"Reverend" Mun's Empire

by Thomas Gandow

Translated from the Russian and verified from the German at cisar.org, 2004
Translated © from the German by the St. Irineaus of Lyon Center, 1995
© Introductory article composed by Alexander Dvorkin, 1995

• Forward
• I. INTRODUCTION
  1. Resurrection of the human race.
     • "Do you believe in ideals?"
     • "Do you like to travel?"
  2. Compensation with the Power of God
• II. Mun Movement, "Unification Church," etc.
  • "Unification Church"
  • The Mun Movement
  • The Family
• III. Mun San Myung and his Movement
  1. Origin and Legends
     • Easter Vision
     • Years of studying and wandering
     • A new religion is founded
     • Anti-Communist tendency
  2. The Overseas Mission - Japan, USA, Germany, Austria, Switzerland
• IV. New Doctrine
  1. The new teacher
     • Confirmation from the spiritual world
     • The Source of Revelation
     • Additional spiritual pronouncements
  2. The textbook: The Divine Principles
• V. The Principle
  1. The Ideal
  2. The Principle in Christian terms, or Creation and Downfall
     • "Yes, yes, Eve - Eve..."
  3. Rehabilitation and Improvement
• VI. First Blessing: True Parents
1. How people get into the family
   • The 2-3 day seminars
   • The 7 day seminars
   • The 21 day seminars
2. Joining
   • Service
   • Fundraising
   • Missions/Witnessing
3. Religious Life in the Family
   • Sunday Celebration
   • Prayer Rooms
   • Prayer Meetings
   • The Vow
   • Holidays
4. Purification and Appropriation
   • Holy Salt
   • Holy Ground
   • Home Church
   • 40, 70 and 120 Day Course
• VII. Second Blessing: Pure Blood
  1. Tradition of "Blessing"
     • Matching
     • Holy Wine Ceremony (Sung Ju Sik)
     • Blessing
     • Tang Kam Bong
     • The Three-Year Period
     • The Three-Day Ceremony
  2. Life under the Blessing
     • The most precious sacrifice: Children
     • Divine Law
     • Vow of the Families
  3. Modifications in the Blessings?
• VIII. Third Blessing: Perfect Dominion
  1. Ideal dominion
  2. Composition and structure of the Mun movement
     • The "In-law Club" and the "36 couples"
     • Membership
  3. Assimilation of rights
     • Assimilation of the Earth: Holy Ground
     • The "restored" Mun industry
     • Religion as a substitute for motivation
     • Religion as an umbrella
     • "Rehabilitation" through fundraising
     3.1 "Rehabilitation of people"
     • Recruitment
     • Service for the Mun family
     • Rehabilitation of Senators
  4. Exerting influence: the front organizations
     • Religious front organizations
     • Culture
     • "Scientific" front organizations
     • Political front organizations
     • Mun movement press
  5. Mun movement as politics
     • World War
     • Political direction: "Divine Socialism"
     5.1 Mun movement and the KCIA
     5.2 Self-dynamics of the Mun movement
  • Rightwing Extremism
  • Mun Movement in the Japanese Parliament
  6. The big plan: March to Moscow
     • Preparations
     • Eastern Europe
     • Recruitment with Karate
     • Audience with the Metropolitan Philaret
  6.1 Mun meets Gorbachev
  • Strategy for the East
  • March to Pyongyang
  7. Anti-communism and Munism
• IX. The Deliverance of the Spirit world
  • Mun, Heung-Jin, ruler of heaven
• X. Development of the Mun movement after 1990
  • Coming out
  • New orientation after the collapse of communism
• XI. Positions
  1. Christian sect or spiritist movement
     • Blessed churches
     1.1 Mun movement and religions: cooperation or infiltration?
  2. The Mun movement as a youth religion
     • Parents initiatives
     • Actions against critics
  3. The Mun movement from a Christian view
     • The Mun movement/Tong-Il Kyo a church?
     • Position of the Mun movement to Christ
     • Image of God
     • Expectation of a messiah and concept of salvation
     3.1 Position
  4. Suggestions
     • What Christians can do
     • Suggestions for affected families
  1. XII. Supplement

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