5.3 The effort to reach out to the world

When I taught Japanese people our anti-communist ideology, their eyes opened wide with surprise. When Korea was under the Japanese occupation, I studied in Japan, so I am personally very interested in Japan. I told our Japanese members to enlighten their fellow citizens on the fallacies of communism. Will they not do it if I tell them to do so? All would be lost if nothing were done. When asked whether or not they are going to follow my direction, they have no choice but to agree and initiate the anti-communist activities, and they soon get the hang of it. Within about half a year, we will be able to elicit the support of various organizations associated with the ruling party. Realizing that they should have promoted such a movement themselves, they are now very much prepared to work with us. (22-100, 01/26/1969)

Presently, our members are educating members of the ruling party in Japan under my direction, including some 5,000 representatives who had been strongly influenced by communist ideas. A nationwide organization is absolutely necessary to counter the Communist party both quantitatively and qualitatively. To strengthen our external foundation, we quickly launched a daily newspaper. (74-289, 12/31/1974)

The purpose of our weekly and monthly magazines is to save America, the free world and Christianity. About 70,000 ministers went through our education program. We invested vast resources to supply 100 truckloads of Divine Principle videotapes to 300,000 Christian ministers. It has become a big issue. Being educated people, they were able to grasp the essence of the book, and thus came to understand how wrong their ideas had been. (137-173, 01/01/1986)

Why did I spend sixty million dollars to make the movie about MacArthur? It was not because I had too much money, but rather to educate Americans and to give them a sense of direction. (125-328, 03/31/1983)

America has become the most influential country of the world because its educational system is based on strengthening the analytical ability of the individual, encouraging its people to develop a subjective mind in relation to their environment. This has catapulted America into its foremost position of creating a single world culture in such a short time. Christian ministers from that very country made a pilgrimage to Beomil-dong within Rev. Moon's lifetime, offering prayers on the historic Rock of Tears. When I used to foretell such a phenomenon, they took it as if I was just daydreaming. At the time I commenced my mission in that sub-district, a rumor was circulating among its inhabitants of "that handsome and intelligent but really crazy fellow up the hill of the Beomnetgol." How was anyone of those people to believe that the world could change so drastically? We were just destitute refugees then. After forty years passed, everything I told the members at that time came true. With that as well as my own accomplishments, the Christian ministers concluded that something was missing in mainstream Christian theology.
Knowing that America needs Rev. Moon's ideas in order to survive, they come to be trained and educated. They visit the spots where I used to sit and eat, and cry their eyes out. Think about it: what does it all mean? Would such people come to us because we are throwing big parties or handing out sacks of gold? They come because they believe they can find the way for America, the leading nation of the free world to live again.
How miserable and pitiful must I have looked when I was driven out into solitude forty years ago? While others set out to achieve worldly success, nobody welcomed the lowliest Rev. Moon, who was about to embark on his new mission. No one. I have climbed out of the bottomless pit. I have also educated people who came out of it. Now you know why the academics of Korea and of the world have to study Rev. Moon's ideas. (162-292, 04/17/1987)

You all know that I have put a lot of effort into disseminating my ideas for the free world centering on our world headquarters in America, by creating diverse media organizations worldwide including The Washington Times, educating international journalists, guiding renowned professors, launching student movements, mobilizing veterans, and promoting the unification of South American countries as well as of the world's religions. (164-196, 05/15/1987)

I have taught Americans of all backgrounds. I am educating white Americans and black Americans, who used to want to kill each other, into people who would die for each other. Nobody has said that people's lives were ruined because of Rev. Moon through my doing this. People say that they came to become the people who can move freely between heaven and earth, East and West, and South and North. Those who once spoke ill of me now proudly testify to me. (177-31, 05/15/1988)

In America, Christianity is in the Abel position, while the nation is in the Cain position. Cain and Abel must be united. Communism is presently infiltrating the Christian culture. Originally, Congress, official government organs and educational institutions used to begin their working day by seeking God's guidance with a prayer service. Such a religious environment changed and disappeared in the 1970s and 1980s. The Abel foundation of God's providence has become totally secularized. The Cain foundation dominated the Abel foundation in America. By that time, the persecution against the Unification Church started.
In spite of persecution, what has the Unification Church tried to achieve until today? We have established the foundation for the worldwide indemnity condition to give the new direction for Christianity and the nation. With this, our God-given mission, I went to America and educated young people to inspire the American nation and empower American Christianity. In the midst of all that, I even had to go to prison. The persecution reached its peak with my incarceration at Danbury prison, through which American Christianity believed to have finally obtained the upper hand in getting me out of America altogether. Instead, the opposite happened completely contrary to the hopes and expectations of the American government and American Christianity.
Running that gauntlet, I succeeded in enlightening prominent politicians in the government as well as highly influential figures in the religious firmament. Consequently, America rediscovered new hope through Rev. Moon's ideas. Churches that had been in decline turned around and were imbued afresh with a vision for the future.
As you know, we invited seven thousand Christian ministers from America and sent copies of the Divine Principle to 350,000 Christian ministers. The transportation of all the books we sent out required exactly ninety-eight truckloads, with each truck measuring ten meters and weighing ten tons. We distributed the Divine Principle, God's Will and the World and Victory Over Communism to Christian ministers across the length and breadth of the nation. (207-319, 11/11/1990)

What are we going to do about communism? Gorbachev and Kim Il-sung dispatched 25 agents to assassinate me in 1987. The CIA intercepted them, however. Yet even while investigations were still underway, I rushed over to Moscow to meet Gorbachev and open the way for him! Today, the Soviet Union has so much hope centering on me. We gathered communist youth leaders numbering in the thousands to our seminars, with the objective of training 3,000 participants by this July to guarantee a bright future for their people. It is amazing that we should be the ones to be opening up the great gate of hope in the communist world. They are learning that the key for them to solve their society's greatest problems lies in investing themselves with the utmost commitment. (210-119, 12/17/1990)

We have entered the age in which world leaders will converge in creating a peaceful and unified world. For this to be realized, religions must take the lead. To this end, I founded the Assembly of the World's Religions, the Council of World Religions, the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace and two theological seminaries. The Unification Theological Seminary, based in Barrytown, New York, has courses covering not only Christianity, but also Islam, Buddhism and other world religions. (277-52, 03/24/1996)

The seminar we organized for Muslims from Syria was a most historic event, and created a great sensation. In effect, I gave strong guidance to those forty participants before coming over here.
Is there any Christian who could host top-notch Islamic scholars? Our Muslim guests, who came away from the seminar highly inspired, continued to pray and sing their holy songs in reciting from their Holy Book, the Koran. People don't realize how destructive and counterproductive it is to be fighting among themselves. It is analogous to terminal patients in a hospital bickering with each other. Christians are not aware that they belong in that category. Persisting in that mode, they are headed toward destruction, coming to a dead end. (210-212, 12/23/1990)

Henceforth, we will teach the Principle to communists. They know only too well that they are going through a transition and that only I hold the key to their hopes. We want to place all available resources at their disposal for the task of preserving the original beauty of Moscow, and hence we have allocated considerable funds to finance training programs for Russian leaders in America.
I am investing for the sake of the Soviet Union. The Novosti Agency welcomed me, but so much happened during our short visit that we need another two months to digest it all. People do not always easily agree with my recommendations. So first I approach the professors. For instance, I visited Moscow University and established an association to represent Soviet professors. Right away they link up with other professors. Already we have had 300 people visit here from Moscow University. Soon Americans will visit Moscow University and hold a rally representing all universities.
Communist organizations want all young people to become their members. Each university is concerned about that kind of activity on its campus, where Marxism-Leninism is to be taught. Now, in their place, students will be trained in Unification Thought, Godism and Head-wing Ideology. (217-289, 06/02/1991)

The younger generation of the former Soviet Union is on my side. Have not over 8,000 of them from the top universities of their country, all speaking fluent English, undergone our education program by now? The foundation we have established in ten former Soviet republics will never be dismantled. I am interested in educating the second generation in the right way. If we succeed in this, South and North Korea can be reunified. (226-288, 02/09/1992)

People of any intelligence will turn around completely by connecting with the Divine Principle and Rev. Moon's thought even just once. Look at the communist leaders: after just attending a five-day workshop, they came over to God's side and pledged themselves to follow Rev. Moon's ideas. Haven't the young people in America opposed Rev. Moon? Now look at the youth of the former Soviet Union. They have been completely won over to my side. Until now, American young people have been against me, saying, "How about that Rev. Moon? He is a cult leader and a heretic." Despite the chaotic and confused state of American youth; I believe there is hope. Not long ago, we flew Ivy League students over to Moscow, where they could study the Divine Principle for two weeks, taught by Russian students! Do you understand how shameful the American situation is? You should continue to develop that strategy now. (243-213, 01/10/1993)

The former Soviet Union is now stalemated. Even the Russian Orthodox Church is now not in a position to oppose the Unification Church. We are producing textbooks for high school students, undergraduates and army officers. This movement is spreading via Mongolia and into China. We have even established links in Manchuria from Yanbian to Harbin. (273-131, 10/22/1995)

The purpose of educational institutions in the world is to raise people of talent. We must follow the flow of world history. Without such an education, we will be ignored by the world. The age of egoistic nationalism is over. To counterbalance the European Union, the peoples of North and South America as well as Asia need to organize themselves into regional groupings. The way of going it alone as a single country has now become obsolete.
No developed country or any other nations of the world for that matter can stop the Unification Church. The reason I am telling you this is to open the way for Korea. Where will Korea go? Korea should go out onto the international stage. I talked to the people in the North Korea, "The former Soviet Union and China are moving in the same direction. I can raise up people in the space of six months so that they can go to the former Soviet Union and China to educate them. You must open up." The former Soviet Union and China are turning around. We must send teachers and leaders there. (287-45, 08/10/1997)