#天地父母님

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Sun Myung Moon’s lost Paraguay Eco-Utopia

▲ Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han visited their Puerto Leda mansion only once.

Outside magazine by Monte Reel   February 20, 2013

Full story: https://www.outsideonline.com/1913791/sun-myung-moons-lost-eco-utopia

Extracts:

A decade before his death, Sun Myung Moon—multimillionaire founder of the controversial Unification Church / FFWPU—sent a band of followers deep into the wilds of Paraguay, with orders to build the ultimate utopian community and eco-resort. So how’s that working out? Monte Reel machetes his way toward heaven on Earth.

... In addition to overseeing the church, which he said aimed to fulfill Jesus’ unfinished mission by establishing a new “kingdom of heaven on Earth,” Moon managed vast commercial interests and called himself a messiah. He was frequently accused of cult practices, in part because some of his hundreds of thousands of followers turned over very personal decisions—including the choice of marriage partner—to him. More than a decade ago, Moon told some members of his church that he wanted them to lay the foundation for a new Garden of Eden in one of the least hospitable landscapes on the planet—northern Paraguay.

Moon was notorious for attention-grabbing gestures: conducting mass weddings in Madison Square Garden, taking out full-page ads in major American newspapers to support Richard Nixon during Watergate, spending 13 months in federal prison for tax fraud and conspiracy in the early ’80s. But during the final years of his life, his Eden-building project kept chugging along well out of the public eye, germinating largely unseen in this remote wilderness of mud.

In 2000, Moon paid an undisclosed amount for roughly 1.5 million acres of land fronting the Paraguay River. Most of that property was in a town called Puerto Casado, about 100 miles downriver from Puerto Leda. Moon’s subsidiaries wanted the land to open commercial enterprises ranging from logging to fish farming. But a group of Puerto Casado residents launched a bitter legal battle to nullify the deal. While that controversy continued to divide Paraguayans, the Puerto Leda project proceeded under the radar. Moon turned the land over to 14 Japanese men—“national messiahs,” according to church documents, who were instructed to build an “ideal city” where people could live in harmony with nature, as God intended it. Moon declared that the territory represented “the least developed place on earth, and, hence, closest to original creation.”

... The [twentieth] century brought utopian colonies of Australian socialists, Finnish vegetarians, English pacifists, and German Nazis. They all failed.

So how are Moon’s followers—or Moonies, as they don’t like to be called—holding up? Hard to say. I’m aware of two other journalists who’ve seen Puerto Leda. One, a British Catholic missionary, visited after the first colonists arrived and was unable to fathom their motives. Maybe they were smuggling drugs, she insinuated in a church magazine [The Tablet December 16, 2000].

... By the time I boarded the Aquidaban, I’d begun to suspect that the National Messiahs in Puerto Leda might have no clue we were coming.

[It was a three-day journey] aboard this muggy cargo boat [in 2012].

... one man, a portly Paraguayan navy guard in military fatigues, awaits [Toni Greaves and myself] at the end of the gangplank.

“Do you have repellent?” he asks.

My skin is lacquered in a stiff coat of stale sweat and deet. “Lots.”

“Good,” he says. “You’ll see at night. We can’t even talk to each other because of the mosquitoes that fly into our mouths.”

... The building in front of us has a peaked terra-cotta roof, brick-and-stucco walls, expansive glass windows, and no fewer than five remote-controlled Carrier air-conditioning units. At the front door, a dozen pairs of leather slippers wait for us. “Very Japanese,” Greaves observes. We remove our dirty shoes and take our first steps into Reverend Moon’s Victorious Holy Place.

All is silent. Wilson flips a switch, throwing light on what appears to be a dining hall. The large wooden tables, each covered with a plastic tablecloth, could accommodate about 100 people. They are vacant.

... A few hundred yards from the guard station, I spot a sportfishing boat docked at the riverside. It’s big—about 30 feet long, fiberglass, with a prominent cockpit. I ask Mister Date about it.

“Ah yes,” he says. “Reverend Moon designed that boat himself. It was brought here from New Jersey.”

... Apparently, the True Father’s fishing jones was a deciding factor in the placement of Puerto Leda. Moon first visited the Paraguay River on fishing trips in the 1990s, and by decade’s end he was cruising down it and ordering church members to wade along the muddy banks to plant 63 signposts demarcating the land he had decided to buy.

▲ Japanese “National Messiahs” with Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han (The Heavenly True Parents 天地父母님 ) on September 23, 1999. 

In 1999, Moon called his most devoted Japanese followers to join him on a 40-day spiritual retreat outside Fuerte Olimpo, about 25 miles south of Puerto Leda. I’d read a brief description of those days on a church website. One Messiah had written: “It was very hot and we wanted to bathe in the water. But we could not because piranhas would come. It’s a big problem! Also there are problems with ants. One National Messiah became very sick from an ant bite. It’s a dangerous place. There are all these problems, but Father just says, ‘Ah, the purity of nature!’”

... In addition to calling for a return to Original Creation here, he told his devotees, in 2000, that “we need to build the best underwater palace in the world.”

... Near the end of their [40-days] together, Moon instructed them to build an ecologically sustainable city that could serve as a model for the whole world. The plan, such as it was, lacked specifics; not all of the founders agreed on what the city should look like. Yet they forged ahead, determined to create something extraordinary in a place where wilderness reigned.

Now, as I glance at the scene, I see huge dormitory buildings, guesthouses, and sheds for mechanical repairs. I count seven freshwater fish farms, fully stocked with pacu, a toothy species that looks like an overgrown piranha. I see no other people.

“Normally, there are about 10 of us who live here,” Mister Date tells me. “But this week six are away in Asunción. So there are just four now.”

We walk through early-morning light on smooth sidewalks, past manicured gardens of hibiscus and bougainvillea, beside an Olympic-size swimming pool. A young man hired from a nearby village slowly sweeps a filtering net through the deep end. Nothing—not a single foreign particle—seems to mar the clean blue rectangle of water. We enter a two-story communal building that resembles an office complex. I see Wilson in a small room, tapping away at a computer. We climb a stone staircase to the second floor, following Mister Date into what appears to be a rec room. There’s a television hooked up to a satellite system, and Mister Date pops a disc into a DVD player. The DVD, Mister Date tells us, explains everything.

The footage that flashes across the screen dates from 1999. We see the founding Messiahs walk across untamed wastes—the grounds where we now sit. They lay bricks in wet mud. They sand metal frames. They wash dishes in the river. They wear heavy clothing, light fires to keep the mosquitoes away, and sweat in the wavy heat. They stagger through gale-force winds.

Then, in a clip from 2000, we see Moon himself, touring the partially cleared grounds, wiping sweat from his brow, eating lunch, leaving in a private plane. The footage segues into scenes of the men working feverishly to build a luxury house for Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han, who visited for a second and final time in late 2001. 

▲ Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han visited Puerto Leda twice, but only once after the mansion they ordered built for themselves was completed. They inaugurated the mansion on November 30, 2000 (above). Takeru Kamiyama is standing close to Moon, wearing a pale blue shirt.

▲ The view from the mansion.

The rest of the DVD covers more recent developments, and the highlights—set to swelling orchestral music—unfold like a training montage from Rocky. Messiahs erect the water tower. Man-made fishponds materialize on the grounds. A landing strip is planed flat by tractors. The Messiahs unload saplings from the Aquidaban, then plant them in sprawling groves. A group of about a dozen visiting Japanese students—the children of Unification Church members—help the Messiahs build a school in a nearby village. When the DVD ends and the lights come up, I’m exhausted just from watching all that drudgery. I look at Mister Date’s corded forearms, his gaunt face, his waspy waist. Every aspect of his being seems molded by toil. Even with the help of the local hires, the Messiahs labor all day, usually outside.

“It’s a lot of work just to maintain,” he admits.

The fact that only 10 men live here comes rushing back to me. The colony has actually lost population since its inception, despite all the construction. Four of the original Messiahs have returned to Japan. Only the hardest of the hardcore have stuck it out.

And this raises a couple of questions: Who are these guys? And why have they put themselves through this?

Mister Auki walks across the dining hall carrying a basket filled with whole fish freshly yanked from the river. He’s a short, balding Messiah whose task this morning, as on most days, is to catch something for the grill.

“I caught lots of piranha today,” he tells the men, his face splitting into a smile. “And also a five-kilogram pacu.”

The pacu is now part of the lunch buffet, which the four Messiahs plus Wilson, Greaves, and I spoon onto plates.

... In the beginning, the colonists hoped they would be joined by their wives (as well as many, many more followers). Every August, they invite children of Japanese church members to visit for a couple of weeks, but so far none have chosen to stay on. “My wife thinks that it is not realistic for her to move here yet,” Mister Owada says, “because we still have to raise the standard of living more.”

When I press him on how tough and lonely this must get, Mister Owada says it doesn’t bother him. Moon sanctified his personal sacrifices, promising the men that spiritual rewards would make up for their suffering. “Even if you die, what regret will you leave behind?” Moon asked the founders in 1999.

“We’re risking our lives for this cause,” Mister Owada says, his left eye twitching convulsively. “I like to risk my life,” he continues. “That is doing something worthwhile. We have continued to stick with this.”

Months later, after Moon’s death from complications from pneumonia, I will once again reach out to Mister Date to see if the True Father’s passing affects the Messiahs’ dedication. It doesn’t. They have the blessing of his widow, Mister Date says, and the ongoing feuds among the Moon children won’t affect them. They plan to work on Puerto Leda for at least another decade.

“Of course there is ecotourism potential here,” says Mister Date. We’re standing outside an unfinished three-story brick building near a shed that protects three car-size generators. Mister Date refers to the brick building as “the hotel,” but for the moment its only occupant is a stick-legged baby goat nosing around the food pellets being stored on the ground floor.

... “Why did you stop work on the hotel?” I ask.

He pauses and smiles politely. “In a small place, you can have disagreements easily,” he says. “They’re expecting us to be financially independent, but that’s not easy here.” The Messiahs, it seems, don’t always see eye-to-eye on the best way to reduce their dependence on member donations. Some want to concentrate on agribusiness and scrap the ecotourism idea. The hotel is unfinished because they aren’t sure whether opening the place to outsiders is a good idea.

▲ Puerto Leda from the air.

We walk on, past planted fields of lemongrass, oranges, mangoes, grapefruit, asparagus, sugarcane. The crops are struggling. If agriculture alone is expected to support the colony, there are some kinks to work out. The men have planted thousands of jatropha trees, which can be used to make biodiesel fuel, but hundreds of parrots zeroed in on them and ate all the fruit. During the most recent wet season, rising waters flooded many of the thousands of neem trees.

“It’s been a hard year,” Mister Date admits. “A lot of things have died because they were three months underwater.”

It’s clear that these guys have faith in miracles, and that’s exactly what’s needed here in Puerto Leda. Without one, the Victorious Holy Place seems destined to be another curious monument to human ambition and folly. But watching how hard the Messiahs work, I can’t help but admire their tenacity. The fanaticism that underlies their devotion to this cause must burn hot, but they hide it well. They’re not evangelical. They’re friendly and welcoming to those who don’t share their beliefs. They’re reflexively humble and generous and—whatever I might think of their motives—admirably tough. They’re underdogs. The kind of guys you root for.

During the last hours of my visit, Mister Date shows me something that might actually work out. “Japanese yams,” he announces, staring down at a plot of tilled soil. “They grow very large underground, up to 10 kilograms. They do well here.”

My immediate impulse is to celebrate this victory with hearty congratulations. I’m thrilled for his indefatigable yams. Maybe all the sweat that Mister Date has sunk into this plot will bear a little fruit. Maybe little victories like this can help other people in the Pantanal live richer lives. Maybe that’s enough.

Mister Date stares down at the dirt. “Unfortunately,” he says, “they taste very bad.”

... I head out toward the pool.

▲ The swimming pool at Puerto Leda.

He’s still there, the man with the net, sweeping as if he hasn’t let up since dawn. A shame: I didn’t bring any trunks. But I do have a pair of heavy cotton cargo shorts in my backpack. I walk to the dormitory and return wearing them. I ask the sweeper, “Does anyone ever use this pool?��

“Only the tourists,” he says.

The tourists? Based on a guest book I flipped through earlier, he must be referring to those Japanese students who visit every August, the occasional Paraguayan government official, and Greaves and me. ...

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Outside magazine   https://www.outsideonline.com/

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Monte Reel’s Between Man and Beast: A Tale of Exploration and Evolution was published in March 2013 by Doubleday.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/between-man-and-beast-monte-reel/1113244445#/

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Sun Myung Moon organization activities in Central and South America

Actividades de la Secta Moon en países de habla hispana

FFWPU President of IAPP Prosecuted for Money Laundering and Drug Smuggling in US Court; may be connected to UC / FFWPU Leadership

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Moon & the Tri-Border Area of South America

This post was written by Ed Coffman in 2021

Pictured: Japanese “National Messiahs” with Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han (The Heavenly True Parents 天地父母님 ) on September 23, 1999. 

A From speeches given by Sun Myung Moon in 1996 we can surmise that there was good reason for U.S. Troops to protect Moon's land holdings in the Tri-Border Area of South America.

Here's a recent post from HWDYKYM on the topic:

https://howwelldoyouknowyourmoon.tumblr.com/post/662138244176183296/us-troops-protected-sun-myung-moons-south

The Tri-Border Area of South America has a reputation of being one of the most corrupted regions of the world. Illicit drug & firearms trafficking abounds, along with a myriad of other illegal activities. The use of small planes & boats accessing remote airstrips and docks,Moon & the Tri-Border Area of South Americasouth

Keep that mind as you read the following quotes of Sun Myung Moon, where he talks about his activities in the Tri-Border Area.

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"After Father leaves this country on January 5, he plans to research the ocean front in South American countries, such as Argentina, Uruguay and others.

Father has now achieved his goal and is sitting on the top of the world and he knows that many important people want to meet him. Therefore, Father is retreating to the extreme countryside in South America and hiding himself...

Father has completed his work in other areas; that is why he is cultivating this oceanic enterprise in many ways. But if Father were to go into details about his future plans today you would all go crazy. Therefore, Father won't reveal these things now. Even if Father tells you what is going to take place this year and next year it is difficult for you to believe. If Father were to explain things that may happen in twenty years from now you wouldn't believe it.

This kind of practice of life causes every kind of people to like Father. Not only Unification Church members. Fishermen, miners, farmers, even thieves like Father.

Those thieves could sit down with Father and after listening to him speak, get up and leave without stealing anything.

In South America Father saw places where it took a bulldozer one week to create a natural landing strip. These small planes are able to land on the grass or even sand...in the near future we will have many small airports...

Soon we will witness the small airplane era. Small airplanes are not so expensive actually. In each country the most beautiful and scenic areas are in the remote countryside. Therefore if we were to build small landing strips in such locations and have our own privately owned resorts then people will come and visit. We are living in such a time when we don't have to own these airplanes. We can charter small planes and use as many as we want.

The time is coming soon when there will be dozens of cruise size love boats and dozens of small submarines and helicopters...When you have a number of boats you can share the boats to also travel wherever you want to go. The route can be decided by yourself from north to south or east to west. This will also include hunting expeditions. For hunting purposes we can create animal farms of even tigers, wolves and lions. We can raise them and ship them to wherever we are going to do hunting. It is just a matter of shipping them from one place to another."

https://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/SunMyungMoon96/960102.htm

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"Father is studying the River Paraguay which runs centrally through South America. It is like the lifeline of the South American continent. Father wants to discover the key points along this river where we can establish our foundation. For the development of farms and ranches in South America, they all need this river which has abundant resources. This river will play a key role in the world because the South American continent will provide the unpolluted natural resources to the world eventually.

Four hundred boats are being built and there are plans to build small landing strips where small planes can land and take off without any restriction.

All along the River Paraguay, which is 3,200 kilometers in length...Do you now understand why Father is focusing on South American projects?...the bank of a river is the best way to make plans and to think about the future of humanity. Traveling around the world as a fisherman is the best way to avoid misunderstanding or suspicions from different nations, because if such countries become suspicious of Father's coming and going it will cause difficulties...Father only carries fishing poles with him and so he is not considered a threat.

Once you go to a place and get to know three local fishermen, then you will learn through them everything about that particular region within a short period of time.

When Father was young he dealt with gamblers and fighters."

https://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/SunMyungMoon96/SM960503.htm

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I strongly encourage readers to check out the following U.S. Government document detailing the corruption found in the Tri-Border Area:

https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/pdf-files/TerrOrgCrime_TBA.pdf

I'm glad I was able to find Sun Myung Moon, in his own words, giving us a pretty clear indication of what was most likely taking place on his land holdings in South America.

Ed Coffman

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The God of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han is not the God of Judeo-Christianity

天地人 참父母님  特別  集會

The banner reads:  ‘Cheon-Ji-In’   True Parents     Special Meeting

▲ Hak Ja Han is standing behind the banner at her October 24, 2015 special meeting at Cheongpyeong when she declared she was the new female messiah, or female Jesus – the “Only Begotten Daughter of God.”

天地人真の父母様と聖賢夫人

▲ 天地人 is also used in the caption for this official photo of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han with ‘Six Marys.’ There is a full translation of the Japanese below.

In Korean 天地人 ‘Cheon-Ji-In’ means the god of 天 heaven, ��� earth, and 人 humanity in the traditional beliefs, or shamanism, of Korea.

This deity is not the ‘Heavenly Father’ of Judeo Christianity. With ‘Cheon-Ji-In’ there is no sense of a deity who is personally involved with the lives of each individual, or of a deity who is suffering or has a broken heart at the “Fall of Man”. Moon’s sexual interpretation of the fall stems from his cultural roots in Korean shamanism. He had a life-long connection with shamanism which surfaced in various ceremonies which he performed. Shamanism has always been very evident at the Cheongpyeong Training Center in Korea.

Extract from Chapter 2 of Korean Philosophy, in the book Archaeology of Psychotherapy in Korea: A study of Korean therapeutic work and professional growth (2014) by Haeyoung Jeong:

“While never at the center of Korean history, Korean Daoism is, nonetheless, what underlies all the traditional Korean pensées. It is the innermost core of Korean mental geography. Korean Daoism is deeply immersed in the Korean indigenous philosophy of Pungryu whose central value is the naturalness usually associated with spontaneity and creativity and the Han-seeking national spirit described as the primordial state of all things. Both Pungryu and Han (oneness) stem from the indigenous concept of Cheon-Ji-In.

天地人 Cheon-Ji-In is the triad of Heaven-Earth-Humanity as one. Heaven means the spiritual dimension of existence; Earth symbolizes the material dimensions of existence; and human beings represent every form of life and the energy or vitality that animates the life-forms. This concept arises from the oldest Korean scripture Cheonbu-gyeong (scripture of heavenly code).  … The contemporary version in Chinese characters became known when ... the scripture [was found] on a tombstone and translated it into Chinese characters.

The scripture begins with the character One, and ends with One, and delineates that everything in the universe begins and ends with One, itself having no beginning or end. It teaches of the ultimate oneness (Han) and the triad of heaven, earth and human beings, signifying they are all connected as parts of the same cosmic harmony, in the Oneness. With each letter containing its own distinct literal or numerical meaning and distinct energy, the Cheonbu-gyeong can he interpreted as an expression of mathematics and energy studies, as well as philosophy.

As a fundamental principle and ‘ultimate truth,’ this indigenous concept of Cheon-Ji-In is profoundly permeated in every belief and thought of the Korean people. Indigenous Korean philosophies grounded on Pungryu and Han [oneness] naturally inherited and developed this Cheon-Ji-In philosophy.”

Here is a Chinese explanation

一 yī, 1, one

The character 一 evolved from Oracle bone script (considered to be the earliest form of recognizable written Chinese) to the standard Song typeface. It has always remained as the horizontal stroke.

一 is a special indicative character. The abstract symbol 一 not only signifies the simplest origin, but also the most abundant and chaotic universe in its original form. The original meaning of 一 when it was created was the smallest original unit, or the smallest positive integer.

As the ancient Chinese said, 道立于一，一生二，二生三，三生万物 dào lì yú yī, yī shēng èr, èr shēng sān, sān shēng wàn wù.

This means that the entire chaotic universe in its original form was called 一. Then the entire chaotic universe in its original form divided into 二 / two parts: 天 tiān (heaven) and 地 dì (earth). Between 天 and 地, then came 人 rén (person) as the 第三部分 dì sān bù fen (third part). Then 天地人 split into all the other things in the universe.

Here is the more detailed meaning of this saying:

The universe in its original form cannot be described with words. It is not made of gas, solids, or anything else. It is indescribable. All you know is that it is a chaotic entity. It is the beginning of everything, the start of existence. No time and no space can be used because there is absolutely nothing. Ancient Chinese called it 太初 tài chū, literally meaning “ultimate beginning.” 太初 is 一. With 二, heaven and earth, they are two opposite sides. 天 is the 阳 yáng, or positive side; 地 is the 阴 yīn, or negative side. Two absolute opposite gases formed 天 and 地 from 一. The universe is not chaotic anymore. In the harmonious state, 天地人 created all the other things.

一 : the entire chaotic universe in its original form

二 : the stroke above stands for 天, the lower stroke stands for 地

三 : the top and bottom strokes stand for 天地, the middle stoke stands for 人; 人 is the most honorable creature in the whole universe. 

天地人

Here is the text from the above photo of Sun Myung Moon with Hak Ja Han and ‘Six Marys.’

天地人真の父母様と聖賢夫人

写真左から ムハンマド（マホ メ ッ ト) 夫人 李貞玉（ィ・ジョンォッ)、

ソクラテス夫人 金明煕（キム・ミョンヒ)、

イエス夫人 張貞順（チャン・ジョンスン)、

孔子夫人 李京埈（ィ・ギョンジュン)、

アウグスティヌス夫人 姜賢實（カン・ヒョンシル)

円内は釈迦夫人 催元福（チュ・ゥォンボァ)

敬称略

‘Cheon-Ji-In’ (Heavenly) True Parents and the Sages’ Wives

1: Jong-ok Lee 李貞玉. (Moon married her to Mohammed)

2: Myung-hee Kim 金明煕. (married to Socrates)

3: Chung-soon Chang 張貞順. (married to Jesus)

4: Kyŏng-Jun Lee 李京埈. (married to Confucius)

5: Hyun-shil Kang 姜賢實. (married to Augustine)

6: In the oval, Won-bok Choi 催元福. (married to Buddha)

▲ Chung-soon Chang with her husband, Jesus

By marrying these women to ‘Sages,’ and giving the women ‘providential’ positions, Moon locked them into roles in his ‘restoration’ drama.

He also prevented the women from forming attachment relationships with other men by forbidding them to have normal marriages. Moon wanted the women to only bond with himself.

According to Hyung Jin Moon, his father, Sun Myung Moon, had pikareum sex rituals with all of the ‘Six Marys’ – and many other women – to cleanse them of original sin. (A link to a video of Hyung Jin Moon’s explanation is below, with a transcript.)

Moon married these six women to religious leaders, or sages, in the spirit world. For many years Won-bok Choi, one of the wives, was known as ‘Second Mother’. In many locations her bedroom was next to Moon’s.

According to Moon’s reasoning, these six wives could then ‘restore’ the six sages in the spirit world (regardless if they already had wives). This would make a connection between these sages and Moon. The sages would owe their salvation, through their Moon-given wives, to Moon, and would therefore submit to him.

According to official FFWPU / UC workshops given in Japan in 1992, Moon performed pikareum sex rites with the wives of the first three couples he married in order to restore the three husbands to be true disciples or protective archangels for Moon’s own marriage to Hak Ja Han. Full explanation HERE. This demonstrates a pattern in Moon’s pikareum sex rituals.

It is a shamanic practise to mobilize leaders (often military leaders) in the spiritual world to work with the shaman to achieve the shaman’s goals. The favors of the spirits are gained through performing rituals and ceremonies. Moon practised such shaman ceremonies. For example, in the American publication Unification News dated June 1999, Dr Andrew Wilson wrote an article ‘Biblical and Christian Saints Mobilized to America’ (page 18). He begins: “I have begun to investigate the identities of the biblical and Christian saints whom True Parents blessed on February 7, 1999, and who have now been mobilized to work in America. Many of the names are familiar, but some are not…” There are four categories in Dr Wilson’s list: Biblical figures Blessed at Madison Square Garden in 1998. Old Testament Figures New Testament Christian History

Sun Myung Moon performed similar shamanic ‘mobilization of spirits’ ceremonies in other nations which he deemed ‘providential.’ He assigned roles to nations such as: Korea = Adam, Japan = Eve, Taiwan = Archangel, changed to USA = Archangel, etc.

Moon used numerology in his life and in his theology, which is full of symbolic numbers: 2, 3, 4, 3+4=7, 10, 3×4=12, 3×7=21, 4×10=40, 3×40=120, 7x10x3=210, 400, etc. Some of his ‘Holy Days’ and declarations are based on numbers: The Settlement of the Eight Stages (Pal Jeong Shik), Sa Sa Jeol (4.4 Day) Declaration. Sometimes Moon traveled on auspicious days; he returned to Korea after his 1965 world tour on 10.10.1965, or he held events on days of numerical significance such as a mass wedding on 10.10.2010.

▲ This ‘parallels of history’ chart, from a 1969 edition of the Divine Principle written by Young-oon Kim, is founded on numbers based on arbitrary events or on time periods that do not match known historical dates. (See critique by Allen Tate Wood and Jane E.M. Williams.)

Moon’s Creation of a ‘Holy Ground’ ceremonies are based on the shaman God of the Five Directions and include numerology in the paces to be walked, etc. Each Holy Ground should be established by FIVE members, according to The Tradition book (chapter 9).

▲ Shaman Guardians of the Five Directions

The Bible, and Christian teachings, discourage communication and dealings with spirits. In Christianity, there is a tradition of exorcism – not one of encouraging spirits. Moon’s teachings about ‘indemnity’ payments being owed through sacrifices based on numerical time periods, etc., run counter to Christian forgiveness through the salvation of Jesus.

Moon even established a monetary ‘Indemnity Fund’: “Father first announced the establishment of the Indemnity Fund on May 12, 1964. Father explained that fallen people have a debt to God because of the denial, betrayal, and murder of the Messiah, Jesus. The crime of betrayal was not only Judas’ mistake; Judas was the representative of all humanity. Judas ‘sold’ Jesus for thirty pieces of silver; because of the overwhelmingly negative historical meaning of this action, it cannot even be monetarily indemnified by donating this amount of money only once. According to the Principle, four is the number of foundation. Therefore, each Unification Church member must fulfill a condition of offering the Indemnity Fund four times (a total offering of $120.00), sharing their hearts of repentance and building a foundation of purity.” https://www.tparents.org/library/unification/books/tt1/TT1-12.htm

$120 was a significant sum in 1964.

FFWPU / UC members may feel burdened by sin, are frequently reminded of their fallen nature, and their need to keep in position. Ultimately every member must be engrafted onto the pure lineage of the Korean True Parents, Sun Myung Moon and his bride, Hak Ja Han.

Here are some of Sun Myung Moon’s comments on Christianity:

“Until our mission with the Christian Church is over, we must quote the Bible and use it to explain the Divine Principle. After we receive the inheritance of the Christian Church, we will be free to teach without the Bible. Now, however, our primary mission is to witness to the Christian Church.” Master Speaks 7, March/April 1965, page 1

“Christianity is an organization of idiots” “Even God is under my thumb” January 1, 1969 – Korea

“All that is required is enough money, then we can destroy the established churches.” December 3, 1969 – Korea

“God is now throwing Christianity away and is now establishing a new religion, and this new religion is the Unification Church.” September 30, 1974 – Time, page 68

“Jesus never achieved a thousandth of what Father has done. In his two years and eight months of public ministry, he didn’t even establish the national foundation. Now, Father has established a foundation of worldwide power that is unprecedented in history.” January 1, 1990  – Chongpadong, Seoul, Korea

“…I know the established Christian theology… I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn’t know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.” February 1995 – Today’s World, page 14

“Spirits that have lived on the earth for several billions of years gathered in spirit world and are being mobilized to lift Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church out of obscurity. Do you know what that means? When someone showed the name ‘Sun Myung Moon’ to an advanced spiritual medium, the medium spoke saying to pray for this person and offered a prayer and then bowed. Do you know that? It is like that. That is why unless the spirit world becomes unified, the earth cannot be unified. In fact, we have some people standing here who have the ability to communicate with spirit world. Confucius, Buddha and Jesus are my subordinates. Just yesterday a Buddhist came before me and said “Buddha ordered me to pray 24 hours for Sun Myung Moon so I had not choice but to comply…..” Even Buddha will be at odds with heavenly law if he does not cooperate. In the future the communist world will completely disappear.” March 15, 1975 (page 29)

The God of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han is not the God of Judeo-Christianity.

Hyung Jin Moon confirms his father had sex with the Six Marys From his sermon, ‘Putting on Christ’ May 10, 2015 https://youtu.be/qU3f3uYLMQs

26:00 “I really feel that this issue about the six Marys is at the core… Even though it is more comfortable to hide it under the rug and be fraudulent about the whole situation… Hide it! Don’t talk about it! Don’t bring it up! It’s gonna cause problems. So easy to do that. That’s the temptation. But guess what? Just like the Mormons 200 years later are dealing with the issue around their founder. They’re still dealing with. You understand folks. It never goes away. It will never go away!” 35:00 “For him [Sun Myung Moon] to come and take all the women of this world and be their spouse and to have children from every single one of those people. And kill off Satan’s blood lineage. I don’t care if that makes you feel uncomfortable. I don’t care if that makes you feel unnerved. That’s the quickest way to do it.” 43:10 “He says in public, he says, this only contains 80% of my autobiography. Right? Some of the Japanese sisters maybe have heard that. And then he goes on to call up the four great saints’ wives. You know Mrs. Jesus and Mrs. Buddha and Mrs. Who is it? Muhammad no and Mrs. Confucius so he says this only has 80% of my life story and then he calls up those ladies. See what you don’t realize about who those ladies are. They’re part of the six Marys.” 48:30 “You see if you don’t understand the bride of Christ, the brides of Christ and you don’t understand the three day ceremony, you have no way to explain why father had to walk that course of having those relationships. What is your explanation? What is it? The only way you can explain this is to say that well I guess father was weak in the flesh. But then if you say that you’re saying that God is weak in the flesh.” 49:40 “What is it? How do you explain the six Marys? How do you explain those relationships beyond the six Marys? How do you do it? And still believe in Father? You can’t. You cannot.” 1:04:35 “I remember one time in Washington DC they [Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han] were having an argument. And mother brought this issue out and she condemned father for it. If you, if I didn’t save you from that you would have had children from many, many different bellies is what she said to him.”

The Unification Church and shamanism. At its heart the UC is not Christian; but it presents a Christian facade.

Sun Myung Moon – Emperor, and God

FFWPU Holy Grounds and the Shamanic Guardians of the Five Directions

Shamanism in Moon’s family – his brother and sister were possessed by a ‘tiger’

Hak Ja Han had to stand in the archangel position while Sun Myung Moon restored the first three wives through pikareum sex as a condition for the “Marriage Supper of the Lamb.”

Moon had sex ceremonies with the wives of all the first 36 couples.

How “God’s Day” was established on January 1, 1968

Sun Myung Moon – Restoration through Incest

Moon bows to a pig’s head

The ‘fall of man’ and shaman practise

A physical lineage from Moon for all the ‘Saints or Sages’?