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Sun Myung Moon September 20, 1979 Unification Theological Seminary, Barrytown, NY Translator: Sang Kil Han Transcription of possibly inaccurate simultaneous translation

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…attitude over many things… non area Father never touched… If you intend to be the best of it [barely audible sentence], in every field, of course you cannot do that. So, when you are really good, you ought to be best in one area. That one area might be soccer. Soccer and basketball, you will be the best team there, and in all other fields we will catch up with that standard. This is really the game in which everyone participates, everybody throws their whole body to that… Everywhere you go in the world, they will shout at the Unification Church team; they will all cheer the Unification team, and we will never betray their expectations, we will just run in perfection. We really ought to practical hard and make the goal.

You really have to love the field and love the ball. Soccer… we will have to supervise, if even God himself doesn’t know so much about football, but He can follow up, He can follow up with Father… shoot at… and if you pass and have the ball reach a certain point, you do that. And also, how long it takes for the ball to reach from here to there. Otherwise, everything will become stereotyped. About a few times, then you have to measure up. So, your objective is how to shorten the time by even a fraction of a second.

The ball may go this way and that way, in a zig-zag way, but the man will go straight, and a person here, a person there will pass it to you. So, you start running from this ball, then you pass it there, you kick it, and of course it will go this way, and then he will kick it back to you. So, how long does it take for you to start the ball from here and reach there? And also, kicking in a zig-zag way: if you go straight, of course, the enemy can intercept very easily. So, you do that this way and you handle that with skill.

So, in passing practice, you have to keep a distance of ten meters. Ten meter passing practice, and twenty meter passing practice - short range and… If you plan this ahead of time and you carry on your practice according to the plan and perfect it, then that team will be strong, that team will win. You may say well, there is a limit in doing… it is easy to say that, but actually it is difficult. Of course it is difficult, but it doesn’t matter; the matter is, whether it is possible or not possible. For instance about tuna: everybody is catching tuna in their own way, a little bit, and mostly there is a hook ad a line and that is it. So, a man may say that it is more a matter of chance than anything else, how can you help a tuna… bite? But it is not so. Father researched this. He tried this way and tried that way. He tried any way where imagination can carry you. The result is this year’s record. Father caught more tuna than the professionals there. When Father caught some 20 tuna, the professionals came and took off their hat, they bowed down. [Audience clapping]. This remains as a fact and record. Father caught more fish during the season than any other boat, including the professionals. Why?

Group training is good, but individual training… There are 25 boats there. Each and every one of them will set up a target, like a tree, and they will shoot, may hundred times after dinner, or before dinner. Then, later you ought to be able to hit every time. You do that from 5 meters, 10 meters, 15 meters, and as the distance grows, it takes more practice to become a perfect shooter. With a limit and discipline, in

other words, no matter how many times you kick, you will never become an idle kick. In other words, you set up a certain height of the goal, and beyond that, you will never hit. Even if you close your eyes, you will never hit. It makes no sense hitting a ball higher than that; so, once you do, somebody will come and punish you - point it out and punish you.

Like in a short distance. You shoot in such a way that you shoot the goal post and go in. That way, the goalkeeper has no chance, 100%. Father really has an urge. If he only had the time, he would like to explain you. Don’t train vaguely, just kicking a ball for a few hours. Don’t do that. Set up an objective and do the same thing over and over and over again, like you can never do it again.

You set up 1, 2, 3, 4… Also, for the average distance, when you shoot, it not only goes into the gate, but you will dangle all the boards, 1, 2, 3, 4, at least five or six. When someone shoots six, you have to shoot the goal into the goal on board six, not on board one. When you train this way, when you actually go into the match you have some idea, even a pretty good idea where to shoot. Otherwise, if you are not training this, chances are, when everything is difficult and you are shooting, you are just shooting into a general direction, which is no good, not good enough.

Before the technique though, you have to have the will to fight and the will to win. If you have that, in other words if you really run after the fastest runner of the opponent, you will later have the reputation, as the Unification Church team, that you don’t win every time, but that you really catch up with you; that they are a nuisance. You even have to learn how to kick a person and immobilize him. Because there is bound to be one man who is the best; others are no good, but that one is good, so somehow you immobilize him, up to three in one team. Then you can easily win over the others. Your final goal is to win.

[Inaudible comments by David Kim and discussion with Father in Korean.]

(Some give and take with students. Microphone problem makes it impossible to understand anything].

[David Kim, translating:] Sit down, make a circle. This is a private, internal thing, not necessarily… harder to digest. You entertain the guest, OK? Use the common sense, OK? We are not discriminating, do you understand?

[Father, through Col. Han:] Those who are newly enrolled students, raise your hands. Freshmen stand up! Let Father see your faces clearly. Line up in one place.

[David Kim:] Seniors get out of here. Father wants to examine every new face, OK? You, small ones rise, get up, come up. Sisters in one place, here, grouping. You don’t know where you are… Japanese sisters come up…

[David Kim discusses in Korean with Father].

[Laughter]. Thank you, Father! Which year are you? Are you freshman also, senior? …

Actually, Father wanted to come here much earlier than this after returning from Boston. Father was very much aware that your studying has already started and that you have been training and that you have been through preliminary preparations. Father knew it all along. But this was the fastest Father could come. Even today, Father almost didn’t make it, but… and came. [Clapping].

As you know, and all-out war has begun. Centering on one individual person, namely Rev. Moon, the entire United States has waged war against him. It has amounted to a congressional frontal attack on that individual… The IRS, the SEC and all these collective measures just to stop him or to try to fault with him, so that they can blame him and condemn him; they have been doing that. If Father was somehow lacking, if he had a warm heart, a nice heart, yet was lacking the means of organizing against this slandering, like Jesus I would say, Father would have been wiped out long ago. Do you understand?

All along, Father has been very much aware how to train and prepare a person to be functional to stop that attack from various sides. Preparation was a very important factor. Do you understand? You, like everybody else, came to the Theological Seminary to do seminary studies. But, unlike any other university, we must be fighting all the time against the contradicting powers, forces, fiscal and… and study on the other hand. Father wants you to have two sorts of work.

[David Kim, first in Korean, then in English: Anniversary today, isn’t it? Everyone sings ‘happy anniversary to you, dear Father!]

[Col. Han:] Father wasn’t aware of it!

[David Kim]… come over.

[Shouting and clapping]

[Father through Col. Han:] You may find yourselves lucky to be here, fortunate, grateful, something like that, but for Father it wasn’t as simple as that. For four years, Father has been preparing Barrytown, conducting a training in one way, but in the other way fighting a furious war, sometimes in a very serious way. All on a national level, not a local level. Everything and everyone was on the national level. We study here and have one objective, but having a theological seminary is another means of war. In other words, in order for us to be understood, we have to have many friends against the many enemies we have. So, Barrytown has been very functional, very good in carrying out that mission, too. Many theological scholars and students have passed here, and every time they came here and went back they were impressed and they changed.

Once we invite famous scholars from other schools here, and once they are fairly impressed and learn and slightly change and go back, we would follow them and ask them to provide some friendship or acceptance. In other words, what Father did, was preparing many people who would understand us and help us by accepting us. Every one of the scholars and theologians and… Christians know, everyone knows that there is bound to be a revolution in their hearts, and Christians… Without that, Christianity will not only not survive, but it will be meaningless. Everyone would know that.

But, when they are invited to the Unification Theological Seminary, of course they don’t know, they don’t tie that up with this… Anyway, their coming here is in fact a sacrifice for them, because they suffer a bad reputation. That is a sort of a fight within themselves, and also a fight with us. We prepare the way for them so that they are able to come here… When we win, that person finds himself here. So, friends, remote friends,… close to us, we will invite them over here and once they invite, that friend cannot fight against him. It is too obvious. Who fought? Once they came here, you the students fought the war.

Then, you the students always try your best to tell them know what the Unification Church stands for, the theology and the ideology and Rev. Moon’s own heart… if you try to talk to them, they try not to listen to it. Then you do it… Sometimes, they don’t understand deep things, yet they know one thing strong and clear: it is that… the Unification Church students work differently. Their eyes were correctly set, they are never wandering, never far focused, they are very exact people, very sincere and they have high integrity; they are genuine people. They have that strong impression engraved in them by the time they leave here.

Average, ordinary people, before they come to the Unification Church, have only a vague and loose idea about the Unification Church. Well, they may have some merit, but, oh well… they have a really very loose idea about us. Once they come, the sharp, intelligent ones really raise themselves… the unintelligent ones, of course, make no difference, but the intelligent ones really brace themselves up, oh, everything they say and you counter them, they may not agree right away, because the so-called prestige, but deep in their conscience they know, in every area, this is the strongest entity. They learn that.

So, when they go back, you will impress them that much, yet they will go back to their own school. Then later you, after finishing school, will go to that school, this time as a PhD student. Once you get to be a PhD student and gain an entry to that school, then you will be accepted as a member of the community; then the candidate students of ours in that PhD course will have a theology, a theory that is unmistakable, sharp and farthest-reaching, encompassing everything. The scholars are experts. They have been doing that al throughout they lives. Studies are their main subject, their main work. Yet, they soon find out that our PhD course candidate students are more knowledgeable, reaching more than them. They will come to know that.

So, as a result, that professor who has been here and now has daily contact with our students, will soon realize the value of it. So, they trace back the memory of their experience here, and with the help of our PhD candidate students, they set up a similar program to the one they went through while they were here, a Barrytown-type seminar. They do that not only with their limited community, but they extend invitations to neighboring schools, to neighboring professors, ‘here is a very exciting chance of your coming and talking to each other.’ So, they bring you over and they are never disappointed. Do you understand? Here we started, but now we branched out very effectively. This is what I… That means, there was one Barrytown, now there are 18 Barrytowns. [Laughter].

So, they are all throughout the different famous schools, 18 of them actually, and Father, most recently, a few days ago, gave detailed instructions on where to focus and how to fight against the professors. That means, since we have already reached out to 18 schools, we can invite the most able professors to come here and teach and stay with us. In other words, we hire them. Do you understand?

Father feels that the professors who have been with us in the last three years of course have done good work, yet once they don’t reach up to the standard, those new professors must take their place. In other words, all the professors here, unless they really become diligent and study hard, trying to understanding Unificationism itself, making serious studies based upon and connecting their own particular denomination, unless they make that foundation, they will have no ground to continue to stand on.

So, now only a few people have been doing it. When you continue to do that, soon there will be more than thousand people.

[Father, in English:] A thousand professors!

Do you understand? These professors are very central figures. They are very central figures al around that community and their denominations and the school community. So, this time, forty-five professors have been assembled on the Virgin Islands and given very intensive Divine Principle lectures. We just told them: you listen to this.

They may not learn everything at one time, in a few days, but before they came over to the Virgin islands they thought, ‘we might as well go there; it is a nice place, let’s go there and hear what they have to say, but can they say?’ That is what they thought. They came with a not so serious attitude, but as they stayed and listened to every word that was uttered, and tried to counter them, they soon found out that they were wrong. By the end of the three days, they knew that every one of the topics that were brought up was an essential one, a down to the heart one, and they had no standard of preparation for that.

By the time… little personal contact… interwoven… a net… we have reached out to many professors.. with a very positive tone. In other words, they are convinced now that we are much higher than they ever believed, and if they go digging and digging more, they will soon find out we are surely far ahead of them. This is the deepest impression they got. What Father is going to do with that, to impress them? Of course, we have one goal, which is to have them understand us better, so that later they will convince other people, and then come to determine that now Christendom has to come into unity and has to become a strong body and function according to its original mission; in other words, the ecumenical movement. Small denominations dividing and fighting each other with no sense - never do that, but once again come under one banner. All Christendom will assemble under one God and one Christ.

Through the professors and all our students who are preparing a PhD, through their friends and the professors’ friends, when the proper time comes, we will all have contacts with respect towards us and recognition of our standard. In three years, most people who are sent now as candidates will indeed have a doctorate. Then, they will most likely be professors of each respective school, because they are the best, they are better than any one of them. Once this is achieved, there will be the necessary economic backing up, enough money to support every sort of activity, banquets and so forth. Then, we will organize a very strong supra-denominational, ecumenical network.

Then, we will sponsor seminars, lectures, exchanges of views, meetings. Thousands of ministers will attend in that state, trying to keep up with the theology, then, ‘bang!’ in one lecture, the ministers will have their old beliefs shattered and replaced by new ones. There is no choice. The ministers, since they represent their own denominations, will be leading to the main body of their denominations. That means, it becomes connected, part of the organization. So, Father chose that, of course, but also he had follow-up and a supplemental work done. In other words, it is not just the ministers who make up the leadership of the community; lawyers are a very important segment also. So, in order to gain popular support towards us, Father assembled 62 lawyers and… same program.

They saw what the theologians saw in us also, although they did not understand deep theology yet. They knew we were right, and that no one was as right as we are. So, the lawyers soon will give us their full support, without reservations, because of this… That means, in each state the best lawyer is our lawyer. Each state has many lawyers and many law firms, but the best lawyer is our friend. In other words, the ones who many contact with us and know about us. The best law firms are on our side. Along with it, we will create strong ties and understanding with the mass media of each state. We will make friends with the important media, the important newspaper companies… This is not a mere plan of what we wish to do in the future. This is well under way, and in fact many have already been coming to us.

So, sending PhD candidates out of Barrytown is very important in this light. Soon, Father will send as many as 150 students to PhD courses. They will earn doctorate degrees in five or six years, or even ten years. Then, we will have 150 doctors. In ideology, which is communism VS anti-communism, in the theological fields, the legal field the mass media, even the financial or economic area, in trade. College professors are very well prepared, even at this point. They are not even a main group either. They are all support elements. Our main force, main element will be the students with a really honest standard. These students, once we make a really meticulous organization which reaches out to the entire United Sates, and show them the way to live… for the first time we will see hope in this America, a tangible hope, not just a hope by idea and plan; a real hope through action. That is, all the Seminary students, once they have absorbed the knowledge there is to learn in school, will all go out and reach out to all college campuses and directly to students.

[End side A, tape 1]

One thing we can go right into now, which is very practical, is that we revive YMCA or YWCA activities on campuses, or even start them completely anew. That YMCA and YWCA will launch a strong movement on each campus and will collide head-on with communism’s ideology. We will surpass them, we will show them, we will teach them. Also, we will absolutely oppose drug addiction, free sex and all decadent ways that are prevalent on college campuses. We will fight strongly, head-on. But, as you know, some people will say, ‘leave us alone!’ and they will try to bother you. …

For instance, communists have been thinking they were right and they have been arrogant and everything.

Once they think that the YMCA and YWCA activities are stronger than them, and once they find out that the Unification Church all out movement is the real just one and will son win over the heart of all American young people, then they will, as a large, measure, come and attack you physically. They will use force as a last measure. Wait and see, they will do that. But all of us will never be unprepared. In fact, we will be better prepared in that area, as every one of us will learn karate. So, when they attack us unjustly, we will have the means to defend ourselves.

Actually, this is what took place in Japan. Japanese communists, i.e. the Japanese chapter of International communism (Intercom) never thought that Rev. Moon’s force would be that strong, until they collided and they were beaten and shattered. Of course, Father tried his best, but, but he didn’t even have a meticulous organization either. Father had a pretty good organization, that is all. Of course, Father had to pay a price for it. That price was that the average American people who did not know, of course, and the average people of the world said that Rev. Moon and the Unification Church are an organization which uses power, just like gangsters or a terrorist body. But the main thing is, we stopped the communists effectively.

Then, whatever name they call us, we can tolerate it. Where do free sex, drugs, alcoholism and all these decadent trends come in? It may come in…, but who promotes that and, instead of trying to stop it tries to fan it flare it, who does it? The communists, because they need the money, so they sell opium and do all that. They raise their own funds, too. That is part of their fundraising activity. So, it suits them very well, it is a very ideal strategy, because, by selling drugs and things, they gain money and, at the same time, they corrupt young people, which is their own objective anyway in the long run. They want America and the so-called capitalistic countries to perish. This is the real picture of what they are doing.

This is why a religious such as us, a pure, true religious organization is supposed to learn karate and martial arts and self-defense. We do that, we learn that don’t we? [Yes!] We must really learn, every one of us must learn. At some point, it is a matter of life and death also.

Your seniors, i.e. the students who already graduated ahead of you, are participating in this very actively, and quite successfully, too. They haven’t done it long enough, but still they are very successful at this moment, and they are moving over from California to the East Coast. Once they take position here, they will wage an all-out war against these antagonistic forces, the decadent trends of communism. When they travel from East Coast to West Coast, no budget, nobody says, ‘here is a ticket’, or ‘here is a meal.’… No, they have a full tank of gas. That is all they have in their vehicle. And then, they come… When they are hungry, they will… Give them one hour and a half, during which time they will raise enough funds for lunch and for dinner. It takes training, too, but once they are successful one time, they are always successful the rest of the time.

They are getting near the East Coast now. Of course, Father told them, Father gave them the final directive. If they are hungry, they better earn it. Why? Is that because Rev. Moon’s bank is empty? No! In fact, Father just signed a $3 Million check. Is that your cash? No, let us be honest. How much would a lunch cost for hundred people? But, the reason for fundraising is training, that is where the real meaning lies. In order to fight the entire communism… unless we train ourselves that way, unless we do it, who will actually come out and do something to save America which is fast corrupting? Will the government support it? [No]. Will even Rev. Moon support the American activities per se? Chances are not. In fact, no way. Father will not support you in your local activities. Each individual’s own body will support the activities needed for America.

Instead of giving you the money, Father can make you successful in training you to be able to support yourselves and your country eternally. May be Father can do that one year. Money? Well, if you need money, you will know how to earn it. The war is already one, and when you need your various support, you will generate that support without depending on someone else, other than you. Rev. Moon is fighting against the entire America, virtually the entire America. Should he lose or should he win? [Win!] White Caucasian people have never lost anything to anybody in the past history and they have never been the second in line, they always gained the first, the wanted the first and they always got it. Orientals were not so well known until the turn of the century. Why should they lose to Orientals? That is their thinking. Their so-called prestige, their pride will be tremendously hurt when Rev. Moon defeats them. In other words, they try to defeat Rev. Moon, but fail. Do you understand? [Yes].

It is incredible, but this is a historical record: the State Department of the United States, your United States, had one of their officials approach the notorious Tongsun Park. You know him? He is a new figure, a Korean businessman who gave money, bribed, many congressmen and stirred up the Korea-gate scandal. He came… when everything was over, he was granted immunity to testify and everything sort of settled down. Now, the only thing that remains to be done is closing the case officially, so everybody is relaxed, and a State Department official approached Mr. Tongsun Park and said in a very intimate way… ‘now you are free, now we will continue to guarantee your free activities in America. We won’t bother you again, you do whatever you want to do. But could you testify falsely against Rev. Moon? Do something, say something to harm Rev. Moon, so that we can stop him.’ This what they said. It is hard to believe, but it remains as a fact. That means, they will do anything.

So, we think everything and we prepare. What is conceivably left to be done against Rev. Moon now?

They tried everything, an immigration investigation… five years term, so now it is no problem, and the IRS came and stayed for a long time, they spent thousands of man hours just sitting around to find something wrong with the Unification Church… and there was nothing wrong in that… They have done everything. What could they do from now on? They even asked Tongsun Park to testify against us, telling him to give false testimony and he would be guaranteed freedom from prosecution for his past activities. If he wants to make money, he can make money. The American government will… to it. So, they wanted Tongsun Park to testify against us.

What can they do now? They may even try to hurt the Unification Church by force, by terrorism. This is not… Actually, Father was not even unprepared. Two years ago, Father already warned that there might be a point where they will physically attack us, our fundraising teams. They will not call us names, but this time they will attack us physically, they may. Two years ago, Father already gave this warning.

Internally, we might as well be aware of it. It is nothing to be publicized. There is no sense in doing that. But there are sporadic incidents where people tried to stab us, in fact they did stab us, they tried to hurt us. Many of you may already be aware, because you are part of that intense activity. Now, what we must know is that the money we are studying with today is that money, the money we earned that way. Do you follow? [Yes].

So, even without fierce criticism, why would a peaceful religious body like the Unification Church learn karate? This is the reason. We have to learn karate the best way, so that we can knock out any strong evil force. This is the only way to ensure goodness. Do you follow? Mr. [Joon Ho] Seuk will train you. Actually, the best way is merciless training. They just train you in an intense way.

Our CARP activity has extended to high schools, too, though in a limited way, but we have that, we have already started it. One major project in our high school CARP activities is to establish right away a karate gym. So, the righteous youngsters who come in, the first thing we do is to train them physically. So, when the big boys come along and try to bother them… These hoodlums, those with the fist-power, are the ones who promote corruption, drugs, alcohol and opium. They are the ones who… behind the scenes. As you may be aware of, once a kid is addicted to drugs, there is no way, it is very difficult to discontinue that. Let along, if a strong person forces him to continue. He hasn’t got a chance.

Shall we just stand around and say, ‘why should we be involved in it, why should not somebody else do it? [No]. Since, eventually, we will be those central ones, we will be the ones who will be sent around to be responsible for correcting all these bad goings, these evil situations, we are the first ones to know, and not only to know, to prepare.

If you are indifferent, why should Father be so enthusiastic about America. Father is not even American. So, why should Father be called so many bad names, be accused of exploiting the American people, enslaving young people… why should Father get all these accusations while trying to care for America? Why should Father not just complain about his treatment by America, even in his prayers to God? And why shouldn’t he just walk out and move to some other country? Why should Rev. Moon not do that?

There is one reason why Rev. Moon can’t do that. It is that this country happens to be the head of the democratic countries. America is some kind of a center of the democratic countries. That is the reason. This is the country, no matter how shabby and miserable it is today, yet this is the country God has nourished for 200 years. He has poured unlimited love and abundance of Blessings upon it. That being the fact, Father just cannot discard this country.

Also, this is an ideal country to influence and change, because every element of the world is represented in this country. If you reform this country, the world is reformed instantly; that is synonymous. Father chose this country, because God’s objective is the world, nothing short of the world. Not America, not Korea, not any specific country. So, in fulfilling that mission somewhere else, Father would have to create these external circumstances, whereas in America that external environment has already been made throughout 200 years of history. God has really diligently and painstakingly prepared this country, this very cosmopolitan America. So, you will eventually make the leaders of America, some leaders, strong in the ideology guiding America. Before you can do that to others, it is you who matters. You will be the strong ones, you will be forced into the hot furnace and stricken over and over again. It is you who have to be absolutely trained first.

Your degree of training will immediately set the standard for the entire American young people. That is that. It is the exact chain reaction. In addition to that, Father was determined - and yesterday, in fact, Father gave a very intense briefing and orientation, even indoctrination to a group of people, saying that this is the time we start reeducating the congressmen and the senators of this country. In fact, for six to seven years, we had a PR team comprised of rather attractive, very attractive in fact, women and some men, and all Capitol Hill knows them. They know the high secrets of all congressmen and senators. They know their private life, they know their… corruption. In fact, their unanimous utterance, their sigh is ‘I never knew, no one would ever know, unless they see it with their own eyes.’ Because, this is not to blame them, the only thing is to… the really bad ones we publicize, but the fairly good ones, we raise them, so that they became much better than they were.

We cannot do that front to front, you must become good Christians and become one; well, you have to have support, too… Your activity so far may have been limited to only fundraising and intensive studying, which is good, because that is what you are expected to do. But… what has Father been doing? All these areas you may not even have thought or dreamed about, Father has been waging a war in every area. Also, Father has been preparing to give a good influence upon this country in various areas, including lawyers, professors and now congressmen.

Eventually, and sooner than you think, you will find yourselves in the top positions, one here, and another there. One is far enough away from you that they can’t hear you. You will be in Rev. Moon’s position yourselves. Then, can you do it? This is your training now. You must have real guts. When you see the enemy, the strongest enemy, he will never startle you, he will never make you a yellow chicken. Before that, you will have a strong logic, and unswerving logic and reasoning. This strong reasoning and logic is… the intense and highest training available in this world, too. That is where the PhD course students are now. They are challenged… day in and day out.

[Father says: Do you understand?]

Last but not least, in this country anyway, and now… in any other country, is the economics matter, money. Even though you are all very successful in these, still you need a lot of funds to support these activities. Actually, to carry out Father’s plan according to its schedule, Father needs and should have now at least $50 Million per month. He should be able to spend this to achieve the goal.

Have you thought about the fact that we might be needing lots of money now? We have a bigger fishery business planned and going now, under construction. Even to support that, to make an initial investment, we need money. Once it turns… it will produce money, but until that time… Also, Father will need an immense amount, an almost unlimited amount of human resources; we need a lot of people. Let us face it: to be successful in the first phase, up until this point we have to pay the price. The price is the bad publicity about us, the bad publicity. We have to turn that around so that, after all, the Moonies appear not bad at all, they were not bad and are not bad at all. In fact, they are good. We have to turn that around, right side up and wrong side down. Who should do that? [We should]

[Father, in English: You should do!]

We should support with money, offer the financial back-up, but even though we think we should, how can we go to the lawyers, the top lawyers and make our point understood? How can we go to the president of the newspaper like the New York Times, and negotiate with them person to person, head on? We must be able to utilize and to mobilize the ex-congressmen and even the ex-presidents and all famous people, the noted people. We must do that, we must contact them and let them support our goal also. Do you follow? We must meet many noted people.

So, Father’s work, as well as yours, was never and is not now limited in one area. Not like any other people - this area, that area, that should cover it - never. Father has to think about myriads of different ways to turn around public opinion about us, to make personal contact with the negative people, to stop the corruption and to raise funds to support the overall activities - everything. There is nothing of which Father can say, ‘I don’t have to worry about that. There is no such area.’

The President of the United States, if he has to carry out this kind of a mission, will have a hard time. Even though he has a transportation ministry, a finance ministry, a ministry of commerce, the State Department, the intelligence department; even though President Carter has everything, he will have a difficult time in achieving this goal, let alone… Father, what faculty does he have? What organization does he have? Does he have a minister? Does he have secretaries? What does he have? All by himself, with his own ingenuity, and the help of God. Father has to do that all by himself. What is the point, the rationale here? We traditionally practice the divisional labor, expertism: I am pretty good at this, but I can’t do anything else. This is what everyone of us faces today. We have no situation like that. You will be jack of all trades, and the best of each one of them. You must be able to do everything better than other people.

You should not just try and see what comes out of it; you will begin and you will succeed. You will do that. Should you or shouldn’t you do that? [Should!]. Should training be necessary then? [Yes!] Should training be soft in the beginning and ‘let’s see how we do?’ [No!] or the training will begin intensely and continue that way? [Yes.] Until what intensity? Someone will try to kill you and you will be able to get away safely. You have to reach that standard of training. If you are trained to that level, then you can survive. Do you understand? [Yes!]

Don’t you ever think, at the Unification Theological Seminary we will study hard about theology and that should be it. It will never be it. Every inch and every ounce of ourselves should be saturated with the idea, ‘I am the savior of America. Without my hand and without my effort, America cannot be saved.’ We have to become like that. Let us face it. You are godly people now. You are about to be the true sons and daughters, yet, how much different are we from the ordinary, corrupt, average young Americans? We are one of them, aren’t we? So far, we may be a little better than them, but are we tremendously better? By the time you feel, it is my mission to save America, if you really feel that honestly, down to the bone, then

you are tremendously better than them. Not until that time.

On 34th Street and 8th Avenue, a few years ago, five or six years ago, there were not so many places where people were walking drunk and girls would come up to them, and lots of obscene things would be sold in the stores. There were no places like that. May be one or two, if you were really looking for them. Now, you go and see what happens. Almost every other store. If you don’t really feel the impact of that… that melts the steel like butter. It incapacitates people right away, especially young people. Then your blood will boil with indignation. Actually, if we don’t do that, we are not sensitive enough.

So far, Father worked to observe and organize the entire national network of self-defense. Karate gyms. Even today, Father pays and gives serious and strong directives… In a few weeks, the all American karate gyms will come into one strong organized body. Do you understand? In Korea, Father already stands on the pinnacle. That means, if Father is serious and gives one directive, a few people will pass on that directive to the last echelon. Japan has two factions of karate. Father stands on top of these two. The two will fight each other, but not with Father. They are in fact asking Father to become a mediator, so that the two won’t have to fight too much. Do you understand? [Yes]. This is Japan.

Without that foundation… this is truly the historical, revolutionary effort .. and you cannot never do; may be you can say it, but you cannot do it. But Father has that quality. Do you know what it means? If Father misused that, if Father was not a man on God’s side, but on the other side, whatever side, wherever, anything other than God’s side, Father could have hurt millions of people. But Father is a godly man. That is one thing: no way, no chance Father will hurt anybody else. But, this same quality Father uses as a support, as a dike to prevent an evil invasion. As you know, gangsters have been somehow traditional in this country. The mafia has been here all the time, and many people know it, but they pretend they don’t know it. There people are rampant. And the communists use them very wisely in their own way.

Then, we are determined to revolutionize… If we really worry about our own necks, we will never do it. One thing we don’t do is worry about is our own necks. It has been rumored that in New York for $170 you can hire someone to kill another person. America stands on these steps now. Imagine, Rev. Moon has been speaking out outright, straight-forward, and directly, never in a round-about way about Carter, what American people must be, through Yankee Stadium and Washington Monument Father said straight out to the American people, to the President, to the Christians, to every one of them, he proclaimed that a revolution will save this country. A revolution in morals, and a change in ideas about life.

As each one of us and everyone knows, none other than Rev. Moon and his followers, namely you, every one of you… Without you, America has no chance of surviving. Are you confident in that one area? [Yes!]

We must know, our war has already been waged… The war is already being waged, it is already on, we are in it, and Father, as was just introduced briefly, has workings in every area, including the economic preparation to support these activities. Father is already engaged in every area. That is the area you understand and explain yourselves. Do you understand? [Yes!]

Actually, you are also at war in studying. When you study, in fact you are engaging in a war. You either grasp that heart of the matter, or you don’t and you will lose. And your fundraising is a war itself. If you raise enough funds, you win the war. If you don’t, you lose the war. Likewise, when you witness, to the persons successfully, you win the war. So far, we can say that this was a preliminary tone. But, this year, we start. Needless to say, on this intensive training ground of Barrytown, in our desperate search to become good, there is absolutely no room within us for such temptations as drugs, no matter how small or how seldom. Homosexuality even; Father was reported that sometimes a person just cannot help himself. Father was even reported that it was a medical problem. No matter what it is, this is no place… We must fight against ourselves to win over that. Do you understand?

So far, naturally at the Unification Theological Seminary, there are other standards even to reflect on… Father never was really intense, but now let us start to think until when… This is just the right time. We have to start becoming serious now. In fact, this year’s juniors are different from any other year’s students, in that you were indispensable elements in each area, on MFT, in churches. State leaders and MFT commanders said, ‘these are indispensable ones.’ But, Father, though he realized that, had to be strong and say, ‘send them here anyway …’ You are the ones to establish that tradition to be followed by all the students. It wasn’t for your senior students, your elder brothers and sisters to set the standard either, it was you.

Father is really begging you to understand the importance of your position now. Now, it is a family affair, now it is only a hundred people or so, so it is almost like a big family. But, starting this year, Father will start a three year course, which has a great merit of advancing into a PhD. We can shortcut, we curtail two to three years by having three years instead of two years of our own training. As soon as the accreditation comes, Father will quickly expand the Barrytown training up to 800 students. Three years after the accreditation. Then, once we reach 800, it will be a huge body, it will never be the same as this. They will have to have a backbone, and you will be the backbone. And that backbone had better grow now, before Father starts with 800 people.

This is what Father really expects of you, thinking day in and day out about you. This is one objective, one area… We often hear about West Point, and we have a beautiful image about West Point, too. The heavenly West Point should be ten times, hundred times better than that and deeper than that… Shouldn’t we press up preparing now? [Yes]. Our external objective at Barrytown is to raise 150 PhD graduates. We have now been working in such a way that, when we graduate after two years and go on to other schools, they won’t honor out grade. They will just take what suits them. So, we lose a year or a year and a half. We can’t do that. We will strengthen our faculty and man the faculty with recognized, very famous theologians, scholars and professors from other already famous universities. When they come to teach with responsibility, who can say, ‘I cannot honor your grade.’

First we will start with lecturers. We will invite over famous lecturers, we will let them stay here, and with a higher salary than other schools would pay, then that would be the beginning of our…

[End side B, tape 1]

Determine yourselves now… synonymous, the same as the future of America itself, the fate of America rests on my shoulders, it depends on how I train myself and how I leave a strong tradition behind me when I leave. This all is our work here today in Barrytown. When that determination becomes intense enough, you can’t help expressing it, in writing, in a diary… Your diary will be your achievement in this Barrytown, and that will become a tradition. Whoever will read your diary coming into Barrytown will try to keep up that standard. So, you will write your diary.

In order to fill the diary… First you would say… very open hearted. Write as if you were writing a letter to God, saying, before I joined the Unification Church, I was… It will be an autobiography too, in a way, and it will be the literature for future witnessing and for tradition. Do you understand? [Yes]. It is our pride and our tradition that we worked and fought hard to establish this Barrytown. This is a tradition I am desperate to leave behind, so that other our juniors will follow it to make this nation morally suitable once more. Do you understand? In itself, it will become a great essay and a great report. That would certainly be precious enough to be given credit hours. That would be the history of the Unification Church and the history of America, a new America in itself.

We must have a history of the Unification Theological Seminary of Barrytown. There will be an independent subject dealing with this area. The hippies and yippies now turn out being historical figures, subject to approval from everyone - everyone will approve of them. Do you understand? So, Father is again appealing to you, that it is not only your individual matter that you train yourselves hard and study hard and leave a strong tradition, but it is for your junior students to follow your pattern and tradition, because you alone can never save this country. We need a collective effort. So, Father wants you to understand strongly and pledge this to Father. Shall we do that? [Yes!]. So that, just like Father did in the past. That is all.

Is Father weak in any way? [No!] When a typhoon comes, or a tornado which is a sure killer, will Father run away? [No!] Neither will you. Father already has 80% of the groundwork done. There are some areas of the work Father is doing now, today, in this moment, with the highest staff members surrounding Father. Our members don’t even know what Father is doing. Anyway, this 20% which is not revealed yet and of which Father cannot say, ‘this is already done,’ as soon as Father finished that, Father will not even have to worry about here. Then, Father will expect every one of you, everyone on the field, to carry out Father’s tradition. That is all. Heaven has that much victorious ground already.

First, you must know; you must be knowledgeable. Once you are knowledgeable, then you have for the first time a view, and unswerving, unyielding view, but it is just a view you will have. For this, you must study hard. Sometimes, studying is a torture. Father realizes this. Studying is the hardest thing. There is a difference between Father and all of us: Father is spiritually super-sensitive. You may look at it in every way, in an expert way or in a non-expert way, it can’t be done. But when Father’s antenna picks up the signal, it can be done. You better believe it, it can be done. It is a succession of these situations where ordinarily it can never be done, but it can be done when Father pursues it; it continues, one after another. The dispensational history has come to this point.

Father is idling, doing something where people will think, ‘oh, Father is doing that,’ but not that at all, Father is doing something else. We must understand also that, in some countries - America, of course, does not have that much foundation - but other countries are coveting Father. They are trying to get Father with an intense plea… One country would say, ‘if America continues persecuting you and opposing you, leave it without a trace of a remaining thought. We will ask you to become our leader. There are countries like that. Specifically saying, ‘Rev. Moon, you come to our country, you will be a national guest, we beg of you to train and educate our young people, so that our young people will be stronger and better in every respect than the Americans.’ Do you understand?

There are countries like that. All channels of communication are just like electric pulse… reports go through the embassy channel, the diplomatic channel, and arrives to Father’s ears. Some country wants you to do that, Father. If American people fail to achieve this standard of training and social responsibility, it is a disgrace. Then Father will have to ask British youngsters, by training them, to let the British youngsters train you, so you will never be the original. Do you understand?

So, you have to be all the more ambitious and full of hope, and first of all determine yourselves now, that you will do that, in spite of whatever, that at all costs you will achieve this standard in this Barrytown. Do you understand? [Yes!] OK, if you have a few questions, you can ask Father. That question better be a good one. [Laughter].

David Kim: Stand up!

[Student brother asks:] Father, we had a discussion about Adam and Eve, and I wondered if you could talk a little about evolution or the meaning of Adam and Eve, where they came from originally, if they had some…

[Father interrupts:] Well, you bring that exciting topic to the classroom. Ask what the knowledge of the professors will teach you.

[David Kim:] Already there is a complete answer through the proceedings of the theologians’ conference last year. So, you go back to the proceedings. This is Father’s plan. Any question… that kind you erase, otherwise you… that was answered, we don’t have to repeat. It was beautifully answered, your seniors of seniors answered, everything is solved, so we don’t have to repeat. The theological argument will take care of that stuff. Father is the Messiah, not a theologian… theology is one of the part, Father is comprehensive.

[Father interrupts in English:] Rev. Moon is Messiah, yes, Rev. Moon is Messiah… my Messiah… not your Messiah.

[Sang Kil Han:] When a person asks you the question, is Rev. Moon the Messiah, what would you say? [Laughter] Yes, he is the Messiah and my Messiah.

[Father:] They may come to ask Father that question, and Father has an answer to that.

[Father in English:] Rev. Moon Messiah!? Yes! My Messiah, not your Messiah! That settles it… I believe this is my Messiah! Who… this?

[Translation:] If… and this is my Messiah and I believe in it, I’ll die and live for it, will anybody bother you? It is a free country. What is such a big problem to you? Do you think that can become the basis of religious persecution? You counter them, you attack them. ‘You must be communists.’ It is simple, when somebody asks you if you are the Messiah, you say ‘yes!’ without hesitation. You can say, my Messiah. Amen.

[Father, in Japanese, then in English:] Why, explain everything. I dislike always explaining…

[Translation:] You line up everything bad you had, you used to be, and then they’ll say, ‘Ah, you have changed this way.’ He is the one who changed me from this to this. That has to be the Messiah. Is there is no other function the Messiah can perform? …

If a man is so sick that everybody knows he cannot live any longer, but somehow - it really doesn’t matter how, somehow he lives again. A person cured him. Is that person a messiah, or is he not? He is the messiah who saved your physical life. Well, the Messiah somehow cures the mental or physical sickness, or both. How can he be anything else than Messiah? What is that?

[A brother asks a question:] I heard Father speak on Foundation day in the New Yorker, and he said we should write to our fiancée, and tell her we were only going to write her once every six months, because we were busy perfecting our character, Father said that. What is the best way to know that you are observing the proper relationship?

[Father interrupts, laughter]

Since you seem to be so interested in your fiancée, or anything pertaining to that, Father has an answer for that. The best way you can do now is to become a most attractive fiance to your fiancée; make yourself available. And, one very small thing you could change, may be you could change your glasses [Laughter and comments]… and when you stand, stand straight up, that is the way… Once we do this and don’t stand straight, that is a reflection of our internal uncertainty. So, no matter how high marks you achieve in the academic field, still there is such a thing as posture. Father actually has a qualification in saying that, because Mother now feels such an attraction to Father. An unquestioning attraction to Father. The longer Mother spends her years with Father, the deeper and the stronger ad the more certainly she becomes attracted to Father.

Actually, nobody ever knows Father, until he really loves him. Then, that person begins to learn about Father. Mother is no exception. You cannot say, ‘oh, I know Father;’ you cannot say that. How about the close staff members who work around Father? Not necessarily, or rather no, they don’t know. For one thing, they don’t know everything Father does. Do you understand? Has it ever occurred to you that

Father might one day coach you regarding soccer, as he did today? He gave you advice about organizing a soccer team.

Everything must stand to reason. There is such a thing as reason. Whenever Father observes something… that is Father’s specialty. Father immediately catches that… When Father brings brothers and sisters to a department store to buy them a suit, then he considers the way they are built, their complexion, the shape of their hip, the size, and everything… Then, he selects a suit which other people can never find in twelve hours. If other people do that, it may take them four days, and still they may not be very successful. But Father can do that in 1½ hours. When Father goes out to the street… like her, she has a good blouse, the upper half is well dressed, but the lower half doesn’t match.

That is why Mother always drags Father into shopping. Father doesn’t want to go, he doesn’t want to be seen by many people, ‘I don’t want to say hello, I just don’t want to go,’ and Mother understands that, but then she comes back again and tries… because, when Mother goes, she has to struggle,… but when she takes Father, the shopping is over in five minutes. When Father is shops himself, Father is never choosy; he would just blindly pick this up, because Father feels comfortable even with just any suit he picks up.

Last time Father went to the Manhattan Center. As you know, there is a TV stadium, brand-new, with good acoustics, one of the best in New York, ultra-modern, it took a million and a half dollars, and it is almost complete. They are setting up a date, so Father went to make an inspection, he made a tour. Then Father really pointed out things and scolded them. He pointed this out and that out, the bathroom, the fixture, the heights and the position. Father just told them, really using strong language, ‘it is a stupid person who did it!’ and he really understood that, so he took everything out, even though it was brand new, and put it back again. Then he himself said, ‘if you did not point this out, we would really have suffered for a long time. This is so much better.’ A bad reputation, that is, other people…

In buildings, in games, in sports, in schools, everything stands in one great big reason, it has to stand within that reason. And personal relations, Father is perhaps the only person in the entire world who can perceive things just right. Again - however that is my word - again, this is why God loves Father.

[Father interrupts in English:] Not loves, likes Father

Well, that is all of the questions… Father has to go back now to East Garden. Father is expecting guests from Japan, too. Shall we all rise up and say three cheers for Barrytown and True Parents and America. Shall we?

[Somebody leads three cheers of Mansei].

[Father and David Kim discuss in Korean. David Kim, in English:… Senius you engaged how to develop this pond, right? [Yes] Senius, Senius!

[Translating for Father:] It looks good, doesn’t it? Father’s pond, Father’s lake. Looks like a Korean map, it has a North and a South, over there, here is the North…

[David Kim speaks to Father in Korean.]

[David Kim Translating:] How many sisters are there this time? We have 24, isn’t it? [Yes]. You are not supposed to control the men, the brothers, OK? You should be aware of your own position, like a woman…

[Confusion of voices; Col. Han translates:] …to take dominion over your husbands, or any man…

[Father asks a question to a Korean sister and discusses]

[End side A, tape 2]