History and Our Responsibility

This is the speech I heard from Rev Moon when I first joined The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity; otherwise known as the 'Moonies'. I was in Julie Barnes' fundraising team and she knew that he was speaking in Lancaster Gate, London UK and drove there and we went to the crowded Ballroom where he was already speaking. This was also the first time I saw Rev. Moon in person. This speech helped me to catch the real situation of mankind who were like prisoners of war in a prison camp but not recently captured, instead being the offspring of prisoners many generations down the line who'd become accustomed to living there, and knew of no other life to compare it to. 

This speech was given in 1978 July 16th and I had joined the previous year moving all my stuff out of a caravan that I'd been living in, on a farm in Glenmavis, Scotland the day before, and arriving at Dunbar Manor House on November 30th to start a 21 day workshop the following day.

Of course i had no idea then how difficult it would be to convince my family and friends at the time, and thought that things would change in 4 or 5 years at most. How wrong I was...
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As a good collateral benefit, it helped me understand how hard it was for Jesus to make a breakthrough, when he was starting out on his public ministry, with people who were far from ideal because he was rejected by the religious leaders at the time; and he had to make do with good hearted but, otherwise, unqualified people.

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Since 3 years I haven't done much with this website which was made with the motivation to make these teaching accessible and accurate as much as possible. But now i feel times have changed.

I recently had the inspiration to offer audiobook downloads as mp3 that could reside in your music, or audio collection, and be listened to while driving, walking the dog, or travelling. Rev Moon recommended early morning gathering for study (Hoon Dok Hae) and these books on the Audiobook download page are all fundamental teachings, that we need to make sense of the Bible, and bring about unification rather than further different denominations.

I feel strongly that the USA is going through a fundamental reset and people generally are looking at things afresh. The current administration of America is doing things very differently with regard to alignments, and trade, with respect to sovereignty; refraining from imposing regime changes from without but willing to support the will of the people and show, by example, a more effective way of doing things. These significant changes seem to support the idea that people will likely revisit Rev. Moon and the many projects that he was engaged in, and his core teaching.

One of my main criticisms of people who denigrate Rev Moon is that they have not investigated the teachings for themselves. One  main reason is that people are so busy getting money to just live, that they tend not to make time for it. I'm hoping that a benefit from more disposable income being available, as well as earning it in a shorter period will give rise to people sharing more time with each other and investigating the 'new truth' from Rev Moon contained in the Exposition of the Divine Principle especially, but also in seminal speeches such as 'The new Future of Christianity' and the 'Peace Messages'.

The picture that has been used as artwork for the speech (that was the title of this blog) is the UK HQ of The Unification Church back then. It brings back happy memories to see it. I hope that Christianity can yet be unified and, thus, become much more powerful for our Heavenly Father, God to express Himself through.

Download link: "History and Our Responsibility"