True Mother's Suffering and Victory

True Mother's three years of suffering

The Unification Church launched its activities in earnest in 1960, based on attending Mother. Despite persistent opposition from the nation and Christianity, you laid the foundation to push through that opposition so you could welcome Mother and attend to her.

However, this did not mean Mother could just live with me immediately. Just as you had to go through three years of separation after your marriage, Blessing, we too had to do dispensational work to secure our family.

The path of the Principle is the same for everyone. The first seven-year course was to address the problems in Adam's family and make a family-level foundation centering on the Mother. Since Adam and Eve fell at the completion level of the growth stage, we had to pass through that level to enter the completion stage. (106-267, 1980.01.01)

After we were married, Mother's mother, father, and uncle were not allowed to enter our home through the front door. Did Adam and Eve have a mother, father, or relatives?

Our relationships of the heart had to be united vertically and horizontally. It would not have done to unite them vertically and let them flow away horizontally. I called Hong Soon-ae and told her she should never enter by the front door.

I said to her, "For three years, you can only enter by the back door!" When I was about to enter the room, she had to leave the house. Who can stay at the home of Adam and Eve? Can the mother stay? It is only God who should stay there. This is something that the secular world cannot understand.

True Mother also could not have any idea about her relatives. Being a mother is that difficult. I asked her to cut herself off from everyone because there were responsibilities for her to fulfill. There was a course she had to complete for God for seven years, which took precedence over her family.

She had to walk that seven-year course from the completion level of the growth stage to the completion level of the completion stage. Without going through this seven-year course, God's Day, Children's Day, and Day of All Things could not have been established. (170-123, 1987.11.08)

What did Mother have to do during the seven-year course?

She did not need to complain about having to walk the path of the cross, to live based on that standard of the heart. There are pearl gates that 12 women from the east, west, north, and south can pass through, centering on Mother, and what are these pearl gates?

They are the gates of love. Only the people who truly love Heaven can pass through those gates. Those who love only on the human level cannot pass through them. Those people will go to hell.

That is why Mother herself must bear on her shoulders everything that has been done wrong by innumerable women in all historical ages, and she must not complain about having to bear that cross. Instead, she should be grateful. (212-081, 1991.01.02)

The great thing about Hong Soon-ae is that she received revelations about everything and reported them all to Mother.

She already knew about what would happen the next day, and she told Mother everything, even the names of people who would come, because she knew the lonely position Mother was in. When you see something like that, you can know that the spirit world is indeed alive. (163-253, 1987.05.01)

If something happened, Hong Soon-ae came to Mother in secret and told her about it. Dae Mo Nim did that for three years. When she said something would happen the next day, it happened without fail. Therefore, she told Mother to be obedient to me. She taught Mother about such ways of obedience.

Eve acted of her own accord, reversed the positions of the subject and object partners, and consequently destroyed the ways of heaven and earth. Yet, Dae Mo Nim, True Mother's mother, did the things she did to make up for all of that. The spirit world taught her everything.

Thus, Mother was able to pass that stage. She crossed over the wall, the wall of the family. She went beyond the environment where she would have had doubts about her husband. (195-150, 1989.11.07)

For three years, from 1960 to 1963, all the blessed families in Korea went through the course of restoration on the national level. Since the national-level foundation was lost in Jesus' time, all members in the church left their homes and participated in mission activities to restore the nation.

During that time, as they worked on the front line, Father and Mother joined them in heart by eating the same meager food. When we ate, we did not place our food on the table but on the floor, just as many members did.

When we did so, we had even the child inside True Mother's womb set the condition of participating with other church members to make the condition to restore the nation. (054-225, 1972.03.24)

Until 1963, True Parents worked with you, sharing your situation and eating humble meals of barley rice. We had to set that indemnity condition for three years on the family level. At the same time, you had to go out and struggle to give birth to your spiritual children.

Just as you ate barley rice, True Parents also had to eat it. Now we will have to offer our sons and daughters internally when we go to America for a course of sacrifice on the world level. This is what we have to do.

All of you ate seaweed soup with rice after Ye Jin was born; it was as if you were receiving blood from Mother while inside her womb. As Mother ate soup with rice in it, you ate the same food, which was like receiving her blood. It was the same when Hyo Jin was born.

On this foundation, I established Children's Day and then Day of All Things. It was because we attained such a standard that I had the foundation to establish these Holy Days of blessing. Thereupon, when the first seven-year course came to an end and True Parents' family was liberated, I instituted God's Day. (047-340, 1971.08.30)

Victory in the three-year course

How is the standard of the perfected mother to be established? The perfected mother cannot come to be unless she passes through the connection by which she has been born through the mother at the growth stage.

That is how things are, based on the Principle. In the end, the mother in the completion stage of the growth period must restore all that has been lost until now in the fallen world.

In other words, as the fallen mother, she must indemnify all lost historical conditions and stand on a level where Satan cannot accuse her. Otherwise, the age of the mission of the perfected mother cannot be ushered in. (159-072, 1968.03.03)

Mother has suffered greatly until now. She had to lead women who were like wolves. They did all kinds of things, including praying for Mother's death. She had to go through such a path of suffering to establish a home where I could live in comfort.

To try to stop those arrows of hatred, I did not even allow her to sleep in the same room for three years. It was at such a time that she gave birth to Ye Jin, and because she slept in such poor quarters, she suffered from postpartum illness. She lived in a place where she trembled in the cold and where even her husband did not visit.

How could I go to see her every day?

If I did, all kinds of rumors would have flown about, saying that I was engrossed in my wife. Therefore, I had to leave her in loneliness. As time went by, those women came to know about it too. After a year, they stopped whatever they had been doing and started saying that I should not leave Mother where she was. All of them also went to see her. (231-352, 1992.07.01)

True Mother lived separately from me for three years. Dae Mo Nim was so great that she received a revelation of my daily schedule from the spiritual world and talked about it with True Mother every day.

True Mother's greatness was in obeying my direction. During the three years of separation, every grandmother, old woman, and middle-aged woman in the church opposed Mother out of jealousy.

However, owing to the support of the younger women, after three and a half years, True Mother was liberated and could live with me. (280-214, 1997.01.01)

If Father had brought Mother into his family right away, the opposition and jealousy for the other women in the church would have been so fierce that they might have become insane or even tried to kill her. Father had to deal with such an intense spiritual whirlpool.

So, for the three years after Father married Mother, he intentionally ignored Mother, almost casting her aside. He just left her alone. Sometimes Father would visit her. Mother didn't know what was going on, and Father never explained it to her. Father would rarely take Mother with him, only occasionally. Most of the time, Father would take along women of different ages and different kinds of character.

But Father did this deliberately, taking those people and going to some public place. Mother was left wondering why Father did that. After two years, those older members told Father, "Mother is too pitiful; you should not treat your bride like that. Let us not hurt her anymore; let us bring her in."

They started speaking to him like this. If Father had initiated such an idea, they would have gone in a different direction. Father knew this. Mother was the youngest, only in her teens. There were women in their 20s, 30s, even 60s and 70s, and they all felt they should be Father's spouse.

But finally, they realized that they had to serve Mother, even though she was young. This took at least three years. Nobody knows the incredible suffering Mother had to go through.

Then for the first time, they said, "Mother, you have suffered enough for our sake. We will serve you as our Mother. You are our Mother." (235-253, 1992.09.20)