Rev.%20Sun%20Myung%20Moon

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An Overview of Unification Principle

• Rev. Sun Myung Moons Life Course

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History

• Born in 1920
• Remains of the Moon home in Sangsa-ri in the west
  of present day North Korea

(HSA-UWC, Seoul)
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History

• April 17, 1935, he was praying on a hill near his
  home, when Jesus appeared to him.
• Asked him to continue Jesus mission.
• The next nine years, until the end of the war,
  were spent in spiritual search

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History

• After his family converted from Confucianism to
  Presbyterianism when he was 11, the young Rev.
  Moon then attended a Methodist church, later
  changing to more charismatic Korean churches.
• Church group in Seoul. Rev. Moon is standing
  second from right.

(HSA-UWC, Seoul)
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History

• The young Moon went to school in Seoul from
  1938-1941.
• cooking for fellow lodgers.

(HSA-UWC, Seoul)
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History

• March 31, 1941, went to technical high school
  affiliated with Waseda university, Tokyo
• Involved in underground freedom movement
• Graduated Sept 18, 1943

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History

• In Nov. 1943, Sun-myung Moon married. According
  to custom, his bride, Choi sun-kil, was found
  through arrangement between the couple's parents.

(Pak Chong-hwa)
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History

• In late November 1944, arrested in Seoul on
  suspicion of being a Communist.
• The police beat him and began routine torture to
  force a confession. They held him down and poured
  water laced with red pepper down his nose. They
  pulled him up, tied his wrists behind his back,
  hoisted him in the air and thrashed him in a form
  of torture known as the 'airplane.' He refused to
  confess. Spent 60 days in gaol.

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History

• From 1945 - 1948, Rev. Moon connected to
  spiritually prepared groups.
• Around the end of 1945, he joined Kim Baek-moon's
  spiritual group, who had new revelations about
  the second coming of Christ

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History

• On June 5 1946, Rev. Moon told his wife he was
  going to north Korea to buy rice. He said he
  would be away for about fifteen days. Later his
  wife tried several times, with their baby, to
  come up to join him, but was stopped at the
  border by Soviet soldiers. It would be six years
  before they saw each other again.

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History

• In Pyong Yang, Rev. Moon was led to establish his
  own church group. Many church-goers felt impure
  and stopped sexual relations with their spouse.
  Suspicious husbands and wives came to find out
  what was going on, and would see many men and
  women in the same room, singing and talking
  together for hours, which was very unusual, given
  the strict Korean customs prohibiting contact
  with the opposite sex. Rumours of orgies spread.
• On Aug. 11, 1946, in response to complaints,
  agents came and arrested Rev. Moon.

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History

• When trying to get a message to members of a
  Christian group in the same prison, Rev. Moon was
  caught and severely tortured.
• This incident happened on Sept. 18 1946. He had
  already been held for almost six weeks, during
  which time his interrogators had tried to get him
  to confess to being a spy for the American
  military government which was ruling in south
  Korea.

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History

• For several days during the interrogation, Rev.
  Moon was not given food and not allowed to sleep.
  He was also beaten savagely.
• On Oct 31 he was declared innocent and released.
  His followers were shocked when they found him.
  He had been thrown out into the yard, half dead
  from the beatings, his clothes stuck to his body
  by clotted blood. As they took him home, he was
  vomiting so much blood that they thought he would
  die. There was talk of preparing a funeral.

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History

• The Communists were able to make use of
  inter-religious and inter-denominational
  rivalries.
• The churches realized that, without government
  power, they would not be able to prevent Moon
  from preaching, so they began to write formal
  protests against him. By early 1948, his
  followers say, the Communist authorities had
  received some eighty complaints that Moon was
  swindling Christians, breaking up families and
  committing adultery.

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History

• He was arrested by the police on Feb. 22
• On May 20, 1948, Sun-myung Moon was transferred
  to a labour camp beside the village of Dong-ri
  near the east coast industrial city of Hungnam.

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History

• The file of prisoners was led to a mountain of
  ammonium sulphate which had solidified and had to
  be broken up and bagged in forty kilogram sacks.
  The work would keep them busy for over two years.

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History

• Each ten-man team had to do 700 bags in an 8-hour
  work day. Supper was a handful of boiled grain
  and salty soup. The skin of their fingertips
  peeled off from exposure to the fertilizer.
• People died even while eating.

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History

• Oct. 14 1950, they were released after the
  American Navy bombarded the city.
• After spending 40 days in Pyong Yang to let his
  followers know he had been freed, Rev. Moon, a
  young follower, and a fellow former prisoner who
  had a broken leg, left for the South.

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History

• After an arduous and dangerous trip South, Rev.
  Moon arrived in Pusan, South Korea, on January
  27, 1951.

Refugees scrambling over thedamaged Daedong River
bridge in Pyongyang during the Korean War (Yonhap
News Agency, Seoul)
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History

• The shack Moon built with ration boxes in Pusan
  in 1951.

(HSA-UWC Seoul)
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History

• Kang Hyun-shil, the first evangelist of the
  Unification Church

(HSA-UWC Seoul)
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History

• Met up again with his wife, Choi Sun-kil in Nov.
  1952.
• Wasnt able to have time alone with him.
• She couldnt understand his sense of mission.
• In 1953, he moved to Seoul and she stayed in
  Pusan. She later took out divorce proceedings and
  the marriage was legally ended in 1958.

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History

• Reverend Sun-myung Moon with early followers.
  Moon top left, Eu Won-hyo top right, Kim Won-pil
  bottom center

(HSA-UWC Seoul)
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History

• Sun-myung Moon conducts an out-door worship
  service in South Korea in the early 1950s.

(HSA-UWC Seoul)
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History

• Founded HSAUWC 1st May 1954.

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History

• Later married Han Hak-ja in 1960

(HSA-UWC Seoul)
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Development of the Providence
The Blessing Providence
7yrs

• No unified body of Christianiy.
• John the Baptist figures failed to recognise
  the time they were in
• Again, divisions
• Now on the world level
• NS Korea,
• E/W Germany
• Israel/Palestine
• Communism/Democracy etc

1952
400 yrs preparation
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Development of the Providence
The Blessing Providence
All have to rebuild foundation
Rev Moon HSA 54-97 TPs 60 -2000
2000
97
7yrs
7yrs
HSAUWC mission of bride
1993
40 years
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1952
WFWP started 10th April 1992
Foundation Inherited by Mrs. Moon
400 yrs preparation
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Development of the Providence
The Blessing Providence
2000
Feb 6 1999 IIFWP
97
HSAUWC
July 31 1996 FFWPU
1993
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WFWP started 10th April 1992
Foundation Inherited by Mrs. Moon, true parents
declared
400 yrs preparation
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Service
Media
Development
Inter-religious
Youth
Academics
Peace, Political
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Service
Media
Development
Inter-religious
Youth
Academics
Peace, Political
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Inter-religious Cooperation

• Holy Spirit Association for Unification of World
  Christianity (1954)
• Unification Theological Seminary (1975)

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Inter-religious Cooperation

• New Ecumenical Research Association (1979)
• Youth Seminar on World Religions (1982)
• International Religious Foundation (1983)
• Religious Youth Service (1985)
• 35 nations, 85 service projects, gt5000
  participants

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Inter-religious Cooperation

• Council for the Worlds Religions (1985)
• Assembly of the Worlds Religions (1985)
• Nov 1985. 600 religious leaders from 85 nations
• Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace (1991)
• World Scripture Forward by Professor Ninian
  Smart

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Inter-religious Cooperation
Expansion
interfaith
ecumenical
self
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Peace Among Nations

• Opposition to Atheistic Totalitarianism
• CAUSA Movement (1970s)
• Association for the Unity of Latin America (1984)
• Summit Council for World Peace (1987)
• Federation for World Peace (1991)

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Peace Among Nations

• Federation of Peninsular Nations for World Peace
  (1996)
• Federation of Island Nations for World Peace
  (1996)
• Federation of Continental Nations for World Peace
  (1996)

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Scholars for Peace

• Unification Thought Institute (1972)
• Professors World Peace Academy (1973)
• International Conference on the Unity of the
  Sciences (1968)
• World University Federation (1996)

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Education of Youth

• Collegiate Association for Research of Principles
  (1954)
• Ocean Challenge (1980)
• Sun Moon University (1989)
• Little Angels Fine Arts Academy (1962)
• International Educational Foundation (1990)
• Pure Love Alliance (1995)

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Responsible Moral Media

• NewsWorld Communications (1970s)
• The Sekkai Nippo (1975)
• The World Media Association (1978)
• The Washington Times (1982)
• Atlantic Video (1982)
• The Middle East Times (1983)
• The Segye Ilbo (1989)

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Responsible Moral Media

• Noticias del Mundo (1986)
• World I Magazine (1992)
• Insight Magazine (1992)
• Tiempos del Mundo (1996)
• World Newspaper Project (1997)
• United Press International (2000)

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Humanitarian Service

• International Relief Friendship Foundation (1975)
• Religious Youth Service (1985)
• Womens Federation for World Peace (1992)

China, 1996
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Humanitarian Service
Australia, 2001
Chinautla, Guatemala, 2000
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Humanitarian Service
Kenya Rising, 2001 An Ambassadors for Peace
Initiative by IRFF and RYS
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Development

• Ocean Development
• to help solve world hunger while reducing the
  stress on tropical rainforests and land-based
  resources
• develop technologies to provide a high grade
  protein and nutritional sources that do not
  require refrigeration
• Create markets for under-utilized species

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Development

• Transfer of technologies to developing countries
• boat building
• fishing and fish farming
• fish selling and restaurant businesses
• Women and Development
• Microcredits
• Skills training

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Environmentalism

• Ocean Perspectives (1985)
• Sustainability of the worlds oceans.
• Waterlands Research Institute (1999)
• Dealing with fresh water issues
• Conference on the Preservation of the Pantanal
  (1999)

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Non-Governmental Organizations

• WANGO
• Coordinate Non-Governmental Organizations
• Coordinate Public Service

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IIFWP
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IIFWP
Development
Service
Media
Interreligious
Youth
Peace- CAUSA Heads of State
Academics
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Development of the Providence
The Blessing Providence
2000
1997 3.6M
1975 1800
1982 8000
1988 6500
1963 124
1968 430
1970 777
1961 36
1962 72
1960 1
1995 360K
1992 30K
1945
1992/3
1952
Foundation Inherited by Mrs. Moon, true parents
declared
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Development of the Providence
The Blessing Providence
Feb 2000 10,000 matched 20,000 renewing 450,000
world-wide
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Development of the Providence
The Blessing Providence
Co-officiators Igumen Antoniy (Ukrainian
Orthodox Department of External Church
Relations) Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo(Vatican
City) Sheikh Al Amin Osman (Grand Mufti of
Eritrea) Swamiji Sri Devendrakeerty Bhattarakji
(Spiritual Head of Jains) Rev. Earl Barrett
(General Superintendent of the Church of God in
Christ) Venerable In Gok Hong (President Korean
Buddhist Taegogh Order).
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Development of the Providence
The Blessing Providence
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The Blessing Providence
The Blessing Providence
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Development of the Providence
Aug 20 TPs Declare National foundation
Elder sonship parentship
Gods Kingship
2000
2001
2003
June 99
New 40yrs course
7yrs
1993
TF Aug 31st 1989 Pal Cheon Shik
Settlement Course
Wilderness Course
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Blessing to descendants of Ishmael

• Once national foundation for Abel is made, which
  was never achieved at time of
• United Kingdom of Israel
• Jesus
• Charlemagne
• then Ishmael can gain all of Gods blessing that
  He wants to give world
• - this is the meaning behind the Middle East
  peace Initiative to resolve conflict between
  Ishmael and Isaac

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Middle East Peace Initiative

• Summit of World Muslim Leaders
• Jakarta, London (Aug 3 2002), ongoing

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Middle East Peace Initiative

• Summit of World Muslim Leaders
• Imam Dr. Zaki Badawi Principal of the Muslim
  College, London. The leading moderate Muslim.

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Middle East Peace Initiative

• Summit of World Muslim Leaders
• Former President of SudanHE Sware El Dahab
• President Adurrahman WahidOpening Plenary
  Comments

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Middle East Peace Initiative

• Summit of World Muslim Leaders
• Rev Kwak meets Shaykh Nazimbek Aktazievich
  Iliazov, Deputy Grand Mufti of Russia

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Middle East Peace Initiative
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Middle East Peace Initiative
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Middle East Peace Initiative
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Middle East Peace Initiative
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End
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Some examples of Cain/Abel splits on bloc or
world level

• 1st World War (democratic Christian vs
  totalitarian / anti-Christian)

USA
UK
Germany
Austria
France
Turkey

• 2nd World War (democratic vs totalitarian)

USA
UK
Germany
Japan
France
Italy

• 3rd World War (democratic vs communist)

Democratic
communist