Inauguration Ceremony of Rev. Hyung Jin Moon As FFWPU International President

True Father Today at this time there must only be one line of authority. Being in Korea or in the world, the center over the entire Unification Church will stretch out and become larger. From now on, I can leave someone in charge of my work on my behalf. Currently there is no one among our church members who surpasses Hyung Jin in his standard of faith, or in any other way. Do you understand? I am appointing him!

Introduction to President Hyung Jin Moon Hyung Jin Moon was born in September 1979 in Westchester County, NY as the youngest son of Reverend Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han Moon. He was blessed in marriage to Lee Yeon Ah Nim in September 1997. They have five children. Our president-to-be majored in philosophy at Harvard, one of America’s most respected universities, and graduated from Harvard Divinity School in May 2006. He had entered Harvard Divinity School where he majored in World Religions after coming to a deep realization about his father’s vision for inter religious peace.

Yet he set a good example during his years of study, taking pride as a Unificationist and he was selected to pray and deliver a speech on behalf of all graduating students at their graduation ceremony. In putting True Parents’ vision into practice, Hyung Jin Nim visited holy grounds in a number of nations, and transcended religious barriers by humbly meeting religious leaders such as the Dalai Lama, and the Venerable Bub Jang, president of the Jogye order of Korean Buddhism, as well as Catholic and Islamic leaders, discussing with matters to do with peace for all humanity.

As a religious man, Hyung Jin Moon has for the past eight years started his day at 2 am with prayer and meditation in resonance with Heaven’s heart. On Dec 1, 2007, he was appointed as senior pastor of the Chong-pa Dong HQ Church, which members look to as the symbolic representative of the Unification Church worldwide. It is now time to ask President Hyung Jin Moon to come out to the podium. (Applause and presentation of flowers)

Pres Hyung Jin Nim’s acceptance speech (Full bow to True Parents, then turning to Father and laughing) Father! I am not someone who deserves complements like the ones I have received. So I feel sorry; in particular I don’t know if I deserve this glorious position given to me today. So all I can say is I am

truly grateful to True Parents and all our members around the world. The entire True Family is also grateful. Thank you.

After I began my ministerial duties I had an occasion to go to Tokyo, where I visited the home of a Japanese blessed family. The father whose leg is somewhat disabled is nevertheless an excellent man and the head of a real estate office. He has only one daughter who had received an international blessing; his son-in-law is a Korean. I talked a little with the son-in-law, and he was very proud of the fact that his father is a minister. When my wife heard that, she was delighted to say that she too is a minister’s daughter. At that point I felt left out so I also said to everyone in the house, “Hey, wait a minute! I am a minister’s son too!”

With the entrance ceremony into the Cheon Jeong Peace Palace, True Parents became the King and Queen of Peace and achieved all sorts of victories. To tell the truth I’ve often heard that people who attend and serve True Parents feel that they do so from a little bit far away; people think of True Parents as a little bit distant. They no longer think of them as ministers.

But I firmly believe that our True Father and our True Mother are always working as ministers; they are always guiding us as our ministers. They have become True Parents, and the King and Queen of Peace, but True Father was and is a minister.

When he was preaching to each and every person in North Korea from the age of 16, he was a minister. When he was imprisoned in Hungnam and in Danbury he was a minister. When he was Blessed in holy matrimony to True Mother at the former Headquarters Church, and when he taught there he was a minister. When he went to America, he was a minister. When he fought communism; When he led the Victory over Communism movement, and When he met Kim Il-sung, he was a minister. In short we can keenly feel the truth of the fact that: When True Father achieved all his victories, he did so as a minister. That is: it was as a minister that True Father laid such a victorious foundation.

Yesterday I spent all day with True Father, and he taught me two great things: 1-First he said, “Don’t worry too much!” He said I should not worry because many people would help me. 2-Second: he told me to give jeongseong all the time, because when we give jeongseong we are humbled. Especially because there is great possibility that we can become arrogant when in high positions, we need to give jeongseong because only then can we clearly know who we are in front of God and True Parents. We can keep in mind that we are the hands and feet of True Parents and help them in their work.

I believe True Parents’ secrets for our ministers is very simple: work in a loving manner, give jeongseong and don’t become arrogant in front of True Parents or our members. Also as True Father told me: Don’t worry too much about the future, but let us march forward in the certainty that God and True Parents are guiding us!

These are the secrets of a successful ministry. I think being a minister agrees with me, like leading a religious and prayerful life, and meeting people. Visiting our members’ homes has also frequently moved me. As their minister, I am visiting the homes of the members of my congregation and meeting each family. I cannot even find words to describe how moved and touched I have felt on many occasions. Nevertheless I know that ministry is not enough in itself.

I have a dream to make a church that those in our second and third generations can proudly proclaim they are members of. When members of our second and third generations are with other people, I want them to be able to say, ”I am a Unification Church member and I am proud of it.” I want them to display this to society. When they register in a school, and are asked what their religion is, I want them to be able to write that they are Unification Church members rather than “non-denominational Christians.” Such a time will certainly come.

Let’s make a church that can praise our True Father and True Mother for millions of generations to come! I’m positive that my older brothers Hyo-jin Nim, Heung-jin Nim, Young-jin Nim, and other members of the True Family in the spiritual world will work with us and that great and amazing miracles will occur. Let’s all give great glory to True Parents and in so doing offer our True Parents our resounding applause! (Applause)

Kook Jin Nim Good morning to all our members. I graduated from Harvard, but I am only capable of speaking Korean at the elementary school level. This is a really shameful and regretful thing in front of True Parents.

Today my younger brother Hyung Jin has been inaugurated as the international president of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU) and the president of the FFWPU Korea. There were many difficult times under my older brothers; sometimes they even hit me. However I lived according to my beliefs no matter how difficult it was. I lived according to my conscience. I never took action unless I believed it was right. I never respected anyone regardless of who they were unless they had reached a level worthy of respect. I am honest and that is how I live.

My younger brother is respectable and lovable. I truly can serve Hyung Jin, my younger brother, as the international president. If nothing about him were worthy of respect, I would not listen to what he says. I would never help him. As you all know, I am a fighter. Once I resolve to do something I do it to the end. I am a man who cannot avoid living according to his conscience.

Among my younger siblings I’ve particular really loved Young Jin and Hyung Jin; I’ve loved them as if they’ve been my own sons. I thought there could not be a more perfect person than my younger brother Young Jin; he was so smart and excelled in everything he did. What is more, he was a brother who really loved all his siblings.

(Tears) Before Young Jin’s accident he told me that we should watch and help Hyung Jin together. That was the promise we made and I am so grateful to be able to keep that promise. People should live according to their conscience. Several of my brothers have already passed away. I will keep the promise I have made to each of them; anybody would and should do that. If anybody should make a promise and not keep it, he is not even a person. I will keep all the promises I have made until my death.

Brothers and sisters, we are now at a beginning, not an end. Dear family members, what we have to do is very simple: Let us live for the sake of others! In the family, Let us live for the sake of our parents, our spouse and our children. Between members Let us live for each other. Through this tradition of living for the sake of others, Let us return happiness to God. Thank you very much.

True Father speaks to everyone assembled and Hands out the Word of the 8 Great Textbooks to President Hyung Jin Moon and his wife Thinking of this beautiful young man and woman, standing here representing Korea, the world, and furthermore the cosmos, they are the ones whom you can take pride in. They will become the pillars of our house in the future. It is my hope and wish that the dutiful way of filial children, patriots, saints and divine sons and daughters, will be fulfilled in relation to them. With that hope and wish, I, as a parent, am looking upon them with a heart full of anticipation that surpasses yours. So I fervently and honestly hope that you will offer your support so that such intention can be quickly fulfilled. Aju!

A blessing prayer should not simply consist of words. With this blessing prayer content, there is the form, the substance and the central core of three ages, the Old, New and Completed Testament Ages representing formation, growth and perfection. All these are connected, brought together and related on the basis of that content, if and when that relationship is established. You will know how to embrace and digest the realm of your ideal love partner. I am letting you know that once you become such people you become the historical representative where all that you do leads to success. Therefore True Parents would like to convey everything.

But the first thing that we would like to convey is the Word, the historical Word, the word that True Parents have loved; the Word that God desired which is given through True Parents. These words are not simply words for their own sake. They are derived from the core of the Word, from the substance,

and reach to the realm of its counterpart with external form. I will pass on the Word, the Word of God’s hope and the Word that True Parents have practiced centering on the standard of that hope that you become the representative of that Word.

When you become the owner of the Word and not only read the words but approach their deeper content, you will find the words, “Achieving Victory over Resentment.” If you go to America, and open the first door you see at East Garden, you will the motto, ““Achieving Victory over Resentment.” Whose resentment and bitter pain are you relieving? It is the resentment of heaven and earth. You have to overcome the resentment in the root, trunk and shoot, the resentment from three eras, the resentment from the Old, New and Completed Testament Ages. Later you must surmount the resentment of the realm of the heart of the fourth Adam.

This world is transient; it passes away. What relationships can you establish with this passing world? The parents whom you meet in this world, the teachers whom you are connected to in this world; the kingship and anything else will all disappear. Do not be hesitant to leave this world. Surmount the final hill that heaven requires of you. Become the representative of a victor, the heir of a victor and inherit the key position of the root of the heart of the fourth Adam. From there you must go to the world of heart of the third liberation where you can serve and attend Heaven. True Parents too are walking that path. Still you must know that a path remains along which you must overcome, with vigor, the border lines between the second Cain and Abel who are preparing for the world of heart. Do you understand?

On this occasion I am giving the contents of the Word and I am also passing on the substantial realm of what True Parents have actually practiced. The Word is precious. The reality of True Parents is precious too. However I ask that you will have the conviction that you will become the representative, prince and princess and heir that climb the hill of heart that is the reality of God. Do you understand? (All say yes) Then in light of this, I am conveying the Word to you.

(Father offers the Word to President Hyung Jin Moon and his wife and will offer the report to God with 4 hands holding on together on top of the Word)

Father’s Inauguration Prayer Report to God, Heavenly Father, we welcome the era of the tranquil evening. The era of night has come in which the creation may sleep and find rest. Father, people were unaware of the fact that when midnight comes after the passing of early evening, the shining hope of tomorrow that is the True Parent, the True Teacher and the True King, the representative of the kingship of hope and the authority to the heir of that kingship is here.

Nothing will remain for the Unification Church; everything from the days gone by shall pass. What we should live for now is in having our families carry on the foundation of a family of joy which was

not established in Eden centering on You, Father, and True Parents. (Tears) We know that this responsibility remains not with You or True Parents but with us.

Know that they have inherited all the foundations enabling the conditions of indemnity to be laid. They have inherited the authority of the representative and heir whom True Parents established with all their strength, and inherited True Parents’ altar of victory that allows them to become -without blemish - owners, as individuals before the Republic of Korea, owners of a blessed family, and owners of the position of teachers who can govern a nation.

Father, in order to dissolve the traces of the shadow of the fall from babies that will be born from the womb, a time of the mother and father must be ushered in when You can pray for, protect and raise them with greater devotion from the time of caring for the unborn child in the womb; with greater devotion than any parent on earth.

Let this couple be the son and daughter who should undergo labor pains while embracing this world again, and who can carry on the way of loyalty and filial piety with the intention of inheriting the realm of inheritance of True Parents’ liberation and inner emancipation.

Hyung Jin Moon and Yeon Ah Lee, this son and daughter, this couple, are standing before the True Parents. At this time of transition today, this occasion is one where they can inherit the authority as the representatives and heirs who can attend to everything on behalf of True Parents.

Therefore let that realm of heart which You were unable to experience - of blessing the son and daughter that did not fall in Eden - be carried on to the era of the ideal heaven of the fourth Adam, and all the way to that era when we can assert ourselves in liberation and complete inner freedom and govern everything centering on God. This, Father, I fervently pray!

True Parents know that it will not be easy for these two, this son and daughter, to teach with the authority that they inherit and hold on behalf of True Parents. At the end of this life with little time to remain, let these two offer all they can to become a representative point that can teach the people of all nations about the path they should take from this time on.

Father, I pray that You will let Hyung Jin’s family show to each family what it means to be a pivotal point that inherits from True Parents from the time of infancy and beyond the infinite years of life, so they can inherit the kingship of the victory of the representative who is unchanging in mind and body, and the kingdom of heaven in which You can exert Your autonomous right of victory. And as the sons and daughters of that liberated and internally emancipated heaven, may they personally embrace and love those children who grow in that kingdom.

In terms of three generations may True Parents, the mother and father, and the Unification Church be connected in one heart centering on this little child called Shin-Joon! May everything that is related

begin from this child, and in going beyond the realm of the fourth Adam into the new age beyond that critical point, heavy with the responsibility of the parents, the nations and God of this world, I sincerely wish that You may let the parents offer protection and become a protective fence so as to make this free environment into a welcoming garden of liberated freedom and peace that can carry on the inherited authority.

The spirit world was divided into Cain and Abel. Heung Jin the younger brother has asserted himself to this day in giving form to that counterpart world together with True Parents. Those who were placed in unknown environments in the realm of our ancestors were behind Heung Jin’s governance.

Now with Hyo Jin’s going there, he goes there in the position of the elder brother and with the title, “The Lord who opens the gate to loyalty and filial piety in the Garden that opens the way to the deepest, highest realms of heaven.” He will acquire all the internal and external aspects of True Parents and go to the heavenly world. Heung Jin who was in the position of being unable to govern, shall become one with his elder brother to create a realm of unity and expedite the return of the spirits to earth.

Let the spiritual world and physical world become one on top of all these developments geared toward the area of the restoration of the homeland, and with the Lord of love and the liberation of harmonizing oneness be allowed to surmount this hill. Father, may You come together with them to this earth, and be free to put Yourself forward. Let True Parents’ glory be revealed and the future glory of the True Children be exposed in its fullness. Father, let the preparation be made and the required period shortened and hastened, to allow You to become the owner, the King of Kings, who can reign as the King who is the Lord with all-pervasive, and all-encompassing full authority.

This, True Parents, fervently, fervently, fervently hope and pray and report to You. Let the future of this couple, this son and daughter, be entrusted to You and placed under Your guidance! Aju! Aju! Aju!

True Father’s final words to all assembled The blessed families must take up this task today and carry it with them. It is the families. Do you understand? Say “Family!” (Family) The family of the Old Testament Age (Family) The family of the New Testament Age (Family) The family of the Completed Testament Age (Family) The family of the world of the heart of the fourth Adam. (Family) You must go as far as that position.

In order to do this you must not have the right of possession or any symbolic image or substantial object in front of you. It must all belong to True Parents. Once it belongs to True Parents, it belongs to the true elder brother and it belongs to the True God. You must go to that place that can transcend the position of the true parent, true teacher and true king of the liberated Heaven. How great is that? This is not a fantasy.

As you who take up this path today, make your preparations; do prepare well, just as a person who aspires to take up a doctorate course would prepare from elementary school. I ask you to become such blessed descendants that can be with me anywhere on the mountain that I climb over. Do you understand?

“Resolving the right of inheritance!” You will be snagged if you have any inheritance. When it becomes evening time and night time you should align yourself vertically so as to have no shadow. Know that the final goal of the blessing remains and awaits you; that you establish a horizontal and vertical world of the liberated heaven that casts no shadow, as the original sunlight of Heaven that knows not the fall and radiates even in the middle of the night. Make haste in going that path. You should have the resolve to go forward with the intention of investing everything – your personal belongings, those of your clans, nation and world, even if it means learning or creating something so that it can be invested.

For these two, this couple who are appointed anew with this conviction, it is an era of opening doors. He is thirty years old. Jesus was thirty; it is that time when I fought, during my thirties in Pyongyang in order to hold the religious world in my hands. I was unable to take my family. If my family had been with me at that time, it would have been so difficult. As the family was not united at that time I had to leave the hometown of my father and mother, give up that environment in which I could live with my beloved wife and lay a path filled with tribulations. I am now in the eighty-nine year of my life but that is connected to this morning when we can step beyond the number eight of the third stage.

I pray you can be people who can assimilate the blessed world. I sincerely hope you become a representative body who can inherit the blessings that can be absorbed and still have something else to give. If you welcome this with that kind of heart, raise both hands with an acceptance and embracing heart and pledge before Heaven. I fervently beseech God that Heaven’s blessings may be with all nations. Aju! (All applaud with hands raised up)

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Transcript of words by Rev. Sun Myung Moon, from the video recording of the event translated by the Unification Sanctuary Church in Newfoundland, PA