The World Peace Blessing

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1. The Meaning of the Blessing

1) The Three Great Blessings

“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”

Genesis 1: 28

Be fruitful To grow to maturity as an individual

MultiplyMarry, have children and raise a loving family

Take dominion over the creationExercise a loving stewardship over the material world

(a) The Pair System and Give and Take Action

ObjectSubject

giving receiving

receiving giving

Forces for existence, development and reproduction.

Mind

Husband

Elder

Parent

Teacher

Leader

Body

Wife

Younger

Child

Student

Follower

The subject and object each exist for the sake of the other.

Nothing exists independently. Everything is created to exist through reciprocal relationships as part of a pair system.

God

ObjectSubject

Union

(b) The Four Position Foundation

Origin

Division

Union

i. Be Fruitful

God

BodyMind

True Self

Subject Object

Subject

Object - Partner of love for God

God dwells in the individual whose mind and body unite in a life of love for God and others.

(c) The Three Great Blessings

ii. Multiply

Object - God dwells in the family where husband and wife live for God, each other and their children and where the family lives for the society, nation and world.

Family

Society

Nation

World

God

WifeHusband

Children

Subject Object

Subject

iii. Take Dominion over the Creation

Object

- partner for God to loveObject

God

Environ-ment

Human Beings

Ideal World

Subject

2) The Four Great Realms of Heart

(a) Heart

The emotional impulse to strive for joy by finding and loving an object

The essence of God‘s nature= =

Subject ObjectJoy

Love must have an object partner – we are God‘s partners

To love is to live for the sake of others,sacrifice and take responsibility for love.

(b) The Four Great Realms of Heart

God

Children

Husband

Wife

Brother

Son

Sister

Daughter

Parent realm of heart

Conjungal realm of heart

Brother and Sister realm of heart

Children’s realm of heart

3) The Five Life Roles

1. True Man and Woman

2. True Husband and Wife

3. True Parent

4. True Teacher

5. True Owner

A Family-Centred Message

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4) The Definition of the Family

Grand Parents

Children

Father MotherParents

i. The Family should be thought of as having at least three generations

1.

2.

3.

Current society tends to ignore the elderly

True True LoveLove

God

True Life True Life Children

True True LineageLineage

Husband Wife

ii. The Family is the starting point of Love, Life and Lineage

iii. The Family is the basic unit of the

Heavenly Kingdom

Building the Kingdom of Heaven in this physical world through true families.

The Family is the foundation of the Kingdom of Heaven.

“I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Matthew 16: 18-20

2. What went wrong?

The Reality of our World

Conflict Race, religion, nationality, resources

Starvation

Disease

Ignorance

Births Outside Marriage

Sweden – 50%

France – 35%

U.S. – 30%

Ideal and Fall

God

Man

Perfect Person

Ideal and Fall

God

Man

Perfect Person

God

Man

Fallen Person

Ideal and Fall

God

Man

Perfect Person

God

Man

Fallen Person

God

ManSatan

God

BodyMind

Person

God

Love in the Family extended to the world

WifeHusband

Children

God

CreationPerson

World

SatanSatan SatanSatan SatanSatan

The Human Fallloss of Love, Life and Lineage

“I set before you this day a blessing and a curse” (Deut 11:26)

Spiritually mature,a person of true love

Responsible mastery and dominion of the

natural world

Expulsion from paradise

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The Content of the Fall

Illicit love starting from the false parents, Adam and Eve

God

Illicit Love

False Family

False Father

False Mother

EveAdam

“You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”

John 8: 44

The Fall is the cause of Human Misery

A contradictory nature

A tendency to indulge their physical desires

A selfish desire to misuse nature and material things

Ignorance of God and spiritual existence

Fallen human beings have:

God

Christ

ManSatan

I am the way , and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me

John 14:6

The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil

I John 3:8

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men; the man Jesus Christ

1 Timothy 2:6

Salvation

“You must be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect.” Matt 5:48“I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.” John 14:12

Jesus sets the pattern of the First Blessing – being like God

God

BodyMind

Person

God

Inheriting the true love of God and extending it to the

world - a pure lineage

WifeHusband

Children

God

CreationPerson

World

Jesus, as a ‘Second Adam’

Spiritually perfect,a person of true love in whom God dwells

A world where human beings and nature are

in harmony

Jesus provided the model of the ideal individual

but was prevented from fulfilling 2nd & 3rd Blessings

We must fulfil our responsibility

Towards God follow God’s word = fulfil the 3 Great Blessings

Towards our spouse absolute love and purity

Towards our children spiritual and physical care,education and sacrificial love

3. The Blessing and

the True Family Movement

1) Rev. Moon and the Blessing Providence

(a) Adam, Jesus, Christ when He returns: all three

come to fulfil the Three Blessings

(b) God’s unchanging Will, based on a True Family

(c) Rev. Moon’s mission and meeting Jesus Christ

(d) Receiving the Blessing from God

(e) Sharing the Blessing with all Humanity

Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han MoonRev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon

2) Origins of the World Peace Blessing

The World Peace Blessing movement started amongst The World Peace Blessing movement started amongst Rev and Mrs. Moon’s own religious followersRev and Mrs. Moon’s own religious followers1960 – 36 Couples Blessing 1960 – 36 Couples Blessing

The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification

Expanded to become Inter-Religious through FFWPUExpanded to become Inter-Religious through FFWPU1992 - 30,000 Couples in Seoul Olympic Stadium 1992 - 30,000 Couples in Seoul Olympic Stadium

The Universal Peace Federation

Reached opinion leaders and appointedReached opinion leaders and appointedAmbassadors for PeaceAmbassadors for Peace2001 – 210 Couples, United Nations, New York2001 – 210 Couples, United Nations, New York

The conditions to receive the Blessing

Determination to respect one’s spouse and keep one’s love pure

Determination of husband and wife to be faithful to each other

A heart to become a true parent

A heart of living for the sake of others

4. The Blessing Ceremony

The Components of the Blessing

Holy Wine (Nectar) Ceremony(Symbolizing a change of lineage)

The Components of the Blessing

Indemnity Ceremony(Symbolically healing past resentmentsbetween men and women)

The Components of the Blessing

Blessing Ceremony(A solemn yet joyous wedding)

The Blessing Ceremony

Sprinkling with Holy Water

Recitation of Wedding Vows

Exchange of Rings

Blessing Prayer

The World Peace Blessing Vows

To resemble the nature and loveof God in marriage

~To be faithful to each other

~To raise children to maintain purity before

marriage~

To help other families do the same, beyond racial, national and religious boundaries

The Components of the Blessing

Separation Period(Spiritual renewal and purification)

40 Days Separation A time of sacrifice (making holy) and purification

As in the great religious traditions of fasting, Lent, Ramadan or Passover (Pesach)

By ‘giving up’ their sexual relationship for forty days, the will to have the physical serve the spiritual is demonstrated

The couple can prepare to enjoy intimacy as husband and wife on a more profound and higher level

The Components of the Blessing

Three-Day Ceremony(The rebirth of the couple’s relationshipin holiness – spiritually and physically)

At the end of the 40 Days Separation A time to experience spiritual and physical joy

together – love reborn and purified Symbolically ‘restoring’ the way in which love itself

was tainted and become self-centred

You are invited to attend a time of special education to explain this area more fully

The Components of the Blessing (recap)

Holy Wine (nectar) Ceremony(Symbolizing a change of lineage)

Indemnity Ceremony(Symbolically healing past resentmentsbetween men and women)

Blessing Ceremony(A solemn yet joyous wedding)

Separation Period(Spiritual renewal and purification)

Three-Day Ceremony(The rebirth of the couple’s relationshipin holiness – spiritually and physically)

Blessed Family Tradition

Blessed Family Associations

Contribute to public life, beyond the family

Faith in the home

Workshops for children

Marriage preparation

Support for couples and family life

The World Peace Blessing