True Parents

Parents'Chambumo — 참부모 — True Parents (眞父母)

Korean: 참부모 (Chambumo)
Hanja: 眞父母 (Jin Bumo) — True Father-Mother
English: True Parents
Full Title: 천지인참부모 — Cheon Ji In Chambumo — True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind

Also known as: The True Parents of Heaven and Earth; The Horizontal True Parents; The Cosmic True Parents

Preface: Why This Term Stands at the Center

The concept of Chambumo — True Parents — is not merely a title or honorific within the teachings of Sun Myung Moon and the Unification movement. It is the theological, soteriological, and providential axis around which the entire body of teaching rotates. Rev. Moon himself stated that of all the terms in the Unification Church's vocabulary, none is more weighty, more “fearsome,” or more consequential than these two words. Every major doctrine — the Fall, Restoration, the Messiah, the Blessing, Cheon Il Guk — converges on this one concept.

To understand Chambumo is to understand the Unification Church itself.

The words True Parents are among the most frequently used words of our Unification Church members. Although they are simple words, they represent a remarkable reality. This term does not appear in any book in all of history.

— Sun Myung Moon (206-60, 03/01/1990)
The Significance of the True Parents

I. Etymology and Linguistic Analysis

Korean: 참부모 (Chambumo)

The term is formed from two elements. The first is 참 (cham, Hanja: 眞 jin) — meaning “true, genuine, authentic, real.” The second is 부모 (bumo, Hanja: 父母) — “parents,” itself a compound of 父 (bu, father) and 母 (mo, mother). Together: 참부모 — true parents.

The prefix 참 (cham) is one of the most theologically loaded words in the Unification lexicon. It appears in: 참사랑 (cham sarang, true love), 참생명 (cham saengmyeong, true life), 참혈통 (cham hyeoltong, true lineage), 참가정 (cham gajong, true family). In each case, 참 denotes not merely sincerity but ontological authenticity — something connected to God's original ideal and untainted by the Fall.

The opposite term is 거짓부모 (geojit bumo) — “false parents” — referring to the fallen Adam and Eve who became humanity's ancestors through sin.

Hanja Analysis: 父 (bu, father) and 母 (mo, mother)

Rev. Moon devoted significant teaching to the internal meaning of the Chinese characters comprising “parents” (父母):

If you separate its strokes, the character for father 父 has two of the characters for 人 (person), but is combined. It binds them together. What does this mean? A man becomes a man, and a person becomes a person, not only by himself: here two must be bound together. Only in this way does one become a father.

— Sun Myung Moon (59-182, 07/16/1972)
The Meaning of the Characters for Cheon (天) and Bu-mo (父母)

Similarly, the character for 母 (mother) is described as formed from two female characters (女) placed together — representing a woman who can hold within herself both a heart connected to heaven and a heart representing all women of the earth.

The character 天 (cheon, heaven) — as in Cheon Bumo (Heavenly Parents) — is itself composed of 二 (two) and 人 (person), meaning heaven is realized only when two people become completely one. This forms the linguistic and theological foundation for understanding why True Parents must be a couple — a man and a woman — not a single individual.

Heaven does not exist alone. There have to be two (二) for heaven to come into being. Hence, we can have cheon (天), meaning heaven, simply by putting two people together.

— Sun Myung Moon (59-182, 07/16/1972)
The Meaning of the Characters for Cheon (天) and Bu-mo (父母)

II. Theological Foundation: Why True Parents Must Come

1. The Problem: False Parents and the Fallen Lineage

According to the Divine Principle, the catastrophe of the Fall was not merely a moral or spiritual failure — it was a parental failure. Adam and Eve, who were to become the first true parents of humankind under God, instead became 거짓부모 (geojit bumo, false parents). Through their illicit relationship — understood as a spiritual fall with the Archangel Lucifer and a physical fall between Adam and Eve before their proper maturation — they transmitted to all their descendants a lineage disconnected from God and connected to Satan.

The consequence of this is that every human being born into history has been born into 거짓사랑 (geojit sarang, false love), 거짓생명 (geojit saengmyeong, false life), and 거짓혈통 (geojit hyeoltong, false lineage).

This is the root of all suffering, war, division, and evil in human history. It is not an external problem but an internal, genealogical one. The issue is bloodline.

What began with false parents must now begin with True Parents. False parents inherited false life and false lineage through false love. This must be reversed.

— Sun Myung Moon (218-223, 07/29/1991)
The True Lineage Must Come

2. The Solution: Restoration Through True Parents

Since the problem originated with parents, it can only be solved through parents. No prophet, teacher, philosopher, or saint can resolve the issue of lineage — only parents, standing in Adam and Eve's original position, can engraft humanity onto God's original bloodline.

The beginning point through which we can regain all these vast and remarkable things is the True Parents... For what has humankind been going through the history of indemnity since the Fall? It was in order to find True Parents.

— Sun Myung Moon (67-226, 06/27/1973)
The Meaning of the Words True Parents

This is also why Rev. Moon teaches that all the world's religions, despite their diversity, have been ultimately searching for one thing: the arrival of the True Parents. The providential history of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and all major traditions is understood as a preparation, laying the spiritual and cultural foundation for the moment when True Parents could appear on earth.

3. The Messiah as True Parent

Within Unification theology, the roles of Messiah and True Parents are inseparable. The Messiah does not come merely to teach or save through spiritual faith — he comes to accomplish what Adam failed to do: become a true father and establish a true family.

The Messiah is the True Parent and we are to be true children. We must stand in the same realm of destiny and participate in it.

— Sun Myung Moon (55-97, 04/23/1972)
The Messiah, the True Parent

The Messiah's three-fold mission is explicitly defined: first, to come into the position of parents, restoring what fallen parents lost; second, to grant rebirth — removing Satanic blood through engrafting into the True Parents' lineage; and third, to elevate humanity — enabling humans to exercise dominion over Satan.

Through the Fall, human beings first lost the chance to have parents. Second, they received satanic blood; third, they came under satanic dominion. Restoring what was originally intended requires going in the reverse order.

— Sun Myung Moon (54-182, 03/24/1972)
The Messiah, the True Parent

III. The Nature of True Parents

1. True Parents Are Not Self-Appointed

One of the most striking aspects of Rev. Moon's teaching on Chambumo is his consistent insistence that this position was not self-chosen. It was thrust upon him by the logic of providence — and he describes it as one of the most difficult and fearsome things imaginable:

You should know how important and how precious the words True Parents are... I did not start this work in order to become the True Parent. I was forced to come forward and do this because it could not be done without me.

— Sun Myung Moon (116-113, 12/27/1981)
The Meaning of the Words True Parents

I did not want to do so myself. But if it had not been done, the doctrine of the Unification Church would go off course... Because I cannot turn the truth into a lie, it was inevitable that I do this.

— Sun Myung Moon (203-324, 06/28/1990)
The Proclamation of True Parents and Kingship

2. True Parents as Parents of Three Ages

Rev. Moon makes a careful distinction between biological (natural) parents and True Parents. Natural parents are parents of one generation and one age. True Parents, by contrast, are the parents spanning three cosmic ages: the Old Testament Age, the New Testament Age, and the Completed Testament Age — and correspondingly, the parents of the formation, growth, and completion stages of human spiritual history.

I am the parent of the three ages, that is, the parent of the Old Testament Age, the New Testament Age and the Completed Testament Age. This is why I am the True Parent... Your parents are branch parents, and branches grow from sprouts... but I am a parent of the three ages.

— Sun Myung Moon (141-226, 02/22/1986)
True Parents and Our Natural Parents

This three-generation framework explains why, in Unification theology, Rev. Moon is also identified as the Third Adam: the First Adam who fell, the Second Adam (Jesus) who partially restored but could not complete the family foundation, and the Third Adam — Rev. Sun Myung Moon — who completes the restoration by establishing the True Family.

3. The Dual Structure: Vertical and Horizontal Parents

Unification theology presents God as the Vertical True Parent — the invisible, incorporeal parent of the spirit — and True Parents (as the couple) as the Horizontal True Parents — the visible, substantial embodiment of God's parental love on earth. Together, they form a vertical-horizontal axis of love from which all human families can receive true love, true life, and true lineage.

God is our real parent. How close He is to us. God as the vertical parent and True Parents as the horizontal parents together realize ideal love.

— Sun Myung Moon (218-223, 07/29/1991)
The True Lineage Must Come

4. True Parents Liberate God

One of the most profound theological claims in Rev. Moon's teaching is that the arrival of True Parents does not merely benefit humanity — it liberates God Himself. Because God has been suffering as a parent who lost His children, and who has been unable to freely exercise His love or rightful ownership over creation, the establishment of True Parents on earth finally enables God to be liberated from His grief.

"The True Parents must bear responsibility for Adam and Eve's failures and settle the matter. Otherwise, there is no way back to the position of true parents." — Sun Myung Moon (256-28, 03/12/1994) True Parents Who Liberate God

Section III-A — True Mother

The concept of True Parents requires both a True Father and a True Mother — and Rev. Moon was explicit that without the True Mother, the mission of True Parents could not be fulfilled. The True Mother is not merely the spouse of the Messiah; she occupies a specific, irreplaceable providential position of her own.

Rev. Moon described the structure with precision: just as Jesus was the "only begotten son" of God — the first man in history to stand in the position of the direct, unfallen Son of God — so there must be an "only begotten daughter" (doksaengnyeo, 독생녀) who stands as the first woman in history to be prepared from birth to receive the Messiah and stand beside him as the True Mother of humanity:

When the only begotten son comes, it would be a disaster if he were to live alone. There has to be an only begotten daughter. The only begotten daughter must be found and, centering on God, the only begotten son and daughter should marry each other when their mutual attraction matures. This way, God should rejoice as the vertical parent and the only begotten son and daughter must become the bride and bridegroom who can rejoice as the horizontal parents and give birth to children on earth. Only then will the tribe begin to expand.

— Sun Myung Moon (58-218, 06/11/1972) Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book 2

Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon was born on January 6, 1943 (lunar calendar) into a lineage specifically prepared through generations of providential preparation. Her grandmother, Hong Soon-ae (known as Daemonim), was a devout Christian woman who received spiritual guidance that her granddaughter would play a decisive role in God's providence. This preparation — generations of prayer, faith, and lineage purification — is understood in Unification theology as the maternal side of the messianic foundation, paralleling the lineage preparation on the paternal side that produced Rev. Moon.

True Mother's providential role is understood on three levels. First, she stands as the restored Eve — accomplishing in the Completed Testament Age what the first Eve failed to do at the formation stage of human history. Where Eve broke from God's Word and connected humanity to the archangel's lineage, True Mother maintains absolute faith in and obedience to Heaven's direction. Where Eve brought her husband into the fallen relationship, True Mother stands beside the True Father in perfect unity, establishing the standard of the restored couple.

Second, she stands as the True Mother of all humanity, in the same sense that True Father is the True Father. Through the Holy Wedding of April 11, 1960, and through their joint life of suffering and restoration, both together bore responsibility for the entire fallen human race, establishing the family standard that makes the Blessing available to all.

Third, following Rev. Moon's Seunghwa on September 3, 2012, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon continues her mission as the sole remaining True Parent on earth, guiding the FFWPU and the global Blessed Family community. She has articulated the vision of "Cheon Il Guk" — the heavenly unified world — as the completing mission of True Parents that will be accomplished in her lifetime.

The two tablets of stone placed in the Ark of the Covenant, which Rev. Moon identified as symbolizing Adam and Eve — True Father and True Mother — express the completeness of the providential mission: neither tablet alone constitutes the Ark's most precious content, and neither True Parent alone constitutes the full reality of True Parents:

The two tablets of stone symbolized Adam and Eve — that is, True Parents. Why were the two tablets of stone placed in the Ark of the Covenant? The two tablets of stone symbolized Adam and Eve as the central figures who could complete the work of God's will. This is why they were placed in the Ark of the Covenant.

— Sun Myung Moon (134-172, 04/07/1985) Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book 2

IV. The Historical Position of True Parents

1. The Position Is Unique and Unrepeatable

The position of True Parents is not a spiritual category that can be occupied by multiple individuals throughout history. It is a singular, historical moment in providence — the one time in all of cosmic history when the original purpose of creation is fulfilled on the physical plane.

"In this world, there cannot be two sets of True Parents." — Sun Myung Moon The Value of Working with True Parents while They Are on Earth

2. What History Has Been Waiting For

From the standpoint of Unification theology, all of recorded human history — every empire, every religion, every civilization — has been a providential preparation for this one moment. The coming of True Parents is not a marginal religious event but the central turning point of all history:

This one term, True Parents, controls the direction of history. Until now, untold numbers of patriots have walked the path of sacrifice in order to find and establish these words. The name that is established with hope through continuous bloody struggles and desperate cries is the holy name of True Parents.

— Sun Myung Moon (33-109, 08/09/1970)
The Meaning of the Words True Parents

3. Why Jesus Could Not Complete the Mission

Rev. Moon teaches that Jesus, as the Second Adam, came with the mission of True Parents but could not complete it because he was crucified before establishing a true family. This is described as the central tragedy of Christian history — not because Jesus failed personally, but because the prepared people failed to receive and protect him.

Jesus could not proclaim himself as the True Parent. That was the problem. If he had, Christianity would not have had to shed blood.

— Sun Myung Moon (204-178, 07/08/1990)
The Proclamation of True Parents and Kingship

The completion of what Jesus began — the establishment of a True Family — is thus the defining mission of the Second Coming, understood in Unification theology as the advent of Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han Moon as the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind.

V. The Restoration of Three Rights Through True Parents

Rev. Moon teaches that the Fall resulted in the loss of three fundamental rights, all of which must be restored through and by True Parents.

The first is the Right of the Eldest Son (장자권, jangja-gwon) — the restoration of the birthright, the transfer of the position of eldest son from the Satanic (Cain) side to God's (Abel) side, representing the restoration of rightful spiritual inheritance and authority.

The second is the Right of Parents (부모권, bumo-gwon) — the restoration of true parental authority and the establishment of a True Family centered on God. This is the central mission of True Parents themselves, restored through the Holy Wedding of Rev. and Mrs. Moon on April 11, 1960.

The third is the Right of Kingship (왕권, wang-gwon) — the restoration of heavenly sovereignty and the establishment of God's Kingdom (Cheon Il Guk) on earth, with True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace. This right was restored through the Coronation Ceremony for God's Kingship on January 13, 2001.

On True Parents' Day, what we can think about first is the restoration of brotherhood, and second, how the restoration of the right of parents is complete. Next, as the third step, the restoration of the right of kingship remains.

— Sun Myung Moon (218-69, 07/02/1991)
The Proclamation of True Parents and Kingship

VI. True Parents and the Blessed Families

The relationship between True Parents and Blessed Families (축복가정, chukbok gajong) is foundational to how Chambumo functions in practice. Through the Blessing Ceremony, True Parents transmit their lineage to Blessed couples — engrafting them onto the True Olive Tree and enabling their children to be born into God's direct lineage rather than the fallen lineage.

This means that the role of True Parents is not only historical and theological but genealogical and biological in its implications: through the Blessing, the lineage of fallen humanity is literally redirected.

"What do True Parents have to do? They must rectify the tainted lineage that forms the root of the satanic world, turn the resulting deviated life around, and correctly reopen the path of love that has gone the wrong way." — Sun Myung Moon (169-37, 10/04/1987) The Meaning of the Words True Parents

The practical transmission works through three stages: the Holy Wine Ceremony — changing the lineage symbolically; the Holy Wedding / Blessing — establishing the couple as a heaven-centered unit; and the Three-Day Ceremony — establishing the proper order of love within the new couple.

Through these rites, Blessed Families become extensions of True Parents' family on the tribal and global level, which is also why every Blessed member is called to take on the role of Tribal Messiah — becoming, within their own lineage, a small-scale True Parent who blesses their own kin.

Section VI-A — True Parents in Unification Thought: The Philosophical Dimension

Unification theology establishes who True Parents are and why they must come. Unification Thought (통일사상, Tongilsasang) grounds these theological claims philosophically, showing how the concept of True Parents is not an arbitrary religious doctrine but the necessary conclusion of the Principle's ontological structure.

True Parents as the Realized Original Four-Position Foundation

The Four-Position Foundation is the fundamental structure of all existence: God (Origin) → Subject and Object → their Union. In Unification Thought's Theory of the Original Image, this structure exists first within God Himself — God's Heart (shimjeong) → God's Logos → God's Creativity → the divine creative act. The entire created universe is the external expression of this internal four-position structure.

True Parents are, in this philosophical framework, the first created beings in history who fully realize the Original Four-Position Foundation at the human level: God (vertical Origin) → True Father (Subject/positive pole) → True Mother (Object/negative pole) → True Children (Union/Product). This is not merely a family structure; it is the complete, physical actualization of the pattern that was first present in God's inner nature, then expressed in creation's abstract structures, and finally — for the first time in human history — embodied in a God-centered family.

This means True Parents are not simply morally exemplary parents. They are the ontological culmination of God's creative intent: the point at which the Original Image is fully manifested in substantial, visible, relational form. Where all previous parents in history were "false parents" — families that reflected a four-position foundation centered on Satan rather than God — True Parents are the first and only family in which the correct centering exists.

True Parents as the Embodiment of Heart, Logos, and Creativity

Unification Thought identifies three elements of God's Divine Character: Heart (shimjeong, the emotional-motivational center), Logos (the rational-normative ordering principle), and Creativity (the power to actualize new beings in love). These three constitute the inner life of God as a Person.

True Parents, as the horizontal embodiment of the vertical God, are understood to embody these three in their shared life: their Heart is the source from which all Blessed Families receive love; their Logos is expressed in the Divine Principle as the rational structure of God's truth; and their Creativity is expressed in the Blessing itself — the ongoing act through which they "create" new children of God by engrafting fallen humanity into God's lineage.

The Vertical-Horizontal Axis and the Resolution of the Mind-Body Problem

In Unification Thought's Theory of Being, every being exists through the give-and-take between its Seongsang (inner/vertical/subject) and Hyeongsang (outer/horizontal/object) aspects, centered on God. The fallen human condition is characterized by the disruption of this axis — the body (outer/horizontal) resists the mind (inner/vertical), producing the mind-body conflict that is the most immediate symptom of the Fall.

True Parents, standing in the position of restored Adam and Eve who have achieved the union of mind and body centered on God, embody the resolution of this conflict in their persons and in their relationship. True Father represents the perfected Adam — the vertical connection to God fully realized in a physical body. True Mother represents the perfected Eve — the horizontal axis of love fully realized in its feminine form. Their union in the Blessing is the first genuine realization, at the level of two persons, of the God-centered axis that should govern all existence.

VII. The Significance of True Parents — A Threefold Summary

Rev. Moon summarizes what the words True Parents signify in the context of providence.

First, all people, including the first ancestors, will be cut off from the false lineage of Satan.

Second, a new love, life, and lineage connected to God and the original root will begin.

Third, for the first time in history, the true hometown and true homeland of love become accessible to all people.

"The words True Parents in relation to God's will signify first that all people, including our first ancestors, will be cut off from the false lineage. Second, they signify that a love, life, and lineage connected with God and the new original root will begin. These are truly amazing words." — Sun Myung Moon (206-60, 03/01/1990) The Significance of the True Parents

Section VIIb — Comparative Perspectives

The concept of True Parents has no exact parallel in any prior religious tradition — this is precisely what Rev. Moon emphasized when he said "This term does not appear in any book in all of history." Nevertheless, several traditions contain partial anticipations that illuminate what the Unification teaching is and is not.

Jewish Messianism and the Messianic Couple: In classical Jewish eschatology, the Messiah is primarily a political and spiritual figure — a king from the line of David who will restore Israel and bring universal peace. Later traditions, particularly in Kabbalah, developed the concept of the Shekhinah (שְׁכִינָה) — the feminine dimension of God's presence, understood as dwelling among Israel as a kind of divine spouse. The union of the Shekhinah with God at the messianic age is understood as the healing of a cosmic split. This concept of a masculine-feminine divine dimension that must be reunited in the last days has structural parallels with the Unification teaching on True Father and True Mother as the horizontal embodiment of the complete God.

Christianity — Christ as Bridegroom and the Church as Bride: The New Testament presents Jesus as the Bridegroom (John 3:29, Revelation 19:7) and the Church as his Bride, awaiting the "marriage of the Lamb" at the end of history. This structure — a messianic man who seeks a feminine counterpart, with whom together they realize God's complete purpose — is structurally identical to the Unification teaching. The difference is like the fulfillment: in mainstream Christianity, the Bride is the spiritual community, and the marriage is eschatological and spiritual; in Unification theology, the Bride is a specific, historical woman (Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon), and the marriage was a physical, historical event (April 11, 1960). The spiritual vision was fulfilled concretely.

Islamic concept of the Insān al-Kāmil (The Perfect Human Being): In the Sufi tradition, particularly in the philosophy of Ibn ʿArabī (1165–1240), the Insān al-Kāmil (الإنسان الكامل) — the Perfect Human Being — is the one who fully realizes all the divine names and attributes in their person, becoming the mirror through which God perceives His own perfection. This individual is also identified as the qutb (pole or axis) around whom the spiritual universe turns. The Unification concept of True Parents as the axis of cosmic history — the point at which God's original ideal is first fully actualized — parallels this Sufi concept, with the crucial addition of the couple dimension: the Perfect Human is not an individual but a complementary pair.

Confucian and Korean concepts — The True King and the Holy Sage: Confucian political philosophy developed the concept of the 聖王 (seonwang, Holy Sage King) — the ruler who embodies the Way of Heaven (天道, Tiandao) in the political realm and through whose virtue all under Heaven are transformed. Rev. Moon's concept of True Parents as the King and Queen of Peace, whose virtue restores the family and through the family restores the world, draws on this cultural tradition while surpassing it: where the Confucian Sage King was primarily a political and ethical exemplar, True Parents are the providential parents who change the lineage itself.

Section VIIc — True Parents in New Religious Movement Scholarship

The concept of True Parents has been, perhaps more than any other doctrine, the focus of academic scrutiny of the Unification movement — because it is the claim that most sharply distinguishes the movement from all other religious traditions and that most directly challenges mainstream Christian theology.

Frederick Sontag's Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church (1977) identified the True Parents' claim as the most theologically audacious and the most practically consequential element of Rev. Moon's teaching. Sontag, who conducted direct interviews with Rev. Moon for the book, noted that the claim to stand in the position of Adam and Eve restored — the fulfilled Messiah and his Bride — was explicitly understood within the movement not as metaphor but as literal providential reality, and that this claim generated both the movement's extraordinary commitment and the intense opposition it faced.

Later theological scholarship, particularly in the dialogue volumes produced through the New Ecumenical Research Association, engaged the True Parents concept from the perspectives of Christology, soteriology, and eschatology. Scholars from Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox traditions identified the Unification claim as simultaneously the closest parallel to and the sharpest departure from the mainstream Christian expectation: both expect a messianic fulfillment in history, but Christianity expects the return of the already-ascended Christ, while Unification theology claims that the messianic couple has already come in physical form and accomplished their mission.

Sociologists of religion have examined how the True Parents concept functions within the movement's community culture: as both an authority structure (the ultimate source of providential guidance) and as a relational ideal (the model toward which all Blessed Families aspire). The tension between these two functions — reverence for the person of True Parents and aspiration toward their standard — shapes the movement's internal culture in ways that distinguish it sharply from both authoritarian cult structures and from democratic lay communities.

Post-2012 scholarship has focused particularly on the question of how the True Parents concept has evolved since Rev. Moon's Seunghwa: whether True Mother's continued leadership is understood as equal partnership, succession, or an expansion of the role, and how the movement is navigating the transition from a dual-founder authority structure to a single remaining True Parent. This question — essentially about whether "True Parents" names a couple, a legacy, or an ongoing singular reality — represents one of the most theologically live discussions within the contemporary Unification community.

VIII. Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han Moon as Chambumo

Rev. Sun Myung Moon (문선명, 1920–2012)

Born January 6, 1920, in Jeongju, North Korea (present-day North Pyongan Province), Sun Myung Moon received his calling on Easter morning, April 17, 1935, at age 16, when Jesus appeared to him and asked him to complete the mission that Jesus had left unfinished.

After years of spiritual preparation and suffering — including imprisonment under both Japanese colonial rule and North Korean communist authorities — he founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (HSA-UWC) in Seoul on May 1, 1954, and delivered the Divine Principle.

About Sun Myung Moon

Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon (한학자, b. 1943)

Born January 6, 1943 (Heavenly Calendar), Hak Ja Han Moon is known as the True Mother — the first woman in history to stand in the position of the perfect, restored Eve. On April 11, 1960, she married Rev. Moon in the Holy Wedding ceremony in Seoul — the event understood as the beginning of the True Family and the completion of what could not be accomplished at the time of Jesus.

About Hak Ja Han Moon

The Holy Wedding — April 11, 1960 (음력 3.1절)

The marriage of Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han Moon is considered the pivotal event in the providence of restoration — the moment the right of parents was restored on earth for the first time.

This date is celebrated as True Parents' Day (참부모의 날, Chambumo-ui Nal), one of the four major Holy Days of the Unification movement.

True Parents' Day

IX. Key Proclamations of True Parents

The formal proclamation of True Parenthood did not happen all at once — it unfolded through a series of historical declarations.

April 11, 1960 — Holy Wedding of Rev. and Mrs. Moon — establishment of the True Family

1990–1991 — Public proclamation of True Parents before world leaders

January 13, 2001 — Coronation Ceremony for God's Kingship

May 5, 2004 — Declaration of Ssang Hab Shib Seung — opening of the Era After the Coming of Heaven

June 13, 2006 — Coronation of King and Queen of Peace in Heaven and Earth

January 13, 2013 — Foundation Day (천일국 기원절) — ultimate providential completion

The Proclamation of True Parents The Proclamation of True Parents and Kingship

X. True Parents in the Cheon Seong Gyeong

The primary scriptural source for Chambumo doctrine is Book 2 of the Cheon Seong Gyeong, which contains 47 teaching passages specifically devoted to the True Parents. It is one of the longest and most densely cited books in the entire scripture. Key chapters include:

XI. Chambumo in the Cham Bumo Gyeong

The Cham Bumo Gyeong (참부모경, Chambumo Gyeong) — “Scripture of the True Parents” — is the third volume in the series of Holy Scriptures and is named entirely after this concept. It chronicles the life course of the True Parents: their callings, trials, victories, and providential accomplishments. The title itself is the most explicit recognition that the lives of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han Moon are the scripture.

Cham Bumo Gyeong — Full Index

True Love — 참사랑 (cham sarang) → True Love
True Lineage — 참혈통 (cham hyeoltong) → Lineage
True Family — 참가정 (cham gajong) → Blessing and Ideal Family
Blessing Ceremony — 축복식 (chukbok-sik) → Blessing Ceremony
Shimjeong — 심정 → Shimjeong
Tribal Messiah — 종족메시아 → Tribal Messiah
Cheon Il Guk — 천일국 → Cheon Il Guk
Four-Position Foundation — 사위기대 → Four-Position Foundation
Fallen Nature — 타락성 → Fallen Nature
True Parents' Day — 참부모의 날 → True Parents' Day
Seunghwa Ceremony — 승화식 → Seunghwa Ceremony
Family Pledge — 가정맹세 → Family Pledge

XIII. Further Reading

Primary Sources (Speeches and Sermons)

Historical and Providential Context

This glossary entry is part of the Glossary of the Unification Church on True Parents Legacy. This entry covers the term Chambumo (참부모) as taught in the speeches and writings of Sun Myung Moon, preserved across the Cheon Seong Gyeong, Cham Bumo Gyeong, and the broader collection of teachings on tplegacy.net. It does not represent an official statement of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU).