Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) was a Korean religious leader who, together with his wife Hak Ja Han, founded the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, formerly known as the Unification Church.
At the age of 16, on Easter morning in 1936, Moon experienced a mystical encounter with Jesus during deep prayer. In this vision, he was instructed to take up Jesus' unfinished work and establish the Kingdom of God on earth. Over the years that followed, Moon had numerous spiritual experiences in which he received revelations of the Divine Principle, a text that illuminates God's nature, his purpose of creation, and his work throughout history up to the present day.
Moon's teachings, centered on the Divine Principle, emphasize the importance of family, marriage, and restoring divine order. He is particularly known for the mass marriage ceremonies he conducted, uniting couples from diverse cultures in a symbolic act of promoting peace and unity.
In the late 1990s, the Unification Church officially became the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, refocusing its mission on global peace, human development, and interfaith dialogue. Moon also founded several NGOs, such as the Universal Peace Federation and the Women's Federation for World Peace, which hold consultative status with the United Nations and work on peace initiatives aligned with his vision.
Despite facing criticism during his lifetime, Moon's teachings and organizations continue to influence global peace efforts today.
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You should also bear witness when things are not going well.
It is like throwing stones into the sea. You do it ceaselessly and without
limitation until the stones fill the sea and create a mountain.
Your heart grows from this. Although your body does not change, your
heart will grow.
(96‑282, 13.02.1978)
According to the principle of creation, man's spirit was created to grow only through give and take action between the life element from God and the vitality element from man's physical body. Therefore, the spirit man can neither grow nor be resurrected apart from our physical body.
You should not think that you are entitled to go to heaven. You should think about building heaven on earth.
But before that, you must become heavenly people yourselves.
To become such a person, you must establish a unity of heart with the heavenly Father to the extent that you can confidently say: "The heart of the Father is my heart, and my heart is the Father's."
Therefore, you shall be a person in this earthly life who represents God's heart, the Lord's heart, and also the heart of your ancestors.
Many religions today teach that heaven can only be established through their own religion. That is an unreasonable fantasy.
Many religions say that heaven will be established through the teachings of their founder. Look at Christianity. It is divided into many denominations. They often consider a church outside of their own denomination as satanic.
If they did this from a position authorized by God, there would be no problem. However, if they do it for their own benefit, then their motivation is not pure.
If you have the heart of a child who seeks his mother, you can go the path toward God.
What does the Spiritual World consist of?
The air in that world is love. Love is the air. Your mind and your body should feel the touch of love on this earth and experience it as an element that creates harmony. Once you enter the realm of this experience, you can go anywhere.
Therefore, a spiritual self that has experienced love here on earth will certainly, like being drawn by a magnet, automatically go to exactly that kind of world. The level of the Spiritual World you go to depends on how much you have experienced and felt these things.
(112‑17, 15.03.1981)
If a ladder to the heart of God in the kingdom of heaven exists, how do you want to climb this ladder? By flying back and forth in a helicopter?
Or in an elevator that takes you directly up? Would you fly in a helicopter? You would want to go up in an elevator, in an elevator that works all year round. It is vertical.
To connect with the love of God, you must be in a vertical po-
sition. The Bible says: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your
The truth cannot be found outside of ourselves. Each of us is endowed with the truth. It is not something that can be learned elsewhere. I myself
searched for the truth everywhere, but I could not find it anywhere else in the universe. I searched everywhere in the Spiritual World and also in the earthly world, suffering greatly in the process;
but in the end, I realized that God has given us everything. It was a great surprise. Until then, I had not known it, but all the answers are within us.
If you have many spiritual experiences during your prayer, then you will be awakened. If you proceed with such a heart, God will certainly help you even before you think about it. You should feel His heart in everything you say and teach. His heart must come before your word, not after.
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