DOUBLE ISSUE UnificationUnification NewsNews $2 Volume 20, No. 1/2 T HE N EWSPAPER OF THE U NIFICATION C OMMUNITY January/February 2001 The Coronation Ceremony of God’s Kingship by Reverend Sun Myung Moon Completed Testament eras. The Com- sand year salvation his- pleted Testament is the era of the bless- tory. It can be said that A speech given January 13, 2001 in ing of all. Because of the fall of the God created Adam Seoul, Korea human ancestors, all things created again. After making hat do we celebrate by God couldn’t stand in the realm of Adam, God created Eve today? (The Corona- blessing. God taught people by estab- as Adam’s counterpart. tion of God!) What a lishing numerous religions, leading God created Eve by imi- strange term. God? them through the salvation providence tating Adam, applying (Coronation!) Who did and raising them step-by-step to the same principle and blue- theW coronation? (God!) Can True Par- era of Completed Testament. print used when creat- ents do this by themselves? We can The people of the peripheral religions ing Adam. hold this ceremony because all the peo- were not aware of this. Only Judaism The Bible says that ple on Earth and in Heaven were blessed and Christianity paved the road of serv- God created Eve by tak- and form a homogeneous nation. ing God as our Father. And in the failed ing the rib of Adam. It Therefore, to do that, religions from history of Adam and Eve, only one son means that God adopt- Judaism, to the second Israel center- was born on Earth whose blood line- ed the core of Adam to ing on Christianity, to Korea, went age God could love. The elder son was create Eve. God found through the realm of the first, second born. Although the son was born, no the only son through and third Israel and the Old, New and “only daughter” appeared. God strug- see CORONATION gled greatly throughout the four thou- on page 2 Morning Address, True God’s Day 2001 by Reverend Sun Myung Moon Given January 1, 2001 Cheong Pyeong International Training Center Korea (Translated by Mrs. Soon Ja Richard- son. Unofficial notes by Rev. Michael Jenkins) The morning began with the True God’s Day Pledge Ceremony was held with our True Parents. (Many thousands gathered in their holy robes). True GodÕs Day Motto for 2001 True Father asked Rev. Kwak to read. The 1994 God’s Day address then spoke. et us fulfill GodÕs absolute, unique, unchang- hy did you gather here? To meet some- ing, and eternal will, which is the subject of True one or to talk to a L friend? Did you gath- er here thinking about Love, by uniting with the liberated Parents and chil- something?W How about God? Did God gather here with some thought in mind? As long as traditions or old dren of Heaven and Earth, through one heart and ways exist from the fallen world, restoration is not completed. Through one body. Schedule for 50-state speaking tour 2001 Sunday Feb. 25th New York Wednesday March 14th Colorado Sunday April 1st Tennessee Monday Feb. 26th New Jersey Thursday March 15th Los Angeles Monday April 2nd North Carolina Tuesday Feb. 27th UB Connecticut Friday March 16th Arkansas Tuesday April 3rd Kentucky Wednesday Feb. 28th Chicago Saturday March 17th Mississippi Wednesday April 4th Indiana Thursday March 1st Boston Sunday March 18th Rhode Island Thursday April 5th Oklahoma Friday March 2nd Pennsylvania Monday March 19th Virginia Friday April 6th Nebraska Saturday March 3rd Miami Tuesday March 20th Delaware Saturday April 7th New Hampshire Sunday March 4th Atlanta Wednesday March 21st Michigan Sunday April 8th South Carolina Monday March 5th Ohio Thursday March 22nd Iowa Monday April 9th Wisconsin Tuesday March 6th Houston Friday March 23rd Kansas Tuesday April 10th Montana Wednesday March 7th New Mexico Saturday March 24th Alabama Wednesday April 11th Nevada Thursday March 8th Minnesota Monday March 26th Louisiana Thursday April 12th Alaska Friday March 9th Seattle Tuesday March 27th Wyoming Saturday April 14th Hawaii Saturday March 10th Utah Wednesday March 28th Missouri Monday April 16th Washington DC Sunday March 11th Oregon Thursday March 29th Maryland Monday March 12th San Francisco Friday March 30th Maine Reports next month Tuesday March 13th Arizona Saturday March 31st North/South Dakota 2 Unification News January/February 2001 CORONATION ADDRESS Unification Church. As the first Israel so, they cannot overcome lust. There- have been able to fall. Satan could not CORONATION and Judaism opposed and chased Chris- fore, when someone attempts to achieve have separated them. from page 1 tianity and almost perished, Christianity perfection, Satan will attempt spiritu- But, during the growth period, the opposed the Unification Church and ally to make him fall. A beautiful woman fruit was not ripe. Unripe fruit does not the direct lineage of love, but did not almost perished. All religions perished. will appear and ask him to embrace produce seeds. It has no eternal life. find the only daughter. After finding Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism her. If he surrenders and embraces her, The place to dispose of those lifeless Eve, God would have restored fallen and Islam now have the form of reli- it is over. Centering on love, life and things is hell. It has no relationship history through a family. God prepared gion, but they have perished. Not only death divide. Unless they have spiritu- with God. Therefore, what kind of prob- Jacob, twelve tribes thought of as cho- religions, but also societies, nations al experience, people do not know how lems exists in the father-and-son rela- sen people and Israel, to establish the and the world have become hell. deep this problem is. Our body is the tionship? The son inherits the parents’ nation. Jacob’s twelve children gained God’s ideal realm of love was not on stage of Satan. To restore this stage to blood lineage. Inheritance of blood lin- ground and expanded the area of vic- Earth. In America, there is no family in the ideal position, God worked and expe- eage does not just happen by itself. Can tory. This was the nation of Israel and which husband and wife, mind and rienced disappointment over and over. it take place through a single individ- Judaism until Jesus’ advent. body are united with the original stan- Therefore it has taken thousands of ual? It cannot take place with just a The nation of Israel was external and dard. There is no family in which par- years. Buddhism, Confucianism, Chris- single entity, whether it is parents alone Cain-like, while Judaism in the parent-child relation- was internal and Abel- ship or man alone in the man- like. The mother would women relationship. With the be chosen on the foun- foundation of the harmonious dation of Cain and Abel. unity of man and woman, the After that, by serving internal and external char- Jesus, Israel and acter of blood lineage becomes Judaism would unite as completely one with the fun- Cain and Abel. Then, damental cosmic principles. centering on the blessed Then the substantial mind, family, a clan and nation representing the internal char- would have been estab- acter, results in a substan- lished. Nobody can deny tial body representing the this. external character, and man Even though Rome is ultimately created (a life is dominated the world, it brought into the world). would have been no Likewise, the meeting of match. External things the invisible content and vis- are like flesh, while inter- ible form causes an explo- nal things are like bones. sion. Heat turns water into Flesh cannot defeat steam. As the temperature bones. Centering on rises, it turns to vapor, becom- Israel, the unity of all ing invisible. Analogously, nations and the libera- when the invisible God, who tion of God would have dwells in this super-heated been achieved two thou- invisible environment, meets sand years ago. But, with a visible form in the deep because Jesus couldn’t freezing environment, there form a family by restor- is an explosion. ing Eve, Israel and all Therefore, God Himself prepared things were took spherical form centered destroyed. on the internal and external Because the founda- character of love. However, tion of people was lost, the relationship between the Israel perished. And in two extreme characters reflects the seventh century, the merely an internal movement religion of Islam emerged and does not appear on the among the central peo- surface. Thus He cannot feel ple. Muslims were brothers but became ents and children do not fight. All are tianity and Islam remained as forms of stimulation. However, if there exists a adversaries. Ishmael and Isaac were separated in a world of individualism. religion that educated people the world physical form that could function as a direct descendants of Abraham. But God’s ideal is the pair system. The pair over about the mission of the messiah. stimulating object … It is like an explo- they became enemies and fought system exists in the mineral world, plant Who is Lord of the Second Advent? sion caused by collision of hot and cold, throughout history. They fought cen- world and animal world. Heaven and He is the True Parents. True Parents or of two extreme elements through the tering on Jerusalem, and Israel was Earth should have become one, but bring true love and true blood lineage. mind. lost. everything separated. False parents have fallen love and lin- If love becomes the axis and if the If Cain and Abel had achieved peace How can we turn this around and eage.