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An Overview of Unification Principle

An Overview of Unification Principle. Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Life Course. History. Born in 1920 Remains of the Moon home in Sangsa-ri in the west of present day North Korea. (HSA-UWC, Seoul). History. April 17, 1935, he was praying on a hill near his home, when Jesus appeared to him.

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An Overview of Unification Principle

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  1. An Overview of Unification Principle Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Life Course

  2. History • Born in 1920 • Remains of the Moon home in Sangsa-ri in the west of present day North Korea (HSA-UWC, Seoul)

  3. 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

  4. 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)

  5. History • The young Moon went to school in Seoul from 1938-1941. • cooking for fellow lodgers. (HSA-UWC, Seoul)

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

  7. 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)

  8. 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.

  9. 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

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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)

  20. History • The shack Moon built with ration boxes in Pusan in 1951. (HSA-UWC Seoul)

  21. History • Kang Hyun-shil, the first evangelist of the Unification Church (HSA-UWC Seoul)

  22. History • Met up again with his wife, Choi Sun-kil in Nov. 1952. • Wasn’t able to have time alone with him. • She couldn’t 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.

  23. History • Reverend Sun-myung Moon with early followers. Moon top left, Eu Won-hyo top right, Kim Won-pil bottom center (HSA-UWC Seoul)

  24. History • Sun-myung Moon conducts an out-door worship service in South Korea in the early 1950s. (HSA-UWC Seoul)

  25. History • Founded HSAUWC 1st May 1954.

  26. History • Later married Han Hak-ja in 1960 (HSA-UWC Seoul)

  27. 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

  28. 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 ‘54 ~40 years 1952 WFWP started 10th April 1992 Foundation Inherited by Mrs. Moon 400 yrs preparation

  29. Development of the Providence: The Blessing Providence 2000 Feb 6 1999 IIFWP ‘97 HSAUWC July 31 1996 FFWPU 1993 ‘54 WFWP started 10th April 1992 Foundation Inherited by Mrs. Moon, true parents declared 400 yrs preparation

  30. Service Media Development Inter-religious Youth Academics “Peace”, “Political”

  31. Service Media Development Inter-religious Youth Academics “Peace”, “Political”

  32. Inter-religious Cooperation • Holy Spirit Association for Unification of World Christianity (1954) • Unification Theological Seminary (1975)

  33. 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, >5000 participants

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

  35. IRFWP 1991 AWR 1985 CWR 1985 RYS 1985 IRF 1983 YSWR 1982 New Era 1979 UTS 1975 HSAUWC 1954 Inter-religious Cooperation Expansion interfaith ecumenical self

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

  37. 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)

  38. 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)

  39. 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)

  40. 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)

  41. 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)

  42. Humanitarian Service • International Relief Friendship Foundation (1975) • Religious Youth Service (1985) • Women’s Federation for World Peace (1992) China, 1996

  43. Humanitarian Service Australia, 2001 Chinautla, Guatemala, 2000

  44. Humanitarian Service Kenya Rising, 2001 An Ambassadors for Peace Initiative by IRFF and RYS

  45. 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

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

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

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

  49. Development Service Media Inter-religious Youth “Peace”- CAUSA Heads of State Academics IIFWP

  50. IIFWP Development Service Media Interreligious Youth “Peace”- CAUSA Heads of State Academics

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