SUN MYUNG MOON: Unification Church

The Only Begotten Daughter: Restoring True Love in the World

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True Mother as the

ONLY BEGOTTEN

DAUGHTER

The term "Only Begotten Daughter" appears 180 times in Rev. Moon's words. Theologically, it means "The first one born without sin", "Begotten from God." Only one who is born without sin could reach Perfection... for anyone else is an easy prey for Satan.

"No one who is begotten from God commits sin." 1 John 3:9

In Rev. Moon's teachings, the very concept of True Parents is "the first sinless couple giving Rebirth to the whole of humanity"; signifying that "sinless Bride, prepared by God" has to appear (Rev. 19:7). We don't understand what is 'born without sin' in actuality, but we can see some of the conditions for Mother's birth and read Father's explanations:

"Blessed marriage and eternal life begins from True Parents. They cannot exist without True Parents." CSG p.758

The Divine Principle explains, that she is the fruit of 2000 years indemnity, expressing for the first time God's Feminine Characteristics. Meaning; if the previous 2000 years were for Jesus to be born sinless; the last 2000 years were for a Bride to be born sinless.

"Why couldn’t Jesus enter heaven.. can only enter heaven when.. stand with his spouse in the position of unfallen Adam and Eve as the parents of humanity.. However, Jesus came and went alone.. thus he could not enter heaven and instead went to paradise. He is in a place for waiting before entering heaven." CSG

Thus restoration continued, to prepare "The Only Begotten Daughter". Read, True Mother's Mission as the Holy Spirit. However, the fruit of Christianity (the bride) was not enough pure and Satan could invade it. Meaning, the conditions made in 6000 years of restoration, was not yet enough to give birth to sinless daughter. Think seriously how important was for Father to find daughter in which no trace of Satan persists.

"You must understand that God can never comfortably dwell in a place where even small traces of Satan persist." CSG

To open the way for men to be liberated from Satan, Jesus was the first to reach individual perfection. To open the way for women, TM is the first to reach perfection. But DP says, individual perfection is not enough; To open the way for true families, True Parents are the first.

"A father alone cannot give birth to children. There must be a True Mother, as well as a True Father, for fallen children to be reborn as good children." DP 146

If you study Rev. Moon's course you'll find out that Mother Hak Ja Han is born sinless based on Father's successful indemnity and that of the churches prepared to accept him. Add the conditions made by the Han tribe and that she is born in 3 generations prepared daughters. You can clearly see that there are cosmic, national, tribal, family and personal conditions guarantying that Satan will have no foundation to invade her. This fact is visible when you compare her unity with Father and how vulnerable was the 1st wife. Mother's victory was not once ceremony, one prayer (as SC see it); it was a lifetime of unwavering obedience, love and dedication to God's Will.

"Since the invisible God has no physical body, the True Parents are His incarnation... In the future, God will appear in the form of the True Parents in the spirit world." CSG p. 935

What is to be Sinless

To explain what's sinless, let me use the studies of vibrations, Father talked about. Every person has certain vibrational energy around himself (Aura). This energy reflects the combined informational field of all your cells (connected to your ancestors), Father explained.

I have this ability to sense this vibrations. When I scan it, I can observe the whole lineage of the person; find any past problems that need to be resolved, so that the person can be liberated from the destructive vibrations, attracting low spirits.

To be free of Satan's attacks, a person should not have vibrations attracting such low spirits. But this means that the ancestors connected to him, have to be liberated. Scientific studies, in exact accordance with Father's instructions, show that a person is influenced by evil spirits when the Resonance of his Heart is below 250 Hz. Spiritual growth starts from that point.

If 'sin' is the common base with Satan, you can see on the chart, that being in resonance under 100 automatically puts you in contact with low spirits - so it's a sin. And you see it how it changes downwards vibrationally; fear is 100, but it leads you down to Doubts and Painful heart, which may turn you negative, rebellious, resentful (like H2). But when a person is in resonance of Love (500 Hz), he is in the Completion Stage; the evil influence has no common base with you. Read, Spiritual Heart

Born sinless, does not signify 100% of the lineage purified before birth. Let's say God's work of restoration was to purify 80-90 percent, and one has to grow afterwords and restore the rest. In Mother's case, she is born and raised based on Father's victories, not just the Christian foundation.

Once born based on history of purification, one needs to grow first to Individual Perfection, then Family, National, Tribal and World level. Explaining that in Resonance; Individual perfection is to go beyond 400 Hz. (Top of the Grouth Stage). At the Resonance of 500 Hz one elevates the hearts 10 000; 600 Hz (10 mill.); 700 Hz (70 mill.). Read, . You see why Father directed to study these vibrations; they show the principles of growth; they show that perfection is all about our Hearts:

"The individual perfection.. is not the absolute and complete perfection of the individual... They have not experienced the great power of loving each other so much that the husband cannot give up his wife and the wife cannot give up her husband even in exchange for the universe. The love they share is so strong that it can hold heaven and earth together." (Father, CSG)

That's why there were many declarations where Father proclaimed that Mother reached each of these levels. But the final level of God's liberation was the Foundation Day, when Heaven (centered on Father) and Earth (centered on Mother) were united for the first time. This is when for the first time Heaven and Earth stand united; Thus God's Kingdom (CIG) could start.

"In the Kingdom of Heaven, God’s direction will be conveyed to all His children through the True Parents of humankind, guiding everyone to live as one." DP p. 46

Naturally TP's direction can be transmitted only through children who are united with them, not those who do everything to deny them, divorce them etc. And if you look at the difference of heart; the problem with SC is all about "vibrational mismatch". In SC videos we see resonance of fear, doubts, negativity, while in Mother's speeches we see God's heart and love. Those with low resonance see only negativity and doomsday, those with high resonance see the building of God's Kingdom. Where are you; depends on your lineage's combined vibrational field. Thus I see SC only as a resurrection phenomena. Father said:

"Billions of spirits are on the attack to take hold over the physical world... After the year 2000, people will be able to communicate with each other spiritually. Whether they communicate with evil or good spirits, they may fight." CSG

Mother is the Only Begotten Daughter
CSG Quotes about God’s only begotten son and daughter

Father is clear: "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.. 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." CSG p.180

MOTHER IS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN DAUGHTER
(1) It would be disaster if Father was alone
(2) There is an only begotten daughter (Mother)
(3) Only than God can rejoice
(4) Give birth to children on earth for tribe to begin

Father said that Jesus is the Only Begotten Son and that Mother is the only Begotten Daughter born 2000 years later without original sin. Father says, he didn't need to be born without sin, just had to inherit Jesus foundation, but Mother, as the first restored woman, had to be born of pure lineage... These are all Father's explanations.

"You cannot go to the kingdom of heaven alone. You can enter the gates of heaven only after you have your ideal object partner." CSG p. 759

And few more things we should not forget; We accept no divorce and we are responsible for our partner to save him even from hell:

"The members of a blessed family cannot be separated from each other no matter how hard they try.. if the wife failed to fulfill her responsibility, the husband must take joint responsibility and resolve this." CSG p. 761

Mother's role was crucial

"Were it not for the Fall, heaven would have been a place to which God’s only begotten son and daughter would have gone after creating His family and living in His love. Heaven is to be entered by families, not individuals." CSG p.648

(1) God’s only begotten son and daughter are the first couple in God's love.
(2) Father, as individual cannot enter Heaven. He needs only begotten daughter.

"In that regard, heaven is vacant.. The loss of Adam and Eve meant the loss of their clan.. He lost the heavenly race and tribe, and the heavenly man and woman – His only begotten son and daughter." CSG p.648

(1) If there is no only begotten couple (TP) heaven is vacant
(2) If TM didn't fulfill her mission, no clan, no lineage, no TC will appear

This was Father's mission, to restore that loss, to restore only begotten daughter and the first true family, clan and nation. Mother's help and role was crucial all the way. Especially now, when she, united with Father in the sp.w. unites the Cosmos to establish God's first restored nation, CIG.

Mother United with Father's Vision

We see Mother constantly talk and mobilizing us about that. Read to see a glimpse into the great work Family Federation is doing on world level, following Father's vision. We see God's Ideal being realized in front of our eyes with amazing speed, through the guidance of TM.

"Our own Unification Church members put up opposition saying women can't do anything.. but then True Mother stepped forward.. Therefore, I declared the arrival of the era of women. Wait and see if the age of women comes now or not." (Father CSG1, 1992.7.31)

Mother's victory is the first in history and the model for all women. If denying this fact Sanctuary Church will deny all Father's teachings and achievements. Father himself said, "the “only begotten son” needed to find the “only begotten daughter.” Father also said:

"You have been born through True Mother. Remember that the favor bestowed by the True Parents is a great blessing that cannot be exchanged for anything in the whole universe." Father, CSG

THE FRUITS of True Parents' LOVE
From the article, A VERY HOPEFUL and inspiring REPORT

Jesus said, that we will recognize the Messiah, by his fruits. There is no higher evidence for the victory of True Parents, then the way they are restoring humanity and building the World of Love and Peace.

"The new era is beginning in which the kingdom of heaven on earth and in heaven is substantially spreading out before your very eyes, and when there is no longer the need to distinguish between the True Parents who work as the embodiment of God and the incorporeal God Himself." TF, 1.6.2009

Amazing community is now forming around CP Lake. You see a new pure, happy and creative culture rising among the thousands of second gen. children living and studying there. And this is only a glimpse into what's coming in near future, when big communities of few generations start appearing everywhere around the world.

The First Model Nation until 2020

"The time will come when millions of people will be witnessed to in a day. The Unification Church has such tremendous potential." CSG

Number of nations already educating their citizens in the Culture of Heart. In special-chosen nations rural areas with 80 to 100 % Blessed families. The Culture of Heart spreads like fire. Close to 400 families already fulfilled the Tribal Messiah mission to Bless and Educate 430 couples.

"God’s world is one based on the culture of heart. It is one unified extended family centered upon the one love of God. As such, the five races should live as one big family, with no one above or below others. Such a time is coming." Sun Myung Moon, CSG p. 1533

The magic happens in so many nations; Some Buddhist, some are Hindu or other religion... yet Tribal Blessings and the spread of the Culture of Heart is happening very fast. With the current temps of education... the estimates are 10 mill. new Blessed Families educated until 2020. But there are many additional effects... Already a Christian Leader, after going through 40 day WS, is teaching DP in his church. He alone has millions of followers. They started using Family Pledge and TP's picture.

World Leaders and Governess Supporting Actively

At the moment there are around 50 chosen nations. 13 of them are selected as special - since the education of their citizens is going with great speed. Thousands of high official and VIP underwent 3 day and 7 day workshops on DP (Divine Principle). 700 world leaders have come to Korea for the World Summit Conference on Peace. We have the report of nations that have 60% of their government officials educated in DP workshops.The list of worldwide activities for Peace of UPF has no end and surpasses any effort of UN or any government. (Read full text)

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Life of Rev. Moon, Washington Times founder

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Washington Times founder Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of Unification Church, Family Federation for Peace, FFWPU
Rev. Moon, Times founder
Washington Times founder Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of Unification Church, Family Federation for Peace, FFWPU

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times - Sunday, September 2, 2012

The Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the Unification Movement and founder of The Washington Times, descended to spirit world surrounded by family, friends and followers, according to Unification Church leaders. on Monday in South Korea. He was 94 (Korean counting).

Rev. Joshua Cotter, vice president of the Unification Church USA, said that “the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, revered by millions as the Messiah and True Parent, who was born in Korea but who lived more than 40 years in America … has ascended.”

He was leading the fastest growing worldwide religious movement that he founded in South Korea in 1954, and expanded it to world wide level in less than 40 yrs. Rev. Moon is known for his anti-communist cause during the Cold War. He promoted the biggest in history international and interfaith peace activities. Dr. Moon strongly advocated a pro-marriage, pro-family culture, inspiring millions of couples to create model families of true love, that will change the world.

“His vision of sacred marriage, of the formation of ideal families and a world of peace has been taken up by millions of people around the world and a second and third generation of Unificationists,” Mr. Cotter said.

Thomas P. McDevitt, president of The Washington Times, said, “words cannot convey my heart at this time. Rev. Sun Myung Moon has long loved America, and he believed in the need for a powerful free press to convey accurate information and moral values to people in a free world. The Washington Times stands as a tangible expression of those two loves.”

During Rev. Moon’s illness, wife Hak Ja Han Moon urged members not to grieve but “continue on unwaveringly.” “Please take heart that, for us, there is no stopping on the way,” she said, on the church’s Tongil Group website.

A visionary businessman and lifelong champion of the free press, Rev. Moon founded newspapers, magazines, electronic media outlets and digital publications in the U.S., Japan, South Korea and many Latin American, African and European countries.

“As controversial as Rev. Moon was in the United States, I got to know him as a man whose heart was focused on bringing together people of different faiths to bridge divides. His call on people of faith to serve others is an important legacy,” said Neil Bush, chairman of Points of Light and son of former President George H.W. Bush.

“He will always be remembered as the embodiment of loving and sharing without limits, sacrifice and suffering without limits, courage and service without limits — and all this not for family, race, community or nation, but for humankind as a whole,” said Ambassador K.V. Rajan, former secretary of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs.

The energetic religious founder traveled the world numerous times and went on speaking tours as recently as 2011. He created hundreds of organizations and met with countless world leaders, notably such communist leaders as former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and North Korea’s Kim Il-sung.

He overcame death in July 2008, when his family survived a helicopter crash in Korea. Rev. Moon’s teachings faced criticism, misunderstanding and persecution. He was jailed six times, and survived numerous beatings and a North Korean labor camp.

“I am a controversial person,” Rev. Moon wrote in his 2009 autobiography, “As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen.” The world “has associated many different phrases with my name, rejected me, and thrown stones at me. Not knowing what I say or what I do.. they only opposed me,” he wrote. “Today, though, not even the slightest wound remains in my heart. … True love is a love that forgets it already gave love, and gives love again.”

Rev. Moon became widely known to Americans in the 1970s during his rallies across the country, and especially those at Yankee Stadium and the Washington Monument in 1976. America was in “moral decline,” Rev. Moon wrote in his autobiography, “and [I] played the role of a fireman responding to a call in an effort to reawaken its Puritan spirit.”

But accusations made Rev. Moon the target of repeated investigations. In 1982, Rev. Moon was falsely convicted and served 13 months in federal prison. Later recognized as unfare and declared innocent. Thousands of Christian Ministers came in his support, saying the can be charged with the same.

Prolific founder

Despite these attacks, Rev. Moon established numerous nonprofit organizations, including the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification and the Universal Peace Federation. Now with high standing in the UN.

He also launched business interests in industries such as shipbuilding, industrial machinery, stoneware, fishing and seafood products, computer software, ginseng tea and other health products, soft drinks, arts and cultural schools, newspapers in several countries and car factories in China and North Korea. In 1992, the church rescued the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut from bankruptcy with a loan reported at $60 million.

A passionate fisherman, Rev. Moon inspired “Ocean Challenge” programs for youths and fishing tournaments in places such as Gloucester, Mass.; Alaska; and Hawaii. In 2011, he launched a marine company in Las Vegas to make a new kind of leisure craft.

Rev. Moon also founded numerous international, interfaith service groups, such as the International Relief Friendship Foundation, Religious Youth Service and Service for Peace, and sponsored thousands of conferences on world peace, family and interfaith issues. National leaders including former Presidents Gerald R. Ford and George H.W. Bush addressed some of these conferences.

“My peace plan starts from the level of the individual,” Rev. Moon once said. “First we must find peace with God, then peace with our fellow man, and finally we can secure world peace.”

His belief in the divine significance of marriage was the rationale behind the Unification Church’s most famous events — the mass public “blessings” for both newlyweds (including church members whom Rev. Moon matched together) and married couples of all religions renewing their vows.

“What is the blessing? It is to possess God’s love, God’s son or daughter, and then all the universe,” Rev. Moonexplained at a 1975 matching ceremony.

Early years

Rev. Moon was born Jan. 6, 1920, in Sangsa Ri village in Pyongan province, now part of North Korea. His family members were poor farmers who joined the Presbyterian Church when he was 10. Rev. Moon embraced his conversion deeply and often lamented about the world of perpetual suffering he saw in Japanese-occupied Korea.

On Easter Sunday 1935, when he was 15, Rev. Moon would later say, he was praying on a Korean mountaintop when Jesus Christ appeared to him and asked him to fulfill his life’s work. Rev. Moon refused twice, but when Jesus asked him a third time to accept the mission, the teenager promised, “I will do it.”

For nine years, he studied, prayed and fasted to understand his mission. In 1943, he married his first wife, Seon-Gil Choi, and worked as an electrical engineer to support their son. But in 1946, he suddenly left his home to go to Pyongyang, North Korea, where Christianity and communism were colliding. He later said he was heeding God’s call.

There, he established himself as a spiritual leader, but was arrested after Christian clergy complained to police and accused him of being a spy from the South. During one arrest, he was tortured and left for dead outside the prison. His followers nursed him back to health.

In 1948, the same year he was expelled by the Presbyterians, Rev. Moon was arrested again by North Korean communists and imprisoned in the Heungnam labor camp.

Life expectancy in the camp was only a few months, but Rev. Moon persevered until 1950, when United Nations forces, under Gen. Douglas MacArthur, liberated the camp in October, on the eve of his scheduled execution. In the early 1980s, Rev. Moon financed the feature film “Inchon” to honor the U.S. war hero, who was played by Laurence Olivier.

In December 1950, Rev. Moon walked 500 miles south to Pusan, South Korea, where he and a small group of followers built a church from discarded U.S. military supply crates.

‘Divine Principle’

It was in Pusan where Rev. Moon committed his theology to writing, in a volume called “Wolli Wonbon,” or the “Divine Principle.” In that volume, based on years of intense biblical study, he explains that God, as the Original Parent of all mankind, has been grieving for His lost children since the Fall of Man.

The Divine Principle further explains the events of the Fall, the existence of evil, and how God has been working through human history to reclaim heaven and earth through a formula called the providence of restoration. God’s followers are called to live lives of true love, public service and work to bring peace among religions.

In 1953, Rev. Moon moved to Seoul where, the next year, he registered his church as the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity — generally known as the Unification Church. By 1957, Unification churches were established in 30 Korean cities and towns. In 1958, the church’s first missionary went to Japan; in 1959, the first Unificationist missionaries arrived in America. He later sent missionaries to every country in the world.

Rev. Moon’s marriage to Seon-Gil Choi ended in 1958 after she filed for divorce.

In 1960, Rev. Moon married Hak Ja Han. The couple eventually had 14 children, and are revered by church members as the “True Parents.”

Beginning in 1960, Rev. Moon matched and married his earliest followers with their consent. The ceremonies, which the faithful believe release them from the bondage of original sin, grew to include 2,075 couples in Madison Square Garden in 1982. Over the years, these “blessing ceremonies,” the most recent occurring in March, have involved millions of couples either in stadiums or via satellite.

Rev. Moon first traveled to the United States in 1965 for a five-month visit, during which he toured the country and spent three months in the Washington home of Bo Hi Pak, a South Korean diplomat and Unification Church member. Rev. Moon returned to the U.S. in 1969 and, in 1971, moved the missionary headquarters of his church to Westchester County, N.Y.

In 1972, Rev. Moon began a seven-city U.S. evangelical tour with a “Day of Hope Rally” at New York City’s Lincoln Center. He continued his public appearances over the next two years, speaking on the theme of “Christianity in Crisis,” including a Sept. 18, 1974, event at Madison Square Garden in New York.

In November 1973, Rev. Moon had taken out newspaper ads urging Americans to “forgive, love and unite” in the face of the crisis created by the Watergate scandal. That led to a Feb. 1, 1974, Oval Office meeting between President Richard M. Nixon and Rev. Moon.

False Accusations

After Rev. Moon associated himself with Nixon, his religious movement began to be regarded as politically controversial. Critics began charging the Unification Church with “brainwashing” its members.

“Liberals in America, especially those who sympathized with international communism, felt particularly threatened by Rev. Moon’s appearance on the national scene,” Mr. Pak later wrote. “They feared that Rev. Moon could become a major threat, and so they came together to form an anti-Rev. Moon movement.”

During the 1970s, the Unification Church in America attracted many young adults. These converts often lived communally, witnessing, lecturing or raising money for the church’s projects. This attracted the attention of established religious organizations. Some parents of new members complained that the church prohibited contact between young converts and their families. In some cases, parents arranged to have young people abducted from Unification training centers and “deprogrammed.”

“I have never divided families or broken homes,” and the accusations of brainwashing are “nonsense,” Rev. Moon told theologian Frederick Sontag in a 1977 book about the church.

In 1977, a House subcommittee on international organizations began investigating the Unification Church. Rep. Donald Fraser, Minnesota Democrat, charged that the church was a lobbying organization for the South Korean government.

Although the congressional investigation failed to find any wrongdoing by Rev. Moon or the church, the Internal Revenue Service in 1981 obtained an indictment against Rev. Moon for income-tax evasion. The IRS charged that Rev. Moon failed to declare $112,000 in interest and $50,000 in corporate stock. Rev. Moon’s defense asserted that the assets were not Rev. Moon‘s, but were held in trust for the Japanese Unification Church.

A jury found Rev. Moon guilty of not paying about $7,500 of tax on interest income, and he was sentenced to 18 months in Danbury Federal Correctional Institution, a sentence he began serving in July 1984. With time off for good behavior, he was formally released Aug. 2, 1985, after serving 13 months. More than 2,000 clergymen welcomed Rev. Moon at a banquet in Washington that night.

‘Landslide’ predicted

Even as he faced investigations and imprisonment, Rev. Moon embarked on a new aspect of his public career. He had declared that “only the United States can protect the democratic world against the threat of communism,” and warned that President Jimmy Carter’s “naivete” about that threat would soon lead to “world communization.”

His aide, Mr. Pak, later recalled that Rev. Moon prayed for an American president who would “stop the marching tide of communism,” and that Rev. Moon one day told him: “The next president of the United States will hold the fate of the world in his hands, and Heaven has chosen Ronald Reagan.”

Unification Church members actively supported the Reagan campaign in 1980 and, at Rev. Moon’s direction, Mr. Pak arranged a meeting with Reagan in Toledo, Ohio. Greeting the candidate as “President Reagan,” Mr. Pak recalled, he told the Republican challenger: “God has already decided on you as the next president.”

Reagan, according to Mr. Pak, was “taken aback” by the statement and asked him: “What did you say? Who on earth told you that?”

After he explained Rev. Moon’s prophecy, Mr. Pak said, Reagan responded with his characteristic humor: “I wish I had as much confidence in myself as Rev. Moon does.”

Opinion polls predicted a close election, but Rev. Moon’s confidence was reflected by the News World, a New York newspaper that he founded in 1976. On Election Day 1980, the News World rolled off the press with a giant headline predicting “Reagan Landslide.”

At a news conference that morning, Mr. Reagan held up the News World’s front page, an image carried across the country by television reports. When the votes were counted, the Republican had won 489 of 538 Electoral College votes, more than matching the bold prediction.

Going to print

The News World, renamed the New York City Tribune in 1983, was Rev. Moon’s first venture into the American press, and in 1978, he established the World Media Association dedicated to promoting freedom of the press. When The Washington Star went bankrupt in 1981, Rev. Moon thought it was important to ensure that the nation’s capital remained a two-newspaper city.

Mr. Pak, who was then publisher of the News World, recalled that on Jan. 1, 1982, Rev. Moon ordered him to establish a daily to be named The Washington Times — to begin publication by March 1.

This seemed “an impossible mission,” Mr. Pak remembered.

Recruiting veteran editor James Whelan and purchasing a warehouse on New York Avenue that is still the newspaper’s headquarters, Mr. Pak was able to get a debut issue of The Times printed by Rev. Moon’s deadline of March 1. A little more than two months later, on May 17, 1982, The Times published its second issue and began regular daily publication.

One analyst predicted that the new daily would not “last more than six months,” but according to Mr. Pak, Rev. Mooninvested more than $1 billion in The Times during its first 10 years of publication, and Unification Church members — including many with no previous newspaper experience — worked tirelessly with seasoned professional journalists to make it a success.

During its first 10 years of publication, The Times won more than 650 awards, including top honors from the Society of Newspaper Design in 1988 and 1992, and an editorial writing award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1989.

A favorite of Republican leaders (Reagan insisted on reading The Washington Times first thing in the morning at the White House), the newspaper scored scoops with its award-winning coverage of congressional scandals and the Whitewater scandal in the 1990s.

The Washington Times is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.

Over the years, Rev. Moon was associated with a number of other publications, including the Segye Ilbo in Korea, Sekai Nippo in Japan, the Spanish-language weekly Tiempos del Mundo in Argentina, the Middle East Times in Cairo, Ultimas Noticias in Uruguay, and Washington Golf Monthly.

In 2000, News World Communications purchased the United Press International wire service. A weekly newsmagazine, Insight on the News, and a monthly magazine, The World and I, ceased publication in 2004, but continued as online publications.

‘Victory Over Communism’

Throughout the 1980s, Rev. Moon actively promoted opposition to communism, a struggle he saw in religious terms.

“The only way to defeat communism is to clearly prove the existence of God,” he said. He developed an anti-communist strategy he called Victory Over Communism (VOC), which critiqued the fallacies of Marxist theory while seeking to “demonstrate in detail how God guides human history.” VOC was the philosophical underpinning of CAUSA (Confederation of Associations for the Unification of the Societies of the Americas), an organization that Rev. Moonestablished in 1980 to combat the spread of communism in Latin America. CAUSA seminars trained anti-communist leaders through South and Central America, and even sought to convert communist sympathizers.

Rev. Moon also advocated national security policies for free nations threatened by communism. In 1986, he established the International Security Council, which convened conferences of prominent geopolitical experts and senior officials from the United States, the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China and other nations.

The collapse of the Soviet empire gave Rev. Moon cause to celebrate what he called “an end to the most pernicious worldwide dictatorship in history.” He described the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union as “the results of God’s providence.”

He conveyed that message, but in a spirit of reconciliation, when he met with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in April 1990 and with North Korean founder Kim Il-sung in December 1991.

Culture warrior

Even as he celebrated the end of the Cold War, Rev. Moon focused on new struggles, calling for “a revival of spiritual culture.”

“The societies of free countries today are exhibiting a phenomenon that is every bit as evil as communism … the philosophy of materialistic humanism and … the extreme individualism and selfishness that are the offshoots of this philosophy,” he declared in 1992.

“The young people, whom we normally expect to become the future leaders, are losing touch with their consciences in a flood of immorality, drugs and crime, to such an extent that it is difficult for us to have hope in them as the leaders of the 21st century.”

To turn back that “flood,” Rev. Moon inspired a number of organizations for youths and for adults, including the Women’s Federation for World Peace, the American Family Coalition, the World Culture and Sports Festival, the Little Angels Performing Arts Center, the Il Hwa Chonma Soccer Team in Korea and the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington.

In a 1997 speech, Rev. Moon called for “a true youth culture centering on true love” for the “supreme task” of combating “the social trends of moral degradation, including moral decadence and self-indulgence.” The struggle against those forces would, he said, “determine whether humanity will survive or be destroyed.”

He brought his efforts for international peace into academia and science. Beginning with the International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences in 1972, the Professors World Peace Academy in 1973 and the Summit Council for World Peace in 1987, and through the Universal Peace Federation, founded in 2005, Rev. Moon underwrote thousands of conferences and forums as a way for scholars, activists and community leaders to resolve human problems.

He announced his idea of an International Peace Highway connecting Tokyo and London in 1981. In 2005, he proposed a bridge-and-tunnel project from Alaska to Russia.

Rev. Moon received numerous honorary doctorates, including a doctorate of divinity in 1985 from Shaw University.

His interfaith work in America, launched in the 1970s, has grown under the American Clergy Leadership Conference. Thousands of clergy from different religions, known as “ambassadors for peace,” have visited the Middle East to pray together and create a foundation for peace.

In 2007, Rev. Moon held a conference with delegates from 194 countries to pledge to create a “peace U.N.” to emphasize “living for the sake of others,” and in 2011 underwent another international speaking tour, mostly in Europe. He also worked to promote peace between North and South Korea.

“Since [the meeting with Kim Il-sung“] and continuing to this day,” Rev. Moon said in his autobiography, “we have maintained a special relationship with North Korea. … That is the importance of trust.”

Rev. Moon, who was 93 by Korean age calculations, is survived by Mrs. Moon, 11 children, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Several children preceded him in death.

Rev. In Jin Moon, the Moons’ third daughter and senior pastor of the Unification Church of North America, had been touring the country to speak about her father’s illness when he died.

“Before I left my father’s side, I held his hand as I normally do during the visits, and in my mind, I said, ‘Father, I’m going to take your love and your handshake back to all of the brothers and sisters who are praying for you.’ And it is really the heart of our True Mother as our mother to really thank you individually. I’m sure if she could be with you here today, that is exactly what she would do,” she told members at a Chicago service Aug. 29.

• Former Washington Times staff member Robert Stacy McCain contributed to this report.

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Rev. Moon Helped to Make Me a Better Human Being

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Rev. Moon, Sun Myung Moon, Helped to Make Me a Better Human Being

Rev. Moon Helped to Make Me a Better Human Being

Dr. Morton A. Kaplan

Distinguished Service Professor in Political Science, Emeritus, The University of Chicago

"I know who the real Reverend Moon is..."

Reverend Moon’s greatest contribution to peace lies not in any specific thing he has done but in the heart that has guided his activities. I have been intimately connected with some of his activities for more than twenty-five years: The International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, the Professors World Peace Academy, and the World and I. Initially I was attracted by the character of the activity and the quality of the participants. However, I had initial doubts stemming from the stories about Reverend Moon that were widely circulated but that I learned were false.

Because of my association with those closest to Reverend Moon and through my own interchanges with him, I know who the real Reverend Moon is. He is a man with an immense heart, a heart with room to love all human beings, a heart big enough to love sinners who injure him. It is this great heart that drives him 21 hours each day to build activities for a better world. It is this heart that leads him to bring thinkers from all the disciplines and arts into great collegial enterprises. It is this heart that inspired him, because of the need to support an anti-communist policy, to build a great newspaper in a city, Washington D.C., that many thought could support only one newspaper. And it is this same heart that turned him into a partisan of the new Russia that emerged from the ashes of the old while most anti-communists were unable to distinguish between communists and Russians.

Rev Moon predicted The Fall of Communism

Reverend Moon's understanding that the future of Russia was central to world peace became manifest at the first international conference of PWPA in Korea in 1983. When I proposed a conference on "The Fall of the Soviet Union," he was enthusiastic.

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When he then made a public prediction that the Soviet system would collapse in five years, even I was astounded. He then funded munificently the conference that was held in Geneva in 1985 in the absence of which we could not have charted the reasons for the coming downfall and the importance of responding positively to the new Russia.

When many invitees refused to attend because of the title, Reverend Moon was steadfast in urging that the title be retained. At the same time Reverend Moon supported a smaller conference in 1985 in which I proposed the withdrawal of the Soviet Union from Eastern Europe and to which the Soviet Union sent an official representative despite the claims of both liberals and conservatives that it would not. This likely played a role in freeing Eastern Europe. Again, this could not have been done without Reverend Moon's support and inspiration.

Peace Magazine

When Reverend Moon proposed The World & I while in Danbury prison, I saw the magnificence of the ambition but doubted the practicality of the enterprise. A magazine that would cover every aspect of human activity, that would be educational, and that would explore the implications of morality was too grand a goal. When the first issue was put together, there was no backlog of articles and the issue was no better than acceptable intellectually. I felt that if we had a monthly schedule, even this limited quality would decline. Therefore, I asked Mr. Joo to go to Korea to tell Reverend Moon that we had to cut back to a bimonthly or, even better, a quarterly. Mr. Joo returned with a message from Reverend Moon: “Tell Mr. Kaplan that he does not have enough faith.” What happened afterwards was not a genuine miracle, but it came close. The magazine became better and better, month after month. Those who read it often call it the best magazine they have ever read. With the accompanying Teachers' Guide, it is used in thousands of schools to compensate for the inferior educational materials available to students. It is also now on the Internet where all articles going back to its origins in 1986 may be accessed. And teachers are beginning to collect its articles into books that will be used as texts.

A Great Man

Reverend Moon’s heart has produced conferences and organizations of religious leaders from all the major and legitimate faiths of mankind, despite the tensions that exist among them. I have serious personal doubts about the direct contributions most religious leaders will make to peace. But I do not doubt—especially at a time when the hate-filled pseudo-religions of people such as Osama bin Laden do so much damage—that bringing religious leaders together into common endeavors is an important step toward peace, for only when religious leaders help to inspire their followers and congregations to work toward a better and more just world will we reduce the violence and misery that characterize our present world. When I was chairman of ICUS for the first time, peace was in the title on the conference. At that time, almost all peace research that was available from scholars would have made peace less likely. I put together an excellent conference that ignored topics on peace. Reverend Moon looked at the tiles in the papers, noted the absence of papers on peace, asked me if that was right, then appointed me chairman of the next conference. Only a great man with a great heart could have called my failure so gently to my attention, for I could have organized good papers on the subject. That great man helped to make me a better human being.

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Awards received by Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han Moon

A number of scholarly institutions have presented Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Mrs. Hak Ja Han Moon with honorary doctorates in respect of their life work for World Peace.

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Rev. Moon was awarded the Brazilian Cross of Merit for Public Culture and other decorations from other countries. Mrs. Hak Ja Han Moon was awarded the Grand Prix of the UN-affiliated International Association of Educators for World Peace in 2001.

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Awards and Academic Degrees

-Honorary Doctorate of Law from Ricker College, USA (1975)

- Honorary Doctorate of Law from La Plata University, Argentina (1984)

- Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Shaw Divinity School, USA (1985)

-Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Bridgeport University, USA (1995)

-Awarded with the “Cross of Merit for Public Culture”, Brazil (1986)

-Awarded with the “Star of Freedom and Unification” by Organization for Integration in South America (1987)

-Awarded with the highest decoration of the International Law Society, Mexico (1990)

-Awarded with “Unification Award 1991” by International Unification Foundation, India (1991)

-Awarded with the Universal Peace Award by General Assembly of IIFWP (2000)

-Honorary Doctorate of Literature from Sun Moon University (2002)

Career Achievements

Religious and Ecumenical Organizations

Established the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace (IIFWP), 1999

Established the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace (IRFWP), 1991

Peace and Unification Activities

World Peace King Bridge and Tunnel Project & International Highway Project (1981 – present), which aim to connect continents by providing tunnels and bridges connecting Japan with the Asian continent and spanning the Bering Strait.

Established the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), 2005

Inaugural Assembly of the Mongolian Peoples’ Federation for

A number of scholarly institutions which respect the ideology and life work of Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Mrs. Hak Ja Han Moon have presented them with honorary doctorates.