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september 04 10/1/04 1:31 PM Page 1 UnificationUnification NewsNews $2 Volume 23, No. 9 T HE N EWSPAPER OF THE U NIFICATION C OMMUNITY September 2004 PEACE AMBASSADORS TO THE HOLY LAND by Rev. Michael Jenkins is a profound soul who is one of the he pilgrimage most prominent is a historic sheikhs (imams) in journey of the Great Britain. He heart. While shared with us that the violence if anger is not trans- ragesT on both sides formed it is trans- (Buses were bombed in ferred, if hate is not Beer Sheva last week and transformed it will major attacks are going be transferred, if on in the Gaza Strip), our violence is not Peace Ambassadors are transformed it will opening doors in each and be transferred. We every city they go to. From must set the con- Ramallah to Jerusalem dition to transform we go back and forth and the hearts of our the doors are opening. Jewish and Mus- Yesterday we went to Jeri- lims and Christian cho, where Joshua brothers and sis- brought the walls down ters as well as our- not with violence but with selves. the unity of God's people. We must go to a Then later in the day we new level of heart- went to the Wall that is -the revolution of being erected between heart in which we Palestine and Israel. We feel God's love and could feel the power of the heart to com- God that is working to fort God. remove the need for such Today, our Euro- walls. pean ambassadors If we heal the hearts went to Nazareth, of the people, why would and Father we need a wall? Stand- Hatoum and ing before the wall is a Sheikh Manasra serious experience. We feel (the Muslim leader the hope as we are mak- who signed the ing so much progress with Jerusalem Decla- the Jews, Christians and ration) addressed Muslims that the walls will our body. All come down as they did in were inspired to Jericho. The same God see such a strong that was in Jericho is now and clear Muslim with us in Jerusalem. leader speak from Rather than twelve tribes the Koran that we uniting, it is now the three must love each Abahamic faiths and the other. He quoted 7 former enemy nations. the verse saying This is a profound and that if you harm most important time in his- someone with even tory. We felt yesterday a half a sentence that special power. We sang hurts, then you with Dr. Ian Hall, Profes- will be greatly pun- sor of Music at Oxford, ished by Allah. He about Joshua and how the then gave a pro- walls came down. If the found call to sup- people of God unite in love, port Father Moon we can heal the heart of as someone sent the pain between Abra- by God. ham's family, and the vio- The main news- lence can be transformed. see PEACE Sheikh Sajid from England on page 16 september 04 10/1/04 1:31 PM Page 2 2 Unification News September 2004 FOUNDER’S DISCOURSE ON UNIFICATIONISM by Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon uation Himself, but had to suffer for Ambassadors for Peace in the 21st Century: Con thousands and tens of thousands of This address was given in Seoul, years. Yesterday’s ceremony, the day Korea, August 21, 2004 of the True Parents’ victory, true lib- irst, let us offer our sincere eration and complete freedom, resolved gratitude to God, the True God’s grief. This was a Holy Blessing True Love and T Parent, True Teacher, True that brought heaven and earth togeth- King and True Master of all er. We opened wide the gate through which the billions of human beings who to practice Heaven’s truth in your fam- secular world. It is not the counterfeit creation, for making this day ily and nation in order to prepare for love given one moment and abandoned Fpossible. From the standpoint of God’s languished under Satan’s yoke can enter the new Heaven and new Earth. your eternal life. It is time to leave the next. It is not self-indulgent, prof- providence and history, how can we behind the struggle, conflict and con- ligate love driven by fleshly desire. Such describe yesterday’s event, in which we There, humankind can receive and attend the True Parent of Heaven and frontation of the age before the com- false love assails and violates the con- participated with one heart and accom- ing of Heaven. We can stand on the science driving nails into the original plished victory? That event, the Bless- the True Parents of Earth. We can enter the time after the coming of Heaven, foundation of the True Parents, who mind. ing for Registration in Cheon Il Guk for are the Parents of Heaven and Earth, True love on the other hand is the “The Revolution of True Heart, True in which we sing the praises of the holy age of settlement and peace. and establish the substantial Kingdom source of peace and spiritual order. Its Liberation and Complete Freedom,” of Heaven. This realm of complemen- nature is to honor and preserve the was a victory for humanity and a joy- Now is the time for you, as you enter the time after the coming of Heaven, tary partnership, harmony and unity, public tranquility. It is humanity’s ful event for God. It sur- is what we call Cheon shared inheritance that serves the com- passes any event in his- Il Guk. mon benefit of all people. It symbolizes tory and will never be From this perspec- God’s intention and power, for it is root- equaled in the future. tive, I would like to ed in God. On what basis can I take this opportunity True love is mysterious. The more pronounce such a bold to speak on the topic, it is given, the more plentiful it is and declaration? I do so in “True Love and True the greater joy it brings. True love pos- the context of the Fall Marriage.” I will share sesses power great enough to trans- of the first human ances- one aspect of the prin- form the motivation, process and out- tors, by which ciple of true love that come of human life. We were created humankind inherited I have been teaching to be born in true love, raised in true false love, false life and throughout my life and love, and pass to the next world in true false lineage and lost its that you now are to love. That is the reason true love has relationship with God’s put into practice. the greatest and highest value. Will. Because God was What is true love? Through true love we can be togeth- in a position unrelated It does not refer to the er eternally, see each other eternally, to the Fall, He could do selfish love that is converse with and feel each other eter- nothing about this sit- strewn about in the nally and have nothing but affection SEPTEMBER 11 Father’s father’s Ascension (1954) National Professors and Students Federation for North- Ahn Shi Il • 2nd, 10th, 18th, 26th South Reunification Established (1986) 1 Declaration Day of Heavenly Parentism (1989) Opening of Cheonsung Wanlim Palace Training Center 2 In Jin Nim’s Birthday (7/18/65) (1999) 3 Hwa Jung Nim’s Birthday (7/19/77) 14 6000 Couples’ Blessing (1982) 6 Young Jin Nim & Hwa Jung Nim’s Blessing (1997) 21 Shin Myung Nim’s Birthday (9/8/86) Hyung Jin Nim & Yeon Ah Nim’s Blessing (1997) 777 Couples’ Blessing (1970) 8 Sa Sa Jeol Declaration (1998) 23 Declaration Ceremony for the Liberation of the Parents of 99.9 Jeol: Heaven and Earth Unification and Liberation Cer- Heaven and Earth and the Substantial Realm (1999) emony (1999) 24 In Sup Nim’s Birthday (9/11/72) 10 3.10 Jeol (1999) 27 Young Jin Nim’s Ascension (1999) 14 Shin Ji Nim’s Birthday (7/30/94) 29 Shin Eh Nim’s Birthday (9/16/89) Interrreligious and International Blessing and Rededication 30 6500 Couples’ Blessing (1988) Ceremony (2002) 31 Shin Mi Nim’s Birthday (9/18/77) 15 Hye Shin Nim’s Ascension (1971) Shin Ok Nim’s Birthday (9/18/89) Shin Joong Nim’s Birthday (8/2/93) Shin Ah Nim’s Birthday (9/18/98) New Hope Singers International Established (1973) 18 Foundation Day (1976) NOVEMBER Ultimas Noticias Established (1981) 19 Hyung Jin Nim’s Birthday (8/6/79) Ahn Shi Il • 5th, 13th, 21st, 29th 27 Day of Dispensational Transition Point Toward Unification 3 Daemo-nim’s Ascension (1989) (1988) 6 Shin Pal Nim’s Birthday (9/24/98) 28 Soon Ju Nim’s Birthday (8/15/72) 12 True Children’s Day (10/1/60) Chusok — Korean Thanksgiving (8/15) 14 International Christian Students Association Established 29 Ceremony of the Return of the Cosmos to Heaven (2000) (1981) 15 Shin Sun Nim’s Birthday (10/4/90) OCYTOBER 17 Shin Hoon Nim’s Birthday (10/6/94) 23 Tiempos Del Mundo Established (1996) Ahn Shi Il • 4th, 12th, 20th, 28th 25 Shin Chool Nim’s Birthday (10/14/99) 1 Ocean Church Founded 27 Sun Hwa Academy purchased (2002) 3 Foundation Day for the Nation of the Unified World (1988) 28 Hye Shin Nim’s Birthday (1963) 4 Foundation for the Support of HSA-UWC Established (1963) 29 Jin Whi Nim’s Birthday (10/18/63) Day of Victory of Heaven (1976) Shin Young Nim’s Birthday (10/18/86) 5 Proclamation of Total Liberation and Unification between the 3.6 Million Couples’ & 36 Million Couples’ Blessing (1997) Physical World and the Spiritual World (1998) ue to the manner in which the lunar calendar corresponds with the solar calendar, Hyo Jin Nim's, DUn Jin Nim's, Yun Ah Nim's and Shin Choon Nim's birthdays are not celebrated in 2004.