Fellow members!

I am thankful that you devoted yourself to the ancestor liberation ceremony up to the 7th generation on your father's side, which was granted as True Parents' grace, and am thankful that you are participating in the 320th Chung Pyung Special Workshop. At this time, I want to speak about the attitude we should have when attending this special workshop to liberate our ancestors as well as about True Parents' words on the ancestor liberation ceremony up to the 7th generation so that we can liberate our ancestors in accordance with True Parents’ will.

At Hannam-dong on January 29, 1999, True Parents said, "All Unification Church members all over the world must liberate their ancestors up to the 7th generation on their father's side. You can go over the realm of family only if you find and liberate your ancestors up to 7th generation on your father's side. In order to register into the new Completed Testament age and to complete the 160 family, 180 family Blessing as a tribal messiah, you must find and liberate your ancestors up to the 7th generation on your father's side." And for the ancestor liberation up to the 7th generation, "By the end of this year, the ancestor liberation starting from the 1st to the 7th generation and going up to the 120th generation must be completed through the guidance of Heung Jin Nim and Dae Mo Nim at Chung Pyung."(1999)

From March 1st to March 6th, 1999 True Parents lead a joint Hoon Dok Hae workshop with eight organizations, FFWP, WFWP, YFWP, etc. at Jeju Island International Training Center. True Parents said, "You can live a blessed life as blessed families only after liberating your ancestors from the 1st to the 7th generation and up to the 120th generation as soon as possible." The special ancestor liberation ceremony up to the 7th generation on the father's side will be held from the month of March to the month of August.

When True Parents came to Chung Pyung on March 11th, 1999, they asked, "Since the beginning of history, who was able to liberate their ancestors who are living in suffering"? True Parents showing the dignified authority, that they have the entire, whole, almighty and absolute authority through paying indemnity for mankind's sins during their whole lives, said, "This ceremony is the first of its kind and contains the utmost grace in the history of mankind."

Then, how should we do the ancestor liberation ceremony, which we are indebted to the work of Heung Jin Nim and Dae Mo Nim and is the first and ultimate grace in the history of mankind? What is the Principle meaning of liberation, which True Parents have spoken about"? At the forty day workshop in Jardim, Brazil on November last year, True Parents spoke about the way of realizing liberation and unification. At that time True Father came down the red carpeted stairs from the stage of the lecture hall to the floor where over 2000 members were seated and as if talking to himself said, "I have to come down in order to be close..." True Father approached a couple who were sitting in the first row and made them stand up. Then, True Father drawing closer to the wife said repeatedly, "You have lived your life being hit by your husband"! Father filled with indignation ordered the wife to hit her husband's cheek. Although she had lived in hell, being hit by her husband every day, how could she hit her husband in front of the audience? She was hesitant. Then Father pressed her repeatedly to hit her husband's cheek. Because she did nothing, Father slapped her cheek while ordering her to hit her spouse. How would you react in that situation? The wife could not help but to hit her husband's cheek....

Why did Father make the couple do that in front of 2000 members? Father knew that it was impossible for them to realize true liberation and love if they did not solve their han. I heard later that they could make a fresh new start.

After continuing to speak, Father stopped in front of another couple and looking at the wife sympathetically, he said, "You have a lot of han in your heart. Let it out! Pour it out and throw it away"! Father gave her the motivation and courage to release her han. How happy she was since Father recognized her for keeping the Blessing while she was bearing her han and was digesting it into her heart. Her countenance turned peaceful as she shed tears of gratitude to True Father.

Why did Father make the couple do that in front of 2000 or 3000 family members? Father did that because it is impossible for them to realize true liberation and freedom if they do not release the han they had for each other. I heard later that they could make a fresh start.

Subsequently, Father ordered couples that did not have children to raise their hands, and then he blessed them by saying that they must realize the four position foundation through deep prayer in sincere hope. Father explained that when you pray sincerely you should have the sincerity like that of grandmother Sae Hyun Ok to the state in which you can't even breathe anymore. Father tried to take away from the wives, the traces of egotistic love, which descended from the archangel. At that time the eyes of female members, who were looking at Father, were suddenly sparkling like jewels. The sparkle was like that in a children's' story where two pieces of crystal that were combined together gave out a brilliant light, which was clear and beautiful.

In conclusion, we all should know that liberation that Father talks about is to remove something that has festered by going the opposite course and to express the original value by releasing it and arriving at the point of liberation.

Let us see if this formality applies to the ancestor liberation ceremony from the 1st to the 7th generation on the father's side. Even though we had received the Blessing and we have tried to follow True Parents’ teachings, blessed couples after living together for 10, 20 or 30 years, have grudges, small to big in degree. However, as we go further into our early ancestors starting from our first 7th generation ancestors, who were not blessed, there must be even more sins to be cleared away and han to be liberated. As they lived as couples, think about how much han and sins were committed starting from personal relations in society to those arisen from conflicts within the tribe, race, nation and religion. We need to think about how much (sin and han) need to be cleared away and liberated as we go to our 40th generation ancestors to the 50th and up to the 120th generation on our father's side.

On October 5, 1943 Father was twenty-four years old. At that time Father was going to return to his homeland after finishing his course of study of electrical engineering at the technical school attached to Waseda University in Japan, the ship that Father was going to board sunk.

As Chung Mo Nim, Father's mother, was waiting for her lovely son, she heard the news of the accident and ran to the Jeong Joo-eup from Sang Sa-ri, Deok Eon-myeon to know the list of those who had boarded the ship. After coming to know that Father did not to get on the ship, Chung Mo Nim came to notice the pain from the soles of her foot. Father testified that a thorn of acacia as long as a joint of a finger got stuck into Chung Mo Nim's soles of her foot. We know that because of a mother's love for her son, she could overcome such pains. Though there is some difference in the degree amongst each parents' love for their child, our parents and ancestors would do as much as Chung Mo Nim did. Though they did not know the Divine Principle, they bore and brought us up with that love.

Our ancestors who bore and brought us up are now suffering and moaning in hell. To liberate our ancestors from their suffering in hell we have to liberate them through the opposite process. If one of your ancestors murdered, then that ancestor must indemnify the pain of the person who was killed through the opposite course of action. Therefore, we must know the sins and the lives of our ancestors in order to liberate them. Because of this, we must liberate our ancestors' suffering and moaning in the spiritual world as soon as possible. When we liberate our ancestors, how much pain should we be carrying? To liberate all the ancestors we should divide the burden and the pains that ancestors have and carry it.

Through the course of indemnity in True Parents' lifetime, True Parents took the victory through the vertical eight stages; servant of servant, servant, an adopted son, a child, illegitimate son, the elder son, parents and God and through the horizontal eight stages; individual, family, tribe, race, country, world, cosmos and God. Through proclaiming the Realm of the Cosmic Sabbath for the Parents of Heaven and Earth, True Parents recovered God's whole, general, almighty and absolute authority. And True Parents appointed Dae Mo Nim not only to liberate the ancestors up to the 7th generation in spiritual world, but also to open the way for the Blessing ceremony for spirit men. The ancestors saved through this way are training in Heung Jin Nim’s training center and descending to earth to receive the Blessing for spirits.

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