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Blessing Ceremony

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01What is the Blessing Ceremony?

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The Holy Marriage Blessing (Korean: 축복, Chukbok) is one of the most distinctive and central practices of the Unification movement. It is a marriage ceremony officiated by the True Parents — Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon — through which participants change their lineage and establish a new covenant relationship with God.

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Rev. Moon described its meaning directly:

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“The meaning of the Blessing is that the True Parents and the True Children are fulfilling the purpose of creation... The Blessing, centered on God, is the place of meeting of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven.” — The Meaning and Value of the Blessing

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The Blessing is not simply a religious wedding ceremony. It is understood as the opening of a new chapter in providential history — the restoration of what Adam and Eve lost at the Fall:

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“The Blessing is the opening of Heaven's door. You enter with your children... The human ancestors fell, and a man and a woman were chased out of the Garden of Eden; therefore, the husband and wife must triumph over that situation. That is the Blessing.” — The Meaning and Value of the Blessing

02Section I — Etymology: Chukbok (축복) and Its Hanja Roots

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The Korean term for the Blessing is chukbok (축복, 祝福). The Hanja compound combines 祝 (chuk, to pray / to celebrate / to invoke blessings upon) and 福 (bok, blessing, fortune, happiness). In classical East Asian usage, chukbok denotes the conferral of divine favor through a formal act of consecration. The term appears throughout Korean religious culture and ancestral ritual — but in Unification theology, it is radically redefined.

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In the ordinary Korean or Christian sense, a blessing is something bestowed from a distance — a prayer, a wish, a benediction. In Rev. Moon's teaching, the Blessing (축복) is not a prayer that something good will happen to a couple. It is a sacramental act through which two human beings are grafted into a new lineage — moved from the lineage of the fallen Adam into the lineage of the restored True Parents. The blessing is not wished upon them; it is transmitted into them.

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This distinction is critical to understanding everything about the ceremony. Rev. Moon expressed it directly in terms of lineage transfer:

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What began with false parents must now begin with True Parents. False parents inherited false life and false lineage through false love. This must be reversed. The issue relates to inheriting true life and true lineage through the love of True Parents.
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The Blessing is therefore not a religious wedding ceremony that adds a sacred dimension to a social institution. It is the re-grafting of a fallen branch onto the original tree — an act of ontological restoration for which no human institution has any equivalent, and for which all of providential history was the preparation.

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The Hanja character 天 (cheon, Heaven) is itself relevant here: when Rev. Moon analyzes it in the CSG, he notes that it is composed of 二 (two) and 人 (person) — two people who, through their perfect love, become heaven itself. The Blessed couple, united under God, is not merely in heaven's favor; in the fullness of the restored ideal, their union constitutes a point at which heaven descends to earth.

The Holy Wine Ceremony

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The Holy Wine Ceremony is an integral part of the Blessing. It symbolically converts the lineage inherited through the Fall — establishing a new spiritual foundation before the couple enters into the Blessing itself. According to the teaching, those who receive the Blessing change their bloodline:

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“Those people who have received the Blessing in the Unification Church have changed their lineage. The Blessing is the change of lineage.” — Cham Bumo Gyeong, Book 4

What the Blessing means — inheriting everything

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Rev. Moon taught that the Blessing is not simply a marriage rite but an act of cosmic inheritance:

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“To receive the Blessing is to become one with God. If you are one with God, you can become whole. Everything of God has, whatever the subject has, can be received. God has eternal life. From eternal life, He has universal love... Everything is being bequeathed. That is why receiving the Blessing is the same as inheriting everything.” — The Meaning and Value of the Blessing

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According to the teachings, the Blessing represents the bequeathal of full heavenly authority — the most precious gift in heaven and earth.

Historical origin

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The first Blessing ceremony took place on April 16, 1960, when three couples received the Blessing immediately following the True Parents' own Holy Wedding. The 36 Couples Blessing followed on May 15, 1961, at the Cheongpa-dong headquarters church in Seoul — the beginning of a series of Blessing ceremonies that would grow dramatically over the following decades.

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Rev. Moon explained the providential significance of each number. The 36 Couples represented Adam's, Noah's, and Jacob's families — the ancestral foundation. The 72 represented the 72 disciples of Jesus. The 124 opened the door to all of humanity, including those on the margins of society:

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“The work of heaven is not the work of condemning people, but rather of saving everyone. God seeks to redeem all people, not only religious believers, but conscientious people who are non-believers as well as those who have sinned.” — Cham Bumo Gyeong, p. 336

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Over the decades, the scale expanded dramatically: 72, 124, 430, 777, 1,800, 8,000, 30,000, 360,000, 3.6 million — with the goal of blessing 360 million couples that announced. Rev. Moon described the significance of the 360,000 Couples Blessing:

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“The 360,000 Couples Blessing is unprecedented in history... Once this happens, the Blessed Families will become the mainstream, and everyone will get to know that the family ideal I teach will not only bring liberation to humanity, but also show us the shortest route to world peace.” — Sun Myung Moon

03Section II — Theological Definition: The Three Reversals of the Fall

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Unification theology understands the Blessing as the precise reversal of what was lost at the Fall. This structure — what is sometimes called the three great blessings reversed or the three reversals — gives the ceremony its full theological weight and explains why no personal piety, no amount of religious practice, and no previous historical dispensation could accomplish what the Blessing accomplishes.

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The Fall, in Unification teaching, was not a single act but a triple rupture: the love between Adam, Eve, and God was severed; the life principle connecting heaven and earth was broken; and the lineage that was to have descended pure from God through Adam and Eve became instead a lineage rooted in satanic love. These three — love, life, lineage — are the content of what was corrupted, and they are precisely what the Blessing restores.

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Love is restored through the act of the Matching and the Blessing itself: the couple is united not on the basis of fallen human attraction but by the discernment of True Parents, who stand in the position of God on earth. The love between husband and wife is thus inaugurated not in self-centered desire but in the framework of God's providential will.

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Life is restored through the Holy Wine Ceremony: the spiritual condition established by the wine separates the couple from the satanic lineage at the level of the life force, allowing them to enter the Blessing in a position restored from the Fall.

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Lineage is restored through the consummation of the blessed marriage within the Three-Day Ceremony, in which the husband and wife, for the first time in history, unite physically in the position of restored Adam and Eve — establishing a new starting point of lineage no longer traceable to the fallen ancestors.

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We need True Parents in order to dismantle the foundation of satanic love, life, and lineage. The human sexual organs are the most precious things. Life, love and lineage are connected to them. Satan defiled something so precious.
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— Sun Myung Moon (218-176, 07/28/1991) Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book 2, Chapter 3

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The Blessing ceremony is therefore simultaneously the most intimate and the most cosmic of all human acts: intimate, because it involves the innermost union of a man and a woman; cosmic, because through that union, a new node in the lineage of God is established on earth — one that did not exist before and that will propagate forward into eternity.

As an instrument of peace

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Rev. Moon consistently taught that lasting world peace begins in the family. The Blessing Ceremony, by uniting couples across racial, national, and religious boundaries, was presented not merely as a religious rite but as a practical instrument for building One Family Under God:

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“The best way to restore people to the position of the children of God through conversion of lineage is through the cross-cultural Marriage Blessing. It is the greatest of moral acts, creating the Heavenly lineage on a whole new level, transcending the barriers of race, culture, nationality, and religion. It is an act that severs all links of enmity.” — The Mission of the Clan Messiah

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At the 2013 Cosmic Holy Blessing Ceremony, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon expressed the same vision in her benediction:

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“I hope and pray that all blessed families of the Unification Church across the world will be reborn as proud blessed families who can open the gates to Cheon Il Guk in this new era of unceasing laudation and praise.” — Benediction at the Cosmic Holy Blessing Ceremony

04Section III — The Authority of True Parents over the Blessing

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A question that arises naturally for those approaching Unification theology from outside is: why must the Blessing be given specifically by True Parents? What is the structural necessity of their role, and what distinguishes the Blessing they give from any other religious marriage rite?

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The CSG provides a precise answer. The Fall severed the vertical love of God from the horizontal love of Adam and Eve at the point of their union. To restore what was lost at that point, someone must come who occupies the exact position where the failure occurred — and who, unlike every fallen human being, has remained rooted in God's lineage throughout their entire life course. This is the position of the Messiah, who comes as the True Parent:

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I am a parent who can connect you to God's love — original love. What is different about True Parents? The difference is that they have the special authority to connect you with God's love.
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— Sun Myung Moon (118-147, 05/23/1982) Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book 2,

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This authority is not ecclesiastical — not a matter of institutional designation or apostolic succession. It is ontological: True Parents are the first human beings in history to have completed the course of individual perfection, established the family rooted in God's direct love, and thereby opened the door through which all others may enter. Their Blessing conveys not only a ceremony but a direct transmission of the love, life, and lineage they embody.

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The CSG describes the consequence for the Kingdom of Heaven with equal directness:

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The question is whether God's love and the Parents' love can dwell in your family — whether you are conveying the love of God and Parents through your own love such that your sons and daughters are born and nurtured in this loving environment. You should know that if you do not do this, the door of the family Kingdom of Heaven will not open.
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— Sun Myung Moon (137-185, 01/01/1986) Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book 2, Chapter 5

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This passage frames the entire Blessed Family life as an ongoing transmission: the Blessing received from True Parents must flow through the couple and into the children, or the chain of restoration is broken at that household. The Blessing is not a status achieved once and held passively — it is a living current that must be consciously maintained and passed on.

The ongoing responsibility of blessed families

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Receiving the Blessing is a beginning, not a completion. Rev. Moon taught that blessed couples carry a responsibility not only to their own families but to the restoration of all humanity:

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“The Unification Church mass wedding ceremony is not just a wedding ceremony of a man and a woman to make a family. Until now, marriage was centered on the individual self, but our wedding ceremony is holy and has the content to make God happy and the condition to indemnify history.” — The Meaning and Value of the Blessing

05Section IV—Providential Context: The Blessing across the Three Ages

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The Blessing ceremony does not appear in a providential vacuum. Its emergence at this point in history is the culmination of a specific trajectory that runs through the Old Testament Age, the New Testament Age, and the Completed Testament Age — each of which moved humanity one step closer to the moment when the Blessing could be given.

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In the Old Testament Age, what God sought through the Israelites was a people and a family lineage pure enough to receive the Messiah. The sacrificial system — the offering of animals, grain, and eventually the prophets' lives—was an ongoing effort to maintain the separation from satanic influence that would one day make Adam and Eve's position available again. The covenant people were moving toward the Blessing without yet knowing what it was.

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In the New Testament Age, Jesus came as the only begotten Son — the man who could have stood as the first True Parent. The CSG is explicit: Jesus needed a bride. His disciples were his spiritual children, and his mission required a woman who could stand with him in the position of only begotten daughter. Without that union, the lineage could be restored only spiritually, through faith, not physically through birth into God's direct lineage:

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There was something Jesus most needed to have, even if it meant abandoning the nation of Israel and Judaism. It was a woman. A man should not be without a woman. It is because Jesus did not fulfill this purpose that towards the end of his life, he said he was the bridegroom and that his followers were the bride.
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— Sun Myung Moon (58-218, 06/11/1972) Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book 2, Chapter 1

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In the Completed Testament Age, Rev. and Mrs. Moon stood as True Parents for the first time in history — completing what Adam and Eve failed to begin and what Jesus could not complete. The Holy Wedding of April 11, 1960, was not merely the marriage of two individuals; it was the inaugural act of a new order. From that moment, the Blessing could be given — and the restoration of lineage at the family level became possible for all of humanity.

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The progressive expansion of Blessing numbers — from 3, to 36, to 72, to 430, to 777, to 1,800, to millions and hundreds of millions — is not organizational growth. It is the outward index of a providential tide: the progressive saturation of fallen humanity with God's direct lineage, family by family, tribe by tribe, nation by nation, until the entire human race can stand in the position of God's children.

06Section V — Comparative Perspective

Christianity

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The closest Christian analogue to the Blessing is the sacrament of marriage, which in Catholic and many Orthodox traditions is understood as a covenant between the couple and God, conferring grace and establishing a lifelong bond that mirrors Christ's relationship with the Church (Ephesians 5:25–32). The structural parallel is significant: both traditions understand the marriage bond as something more than a civil contract — as an ontological reality with eternal consequences.

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The decisive difference lies in the question of lineage. Christian sacramental marriage does not claim to transmit a new biological and spiritual lineage free from Original Sin; it confers grace upon a couple who remain, in the traditional Catholic view, subject to concupiscence and in need of ongoing sanctification. The Blessing, by contrast, claims to accomplish a change of lineage through the authority of True Parents — a claim that has no direct equivalent in any other tradition.

Judaism

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In Jewish tradition, kiddushin (קידושין, betrothal/sanctification) is the first stage of the marriage covenant, in which the woman is set apart as holy to her husband before God. The concept of sanctification through the marriage act — making something common holy — resonates with the Blessing's claim to transform a fallen couple into a restored one. The Jewish emphasis on lineage continuity (yichus) and the transmission of identity through birth also parallels the Unification emphasis on lineage restoration.

Islam

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The Islamic nikah (نكاح, marriage contract) is a solemn covenant (mithaq, the same word used for God's covenant with the prophets), witnessed before God and the community. The Quranic description of spouses as one another's garments (2:187) — each covering and protecting the other — resonates with the Unification understanding of husband and wife as the complementary halves through which God's nature is fully expressed. Islam's absolute prohibition of zina (fornication/adultery) reflects a similar conviction that the sexual relationship is sacred and covenantal, not merely social.

Confucianism

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The classical Confucian five relationships (wulun) place the husband-wife relationship at the center of social order, and the proper ordering of that relationship — based on virtue, loyalty, and complementarity — is understood as the foundation from which a harmonious society radiates outward. Rev. Moon explicitly appropriated this framework: the Blessed marriage is not merely a personal relationship but the social foundation upon which tribe, nation, and world are built. His teaching extends the Confucian logic to its cosmic conclusion: the properly ordered family is the basic unit of the Kingdom of Heaven itself.

07Section VI — Academic Note: The Blessing in New Religious Movements Scholarship

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The Blessing ceremony has attracted sustained scholarly attention as one of the most distinctive and sociologically visible practices of any new religious movement in the twentieth century. Scholars have approached it from three main angles.

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Sociological analyses have examined the Blessing primarily through the lens of the mass wedding events — particularly the 1992 (30,000 couples, Seoul Olympic Stadium), 1995 (360,000 couples, Seoul World Cup Stadium), and 1997 (3.6 million couples, simultaneously held worldwide) ceremonies. Eileen Barker (The Making of a Moonie, 1984) and Lorne Dawson (Cults in Context, 1998) have examined the role of the Blessing in reinforcing community identity, cross-cultural integration, and the movement's self-understanding as a global providential force. Critics have questioned the degree to which participants exercise fully informed and free consent, particularly in the context of the Matching.

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Theological analyses from within the tradition, including works by Young Oon Kim and Andrew Wilson, situate the Blessing within the broader Unification theology of restoration — arguing that its sacramental claims are internally coherent with the Divine Principle's account of the Fall as a lineage event rather than merely a moral transgression. From this perspective, the Blessing is the only sacrament adequate to the depth of the Fall's structural damage.

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Comparative religious analyses have noted the Blessing's structural uniqueness: no other religious tradition combines the public scale of mass ceremony, the intimacy of the Matching process, the explicit lineage theology, and the ongoing family covenant in quite the same way. Michael Mickler (The Unification Church in America, 2000) and George Chryssides (The Advent of Sun Myung Moon, 1991) both note that understanding the Blessing is the key to understanding the movement as a whole — it is the practice that most directly embodies the theology, and through which members most concretely experience the claims of the Divine Principle in their own lives.

08Key Texts

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Rebirth — the spiritual transformation the Blessing enables

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    ShimjeongResearch study…itself, the root from which all four types grow. This is why the restoration of shimjeong requires the Blessing Ceremony: a new lineage must be established through True Parents before the four types of shimjeong can genuinely…
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    HyeongsangResearch study…— the moment when “the formless and the formed become one through love,” as Rev. Moon described it. The Blessing Ceremony is precisely the restoration of the correct relationship between Seongsang and Hyeongsang in the human…
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    The Relationship Between A Moment And A LifetimeSermon · 27 Dec 1970…condition that could be presented in a new historical age, a new age of the sphere of world culture. This Blessing ceremony may seem no great matter, but you must know that it became a shocking fact that struck like a dagger before…
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    Talk To TraineesSermon · 3 Jan 1972To indemnify that, God gave this country a blessing. He blessed this country before he blessed the Adam and Eve countries. That way, He can make the condition…
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    Duty of Blessed FamiliesSermon · 21 Feb 1991…will only the husband and wife go? Or do you want to take all your children with you? In this gigantic Blessing ceremony, do you want your children to participate or not? Why do you want your children to participate?
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    The Establishment of the Abel UN and the Completion of Cheon II Guk in KoreaBook chapter…by establishing an absolute standard on the foundation of purifying themselves, both inside and out, through the holy Blessing Ceremony. This is the time of opening up the era of God's kingdom, Cheon Il Guk, a time in which we can return to the…
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    God's Kingdom of Cheon Il Guk that Attends God Who Is Opening the Eternal and Unchanging Era of the Heavenly CalendarSermon · 19 Jan 2010…by establishing an absolute standard on the foundation of purifying themselves, both inside and out, through the holy marriage blessing ceremony.
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    ShimcheongResearch study…in Shimcheong's sacrifice Fallen Nature — the self-centeredness that Shimcheong's filial love overcomes Blessing Ceremony — the context in which filial love toward the True Parents is fulfilled
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    Headwing PhilosophyResearch study…for building Cheon Il Guk — the Kingdom of Heaven on earth — through the worldwide expansion of the Blessing Ceremony and the work of Tribal Messiahs.
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    The 17th Day of Victory of LoveSermon · 3 Feb 2000Regrettably, the Japanese government was unable to recognize Japan's responsibility to hold the Blessing Ceremony. Then, in January, it was necessary to decide on the next-best choice, Korea. Since then, Japan has been…
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    Challenges Faced in Giving the First BlessingBook chapter…was through the Blessing that I had to regain the children lost throughout history. Hence, I concluded the Blessing Ceremony hurriedly. I had no choice because I was trying to accomplish restoration through indemnity.
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    The Already Married CouplesBook chapter…past, present, and future, have united with us, which is why I allowed you to hold the preliminary Blessing ceremonies. Only when I perform the Blessing with such thoughts in my mind can the relationship of salvation be formed…
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    The Conditions for RegistrationBook chapterThe international holy Blessing Ceremony is the very ritual of resurrection which completely liquidates and restores every defiled thing that arose…
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    The Oneness of God and Humankind, and the Perfection of the Ideal of LoveBook chapterWhen a man and a woman receive the Blessing and feel joy by giving and receiving perfected love, in God's eyes, it's like a flower blossoming on earth.…
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    Explanation of Family Pledge Number FourBook chapter…of creating true families, which are the prerequisite and fundamental unit of a peaceful world. The Holy Blessing Ceremony of the 360 Million Couples, which I will officiate, is one of the fruits of my lifelong efforts to educate…
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    Everybody, understand the BlessingSermon · 14 Sep 2011…to my speech is a prayer. Did you know this? I have received secrets from God and want to give the Blessing to everyone. We need to organize the Blessing and Seunghwa ceremonies. I want to include everyone and not…
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    Our God-Given ResponsibilityBook chapter…based on that family and in your district, you distribute the four hundred and thirty books focusing on the blessing. I have dedicated my life to fulfilling that work, and God has also been striving for tens of thousands of…
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    Visualizing the Kingdom of GodSermon · 1 Aug 2008We must continue with this work. We must continue it without ceasing so that the Blessing Ceremony can take place even in the spirit world, where the spirit people, who will use Pyung Shin Gyeong as the Hoon…
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    What are the most precious things in the Unification Church?Book chapterWhat we have to do now is rectify the lineage and complete the blessing. Once we complete the tours (on April 17) by 120 Christian leaders, 1,200 religious leaders, and 12,000…
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    Christianity is the religion that supervises the root of all religionsBook chapter…Church was the blessing. Now, however, we can perform the Holy Wine Ceremony, Holy Fire Ceremony, and Blessing Ceremony on all six continents and five oceans.
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    Hoon Dok Hae at East GardenBook chapter…cannot be recognized in God's world and in Satan's world at the same time. So, as soon as you receive the Blessing and change your blood lineage, the satanic world steps back. Did you think about giving the Blessing to your…
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    The "Three Great Subjects" Principle from the Viewpoint of God's Providence: How to become a True Parent, True Teacher, and a True Citizen of HeavenAddress · 4 Jul 2007Even the people in the spirit world have no way to be saved without receiving the grace of the Blessing from the True Parents. The absolute good spirits in the spirit world, who number as many as 300 billion, are…
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    True Parents and OurselvesSermon · 7 May 1972This explains the necessity of the blessing. The Blessing cannot be performed as we wish; it starts centered on the True Parents, who are the core of the vertical…
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    Jacob's Course And Our Life In FaithSermon · 28 May 1973…because God is on our side. By joining the Divine Principle movement, this means that you have the promising blessing from God to possess the whole world under the condition of indemnity. That which belonged to Esau is now…
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    Mainstream Of the Dispensation Of GodSermon · 19 Nov 1978Firstly, you will make your mind and body become one. Then, when you are given the blessing, you become husband and wife and create one family, then the clan, tribe, nation, and world. Then you…
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  author = {Jon Auror},
  title = {Blessing Ceremony},
  booktitle = {Doctrinal Encyclopedia},
  publisher = {True Parents Legacy Archive},
  year = {2000},
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Study byJon Auror, Researcher with 21 years of focus on the Unification movement. Dedicated student of comparative religion and philosophy, specializing in th…
Scholarly editionA confessional doctrinal study written from within the Unification tradition. Official English editions are quoted verbatim; other translations are the author’s.
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