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== Split of the Unification Movement ==

Ⅰ. Hak Ja Han’s declaration: "I saved Rev. Moon, True Father’s lineage”
On December 25, 2016,  Hak Ja Han, the wife of rev. Moon, True Mother of Unification Movwment, made a serious statement at the Cheon Jeong palace in Korea. Her statement was in response to Hyeun Sil Kang[1] who left Hak Ja Han’s Family Federation and moved to Heung Jin Moon’s Sanctuary Church in America early on December of 2016 in opposition to the teachings of Hak Ja Han’s claim of the Only Begotten Daughter.

"'I am the Only Begotten Daughter born with the changed lineage without original sin within the womb of the three generations of mothers who were only daughters. But True     Father was born with original sin. I was born as an only daughter, but True Father has several siblings. If True Father was born without original sin, then his siblings would  also have no original sin. Therefore, True Father was not born without original sin.'"

            It is said that those who heard this statement were shocked. This is because True Mother’s teachings completely contradict the doctrine that has been taught by the Unification Movement. If, as she claims, the founder of the Unification Movement was a descendant born with original sin, "The Principle of Restoration" taught by the Unification Movement must be revised in its entirety.[2] This means that the teaching, materials, the great works of the founder, Rev. Moon, needs to be changed to the degree of converting the Unification Movement member’s faith.

Because of the gravity of Hak Ja Han’s statement, President Kyeung Seok Yoo of Korean Unification Movement announced a clarification.[3]

"'Above all, President Hyeun Sil Kang causes a great deal of confusion to the blessed family members by making claims in the Sanctuary Church such as that True Mother has said True Father was born with original sin, or that she degrades True Father’s authority and raises her own. But this is not true.”"

However, on December 30, 2016, one day after President Kyeung Seok Yoo's explanation on Hak Ja Han’s teachings of having no original sin and being the only begotten daughter, Hak Ja Han gathered[4] over 430 blessed family’s wives and shared her teachings to clarify her identity as the Only Begotten Daughter.

"“True Father, who was born with original sin, met the Only Begotten Daughter, who was born without original sin on this earth, and was cleared of his original sin through             the Only Begotten Daughter. So True Father should not have married another woman before he met me!'"

It seems as if the participants had clearly understood the identity of Hak Ja Han, True Mother, through her teachings. The identity was that the protagonist of the providence of restoration was not Rev. Moon, True Father, but the Only Begotten Daughter, True Mother, and that the Founder is not the Messiah, but the Only Begotten Daughter, because she saved Rev. Moon from his original sin.[5]

The claim that Hak Ja Han had been born without original sin and saved Rev. Moon from the fallen lineage means that a new religion unrelated to the identity of the Unification Movement set by the founder, has been officially launched by the Only Begotten Daughter, Hak Ja Han, True Mother.

II. Split of the Unification Movement and the formation of a new Religion.
The founder of the Unification Movement has firmly established a belief system based on the myth of restoring the lineage, using a religious identity he received from Jesus as a tool of charisma. His achievements in creating a massive religious movement and realizing activities to create an ideal world are rarely found in the history of new religious movements.

However, in conclusion, the founder’s efforts and the mission of the Unification Movement to save the world through the scriptures from The Original Text of the Divine Principle to The 8 Great Textbooks and Teachings are in crisis. This division is not a simple division, but a division within the Founder’s True Family which represents the identity of the founder and Unification Movement. This means that the Unification Movement’s identity of lineage is changing, and eventually the founder’s Unification Movement is disappearing, and transforming into a new form of religion.

On top of that, after the death of the Founder, the memory of his charisma is vanishing as a distant memory due to his wife, Hak Ja Han. New doctrines, such as “Theory of the True Mother as a Messiah”, “Theory of True Mother as God”, “Theory of True Mother as God’s Wife”, “Only Begotten Daughter” are being created to uplift the charisma of the Founder’s wife, Hak Ja Han, who calls herself “the Queen”, “God’s wife”, “the Only Begotten Daughter”. This new charismatic identity is irrelevant to the Founder’s identity.

The causes of this crisis are the following:

1) The identity of the True Parent (the Founder), which is the motive for the creation of the Unification Movement, is being denied by the identity of the True Parent (Hak Ja Han), and therefore a new religious phenomenon, different from the Unification Movement, is emerging,

2) The reality of the founder’s charisma was revealed and disappeared as a result of complete failure through the course of time,

3) The core of the Founder’s religious ideals, the “True Family,” has been severely divided, destroying the religious foundation and legitimacy of the Unification Movement,

4) The immorality of some of the True Family members of the Founder, and higher officials of the Unification Movement has been exposed, and

5) The monopolization of Unification Movement assets and the still-escalating litigation surrounding these assets.

The split of the Unification Movement, which occurred around the time of the Founder’s passing, concluded with True Mother’s (Hak Ja Han) ruling over the Unification Movement instead of the True Children (direct descendants, especially sons) of the founder. During the time of these events, many lawsuits and tragic events unfolded in the founder’s family; Hak Ja Han, Hyung Jin Moon, and Kook Jin Moon drove out Hyun Jin Moon, and then Hak Ja Han and the Unification Movement drove out Hyung Jin Moon and Kook Jin Moon from the organization. Hak Ja Han’s rule over the Unification Movement is being justified and indoctrinated through the deification of Hak Ja Han, which diverges from the identity of the founder. This is the core reason for which the Unification Movement under the lead of Hak Ja Han is viewed as a new religious movement.

One thing to note is that the internal causes and consequences of the split of the Unification Movement are closely related to the deconstruction and changing of the doctrine and scriptures of the Unification Movement. In other words, the founder’s identity of lineage is being denied by Hak Ja Han in the course of the split of the Unification Movement. Hak Ja Han’s new religion, new doctrine, and new scriptures for the theological basis to reinforce Hak Ja Han’s identity of lineage as the Only Begotten Daughter are being made under her initiative and careful planning. Although it is unclear whether these attempts have been initiated long before the division of the Unification Movement, or whether it occurred accidentally during the process of division of the Unification Movement, the obvious is as follows:.

1) It is a fact that the conflict between the Founder and Hak Ja Han had been serious long before the division of the Unification Movement became apparent.

2) In particular, there have been remarks made by others who have been denying the Founder’s identity.[6] of lineage.

3) Before the death of the Founder, Hak Ja Han touched The Sermons of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon and had planned to dismantle the scriptures the Founder made.

4) At present, Hak Ja Han herself claims that she was born with pure blood from the womb, without original sin, while the founder was born with the fallen blood of original sin, and therefore she saved him from original sin.

5)  Following her direction, some theologians of Unification Movement such as Jin Chun Kim, Whang Jae Kim, Sun Young Moon, Taek yong Oh and others are making a new doctrine to prove that the Founder had fallen lineage. These attempts of editing the scriptures, rituals, and the belief system seems as if they are transforming the Unification Movement, originated from the founder, into a new religion, originating from Hak Ja Han as the Only Begotten Daughter.

Jin Chun Kim, one of the most distinguished scholars of the Unification Movement, who lead the deification work for Hak Ja Han, wrote an article titled "The research of the True Parents as The Only Begotten Son and The Only begotten Daughter”. In his article,[7] he writes:

"“First, it is difficult to say that True Father (the Founder) was born completely without original sin. Second, True Father was born quite different from the normal corrupted          man who had only the corrupted lineage because he had been born with a heavenly lineage. Third, True Father was predestined to carry the mission of the Messiah by only             carrying heavenly lineage, but was born with the potential of becoming a Messiah. p. 244) … As in the case of Jesus, through the restoration of the lineage, True Mother(Hak Ja Han) was born only from the heavenly lineage. The wedding ceremony between True Father and True Mother in 1960, “the Wedding Feast of the Lamb”, is the ritual of True Mother becoming a True Parent to mankind. It is difficult to see the ritual as a ritual that restored True Mother’s lineage and gave her the position of the only begotten      daughter. … As True Mother emphasizes, it is time to reveal the truth.”(p.256)"

Dr. Jin Chun Kim’s thesis coincides with the Hak Ja Han’s teachings like that the Founder was born of a corrupt descendant with original sin and through the holy marriage she was able to rid him of his original sin.[8]

The founder of the Unification Movement died on September 3, 2012, months before the Foundation Day which was the due day for the mission to save the world. Despite the fact that the founder was the last person to fulfill the providence and to finally realize the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, no one, not even the founder himself, anticipate his death. When the Unification Movement was being divided unethically against the Divine Principle, the founder died.

III. The process of Canonizing of the Unification Movement
Religions generally have scriptures that explain what the truth is. The scriptures include  the mythical stories and worldview, historical viewpoints, and moral imperatives of the gods and the prophets, which chronologically explain the activities of sacred beings. Within the scriptures is the belief system, rituals and the unique myth of the religion, which is used to rationalize the value and justification of their respective religion. The sacredness of the scriptures themselves depends on how closely they relate to the absolute superiority. The scriptures are often sung during rituals and are sometimes discussed and practiced in somewhat secular contexts.

New religions created by revelation also have documents like a scripture as intellectual foundations that seem to have been passed on to the prophet by God. If the Founder of the new religion is alive, the identity of the Founder, which comes from the Founder’s teachings and practices, and religious experiences become the representing identity of the new religion. Especially if the identity of the Founder changes frequently, it is not easy to organize the scriptures. In the early stages of the new religions, the Founder's teachings related to his religious experience are replaced and developed into scriptures, which are the recordings of the words and teachings of the Founder. Few new religions have scriptures in the life of the founder and many of them compile scriptures after the death of the founder. The scriptures play a significant role in strengthening and maintaining the identity and charisma of the Founder. In any case, there is no example of destroying the identity of a founder or making a scripture with content contradictory to the teachings of the founder.

However, the Unification Movement, in contrast, has a lot of differences with these tendencies.

First, the Unification Movement had The Original Text of the Divine Principle, which was the first scripture of the Unification Movement before its official opening, and the enormous amount of 615 volumes of the Founder's speech were published officially. The scriptures of the Unification Movement, including 615 volumes, were confirmed in the name of the 8 Great Text Books as the official scriptures of Chun Il Gook, ideal world. This fact is a distinguishing characteristic in comparison to the other new religions, and shows that the founder of the Unification Movement has invested a great deal of effort into these scriptures.

Secondly, the scriptures of the Unification Movement written from the religious experiences and identity of the Founder were dismantled by True Mother, his own wife. In spite of the opposition of many Unification Movement members, Hak Ja Han’s newly published and revised Cheon Seong Gyeong[9] and Pyeong Hwa Gyeong, Cham Bu MoGyeong were created in the name of  “The 3 Great scriptures of Chun Il Gook". These scriptures seem to be the basis that can distort the religious identity of the Founder and deify Hak Ja Han.

Thirdly, on August 22, 2016, at the symposium of the founding of the Unification Academy, Ye Jin Moon, the elder daughter of the founder, criticized the Divine Principle which is the representative scripture of the Unification Movement arguing that it was originated from the patriarchal Confucius Ideology. It is also very unusual for her to argue[10] that The Divine Principle explaining God as the “Absolute” being who possesses the “dual characteristics of masculinity and femininity”, as a “Masculine Father to all of creation” does not fit the age of gender equality. Strictly speaking, Ye Jin Moon was criticizing not only The Divine Principle but her father, Rev. S

Fourth, Hak Ja Han published three new scriptures that conflict with the Founder’s teachings. She publicly claimed her identity as the only begotten Daughter born without original sin and some theologians of the Unification Movement are focusing on developing a doctrine that denies Rev. Moon’s identity of the lineage to rationalize the theology of the only begotten Daughter and her sinless lineage[11] by using the new 3 scriptures as the basis of their assertion.

As a result, what they call the “Three Great Scriptures of Cheon Il Gook” which stem from Hak Ja Han’s new lineage recognition are in conflict with The 8 Great Textbooks and Teachings originated from the Founder. With the phenomenon that the founder’s 7th son, Hyung Jin Moon is criticizing his real mother and the Founder’s wife, ‘True Mother,’ Hak Ja Han as the ‘prostitute of Babylon,’ ‘fallen Eve,’ ‘Lesbian’ and that Hak Ja Han is denying the identity of the lineage and authority of Sun Myung Moon who is her husband and Founder of the Unification Movement. I noticed that the phenomenon of the Unification Movement scriptures stemmed from the Founder’s identity have been rapidly undermined without sufficient research or a rationalization process.

As I mentioned specific phenomena of the process of change in the scriptures of the Unification Movement in the Korean Messianic Movement History Research vol. 4, The Split of the Unification Movement, I will focus on the process of forming the scriptures in the history of the Unification Movement and the main contents of the scriptures throughout this thesis, which are entangled and undermined by Hak Ja Han.

1. The background of the formation of the Unification Movement’s scriptures
The first motive of the scriptures of the Unification Movement was that a 16-year-old student (the Founder), a fourth grader from Jeonju Public Primary School, received a revelation from Jesus on the morning of Easter, 17th April 1935. The revelation he received was a special role for ‘God’s Providence'[12] and a call for a humanitarian salvation project[13] which he had been considering about seriously. This can be said to be the first religious experience of the Founder, and the first recognition of a missionary who must put his whole life to accomplish his calling, leaving behind an ordinary life.

During the years of childhood and youth, the founder's awareness as a missionary and savior led to more concrete efforts and activities, and as a result, the founder came to realize the existence of the Absolute God and the reason for the human fall while studying in Tokyo from April 1941 to October 1943. It is said that he argued for the existence of the Absolute God, and everything was revealed to him before Korea’s Independence in August 15th (8.15 liberation),[14] from the fact that the relationship between God and mankind is that of a parent and children,[15] and the identity of Satan who caused the fall of mankind.[16] These two great realizations were later developed into the Principle of Creation and The Fall of Man, not only as the core contents of The Original Text of the Divine Principle written by the founder, but also became the foundation of the Unification Movement’s belief system and rituals.

By the time Korea was liberated from the Japanese colonial period, the founder has already begun his life as a full-time missionary when he entered Baek Moon Kim’s Israel Monastery and carrying out evangelical activities with a special purpose from October 1945 to April 1946 while having already identified with most part of the principles. The Founder’s motivation to enter the Israel monastery and create ties with Baek Moon Kim was because he needed Baek Moon Kim's co-operation, who inherited the genealogy of the main Korean spiritual groups at that time, in order to come true the calling he realized and perceived.[17] Based on the founder, when Baek Moon Kim met the founder, he seemed to have fully understood their unique faith and the genealogy of the Korean spiritual groups which are different from the mainstream Christian faith groups.

He met Baek Moon Kim while being aware of their religious situation such as relations between Christian spiritual groups in North Korea during the Japanese colonial period as well as the story of Nam Ju Baek, the teacher of Baek Moon Kim and the fact that Baek Moon Kim and Nam Ju Baek visited Seong Do Kim of Saejupa, a sect of Christianity in Wonsan, and registered Seongjugyo in the Japanese Government General of Korea. The founder recognized them as a group specially prepared for providence of the Absolute God centered in Korea.[18]

We cannot help but notice why the Founder regarded the small spiritual group of Seong Do Kim, Nam Ju Baek, Yong Do Lee, and Baek Moon Kim as a reserved group of the ‘Archangelic Realm’ to help his religious mission where he may start his calling from heaven based on their providential preparation. Although it will be mentioned later on depth in the content analysis of The Original Text of the Divine Principle, there are roughly two similarities that can be found in their actions and beliefs. These beliefs are that the Second Coming of Christ will be coming from Korea as a man, and that the cause of human corruption is sexual promiscuity.

However, it is said that the founder did not achieve the intended purpose from Baek Moon Kim’s group. It was on May 27, 1946, when the founder left Baek Moon Kim’s group[19] and arrived in Pyongyang under a heavenly order on June 6, 1946. After that, the Founder's religious activities in Pyongyang seemed to have been to achieve important conditions for the providence of restoring the degenerate lineage. The founder's religious activities in Pyongyang shown in the history of the Unification Movement were mostly spiritual gatherings through the elucidation of the Bible. At that time, the founder seemed to have preached mainly under the titles of ‘God's Creation Story,’ ‘The Fall of Adam and Eve from the love affair with the Archangel,’ ‘the Virgin Mary,’ ‘the tragedy of Jesus' crucifixion caused by the unfinished responsibility of the missionaries such as John the Baptist’ etc.[20]

However, according to Won Pil Kim who was evangelized in Pyongyang at that time said that when the founder came to Pyongyang in June 1946, he had a book he called the “Account Book” that could be the predecessor of The Original Text of the Divine Principle. However, today this book has not been transferred.[21]

According to the testimony of Jung Hwa Park, one of the disciples of the founder, there was another thing that could be regarded as the predecessor of The Original Text of the Divine Principle besides the “Account Book”; a manuscript entitled The Ideal World (Wonhwawon). In 1948, when he was confined in Heungnam Prison, Jung Hwa Park said to have recorded the book containing up to 1,200 pages. This manuscript also seems to contain contents on 'God’s Creation,' 'The Fall of Man,' 'The Principle of Restoration,' and 'How the Second Coming of Christ will come'. Although this manuscript is not available, it is possible to identify some of its contents in the testimony of Jung Hwa Park.[22]

2. The Original Text of the Divine Principle
The myth of the restoration of the original lineage is the core identity of the Unification Movement and the Founder. The Original Text of the Divine Principle contains the heavenly revelations of Reverend Moon, explaining his mission as a savior and the historic and mythical events, the secrets of the heavens that he had revealed through his own studies, and various religious elements that he exchanged with the Christian Spiritualists. The text also explains the existence of the Absolute God, the principle of the Creation of Heaven and Earth and the reason for the Fall of Man, the process of the Fall and the results of the Fall. It also includes the story of the Archangel having formed blood ties with Eve through an immoral spiritual sexual relationship, and then Eve’s physical sexual relationship with Adam to be in the concurrent corruption of the flesh and spirit. This book explains in detail how to save the fallen world through the work of restoration.

The structure of  “Creation -> the Fall -> Restoration” exposed in The Original Text of the Divine Principle was materialized in the form of Unification Movement rituals, which will be introduced later. The ritual to restore the lineage of humankind and the founder’s recognition of the lineage were developed to be symbolized a specific ceremony for salvation and restoration such as The Blessing Ceremony whose pathway was the opposite of the process by which humankind fell.[23]

To the founder, The Original Text of the Divine Principle is both the answer to the fundamental laws by which God created the universe, and the ultimate question as to the existence of humankind, as well as the principle by which the spiritual realm and the Earth exist. Also, the manuscript was the truth as to the one and only means by which corrupted man could return to his state before corruption and be saved.[24] The founder, as the protagonist of the mythical event, who shed light on the “principles”, by which the event could be explained logically, regarded himself as the only central figure and the proxy of God to be able to save the corrupted humankind. Not stopping at simply proclaiming the principles, he saw himself as “Jesus of the second coming,” “savior of humankind,” and “the True Parent,” and went on to put these “principles” into practice.

3. The Exposition of the Divine Principle
In the early days of the Unification Movement, the only tools the elites had to learn the principles of the Unification Movement were The Original Text of the Divine Principle and the teachings of the Founder. For these people, these were regarded to be a great pride to transcribe and learn from The Original Text of the Divine Principle.[25] This was because during this time period, there was no other way to learn the content but to transcribe the teachings. It was during these early days of the Unification Movement that the important daily tasks for the Founder and the researchers of the principle was to read the transcribed version of The Original Text of the Divine Principle, pray and give lectures.

In contrast to The Original Text of the Divine Principle that did not contain a clear and systematic Table of Content that described its content,[26] The Exposition of the Divine Principle contained a logical Table of Content. Just like a long thesis, the basic structure of The Exposition of the Divine Principle consisted of the Introduction, Main Content and the Conclusion, composed with the Introduction, Part I and Part II. And just like The Original Text of the Divine Principle, the narrative of the Providence of the Creation of Humankind is composed in three stages of “Creation→Fall→Restoration”. The difference between the Exposition of the Divine Principle and The Original Text of the Divine Principle is that there are noticeable hints of Hyo Won Yoo’s concerns when writing The Exposition of the Divine Principle.

The main content of The Exposition of the Divine Principle was that the “The Creator created man on earth, not heaven, and gave them the purpose of creation to grow and thrive and to dominate all things, and man must fulfill the purpose of creation on earth.”[27] Hyo Won Yoo argued “the human desire is to realize the earthly heaven Eden that Adam and Eve have not realized living on this earth not that world while being dead[28] and the hero who came to realize the Eden again on earth is second advent Jesus, Sun Myung Moon.

The Exposition of the Divine Principle also explains that, even though Jesus was born from the sinful lineage, he was in the position of the True Father and Messiah who represented the body of God, as a perfected human being, unrelated to sin. The Holy Spirit’s role as the restored Eve, Jesus’ wife and the True Mother, was to give rebirth to all fallen human beings, and together with Jesus, as the mission of the True Parents, would realize the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.[29]

We need to pay close attention that the Divine Principle mentions that just like the birth of Jesus Christ, the Second Coming of the Messiah will be born from the sinful lineage in the womb of his mother, in the most humble position, to later rise up to the heavenly throne of glory. This means that even though Jesus, who was born from Mary’s body who carried the sinful lineage, he was a “being unrelated to sin,” and likewise the Second Coming of Christ.[30]

However the irony is that Dr. Jin Chun Kim, who is trying to rationalize Hak Ja Han’s Only Begotten Daughter Theory, is explaining the Founder’s original sin by basing off the Founder’s acknowledgment of the lineage.[31] When looking from the perspective of the Principle of Restoration based on the Founder’s teachings, the same way Jesus Christ was born from the fallen lineage did not have original sin, the Second Coming will go through the same. Dr. Jin Chun Kim who had believed the founder, the second advent Jesus,  regarded the founder as a being born with original sin on the basis of some comments of the founder. It seems that Jin Chun Kim distorted the teachings of the founder or is ignorant of the founder’s teaching.

4. The Divine Principle
After the publication of The Exposition of the Divine Principle in 1957, the founder instructed to supplement The Exposition of the Divine Principle by adding a more theoretical system in order to complement the contents of The Exposition of the Divine Principle and adapt to the changing times. Hyo Won Yoo has continued the principle lecture and principle discussion, and then he began writing the manuscript in earnest from 1960 while complementing The Exposition of the Divine Principle according to the founder's instructions.[32]

Like the basic structure of The Original Text of the Divine Principle and The Exposition of the Divine Principle, The Divine Principle is also composed of "the creation of the Absolute God → the fall of man → God's providence of restoration and human responsibility” and consists of a introduction, the first part and second part.

The first part is composed of Chapter 1. The principle of creation, Chapter 2. The Human Fall, Chapter 3. Eschatology and Human History, Chapter 4. The Messiah: His Advent and the Purpose of his second Coming, Chapter 5. Resurrection, Chapter 6. Predestination, Chapter 7. Christology. The second part consists of Introduction to restoration, Chapter 1. The Providence to Lay the Foundation for restoration, Chapter 2. Moses and Jesus in the Providence of Restoration, Chapter 3. The Period in Providential History and The Determination of their Lengths, Chapter 4. The Parallels between the Two Age in The Providence of Restoration, Chapter 5. The period of Preparation for the Second Advent of the Messiah, Chapter 6. The Second Advent. The differences in the contents of The Divine Principle and The Exposition of the Divine Principle are as follows: The Exposition of the Divine Principle includes “the Human Fall” and “The Messiah: His Advent and the Purpose of his second Coming” in Chapter 5 and Chapter 2, respectively and John the Baptist coming as Elijah and second advent of Jesus of Chapter 7 is included in Chapter 4 The Resurrection of The Divine Principle.

In particular, the founder emphasized that the contents such as “The Savior, completed Adam, must go to a place lower than the servant's servant to save the fallen woman,”[33] “Three generations of grandmother, mother, and daughter should be joined to serve second advent Jesus,”[34] “the story of indemnity and restoration centered on the founder,[35] Contents of the Completed Testament Age of Third Israel,[36] Conscience is ahead of True Parents, ahead of True King.” [37] He also mentioned that he would correct many things in the future and rewrite the principles. And he said not to touch The Divine Principle without permission.

(1) The appearance of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWP)
As mentioned in the foregoing, all religious events shown by the founder since recognizing his calling in April 1935 were oriented toward a single goal. The search for the Absolute Being, the laws of the universe, the fall of man, and the way to restore fallen man; the guidance he received from the Absolute Being to enter Communist Pyeongyang, leaving his wife and child behind; defying common sense and carrying out the rituals to restore the lineage; being arrested by the Communist Party; struggling to the brink of death in Heungnam Prison until making a dramatic escape; building a desolate mud hut in Busan during the Korean War, where he wrote The Original Text of The Divine Principle and formulated the salvation of mankind and liberating God, the absolute being; evangelizing elite followers to form The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity to begin in earnest his mission of saving the world on May 1, 1954; his duty to marry Hak Ja Han, who was like a daughter to him, as his wife in the holy marriage ceremony on April 11, 1960; and the expansion of lineage restoration ceremonies from the original 36 couples to more than 360 million(s) of couples; and the proclamation of the globalization and popularization of lineage restoration rites, were all for one single purpose.

This purpose was to realize the ideal of Heaven on Earth through realizing a True Family, something that Adam and Eve had failed to realize due to the Fall. The founder, in the position of a perfected Adam, wished to fulfill God, the Absolute Being’s Ideal of Creation by perfecting Eve and forming with her a true family of a restored lineage, and serving the Absolute Being as their parent. He sought to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth by expanding the lineage of the True Family throughout all humankind. This can be said to be the beginning and end of the history of the Unification Movement.

To genuinely realize this goal, the founder disbanded The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity which he had founded 40 years ago in May 1, 1954, to represent the end of the Age of Religion. He then founded on May 1, 1994, the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (usually referred to as the Family Federation) to save mankind after the Age of Religion.[38] The appearance of the Family Federation meant that the religious identity of the founder to restore the lineage had been expanded and universalized in a manner that transcends religious differences.

The founder recognized the age prior to the appearance of the Family Federation as the Age of Religion, and after the appearance of the Family Federation as the Age of trans-religion. The founder has consistently taught that, ever since he acknowledged his calling, not to mention when he founded the Holy Spirit Association, that his religious mission had never been to create a particular religious sect or denomination, which can only be understood through special doctrines, but to realize the Ideal World of the True Family that transcends religion and serves God as parent.[39]

Going one step further, the founder proclaimed, upon founding the Family Federation, that the Religious Age was over, and that an age where in the original family of Adam is completed and carries out the purpose behind God’s creation has come. This can be interpreted as meaning that a family that serves God as its parent comes to take the place of the church of the Religious Age, and everyday lives in which God’s children realize His values take the place of the religious life of faith of the Religious Age. This means that religious rituals that religion required of mankind in order to restore the original world, such as prayer, services, and worshipping God have been rendered fundamentally unnecessary. The founder proclaimed that believers in the Unification Movement have been given graduation certificates from the Religious Age, and therefore, instead of fixating on religious acts, would need to focus on the life and practices of children of God the Absolute Being.[40]

Something very interesting can be found among the teachings of the founder after the Age of the Family Federation. This is his claim that “Once one realizes the teachings of the conscience and lives according to them, there is no need for religion, for the founder, for the True Parents, or for God.”  Such a teaching of the founder is a phenomenon that is extremely rare even among new religious movements. New religions are created by a personality with strong charisma (the founder) under particular environmental circumstances,[41] with the founder’s charisma normally being reinforced and rationalized, after which it becomes mundane or weak and vanishes. Alternatively, new religions pass through a process of reactivation, and they seek new paths to revival. However, in the case of the Unification Movement, it appears at first glance that the founder is himself utterly deconstructing his own charisma, his organization, and even transcendence of God.

However, this must not be viewed as deconstruction for just deconstruction’s sake, but deconstruction for the sake of completing the aim of the Absolute Being’s Creation as understood by the founder. A state wherein the missions of the savior, messiah, and True Parents have been completed means that there is no reason for the existence of the savior, messiah, and True Parents. Since the Absolute Being, God, who had previously only existed as the object of worship, had become, through the realization of the founder and his lineage restoration ceremonies, the parent of mankind, God was no longer an object of worship and finally recognized by humanity as the parent that mankind serves. Ultimately, that God which conventional religion had taught was the object of worship is rendered unnecessary. As the mission of religion was to restore human to the original parent (God, the Absolute Being) we had lost, our having found our original parent means religion is rendered unnecessary. The founder of the Unification Movement recognized God, the transcendent being, as the actual parent of mankind. It may be said that the meaning of a life wherein mankind attends God as parent was expanded to represent not the special ceremonies of conventional religion but a life wherein mankind lives for the sake of true love.

The founder’s task of deconstructing religion through the Family Federation can be more deeply understood through the ultimate truth, which the founder discovered within himself, declared to the world, and had to realize. This ultimate truth was the conclusion of the entire system of beliefs that the founder had realized and had taught, and the ultimate dream of God the Absolute Being, as understood by the founder.

In conclusion, the founder clearly established the ultimate truth he was aiming to teach through The 8 Great Textbooks and Teachings throughout the Age of Religion and the Age of trans-religion. It can be summarized as following:

1) “The reality of the relationship between God and mankind is of parent and child,

2) we should create an Ideal Family that attends God as parent, and live a life of true love that lives for the sake of others,

3) we should realize God’s wish of perfecting the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, the realization of ‘One Family Under God’.[42]

This truth was something that the founder wanted to share to all of humanity, even before he found out the truth. This can be said to be the way for human values and humans to exist, as well as the final method and conclusion by which the ultimate goals and ideals of religion would be realized.[43]

(2) Proclamation of the belief system: The 8 Great Textbooks and Teachings and the ultimate truth
On February 19, 2010, the founder officially declared The Divine Principle,[44] 615 volumes of The Sermons of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon[45], Cheon Seong Gyeong,[46] Family Pledge,[47] Peace Messages,[48] True Family — Gateway to Heaven,[49] Owner of Peace and Owner of Lineage,[50] and World Scriptures and the Teachings of Sun Myung Moon[51] as The 8 Great Textbooks and Teachings of the Unification Movement. Here, Textbooks are the fundamental ingredient of heavenly and earthly teachings, which are aimed at restoring humanity to the original lives they were created to live, to reform them and educate them in order to complete the goal of creation.

It is noteworthy that the founder proclaimed that The 8 Great Textbooks and Teachings, a complete collection of the belief system of the Unification Movement, were the last words of the founder. The founder stated that The 8 Great Textbooks and Teachings were the official scriptures of all of his teachings, and that they contained the heavenly way to salvation, instructing followers to study and follow them.[52] With the founder proclaiming that he had nothing more to teach, and that nobody was to revise The 8 Great Textbooks and Teachings,[53] he was concerned that the Unification Movement would become divided.[54]

The founder clearly established the ultimate truth he was aiming to teach through The 8 Great Textbooks and Teachings throughout the Religious Age and the Age of trans-religion. It can be summarized as “the fact that God and mankind have a father and son relationship, and true love, that is, to live a life of caring.” This truth was something that the founder realized and wanted to teach all of humanity, and can be said to be the way for human values and humans to exist, as well as the final method and conclusion by which the ultimate goals and ideals of religion would be realized.[55]

IV. Hak Ja Han who undermined the scriptures of the Unification Movement
Immediately after the death of the Founder on September 3rd, 2012, Hak Ja Han immediately instructed the Editing committee of The Sermons of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon to modify and re-publish The Sermons of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. And many Unification Movement members who came to know about this objected it. However, with the tremendous financial support of Hak Ja Han, many seniors such as Young Hi Kim, Jae Suk Lee, and the Unification Movement theologians of Sun Moon University actively participated in the deconstruction of the scriptures in the indifference of the Unification Movement members. Moreover, few people thought that the purpose of the deconstruction and revision of the scriptures was to erase the identity of the Founder of the Unification Movement and to promote a new religion by deifying Hak Ja Han. The process of deifying Hak Ja Han, which has been carefully pursued before and after the death of the Founder, coincides with the process of degenerating and abandoning the 8 Great Textbooks and Teachings. Understanding this is crucial to understand the motives, directions, and consequences of Hak Ja Han’s attempt to dismantle The 8 Great Textbooks and Teachings of the Unification Movement.

1. Redistributing The Sermons of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon after deleting some sections
Around April of 2012, when the marriage of God and Hak Ja Han was cancelled due to Rev. Moon’s opposition, the conflicts of the True Family were at its peak and these were known to the Unification Movement members, Hak Ja Han visited Sung Hwa Sa, the Unification Movement’s Publishing company, with Hyo Yool Kim, an assistant to the Founder and instructed that ‘private words’ of the Founder should be deleted from volumes of The Sermons of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon except for the ‘official words’, and all 22 volumes (vol. 594-615) should be recalled and reprinted after deleting unnecessary ‘words’ as well. Based on such instructions, it is said that Sung Hwa Sa recalled volumes from 594 to 615 (22 volumes) of The Sermons of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon which had already been distributed, and redistributed them to those who wished to purchase following the instructions of Hak Ja Han and Hyo Yool Kim.[56]

At the time of April 2012, few people correctly understood Hak Ja Han’s intention to touch The Sermons of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Moreover, no one would ever know that the task of deleting the specific content of The Sermons of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon was a preliminary work to erase Rev. Moon’s identity and establish her new identity as The Only Begotten Daughter.

2. Main contents deleted in The Sermons of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon
        

After comparing the original texts with Hak Ja Han’s edited version, results were the following:

- sections where the male and female sexual organs were graphically described and meaningless or irrelevant content were deleted.

-  a great portion where the names of Jeong Hwan Kwak, Hyun Jin Moon, Guk Jin Moon etc. were mentioned were erased whether it made sense in the content or not.

- what is surprising is that the sections based on the identity Founder based on his lineage were deleted.

Approximately five months before the Founder's death, in April 2012, the Unification Movement deleted the subtitle of “the Teacher is not related to the fallen lineage", in the V. 611, page 307 of The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon. And considering the founder’s mention, some people have denied[57] the Founder’s identity based on his lineages, it is certain that the Unification Movement (Unificationism)[58] has begun to distort and erase the Founder's identity based on his lineage from a long time ago. Since the Founder’s Identity based on his lineage is the basic Identity of the Unification Movement, destroying his identity is impossible without the instructions of Hak Ja Han, the founder’s wife.

The Unification Movement, following Hak Ja Han’s instructions, dismantled the 8 Great Textbooks, representing the identity of the Founder and published the Revised Cheon Seong Gyeong, Pyeong Hwa Gyeong and the Cham Bumo Gyeong, what they call the Three Great Scriptures of Chun Il Guk.[59] Shortly after the Founder’s death, Hak Ja Han proclaimed that she was born from the pure sinless lineage as the only begotten daughter, but Rev. Moon was born as a “sinful fallen descendant,” so she saved Rev. Moon’s fallen lineage.

Considering the deconstruction and deleting certain contents of The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the process of the split of the Unification Movement, Hak Ja Han’s new identity as the Only Begotten Daughter, and the publication of the three new scriptures, having retrieved The Sermons of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon and deleted certain content were parts of a big plan elaborated to rule the Unification Movement while deconstructing the Founder’s identity. The words of the Founder protected by the “Speech Editing Committee” up until that point was altered, and violated the Founder’s indications of not infringing the “absoluteness” of those words.[60]

The reason why some of the power within the Unification Movement including Hak Ja Han attempted to lay their hands on The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon which have been the foundation of the doctrines and truth of the Unification Movement can be verified by identifying the deleted sections. Their goal was to deify Hak Ja Han and to control the Unification Movement by going as far as to revise the ‘words’ of the Founder which are the very identity of the Unification Movement itself and deleting founder’s identity of lineage that is the origin of his charisma.

(1) Infringing the 8 Great Textbooks and Teachings
On June 10th, 2013, Seok Beong Kim, the president of the Sunghwa Publishing Company of the Unification Movement, made a progress report at the ceremony of publishing The revised Cheon Seong Gyeong and Pyeong Hwa Gyeong and testified that on August 23rd, 2012, the Compilation Committee to make a new scripture was organized under Hak Ja Han’s direction.[61] Several editing works were made in the following 10 months. Seok Beong Kim added that because the original Cheun Seung Gyeung had many distorted and overlapping paragraphs, Hak Ja Han regretted these points and ordered the compilation of scriptures to be appropriate for the ideals of Cheon Il Guk.[62]

a. Deconstruction of the Cheon Seong Gyeong
According to an official announcement by President Tokuno Eiji of the Unification Movement in Japan, 30 % of the newly published Cheon Seong Gyeong was from the original version as published by the Founder, and the remaining 70 % was from The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon. It is therefore claimed that the Cheon Seong Gyeong published by the Founder was not denied, but in its place, an augmented and revised version was published. However, in reality, among the 16 sections within the Cheon Seong Gyeong, sections 1 to 5 were left intact and the rest have been removed. In Hak Ja Han’s revised version of the Cheon Seong Gyeong, 8 volumes of 14 volumes were newly added sections. When comparing the table of contents from section 1 to 5 of the Founder’s with the modified version of Hak Ja Han’s, we can observe that there are many differences. In the end, the Unification Movement (Unificationism) changed the very words that the Founder himself had read countless times through Hoon Dok Gatherings with the Unification Movement members, each paragraph from the beginning to the end.

b. Dismantling and reediting the Pyeung Wha Shin Gyeung (Peace Message)
Whenever the Founder proclaimed every Peace Message, giving importance to the meanings of these proclamations, he had hundreds of Hoon Dok Gatherings and focused on each paragraph and each letter into creating the Pyeong Hwa Shin Gyeong. He had taught that "Even if there is a duplicate ‘Words’  in each section, it cannot be deleted because the time of proclamation of words and the people attending are different and there is a providential meaning, even one letter cannot be fixed at will and the place reading these 'Words' is a place where even thousands and millions of spirits participate in.”[63]

In conclusion, out of the 17 peace messages of the Pyeong Hwa Shin Gyeong of the founder, only 12 peace messages were included in the Pyeong Hwa Gyeong of Hak Ja Han, and the remaining 5 Peace Messages were extracted and deleted. In the revised, “Spiritual report – God, the Father of Mankind” within the Pyeong Hwa Shin Gyeong has been completely abolished.

c. Changing The Family Pledge
As mentioned earlier, Family Pledge is the doctrinal creed of the Unification Movement, which represents the whole life of the founder and his identity. The founder described the Family Pledge in the Peace Messages as “the most precious and blessed milestone of life that the heavens have given to humanity; a blessing among blessings; a title for humanity that will allow humanity to shed the mask of corrupted religion and rest for thousands, tens of thousands of years in liberation; a blessing given as a necessary tool for the bringing about of heaven on earth and heaven; the highest prayer of prayers, a record of the transmission of the True Father; a law that gives us the teachings of the Completed Testament Age; the age of justification by attendance; and a bridge that links our lives with God, with true love as our bones and the true family as our heart.”[64] He also said that “it is the absolute standard to establish the Kingdom of Peace and Unity in Heaven and on Earth beyond the Completed Testament Age[65] and constitution[66] .”

Hak Ja Han also changed the Family Pledge. She changed ‘God’ in the Family Pledge to ‘Heavenly Parents,’ and changed ‘Age of the Completed Testament’ to ‘Age of Cheon Il Guk.’ The fact that she changed the name of the absolute Deity, God, to ‘Heavenly Parents’ is just like changing a religion’s object of worship. To change the object of worship is something that might happen only when converting to or creating a new religion. Of course, it is not the case that there is no mention of ‘Heavenly Parents’ among the numerous sermons left behind by the Founder, but the name for the Unification Movement’s object of worship was ‘God.’ ‘God’ as the Father is a single entity, and is a term that refers to the attributes of God as father and God as mother. The name “Heavenly Parents” may be mistaken as referring to two entities, heavenly mother and heavenly father, at the same time.

(1) Hak Ja Han’s new identity
There are quite a number of mentions in The Sermons of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon of the founder [67] about the only begotten son as the completed Adam and the only begotten daughter as the completed Eve.[68] The reason why, among these many mentions, the story of the so-called only begotten son and the only begotten daughter did not become an important theological theme of the Unification Movement was because the concept that these terms represented was nothing more and nothing less than a universal human image that all males and females must complete, that is, the completed Adam and Eve. Not only are the concepts of “the only begotten son” and “the only begotten daughter” not expressed in the providence of restoration consisting of eight horizontal steps and eight vertical steps that Adam and Eve must go through,[69] but there is not a single mention of the “only begotten daughter” in The Divine Principle. Another reason for the confusion among the members of the Unification Movement at the sudden appearance of the only begotten daughter theory is, it seems, that the highest state of humankind known to members of the Unification Movement was not that of the only begotten son and the only begotten daughter but that of ‘True Parents’ worthy of the purpose of God’s creation.[70]

Hak Ja Han began speaking of her new identity as the “only begotten daughter.” Starting at the end of 2013, then on April 2014, she mentioned the wife of Jesus being the only begotten daughter, and then in July of that year she referred to herself as the only begotten daughter who had come with the restored lineage from her mother’s womb.[71]

Such perceptions by Hak Ja Han’s indicate that she is falling deeper into her obsession with the only begotten daughter, and that her obsession is expanding into an identity that diverges from the traditions of the founder. Hak Ja Han’s preaching of her own beliefs as religious creed to her believers far surpasses the identity of the founder. The sermons of Hyung Jin Moon revealed the background for Hak Ja Han to be captured within the only begotten daughter as a sub-notion and to downplay the providential value of the true parents.[72]

(2) Hak Ja Han proclaimed Rev. Moon was born with Original Sin
After the death of the Founder, her self-consciousness was transformed from a "perfect mother of the same value as the Founder" based on the theory of God's wife to a "pure innocent the Only Begotten Daughter" and then developed into "the pure Only Begotten Daughter without original sin”. Now she is saying that "Father (Founder) had original sin as a son of fallen parents but the Mother (Hak Ja Han) was born as the Only Begotten Daughter without original sin.” And she proclaimed that the True Mother (Hak Ja Han) had saved the True Father to restore him to the lineage without original sin. It seems that Jin Chun Kim, Hang Je Kim, Taek Yong Oh, Sun Young Moon and Yei Jin Moon, the eldest daughter of the Founder, etc. are concentrating on making a doctrine to rationalize Hak Ja Han as the Only Begotten Daughter without original sin.

On December 25th and December 31st, 2016, Hak Ja Han finally publicly declared her claim of the Only Begotten Daughter which was in conflict with the principle of Unification Movement.

"I am the Only Begotten Daughter who was born with the pure blood and without original sin by switching the lineage from within the womb of 3 generations of only- child Mothers. But True Father was born with original sin. I was born as an only daughter, but True Father has several brothers. If True Father was born without original sin, then Father’s brothers would also have had no original sin. Therefore, True Father was not born without original sin. ” [73] 

''            “True Father who was born with original sin met the Only Begotten Daughter who is without original sin and was born on the earth, and was cleansed of original sin by the Only Begotten Daughter. Therefore, True Father would not have married another woman until he met me!” [74] ''

From early 2016, she had been telling the surrounding executives of the Unification Movement about her claims as the Only Begotten Daughter based on recognizing her lineage without original sin, but that claim had not been disclosed to the entire members of Unification Movement. This is because her argument of the Only Begotten Daughter is different from the doctrine taught by the Founder and the Unification Movement, and if this was revealed, serious opposition from the members of the movement was expected. However, the Unification Movement declared that it was "the time to reveal the truth." Of course, the truth they wanted to say was Hak Ja Han’s claim of the sinless Only Begotten Daughter who saved the Founder of original sin and cleansed him so that he became sinless. According to her assertion, she is a savior.

(1) Publication process
On August 23rd, 2012, The Cham Bumo Gyeong (True Parent’s Holy Scriptures) was considered as one of the 3 main scriptures of Cheon Il Guk by Hak Ja Han and the Scriptures Compilation Committee. The Scriptures Compilation Committee’s intention was the following: “The words are passed down through the Cheon Seong Gyeong, and the True Parent’s life is passed down through the Cham Bumo Gyeong. While the Cheon Seong Gyeong, becomes the principle that contains the religious creed, philosophy as the believer’s educational textbook, the Cham Bumo Gyeong is the principle through which we may lead our life of faith, our way of life, the laws of our church, rituals, holy songs, etc.”[75] However, it turns out that the ultimate purpose of the scriptural revision was to create the Cham Bumo Gyeong and rationalize the doctrine of the Only Begotten Daughter.

(2) The intention to publish the Cham Bumo Gyeon (True Parent’s Holy Scriptures)
The Cham Bumo Gyeong mainly describes the life and achievements of the "True Parents" (of the Founder and Hak Ja Han’s) consisting of 13 chapters in total. On the back of the book, there is a separate booklet to help the readers find the chronology of True Parents' Providential Records. Under the pretext of the “True Parent’s Speeches”, there are exceeding amount of quotations of her speech in comparison to the Revised Cheon Seong Gyeong and the Pyeong Hwa Gyeong.

The main composition of this book is that by deifying Hak Ja Han through deifying the True Parents[76]   this will lead her to become the central figure of the providence of the Unification Movement as God’s wife and the sinless Only Begotten Daughter and finally complete[77] God’s providence. For this purpose, it is evident that the Unification Movement has made a great deal of effort to place True Mother (Hak Ja Han) in a position equal to that of the Founder (True Father) through explaining her biography, starting from her birth.

However, considering the current attitude of Hak Ja Han who denies the Founder’s identity and lineage, and goes a step further from their equality replaces the identity of the Unification Movement centered upon Hak Ja Han’s lineage and identity as the Only Begotten Daughter instead, it must be that the Cham Bumo Gyeong has been thoroughly planned for a long period of time in order for her to rule the Unification Movement.[78] The basis of this judgment is that the division of the Unification Movement including the division of the True Family took place in a “non-principled” and immoral manner, led by Hak Ja Han, with the motives to define her identity as “the sinless Only Begotten Daughter” and, ultimately, deify the Only Begotten Daughter through the Cham Bumo Gyeong.

(3) Plagiarism controversy of the Cham Bumo Gyeong
Though Hak Ja Han went into put her heart into creating the Cham Bumo Gyeong as a gem among the 3 Great Scriptures, an astonishing fact was that in the process of compiling the book, when essential words and teachings to deify the identity of Hak Ja Han were hopelessly lacking in quality and quantity, writings or religious confessions made by other people were described as if it had been from Hak Ja Han herself. The agony which the editor of the Cham Bumo Gyeong went through in order to theologically prove the Only Begotten Daughter and to deify Hak Ja Han is evident in the writings. This is a critical piece of evidence that may raise criticism that Hak Ja Han’s 3 Great Scriptures of the Unification Movement have been “plagiarized.”

Within the Cham Bumo Gyeong, the basis used to back Hak Ja Han’s deification mainly rely on “the mysticism and absolute predestination[79] of Hak Ja Han’s birth, her religious stature as the woman who married the Founder, and the Founder’s acknowledgment of Hak Ja Han’s completion”. Based on the identity and philosophy of the Unification Movement, the value of Hak Ja Han should not be decided through the “references” of the Founder[80] or the magical and mythical events[81] but in her becoming the True Mother of the model family for all of humanity by uniting as an object to the Founder, who is the subject around the true love of God, completing the four-position foundation of the True Family. The notion of deifying Hak Ja Han to mythical proportions seems far removed from the providential objective of the True Parent (the Founder) who wanted to transcend religion as myth and worship and realize an ideal world with the True Family at its heart on Earth here and now. Religious confessions by Soon Ae Hong, mother of Hak Ja Han, were the main source for the mystery behind the birth of Hak Ja Han, and the fact that she used these confessions as the basis for her deification reveals that the identity of Hak Ja Han was limited in the premises of having sectarian characteristics, with these scriptures being considered sectarian.

According to the Preface of the Cham Bumo Gyeong (True Parent’s Holy Scripture)             ''“… In the recently published The Cham Bumo Gyeong, the words of the life of the True Parents realizing the 3 Great Blessings to liberate God are classified into 13 chapters... The vast words are the works the True Parents strived to accomplish as the center of gravity, arranged in three dimensions, vertically and horizontally, front and back, and   compiled in the name of Cham Bumo Gyeong. Cham Bumo Gyeong consists of the True Parents' birth, growth, receiving the calling, the holy marriage, and many of the   milestones of their life, such as the many providential works for the salvation of humanity and the realization of a peaceful world.... Therefore,Tthe Cham Bumo Gyeong can be said to be the final report of the True Parents, recording the blood, sweat, and tears left by the True Parents...”''

Just like The 8 Great Textbooks and Teachings are the founder’s words and teachings recognized by the Unification Movement, in order for the Cham Bumo Gyeong to gain recognition, as the preface states, the whole content of The Cham Bumo Gyeong should be composed by the “words” of the True Parents (the Founder and Hak Ja Han).

In 2013, as Young Hi Kim insisted “If using someone else words instead of True Fathers words is plagiarizing,[82] how does it become plagiarized?,” if there is even a single word in the Cham Bumo Gyeong that is not “True Mother’s words”, and yet it is written under the name of “True Mother’s words,” then it loses its value as a scripture.

In conclusion, it is difficult to avoid criticism that The Cham Bumo Gyeong, which was created as the last scriptures of the Unification Movement by Hak Ja Han, and sold in large quantities, is a false scripture as claimed by Young Hi Kim. The reason for this is that the content Chang Shik Yang published on January 30th, 2009  (and edited by Hak Cheol Go)  titled of True Parent’s Life and the Providence[83] was copied just the way it was, with the exception of replacing just the subject of the sentences, and turning it into the Words of Hak Ja Han.[84]

Conclusion
It is not easy to establish a formal scripture for a new religion with a relatively short history. This is due to the fact that it is relatively not easy to have a doctrinal system worthy of creating scriptures, and even if a new religion has a doctrinal system, it is not easy to have the human resources and materials to describe and produce them. Hundreds of new religions have happened and disappeared, until now only few new religions have decent scriptures. The greatest reason (new) religions put so much effort into creating their scriptures is because they are the source through which a religion can continue. That is to say, the religious identity such as the history of the religion, the mythology, and the doctrinal system included in the scriptures can be handed down and maintained by just only conveying scripture.[85]

The scriptures of the Unification Movement, which is now over sixty years old, is different from the scriptures of other new religions. From the Founder’s The Original Text of the Divine Principle to Hak Ja Han’s the Cham Bumo Gyeong (True Parents Holy Scriptures), the Unification Movement has a vast volume of scriptural systems, both qualitatively and quantitatively, despite its short history. However, the irony is that, contrary to the quantitative and qualitative level of the scriptures of the Unification Movement, the scriptures are causing the controversy over the identity of the Unification Movement. In other words, the change and deconstruction of the scriptures of the Unification Movement is a stumbling block to its success and in maintaining the identity of the Unification Movement. This is confirmed through the phenomenon that Hak Ja Han’s scriptures (the Revised Cheon Seong Gyeong, Pyeong Hwa Gyeong and the Cham Bumo Gyeong), are conflicting with the identity of the Founder of the Unification Movement (especially his lineage) and his scriptures of The 8 Great Textbooks and Teachings.

Through the study of this book, I found the following characteristics in the course of change of the scriptures in the Unification Movement: o  The 8 Great Textbooks and Teachings, including The Original Text of the Divine Principle, the Exposition of the Divine Principle, The Divine Principle are scripture of the Unification Movement the Founder has dedicated to Heaven in order to fulfill the mission to save humankind throughout the course of the Providence of Restoration. These scriptures not only represent the identity of the Founder, but also include all traditions, the identity, the truth, and the history of the Unification Movement. According to the consistent subjects of the scriptures of "Creation→ Fall → Restoration”, the Founder’s scriptures suggest that the Founder is God’s elder son and represents His lineage; he must restore all of humanity to God’s lineage and realize the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, “One Family Under God” through the True Family. In order to realize this, the Founder said that he left the scriptures as a legacy to mankind, God’s will, and strongly instructed not to change the words within them.

o  In April of 2012, when the conflict between the Founder and Hak Ja Han was serious, Hak Ja Han withdrew Vol. 549 to Vol. 615 and re-published them after removing specific parts of the books. The Founder’s words were distorted. Furthermore, when the Founder was in a intensive care unit on August 23rd, 2012, Hak Ja Han launched the Scriptures Compilation Committee for deconstruction of The 8 Great Textbooks and Teaching which the Founder decided as God’s last statement.

o  Despite the situation due to the division of the "True Family" and the Unification Movement were in the swirl just after the Founder’s death, Hak Ja Han and the Unification Movement attempted to deconstruct the Founder’s Scriptures. They published the scriptures of the Revised Cheon Seong Gyeong, Pyeong Hwa Gyeong and Cham Bumo Gyeong, under the name “The 3 Great Scriptures of Cheon Il Guk”.

o  The Scriptures Compilation Committee’s reason to modify the scripture (the Founder’s Original Cheon Seong Gyeong) is as follows: First, in order to update the teachings of the Founder after 2003. Second, in order to make it easy for anyone to find the word of the Founder like the Bible. Third, because the Founder said that if there is something wrong in the scripture, correct it. However, even though the committee claimed that the revision of the scriptures was to be carried out in the succession of the Unification Movement’s tradition, they have purposely excluded the "True Family and True Children” (direct family members of the Founder) in all the content regarding the inheritance of the tradition.

o  The deconstructing of the Founder’s scriptures began under the instructions of Hak Ja Han, regardless of the tradition of the Unification Movement or the will of the members of the Unification Movement, without the Founder’s consent. Following Teak Yong Oh and Hyung Jin Moon’s theory that Hak Ja Han is God’s Wife, Young Hi Kim, the chairman of the Compilation Committee, insisted that since the Founder and Hak Ja Han are one, Hak Ja Han’s instructions to reform the scriptures is the same as the Founder’s instructions.

o  The 8 Great Textbooks and Teachings were modified and some sections removed. The root of the Unification Movement’s Identity was replaced with Hak Ja Han’s scriptures. In the end, Hak Ja Han’s Cham Bumo Gyeong was created to provide the theological basis to deify her identity. This process is leading to the surge of another new religious movement centered on Hak Ja Han’s identity as the Only Begotten Daughter, based on her sinless lineage.

Changes in religious identity, including doctrines and scriptures, are natural phenomena in the development and evolution of a religion. It is natural that a religion adapts to the changing environment in order to seek a better state, just like any organism. However, if changing religious identities differently from religious traditions without sufficient rationalization processes and studies, religion necessarily declines and is more difficult to perpetuate. In the end, the religion becomes fragmented and sectarian.

In this aspect, four years after the death of the Founder of the Unification Movement, all the movements of the Unification Movement went into a crisis. This is a crisis in which the identity of the "True Father" (the Founder), the root of the identity of the Unification Movement, is denied by the identity of the "True Mother" (Hak Ja Han) causing contradictions. The contradictions and divisions between True Father's identity and True Mother's identity mean the breakdown and destruction of the identity of the Unification Movement.

It is a very unusual phenomenon to me, as a researcher of new religion who is mainly studying with the method of participant observation, that the Unification Movement was divided very quickly before and after the death of the Founder and the scriptures of the Founder were abolished so easily by the founder’s wife, Hak Ha Han.

It is certain that under Hak Ja Han’s directions, some Unification Movement’s theologians such as Jin Chun Kim etc. have been developing the theory of “the Only Begotten Daughter” and deleting the identity of the Founder and some professional leaders of Unification Movement are wondering how to teach the Hak Ja Han’s new identity to the members of Unification Movement. However, a small group of Blessed Family community members have criticized Hak Ja Han’s attempts and raised their voices of religious conscience to revitalize the Unification Movement. As I’ve mentioned in my book, "The Split of the Unification Movement," I will continue to watch what the community of Blessed Families who are experiencing the chaos and divisions will do to revitalize their movement.

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---, Testimony Volume 2, (Seoul, Sunghwasa, 1984)

---, Testimony Volume 3, (Seoul, Sunghwasa, 1986)

---, Testimony Volume 4, (Seoul, Sunghwasa, 1983)

Jeong Ok Yoo, The Theory of The Original Substance of the Divine Principle, (Seoul, Hyunmun Media, 2012)

Jae Seok Lee, Searching for the Way of Peace: Religion and Culture, (Seoul, Korean Study material Resource House, 2008)

---, Searching for the Way of Love: Spirituality and Humanity, (Seoul, Korean Study material Resource House, 2008)

---, Searching for the Way of Religion, (Seoul, Korean Study material Resource House, 2008)

---, Brilliant New Morning, (Seoul, Korean Study material Resource House, 2011)

---, Theory of Faith, (Seoul, Korean Study material Resource House, 2011)

Jin Chun Kim, Unification Principle Part 1, (Asan, Sunmoon university, 2001)

Jong Suk Kim, A Case Study, The belief of Eternal Life in Korea, (Cheun An, Aune, 2009). Japanese version was published and English Version will be published.

---, The Split of the Unification Movement, (Cheun An, Aune, 2016)

---, A Study of the Canonization the Unification Movement, (Cheun An, Aune, 2016)

Jung Hyeun Choi, Study of the History of Korean Messianic Movement, V. 1, (Seoul, Thinking people, 1999)

---, Study of the History of Korean Messianic Movement, V. 2, (Seoul, Thinking people, 2009)

Michael Barkun, Disaster and the Millennium, (Syracuse University Press, 1986)

Melton. J. G., Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America, (N.Y., Garland Publishing Inc. 1986)

Sun Myung Moon, The Original Text of the Divine Principle (nonpublished), 1952.

Traditional Culture Study Group, The World Religion from the Viewpoint of the Scripture, (Seoul, Traditional Culture Study Group, 2001)

Unificationism, the Peace Message and the spirit world report, (Seoul, Seonghwasa, 2009)

---, Life Course of the True Mother, (Seoul, Seonghwasa, 2012)

---, Life Course of the True Mother, (Seoul, Seonghwasa, 2012)

World Scriptures Compilation Committee, World Scriptures, (Seoul, International Religious Foundation Publishing House, 1994)

Unification Thought Institute. Overview of Unification Thought, (Du Ik Thought) (Seoul, Seonghwasa, 1994)

---, Chronological Table of Unification Movement History, (Seoul, Korea Institute for Unification       Publishing Division, 1994)

Won Pil Kim’s manuscript, The Original Text of the Divine Principle, (Unpublished book)

Young Woon Kim. The Divine Principle, HSA-UWC, 1956.

Young Gwan Park, Criticism of Heresies, (Seoul, Christian Literature Crusade, 1994)

Materials on the Internet Sites

State of Hyeun Sil Kang Dec. 21. 2016  https://youtu.be/d3RY2au75P8.

http://yuun0726.muragon.com/entry/222.hTrue Motherl.

https://youtu.be/TEmxS6PedMM.;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF-2cMi7CGw.

http://café.daum.net/W-CARPKorea/cSkJ/29041.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh-gwvR-U28. Heavenly blessing event. January 24, 2012.

http://shimpankaihiproject.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-2.html.

http://cafe.daum.net/W-CARPKorea/cSkJ/21262.

http://www.ipeacetv.com/vod/vod_view.asp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MljXewZmlgc.

https://youtu.be/mlSvfTweAz4?list=PLj0jrHZaBUoLALU7fNdJUl156pwD4d7Gt.

Study Papers & reports

Family Federation for the World Peace and Unification, “Right Understanding of Cheon Seong Gyeong enlarged edition and Providence Value,” July 8, 2013.

Hak Ja Han’s teachings, Sep.30, 2012.; Aug. 15, 2013.; June 14, 2014.; 2014.7.1.; 2014.9.12.; 2016.2.24.; 2016.12.25.; 2016.12.30.

Jin Chun Kim, “The only begotten Son and daughter of True Parents,” the symposium of the founding of HJ Academy, Feb. 7, 2017.

---, “A study on unified structuring of Peace message, Cheun Seung Gyeung, Divine Principle,” Cheungsim collection of treatises, vol. 4, 2009.

Jin Wan Jung, “A General Study on The Original Text of the Divine Principle,” Sunmoon University 2001 Master’s thesis.

Jae Seok Lee, "Supervision Guidance of Redaction Version of Cheon Seong Gyeung", December 29, 2012.

Jong Seong Lee, “The Divine Principle of the Unification Movement, The truth and false- From a pedagogical standpoint,” Theology Thought, Vol. 10, 1975.

Seung Yong Yoon, "Introduction to the scripture of the New Religion," Research on New Religions, vol. 16, 2007.

Ye Jin Moon, “Need to Recover Gender Balance,” the symposium of the founding of the Unification Academy, Aug. 22, 2016.

Wallace, A., “Revitalization Movements,” American Anthropologist, 58, 1956. [1] State of Hyeun Sil Kang Dec. 21. 2016 “By the way, one day I heard a word like a bolt from the blue. True Mother Said, ” I was born without original sin from the womb through 3 generations of clear lineage but True Father was born with original sin.” I tried to understand it, but I could not understand it. I struggled in pain a few days and a few days. My conscience cannot accept it." https://youtu.be/d3RY2au75P8.

[2] According to some of the attendees, there were Won Ju Jung, the chief of the secretary room, Seong Il Jo, Young Ho Yoon, Joon Ho Seok, Gi Seong Lee, Kyeung Soek Yoo, Young Seok Song, Jeun Su Yang, Seong Bae Jin, Jin Chun Kim.

[3] Korean Unification Church, “Statement of Complaint against Hyun Sil Kang,” Dec. 29, 2016.

[4] http://yuun0726.muragon.com/entry/222.hTrue Mother.

[5] After hearing True Mother’s remarks, some members of the small-scale blessed family communities started voluntarily began to openly rebel. https://youtu.be/TEmxS6PedMM .; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF-2cMi7CGw. These attempts are likely to occur more  systematically and on a larger scale in the future.

[6] In The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the founder does not say that Hak Ja Han denied his lineage. However, through the preaching (July 1. 2014, March 15, 2015) of Hyung Jin Moon and the fact that there can be only one person who can refer to the founder’s origin sin was Hak Ja Han.

[7] Jin Chun Kim, “The only begotten Son and daughter of True Parents,” Feb. 7, 2017.

[8] Hak Ja Han’s teachings, Sep.30, 2012.; Aug. 15, 2013.; June 14, 2014.; 2014.7.1.; 2014.9.12.; 2016.2.24.; 2016.12.25.; 2016.12.30.

[9] Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, (Revised) Cheon Seong Gyeong (Seoul, Seonghwa Publishing, 2013). In this thesis, I express The Revised Cheon Seong Gyeong made by Hak Ja Han and The Original Cheon Seong Gyeong made by the founder to distinguish two kinds of The Cheon Seong Gyeong.

[10] Ye Jin Moon, “Need to Recover Gender Balance,” Aug. 22, 2016. p.62-63. In her paper, it is noticeable that she who was born as an eldest daughter in the founder's home speaks her experience of gender inequality at home. “As the first child of Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han, the issues of Heavenly Mother and woman's equality are truly critical and personal to me. Throughout my life in the movement I was often discouraged and dissatisfied because God was taught only in the limited way as a male God, and as a woman it was difficult for me to identify with such a God. It was in a sense understandable since the culture in the early days of the Unification movement in Korea was heavily influenced by not only a male-centered Christian culture but also the old Korean culture that was very male chauvinistic owing to Confucian teachings that human relationships, between man and woman in particular, are inherently unequal. This is despite the fact that both Christianity and Confucianism made great contributions to humankind. … I am truly saddened by the ideological confusion of some people in the movement, including some of my own siblings, who are gravely misguided, unwilling to let go of past patriarchal culture that does not recognize gender equality in Divinity as well as in humanity, and outright dismissing True Mother’s current leadership. Such actions are contrary to True Father’s own wishes as well.”

[11] Jin Chun Kim, “The only begotten Son and daughter of True Parents,” Dec. 7, 2017. pp.244-256.

[12] The Sermons of  Reverend Sun Myung Moon, vol. 134, p.145 Jan. 13, 1985.

[13] Footprint of the Unification Movement, p.20.; The history of Unification Movement, vol. 1, p.13.

[14] Ibid., p.35.

[15] Ibid., p.24-25.

[16] Ibid., p.24.

[17] The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, vol. 19, p.262.; vol. 23, p.282.; vol. 50, p.207.; vol. 165, p.19.

[18] Ibid., vol. 50, p.207.

[19] Some argue that The Divine Principle plagiarized Baek Moon Kim's Christian Fundamental Principles (Seoul: Donga Publishing Company, 1958.) because of the relationship between the founder of Unification Movement and Baek Moon Kim. Park Young-gwan, Criticism of HeresiesⅠ, (Seoul: Christian Literature Crusade, 1994), p.265.; However, it can be understood that there is no ground for plagiarism through the fact that  The Original Text of the Divine Principle was completed on May 10, 1952, and Baek Moon Kim's first book, Holy Theology (Seoul: Pyeongmunsa, 1954.) was published in 1954. Divine Principle(1966) was originated from Exposition of the Divine Principle(1957) and Exposition of the Divine Principle(1957) was originated from The Original Text of the Divine Principle. Jong Seong Lee, the former dean of Presbyterian Theological University, claimed in his paper that Divine Principle and Baek Moon Kim are different in terms of the orthodox doctrine and theological structure of Christianity. Jong Seong Lee, “The Divine Principle of the Unification Movement, The truth and false- From a pedagogical standpoint,” Theology Thought, vol. 10, Issue 3, 1975. pp.479-529.

[20] The History of Unification Movement 1, 1978, p.40.

[21] Interview of Won Pil Kim, Aug. 13, 1998. The reason why it was called “Account book” is that the founder’s teachings were written in an account book. At that time, paper was precious in Korea.

[22] The Journal of History, vol. 157, Dec. 1999. p.83.

[23] As the cause of corruption were immoral sexual acts that God the Absolute Being did not permit, and the resulting tarnishing of lineage, the lineage restoration ritual is about implementing a process of restoration that follows the reverse order. In other words, the blessing ceremonies of the Unification Movement involve becoming engaged to a partner designated by the founder as proxy of the absolute being, and having one’s lineage restored, or born again, through the founder, who has already been restored to the lineage of the absolute being.

[24] The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, V. 34, p.266.: Unification Thought Institute. Overview of the Unification Thought (Du Ik Thought) (Seoul: Seonghwa Publishing, 1994), p.130.

[25] Testimony Volume 3, p.58. “He wrote the principles with a pen on a note of about 100 pages. And his family members copied it and carried it like a scripture, and he borrowed a principle note from any family member and read it hard and wrote it down.”; According to Dr. Jin Wan Jung, the manuscript includes a mother copy that directly transcribed The Original Text of the Divine Principle and a son copy that transcribed the mother copy again. “Hyun Sil Kang’s transcript,” “Won Pil Kim transcript” and “Hyo Won Yoo transcript” belong to the mother copy and the “Su Won Jeoung’s transcript” can be called the son copy and the transcripts obtained by oral tradition are “Yeo Han Lee’s transcript,” Han Chae Hwang’s transcript,“ ”Chan Kyun Kim’s transcript,“ and Soo Kyung Lee’s transcript,” Jin Wan Jung, p.116.

[26] Contents of The Exposition of the Divine Principle: Introduction, The first part, Ⅰ. The Principle of Creation, Ⅱ. The purpose of Messiah’s Coming and the Necessity of the second Advent, Ⅲ. The Consummation of Human History, Ⅳ. Resurrection, Ⅴ. The Fall of Man, Ⅵ. Predestination viewed from providence of restoration, Ⅶ John the Baptist who came again as Elijah and second advent of Jesus, Ⅷ. Christology, latter part, The Providential Course of Indemnity and Restoration based on Number Forty, Introduction, Ⅰ. The age of Dispensation of Restoration, Ⅱ. The age of providence of restoration(2000 years), Ⅲ. The age of providence of restoration extension (2000 years after Jesus), Ⅳ. The age of providence of restoration completion (1920-).

[27] The Exposition of the Divine Principle, p.3.

[28] Ibid., p.15.

[29] Ibid., pp.221-222.

[30] Ibid., p.196.

[31] Jin Chun Kim, “The only begotten Son and daughter of True Parents,” Feb. 7, 2017.

[32] Testimony, vol.1, p.197. “The Exposition of the Divine Principle was written so that the sentence felt spiritual rather than logical. After publishing The Exposition of the Divine Principle, many flaws were noticeable. Rev. Moon presented only the plot of the principle, but The Exposition of the Divine Principle which was made by compiling it quickly was not very good, and I wanted to touch it. Eventually, The Exposition of the Divine Principle has been used until the 1950s and was completed in the 1960s.”

[33] The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, vol. 214, p.81. Jen. 1, 1991. “Why? A man of the world cannot be a savior without being a champion who has won everything of a woman. The man who was not able to save a woman was Adam, because the man who came as Adam's perfection must be a man who can free such a woman who is falling. The place where she has fallen beyond the servant's servant, so she must go to a higher position to save it. There is no such thing in principle books, right?”

[34] Ibid., vol. 218, p.142. July 14, 1991. “Three generations of grandmother, mother, and daughter should be together and stand in the same position of serving the Second Advent Jesus Christ. The principle is like that. It is not in principle books. Three generations become one, centered on the problem of love, and grandmother and husband, what? Like his son ... . You must allow this. The mother must treat her husband like her son. If the three generations of family have backward thinking, they cannot stand before God. Three generations must be one.”

[35] Ibid., vol. 157 p.284. April 10, 1967. “Our principles say until the time of Jesus. Right? This time of Rev. Moon is the time of indemnity and restoration. But his indemnity and restoration is not contained, right? Yes」 My mission is to fulfill the conditions of indemnity and restoration in the field of completion, Hyo Won Yoo’s mission is to teach the truth of long term completion. That's why I do not show up.”

[36] Ibid., vol. 281 p.87. Jan 2, 1997. “In the Principle Words, there is no content in the Word of the Completed Testament Age. There is only the completion of second Israeli edition. There is no Completed Testament content of the third Israel. Rev. Moon’s words are contained not in The Divine Principle. They are now in the Unification Movement, saying they are senior, but they do not know all the contents of the Third Israel Completed Testament Age.”

[37] Ibid., vol. 472, p.318. Oct. 10, 2004. “For this content, there is no answer in this principle. It is not in the principle. That is why conscience is ahead of True Parents, ahead of True Teachers and ahead of True King. Why? Because the object that can fulfill God's love starts from conscience.”

[38] The Institute of Unification Thought, Chronological Table of Unification Movement History (Seoul, Korea Institute for Unification Publishing Division, 1994), p.44.

[39] The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, vol. 356, p.202.; vol. 266, p.256.; vol. 167, p.99.; vol. 260, p.129.; vol. 267, p.261.; vol. 233, p.183.; vol. 447, p.139.; vol. 220, p.221.; vol. 257, p.116.; vol. 95, p.86.; vol. 337, p.66.; vol. 393, p.87.; vol. 265, p.117; vol. 302, p.291.

[40] Ibid., vol. 266, p.255.; vol. 348, p.52.; vol. 116, p.224.; vol. 353, pp.182-183.; vol. 353, pp.448-105.; vol. 346, p.117.; vol. 417, p.171.; vol. 260, p.120.; vol. 260, p.162; vol. 423, p.338.

[41] There are various theories on the causes for the rise of new religions. The first is spiritual revival in contemporary society. The explanation is, in the contemporary age, full of scientific and rational modes of reasoning; contemporary society the discouraged desires of secular society manifest in the form of religion that is blessing-oriented or has a sorcery aspect. , p.141.; Also, alongside the theory of routinization of charisma established by Weber (M. Weber), there are claims that with all human religions, it becomes difficult after some time has passed to maintain their original strength, requiring revitalization. Wallace, A., “Revitalization Movements.” American Anthropologist, 58, 1956, pp.264-281.; A second claimed cause of the occurrence of new religion is the phenomenon of social anomie. Melton. J. G., Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America (N.Y.: Garland Publishing Inc. 1986), pp.7-8.; Also, scholars such as Michael Barkun claim that new religions arise in disaster situations such as the failure of the Donghak Movement to overcome foreign forces, the various adverse effects that occurred in the course of Catholic evangelization, and the wariness of the public against such, especially the severe poverty and national crises that most of the people had to suffer. Barkun defines disaster as “a severe, relatively sudden, and frequently unexpected disruption of normal structural arrangements within a social system, or subsystem, resulting from a force, ‘natural’ or ‘social,’ ‘internal’ to system or ‘external’ to it, over which the system has no firm ‘control.’” Michael Barkun, Disaster and the Millennium, Syracuse University Press, 1986, .51.

[42] Pyeung Wha Shin Gyeung, p.196.

[43] “The conclusion of Unification principle is to reveal to the world that God is the parent of humanity, and is the master of all things of the heavens and the Earth.” The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, vol. 493, p.123.; “The ultimate truth and the original value that humanity must reach is the fact that the relationship between God and mankind is one of parent and child.” Ibid., vol. 53, p.286.; “Religion teaches us that we should live for the sake of others.” Ibid., vol. 78, p.117.; “The conclusion is that we should live for the sake of others.” Ibid., vol. 112, p.301.; “The essence of the teachings of Reverend Moon are that we should sacrifice and live for something bigger.”; (Original) Cheon Seong Gyeong, p.2056.

[44] Under instructions from the founder, and his supervision, Association president Hyo Won Yoo fully revised and improved on the Divine Principle and organized it into a system of lectures on May 1, 1966. The first edition of The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity’s The Divine Principle (Seoul: Seonghwasa, 1994) was published, and acted as the representative doctrine of the Unification Movement.

[45] According to the preface to the first volume of The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, it was published with the purpose of “Publishing the words (of the founder) in their entirety, from the start.” On October 14, 1982, Seonghwasa published volumes 2 to 4 of The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon first, and, 30 years after the publishing of volume 1, on January 20, 2012, volume 615 was published. Volumes 1 through 615 contain the sermons of the founder from April 8, 1956, to September 16, 2009. However, it is said that, around April 2012, just before the death of the founder, all copies of volumes 594 through 615 sold to readers were recalled, and a considerable amount of their content was deleted, after which the volumes were re-edited and published again. The Council of Blessed Families to Safeguard the Cheon Seong Gyeong of the Founder. “Problems Relating to the Establishing the Scriptures of the Cheon Il Guk With Disregard for the Founder’s “The 8 Great Textbooks and Teachings” (Unpublished).

[46] On July 17, 2003, in Japan, the founder organized 16 volumes of “Sermons by Theme” for the publishing of “Holy Foundations” into the Cheon Seong Gyeong. The founder mentioned that, with the Cheon Seong Gyeong, which is the standard for teachings, there would be no sect disputes in the Unification Movement. The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, vol. 493, p.63.

[47] On May 1, 1994, launching the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, the founder announced the “Family Pledge,” which succeeded “My Pledge,” which was the creed of the Unification Movement in the Religious Age, and stressed a life of practice transcending religion with the family at the center. After this, a few passages were added, completing the 8-paragraph “Family Pledge” on April 18, 2004.

[48] Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, Peace Messages (Seoul: Seonghwa Publishing Company, 2009). Peace Messages finalized on January 26, 2008, was a further condensed version of the Cheon Seong Gyeong, which was a condensed version of the founder’s The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

[49] The original title of the book was The True Family – Road to Heaven, but the final title reported to the founder on February 28, 2009, was True Family – Gateway to Heaven.

[50] The founder specifically said that this book would be his final testament (or will), and that it would be the textbook that establishes the traditions of the Unification Movement after the death of the founder.

[51] On August 27, 1991, the Rally for United Religions was held at the Little Angels Art Center in Seoul, with more than 120 religious leaders from 34 countries and more than 2,000 esteemed guests in attendance. In accordance with the intent of this event, the English version of World Scripture and the Teachings of Sun Myung Moon in which the scriptures of key world religions could be compared was published on August 15, 1991, after 5 years of research. The Korean version was published in 1995.

[52] “Everyone! The True Parents have already left humankind their last words. The True Parents have prepared these last words, emerging victorious after a life that imprisoned them six or seven life-threatening times in the span of a single life. Eight texts have been left behind as the eternal textbooks for humanity. In terms of volume, they exceed some 1,000 volumes. The 8 Great textbooks and Teachings are: The Divine Principle, 615 volumes of The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, Cheon Seong Gyeong, Family Pledge, Peace Messages, True Family — Gateway to Heaven, Owner of Peace and Owner of Lineage, and World Scriptures. These texts are books that you must read and study even when you enter the spiritual world. These are in no way words or teachings that come from a human brain. This is because these are textbooks and texts given to us by Heaven to teach us the heavenly way to save poor humanity.” Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, Peace Messages (Seoul: Seonghwa Publishing Company, 2009). p.196

[53] The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, vol. 601, p.286

[54] “The reason why the teacher taught the Cheon Seong Gyeong was to teach sons and daughters who could enter the kingdom of heaven, and not to sell it. It’s a textbook, a textbook. Do you understand? ‘Yes.’ Alright. So how unified are you here, in terms of percentage? In reading sessions, the teacher would correct anyone who was wrong by even a single syllable. By leaving nothing unchecked, the Unification Movement would never have sects.” The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, vol. 464, p.280

[55] “The conclusion of Unification principle is to reveal to the world that God is the parent of humanity, and is the master of all things of the heavens and the Earth.” Ibid., vol. 493, p.123.; “The ultimate truth and the original value that humanity must reach is the fact that the relationship between God and mankind is one of parent and child.” Ibid, vol. 53, p.286.; “Religion teaches us that we should live for the sake of others.” Ibid., vol. 78, p.117.; “The conclusion is that we should live for the sake of others.” Ibid, vol. 112, p.301.; “The essence of the teachings of Reverend Moon are that we should sacrifice and live for something bigger.”; (Original) Cheon Seong Gyeong, p.2056.;

[56] May 2013. Testimony of a former employee of Sung Hwa Sa.

[57] The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, vol. 608, p.276. Feb. 27, 2009.; vol. 608, p.303. Feb. 28, 2009.

[58] At that time, the president of the Unificationism was Hyung Jin Sean Moon.

[59] Chun Il Guk is the ideal nation or ideal world that the founder wanted to realize in his life.

[60] The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, vol. 415, p.180. Aug. 14, 2003.; vol. 601, p.255. Nov. 8, 2008.

[61] Jae Seok Lee, "Supervision Guidance of Redaction Version of the Cheon Seong Gyeung", December 29, 2012.

[62] Publication ceremony of the Cheun Seung Gyeung & Pyeung Wha Gyeung, June 10, 2013.

[63] The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, vol. 393, p. 77. Aug. 29, 2002.

[64] Ibid., vol. 565, p.304. June 13, 2007.

[65] Ibid., p.303.

[66] Ibid., vol. 477, p.187. November 26, 2004.

[67] Only begotten son is a theological term of Christianity referring to Jesus Christ. It is mentioned in passages such as “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)” or “This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. (John 4:9)”.

[68] A comprehensive analysis of the meaning of the “only begotten son” and the “only begotten daughter,” which appear in many places such as The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon vol. 41, p.310; vol. 23, p.163, May 18, 1969; vol. 185, p.187, January 8, 1989; vol. 115, p.133, November 8, 1981; vol. 231, p.21. May 31, 1992.; vol. 34, p.342. September 20, 1970. vol. 23, p.149. May 18, 1969.; vol. 115, p.133, November 8, 1981.; vol. 23, p.176, May 18, 1969.; vol. 135, p.124, October 4, 1985.; vol. 143, p.25, March 15, 1986.; vol. 159, p.198, May 12, 1969.; vol. 79, p.188, July 27, 1975.; vol. 58, p.218, June 11, 1972.; vol. 41, p.200, February 15, 1971.; vol. 94, p.41, June 26, 1977.; vol. 94, p.49, June 26, 1977, “Only begotten son and only begotten daughter” refer to the completed Adam and Eve who are capable of receiving the love of God in its entirety. The founder explains that by the only begotten son coming first and choosing an only begotten daughter to have her carry out the responsibility that Eve was unable to, the only begotten son and only begotten daughter must become the true father and true mother, respectively, to create the true family which is the blueprint for God’s true family. It can be said that the concepts of only begotten son and only begotten daughter refer to man and woman in their restored and completed state, that is, the completed male and female states that all males and females of humanity must attain in the process of restoration. According to the words of the founder, the first only begotten son is the completed Adam, the second only begotten son is Jesus Christ, and the third only begotten son is the lord of the second advent (founder), but all of humanity needs to attain completion and become only begotten sons and only begotten daughters, following in the example of the lord of the second advent.

[69] “Are your bodies completely liberated from the rule of Satan and joined as one with God? Unless you completely deny yourself, you cannot beat Satan. This is why you must have hardship. For three and a half years, you must work your way up from the position of beggar, of the servant of servants. Vertically, it is eight steps: servant of servants to the servant, adopted child, child by a concubine, child of direct lineage, mother, father, and God. Then there are the eight horizontal steps from individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world and heaven and Earth. That gives eight vertical steps and eight horizontal steps. This is the principle. This is not the word of the teacher.” The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, vol. 189, p.141. April 1, 1989.

[70] The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon vol. 23, p.148, p, 164; vol. 34, p.342; vol. y79, p.189; vol. 103, p.17, p.19; vol. 135, p.125; vol. 136, p.168; vol. 143, pp.24-25; vol. 159, p.186, pp.189-190; vol. 160, p.272; vol. 185, pp.186-187; vol. 203, p.282; vol. 231, p.21; vol. 252, p.125; vol. 342, pp.234-235.

[71] Hak Ja Han’s teaching, August 15, 2013.; June 14, 2014.; July 1, 2014.; September 12, 2014.

[72] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MljXewZmIgc .; http://cafe.daum.net/W-CARPKorea/cSkJ/31193 .; http://cafe.daum.net/W-CARPKorea/cSkJ/31242 .; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeLdfsmWo1o .; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz3j5-L7G0U .;  https://youtu.be/-3CDWvjIiYg .; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol1PmfXpZuM .; https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzraSWvk4rP34fD7CSOOHdw.

[73] December 25, 2016. “Hak Ja Han’s remarks at the '17 people’s meeting for Countermeasure of Hyeun Sil Kang” at Cheun Jung Palace

[74] Hak Ja Han’s teaching, December 30, 2016. “430 family elder women meeting.” On this day, the attendees heard the Hak Ja Han’s teachings and said that they understood that "the main figure of providence of restoration is not the True Father as the Second Advent Jesus Christ, but True Mother(Hak Ja Han) and the sinless only begotten daughter, (Hak Ja Han) saved the True Father’s original sin.”; Feb. 6. 2017, Professor Byeng Whan Choi’s testimony who heard this story from professor Sung Bae Jin who was at this meeting.

[75] Jae Seuk Lee, “The guidance of redaction The Cheun Seung Gyeung,” p.7.

[76] Ibid., p.21-22.

[77] Ibid., Chapter 13, "Completion of Providence and the Establishment of Cheun Il Guk."

[78] Ibid., p.36.

[79] Ibid.,, pp.133-148.

[80] “From this Soon Ae Hong to the current mother, that is three generations of only daughters. Mother’s lineage has been preparing for three generations to receive the lord of the second advent. Which other women in the world have toiled over three generations? It is because they knew of this something that they chose mother. It is no easy thing to serve for three generations or more. This is why mother was chosen and established.” The Sermons of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, vol. 236, p.109. November 3, 1992.

[81] “Hak Ja Han’s name was decided through a vision of Seung Wun Han.” The Life and Providence of the True Parents 2, p.44; “Satan threatened the birth of Hak Ja.” Ibid., p.45; Religious confession by Soon Ae Hong that Ho Bin Heo’s mother saw Hak Ja Han and said that she would become the heavenly bride. Ibid., p.46; A comment by Hak Ja Han that she saw her grandmother at a young age wearing a white traditional jacket give her a blessing by revelation of the heavens. Ibid., p.47; Comment by Soon Ae Hong that a strange man came visiting on Jeju Island saying that “This one is holy on Earth and in the heavens. She has come into this world with two great missions. However, she will become great only if she succeeds the right way. If she does not, she will become a traitor when she goes out into the world.” Ibid., pp.54-55.

[82] Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, "Right Understanding and Providing Value of the Reviced Cheon Seong Gyeong," 2013.7.8.

[83] The Life and Providence of the True Parents 2, (Seoul: Seonghwa Publishing, 2009).

[84] The content of The Life and Providence of the True Parents published by Chang Sik Yang on January 30, 2009, (edited by Hak Cheol Go) was copied almost exactly, replacing just the subject, and was turned into Words of the True Mother. “When I grew up, I was different from normal babies. Before I was a year old, I walked and even spoke. I spoke fluently also. So my grandmother on my mother’s side is said to have said, ‘This child is rather different.’ I was that smart and not lacking in any manner.” Cham Bumo Gyeong, p.183, Section 1. => “When mother grew up, she was different from normal babies. Before she was a year old, she walked and even spoke. She spoke fluently also. So her mother is said to have said, ‘This lady is rather different.’ She was that smart and not lacking in any manner.” History Publication Committee, The Life and Providence of the True Parents, p.57.; While children normally cry when they are born, they say I didn’t cry but went, “La la la la!” At this, they say, my grandmother Won Mo Jo said, “I guess this child is going to become a musician when he grows up.” The Cham Bumo Gyeong, p.133, Section 2. => “The Dae Mo Nim remembered that “While children normally cry when they are born, they say the mother did not cry but went, ‘La la la la!’ at which grandma is said to have said, ‘I guess this lady is going to become a musician when she grows up.’” The Life and Providence of the True Parents 2, p.57.

[85] Seung Yong Yoon, "Introduction to the scripture of the New Religion," Research on New Religions, vol. 16, 2007. p.13.