Hak Ja Han
January 2015
True Mother praying at the Universal Seonghwa Ceremony for Sun Myung Moon, the True Parent of Heaven, Earth and Humankind on September 15, 2012 in the Cheongshim Peace World Center
At the first meeting with members from throughout Korea following True Father's ascension, True Mother declared to God, "Until my final breath I shall strive to establish Cheon Il Guk on earth. Father, please help me.
Please do not worry." True Mother has risen above her sorrow at True Father's Seonghwa and proclaimed that we shall advance without stopping toward the establishment of Cheon Il Guk. "Let us create a church," she said, "as it was in the early days, overflowing with the Holy Spirit and the truth. Let us establish True Parents' traditions and perfect the blessed family ideal. Let us complete our mission and responsibilities as tribal messiahs. Let us create a community based on the culture of heart." Following True Father's ascension, True Mother undertook a special forty-day devotional period. During this time, she set the direction of the providence. She encouraged all members by saying, "We shall be well organized and move forward with one heart and one purpose centering on the Principle. Do you understand what I mean? Those who resolve to do so, clap your hands to show it, and to congratulate True Father for his new beginning." Following that worship service on the fortieth day after True Father's ascension, True Mother embarked on a holy ground pilgrimage in the United States. This pilgrimage covered more than 5,600 kilometers (3,500 miles).
February 22, 2013 True Mother proclaiming Cheon Il Guk Foundation Day
True Mother followed a weeklong itinerary and retraced the trail True Father had blazed more than thirty years earlier.
In New York City, she spoke to a large audience of members. "You should greatly repent on behalf of the entire world," she said. "You should pray, saying that you have been dependent on True Father for the past forty years, as if you only struggled along and could not offer much return.
Yet God took pity on his inadequate children. We shall do our utmost.
Please hold on to us once more.
I hope you can become blessed members that can sincerely pray for this, and take action.
The pilgrimage included a meeting with the Korean ambassador to the United Nations and a meeting with UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon.
True Mother took the opportunity to thank Secretary-General Ban for his recent message of condolence.
She introduced him to our peace initiatives and invited his support.
True Mother promulgates the Cheon Il Guk Constitution on the first anniversary of Foundation Day held in the Cheong Shim Peace World Center on February 12, 2014
Overhauling the system
Based on the established foundation and on the repentance of blessed members worldwide, Cheon Il Guk Foundation Day was finally proclaimed on the thirteenth day of the first month on the heavenly calendar in 2013. In the Cheongshim Peace World Center, in a moment reminiscent of the first chapter of Genesis, True Mother said, "I hereby declare to our Heavenly Parent that I have designated this nation Cheon Il Guk, and offer to Heaven the rose and lily as the national flowers, the crane as the national bird, together with the Cheon Il Guk flag and the Cheon Il Guk national anthem. Today, on this, the thirteenth day of the first month of 2013, I proclaim the founding year of Cheon Il Guk!" True Mother instructed all of us to march forward toward the establishment of Cheon Il Guk. She offered her gratitude to heaven and bestowed blessings on humankind. "Heavenly Parent, may glory be with Heaven and may praise and exaltation overflow in all people on earth." Since Foundation Day, members of the global Unification family have been carrying out their missions as tribal messiahs while taking part in various providential initiatives around the globe.
Holy scriptures
The most urgent and important providential task in this time of cosmic revolution was the compilation of the three great scriptural texts, the Holy Scriptures of Cheon Il Guk, which are needed to establish the Cheon Il Guk tradition and to serve as a guide for our members' faith.
The words of loving parents are eternal; they transcend time and space. This is even more so with God's word; it transcends history, transcends ages and eras, transcends ideologies and transcends philosophy.
God's word is more precious than the words of any human being.
The Principle and words of true love, true life and the true lineage are the greatest treasures of all, and are eternal. Cheon Seong Gyeong was revised to include True Parents' speeches from the year 2000 onward.
Pyeong Hwa Gyeong is a compilation of 178 public speeches given in various settings. Cham Bumo Gyeong contains a record of True Parents' life courses and achievements.
True Mother guided the entire process of compiling these holy scriptures herself with profound devotion from beginning to end, including the selection of major themes. Based on True Mother's devotion and with True Father's spiritual guidance, the members of the compilation committee spent countless hours throughout the day and night selecting and compiling appropriate and inspiring passages for each theme.
On the thirteenth day of the first month on the heavenly calendar in 2013, the day Foundation Day was proclaimed, Cheon Seong Gyeong and Pyeong Hwa Gyeong were offered to Heaven. Efforts have accelerated so that Cham Bumo Gyeong can be offered to Heaven as scheduled, on the second anniversary of Foundation Day.
True Mother's joy on the day of the publication of these holy scriptures reflects Heaven's will and the devotion of those on earth.
Earlier, on the anniversary of the founding of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, we had held a ceremony in the Chung Pyung Heaven and Earth Training Center to commemorate the publication of Cheon Seong Gyeong and Pyeong Hwa Gyeong. On that day, June 10, 2013, True Mother explained, "Father's life achievements are like true gems of truth to fallen humanity. I am truly grateful and overjoyed, thinking that the word in its intact form has become beautiful jewels aligned on one thread to form this book, Cheon Seong Gyeong. We are in the position in which from now on we must accelerate our efforts toward the Cheon Il Guk era. I believe that the word will become the center, and become the fruit and the pillar of the substantial Cheon Il Guk. How happy God would be if you could become one with the word and fulfill your responsibilities and missions in your respective positions?" The Japanese and English versions of Cheon Seong Gyeong and Pyeong Hwa Gyeong have been published.
Members are now gradually translating the holy scriptures into other languages.
The more we absorb these holy scriptures, the more we find ourselves in the living Heavenly Parent's presence, where we can revisit the strenuous course of our True Parents, who are guiding all of us toward becoming the human beings envisioned at the time of the Creation.
The Cheon Il Guk Constitution
The Cheon Il Guk Constitution was promulgated on the first anniversary of Foundation Day by True Mother, "I hereby promulgate the Cheon Il Guk Constitution and announce the twelve members of the Supreme Council in front of our Heavenly Parent and all of the cosmos." The Cheon Il Guk Constitution is rooted in the Family Pledge and in God's word. The constitution consists of eleven chapters, 92 articles and 190 clauses. It begins with a preamble overviewing the providence of restoration and the purpose of the constitution's enactment.
The preamble states, "The constitution contains principles, norms and guidelines by which we are to embody the substantial word -- as True Parents have done throughout their lives -- and by which we are to establish and complete Cheon Il Guk. We are to do this through a practical and universal system in daily life, in the family, and in the churches -- on the national and global levels." Regarding this True Mother explained, "Once a nation forms, the norms and laws to be upheld in that nation must be established so that the tradition of attending our Heavenly Parent can be carried on perpetually in future generations.
This will be a unified world centered on God." After the proclamation of Foundation Day, efforts to draft a constitution, which had begun in the early 2000s in response to True Father's guidance, gained speed. Before its promulgation, more than a thousand people from twenty-one nations reviewed the proposed Cheon Il Guk Constitution text in one or more of eight public hearings. They reviewed each word, sentence and paragraph, and corrected and improved them where necessary.
The constitution stipulates the extent of the authority of the Supreme Council and the five organs of the operating body of Cheon Il Guk. These are the Cheon Jeong Won serves as the executive branch, the Cheon Eui Won as the legislative branch and the Cheon Beob Won as the judicial branch. The Cheon Jae Won deals with finances, and the Cheon Gong Won deals with media-related functions.
At the May 10 opening of the international headquarters office in Cheon Jeong Gung, True Mother prayed, "May all the plans drawn up here to accelerate the advancement of Cheon Il Guk manifest through True Parents, who represent Heaven and signify hope for humankind. Father, may you have full control of this place so that it can become the center of manifesting True Parents to the entire world." The administrative office of the Cheon Jeong Won, which for now doubles as the International Headquarters, began operations at Cheon Jeong Gung on May 10, 2014, signaling the beginning of the operations of all five organs.
Raising talented people
True Mother told the incoming class of Universal Peace Academy cadets at their matriculation ceremony on March 4, 2013, "All of you should be reborn through the truth and God's word and become the light of the world. Do you understand what I am saying?... Your names will surely be recorded in the first page of this chapter in history. Your youth and passion shall be fertilizer for Cheon Il Guk's growth. You will become the pillars needed to build Cheon Il Guk." True Mother is unsparing in her interest in and support for raising global talent that can contribute to promoting peace and love in the world. The Universal Peace Academy serves as the cradle for raising future leaders.
The cadets, who are from various nations, wake up at 4:00 AM to begin their day. They will enter the mission field after two years at the academy.
Top Gun workshops took place in Korea and Japan for second-generation members active in public missions.
True Mother joined the Japanese top guns at a ceremony to conclude their workshop, during which they pledged to transform themselves into public leaders of Cheon Il Guk that are prepared for any challenge.
Two special workshops for True Parents' grandchildren and second and third-generation members were held in Hawaii. True Mother's intent is that the young trainees grow up to become the hope for our community through an educational experience in the midst of nature's beauty.
Wonmo Pyeongae Foundation
The Wonmo Pyeongae Foundation is dedicated to nurturing talented people that can spread the culture of sharing in order to realize a peaceful world. True Mother said on the occasion of the conferment of Wonmo Pyeongae scholarships on February 9, "I hope you can partake in this and invest all of your capability toward the fostering of future leaders within this society and those of neighboring nations." Since its launch in February 2013 under the slogan, "Education is the key to enhancing talent, and talented people create the future," the Wonmo Pyeongae Foundation has provided scholarships to thousands of students and has supported a variety of educational projects, and projects that contribute to well-being in society.
The proceeds from the sale of True Parents' helicopter were invested in the raising of global leaders. Members of the Unification community should embody the way of filial piety in responding to True Parents' great love.
True Parents' accomplishments
All of True Parents' deeds, from the smallest of their actions to their work on all levels, shall remain eternally with greater value than anything in history. When we forget history, we have no future. True Mother is emphasizing the importance of historical records and their preservation and is using them to carry on and pay tribute to the traditions and providential history of Cheon Il Guk.
When the elevator doors open onto the History Compilation Committee facilities, visitors see on the glass wall in front of the them, an exact reproduction of a calligraphic message Father wrote on November 15, 1969, "A loyal heart properly records and directs the flow of history." On the second anniversary of True Father's Seonghwa, the History Compilation Committee, which in response to True Parents' guidance has been recording and managing material of providentially historic significance, dedicated True Parents' History Archive.
After unveiling the sign above the door, True Mother offered a prayer of blessing. After the ribboncutting and sanctification of the new facility, True Mother inspected materials categorized under seven major themes.
This facility gathers all the historical material relevant to True Parents' courses, including audio files of True Father's speeches as far back as 1956, material from important events, and records related to blessed families.
The facility not only preserves the records but also allows visitors to view the material. In the future, it will serve as an academy where people can learn about True Parents' lives.
With the opening of True Parents' History Archive, an archiving system for video material is now in full operation.
The History Compilation Committee has stored more than thirty thousand videos. These materials go through a digitalization process to remove any stains and scratches on the film and re-create it in a crisp and clear digital video form.
These historical records will be stored and preserved digitally. In the future, publications, multimedia services and other internet-based services such as PeaceTv will be provided from this single source.
Recently launched initiatives
Currently, efforts are underway to promote the Sunhak Peace Prize and construction of the Cheonji Sunhak Won, which aims to pay tribute to True Parents' lives, their expressions of true love and their peace-centric philosophy.
The Sunhak Peace Prize Committee has begun publicizing the prize, and preparations to present it for the first time, at True Father's Seonghwa anniversary in 2015, are going ahead.
True Mother, said of this, "The Wonmo Pyeongae Foundation will continue its work to establish the Sunhak Peace Prize, which could surpass the Nobel Peace Prize. As a group that works for the will of Heaven and peace for humanity instead of the honor of an individual or group, the Wonmo Pyeongae Foundation will come to be in a historic position." The Cheonji Sunhak Won will be an educational hall highlighting True Parents' lives and achievements.
Mother expects it to be completed by 2020 on eleven acres of land near Cheon Jeong Gung. It will utilize state-of-the-art technology and serve as a venue for a variety of cultural performances and conventions.
The facility will contain depictions of major chapters in True Parents' life courses and will seek to represent their intense efforts to liberate God and to save humankind and their contributions to a peaceful world.
As Mother said on November 12, at Cheon Jeong Gung, "Church members from the early years will remember True Father saying this fifty years ago: 'There will come a day when boats will line up endlessly to land on Busan's shores, and when endless lines of people face wherever True Parents are.' Does this feel real to you?
You have to make this a reality. In that sense, the Cheonji Sunhak Won museum should be a futuristic, multipurpose, cultural space. It should be a place where whoever enters would want to sign up to become a member by the time they exit."
Some of True Mother's 2014 speeches
True Mother's five-city speaking tour in Japan, began right after Foundation Day. While reminding them of their mission, True Mother comforted the Japanese members who have offered themselves full-time for God's will.
"A mother should embrace all her children around the world.
She should embrace and educate her children, introducing True Father to them and guiding them into True Parents' bosom. Such a responsibility is a blessing bestowed on Japan by Heaven." True Mother's profound wish for our Heavenly Parent's grace and True Parents' love to embrace all humankind spread throughout Japan.
"True Parents have perfected, completed and concluded all aspects of the providential history of restoration through indemnity. You must guide your neighbors and your nations who are unaware of God's will so that they can unite with the will of our Heavenly Parent and True Parents. I pray that you become people who can hasten the coming of that day." In response to True Mother's speaking tour, Japanese members pledged to succeed at bringing Vision 2020 into concrete existence and to transforming Japan into the true mother nation.
True Mother also presided over a number of global worship services and meetings at the Chung Pyung Peace World Center and Cheon Jeong Gung, while promoting campaigns for peace and unification throughout the world.
The Unification movement is leading the way toward the reunification of the two Koreas. Peace initiatives through mountain hiking clubs and ambassadors for peace continue.
Whenever signs arise of hostilities anywhere in our global village, True Mother conveys Heaven's message to help ease these disputes.
At the end of 2013, when conflicts in the relationship between the four powerful nations that have a stake in the Korean situation emerged, a peace conference was organized. "If neighboring nations in Asia can unite under the spirit of loving Heaven, loving humankind and loving one's nation," she told the assembled guests, "I am sure that peace can spread from Asia to the world. Isn't that so?" She continued, "If blessed members of the Unification community and ambassadors for peace can promote internal stability, taking the lead in the true family movement and pure love movement, these efforts can actually become a force to prevent the destructive influence of juvenile delinquency and breakdown of families that is afflicting the entire world." The Segye Times and the government in Gyeong-gi Province are jointly promoting the idea of having the United Nations' fifth headquarters established in Korea. A symposium was held at the end of October in Geneva, Switzerland, to rally international public opinion around this idea.
The UN has offices in New York City, Geneva, Vienna, and Nairobi. If a fifth office were installed in Korea's Demilitarized Zone, it could play an important role in bringing about peace between the two Koreas.
Major events, media coverage
Glory to heaven, blessings on earth!
Through the commemoration of Foundation Day and the anniversary of True Father's Seonghwa, members of the Unification community pooled their efforts in organizing various events to highlight our True Parents' lifetime achievements.
We held a Blessing Ceremony on Foundation Day, elevating it as a festival for all people. The anniversary of True Father's Seonghwa is finding its place as a day for paying tribute to True Parents' philosophy of peace.
The World Summit brings together heads of state, former heads of state and other leaders to explore ways to bring everlasting peace and to influence current affairs based on True Parents' teachings.
"Today, it is not possible to claim happiness, freedom and peace while only pursuing one's own national interests.
Many national borders exist.
We witness racial and religious conflict and are surrounded by innumerable barriers. We must communicate with one another. To do that, we must have one center, one goal. We can create one united world that our Heavenly Parent, True Parents and all of humankind desire.
Media coverage
Local and foreign media have shown great interest in True Parents' lives and major events along the way. Since True Father's Seonghwa, various media channels have portrayed our movement in a positive light. ABC in the United States broadcast the Blessing Ceremony in 2014; Channel 4 from Great Britain had covered the Blessing Ceremony the year before. Al Jazeera proposed doing a fifteen minute special but actually devoted fifty minutes of special coverage to our movement.
In Korea, SBS and MBCnet have featured documentaries on our movement's peace and unification initiatives, True Father's South America providence and our cultural and artistic activities. Recently, the media has covered projects initiated under True Mother's leadership, including the compilation of the holy scriptures, the Sunhak Peace Prize and the reorganization of our movement in Korea.
True Peace magazine
This is an era when everyone can connect within one second through the internet! Responding to the need to bring together our worldwide movement, PeaceTv began publishing True Peace magazine every month in five languages. News from the mission nations around the world and True Parents' speeches are projected through multi-media outlets, so that they can reach our members throughout the globe. True Peace magazine and PeaceTV aim to become useful companions for our members, helping to create a community of heart by immediately conveying True Parents' objectives and those in the field.
True Mother naturally sees recently developments in light of True Parents' historic significance. "The external world of today is a world of extreme speed. Members can connect to what I am saying here in a blink.
Heaven has developed civilization for us and for humanity to this degree; hence, please make good use of these developments, fulfill your tribal messiah mission and restore your nation and the world."
Regional reorganization
True Mother instructed that we reorganize the administration of the regions of the world based on language groups.
In addition to the existing ten regions, the greater China Region came into being and the Central America Region spun off from the South America Region. Africa divided into the East Africa Region and West Africa Region.
True Mother appointed eight special emissaries with the assignment of reinvigorating mission work globally and focusing their efforts on reaching out to leaders in society. She said of this, "I appointed special emissaries so that they can embrace the regions and the world. They will actually work with you in dealing with all the problems in the field and in testifying about True Parents to the world and all humankind."
Prayer, high in the Alps
After confirming our global members' determination to create Cheon Il Guk, beginning with the special emissaries, True Mother went on a seventeen-day course in the Alps to contemplate the new providence.
True Mother visited twelve peaks in the Swiss Alps. Every day, True Mother spent her time hiking in the mountains and conducting Hoon Dok reading of Cham Bumo Gyeong. While reading Cham Bumo Gyeong, she reflected on each moment in True Parents' lives. She then decided to have the text reorganized to make it easier to understand and to add new content not originally planned for inclusion.
Although, at times she found it difficult to walk because of the lack of oxygen in the alpine region, she kept her gaze on Heaven while contemplating the establishment of Cheon Il Guk and the well-being of our blessed families around the world.
On June 14, she revealed a deep aspect of God's providence through True Parents when she spoke after Hoon Dok Hae at Cheon Jeong Gung.
"God carried out the providence of restoration through indemnity using the Israelites for four thousand years, for the purpose of restoring a lineage untainted by the Fall," she said, "leading to the birth of Jesus Christ, God's only-begotten son. Would Heaven have only created his only-begotten son? God also created his only-begotten daughter." True Mother has explained that while True Father is the third Adam and God's only-begotten son, True Mother is the substantial body of the Holy Spirit, the third Eve and God's only-begotten daughter.
After returning from her time of offering devotion in the Alps, True Mother further explained the stature and significance of God's only-begotten daughter, which until now we have not emphasized much in our theology.
Be heavenly tribal messiahs
True Parents have passed on their realm of cosmic victory and tradition to us and blessed each of us to become a true parent, true teacher and true owner of our respective tribes.
When True Mother learned that two couples had restored 430 couples from their tribe, she organized a world level celebration. She used this as an opportunity to remind all blessed families of her desire that we fulfill our mission as tribal messiahs and to become noble families.
She spoke directly to our hearts when she said, "We have commemorated the second anniversary of True Father's ascension and are heading toward the third anniversary. At this point, what should we be determined to do? In his final prayer, as he was leaving us, Father asked that we fulfill our responsibilities as tribal messiahs.
How seriously have you been putting that into practice in your lives?" True Mother's voice broke out of her fervent desire for members to awaken from their slumber. How many times have we talked of our resolve to restore our tribes? Hearts filled with repentance.
Yet, True Mother inspired optimism in all that came to hear her that day. "The tribal messiah movement is now surging beyond Thailand and the Philippines to other nations in Asia. It is sweeping across the regions of Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Oceania and the Middle East. In the wake of this great current, countless people will experience rebirth." Representative members responded with the reading of a firm resolution on that October 26 day: Let us find one heart, one body, one mind-set, one harmony! We desire to become one with True Parents. We believe all members can become the light of their tribes, if blessed families can make God's will the goal of their lives and live in that way. We resolve that until the day we die we'll strive to become pillars of Cheon Il Guk; people that forgive, love and unite in order to establish a unified world that attends our Heavenly Parent, in a free, peaceful, united and happy Cheon Il Guk of freedom. This we resolve. This we resolve!
Thinking of my friend
It is spring in Cheon Il Guk, where love is overflowing all year round.
True Parents want to convey their united hearts through song. True Mother's sings as she guides the providence while thinking of True Father in the heavenly world.
Her responsible lifestyle
Unknown to the members, True Mother has spent many sleepless nights offering conditions, while feeling concerned about the establishment of Cheon Il Guk, and the well-being of blessed families. Forgive, love, unite: True Mother is asking all of us to be reborn as tribal messiahs that can spread the true love FLU forgiveness, love and unity -- to every cell in our bodies.
Look to nature
Over the course of several months, monarch butterflies fly more than five thousand kilometers to a place they have never been before. Cranes fly over the Himalayas while braving the harsh winds and even threats from eagles. Let us learn from nature's example and follow the path of a tribal messiah while investing everything we have as we walk in True Parents' footsteps. Young people are seeking to restore 430 couples! Investing ourselves until our last breath to establish Cheon Il Guk is our heavenly mandate.
