Words on the 1800 Couple Blessing — Moon family (other) · Following the Stories of Real People

Words on the 1800 Couple Blessing Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Rev. Hyo Jin Moon and Others for the 37th Anniversary, February 8, 2012 Compiled by Michael Kiely - February 4, 2012 Cheon Seong Gyeong – Sun Myung Moon to the number 180. Hence, in the process of indemnification for the Unification Church, the restoration of 180 families per Book Nine - Blessed Family couple is required, and the 1800 Couples stand on the Chapter Three - The Providential Significance of the worldwide level. (265-176, 1994.11.20) Blessed Couples Section 6. The 1800 Couples Since Satan destroyed family relationships, we are establishing a transnational movement that binds the family to 6.1. The background to the 1800 Couples Blessing the realm of God’s direct dominion with the 777 Couples, followed by the 1800 Couples. The 1800 Couples will be the On February 8, 1975, I performed the 1800 Couples Blessing. last Blessing group in creating this movement. The number Now that the Unification Church members have made their eighteen comes from the satanic number six multiplied by debut, first on an individual and then on a family basis, not three representing formation, growth, and completion. only the members of my family but all church members should become known throughout the world. Since this is God’s will, The fact that I have restored 1,800 couples from the satanic we must become living monuments that represent and testify world signifies that I have surpassed the realm of the tribe. to this victory on the family level; thus, based on the The victory I achieved on the national level is the starting achievement of having overcome the hardships of the first and point of the path leading to the world. The 1800 Couples are second seven-year courses, we can finally expand our families three times the number six hundred, which represents the horizontally on earth centering on the Parents through the realm of Satan’s dominion. Through the establishment of the third seven-year course. This was valiantly displayed in the family on this basis, the 1800 Couples have become the ceremony on February 8. (77-217, 1975.4.12) standard of indemnification for the family in Satan’s realm. (190-275, 1989.6.19) The 1800 Couples represent three times six, equaling eighteen, and also signify the termination of the satanic world, God is a mathematical god. Nothing He does is by chance or since it is the number three in the satanic world. Three times based on rough estimates. Thus, families throughout the world six is eighteen, which leads us to 1800 Couples. The gates of are involving themselves in our work to one degree or another the worldwide Blessing have been opened even to the satanic without realizing it. The 1800-Couple represent three times world, which means that they have been opened to the world six, which equals eighteen. All numbers in restoration are of the enemy. It was the 1800 Couples who opened the gates based on six; everything involves that number. The 6000 of the fallen world to the Unification Church Blessing. You Couples Blessing held this time in Korea, and the 2100 need to restore 160 families before you can register your own Couples Blessing as well, were all carried out in accordance family according to the tribal standard representing the world. with the Principle. (126-52, 1983.4.10) That number is derived from multiplying the number four by itself and so it is Satan’s number. Therefore, it is treated the For the Blessed Families, the international Blessing is a same, both in value and in content, as the number four of the tradition. I placed a lot of importance on the 1800 Couples, satanic world. didn’t I? Their number is based on three times six, which is why 1,800 couples were blessed. Jesus needed 120 couples Originally, you should establish 180 families, but I will accept and Christ at his Second Advent needs 180 couples. There is 160 families. That is how all families in the satanic world can equivalent numerical and providential significance in 180 and join us. (281-42, 1997.1.2) 160 couples. They are both multiples of the number four. The number sixteen comes from four times four, and the number The 1800 Couples represent three times six, equaling eighteen comes from six times three. They are Satan’s eighteen, where the number three represents the three periods completion numbers, which we seek to reclaim for God. taking the place of the number six, and the number six becomes the same as the number three or Satan’s number of Didn’t I instruct Blessed Families to bless 160 couples from completion. Thus, the 1800 Couples represent all humankind. their tribes for this reason? Originally, it was supposed to be Through their Blessing, the foundation has been prepared 180 couples, but 160 couples are also acceptable. It is easier upon which the future families of not just believers but also to accomplish a smaller number and so I said 160 couples are nonbelievers in the realm of the satanic world can be okay; but in the future, you must bless 180 couples. The connected to heaven. This is the work we have been carrying seventh Blessing I performed was the 1800 Couples Blessing out up until now. (114-41, 1981.5.15) — from the 3, 33, 72, 124, 430, 777 right through to the 1800 Couples, you can count seven in total. From the number If we consider the 1800 Couples, the number sixteen is four seven, we must move on to the numbers eight, nine, and ten, times four, and the number eighteen is six times three. They the unitary number. Once we reach the number ten, we can are basically the same. The number four is the number for move into the era of the globalization of the Blessing. (292-20, earth and so four multiplied by four is a dimensional number. 1998.3.27) The number eighteen is the satanic number six multiplied by three. The number three is derived from the three ages, the The 160 couples are based on the number four multiplied by Old, New, and Completed Testament Ages, and this leads us four. Due to the failure of Adam and of his children to

2 Words on the 1800 Couple Blessing: TF et al establish four-position foundations, it was impossible to open come from six multiplied by three and four multiplied by four. the gates of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Nevertheless, They are the numbers Satan usurped from God, which is why during the era of indemnification, by virtue of 4.4 Jeol we as tribal messiahs were to originally restore 180 families; (Four-Four Day), we can restore this foundation because four however, that number can be reduced to 160 — they are times four equals sixteen — the number symbolizing God’s providentially equivalent. In fact, four times four is the ideal ideal that was usurped by Satan. If the number six is the number. foundation on which we can reclaim the satanic world for God, then that number times three, representing formation, In the Seoul Olympics, 160 nations participated. The number growth, and completion, would equal eighteen, which explains sixteen is also involved in North and South Korea joining the why I blessed 1800 couples. The 1800 Couples correspond to United Nations: North Korea, a suzerain state of Satan, joined 1600 couples. This is the number that can destroy Satan the United Nations as the 160th member state, and South completely. (296-179, 1998.11.9) Korea joined as the 161st, signifying a new beginning. In terms of indemnification, South Korea is standing in the lead. One-hundred twenty couples were meant to be restored in the (272-284, 1995.10.8) era of Jesus, but in the era of Christ at his Second Advent — the era of globalization — it should be 180 couples. Hence, I From the time of the 1800 Couples Blessing, I did not blessed the 1800 Couples and went on to the 6000 Couples emphasize the importance of spiritual children. Since the Blessing. That number 1800 was derived from multiplying the Blessing entered its global era, everything must be resolved satanic number six by three. Since a number was needed that within the family. Whatever is horizontal must develop could walk over everything belonging to Satan, the number vertically and whatever is vertical must develop horizontally. eighteen emerged. (304-291, 1999.11.9) Spiritual children must focus on their grandparents, parents, and older siblings within their families. Their grandparents I blessed the 1800 Couples this year. Originally, their Blessing will then become their grandchildren. Then what would should have taken place last year in 1974, but it was all right parents become? What position would they take if as long as I performed the Blessing before April of this year. grandparents become grandchildren? They would become From the time the Blessing ceremonies were first held in April children. What position would older siblings take? They 1960 until April of this year we are still keeping within the would become younger siblings. (292-114, 1998.3.28) fourteen-year period. That is why I conducted the Blessing in February, and so we have achieved all this within fourteen February 8, 1975 was for me a most unforgettable day until years. Thus, in keeping with the completion of the second now. I matched the Blessing candidates until just one hour and seven-year course of the Unification Church, the 1800 a half before the ceremony was to take place. Have you ever Couples Blessing conducted on the global level signifies that heard of such a wedding? I was still matching the couples we have laid the foundation for worldwide restoration. So until 8:30 a.m., even though the Blessing Ceremony what are the 1800 Couples? The number eighteen is the sum commenced at ten o’clock in the morning. I stayed up the of six plus six plus six. The number of couples corresponds to whole night, but marriage is very important in a person’s life this and represents our gaining supremacy over the satanic and cannot be a game, so when a match was rejected, I world completely. Having laid the global foundation, we can proposed another and then another and so on. (83-226, conclude that we have entered the era in which we can move 1976.2.8) the nation and the world according to God’s will. (81-109, 1975.12.1) 1800 Blessed Couples Second Anniversary Celebration The 1800 Couples Blessing that took place on February 8, Sun Myung Moon 1975 was a global event. Newspapers worldwide should have February 8, 1977 carried articles about it. The whole world should know about New York it. As such, you should also understand that the year 1975 was a truly historic year. We have entered the era of global The 1800 Couples Anniversary Dinner began as many proclamation. Our ascent to that level was heralded by the separate celebrations and gradually coalesced into one large Blessing of the 1800 Couples. (87-62, 1976.5.1) celebration with our True Parents as the guests of honor. The 1800 Couples incorporate the numbers three and six — the Originally there were to be three separate celebrations, all factors of eighteen. Since three sixes represent the completion informal and much smaller than the dinner that was finally of that satanic number, no matter what it takes, we need to held at 43rd Street. The Japanese couples had planned a establish a new origin through which we can cross over into celebration featuring Mr. Chung Hwan Kwak as the guest the global era. That is how I came to think that I should speaker. Many American couples had been feeling the need surpass the minimum number of 1,800 couples within this for spiritual guidance and so when Mr. Salonen found that the year. With such a conviction in mind, I instructed, “You need Japanese were having Mr. Kwak speak, he asked Mr. Kwak if to reach 1800 couples,” and we have accomplished this great he would speak to Western and Japanese couples together. task. (79-104, 1975.6.22) A large celebration was planned, with Mr. Kwak to speak to Currently the United Nations has 183 member states. Didn’t I everyone with dinner and entertainment following. Mr. Kwak bless 1800 couples? Similarly, in this period of transition, 180 was happy to speak to us all, except now there would have to nations must be turned around. The numbers 180 and 1800 be a translator to translate his Japanese into English. This signify the completion of the satanic number. These numbers turned out to be quite a problem, as no one felt confident to

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translate such delicate material. We had a speaker who could Now you have had a separation period for two years since you speak great Japanese, yet no one to translate his words into the were blessed. You exchange letters with each other, counting ones that we could understand. Mr. Kwak had a solution in days with your fingers, expecting the time when you can live mind that would save the day. together. You will never forget this period of separation. But as soon as you begin married life you will understand that it Just a day before the event, we started hearing rumors that is not so easy to live together as a couple. Husband and wife Father would come to the dinner and speak to the couples each have different thoughts about married life, as different as himself. What was once planned as a rather informal dinner your different faces. It is so difficult to make unity between was becoming a grand affair with Father himself attending! the two minds of husband and wife. However, all of you have The kitchen staff began scrambling to find every thing to basically the same idea that everything is God’s Will and prepare for Father’s table, and we made Father’s conference providence. Your idea of marriage based on the Divine room ready for his speech. Principle is superior to the usual thoughts of marriage in the world. We were very happy that Father and Mother would take time out of their busy schedule to be with us, and we could hardly Now you must think that you can’t believe in marriage without contain our joy. I think that everyone will always be grateful the Principle. Is that true? Your marriage is so different from to Father for making this a very memorable occasion, and to marriage in the unprincipled world. Nobody can guarantee the Mr. Kwak for providing the means for it to happen. Father life of a usual marriage. You will be able to find that out from spoke to us all for two and a half hours, often making many different viewpoints. Even one word, if it is the wrong comments to individual couples, and making the Japanese word, can cause divorce. couples giggle by speaking to them individually in Japanese. After the speech, Father and Mother led us all downstairs to Men and women live in two separate worlds. Have you ever a wonderful dinner of Chicken Cordon Bleu. Father remarked felt it? How about members who have already been married? to the guests at his table that the 1800 couples must be good It is a practical problem. Who could restore the original couples because the food was very good. He passed some of relationship of love if one word can cause separation between the food on his table to the couples at the other tables. a husband and wife? It is impossible to restore it in the world. But for us it is possible because we have the same purpose, After dinner a three-tiered anniversary cake was presented, but idea, and belief. Even though we might make a big mistake in Father said that one of the 1800 couples should cut the cake our life, we will pay an indemnity condition to restore it rather than himself. Mr. Salonen chose Robert and Mameko because we believe in God and True Parents. God will scold Rattley to cut the cake, and they did so in the tradition of our you, saying, “You made a mistake.” True Parents, cutting it in half and then in quarters. Father enjoyed coaching them in the heavenly method of cake Were you grateful to receive the blessing or not? Which? If cutting. you were not so grateful, you need me. I want to say another good point about our blessing. It is nice you have many Some of the couples and groups had prepared songs, and they blessed sisters and brothers as your family. were offered, and most of the couples at the head table sang songs for the occasion. Mr. and Mrs. Salonen did their How do Korean blessed couples spend their married life for rendition of “For Baby,” and Mr. Kamiyama sang a popular God? And how about Japanese blessed couples and American Japanese song. The real entertainment, however, came when couples? When you think about them, you will be compelled Father and Mother performed their famous number, “Um to make up your mind not to be the last on the list of the Maya.” This ended our Parents’ participation in the evening, blessed couples compared with other blessed couples. It is and we roused the neighborhood as we saw them out the door very good to reflect on this and awaken yourself. with shouts of “Goodbye, Father, Goodbye, Mother,” and of course, “Monsei!” Therefore, it is much better for you to be blessed in the Unification Church than to have a marriage in the world. So, Mr. Salonen spoke to us briefly after our Parents left, and sent among couples who are already living together, I imagine you us all to the movies. All headed out the door, with memories have quarreled with each other. Especially because American of a wonderful evening that will last for years to come. women are so strong, American men will have difficulties. Americans have the democratic thought that everybody has a A memory often remains deep in our minds after we have had right to equality. Our thought is different. For example, a some special experience. However, even in a few years it woman is in the object position to the husband who has the gradually becomes fainter and fainter in our minds. Do you subject position. Therefore, it is a crime for a woman to be remember the bitter coldness of February 8, when the 1800 angry at a man. Compared with the rate of anger between men blessing ceremony was done in Chunju Gymnasium in Seoul and women, I think that women are more short-tempered than two years ago? I would guess you could never forget it in your men. Two-thirds of anger comes from women rather than men. whole life. In a thin Korean wedding dress you shivered with cold before you went into the gymnasium. You were cold, But it is wrong from the point of view of the Divine Principle. weren’t you? Some couples who went in first might not be so In the Garden of Eden, Adam was forced into the original sin cold, but the other couples who went in later must have been by Eve. Therefore, women have to establish indemnity cold. I think some members would have thought it was much conditions that women completely obey men. Women better to come back home for the warmth rather than to stay in absolutely must not get angry. As soon as a man and a woman the coldness outside the gymnasium. have married life, you can understand that a woman can be

4 Words on the 1800 Couple Blessing: TF et al subjugated by a man. world in which hearts are filled with the desire for world unity. In order to accomplish this purpose we must promote Since Japanese sisters came to America, most American international blessings. You must make your ideal family a brothers began to yearn after Oriental sisters very much and, representative family in the world, thinking that international on the other hand, to dislike the strong ways of American couples were blessed for a special purpose. women. If American men understand the Divine Principle enough, they will agree with my idea. I can pick out one exceptional person from among ten thousand people. It is a big mistake for you to think that I did If I ask American men outside our church who are married to not consider anything special when I made your match. In the American women, whether their wives are very obedient and case of the foreign missionaries, success depends on their own trustworthy, probably they will have no confidence. When effort and real ability. Generally speaking, I think a man they ask their wives if they can love only them their whole would rather work hard for his mission than write a letter. He lives long the wife will answer that she has no confidence in probably does not want to report so precisely to his wife. He doing that. American women have fallen into a miserable may have some difficulty in this country. Even though your situation. As soon as such a wife has a slight quarrel with her husband does not write letters to you, you should not think husband, she will suspect that her husband has another that he is not concerned about you. woman. It is very miserable to a man. What kind of relationship is there between a husband and a wife after a wife Finally you will meet him in the future and live together. begins to have such doubts in her mind? It is so terrible. If When you write a letter to your husband, in your letter you then they have a baby, they will repent and think that they need not stress the need for your husband to make a good should not have had the baby. They should not be allowed to result from the point of view of Heavenly Father. For take care of their innocent baby with this sense of guilt. It is example, you had better introduce the beautiful scenery in a big problem. However, our Unification Church’s blessed America, American history and your impression of American couples are so happy. books. Even though a husband and wife quarrel with each other, they You should elaborate a plan which will be useful in your quickly become reconciled and together go fundraising and future life as a couple. So you should make some plans in witnessing the next day. Soon, you can make peace between order to give him a good impression of you. You must not you. What an amazing idea of marriage we have! In the case think that if your husband doesn’t write a letter for a month he of international blessings, the customs between a husband and doesn’t love you any more. Even if you don’t receive a letter wife are so different, so it is more difficult to make unity. from him for one year, a good wife could continue writing letters which encourage him. Write the following way: “You But if a husband and a wife can understand each other, both probably have no time to look upon the stars in the sky of them will become persons of fine character. It is natural to because you are compelled to work hard for your mission. I have a struggling period for three years. After three years, you am grateful to you.” will be a good couple. For example, the Oriental woman likes to be loved quietly, like a doll. Therefore, if the Western Write poetically. Send a picture of your profile taken when husband can understand it and control her, the couple will be you are looking toward the sea on the beach. In your hand you matched well. can hold your letter in which you wrote about what a wonderful day it was and how you wished he had been there The husband should not give a test to his wife; you must not to see it. Don’t write a letter complaining because you haven’t give a shock to damage your wife. Most women desire to received a letter from him. You can give him an impression serve their husbands 100 per cent. Accordingly, it is wrong if that you have some excellent quality different from your their husbands don’t understand them and coldly put their husband. Then your husband will reflect on himself. wives through difficulties to evaluate them. It is more difficult for a man to live together with one woman You international couples have a most important position. If his whole life long than to conquer the whole universe. Even a wife blessed in international marriage says she regrets I often observe and study True Mother. I observe her with marrying a foreigner, afterwards the way to international interest. I notice that she has this kind of sense and that kind marriages will be closed. Then Oriental men could be blessed of sense. I think she is very impressed when I speak to her in only with Oriental women and Western men could be blessed this way or that way. If I touch a certain part of her heart, I can only with Western women, and the way of God’s providence guess she will feel such and such. Through observation and would be closed. It would be limited only to the Orient. The studying, we can recognize each other’s different worlds and Oriental world and the Western world would be completely have a deep exchange between us. divided. To our ancestors in the past and to generations in the future, it would be inexcusable. If you cannot make an ideal Generally speaking, a woman can’t improve herself if she family on the earth, you will not understand the ideal spiritual thinks only of herself. A man is in the same situation. I am world. How can we accomplish the salvation of the spiritual sure that men can’t understand women. There is a fundamental world if whites like to live only with whites? difference between a man and a woman. A man’s opinion is just the opposite of a woman’s opinion. The direction which In the spirit world, if Western spirits don’t like Eastern spirits, is decided by a man is fundamentally different. Accordingly, this is not ideal. The important mission of the Unification a woman should often pay attention to a man. That woman Church is to make a united world. We must establish the who can’t live with her husband, who demands that he should

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be concerned only about her, may be called a thief. missionary.

You will violate the heavenly laws if you send a letter which Make an effort to become a good wife and then a good hurts your husband’s heart. A man doesn’t like to report mother. A woman is a woman. Finally her husband will most everything to his wife. A man often has his secrets in his strongly influence her. A man is a seed. A woman is the mind. But it is also principled love. ground. Therefore, it is very important how well the seed is planted in the ground. Though each man has his own destiny, a man usually can’t judge his own destiny. I have the best facial features to The thing you have to be always conscious of is whether you become a worldwide leader. I can judge Heavenly fortune, not are remembered by God and which rank among the 1800 just worldwide fortune. It is very significant to judge couples you hold, because God doesn’t see you as one person Heavenly fortune. I think most Westerners can’t understand or one couple. If God is going to bless one couple among 1800 Oriental philosophy. At the matching of 1800 blessed couples, couples, He blessed the best couple among them. He thinks I quickly decided every couple within nine hours. I did it like this way. He thinks on the worldwide scale, universally, so He a work of God. Though it seemed as if I did it without any will give His blessing to the couple who can become the best thought, it is different. I am a man of miracles. family on this level. They can become admirable ancestors who are about to have splendid descendants. Even if you cannot make unity between yourselves, you will have good children in your future. That is my plan. Even Therefore, God doesn’t think of you horizontally as an though neither of you is such a superior person, excellent individual person or couple. God thinks of you according to children will be born from you. If a woman chose her favorite what rank you can achieve as the representative of 1800 man as her husband, that couple might end their married life couples. So you have to consider that you receive the in half a year. I think Western brothers and sisters must never allotment of grace from God according to what rank you can have heard this kind of speech about the blessing. attain before God. Who can set the tradition of 1800 couples from now on? One couple who sets the tradition becomes a Each person has different qualities, depending on spiritual central point. God is watching for it, and reaching for it. You standards of his ancestors, whether they did good or evil. may think of your blessing as being only one among 1800 Everybody’s standard is different. My insight is very keen. As couples, but Jesus’ family and your family are the same. You I have been thinking about the spiritual world, I can look into may not think you have a historical mission. “I was blessed your invisible mind. Therefore, I hope you do not spend your cheaply without doing anything during three years in the daily life like the common man and woman outside the Unification Church.” You may only think it has this value, not Unification Church. It is not so good that I become older and more than that. older, because you still need more training and development. Three points: the spiritual world, the earth, and descendants I have never studied physiognomy, but I can see into the must meet vertically in a straight line. Otherwise, your minds of other persons. I have been doing this since I was ancestors will get indemnity as well as your descendants. eight years old. If I recognize that someone is good, it Therefore, you must be thankful, because if there was not this becomes clear in the future that he is indeed good. But on the man or this woman with whom you are blessed, you could not other hand, if I recognize that he is not so good, he really turns be given this blessing. The hope of human history is this out that way. I have been known for such predictions since I blessing. It is no problem, even if your husband doesn’t have was a child. eyes or a nose. Which position are you going to reach? Are you going to become number one of 1800 or drop out? All of my relatives thought that I would become famous in the future. I could predict whether it would be dry weather or wet Blessing is not for each individual person. It is for the weather next year. I don’t like to publicly make such connection between nation and nation, for the unification of predictions. Though I can do it, I don’t speak about it. You the spiritual world, for the unification of the earth, and for the must be proud that your blessing was given by a man who has unification of spiritual world and earth. You may not realize the highest record for the matchmaker in worldwide marriage. it has the vertical contents. Therefore, if you fall, there is no You must remember it well. We can evaluate the marriage of salvation. If the blessed couple falls selfishly, there is no way each couple after three generations, taking into considerable of salvation. We can never admit such a case in our world. their children and grandchildren. When we see our When you divorce selfishly, your ancestors get indemnity, grandchildren we can recognize how the family will develop back to 70 generations they get indemnity. Marriage is not for later. What do you think about our couple? yourself, it is for all mankind. Therefore, when one of two people fall, the faithful person will be matched again. It is the The keys for development as foreign missionaries are to eat Principle. If Adam hadn’t fallen, his life could be meaningful; less and sleep fewer hours than the other members. Work if Eve hadn’t fallen, Adam could be valuable. People who harder and wear worse clothes than the other members. That disobey the Principle will be cut off, but you who are faithful is the best way to develop each foreign mission. The first six will be blessed. months is a very important period for you to gain success. Work harder and do jobs which the other members don’t like Therefore, the problem of man and woman from now on to do. You will finally be welcomed as their guest. Then the means the problem of life and death. If a woman meets with other members will do everything instead of you. Work harder such a situation, she should die rather than fall. You should in order to be welcomed as a good wife of a foreign exchange it with your life. In God’s providence, people

6 Words on the 1800 Couple Blessing: TF et al sacrificed to purify their lineage until now. Because I was Blessing born on the earth, I could purify your lineage so you could stand in this blessed condition. Therefore, the sin of falling Father thinks that the 1800 Couples’ mass wedding will give again cannot be forgiven. Consequently, the time when man’s the public a wondrous feeling. Our second seven-year course virtue is more necessary than woman’s has come. Adam didn’t will be completed next April; that’s why I planned this keep his virtue. Adam should have kept his universal virtue, Blessing. It is one condition for complete indemnification. but lost it. Consequently, we must not repeat this history. Father blessed 1800 Couples 14 years after 1960. Originally I am not doing this for fun. I am blessing you to solve the it should have been held in 1974; but it was permissible until problem of the spiritual world. Therefore, when you have April of 1975, since the actual providence started on April of three meals breakfast, lunch, and dinner you should have them 1960. The second seven-year course was completed with the always thinking of your partner. Have you done this? If you Blessing of 1800 Couples, so the Unification Church could look around here and there at the breakfast, lunch and dinner, begin the worldwide providence. the results may be dreadful. It could cause indemnity for ancestors and descendants. You don’t think of such a Six times three equals 18. This number means the complete connection now, but if you have such an experience, the subjugation of the satanic number 6. Centering upon the misery after it happens is tragic. foundation laid so far, we enter the age to embrace the world.

Maybe you don’t realize it. When you act without thought, it The 1800 Couples’ Blessing is composed of 25 nations, which could become a problem beyond description — fear coming means it is the worldwide Blessing. In establishing a tradition from the bottom of your heart. Then you will have more fear transcending the nation, don’t be the shameful ones who fall. than the hell of Adam and Eve’s fall. The spiritual world will You have to set up this tradition at least, even if you cannot watch from now on whose lineage can be kept pure. This is achieve anything else. You are responsible for opening the the present competition. The problem from now on is whether way for your family; otherwise, your kinfolk will perish. you can maintain thousands of generations with a pure lineage. Color of skin is not a problem. This is the time to compete with nations for purity. Father blessed 1800 Couples 14 years after 1960. It was originally supposed to be held in 1974, but the real providence Consequently you should think about which position you can started from April of 1960, so it was permissible for that have among 1800 couples. God wants to see everyone become Blessing to take place before April of 1975. Therefore, the number one. You have to reach such a goal being thankful and second seven-year course was completed with the 1800 doing your best. Blessed couples have a very serious position. Couples’ Blessing, and the Unification Church could depart If you don’t have confidence, it is better for you not to be for the worldwide providence. Six times three equals 18, blessed. You are not American, Japanese, or Korean. You are which indicates the complete subjugation of the satanic beyond nationality. number six and the accumulated foundation to enter a new age. Who will be able to dominate the world with this kind of tradition after my death? Only the person who inherits the tradition of going beyond nationality and with his heart on the The 1800 Couples Blessing was the seventh to take place. The worldwide scale can dominate the world. You must educate number seven is the number through which we can cross over your children with such a tradition. In order to educate your into the global era. precious children, you must become such a person.

Blessing And Ideal Family (Part 1) The Great Transition Point by Rev. Sun Myung Moon Reverend Sun Myung Moon 6) The Prerequisites That Are More Important Than Belvedere, Tarrytown, NY Education Sunday, April 5, 1998 At this time also the ones who got blessed (1800 couples) 1800 represented three times Satan’s number of six. were serious about choosing their spouses, but they were serious without the right content. If they were serious with content, we could quite easily have broken through. If one is The Matching of 1800 Couples serious centering on oneself, one will become Satan’s food. Reverend Sun Myung Moon The group of people who were supposed to get blessed were Unofficial Note by Joy Poples all high- school and college graduates. But they all wanted to go up, and what good is that? That attitude gives you a score I looked up an old notebook and copied the following notes below zero. from February 3, 1975. We had arrived late the night before in the village of Su Taek Ri, site of several church-related businesses, including the Il Hwa Factory. For close to 200 Blessing and Ideal Family Part 2 Western members, it was our first visit to Korea. We arrived by Rev. Sun Myung Moon as individuals and left a week and a half later as couples. - Joy Pople 8) The Dispensational Meaning of the 1800 Couples’

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Notes from David Kim’s warm-up talk: do more than Jesus. Then are you qualified? (No.) Are you greater than Jesus? You must know you are greater than Jesus. Advice in advance of Father’s arrival. Advise humble attitude, Did Jesus have True Parents, true clan and true tribe? No. like a baby who depends on its mother’s milk. Father knows the Principle all details. Korean astrologer admits matches are Who are we? God’s people-or the tribe having restored the perfect. I know how you feel. If I were you I would not be Garden of Eden. In Israel, people of all color hair come back here. Accept Father’s first choice. Don’t be stubborn. One girl to establish a new land (formation stage). America represents who was rejected by 4 men, Father gave her a most wonderful the growth stage, and the Unification Church the perfection husband later, at the very end. Don’t feel anxious. You have a stage. What you are doing here will be a thing of pride to your chance. If graciously you can decline, “May I have another descendants and tribe. chance?” But ask humbly. This meeting place and the dining hall were built in 30 days. Father arrives at 10:45 am. and begins to speak. The hall and dormitory were built in 28 days. We had to dig out a small hill and use the soil for building a house. We are Thank you for your coming to Korea. I think you know too proud of this building because it was built in the shortest well what the purpose of your coming is. More than anyone possible time. else, Heavenly Father has been very worried about you. He worries because every one of you wants the best mate, and the What belongs to True Parents will be yours. Korea being the best is just one! Heavenly Father’s idea is to make everything homeland of True Parents, it must be your homeland. even-best matched with the worst. My mission is to win the battle against Satan on the You are now in Korea, which you have been dreaming about. individual, family, national, and worldwide level. The battle Everything else is poor, but the sun is shining purely, and this in America is the fiercest. is the land of morning calm. If you were a man of original nature, you want to have the nature beautiful instead of I have been conspicuous as an individual. The next stage is to material abundance. become conspicuous as a family. This is the significance of your blessing. Afterwards, IOWC members will represent all Why do we say blessing instead of wedding? Vertical over the land. Our second seven-year course will end in April. line-God above, parents and children. Vertical things are If we physically win in American in these three years, the always in the center and are more important. God’s purpose toll-gate will be opened to the whole world. was to have Adam and Eve on the vertical line, centered on God’s love. By April this year, I will build 160 local churches, and then the world headquarters on Yoido Island. Before construction Ultimately, God’s purpose in creating man is to have man of the Yoido building, we will build a small one for the time build the Kingdom of God on earth. God’s purpose in creation being. The present headquarters is like a tabernacle, a shabby is not only Adam and Eve, but the family through them. old Japanese temple. In the provinces, churches are still Creation with family as a unit. In order to form a family, shabby houses, because in Korea we are still in the wilderness blessing or marriage is necessary. Ultimately, we can say that period. Now we are entering the blessed land. So we will fold we marry for God, because forming a family is God’s purpose the tabernacle and build a house. When we build the local of creation. churches, we are determined to fill them with many active members. We marry first, for God, and second, for the realization of God’s purpose of creation. The immediate purpose is the I know I must put manpower from Korea, Japan and America multiplication of children. With that idea in mind you can call in the construction. So I want to have 70-120 members stay in your mate husband and wife. In the western world people Korea for this construction. You are similar to the Jewish marry for their mate alone. Then your love is only on the people who had been scattered all over the world coming to horizontal level. Vertical love (God or children) is more Israel. You have responsibility to shed tears, blood and sweat important than horizontal love, because God above is subject. for your fatherland. Then your descendants will be entitled to Divorce is possible with horizontal love, but never between live in the fatherland in the future. parents and children. Traditional philosophy in the orient is to love parents more than husband or wife, and love children I will leave Korea on February 10, after 43 days here. Then to more than mate. Would you feel happiest with men other than Japan. When I return to America I will push out the families. your husband, or a couple other than your parents/? No. Man and woman put together will mobilize all the spirit world in aid. What is your destination after marriage? The What is the starting point of the heavenly kingdom? The battlefield. family. (speaking softly) Human fall is to have lost ideal parents and children, and God too. Your parents are fallen Wherever you go, you must be one with Father. Then parents, so your children are fallen children too. The primary whenever you are in trouble, I will come to help out. Then you thing God lost in the fall was the ideal family. will have victory over Satan. In your veins must be Father’s blood. Your flesh must be Father’s flesh. True Parents’ love One idea of Christianity is bride and bridegroom. Then what should be in your heart. will they do? Go on a vacation? Marry, then have children. Jesus could not marry. Therefore, when you marry, you should Shift from being slave of Satan to slave of God. God’s slave

8 Words on the 1800 Couple Blessing: TF et al should excel the archangel before the fall; i.e., you should be Budokan Hall. You will leaflet and street preach for the better than those in Satan’s position or the angel’s position in Budokan Hall speech on February 16, after a successful this world. Then you can minister directly to True Parents. campaign. You must clearly recognize that you are less than a servant. Mother is scheduled to have her baby today. Pray she won’t You must love God better than Jesus did. Is Jesus God’s true have an early delivery because of the lower air pressure while son or adopted son? True son. But he could not accomplish his on the airplane. He will fly an American carrier from Tokyo full mission. You must love God more than Jesus did. You to the United States. When he arrives in the U.S. he will push must love God’s people more than yourself. You must love you hardest to fulfill your mission. He came back here to plant Jesus more than yourself. Then you share his inheritance. By the victory in America to Korea. Now he has the dispensation that you become engrafted to him and are shifted to God by to go back and bring the spiritual and physical victory (fruit). lineage. The IOWC will land like an army on this land. The To be reborn you go into the womb. Jesus is elder brother and dispensational course-Father’s work and the referendum for you are younger brother. Positions switch. Then you can be President Park. From this year he gave instructions to reborn. Father’s immediate sons and daughters are the construct 160 Unification headquarters throughout Korea. first-born to you. So you must think of yourself as Nearly $50 million worth of Japanese Unification Church second-born. Then you are united with them. Then their “temples” will be built this year. Today Japanese members families will be united with yours. Father’s immediate children pledged to contribute to this. Two thirds of the expenses are will grow on the vertical line. You will grow horizontally and pledged by blessed Japanese couples. widen the scope. Father’s immediate descendants and your descendants will get mixed. In America we have to push hard. Who will be the locomotive? You are the only ones who received this blessing Whom does love belong to? God. by getting blessed, we first in 1975. By you people it will be accomplished. It is very come to possess God and God’s love. God comes to abide in important. The next three years will decide the success or us. Then we are in place of God and come to exercise His failure in America. Already our True Parents, our church is power. Then we are entitled to love each other. Then alone ready to be accepted in America. In three years we will have can we have love between husband and wife, between man a big rally. A quarter million people in Yankee Stadium. Who and woman. Because love belongs to God, in God’s place will be responsible to initiate this? You will. You should alone we are qualified to love. Then we know how to love. know that nobody other than us can fulfill this. Then we can have domination over all the universe. Europeans complain? If we bring good success in America, What is the blessing? To possess God’s love, to possess God’s you will be connected immediately. If we neglect the U.S., son or daughter, and then all the universe. For you to know all Europe will suffer. Father asked European leaders to the U.S., this through me is the blessing of blessings. knowing how important it was to sacrifice.

So you are gong to become people of God’s expectation? Even Presently there is no organization who will say they will be if your head is taken away, your body would still like to go to responsible for this situation. 1.5 Latin Americans are the Kingdom of Heaven. smuggled into the U.S. With this kind of threat how can we say the U.S. is safe? Father researched for some organization Free matrimony is something like being poisoned. to stop the flood of illegal immigrants. It took 8 hours to match 809 couples in Japan. I match people Father has concluded that one third of our members should be for harmoniousness. You will find out what the harmony is in engaged in VOC work. When necessary, 2/3 of the troops can at least 3 years. be filled in, and then we will fulfill something. In order to minimize this flood, Father needs at least 30,000 troops. Then Korean saying: “Ideal mate will come out from a strange we will have 1:7,000 people (American population). This place.” (“Strange” and “ideal” have the same pronunciation in means one U.S. member should lead 7,000 Americans. This is Korean.) So stretch your arms out wide as you can; accept any hard, but there is no other choice. This is the minimum. But kind of person. My point of view is how you can have future we cannot wait until 30,000 members are attained. descendants. Rumor is that the couples I have matched have given birth to good children. We must search for one dynamic blow, equivalent to this formula in explosive methods, like the 8-city tour. In 1976, At about 1:30, Father announced a lunch break. The matching 200,000 people for Yankee Stadium. This is the strategy. Then began at 3:00 p.m. 500,000 in Washington, D.C. Then all scholars will study what is going on with Rev. Moon.

Words to Newly Blessed Couples You will have a chance to distinguish yourselves. When you Reverend Sun Myung Moon work you will make miracles. The public will recognize your February 9, 1975 Su Taek Ri Training Center, Korea - work and sooner or later they will be our members. This is a Unofficial notes by Joy Pople short cut. We expect many people to join us. So we prepare a school in Barrytown. If you wait for 30,000 members, he He does not even know what topic he will speak on at doesn’t think you will influence 7,000. One person should

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expand their working territory. watch: will this matrimony be successful in the future or not? If you are a success you will revolutionize the whole world. Each person has two needs: how to make money, then how to So 155 people from the U.S. will be the new ancestors of the be a good leader, with good character. So how can we make world to come. lots of money in a short period of time? How to be a good fighter, for society and for the nation? In how short a time can Father has information that Monday and Tuesday ABC will we do this? televise to the whole world. A movie will be made very soon. Then you will carry the film of the 1800 marriage ceremony. We don’t do it for ourselves, but for others. Whether we have Then all American people will be anxious to see it. Then the money or not, they have the evaluation that we do. When people will have the fever of group matrimony: “The initiator Father speaks through the interpreter, he stirs up and inspires of international weddings is Rev. Moon. Therefore, we must people. So they say, “Rev. Moon cannot be taken lightly.” A invite him.” If this fad appears, all young people on campuses magazine printed, “Who is the celestial messiah from Korea?” will come to him. If Father explains the ideal of husband and Rev. Moon. wife, etc., they will automatically become our members.

So look how Father did it. Scholars are studying how Rev. It is good to have a debt if you could come here. When you go Moon did it. He doesn’t stay at one step, but he is always back to the U.S. you are in the leading position. So we have to advancing. Figure $5 million must be spent to fill Yankee prepare ourselves that way and to not fail True Parents’ Stadium, also 250,000 people to come. If this works, he will expectations. pick people to be senators. We will influence state levels. When election time comes, they will see the mobility of our As you know before you came you have to go through a group. three-year period. So you must work harder. Before, you have been working alone; now you have an eternal partner, even When Father orders, you come, even a month, from east to though you are physically separated. You have to consult, how west, across the U.S. Then we can handle 200 million in the to fulfill your mission. Your descendants will be great palm of our hands. Less than 1000 people brought the children. How much you receive God’s love will determine sensation when Father wanted to help Nixon. how beautiful children you will have. You blessed couples are the ones who must set up the new When you are obedient to him, the more blessing you will tradition in the U.S. It is not easy to set up the new tradition. receive. When you have a baby you think, “My baby will be New tradition must be firm and unchanging. It would be a president of the U.S. or a world leader.” Then God will bless great mistake to think, “Now I am a blessed couple. I am you. perfect.” You must keep your two legs straight. If pressure comes, you must stay firm and resist. Concrete must have iron Father has been planning in advance what kind of baby he will support. Are you going to be strong as iron? You have to be have. Before he conceived, he described the kind of eyes, set in a box. Then who will be the hammer? Father. Do you mouth, etc. Then Mother bore a baby just as he saw it. want the blow from straight above? Then your eyes will bug out! Then when he hits hard will you stand firm? Your problem: how can I love God and True Parents more than anyone else? How can the wife receive love from God? Father worked hard in three years. Now he has a solid Her husband comes home at night so tired from working for foundation set up. So he wants you to have great God, then she tenderly comforts him. So she receives love expectations-in three years great miracles will happen. from God. One third of 200 million are youth. Then if 70 million young Western way emphasizes physical love. Oriental, heavenly people are united like you, think what will happen. The whole way, union of heart. Of course, if you have both it is best. But world will be like your flower basket. which of the two is more beautiful? Unity of heart, even though separated. Which is more beautiful: love husband with When many, many people come into our church, shall we wait eyes wide open or love sleeping husband in heart? To be able until then to send out missionaries? Too late. Like a tree that to love in sleep is real love. So have competition, who has grows we need many stems. So we need tremendous deeper love. Who can love the other more in sleep? When manpower and tremendous finances. So fundraising and husband is sick he needs his wife’s love desperately. So you witnessing. must become one, in True Parents. When you are separated, more intensive love increases. That is the barometer of love. You must realize that you are the most blessed couples in the Without this element you cannot maintain love in your world. Now you are the ones whom he can trust. You are the married life. Do you think you can do this? He will wait and ones to whom he can give the greatest missions. Why do you see. come to Korea to be blessed? It is our homeland. Also, to shock American people. Some people must think Reverend It is a fascinating study, why couples are matched. You will be Moon is a great man. People never saw such a thing. Your more blessed. When two people (separated or together, doesn’t father and mother cannot control you. How, they think, can matter) do True Parents will, great blessing. So pray for one Rev. Moon control 150 people? So they will think the people another, love one another, stir up the whole country. You may will do anything for him. They think he will revolutionize the have a little difficulty at first, because it takes time to become whole world, including their daughter and son. Then they will one.

10 Words on the 1800 Couple Blessing: TF et al Seventy couples from America. If you increase to 700, 7000, On February 8, 1975, the blessing of 1800 couples was held 700,000 receive blessing, how wonderful! So you are in Korea. Six is Satan’s last number, and 600 times 3 is 1800. heavenly seeds, the new tradition, the new ancestors of the You have heard the prophecy about the number 666 in U.S. So this will be a blessing not only to you but the nation, Revelations, so this blessing marks the end of Satan’s the heavenly kingdom and the earthly kingdom. dominion of that number. …

This time you will go to America all together. Then you will The 1800 couples blessing marked the completion of the prepare to come back here or go to overseas mission. The first blessing providence and now I can bless people anywhere and group of 30 missionaries will go overseas very soon. Then the under any circumstances. Satan’s accusation is completely next 30 in an interval, after preparation. You people will be removed from the blessing, no matter where or when it may be included as missionaries overseas: 30 German missionaries given in the future. All the past rejection and opposition to will be sent overseas. 360 altogether will go out to 120 group marriage is subsiding and no nation can oppose this nations. U.S., Germany, Japan (and sometimes Korea, but activity again. In this way a new race has appeared. Without excluded for the moment). restoration of the family unit the world cannot be restored. That’s why I struggled so much to set up the condition for Those appointed as overseas missionaries will received restoring the family unit. You have to restore the family in our stipends, sent from the U.S., Germany and Japan. Then all movement, representing not only your family but the nation finances flowing from the globe will be tremendous. and the whole world. Why three? After World War II God blessed three nations Now in spirit world even the great world leaders from the past materially, so they have to do something about this. The bow down before the blessed couples. reason why God blessed three was so prosperity would go to the whole mankind. They are a symbol of the whole mankind and the whole world. So three nations will have an The Way To True Happiness international relationship and they will fulfill the purpose of Reverend Sun Myung Moon their creation. An international banking system will be set up Barrytown, New York through this system. Then we can offer a training program on March 5,1975 the global level to developing countries. So one nation can Translated by Col. Han easily be restored to God by helping this kind of program. So we have to have our own banking system. When you go out on a foreign mission how can you, as an American, love other people? Once you go out to other From 1973 the third 7-year course must expand to the countries, there’s no country like that country. You will find worldwide level. Neil Salonen should select 45 best that the bathroom is quite different from what you have here. missionaries from America, best ones. Also, Germany and But try to accept it and like it. Even during the 1800 couples’ Japan. They will be sent well-balanced across the globe. blessing there were European and American members asking Well-balanced distribution is important. Also, you have to for the Western style toilet that you can sit on. Father said, think, what is the best kind of method of evangelism? “Don’t even think about that!” Heaven can never be realized when one is centered around his own standards. You will have Also 50-member PR team is chosen to work on Capitol Hill. to come to like many things that you’re not accustomed to. So many areas we need more manpower. We need desperately Must you Americans really sleep on beds? (No.) If a blanket a certain minimum of manpower. is not large enough to cover all your body, then you have to just cover the stomach area. Once you come to like [Each person was asked to pledge a gift to True Parents in everything, you’ll never get sick. memory of the blessing.]

Providential Time Limits Cheon Seong Gyeong – Sun Myung Moon Sun Myung Moon Book Nine - Blessed Family April 17, 1975 Chapter Three - The Providential Significance of the Barrytown, New York Blessed Couples Translated by Won Pok Choi Section 8. The 6500 Couples As you know, 1800 couples are from 24 nations and wherever The 1800 Couples Blessing was the seventh to take place. The they are, at least 24 nations will know of us. Then, 120 number seven is the number through which we can cross over missionaries will know how wonderful the family lives are into the global era. (288-116, 1997.11.25) here. Those missionaries are married couples mostly, and newspapers in 120 or more nations carried articles about our mass wedding. The 25th Year of the Unification Church Sun Myung Moon May 1, 1978 The Dividing Peak Of Restoration [Part 2] Belvedere, New York Rev. Sun Myung Moon Translator - David S C Kim January 15, 1978, Belvedere Translator - Bo Hi Pak

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In the 1800 couples blessing, white, black and yellow all came event, after which couples boarded ninety-four sightseeing together in one blessing. Here in America parents heard all busses for a parade through the streets of Seoul. Apart from sorts of shocking news. Some parents thought that because generating substantial coverage worldwide, the 1800 Couple they had been supportive of their children as members that Blessing provided much of the personnel for a third major step Reverend Moon would be good to them by giving their sons in its worldwide outreach, the establishment of missions to beautiful white brides, but when I put some of them together most nations of the world. Prior to 1975, the movement had with little Japanese girls instead, some parents were outraged. established a presence in Korea, Japan, the United States, the European nations, Canada, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Those parents who once were very negative about their son India and several Middle East and South American nations. marrying an Oriental girl now say that they are absolutely However, this development was haphazard and lacked overall amazed at how I could find such a beautiful daughter-in-law coordination. In the spring of 1975, the movement more than for them. Now they write, “Reverend Moon, I hope you doubled its overseas mission by sending out teams consisting understand me. I was upset only because I was worried about of one Japanese, one German and one American member to what kind of grandchildren I was going to have.” 130 nations. Rev. Moon explained that Japan, Germany and America had been the three most materially blessed nations since the end of World War II and requested that each of them What Shall We Do? make the sacrifices necessary to support the foreign mission. Reverend Sun Myung Moon Belvedere, February 11, 1979 Translator - Bo Hi Pak The Key To Restoring The World Lies Within Us Rev. Hyo Jin Moon Recently I celebrated with some of the 1800 couples their April 21,1991 fourth anniversary. One by one I told each couple why they Belvedere, New York were a good match, what the strengths and weaknesses of each one were and why they needed each other. Everyone was When you first join the church what do you need to do? You amazed. Your eyes are big, but my eyes are so narrow that you must go through a seven year course of recreating the creation. can hardly see them and you wonder how I can see so clearly. Through fundraising you must restore the physical creation Each person has some desire about the person he would like and you must have three spiritual children, restoring the to marry, and if a person really begs and pleads then position of the angels. In other words, you must recreate the sometimes I match him with the person of his choice. I tell original creation environment. After you join, ideally them that l cannot guarantee the outcome, and those couples speaking, after you pass the seven year period, you are given usually have not been happy. But the couples I put together the privilege to be blessed. and said they would be good couples have all turned out to be happy. After seeing this happen many times most members However, even after you are blessed, to fulfill the recreation have decided it is best to leave the decision to me. ideal, and Father stressed this up to the 1800 couples, you should have up to seven years of separation. Why? First you must recreate the creation. Based on that seven years, you are Blessing and Ideal Family blessed. You are given the right to be part of God’s realm. by Rev. Sun Myung Moon Within that realm, within seven years, you must recreate Chapter 5 Part 2. yourself, recreate an ideal being. Than, after seven years of The Responsibility Of Children For Recreation recreation of yourself, you can start recreating the family by 6. The Meaning Of Witnessing To One Person A Month starting the family at the end of the second seven year period.

1800 couples were established. Six times three is 18, and this The second trimester is totally dedicated to restoring yourself. blessing is a blessing with the condition that we have arrived The final trimester is dedicated to restoring the family. At at a standard that Satan’s realm cannot reach. You must go this least twenty-one years of condition to indemnify the family is road absolutely. necessary for you to become the true tribal messiah. That is why, up to now, all these Blessings represented certain sy Belvedere mbolic positions which are necessary to unite all Forty Years in America the different people, all the different tribes of the world. Every Launching the World Mission 1975–76 Blessing symbolized a stage leading up to the global Launching the Worldwide Movement Abroad and in foundation which is necessary for Heavenly Father and True America Parents to ultimately unite the people of the world.

A second step in the launch of its worldwide mission was the international marriage blessing of 1801 couples in Seoul’s Baby Names Changchung Gymnasium on February 8, 1975. Billed as the “largest wedding in human history,” the ceremony brought Unknown speaker together couples from twenty nations, including seventy-six from the United States. Over 10,000 guests witnessed the Question: I have heard that True Parents have given names for the children born of each Blessing. What are those names, and

12 Words on the 1800 Couple Blessing: TF et al how could I use them in naming a blessed child? Gi: basis, foundation Goon: emperor, a sovereign, a lord, master Answer: There were not any names given specifically for Hui: glad, pleased, delighted Western blessed children, but the following is a list of the Hyun: bright, clever, intelligent names True Parents gave to the Japanese members, from the Joo: widely known, surrounded 777 couples up to the most recent Blessing of the 2075 and Joong: deep, important, heavy 6000 couples. Father gave the same names for the last two Kyong: respect, honor, piety, worship Blessings because he sees them as one 8000 Blessing group. Kyong: view, scene, scenery Nam: south When these names are given to a child, we should give just Yong: eternity one of the ones on this list, and give another which we choose ourselves. For example, if we chose the name “Chung” from Girls’ Names the 1800 couples’ list, we would add a second Korean name like “Hi,” to make the name “Chung Hi.” It is also possible to Hwa: flower blossom combine the Korean name Father gave with an English name Hyang: fragrance, scent or word, and generally to use our own creativity in naming our Mi: pretty, beautiful, lovely, fair, sweet, noble-minded, fine children. It is not at all mandatory to use these names, but as so many people have expressed interest, it seemed valuable to The above three names are meant to be second names, for share them with you. example: Jung Mi, or Wol Hwa.

1800 Couples Bo: treasure, riches Chan: praise, praiseworthy, legend Boys’ Names Geum: silk meaning prosperity Hwa: peace, harmony Ahn: peace, calm, tranquility Ji: desire, ambition, fulfilled wish Choong: loyalty, devotion, allegiance, fidelity, faithfulness Jun: great, perfect, all-inclusive Go: high, tall, lofty Jung: clear, pure Min: quick, speedy, swift, prompt, sharp, clever, bright The above three names are meant to be first names, for Sam: three example: Ahn Gi, or Go Goon. Wol: moon Won: a circle meaning harmonious, beautiful heart, no rough Dok: virtue, moral excellence, a good reputation, appreciated edge Dong: east