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Divine Principle
The Divine Principle (Wolli) — the foundational teaching of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, first written in Korean as Wolli Wonbon (1952), expanded as Wolli Hesol (1957) and Wolli Kangron (1966), and re-translated into English as the Exposition of the Divine Principle in 1996.
Principle of Creation
The Principle of Creation — the first part of the Divine Principle, explaining the structure and purpose of God's ideal world: dual characteristics, the four position foundation, the give-and-take action, and the growth of human beings to perfection.
The Fall
The Fall — the Divine Principle's account of how humanity's first ancestors broke the heavenly order, inheriting the lineage of Satan rather than God. Understood as a spiritual and physical fall: an illicit relationship between Eve and the archangel Lucifer, then between Adam and Eve before they had reached perfection.
Restoration
Restoration — the providential process by which God works with human beings to undo what was lost in the Fall. The Divine Principle traces a 6,000-year history of restoration providence from Adam's family through the foundation of the second advent.
The Messiah
The Messiah — in Divine Principle terms, the central figure God sends to a foundation-laying central figure family to inaugurate the kingdom on earth. Jesus came as the messiah, but the cross prevented the full restoration; the Second Advent completes what was left undone.
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ — in Divine Principle reading, the only-begotten Son of God who came as the messiah but, faced with the disbelief of the Jewish leaders and the murder of John the Baptist's ministry, walked the way of the cross to accomplish at least spiritual salvation. The Second Advent completes what the cross left undone.
Unification Thought
Unification Thought — Sang Hun Lee's philosophical exposition of the Divine Principle, developed as a counterproposal to Marxism. Treats epistemology, ethics, art, history, and politics from the Unification worldview.
Shimjeong (Heart)
Shimjeong (심정) — usually rendered as "heart" in English. The core motive of God's being, the impulse to love and be loved with someone. Restoration aims to recover the human capacity for shimjeong-centred relationships.
Indemnity
Indemnity (탕감, Tanggam) — a condition of faith and substance by which fallen humans recover what was lost in the Fall. Not a payment to an angry God, but the way the human will participates in undoing what the human will participated in losing.
Four Position Foundation
The Four Position Foundation — the structural unit of God's ideal: God, husband, wife, and children, united in love. Every individual, family, society, and cosmos is meant to embody this fourfold harmony.
Lineage
Lineage (혈통, Hyeoltong) — the spiritual genealogy passed from parent to child. The Fall changed Adam and Eve's lineage from God's to Satan's; the Blessing reverses that change at the family level by re-engrafting the couple into the lineage of God.
God's Providence
God's Providence — the long arc of God's work to restore fallen humanity. Traced in the Divine Principle through Adam's family, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and the foundation for the Second Advent.
The Three Blessings
The Three Blessings (Genesis 1:28) — God's threefold commission to humanity: "Be fruitful" (individual perfection), "multiply" (family ideal), and "have dominion over the creation" (cosmic stewardship). The framework for the entire Divine Principle.
Cheon Seong Gyeong
The "Heavenly Scripture" — an 1,800-page anthology of Rev. Moon's words organised topically. One of the three holy scriptures of the Unification movement alongside the Divine Principle and the Pyeong Hwa Gyeong.
Chambumo Gyeong
The Chambumo Gyeong — one of the three holy scriptures of the Unification movement. A compilation of Rev. and Mrs. Moon's words on the role and providence of the True Parents.
Pyeong Hwa Gyeong
The "Scripture of Peace Messages" — one of the three holy scriptures of the Unification movement, comprising the major peace messages of Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
True Parents
True Parents — the title Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon claim as the first couple to fully embody God's ideal of marriage and family, restoring what was lost in the Fall and inaugurating the lineage of God for the rest of humanity.
Heavenly Parent
Heavenly Parent — the contemporary Unification name for God, emphasising both the masculine and feminine aspects of God's dual characteristics. Replaces "Heavenly Father" in much current usage.
Rev. Sun Myung Moon
Rev. Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) — the founder of the Unification movement. Korean theologian, peace activist, and self-declared messiah; spent six decades teaching the Divine Principle and conducting marriage Blessings across the globe.
Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon
Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon (born 1943) — wife of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, mother of fourteen children, and, in Unification theology, the True Mother who, with the True Father, fulfilled the bridal role left vacant at the cross.
The Blessing
The Blessing — the central sacrament of the Unification movement. A marriage ceremony, typically conducted by the True Parents, that grafts the couple out of the lineage of the Fall and into the lineage of God. Without it, on the Divine Principle's reading, original sin remains.
Hoon Dok Hae
Hoon Dok Hae — the daily devotional practice of reading the words of the True Parents together as a family or community. Became the central spiritual rhythm of Unification life from the late 1990s onward.
Seonghwa Ceremony
The Seonghwa Ceremony — the Unification term for the funeral / passing-into-the-spirit-world ceremony. Marked as a celebration of ascension rather than mourning, with the family wearing white and the community sending the loved one off to their new life.
Home Church
Home Church — the late-1970s / 1980s missionary practice of attending to 360 homes in one's neighbourhood as a tribal-restoration foundation. The Divine Principle's "Foundation of Substance" lived out at the level of the local community.
Cheon Il Guk
"Nation of Cosmic Peace and Unity" — the realised Kingdom of Heaven on Earth and in the spirit world, inaugurated symbolically in 2001 and proclaimed substantially on Foundation Day, 2013.
Foundation Day
Foundation Day — 22 February 2013 (lunar 1.13). The day Rev. and Mrs. Moon proclaimed the formal inauguration of Cheon Il Guk, the realised substantial kingdom on earth and in heaven.
Cheong Pyeong
Cheong Pyeong — the spiritual centre of the Unification movement in Gapyeong County, Korea. Home of the Training Center and the Heavenly Parent Holy Community Cheonbo Training Center; the site of major spiritual works and ancestor liberation ceremonies.
The Spirit World
The Spirit World — in Divine Principle reading, the eternal realm humans enter at physical death. Composed of the same fabric as the physical world but invisible to physical senses; stratified by the depth of love a person attained on earth.
Kingdom of Heaven
The Kingdom of Heaven — the ideal world envisioned across the Bible and inaugurated through the Divine Principle as Cheon Il Guk. A realm of true love centred on God and the True Parents, realised both on earth and in the spirit world.
Unification Church
Unification Church (HSA-UWC) — the original name of the global Unification movement, founded by Rev. Sun Myung Moon in Seoul in 1954. Renamed the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU) in 1996.