True Mother and the Suffering Course at Danbury

Prayer before departing for Danbury

Beloved Father! At this hour, 6:44 in the evening on July 20, 1984, I am about to leave East Garden, and, on behalf of all the children and everyone, I am here to dedicate this prayer before my departure, so, Father, please receive it.

Even though the path may be rough, I know that you are alive. I am following the path along which you guide me. Advancing on this path, I must pass beyond the final hurdle, overcoming it. I pray that you can please approve this path that I must follow while enduring and suppressing sadness.

At this time, I come to you with my 12 sons and daughters, my young children, together with Mother, who must stand in the center and take all responsibility, and I place them all in Your care, Father.

I pray that centering on True Mother, Hyo Jin, and Ye Jin can become one and stand in a position of going to the suffering path and carrying the cross in place of Father. Until I can cast off everything and come back, I place them in the position to take on all the suffering and other important responsibilities, so I pray that You can be with them, Father.

Even if I am not here with them, the blessed families must become completely one, centering on our family, and the children of blessed families must also become completely one. Furthermore, I know that you will protect this family that Heung Jin left behind with sadness.

I know that Jesus and all the spirit world will fully cooperate and march on with all their energy to resolve this pain. As I prepare to leave, my heart is not heavy or burdened with pain. I know that even when I go to that place, I must attend to you,

Father, and take on the task that is entrusted to me so that I can fulfill my responsibility without shame. So, Father, please put Your worries about me to rest, and please protect my family, the church, the outside Christian churches, America, and the free world.

I pray that the path of the truth can be opened in the communist world as well. Where I am going is a place that you have left for me. Therefore, I pray for Your blessing as I go to look over that place and prepare to manage things while I am there.

I pray that our head of the staff and all our staff here can unite and that a new spiritual atmosphere can come about. I pray for God's grace to come down upon that place where the cool, calm morning breeze blows. Furthermore, I pray for your blessing so that the glory of Father's pride, which is like dew in the morning sunlight, can sprout there. Furthermore, I hope that everyone here can continue to pray until the time when I can meet them in this very place again.

Please receive their prayers as if I were praying together with them, and may the weekly Pledge time be a blessing. I have one more hope: that the Parents and sons and daughters can become one, the blessed families can become one, the Unification Church can become one, the already established churches can become one, and that the free world can become one and find the position of the Parents that can realize Your original ideal.

I am taking lively steps while cherishing in my heart the day when this can be offered to you as glory, so please, Father, remember this. Furthermore, I believe that your boundless grace and love will be with us, and I offer all this in the name of the True Parents. (133-253, 1984.07.20)

True Mother shared the suffering at Danbury

At this time, I am most grateful to Mother. I am sure that while I was in prison at Danbury, True Mother's heart suffered through the deepest valleys numerous times. Because her life has been like that, her standard is gradually rising. Through the events of Danbury, she has come to understand my value even more. (136-046, 1985.12.20)

You probably don't know what a happy time it was for True Mother when I was in Danbury. She would come to visit me without fail while longing for the times when we could walk around holding hands.

During that time, she did not even think about why True Father was in the detention center. That husband is just her husband. That is true love. For a wife to visit her husband while he is in prison requires boldness and strength.

How much stronger must she now be, since I entered prison as an innocent man! It is not something to be ashamed of. It is a fact of history that she can be proud of (235-279, 1992.10.11).

I must go on, even if the path I have to tread is one of suffering. That is why I had to bring my family to America, and now my children do not even know Korean. I brought my children to America when they were still young.

They followed me here because I am their father. Their father was taken by the American government and is in prison in Danbury. When the world sees this, do you think they will be able to save face? True Mother suffered a lot because of me. Could she be assured of my safety in prison?

Hostile communists worldwide had their eyes on me. In prison, I was completely vulnerable, as if I were lying naked in a field. Mother visited me every day in Danbury, shedding many tears. And when she was back at East Garden, don't you think she cried there too?

Every Sunday at 5:00 a.m., she shed tears as she bowed before God and prayed for my safety. Our children shed tears alongside her. Why did they have to endure this situation, crying like that?

I have money, authority, and knowledge. I can also lead people. But why did I come to America? Why did I throw myself into this fight? It is only because of God's Will. (146-183, 1986.06.15)

What is it that I must accomplish at Danbury?

Because the first parents blocked the path, at three o'clock in the morning on February 1, 1985, Mother and I, at East Garden and Danbury, respectively, proclaimed the Day of Opening the Gate to Heaven, paving a highway that takes you straight from hell to the rest of the spirit world.

Through this, people in hell can take that path and move up. The path is now open, so your ancestors can go down to hell and pay indemnity. They can be educated and then move up, one stage at a time. (137-114, 1985.12.24)

Because of the Unification Church, the gates to the Kingdom of Heaven have been opened. Yet, since I have not yet gone there, no one has entered. I searched and searched throughout the earthly world and the spirit world, even to the lowest level, and I have created the only path that can lead people straight to the throne of God in the Kingdom of Heaven.

To set up that path, I had to move from the individual level through the levels of the family, tribe, people, nation, world, and the spirit world. When you travel on that path, you must signal with the banner of love. Without that signal, you cannot travel on that road. You are not allowed to.

Do you have confidence that you can go to the Kingdom of Heaven? You can go there by driving the car of love. When you do, an angel will signal to the car of love and guide you to the Kingdom of Heaven.

The highway is now built, which will take you there. I, in Danbury Prison, together with Mother in East Garden, opened the gate that connects heaven to earth for the first time. It is a road that begins in hell.

Therefore, for people who entered the spirit world thousands of years ago to go to Heaven, they have to pass through all the levels of hell. This means they must come to Earth and work with their descendants who are fighting to win over hell.

For you to go to Heaven, you must win over hell. Those who win over hell can go to the Kingdom of Heaven. I did not mind going to prison. When I went to Pyongyang, I already knew who I would meet, as if the meetings had been prearranged.

Jesus had 12 disciples, but when he went to prison, they all betrayed him. In my case, when I was imprisoned, I found 12 disciples and even more. For restoration through indemnity, I had to restore all that was lost.

In the future, where should you build a memorial tower to commemorate me?

You should memorialize the places where I experienced prison life. One of those memorials should be at Danbury, where, based on Mother's unity with me during my incarceration, I proclaimed the realm of ideal oneness between Father and Mother. (566-183, 2007.06.19)