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The Right of the First Born Son Must Be Restored

The position of the firstborn son is more precious than that of the second son, Abel.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 994

I’m not saying that you should force yourself to lay down your life if you do not want to. I’m saying that you should joyfully be willing to do that. Would God want you to lay down your life if you are totally miserable doing so, or would He prefer it if, intoxicated with love and not knowing whether you would live or die, you danced with joy while laying down your life? Which would He prefer? (48-114, 1971.9.5

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1062

    Why do you have to fulfill the responsibility of tribal messiah? The first reason is that you must save your parents. Your parents are in the position of the first Adam, and you are in the position of the second Adam. You must complete the mission of Adam by restoring and re-creating your parents. The second reason is that you need a hometown. By completing the responsibility of tribal messiah, you will be able to have your own hometown.
    Ultimately, the reason for fulfilling your portion of responsibility as a tribal messiah is the perfection of Adam’s family. In real terms, you have to educate your tribe. (244-211, 1993.2.7)

Cheon Seong Gyeong

Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity

Chapter 3
The Formula for Indemnification and Restoration

Section 4. Restoration of Right of the Eldest Son, Right of the Parent and Right of Kingship

4.1. Restoration of the right of the eldest son

Summary:
The Unification Church clarifies biblical history by explaining that humanity must restore the lost rights of both the firstborn (Cain) and secondborn (Abel) sons to God’s side to return to His original ideal 📖. The passage details that this required immense historical suffering and sacrifice—such as early Christians enduring centuries of Roman persecution in the catacombs—because the firstborn position carries unique precedence 👑. Ultimately, the text highlights that recovering this original order is exceptionally difficult, yet necessary to transcend the fallen realm and reclaim God’s absolute creation ideal .
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Indemnity Is No Longer Needed

This means that wherever I or the believers of the Unification Church go, the age of persecution is over.

Cheon Seong Gyeong 2019

    Many people who have come and gone wanted to have this mission and had this hope. Even though they wanted it, they could not have it. This is one special mission that can be done only once, at this time in history. It requires a solemn sense of responsibility. Eating, sleeping, your comings and goings; every aspect of your lifestyle must be for the establishment of the homeland.
    How long do you think God has been waiting impatiently for you, as a secret emissary sent by God, to come forward and determine to carry out this mission in a high-spirited and exciting way?

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1913

    I have been speaking about the hobby business. The entire world today is a world of science, in which through the best technology, people are moving the world. For this reason, people take a serious view of the production process, calling it the hobby industry, whereas I call it the hobby life. Do you understand? There are all kinds of hobbies – hobbies for your eyes, for your nose, for your mouth, for your ears, for your sense of touch, for your body, for your mind, for your love, and so on… (278-95, 1996.5.1)

Cheon Seong Gyeong

Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity

Chapter 3
The Formula for Indemnification and Restoration

Section 3. The Eight-Stage Indemnity Course and the Ceremony of the Settlement of the Eight Stages


3.3. Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages

Summary:
On August 31, 1989, Sun Myung Moon declared the Ceremony of the Settlement of the Eight Stages in Alaska, officially ending the historical age of persecution and indemnity for humanity 🏔️. The passage explains that this ceremony completely restored the right of the eldest son to God’s side, allowing believers to stand in a global realm where Satan can no longer accuse or oppose them 👑. Consequently, it marks the transition into an era of love and forgiveness, where humanity can boldly build the heavenly kingdom without the need for past struggles and suffering 🌍.
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I Announced the Ideology Centered on the Heavenly Father

It is the ideology of salvation through love, which we know as the parent-centered ideology.

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1805

    The people we need are the True Parents. What started from the false parents must be restarted by the True Parents. The false parents are the ones who inherited false love and false lineage starting from false love. This must be reversed. Then, how can we inherit true life and true lineage centered on the love of the True Parents? In other words, the issue is how to inherit the original seed again since we inherited the wrong seed of life.
    With regard to this issue, it cannot be inherited without the True Parents. Therefore, the Messiah must come upon the earth, and his seed, the seed of new life of the True Parents, must be injected and engrafted. Through this, you can return to the original position of the true olive tree. It is simple. Therefore, God is our True Parent. So, think how close He is. The vertical Parent is God, and the True Parents fulfill ideal love as horizontal parents. (218-223, 1991.7.29)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1182

    What is the thing that Satan until now has held on to historically, based on the eight stages of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, heaven and earth and God? He has been saying, “God, You are the Master who follows the heavenly principles, and Your son and daughter, the ideal Adam and Eve, that is, the True Parents, are a son and daughter who follow these principles. Because You, the Father who follows the Principle, created me as the archangel, it was a fundamental rule that before falling, I would have been able to receive Your love and the love of Your son. If You cannot love and work in that way, You will not be able to love the principled son as the principled Father.” This is the problem.
    In other words, Satan is saying that although he fell, if God could not love him, He would not be able to return all the creation, which is in Satan’s possession, to the realm under the dominion of God’s love, and the love of Adam in the original Eden. He means that if God and Abel united and loved Satan, they can restore everything based on the condition of individual love, but otherwise, they will not be able to do this. Next, the same applies to the family, tribe, people, nation and world, which are in the same position, and he claims that heaven and earth are in such a position as well. That is the way in which Satan grabs us by the throat or, as you might say, how he tightens the noose around our neck. (132-29, 1984.5.19

Cheon Seong Gyeong

Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity

Chapter 3
The Formula for Indemnification and Restoration

Section 3. The Eight-Stage Indemnity Course and the Ceremony of the Settlement of the Eight Stages


3.3. Ceremony for the Settlement of the Eight Stages

Summary:
On August 31, 1989, Rev. Sun Myung Moon traveled to Alaska to conduct the “Ceremony of the Settlement of the Eight Stages,” marking the completion of vertical and horizontal indemnity 🏔️. The passage explains that this established a central axis allowing God to move freely and opened the age of the global family, where humanity is raised to the position of tribal messiahs to liberate Jesus and Adam’s family from historical grief 🌍.
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Unification Is Only Possible through a Religion that Teaches about True Parents

At the very highest level, the religion in the position of parents will appear.

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 1890

What will you do with small ships? They will be used for fishing. For the most part, people are interested in fishing, but not so much interested in fishery itself, which is catching fish with nets. In the future, there will no longer be an interest in catching fish using nets, nor in riding on big boats. For this reason, I have built this New Hope. I have designed a boat that can sail on the river, as well as the sea. Now our New Hope is famous for fishing and guiding. It is not a boat that just goes out to the sea. Also, it is easily transferable to any location, simply by using an automobile. (262-240, 1994.8.1)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1098

People today do not know what it means to die. It is not a sorrowful occasion. You should see it as a transition from a lower dimensional world to a higher dimensional world, through the bridge of love. That is why the Unification Church does not call it death but Seunghwa. It is ascending to a higher dimension. This is only possible through love. (137-316, 1986.1.5)

Cheon Seong Gyeong

Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity

Chapter 3
The Formula for Indemnification and Restoration

Section 3. The Eight-Stage Indemnity Course and the Ceremony of the Settlement of the Eight Stages


3.2. Satan’s activities and the victory in the eight stages

Summary:
There is an eight-stage vertical course—progressing from a servant of servants up to God 👑—that must be systematically climbed through intense persecution and indemnity to achieve true liberation. The passage explains that leaders, religious movements, and Rev. Sun Myung Moon himself must earn victory over Satan at every horizontal level (from individual to world) before moving to the next. Ultimately, it asserts that human history and religious development naturally unfold through these stages, culminating in the Last Days with the appearance of the “True Parents” religion, which enables the ultimate unification of all religions 🕊️.

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The Human Portion of Responsibility Is a Fact

There exists a formula course springing from our portion of responsibility.

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Cheon Seong Gyeong 643

This universe is the spirit world’s sphere of activity. While the vast universe is its spiritual sphere of activity this world too, at the same time, is the spirit world’s sphere of activity. On earth we can connect with that external realm, the universe. From the viewpoint of God’s providence, it means symbolically that the citizens of heaven now living on earth have reached the standard where they can always contact countless ancestors spread throughout the great universe. In the external world, this is indicated symbolically by the exploration of the universe using satellites. (196-215, 1990.1.1)

Cheon Seong Gyeong 1389

Until now the Blessed Couples were left to do as they pleased. Since they had not yet reached the summit that is the top of the growth stage, I could not deal with them as the perfected parent. I could not interfere with them. However, that is all in the past now. As we have passed through the forty-year course and have accomplished the 30,000and 360,000 Couples Blessings, we have gone beyond the formation and growth stages on the global level. This means there is no one in the satanic world who can stop the progress of our church now. We have gone beyond that. Though people opposed on all sides, we have overcome them all. (272-72, 1995.8.30)

Cheon Seong Gyeong

Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Book 8
Sin and Restoration Through Indemnity

Chapter 3
The Formula for Indemnification and Restoration

Section 3. The Eight-Stage Indemnity Course and the Ceremony of the Settlement of the Eight Stages

3.2. Satan’s activities and the victory in the eight stages

Summary:
The path of indemnity through eight stages—from the individual level up to God 🌌—is an unavoidable formula course created to fulfill humanity’s portion of responsibility and overcome the Fall. Because Satan blocks progress at every level, people cannot achieve restoration all at once; instead, they must systematically overcome Satan by winning over “Cain” figures and enduring persecution in difficult places 🌧️. Ultimately, passing through all eight stages step-by-step is required to fully separate from Satan, connect with God’s love, and reach the highest realms of the spirit world ✨.
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