TRUE MOTHER'S BIRTH AND THE LIFE COURSE
Transcribed
by Airenae Culvy
True Mother, Hak Ja Han, was born on the sixth day of the first
lunar-calendar month in 1943 (February 10 by the Gregorian calendar) at 4:30
AM, in her mother's family home in the town of Anju, in Anju County, South Pyongan Province, in what is today the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea. Her birth came ten years after Mr. Seung
Woon Han and Ms. Soon Ae Hong had met and married in
the New Jesus Church. She was her parents' only child.
Her
mother's family home had a small hill behind it and a brook running nearby.
True Mother looked back on her mother's home as a place that gave her a feeling
of comfort and warmth. "It felt like the bosom of a hen nurturing her
young. In the back garden, they grew a crop of corn for the family and the corn
plants were very tall," she remembered.
TRUE MOTHER'S BIRTH AND THE LIFE COURSE
OF THE TRUE PARENTS OF HEAVEN, EARTH AND HUMANKIND
Jinhhun Yong
Director of Education Support Department
FFWPUI Headquarters
Today, I will give a
lecture about True Mother's Birth and True Parents' Life Courses. First, as you
see from the contents, we will briefly cover the following material:
I. True Mother's Family Background
II. Foundation to Receive the Messiah & Preparation for the Bride
III. True Mother's Birth & Growth
IV. True Mother's Perfection and Value
V. True Parents' Holy Wedding
VI. True Mother's life and Change of Status
VII. Results of True Mother's Completion of Responsibility
You may have heard this
many times already but we know that our Heavenly Parent prepared the chosen
people and established central figures in preparation for sending The True
Parents to earth. We know that history was prepared for this regarding True
Parents' Life Courses. Stories about True Parents abound. The Dallae River Story is among them.
China often invaded Korea.
Some scholars say that Koreans suffered attacks 900 times. Others have given
even larger numbers. Each time a new dynasty appears it consolidates the
Chinese territory and begins to annex other countries for unification. When
this happens, each time this happens, China has many internal wars to make
Chinese sty territory one nation.
Once a new dynasty
establishes itself, it's new assignment is to come up
with a strategy to absorb the Korean Peninsula. This time as well, Korea was in
a difficult circumstance due to China's invasion; and the Korean king must have
undergone quite a difficult experience. China then began to send envoys to try
to force Korea's submission to them without there being the need for a war.
However, for the Chinese envoy to enter Korea, he had to cross the Dallae River. The Dallae River
had stepping stones, separate stones spaced out across the river.
A particular Chinese envoy
was to come that following August; but once the Monsoon Season begins here in
Korea, the stepping stones disappear under the water
as the river swells. Korea was well aware that, if they did not receive the
envoy graciously, China might invade and the Korean people suffer. So, their stance at that time was that welcoming the envoy
was absolutely necessary. Because Korea did not have money however, the king
put out an advertisment asking if anyone could connect
the posts together or create a flatboard bridge.
At that time, Jo Han-jun, an ancester of True Mother's
maternal grandmother, Jo Won-mo, sold everything he
had to build a bridge. After he completed the bridge, he had about three Korean
coins left, roughly three dollars. To attend the following day's opening
ceremony, he bought some new shoes to replace his worn out ones. He placed his
shoes at his bedside and fell asleep. That night he dreampt
of an elderly man clothed in white who called to him,
"Han Jun ah! Han Jun
ah! Your meritorious services are great indeed. However, why did you spend that three dollars on a pair of shoes? If you had invested
all your money, even that last three dollars, I was going to send the Prince of
Heaven; but I shall send the Princess instead."
In this way, True Mother's
family has an historic ancestry prepared for a long time in order to save the
nation, ever since the time of this great grandfather of long ago, Jo Han Jun.
caption: II. TRUE MOTHER'S FAMILY
BACKGROUND
1. Three Generations of
Only Daughters Born Feb 10, 1943, 4:30 a.m.
(1.6 by the lunar calendar)
At (address): 26 Shin-ui Ri,
Anju Eup.
Anju Gun. North Pyeong-an
Province
2. When True Mother was
born, Mr. Han had something closer to a vision than a dream, in which he saw a
pair of cranes dancing in harmony in a dense pine grove bathed by clear and
beautiful sunlight. That is why he named Mother, Hakja
(child of the crane).
(History Compilation Committee, 'True Parents' Life Course' Vol 10. p 17)
***
As you may know, True
Mother was born at 4:30 in the morning on February 10th,
1943, the sixth day of the first month by the lunar calendar. She was born at
home as an only Daughter into the last of Three Generations that produced only
one daughter, all living together in one home. Her address was number 26 Shin-ui Village in Anju Town, Anju County, North Pyeong-an Province.
When She (Hak Ja Han) was born, Her Father
had a visionary dream in which the morning sunlight was shining beautifully
through a dense forest of deep green pine trees. On the branch of one pine tree
was a pair of cranes dancing affectionately. Upon seeing this extraordinary
dream, he named True Mother 'Hak Ja'
after the name of the bird.
(caption:
True Mother's Hometown of Shin-ui, Anju Eup)
This photograph shows
Mother's hometwon, Shin-ui
Village in Anju. It's a view from the old days. It was
such a beautiful and snug area
caption: TRUE MOTHER'S FAMILY BACKGROUND
1. Wedding of Han Seung-eun and Hong Soon-ae (Daemonim):
Officiated by Pastor Lee Ho-bin
2. New Jesus Church Days:
"Rejoice, daughter of
Hong Yu-il! Your child shall be the king of the
universe if it is a son, and the queen of the universe
if it is a daughter."
(History Compilation Committee, 'True Parents' Life Course and Providence II'
P. 45)
3. Heo
Ho-bin: Blessed True Mother at the age of 4 as
"The One Who will
become Heaven's Bride"
(History Compilation Committee, 'True Parents' Life Course 10', p.44.)
4. Jo Won-mo grandmother (material) always told Mother:
"Your father is
Heavenly Father." 'Heavenly Father is your Father.'
(History Compilation Committee, 'True Parents' Life course Vol. 10', p. 43-44)
***
Han Seung-eun and Hong Soon-ae, True Mother's
parents, married; and then True Mother was Conceived
and Born.
Grandmother Jo Won-mo had been a devoted Christian since she was young and
later took her daughter Han Seung-ae, who was later
named 'Daemonim,' to church all the time.
At that time, there was a pastor named Lee Yong Do who led 30,000 believers,
which is a very large number. Rev. Lee's church was called
'The New Jesus Church'. When Rev. Lee saw Daemonim
it is said that he blessed her saying,
"Rejoice, daughter of Hong Yu-il! Your child
shall be the king of the universe if it be a son, and
the queen of the universe if it be a daughter." He gave this blessing.
When
True Mother was four years old, they began to go to the Inside the Womb Church.
Ho Ho Bin was the leader of that church. When True
Mother and Han Seung-eun, Daemonim's
mother arrived, holding hands, she prophesied,
"This
is the one who will become Heaven's Bride."
Grandmother
Jo Won-mo always told True Mother as a child and
taught Her saying,
"Your
father is not your biological father Han Seung-eun."
Thus it is said that each time True Mother said
'Father' to Herself, She was reminded of Heavenly Father. That tells us
something about Her Life.
I
will read a few lines from True Father's Words about the Foundation to Receive
the Messiah & Preparation for the Bride:
"Why
should a man in his forties (a young man of forty) marry a young girl like
Mother Who is just sixteen (Who is just seventeen)? But Eve fell before she turned seventeen, at the age of
sixteen...
Since
the Returning Lord was predestined to (return) come in Korea according to God's
provdience, (the mission was tranmitted
through three great women) the mission of three great women was transmitted for
forty years in order that Mother could meet the Returning Lord. They are Kim
Sung-do (of the Holy Lord Church) (36-couple Rev. Jeong
Su-won's grandmother), and then Heo Ho-bin's group
(The Inside The Womb Church). Next, their missions
were all passed on to the Era of the Returning Lord, the Era of The Mother ...
True
Mother could be chosen after winning over all the age
groups, beginning from 80 to 70, 70 to 60, 60 to 50, 50 to 40, 40 to 30, 30 to
20, and 20 to 10. This took 14 years ... By passing on the Blessing in this
manner, one must go back again to that position (one goes back to the original
position). One must go back." (This is what Father explained. This is a
very important concept.) (280-210-212, 1997.01.01)
caption: iii FOUNDATION TO RECEIVE THE
MESSIAH & PREPARATION FOR THE BRIDE
(If
you took Korea and divided it in half, on the right side were twelve central
figures prepared to receive the Messiah; and on the left there wer twelve groups prepared to receive Eve, in other words,
The One Who would become The True Mother.
EAST
SIDE OF KOREA (MEN)
Representing the twelve male central figures were :
(Adam-type) Rev. Baek Nam-ju
(Jesus-type) Rev. Lee Yong-do
(John the Baptist-type) Rev. Kim Baek-moon
(CHRISTIAN, ABEL-TYPE, SPIRITUAL CENTRAL FIGURES)
These
people were Christian, Abel-type, spiritual central figures who had received
revelations on parts of our Divine Principle; and when they met those who were
spreading the Word, they understood that it was related
to The Returning Lord. You can look at them as people whom Heaven embodied and
cultivated through revelations.
Meanwhile
on the WEST SIDE OF KOREA
preparations were being made to receive The Messiah's
Bride. Out of those twelve types there was the
EVE-TYPE, which Kim Sung-do and (MARIA-TYPE) Heo
Ho-bin of the Inside the Womb Church and which (ANNA-TYPE) Mrs. Pak Eul-ryong (Jehovah's wife) led.
caption:
West (Women)
CHEOLSAN (HALF OF KOREA)
(Eve-type)
Kim Sung-do
(Maria-type) Heo Ho-bin
(Anna-type) Pak Eul-ryong
8 TYPES OF FOUNDATION FOR THE BRIDE
Daughter/Sister/Wife/Mother/Grandmother/Queen/Unity/
True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind
(280-212, 1997.01.01 & 1968.03.07)
***
In
True Father March 7, 1968 Speech it says:
"Eve,
The Messiah's Bride must come to earth and overcome everything that Eve failed
to do."
This
was Father's Words. Eve did not fall only physically and sexually; but due to
the Fall she also lost the foundation of God's Heartl. Thus, the position of Eve had to be
restored to the unfallen heart of a daughter, the younger sister, a
wife, a mother. and a queen. She would have to inherit
a heart that was one with God and the heart of The True Parents of Heaven,
Earth and Humankind.
Through
these spiritual groups, these twelve spiritual groups, True Mother's Mission
was to personally restore, all on Her own and from the
very bottom, these eight stages of heart which Eve had lost.
caption: FOUNDATION TO RECEIVE THE MESSIAH
& PREPARATION FOR THE BRIDE
A.
Seong-Ju Church (Holy Lord Church) 1946.8.11-11.21
1.
Kim Sung-do (1906.06.25, Husband: Jung Hang-joon)
a.
Illicit love caused the Fall.
b. Jesus died a miserable death.
c. Two of God's great sorrows
1. The sorrow of seeing the fall and not being able to intervene
2. The sorrow of seeing Jesus bear the cross. Jesus
will return in the flesh
(excommunicated from the Presbyterian Church in 1925)
e. Last words to descendants and followers: Go and find the group rumored to be
promiscuous.
f. Claimed that the Lord would return in the East because of her and that Japan
would soon be defeated. Was imprisoned for three
months: died on 1944.4.1 at the age of 61.
g. CREATED THE FOUNDATION FOR THE BRIDE TO RECEIVE THE MESSIAH BASED ON THE
THEORY OF THE FALL. (TAUGHT ABOUT THE CONSCIENCE AND PURITY. WAS CONSISTENT IN
HER DEVOTION TO GOD.)
Mother, wearing the Seonjeong Middle
School uniform, with her Grandmother Won Mo Cho
Moving
to Daegu
Later,
Soon Ae Hong and family stayed in the military family relocation camp in Jeolla Province, and after Seoul was
reclaimed on September 28, they returned to Seoul and stayed in an empty
house. Then, the January 4 retreat forced them to flee south once again.
Soldiers' families were allowed to get on a special
train before other refugees, and they left Seoul on the train and went to
Daegu. At the time, the army headquarters was in Daegu, so they lived in the vicinity of the home of Mother's uncle, who was
working there.
They
also met the family of Seok Cheon
Jeong, who had been living in the city of Daegu for a
while. He was the oldest son of Seong Do Kim, the New
Lord of Seongju Church, and at the time, he was in
the petroleum business in Daegu. Before Korea had gained independence, when Seong Do Kim died after being in prison, he had liquefied a
part of his inheritance, and in 1944 had invested in the Chilgok
Mine in North Gyeongsang Province. This, in turn, had
led to his settling down in Daegu.
After
the first joyful meeting of the two families, Soon Ae Hong said, "When we
were living in North Korea we received many blessings through the New Lord Seongdo Kim and Mrs. Ho Bin Heo,
and great miracles occurred. Since the Second Coming of the Lord is to occur in
Korea, let us pool our efforts and pray together to find this path." So they lived for four years with Seok
Cheon Jeong's family in
Daegu, with one heart.
The
older sister of Seok Cheon Jeong, Seok On
Jeong, came up from Busan, and other people came to
offer prayers. While doing so, they received a revelation, "Henceforth,
praying devoutly is not enough. You need to eat raw food." Therefore, Soon
Ae Hong began eating pine needles. Raw pine needles hurt her teeth badly. She
also ate kimchi soup spiced with salt and nothing else. Looking back on those
days, Grandmother Hong said:
I felt
that it was my responsibility to put Mother through elementary school at the
least, so I began a small business in Daegu. I lived solely on kimchi soup,
pine needles and peanuts, eating only twice a day at that, and though I felt a
little weak while working, my mind was all the clearer.
My
mother came to see me and she told me, 'You have gone insane. How can you do
business eating nothing but that? It is a miracle.' I felt at ease in my mind,
however. I continued working thus for three months. Having been a believer of
the Seongju Church and the Inside the Belly Church,
all I knew was to have unconditional faith.
True Mother (here, standing, in her middle school uniform) first met True
Father in March 1956, having just turned thirteen. Mother entered middle school
that April.
Moving
to Jeju Island
In
raising the young Hak Ja
Han, Grandmother Hong tried to have her grow up pure and untainted by the world.
True Mother attended an elementary school in Daegu, and she grew more beautiful
each day. She was also a good student, so she was popular. Grandmother Hong was
uncomfortable with the fact that True Mother was always the center of
attention, because she had received many signs in addition to the revelation,
"This child is the daughter of the Lord."
Not
long after they had come to South Korea, a stranger who saw True Mother gave an
astonishing testimony, saying in effect, "She is a sacred person of heaven
and earth. She has come to do two great things. However, she needs to succeed
in the righteous way; otherwise, when she goes out into the world she will
become a traitor."
Surprised
by what the man said, Grandmother Hong exclaimed, "How can you say such a thing?"
He
answered, "This is the destiny she was born with when she came into the
world." Then he asked, "Do you believe in Jesus?" When she
answered yes, he said that was good.
From
then on, Grandmother Hong resolved even harder to raise True Mother righteously.
She spoke of the thoughts that had been in her mind at the time:
After
hearing what he said, I was determined to succeed on the righteous path, no
matter what. That was why I went to Jeju Island after
coming to South Korea, and why when I joined the Unification Church, I thought
that I would put her through middle school no matter what it takes and then
fortify her with the Divine Principle and make her into one of the best
Unification Church members. Not once did I even dream that she would become the
True Mother.
Thus,
to raise True Mother to be even more chaste and pure, Grandmother Hong moved to
Seoguipo on Jeju Island in
1954. She was of the mind that True Mother should be raised
as an ascetic after she graduated from elementary school. It was her mother's
determination to create an environment in which True Mother could grow up
thinking of nothing else but God, unshaken by any temptation, until she met the
Lord at his Second Coming. Therefore, they went to Jeju
Island, and at an age when she might otherwise have
been playing and running around with her friends, True Mother began her
spiritual training, which was so severe that even Heaven took pity on her.
At the
time, True Mother transferred to the fifth grade class of Shinhyo
Elementary School in Seoguipo, which is Hyodon Elementary School today. Soon-ac Hong continued with
her practice of eating raw food, eating nothing but pressed barley soaked in
water with radish kimchi, but she made steamed millet for True Mother. Even though that was the life they led, she also donated
school uniforms and shirts to her more needy neighbors.
Grandmother
Won Mo Cho had been living in comfort with her son and daughter-in-law, but she
wanted to come and live with her daughter Soon Ae on Jeju
Island. So finally they brought her to Jeju Island, and the three of them, True Mother, her mother
and grandmother, were reunited once again. In those days, Soon Ae Hong had
grown thinner due to her long practice of eating raw food.
Moving
to Chuncheon
The Bong-eui Elementary School in Chuncheon as it looked in the 1950s when True Mother was a
student there (1955). Her mother, Soon Ae Hong (later given the title Dae Mo nim) met and joined the
Unification Church during her final weeks here.
Soon Ae Hong's younger
brother Soon Jeong Hong grew deeply concerned about
his lonely mother, sister and niece living all by themselves on Jeju Island. At the time, his military posting was to Chuncheon in Gangwon Province, so
he wrote to them, twice, inviting them to come to live with him. At first, his
sister refused, but then she got the feeling that his invitation was in some
way Heaven's will, so they moved to Chuncheon.
Drawing
an end to their nine Month stay on Jeju Island, they
rented a room in the Yaksa district in Chuncheon. Soon Ae Hong recalls the circumstances of the
time:
After
living in such a way for nine months, I received a letter from my younger
brother asking me to return to the mainland with our mother. At first, I did
not go. Then he sent another letter, asking me to bring our mother to the
mainland at once. Left no choice, I then thought to myself, 'There must be a
reason that we need to return to the mainland'. When I think about it now, I
believe I did well to leave Jeju Island. If we had
not left then, we might have continued to live there for good. So, when all is said and done, my brother saved me. I went
to Chuncheon. At the time, my brother was working as
the head of a distribution agency. In Chuncheon, I
began my business again.
A memorial to True Mother haying been a student there hangs on the wall of
Bong-eui Elementary School in Chuncheon.
In
February 1955, True Mother transferred to Bongeui
Elementary School in the same district in Chuncheon
and soon after moved up to sixth grade. On March 2, 1956, she graduated. In
True Mother's school record, it is written, "She is virtuous and kind,
somewhat refined in manner, and the most feminine among all her
classmates." It also states that she graduated with honors.
Mrs. Moon is a devoted wife, the mother of
14 children and the grandmother of more than 40 grandchildren. She is known for her extraordinary compassion, capability, grace
and charm. Above all, she is exemplary as a woman who has a created a
God-centered marriage and family of three generations.
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