1. The World Peace Blessing
Holy Wedding
Marriage Rededication
World Peace through Ideal Families

2. 1. The Meaning of the Blessing

3. 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

4. Take dominion over the creation
Be fruitful
To grow to maturity as an individual
Multiply
Marry, have children and raise a loving family
Take dominion over the creation
Exercise a loving stewardship over the material world

5. Forces for existence, development and reproduction.
(a) The Pair System and Give and Take Action
Mind
Husband
Elder
Parent
Teacher
Leader
giving
receiving
Body
Wife
Younger
Child
Student
Follower
Subject
Object
receiving
giving
Forces for existence, development and reproduction.
Nothing exists independently. Everything is created to exist through reciprocal relationships as part of a pair system.
The subject and object each exist for the sake of the other.

6. God (b) The Four Position Foundation Origin Division Union Subject
Object
Union

7. God (c) The Three Great Blessings i. Be Fruitful Mind Body True Self
Subject
Mind
Body
Subject
Object
True Self
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.

8. God ii. Multiply Subject Subject Husband Wife Object Children 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

9. God iii. Take Dominion over the Creation Human Beings Environ-ment
Subject
Object
Ideal World
Object
- partner for God to love

10. 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
Object
Joy
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.

11. (b) The Four Great Realms of Heart
God
Parent realm of heart
Conjungal realm of heart
Husband
Wife
Sister
Daughter
Brother
Son
Brother and Sister realm of heart
Children
Children’s realm of heart

12. 3) The Five Life Roles 5. True Owner 4. True Teacher 3. True Parent
2. True Husband and Wife
1. True Man and Woman

13. A Family-Centred Message
The Family Federation for World Peace
and Unification
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14. 4) The Definition of the Family
i. The Family should be thought of as having at least three generations
Grand Parents 1. 2. 3.
Father
Parents
Mother
Children

15. Current society tends to ignore the elderly

16. God ii. The Family is the starting point of Love, Life and Lineage
True Love
Husband
Wife
True Life Children
True Lineage

17. iii. The Family is the basic unit of the
Heavenly Kingdom
The Family is the foundation of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Building the Kingdom of Heaven in this physical world through true families.

18. “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

19. Summary One absolute God Two beings: man and woman
Three Great Blessings
Four Great Realms of Heart
Five Life Roles

20. 2. What went wrong?

21. The Reality of our World
Conflict
Race, religion,
nationality, resources
Starvation
Disease
Ignorance

22. Births Outside Marriage
Sweden – 50%
France – 35%
U.S – 30%

23. Ideal and Fall God Man Perfect Person
Goal is to be perfect, “You must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Mt.
Due to fall came under the dominion of Satan. Instead of God as parent worshipped other gods. Rejected God’s way of life – purity, honesty, goodness and embraced Satan’s way of life – impurity, selfishness, dishonesty, murder, violence. Resemble Satan more than resemble God.
“You are of your father the devil and your will is to do your father’s desires.”
Perfect Person

24. Ideal and Fall God God Man Man Fallen Person Perfect Person
Goal is to be perfect, “You must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Mt.
Due to fall came under the dominion of Satan. Instead of God as parent worshipped other gods. Rejected God’s way of life – purity, honesty, goodness and embraced Satan’s way of life – impurity, selfishness, dishonesty, murder, violence. Resemble Satan more than resemble God.
“You are of your father the devil and your will is to do your father’s desires.”
Fallen Person
Perfect Person

25. Ideal and Fall God God God Man Man Satan Man Fallen Person
Goal is to be perfect, “You must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Mt.
Due to fall came under the dominion of Satan. Instead of God as parent worshipped other gods. Rejected God’s way of life – purity, honesty, goodness and embraced Satan’s way of life – impurity, selfishness, dishonesty, murder, violence. Resemble Satan more than resemble God.
“You are of your father the devil and your will is to do your father’s desires.”
Fallen Person
Perfect Person

26. The Human Fall loss of Love, Life and Lineage
Satan
God
God
Satan
Satan
God
Mind
Body
Husband
Wife
Person
Creation
Person
Children
World
Responsible mastery and dominion of the natural world
Spiritually mature, a person of true love
Love in the Family extended to the world
“I set before you this day a blessing and a curse” (Deut 11:26)

27. Expulsion from paradise
Masaccio Fresco 1427 Florenz - Santa Maria del Carmine

28. The Content of the Fall God
Illicit love starting from the false parents, Adam and Eve
God
False Father
False Mother
Adam
Illicit Love
Eve
False Family

29. “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

30. The Fall is the cause of Human Misery
Fallen human beings have:
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

31. Salvation
God
I am the way , and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me
John 14:6
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men; the man Jesus Christ
1 Timothy 2:6
Christ
Have to cut off from Satan – at the risk of life deny Satan’s way of life and follow the Messiah. Leave the dead to bury the dead. Complete, unconditional self denial and sacrifice. Cut off all ties to Satan.
The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil
I John 3:8
Satan
Man

32. Jesus sets the pattern of the First Blessing – being like God
“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

33. Jesus, as a ‘Second Adam’
God
God
God
Mind
Body
Husband
Wife
Person
Creation
Person
Children
World
Spiritually perfect, a person of true love in whom God dwells
Inheriting the true love of God and extending it to the world - a pure lineage
A world where human beings and nature are in harmony
Jesus’ rejection meant God’s providence of restoration would be prolonged.
No new, purified lineage would spring from the ‘Second Adam’
By the glorious victory of The Resurrection, spiritual salvation is open to all who believe
When the way of the Cross became inevitable Jesus began to talk of the need for the Son of Man to come again
Jesus provided the model of the ideal individual
but was prevented from fulfilling 2nd & 3rd Blessings

34. 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

35. the True Family Movement
3. The Blessing and
the True Family Movement

36. 1) Rev. Moon and the Blessing Providence
Adam, Jesus, Christ when He returns: all three come to fulfil the Three Blessings
God’s unchanging Will, based on a True Family
Rev. Moon’s mission and meeting Jesus Christ
Receiving the Blessing from God
Sharing the Blessing with all Humanity

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

38. 2) Origins of the World Peace Blessing
The World Peace Blessing movement started amongst Rev and Mrs. Moon’s own religious followers 1960 – 36 Couples Blessing

39. The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification
Expanded to become Inter-Religious through FFWPU ,000 Couples in Seoul Olympic Stadium

40. The Universal Peace Federation
Reached opinion leaders and appointed Ambassadors for Peace 2001 – 210 Couples, United Nations, New York

41. 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

42. 4. The Blessing Ceremony

43. The Components of the Blessing
Holy Wine (Nectar) Ceremony (Symbolizing a change of lineage) 43

44. The Components of the Blessing
Indemnity Ceremony (Symbolically healing past resentments between men and women) 44

45. The Components of the Blessing
Blessing Ceremony (A solemn yet joyous wedding) 45

46. The Blessing Ceremony Sprinkling with Holy Water
Recitation of Wedding Vows
Exchange of Rings
Blessing Prayer

47. The World Peace Blessing Vows
To resemble the nature and love of 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 47

48. 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 48

49. The Components of the Blessing
Three-Day Ceremony (The rebirth of the couple’s relationship in 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 49

50. The Components of the Blessing (recap)
Holy Wine (nectar) Ceremony (Symbolizing a change of lineage)
Indemnity Ceremony (Symbolically healing past resentments between 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 relationship in holiness – spiritually and physically) 50

51. Blessed Family Tradition
Faith in the home
Blessed Family Associations
Marriage preparation
Workshops for children
Support for couples and family life
Contribute to public life, beyond the family

52. The World Peace Blessing