicts that arose during the Cold War have come to an end. The Third World War was an ideological war. The Soviet Union and the United States were both reluctant to fight. Now, whether they like it or not, we must proclaim for the sake of peace, “God exists!” and explain what the world should be like.
Unless we do so, there is no way for the world to be brought under God's dominion. Because I understood this, I presented a worldview and a universal teaching based on the absolute values of God, and I systemized a principle by which we can liberate even God Himself. (204-085, 1990.07.01)
The renewal of the United Nations and world peace
2. Now we need to create a model for a nation of peace. We are working to bring world peace through unity at the United Nations. We need to help the United Nations stand in the position to lead all the nations of the world. I included the word “peace” in the names of numerous organizations that I founded, including the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace, the Federation for World Peace, and the Professors World Peace Academy. This is because I have set my sights on the United Nations. I have been preparing for this for decades.
Originally, the United Nations was meant to set the standard that nations should follow. It was meant to lead the way to peace for humankind. (267-264, 1995.01.20)
3. For a world that comprises individual nations to become a world of peace is not something that can be done overnight. It requires a long period. To transform something, we need a model. If there were a model nation such that people would say, “Wow, when we follow that, our nation will develop!” and if the environment were such that the United Nations could promote it and every nation could support it, all nations would be bound to follow it.
That is why the work I am doing now is welcomed by the developing nations. There are only a few advanced nations – the G7 or the G8. Apart from them, many other nations are developing. If the United Nations were to uphold one model as a nation of peace, then all UN member states would naturally turn in that single direction. (267-264, 1995.01.20)
4. The present United Nations cannot achieve world peace. Every nation is fighting for its benefit. This is not correct; it is not conscientious. That is why a religious assembly, centered on the conscience, should be part of the United Nations.
The Women's Federation for World Peace is working behind the scenes. Providentially, women should play a central role in bringing about world peace; otherwise, people will continue to fight.
Women need to form an organization that can stand at the center, embrace Cain and Abel, and create an atmosphere of peace throughout the world.
(258-156, 1994.03.17)
5. Who should lead world peace? God should lead it. God should lead both the religious realm and the political realm. I am advocating a United Nations of the religious realm. Furthermore, I am advocating a Women's UN. These two organizations must be created. This is how present-day humanity will be brought into alignment with God's plan. (248-245, 1993.10.03)
6. Politics alone cannot change the world. We are dealing with the political arena, but it is extremely corrupt. Families in their current state are dysfunctional, and they cannot correct this. That is why we need religions to unite and rally the world on the right path, the shortest way to a world of peace. (288-205, 1997.11.28)
7. The United Nations can be compared to the body. The body needs to be connected to the world of the mind, the religious realm, represented by the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace. Only when the religious realm is connected to the United Nations can the body and the mind become one.
Thereafter, the mother, represented by the Women's Federation for World Peace, and the children, represented by the Youth Federation for World Peace, need to be connected. When these four major organizations are all connected, the United Nations will become an organization that can bring peace and unity and guide the world toward oneness. (267-247, 1995.01.08)
8. Today, the United Nations views itself as a global organization created to realize a new political order through the unity of its member states. Yet, the organization's efforts to achieve this have failed, as complicated issues have beset it from within and prevented it from achieving internal unity.
It is no different from the communist world, which advocates unity centered on the laborers and farmers, yet has become divided internally. (87-032, 1976.04.25)
9. The United Nations does not operate as a single body. Instead, it compromises with the prevailing political climate and has become crippled. In a family, there should be a father and a mother, sons and daughters. But the members of the United Nations have no head; they have no clear structure.
I am the only one who clearly understands how to lead the world to peace. When the king of the families appears and everything that was lost is engrafted to him, one central nation will appear under the sovereignty of that king.
(293-164, 1998.05.26)
The Abel UN
10. The present United Nations is in the Cain position, so we now need an organization in the Abel position. You leaders of Korea must take responsibility for this nation.
From now, I will prepare the way for the Republic of Korea to reach out to the world, by creating an Abel UN. Since I know where Korea should be heading, I am doing work that others cannot even dream about. (23-054, 1969.05.11)
11. We need to make a peace organization that is similar to the United Nations. Yet, the present UN organization, the General Assembly, in particular, has only a head; it has neither hands nor feet. I founded the Professors World Peace Academy, and if I set it in motion, it could function like the General Assembly.
What I mean is that we should create a new Abel-type assembly, saying, “In your General Assembly, the people who meet are just politicians, aren't they?
But in ours, there are experts from every field who meet solely for peace.” Since the present UN General Assembly has only a head, without hands or feet, it is like having a body that is paralyzed. (62-299, 1972.09.26)
12. Now the age of peace has come. For the United States to lead the world toward peace, it must stand as a model nation. I am proposing a means by which North and South Korea can be united, and the Middle East can be united, through the United Nations.
Since the existing United Nations is in the position of Cain, we need an organization in the position of Abel. These organizations, in the position of Cain and Abel, should unite with the Will of God.
This is the foundation for world peace. The United States must serve as a model of peace, then it can guide all other nations to follow its example. Otherwise, it cannot lead the way to peace. (246-035, 1993.03.23)
13. On the matter of China, there is a reason we fasted and prayed for three days at the United Nations during its discussions over the admission of Taiwan. China's role was crucial. From the viewpoint of Satan's side, North Korea under Kim II Sung is the Adam nation, China is the Eve nation, and the Soviet Union is the archangel nation.
They need to unite but in the reverse order. With the support of the Soviet Union and China, even Taiwan should be brought into this unity. I have already linked all nations together through organizations such as the Federation of Island Nations, the Federation of Peninsular Nations, and the Federation of Continental Nations, and through them, I plan to establish a new UN in the Abel position.
The present United Nations has lost its sense of direction; in its current state, it does not serve its fundamental purpose. We are approaching the time for action. Based on the new Abel UN, we will enter the age of the unified kingdom. By setting conditions of prayer and fasting, I have been making all the necessary preparations. (291-242, 1998.03.15)
The UN of Religions
14. People of faith all over the world need to band together and create a global body that cannot be defeated by any people or sovereign power. This is how they can awaken the sleeping United Nations.
At present, the United Nations cannot stand up to communist opposition. That is why we must quickly create a UN of Religions. Thereafter, the mission of religious people will be to win over the left-wing and the right-wing world and connect them to God. (12-221, 1963.05.15)
15. In front of God, all families are fallen. Only when they go beyond the fallen world can they emerge as ideal families of God. But even after ideal families have appeared, we need a new age and a new structure for an ideal world. The center of that world will be the ideal United Nations, based on ideal families.
That can provide a model for the world. The model world begins with the family. We need to establish a UN that goes beyond the Abel position and unites Cain and Abel as one. Then everyone will be part of the family that goes beyond the nation and the world. (513-229, 2006.01.01)
16. Suppose a United Nations for the religions of the world had been established alongside the existing global United Nations, based on the idea that both nations, which are external, and religions, which are internal, should become one.
Then we would now be living in an age when no one would oppose the teachings of the Unification Church. Suppose the UN of Religions and the global United Nations had come together and asked, “How can we become sibling organizations, as filial children who truly serve the Will of God and who also love our nations?”
What if they had pursued and researched this matter? Then they would not have opposed the Unification Church. Instead, they would have advocated that everyone follow its teachings. (122-245, 1982.11.16)
17. The United Nations was created from a political perspective. The UN of Religions, however, has not yet been created; therefore it should be. The United Nations can become one by cooperating with the UN of Religions.
Without such a religious base, the United Nations has become a hotbed of communism. Things turned out as they did because the United Nations was unable to fulfill its mission.
That is why I met with Dwight Eisenhower, former President of the United States. I told him, “You need to make an organization that can subjugate the communists, who are trying to dominate the world.” I asked him to be prepared to stop the communists. (131-190, 1984.05.01)
18. My plan is now to create a UN of Religions. People of faith around the world need to be part of this. We then need to encourage women to create the Women's UN. Why is this necessary? Politics represents the body, which is Satan's base.
Satan's mentality is such that politics is fraught with deceit. People in politics seek benefits for their nations even at the expense of others. Only the world of the mind and the spirit can subjugate this political world of Satan. Among the people living on this earth, some are believers and others are nonbelievers.
Thus, we can divide people into two groups, one group that denies God and the other that affirms God. Those who deny God espouse humanism, secularism, and self-centered individualism.
They have nothing to do with God and everything to do with Satan. Since they have created the United Nations of the earthly world, the people who affirm God need to create a UN of the heart, of the world of religion. (251-090, 1993.10.17)
19. We are now planning to establish an Inter-religious UN. Since we have a United Nations, we need to form a similar organization of religions. We aim to create a new culture that embraces cooperation between interreligious, international, and other non-governmental organizations.
The new UN of Religions should be integrated with the United Nations, and also with organizations that connect people in the fields of politics and economics. Thereafter, it must integrate men's and women's groups. It should include men, women, and youth.
We also need an international body for education. We require all of them to create one nation. I also plan to set up an international defense organization, something like NATO. (379-098, 2002.05.27)
20. We need to establish a world council of religions. When we bring people of faith together to create one nation, we can eradicate the conflicts in Satan's world. I plan to have this council of religions incorporated into the United Nations.
These are not mere words; I am working on it right now. What comes after that is to create the Women's UN. That is why I am promoting the Women's Federation for World Peace. I intend to make a UN body centered on the Women's Federation. Women leaders and the wives of world leaders are bound to join the Women's Federation and participate in the Women's UN. (248-213, 1993.10.01)
21. You need to understand that religion and politics have been enemies. Their enmity has manifested even at the United Nations. The United Nations is a global entity based on a political system, representing the body.
However, now people all over the world recognize that it is incomplete. Now that I have come, religion should be included in the United Nations. The United Nations needs to connect to the world of the mind, the realm of the heart.
The body and mind were divided, and since there is a UN of the body there should also be a UN of the mind. Next, there should be a Women's UN. Rather than a UN dominated by men of the archangel's lineage, there should be a UN for women. Since Eve was lost, Eve must be recovered. (280-146, 1996.11.24)
Sun Myung Moon