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MARRIAGE with GOD Kirsti L. Nevalainen The Internal Mission: Complete Salvation, The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. MARRIAGE WITH GOD Shamanistic Rite of the Unification Church Kirsti L. Nevalainen To my family All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, re- cording or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or here- after invented, without the prior written permission of the author. Marriage With God © Kirsti L. Nevalainen Layout: R. Penttinen Publisher: Mediapinta, 2009 ISBN 978-952-235-083-1 Print-On-Demand Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ....................................................... 7 1.1. Aims and Methods of the Research ............... 7 1.2. The Messiah has arrived .............................. 12 1.3. Earlier Research about the Unification Church ....................................... 39 2. KOREAN SHAMANESS - WEDDED TO GOD ..... 46 2.1. Main Tenets of Shamanism .......................... 46 2.2. Naerim Kut - Initiation Rite ......................... 60 3. CHANGE OF BLOOD LINEAGE ............................ 70 3.1. Engrafting of Sun Myung Moon into the Blood Lineage of God ................................. 70 3.2. Ritual Sex in the Jesus Church ..................... 87 4. THE BLESSING OF MARRIAGE ......................... 105 4.1. The Holy Wine Ceremony ......................... 112 4.2. The Holy Blessing Ceremony .................... 118 4.3. The Three Day Ceremony .......................... 121 5. PARALLELS TO THE SACRED ........................... 132 MARRIAGE RITE IN THE ................................... 132 ANCIENT NEAR EAST ......................................... 132 5.1. Divine Rule on Earth ................................. 132 5.2. The Fall Story ............................................ 145 6. CONCLUSIONS...................................................... 153 7. BIBLIOGRAPHY .................................................... 156 5 6 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Aims and Methods of the Research I was a member of the Unification Church for eight years, from May 1971 until May 1979. I joined the Unification Church in Bremen, Germany, and stayed in Germany until January 1972. During that time I translated The Di- vine Principle, A Study Guide by Young Oon Kim into Finnish1. In January 1972 I started a missionary work in Finland together with a German member Ms. Ellen van Kampen2. We did only religious missionary work and were not active on the political arena. I worked in Finland until August 1977 when I left for the USA and I stayed there until Christmas 1978. Soon after that I left the Unification Church in May 1979. The main reason why I left the church was Rev. Moon’s fierce Anti-Com- munism. I could not accept his interpretation of Commu- nism as Satan incarnate. Rev. Moon had founded several anti-communist political organizations and it was sup- posed that every Unification Church member was will- ing to work against Communism. During my stay in the 1 Jumalalliset Prinsiipit, Opinto-opas, saksasta kääntänyt Kirsti Laaninen, Gesellschaft zur Vereinigung des Weltchristentums e.V., Essen, 1971. 2 Her birth name was Ellen Kocher. 7 USA in 1977-1978 I was able to witness the socalled Koreagate scandal.This was an affair relating to the lob- bying and corruption of US Congress representatives in favor of the political and economic interests of South Korea. For instance Rev. Moon was accused of bribing American congressmen in order to keep the US troops in South Korea. I decided to leave the Unification Church because I did not want to participate in Rev. Moon’s anti- communist political activities in the Cold War. Because of my membership in the Unification Church for eight years I came to know the movement quite well both in Europe and the USA.3 This book is a Religious Studies research and it belongs to the discipline of Religionsgeschichte or the history of religion. I examine the early history of the Unifica- tion Church in North and South Korea and Sun Myung’s Moon’s connections with Jesukyo the ‘Jesus Church’. Rev. Moon was a member of this church during 1938- 1947 and he adopted the doctrines and practices from the Jesus Church. The most important sacrament of the Uni- fication Church is The Blessing of Marriage. Through this ceremony fallen people are cut off from their sa- tanic blood lineage and engrafted into the blood lineage of God and the Messiah, Sun Myung Moon and his wife Hak Ja Han. I examine in this research what was the his- toric development of this sacrament into its present form in 1962. 3 See more about the history of the Unification Church in Fin- land: History of The Unification Movement in Finland, Helsinki, March 2006. http://www.euro-tongil.org/finnish/finnish_history.htm 8 My main thesis is the following: The Blessing of Mar- riage of the Unification Church is directly derivative from the pigarum or yongch’e ceremony of Korean mes- sianic groups from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. A pi- garum ceremony means ‘change of blood lineage’ and a yongch’e ceremony means ‘receiving a new spiritual body’. Even though there were two names in use in Ko- rea they had the same meaning, uniting a human being with God and Goddess in spirit and body. And this took place through ritual sex. A male spiritual leader united sexually with his female disciples and a female spiritual leader had ritual sex with her male followers. It was be- lieved that through this process God and Goddess be- came incarnated in human form. But before a spiritual leader could transfer his or her divinity to the followers he or she had first to unite sexually with God or God- dess through a spiritual sexual union. So he or she was able to receive a new spiritual body directly from God or Goddess. The Unification Church practiced the pi- garum or yongch’e ceremony from the 1940s through the 1950s until 1962 when The Holy Wine Ceremony and The Three Day Ceremony replaced this original sexual ritual. Both of these ceremonies are integral parts of The Blessing of Marriage. My second thesis is that the yongch’e or pigarum cer- emony of Korean messianic groups is similar to the initiation rite of a Korean shaman or shamaness. It is called Naerim kut or Gangsin kut. In this initiation rite a shaman or shamaness is officially married with God or Goddess and has a spiritual sexual relationship with Him or Her. God or Goddess takes a permanent abode in a 9 shaman’s or shamaness’ body. So they become incarna- tions of God or Goddess. Korean Shamanism believes in the immanence of God. God is able to live concretely in human beings and so He or She can be in contact with human society through His or Her mediators, the sha- mans or shamanesses. The shaman or shamaness can be married to an earthly husband or wife, too. This earthly marriage can take place either before or after the initia- tion rite Naerim kut or Gangsin kut. My third thesis is that the Sacred Marriage Rite in the ancient Near East is identical with the yongch’e or pi- garum ceremony of Korean messianic groups. This rite’s structure and theological meaning is the same as the yongch’e or pigarum ceremony. The Sacred Mar- riage Rite was the theological and political basis of ancient theocratic city states in the ancient Near East. Through this sexual rite God and Goddess became in- carnated in the King and Queen and they became di- vinities in human flesh. Only after going through this Sacred Marriage Rite the King and Queen of the theo- cratic city state had legitimacy in the eyes of people. The Fall account in Gen. 3 was authored by a Yahwist theologian and it represents a theological and political attack against the Sacred Marriage Rite of Canaanite people. It is important to understand the political and cultural background for the Fall story in Gen. 3 because Rev. Moon takes the Fall literally, as a historical fact. The main premise of his theology is that people are fallen and are coming from the satanic blood lineage. Therefore the Messiah must come again and cut them off from their satanic blood lineage and engraft them 10 into the blood lineage of God. In order to support my theses I am going to examine first the initiation rite Naerim kut or Gangsin kut in Korean Shamanism. It means a shaman or shamaness becomes possessed by God or Goddess and has a spiritual mar- riage with God or Goddess. Through this spiritual mar- riage and spiritual sexual relations with God or Goddess they become divine beings in flesh. Next I will examine the ritual sex practices called yongch’e or pigarum cer- emonies of the Jesus Church. It was the female spiritual leaders who were possessed by God or Jesus and had sexual relations with them and through these unions they became divinities in flesh. The female spiritual leaders acted like shamanesses Mudang. After their spiritual marriage with God or Jesus they transferred a new spiri- tual body yongch’e to their male followers who in turn shared it to their female followers. And finally I will examine the Sacred Marriage Rite in the Ancient Near East and seek parallels between it and the yongch’e cer- emony. The first chapter serves as a general introduction to Rev. Moon’s world view, his theology and political ideology which can not be separated. The Unification Church is essentially a political church. The second chapter deals first with Shamanism in general and then particularly with Korean characteristics of Shamanism and the Naer- im kut initiation rite of a shaman or shamaness. The third chapter deals with the yongch’e or pigarum ceremony of Korean messianic groups, inluding the Unification Church. And it examines also how Rev. Moon participat- 11 ed in the yongch’e ceremonies in North Korea and later in South Korea.
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