Reference

Unification Glossary

The core terms used in the Divine Principle and in everyday Unificationist language — defined plainly, with the Korean original where the English doesn't carry it.

A

Absolute Sex: Rev. Moon's term for the sacred, exclusive, and lifelong sexual love between husband and wife in a Blessed marriage — set in opposition to "free sex." The intended channel by which God's lineage flows.

B

Blessing (Holy Marriage)축복 (Chukbok): The central sacrament of the Unification movement. A marriage ceremony — typically conducted by the True Parents — that grafts the couple out of the lineage of the Fall and into the lineage of God. Without it, on the Divine Principle's reading, original sin remains.See also: True Parents, Original Sin

C

Cain & Abel: The archetypal pattern of restoration. After the Fall, the elder brother (Cain) stood on the satanic side and the younger (Abel) on the heavenly side. Restoration requires Cain to humble himself and unite with Abel. The pattern recurs across history at every scale — brothers, tribes, nations.
Cheon Il Guk천일국: Literally "Nation of Cosmic Peace and Unity." The realized Kingdom of Heaven on Earth and in the spirit world, inaugurated symbolically in 2001 and proclaimed substantially in 2013 (Foundation Day).
Cheon Seong Gyeong천성경: The "Heavenly Scripture" — an 1,800-page anthology of Rev. Moon's words organized topically. One of the three holy scriptures of the Unification movement alongside the Divine Principle and the Pyeong Hwa Gyeong.

D

Divine Principle (Wolli)원리: The foundational teaching of Rev. Sun Myung Moon. First written in Korean as Wolli Wonbon (1952), expanded as Wolli Hesol (1957) and Wolli Kangron (1966), re-translated into English as Exposition of the Divine Principle in 1996.
Dual Characteristics: God's nature is the harmonious union of dual characteristics: internal nature and external form (Sungsang/Hyungsang), masculine and feminine (Yang/Yin). Everything in creation reflects this dual structure.

F

Family Federation (FFWPU): The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. The current name of the global Unification movement, refounded in 1996. Members are usually called Unificationists, not Moonies.
Foundation Day기원절: February 22, 2013 (lunar 1.13). The day Rev. and Mrs. Moon proclaimed the formal inauguration of Cheon Il Guk — the realized substantial kingdom on earth and in heaven.
Foundation of Faith: The first of the two foundations a central figure must lay for the Messiah to come. Established by offering a designated symbolic object (Abel's lamb, Noah's ark, Abraham's isaac) through a set period of separation from Satan.
Foundation of Substance: The second foundation required for the Messiah. The "Cain figure" submits to and unites with the "Abel figure," reversing the original Cain-Abel inversion. Both foundations together create the Foundation for the Messiah.
Four Position Foundation사위기대: The structural unit of God's ideal: God + husband + wife + children, united in love. Every individual, family, society, and cosmos is meant to embody this fourfold harmony. The Fall destroyed it; restoration rebuilds it.

H

Hak Ja Han Moon: Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon (born 1943). Wife of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, mother of fourteen children, and — in Unification theology — the True Mother who, with the True Father, fulfilled the bridal role left vacant at the cross.
Heavenly Parent하늘 부모님: The contemporary Unification name for God, emphasizing both the masculine and feminine aspects of God's dual characteristics. Replaces "Heavenly Father" in much current usage.

I

Indemnity탕감 (Tanggam): A condition of faith and substance by which fallen humans recover what was lost in the Fall. Not a payment to an angry God — a way for the human will to participate in undoing what the human will participated in losing.

J

John the Baptist: In the Divine Principle, John's role was to publicly testify that Jesus was the Messiah and become his foremost disciple. His later doubt from prison (Matt. 11:3) — combined with his failure to follow Jesus — left Jesus without a unified Israel to lead.

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Lord of the Second Advent: The man who, at the Second Coming, completes the providence the cross left undone — marrying, becoming the True Father of a sinless lineage, and re-grafting all humanity. The Divine Principle gives four providential criteria for his nation and identifies it as Korea.
Lucifer / Satan: The fallen archangel through whom God's love originally flowed to Adam and Eve. Jealous when God's love began to focus on the children he was sent to serve, he seduced Eve — and the Fall began.

O

Original Sin: In the Divine Principle, not inherited guilt but inherited lineage: the bloodline of Satan transmitted from parent to child since the Fall. Faith in Jesus addresses the spirit; the Blessing of the True Parents addresses the lineage.

P

Pledge맹세 (Maengse): The Family Pledge — eight statements recited weekly by Blessed families committing themselves to the ideal of the family, the cosmos, and Cheon Il Guk.
Portion of Responsibility: The small but irreducible share of perfection that God leaves to the human will. Without it, humans would be objects of God's perfection rather than partners in love. The Fall happened in this portion; restoration is completed within it.
Principle (the): Shorthand for the Divine Principle. Used as in "according to the Principle…" or "from a Principle perspective…"

R

Restoration: God's providential work of undoing the Fall. Takes the form of repeated parallel ages, with central figures laying foundations of faith and substance, culminating in the Messiah's arrival.
Resurrection: In the Divine Principle, not the reanimation of corpses but the growth of the spirit self toward perfection — a process that begins in this life and continues, with the cooperation of those still on earth, in the spirit world.
Returning Resurrection: The cooperation by which spirits in the spirit world help people on earth complete the growth those spirits could not complete in their own lifetimes. The mechanism by which the merits of every age are extended to the people of the last days.

S

Shimjeong심정: Heart — the irrepressible impulse to feel joy through loving an object of love. The deepest motive of God's nature and the central category of Unification theology.
Spirit World: The eternal world of the spirit self, real and structured into levels according to the growth of each spirit's heart and love. There is no permanent hell of God's design — spirits live in the conditions their loves on earth created.
Sun Myung Moon: Rev. Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012). Founder of the Unification movement and, in its teaching, the Lord of the Second Advent who — with Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon — fulfilled the providence as the True Parents.

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Three Blessings: God's first words to Adam and Eve (Gen. 1:28): be fruitful (individual perfection), multiply (family of true love), and have dominion (loving stewardship of creation). The Fall cut all three short; restoration recovers all three.
Three Great Subjects Principle: In a Blessed family, every member relates to every other member in three positions: parent, teacher, and owner. The framework for raising the next generation in true love.
True Family: The Moon family — the first sinless family, in Unification theology. The literal first nucleus of the restored human race.
True Parents참부모: Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, in their role as the messianic couple — the man and woman through whom the lineage of God is reopened to humanity. Capitalized.
Tribal Messiah: A Blessed family's mission to bring God's blessing to their extended tribe. Each Blessed couple is, in this teaching, a Messiah to their own clan.

U

Unificationism / Unificationist: Adherents of the teachings of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, also called the Family Federation. The older external label "Moonies" is generally not preferred by adherents.
Unification Principle: Synonym for the Divine Principle. Used especially in older English literature.

W

Wonjeon원전: The original / primary text. Used to refer to Rev. Moon's original Korean speeches and writings as the authoritative source behind translations.