Seonghwa Means a Sacred Ascension to Heaven

You have to push the dead person to the spirit world with the power of love. Do not hold them back but push them forward.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 867

When you are in the spirit world, do you think that you have to urinate or not? Why don’t you go there and find out? I can tell you that you will have to urinate, even in the spirit world. However, those who disagree should go there and find out for themselves. Then what about bowel movements? Do you think we do that there or not? You do everything there, but it will immediately return to the elements. Scientists say that there are 107 basic elements in the universe, although the number is constantly increasing. Anyhow, urine and feces will return to their elements. That is why you do not have to wash in the spirit world. If you wave your hands with the heart of love, everything will go back to its original place. If you ask something with a heart of love, it will come out. With the heart of love, the mobilization of all kinds of things is possible. (212-30, 1991.1.1)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1183

Throughout history, there have been numerous paths of suffering and hardship, but you must realize that the path of hardship of the eight stages that I have passed through never existed in past history. You must understand that it was the way of indemnity where, because of the difficulties, I still wasn’t allowed to shed tears, crying out, “God, I am not able to endure this position!” Those who are going to build the kingdom must not shed tears for themselves while walking this way. It is the heavenly principle that unless we pass through the place of tears with joy, the foothold of the heavenly kingdom will not remain in this earthly world. (161-194, 1987.2.3)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Section 14. Blessed Families Ceremonies


14.3. The Seunghwa Ceremony

Summary:
Death is not a sorrowful event, but rather a joyful, sacred transition from a lower-dimensional world to a higher one through the power of love. To reflect this reality, True Father introduced the term “Seunghwa Ceremony” to replace traditional funerals, explaining that the practice began after the passing of his son, Heung-jin, which successfully broke down the walls of death and allowed spirits to advance freely into the spirit world without being held back by the sad tears of their loved ones. He later updated the name to “Seonghwa,” changing the Chinese character to mean “holy” or “sacred” rather than just “to ascend,” to emphasize that entering the spirit world is a unique, victorious moment where a person’s earthly life bears fruit. Consequently, Unification Church members should not fear death, and those who attend a Seonghwa Ceremony should celebrate the person’s natural departure with songs of victory and tears of joy rather than dejection or despair.
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Do Not Deviate after Becoming a Blessed Couple

If you commit any acts that defile your body, you will be worse off than Satan himself

Cheon Seong Gyeong 503

    Where does love come from? Never from the self, but rather from one’s partner. Without a partner, love cannot arise. Within humankind, woman complements man, and children complement their parents. Love is not realized without partners. This is called “the love of three object partners.” Those who have not experienced the love of three object partners cannot stand in a position of having substantially experienced God’s perfect love.
    “Let us give birth to sons and daughters and rejoice to the same extent that God rejoiced after having created Adam and Eve.” This is taught in the Unification Church’s Divine Principle.
    Having created Adam and Eve, God said, “From now on, you will rule over the world. Our family will be the central family of the world. Please grow up quickly, grow up quickly.” He felt joy and satisfaction while protecting and nurturing them with hope, desiring to see the day of their marriage upon their coming of age. By the same token, fathers and mothers want to raise their children well, and find good partners for them to become good husbands and wives. When that happens, the family prospers. (57-119, 1972.5.29)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1310

    After the blessing of the international holy grounds, I performed the Blessing of the 430 Couples. This number corresponds to the 430 years of captivity of the Israelites in Egypt, and also the 4,300 years of Korean history. This Blessing signifies the beginning of a new history. Moreover, the 430 Couples also represent all families in the world. Afterwards, while I was carrying out my second world tour, I blessed 43 couples in the United States, Europe and Japan. I could then connect those 43 couples to the 430 Couples on the world level. By doing this, I was able to connect the victorious foundation I had established in Korea to the world, including the Western world.
    By accomplishing all this, all the families in the world, not just the members of the Unification Church, could now stand in a position to receive heavenly fortune right then and there. That is why the gates of heaven are now open to all families on earth. (52-131, 1971.12.26)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Section 14. Blessed Families Ceremonies

14.2. The Blessing

Summary:
The holy wine contains elements of creation that Satan cannot touch, meaning that if you defile your body after drinking it and becoming one with True Parents, you commit an unforgivable sin worse than Satan’s original fall. True Father explains that the holy wedding ceremony officially passes down God’s love so that couples can live as parents themselves, and it creates an eternal bond where True Parents take full responsibility to guide and lead the blessed spouses even into the spirit world. However, because the Blessing occurs at the ultimate completion stage, deviating or breaking heavenly law carries severe spiritual consequences, offers no forgiveness, and passes a heavy burden of sin down through dozens of generations. Ultimately, the value of a blessed person is far greater than anyone who has already passed into the spirit world, but abandoning this immense heavenly grace means facing terrifying judgment and accusation from Satan himself.
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You Need to Convert the Lineage that was Defiled by the Fall

Without accomplishing this, you cannot remove Original Sin.

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1063

    Concerning the process of re-creation, to give and give again for the sake of others is the same as God expending Himself in the act of creation. To invest oneself is the act of creating one’s second self; it is the same as God investing Himself for the sake of Creation. The works of re-creation follow the course of restoration through indemnity; indemnity is carried out through the works of recreation. Therefore, re-creation can only come about when you invest yourself. For this reason, it is a reasonable conclusion to say that sacrifice is inevitable. (82-240, 1976.1.31)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1277

    The holy wine is not simply made like ordinary wine. You cannot bring forth wine and claim it to be holy wine. It is made in the presence of God and Satan, and the angels in the spirit world. There are twenty-one elements within it that you do not know about. The wine contains all the elements that are formed in the process of restoring the physical world and humankind. When making the holy wine, spirits from the spirit world come and implore me to pour a glass for them so that they can partake of it. It is because they know that by drinking the holy wine they can be restored. That is why they come to me in a group and ask to share in the benefit. They know that I can bestow on them this benefit. However, I am not here for the spirit world. I am here for the physical world. That is why I tell the spirits, “Wait!” and give the wine to you, for all the suffering you have been through. (46‑233, 1971.8.15)

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Sons and Daughters Are Precious Treasures of Heaven and Earth

Treasures that you can neither buy nor exchange for the entire world.

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1188

    It is only after we go beyond the realm of the Fall and restore the rights of both the first and second born sons on God’s side, that we can stand in the original world for the first time. This is the original ideal of creation. As God is absolute, His ideal has also remained absolute. To regain the original ideal, we must undergo a historical course of restoration through indemnity in order to go beyond the fallen realm. (134-304, 1985.8.16)

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1916

    Where should America go? It should return to Asia. It should seek the Asian continent where Jesus’ body was lost. The era of the Pacific civilization is coming. Yet, why is the era of the Asia-Pacific civilization coming? Even scholars do not know this. This cannot be solved without Rev. Moon’s principle. America will be compelled to seek Asia. Currently, America has only the spiritual standard. Therefore, in order to make use of the body, it must return to Asia. (225-30, 1992.1.1)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Section 14. Blessed Families Ceremonies

14.1. Birth

Summary:
Children are a precious, irreplaceable gift from God that cannot be bought or exchanged for anything in the entire world. The process of childbirth is intentionally designed by God to be a grueling, life-and-death struggle so that parents can experience a brilliantly shining, profound depth of love. In the chaotic moment of birth, when a newborn finally cries out, a mother’s intense pain vanishes in an instant, allowing her to love her child even more deeply because of the hardships she overcame. To honor this mysterious and unfathomable miracle of new life, Blessed families should hold a formal ceremony to dedicate their newborns to heaven, which must be performed on the seventh day after birth for daughters and on the eighth day for sons.
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Do Not Behave Shamefully in Front of Your Parents’ Graves

If you do anything that deviates from the right meaning of love, your ancestors will personally come after you and reprimand you.

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 583

    All things of this world will pass away. Our families, nations, and even the world itself will pass away. Ideologies and philosophies will pass away. What will remain? It is the hope with which we can fight and win over death. Without such a hope, we might as well call ourselves failures in life.
    On the other hand, there is a group of people who, from their birth, reject all hopes that secular people desire and all humanistic things, and live embracing the heavenly hope, an eternal hope.
    Heaven made limitless efforts to enable humanity, living with their earthly, humanistic hopes, to go over the peak of death with a new hope and to live with regard to the eternal world. Therefore, people who live a life of faith should not live embracing earthly hope, but should live dreaming of the eternal world of hope that can even conquer death. (6-43, 1959.3.22)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1095

    There is some element of truth in Christianity’s ban on the performance of ancestral rites up until the present day. This rite should be offered to God and the True Parent of all humankind. The ancestors in the spirit world should originally have been served by us. However, due to the Fall, this has been prohibited until the present time. In the age of restoration, because you have received the Blessing, you should attend your ancestors from now on. (223-210, 1991.11.10)

Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 7
Etiquette and Ceremonies
Chapter 4

Section 13. Ancestral Rituals for Blessed Families

13.1. Laws on ancestor worship were originally part of heavenly law.

Summary:
If you deviate from the true meaning of love, your ancestors will personally return to reprimand you, making it essential to honor them with proper order and deep respect. In traditional Korean culture, the firstborn son of the eldest son holds the ultimate authority; he stands at the head of all ancestral rites above all other relatives, and he alone dictates the exact time of the memorial service. The deceased ancestors must adjust to this designated time on earth to receive their offering table, reflecting Jesus’s principle that what is unbound on earth is unbound in heaven. Furthermore, if you were genuinely pious to your parents while they were alive, you do not need to perform elaborate ceremonies or visit faraway burial grounds after their passing; instead, you can simply keep their picture in your home, celebrating and attending to them as if they were alive. While Christianity historically banned ancestral rites because humanity was disconnected from God due to the Fall, the current age of restoration and the Blessing empowers families to freely attend and elevate their ancestors once again.
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