1. Ladies and gentlemen, looking back, my life has indeed been like a dream. At the youthful age of sixteen, with nothing but the buoyant spirit and aspirations of youth, I was called by Heaven and began to live for the will of God.
This left no room in my heart for any worldly ambitions I may have cherished. It has never been an easy path, but I have followed it for more than eighty years, looking nowhere but straight ahead.
This was the life I was destined to lead, with no choice but to shake off the embrace of my beloved parents, brothers, and sisters, who clung to me, wanting me to stay with them. They endured great self-sacrifice and walked a thorny path of sorrow and suffering for my sake.
2. Mine has been a journey through a wilderness that no one among the 6.5 billion people living on Earth can ever comprehend. Even as I persevered through the hardships of prison life six times, I never let go of the key to providence. Such has been my life.
This was all because I came to know only too well how anguished, aggrieved, and full of bitter sorrow was the heart of God as He waited for thousands of years to find us.
I realized that if God, who is the origin of billions of people and the Creator of everything in the universe, is not relieved from His sorrow, human life will remain completely without value.
True Parents' life
3. My life for the past eighty-eight years, dedicated to the completion of the mission of True Parents, has been one of sorrow, marked by inexpressible suffering and persecution.
As the third Adam, the True Parent, I need to restore through indemnity and complete everything that the first and second Adams came to do. I am responsible for completing not only the mission of the Savior, the Messiah, and the Lord at his Second Coming, but also the missions of the major figures from whom religions have sprung.
4. Bearing similarities to God's creation of the universe, where not even the smallest error is permitted, my life has constituted the great work of re-creating humanity.
It has been a lonely course that I cannot discuss fully with anyone. Life took me down thorny paths through the wilderness that I had to follow while utterly alone. Not even God could acknowledge me. Frequently hovering in a state between life and death, even vomiting blood, I had to rise again like a phoenix to remain true to my promise to God.
5. Though innocent, I had to endure imprisonment six times: for working in the underground independence movement in my early days while studying in Japan; for propagating the will of God in Pyongyang, which was under communist control immediately after Korea's independence from colonial rule; during the Syngman Rhee administration after Korea had been reborn as a free nation; and even in the United States, which proudly presents itself to the world as a model of democracy.
No one on earth can understand my eventful life, which I lived for the sake of perfecting the model of absoluteness in conjugal love. It has been a life of misery.
By biting my tongue, I have endured for the sake of our God, who deserves pity, and for the sake of the salvation of the world's fallen people, who are suffering in the realm of death. Even now, if someone were to look into my heart and speak but one word of sympathy, I would burst into tears; they would flow like a waterfall.
6. Once someone becomes an old man of eighty-eight, he normally looks back on his life and quietly prepares to enter the next world. Yet, my life begins from now. It is not because I am encumbered by attachments to this life.
No, it is because God called me to be the True Parent and save people who are suffering in and unable to escape from the fallen realm, and I have yet to fulfill that mission.
7. We have now arrived in the Revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven, the time of harvest. This year, I will continue to guide you in carrying out this universal revolution for the restoration of humanity.
Please do not hesitate! Let us hold hands and together uphold the heavenly decree in fulfilling our calling and responsibility! How can we avert our eyes from the situation in which tens of thousands of our brothers and sisters are dying helplessly while waiting for salvation?
The True Family's victory through three generations
8. After inaugurating the Universal Peace Federation in New York on September 12, 2005, my Wife, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, and I went on to convey our inaugural message through a global tour of 120 nations.
On this foundation of True Parents' victory, my wife took the baton and completed a second world tour this spring, during which she held rallies to proclaim a message of peace in 180 nations.
It was a tremendous victory in which two generations of the True Family – True Parents and True Children – worked together proclaiming this message of peace.
This victory, in which the children of the Cain-type realm and Abel-type realm came together on a universal level and offered themselves as the foundation for True Parents, returned the providential realm of ownership to God.
9. Based on this victory, on June 13 of this year, heaven and earth were unified. God and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind were firmly established in their rightful positions through the Cheon Jeong Gung Entrance Ceremony and Coronation of the King and Queen of Peace in Heaven and on Earth.
These events constituted a glorious victory, unprecedented in history. On this day, God, who had walked the course over countless years in the providence, alone, in bitter sorrow, in tears, behind the scenes of history, was liberated, set completely free, and firmly settled into His position as the King and Master of heaven and earth.
10. The victory of God and True Parents, who have entered the Cheon Jeong Peace Palace, is linked to an outpouring of tremendous grace through which the 6.5 billion people of the world can return to dwell within Heaven's household. On August 31, 2006, the True Parents, True Children, and also the True Grandchildren assembled for a third world tour to convey God's Word and the Blessing.
I launched this tour here in Korea. The three generations of the True Family bestowed the Blessing in forty nations. They have returned on this happy day, victorious after their long journey. This world tour was outstanding, in particular because of the active participation of three generations of the True Parents' family.
11. Upon founding the Universal Peace Federation, to build one family under God through Proclaiming God's Word and administering the marriage Blessing, I completed a world speaking tour with my wife, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, our children, and our grandchildren. In this way, we successfully modeled three generations fulfilling the marriage Blessing ideal within one family.
One hundred twenty representatives of Christianity from America, 1,200 other religious leaders, and 12,000 ambassadors for peace from across the world traveled simultaneously throughout 190 nations.
They represented their nations by spreading the peace message of the True Parents and sharing the marriage Blessing. These tours helped establish true family values as the universal values of humanity that will expand a new God-centered civilization.
12. These leaders made up a corps of the peace kingdom of heaven and earth, an army restoring a nation a day with the truth and Blessing. The Word and Blessing, proclaimed simultaneously each day in twelve major cities of each nation, brought the greatest joy to all humanity.
The mobilization of the three generations of the True Family is an event that will be renowned for eternity. It is something that no saint ever imagined, a miracle that will be praised forevermore as a victorious liberation of Heaven.
13. Today, October 14, 2006, is yet another day of history-shaping victory that I will never forget. It is the anniversary of the day the United Nations forces liberated me and I became a free man after spending two years and eight months in a North Korean labor camp.
The communists took over North Korea shortly after the liberation of my country. I had been conveying Heaven's message to the people living under the communists and, as a result, was unjustly imprisoned.
October 14, 1950, was a perilous day, and Heaven was compelled to create a miracle. It was on this day that I, the person with the seal of the True Parent of humankind, was to be publicly executed. There was no way that Heaven could ignore this. I declare this day, which bears such great providential significance, to be a historic day of victory.
Through it, as the True Parent of humankind under the protection of God, I offer glory and respect to Heaven and blessings and love to the earth.
14. Please do not forget that our mission is to elevate the Universal Peace Federation, now one year old, to the position of the Abel-type UN. Heaven is instructing us to develop the Universal Peace Federation as a new international peace organization.
At the same time, we are to reform the United Nations, which stands as a Cain-type institution, by promoting the establishment within it of a peace council. It would have the same rank as the current UN Security Council, but be free from Satan's realm.
This council would be a legislative body consisting of religious leaders from around the globe, under the protection of God. I am saying that we have to establish a peace council that will work not for the interests of nations, as the UN presently does, but for humanity's true welfare and peace, based upon a perspective that goes beyond national interests.
The concept of the Universal Peace Federation, which was launched according to God's ideal purpose of creation, could not have emerged from the wisdom of one human being. It is the unsurpassed, supreme blessing Heaven has given humanity as we usher in the new millennium.
Thus, I hope that the Mongolian People's Federation will recognize and fulfill its duty as a partner of the Universal Peace Federation in achieving these noble goals bestowed by Heaven.
The work that True Parents have done
15. I have surmounted and triumphed throughout inexpressible suffering and tribulation. I have not lived for personal glory or comfort. Even as I walked a thorny path, on the razor's edge between life and death, I held on dearly to Heaven's command to bring salvation to humanity because I had received Heaven's seal and was made fully aware of the objectives of God's Will.
Though beaten down many times, I rose like the phoenix and continued my exhausting work. Now, leaders of religion, academia, politics, and other fields, both here in America and throughout the world, recognize me as the champion in eight areas of spiritual knowledge and discipline.
16. The first has to do with the knowledge of God. Until now, God has been understood only as an all-knowing and all-powerful being. People envision God sitting on a throne of honor and glory as the absolute Master, having nothing to do with the created world.
There is another side to this, however. From the moment I embarked on my journey to fulfill God's providential call, I came to know that the relationship between God and human beings is that of parent and child. I learned that God has been the Parent of pain, sorrow, and lamentation ever since He lost His first children, Adam and Eve.
Throughout my life, I have been doing my very best to dissolve God's pain and sorrow and bring liberation and total freedom to His heart. Finally, on January 13, 2001, through the Enthronement Ceremony for God's Kingship, I was able to restore His throne of glory and power and offer it to Him.
17. The second area has to do with the reality of Satan. Throughout history, human beings have not known the identity of the devil, Satan, who caused the Fall and led us into all kinds of evils. For fourteen years, I labored desperately through crushing spiritual battles to discover all the secrets of the spirit world.
Finally, I discovered the identity of Satan, the origin of evil. Taking it one step further, I uncovered Satan's strategy and tactics by which he multiplied his power. Satan's strategy was to defile the human lineage through the Fall.
After discovering this, I committed to restoring God's original lineage. The international cross-cultural marriage Blessing movement, now widely known throughout the world, is the heavenly path developed for this purpose.
18. The third area has to do with understanding the human condition. What is the origin of human beings, how should we live, and where are we meant to go? Why do fallen people's minds and bodies fight, struggling in continual conflict? What is the meaning of life and death?
Does the world after death truly exist? If it does, what does that mean for how we live while on earth? The Principle of Creation that I have discovered provides detailed answers to these questions and others.
In addition, I can look into the hearts of men and women and intuit their destiny. That is why, throughout the world, I have been matching many young people with their spouses-to-be.
19. The fourth area has to do with knowledge and understanding of the spirit world. The spirit world, the world beyond physical death, exists. All people are bound to go there as an extension of their earthly life.
Human life is a continuous stream from one's conception and life in the womb to an eternal life after one's physical death. When their physical lives have ended, those who have received the marriage Blessing, which eradicates the original sin and opens the way to spiritual perfection, receive the Seonghwa Ceremony.
This ceremony is not for mourning; rather, it is to joyfully bid farewell and congratulate the departed on their path to the heavenly realms, where they will enjoy eternal life. We should understand clearly that the countless saints and sages who lived on earth throughout history are alive in the spirit world.
Having been reborn as absolute good spirits after receiving the True Parents' marriage Blessing, they are assisting God's providence on the earth. Each moment in our earthly life is recorded in the spirit world, exactly as it takes place.
On the day we cross over to the spirit world, we will be judged based on our life's record. That is why all human beings should practice true love and sacrifice themselves for a greater cause throughout their lives.
20. The fifth area has to do with the knowledge of Jesus. I came to understand the tragedy of the crucifixion. Jesus came as God's Son, the Savior and Messiah, but he was opposed and rejected, even by the people whom God had prepared to receive him. It was God's Will that Jesus, as the second Adam, fulfill the model of a God-centered ideal family and engraft all humanity.
Christianity became the foundation of Western civilization through Rome, and then became the nucleus of the Atlantic and Pacific civilizations. It has always stood in the position of the bride to receive the Lord at his Second Coming.
Therefore, Christians in particular have to comprehend Jesus' heart of sorrow at being driven to the cross, at being unable to fully live out God's Will for him. My teachings clearly explain the truth of Jesus' mission, the salvation through the cross, and the reason for his return.
21. The sixth area is the knowledge of the core contents of the Bible and other scriptures. These are Revelations that enable human beings, trapped in ignorance by the Fall of the first human ancestors, to return to God.
Scriptures express important teachings in metaphor and symbol. Only the Messiah sent by Heaven can reveal the full meaning of these metaphors and symbols.
Hence, Jesus was able to disclose the core content and profound meaning of the Hebrew Scriptures.
In the same way, my teachings shed light upon God's message, His providence of salvation revealed everywhere in the Bible. The Bible is a book of revelation that teaches us God's ideal for the creation, the Fall, and the path of restoration.
The Divine Principle that I discovered provides clear explanations for what the world's scriptures expressed in metaphor and symbol.
22. The seventh area is in the knowledge and understanding of the ultimate purpose of human history. History is not merely a record of coincidental events. Human events have been flowing in a clear direction and with a clear purpose.
They comprise the history of the providence for the re-creation of human beings to their original state, through indemnity, a history of restoration for their salvation. Because of this insight into the origin and direction of history, I was able to predict accurately the sudden end of communism and dialectical materialism, which I proclaimed in 1985.
The Professor's World Peace Academy conference in Geneva, Switzerland, was held when the Soviet Union was at its peak. Today, I am declaring that it is time for all nations and religions to break down their barriers. Through this, the era of one family under God will arrive and last forever.
God is leading history. With the help of heavenly fortune, under the auspices of the Abel UN, we will now make rapid progress toward a world that transcends religion and nationality. It will be God's kingdom on earth, which we call Cheon II Guk.
23. The eighth area concerns true family values. God's ideal of creation is to build a God-centered, true family. The goal of His salvation providence is to restore the ideal of the true family, the ideal that Adam could not fulfill in his family. This is the way to establish the foundation for the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven.
The marriage Blessing, which is the core of a movement that I have been leading, is not an ordinary wedding ceremony. It is a sacred ritual through which to eradicate the original sin and engraft human beings with the true lineage of God.
True families are the wellspring and foundation of true love, true life, and true lineage. The true nation, true world, and true kingdom can be built through true ideal families.
Families centered on the True Parents can be the base for the perfection of relationships within the four realms of heart and three kingships, thereby becoming the foundation for the kingdom of heaven.
24. As I have mentioned, I have become well known throughout the world as a champion in each of these eight areas. Yet, for the victory to be won, all humankind must work together with the help of God.
The tradition of our True Parents is for the sake of humanity
25. Ladies and gentlemen, as we begin the twenty-first century, we find ourselves at a truly historic turning point. It is a point of decision, between settling everlasting world peace, or repeating the twentieth century's bleak and oppressive history of war and conflict.
The twentieth century was a period of ceaseless struggle, including nations scrambling for colonies, the First and Second World Wars, the Cold War between East and West, and the Korean War, a providential battle to recover God's homeland for which the United Nations Security Council mobilized the forces of sixteen countries.
26. I dedicated my life entirely to bringing about the kingdom of God, the kingdom of the peaceful, ideal world. I have always prayed sincerely that the United Nations, founded in 1945 after the Second World War, would be an institution for peace, and that it would uphold God's will for the realization of eternal world peace.
The United Nations has indeed made important contributions to peace. Nevertheless, at its sixtieth anniversary, there was a broad consensus, both inside and outside the organization, that the UN had yet to discover the way to fulfill its founding purposes.
The number of member states approaches two hundred, but the offices of these states do little more than represent and even insist on their interests. They seem inherently unable to resolve conflicts and achieve peace.
27. On September 12, 2005, I proclaimed throughout heaven and earth the establishment of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), which will enable God's providence to flourish. It is now possible for the UPF to serve as an Abel-type counterpart to the UN in the Era after the Coming of Heaven.
It will renew the Cain-type UN and open the way for millions of ambassadors for peace throughout the world.
These individuals have taken up my teachings, the way of the Heavenly Parent, which consists of the principles of true love and the ideal of the true family. Assuredly,y they will fulfill the heavenly call to create one family under God.
The central person of the restoration of the homeland
28. On this meaningful occasion, please engrave this message in your hearts. Your family's good ancestors in heaven are already blessed. Numbering in the billions, they have come to the earth today, and they are listening to this message with you.
This is because they can perfect themselves and advance to the position of true parents, true teachers, and true lords and owners only through you, their descendants. Beyond that, they need to restore their original selves by uniting in mind and body with True Parents, the King of all kings.
Living the life of absolute obedience to True Parents, they have to mobilize completely for the establishment of heaven on earth and heaven in heaven. Please remember that the physical and spiritual worlds are alive and are with you every moment.
29. There is one more request I have for you today. Please immerse yourselves in the content of my peace messages. Reach the point where you know them virtually by heart. Make them the guidelines for your life.
These messages of peace summarize my teachings, which can be found in the six hundred volumes of True Parents' speeches. If you manage to do this, heaven and earth, with God in the forefront, will unite and protect you.
You will then establish the peaceful ideal world envisioned by God, and live in the joy of eternal liberation and complete freedom.
30. Your families now should fix their place in history by fulfilling the mission of the Abel UN's Peace Kingdom Corps and peace kingdom police force, to advance God's providence in the revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven.
History will remember you forever for leading a noble life devoted to the well-being of humanity and world peace. I am now developing globally the Peace Kingdom Corps and the peace kingdom police force, which I founded. Who, if not leaders such as you and your families, can stand in the forefront of these two organizations under the banner of UPF, the Abel UN?
31. What will you do in this desperate providential time of harvest, when we have to complete and perfect the liberation of God's homeland in Korea? Will you be among the foolish who are trapped in the walls of selfish individualism and elitism?
In the Era after the Coming of Heaven, will you remain in the Era before the Coming of Heaven and only live for your own sake? Whether you like it or not, Heaven has called you. It will guide you under the shining banner of the Abel UN, an organization proclaimed before heaven and earth and launched on September 23, 2007. Quickly work both to complete the reformation of the existing UN and to fulfill the mission of the Abel UN.
Please apply God's ideal of creation to politics, economy, culture, and education, based on the realms of God's heart.
32. Agreement has to be unanimous among all nations. The heavenly fortune of the conjoined jubilee of the years of 2007 and 2008, the seventh and eighth years of Cheon II Guk of the Universal Peace Federation, will break down the walls and barriers.
Please become the owners of the new era of the realms of God's heart by inheriting the foundation of victory brought by the True Parents of heaven and earth. We surely will build God's fatherland with our hands.
Keep in mind that democracy is an ideology of brotherhood. It is part of the transition to the age of true parents and true families, the era of the civilization of God's heart. So, make a revolutionary leap over the summit of democracy without hesitation.
33. For the Republic of Korea to fulfill its role as the homeland, on the stage that the Abel UN erected with participants from 194 nations, I want you to be active in the forthcoming elections.
Participate in the elections of the president, representatives, county heads, mayors, and the like, and in the appointment of administrative secretaries. I want you to succeed at the task of bringing the political parties into oneness.
Restore your homeland on earth, centering on leaders representing God. Before Heaven, I have proclaimed and launched the Korea-Japan undersea tunnel and the Bering Strait tunnel project. You, as owners who have accomplished True Parents' will, and who support the goal of restoring your homeland, have to see these through to completion.
34. Cheon II Guk and the Abel UN stand as Abel. The United States and the existing UN stand as Cain. These two sides should bind together as one to create equilibrium in heaven and earth.
You should become one in heart and body with God, the great King of kings, who is the axis, with the True Parents, the King and Queen of Peace, and with their anointed representatives. Perfect the creation of the original Garden of Eden that knows nothing of the Fall. That will complete the building of our homeland.
35. Ladies and gentlemen! In truth, God carries out His providence in mysterious ways. During the Helicopter incident, which no one could have foreseen, Heaven mobilized the spirit world and made sure Satan would not dare harm my wife and me, the True Parents.
Even according to ordinary people, this incident was extraordinary, a miracle of miracles. It is being recorded as a wonderful wonder, incomparable in history. I publicly declared January 13, 201,3, to be the day to fulfill the glorious restoration of the homeland.
I am devoting my entire being, day and night, to that purpose. Can Heaven possibly abandon me? As God's representative in the flesh, I have accomplished His will on this earth.
With whom can God work to perfect His providence and return humanity to His bosom, if not Rev. Moon? As my wife and I were able to stand again here before you, thanks to God's tremendous grace, our hearts are bursting with emotion.
36. God called us and anointed us as the True Parents of humanity. Human beings are orphans, born into the fallen lineage without true parents. They have wandered for thousands of years. We have received Heaven's great mandate to save all people and bring them back to God.
With four years to go in this final leg of our drive toward the year 2013,1. Proclaimed the combined jubilee years, the seventh nd eighth years of God's kingdom of Cheon II Guk, and issued the order to both the spiritual and physical worlds to advance in all directions.
The helicopter incident happening during such a significant period showed us again, clearly, that Heaven is alive and working for the sake of humanity. Now you must not forget, even for one second, the desperation attached to the time frame in which you are standing.
You have to work with me hand in hand to carry on the explosive revolution of true love and true families, through which you will transform humanity into blessed families.
37. Ladies and gentlemen, through the Fall, Adam and Eve yielded their spiritual and physical bodies to Satan.
Jesus lost his physical body through the tribulation of the cross, but he blazed the path of spiritual salvation for all humanity by achieving spiritual resurrection through the victory of the forty days after the cross. In this context, this helicopter accident has tremendous providential significance.
Amid an all-out attack from Satan, True Parents obtained the complete, substantial victory, both spiritually and physically. This restored and safely settled the realm of a three-generation true family, which had been lost in the history of the providence, without shedding a drop of blood.
38. On that unforgettable day, July 19, the day of the helicopter accident, rebirth was completed. On the twentieth day after the accident, August 7 (Chil Pal Jeol; 7.8 Day), resurrection was completed.
Now it is the fortieth day since the accident, and we consolidate this victory by proclaiming the Day of the Perfection of Eternal Life.
I proclaim the new day of eternal life. On this day, we sing praise to eternal liberation and complete freedom, to a new heaven and earth, the final and ideal realm of the providence centering on God.
39 January 13, 2013, is coming with the promise of a new era and a new nation. True Parents' true love will realize Cheon II Guk through the Parent UN, which will recover the homeland of peace and unity.
Let us march on toward the day of the nation of Cheon II Guk, the substantial kingdom of peace, in which we enjoy the eternal jubilee year, preserving God's lineage and perfect Blessing, and attending the original God as the Father of all!
Sun Myung Moon