Spirit Ancestors attempt to take control over our movement in Philippines!

In January 1979, one evening after a 3 day workshop in the Cubao center (Manila) two different new members became totally taken over by spirit ancestors who had lived on the earth before and these spirit ancestors had a competition to see which spiritual being could influence or even control our new movement.

This phenomena is sometimes called speaking in tongues by Pentecostal Christians or was similar to some events after Jesus Christ’s crucifixion. One spirit person walked around in and talked through a member’s body directing us to bless the center with “holy water” and do various conditions based on the number five and another spirit person using a different member’s physical body walked around yelling don’t listen to that, but bless the center using “holy salt” and make conditions based on the number three and four. Although I had many earlier experiences with spiritual phenomena this was quite extreme; guess what we did not listen to either, caused them to leave their host bodies by ignoring them and methodically proceed to pioneer our movement in the Philippines based on the methods Father Moon had taught us and teaching the Divine Principle Workshop Series.

Shortly after Suhila arrived from Kuwait, close to dying but recovered after Mother Nanette spoon fed her to recovery, one evening we had another strange experience with a spiritual presence in our church center. A spirit ancestor entered the body of one sister and explained they were Suhila’s long deceased physical father. The spirit ancestor requested Suhila to come and sit on his lap which she did and this spirit person using the Philippine sister’s hand caressed Suhila’s head told Suhila how much he loved her and missed her, but then all of a sudden Suhila asked the spirit ancestor, “on what date he (her father) die and pass on to the spirit world?” When the spirit in the girl’s body answered the wrong date of death, Suhila jumped up, off the lap of this young lady and shouted, “you are not my father”! Immediately the spirit ancestor left this sister’s body and she returned to her normal self. Since, then I have been told this actually might have been her father because often the departed in the next world are confused concerning the events and timing of their earthly death.

Demon Possesses Sister and Identifies Unchaste Members

It was in Cebu that I first starting successfully exorcizing spirits out of newly joined members and at one point was confronted by such a strong demonic spiritual entity, that I could not get rid of it. One day when I arrived home at the center I was informed a sister was possessed in the upstairs sister room. I went

up and found a frail short member who weighed less than a hundred pounds demonically possessed. I tried all my usual methods to get the annoying-possessing spirits out of a person to no avail. When I used the bible, a picture of Jesus, a cross, a picture of Father Moon or holy salt, the demon only became more in control of this young lady, cursing, spitting on the various objects and I had to get 4 brothers to assist me to stop her body from jumping out a window. We carried her body downstairs into our prayer room and as 5 brothers held down her body. I could not think of anything else to get the demon out, so I started up a conversation with it; I questioned the demon just how could it come into our religious center and into this sister? The demon responded with an ire raspy voice, “I came here to see my friends” – “Last week 3 of the guys went out with women”. Taken back I requested all male members to come into the prayer room and we took our restraints off this young ladies upper body while still pinning her from the waist down to the floor. Her body twisted, contorted like a snake and then the demon pointed to three of the brothers, identifying who had broken our celibacy rules. After the demon identified its friends it left the body and the body went limb. Wow, this satanic force was well beyond any control we could muster! We brought her up to the sister’s room to recover. From this experience the seriousness of our life of faith and to practice the universal principles in our daily life that Rev. Moon revealed became very clear.

40 Day Workshop, Antipolo… Rev. [David] Hose and I conducted most of the lectures.

The members approached the workshop with the utmost seriousness and were determined to expand their teaching abilities. The spirit world presence was so extreme during this workshop that Rev. Hose restricted participants from staying up late at night due to spiritual phenomena. The first morning I did find 3 brothers sleeping alongside him due to fearful experiences; one brother became filled with a demonic spirit which threatened the other brothers shortly after they went to bed. I suggested changing this restriction to a spiritual cleansing condition and explained about teaching Divine Principle out loud to the spirit world to educate and to liberate ancestors from their difficult situations. Of course intense discussion of deeper aspects of the Divine Principle occurred in group meetings.