Hoon Dok Hae

Hoon Dok Hae at East Garden - 2007

The Gathering for Reading and Learning

Although Rev. Moon has often spoken of his intention to write a new book about the Unification Principle by himself, without yet fulfilling this wish, on October 13, 1997 he established the tradition of Hoon Dok Hoe and set up several texts as readings. They are mostly anthologies of excerpted sermons: Blessed Family and Ideal Kingdom I, II, twelve volumes of Selected Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Prayers of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Life in the Spirit World and on Earth, etc. What is the relationship between Wolli Kangron and this expanding corpus of Hoon Dok Hoe texts? As I see it, Wolli Kangron may be regarded as the textbook introducing the Messiah, while the Hoon Dok Hoe texts are like companions for attending and living together with True Parents in the Completed Testament Age. (Unification Studies article by Jin Choon Kim)

True Parents have already prepared the last words I will give to humankind. These have been prepared based on my triumphs over six or seven life-or-death situations, including six periods of unjust imprisonment. I am leaving behind eight textbooks and teaching materials for humankind to use for all eternity. Altogether, these are published in almost a thousand volumes. They are The Sermons of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Exposition of the Divine Principle, Cheon Seong Gyeong [Heavenly Scripture], The Family Pledge, Pyeong Hwa Shin Gyeong [Messages of Peace], True Families—Gateway to Heaven, Owner of Peace and Owner of Lineage, and World Scripture. These are textbooks you will have to read and study even after you go to the spirit world. They are not just teachings that come from the mind of one person; they are textbooks and teaching materials that teach the heavenly way that God has granted to His suffering children for their salvation. (from Sun Myung Moon

January 8 -- 15, 2012 Cosmic Assembly for the Settlement of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind and for the Proclamation of the Word by God's Substantial Self Public Rallies in Korea. Excerpt by Taekon Lee. Also notes on FFWPU Australia website, summarized here)

You should now set up the Hoon Dok Hae study tradition in your families using the books I have mentioned. That is the tradition where three generations of a family start each day by reading Heaven’s word, and lead a life of practicing what they read, with a new heart. Let’s create a world where people in the spirit world and the earthly world can both attend True Parents at the same time, and read the word on the heavenly path together. (from Sun Myung Moon January 8 -- 15, 2012 Cosmic Assembly...)

Last year [2009], my memoirs, As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen, an honest and candid account of my life, were published. Through this book I share how I discovered God’s will for humankind and the path that we, as God’s children, should follow. My life has been a typical model of the saying, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, and try again.” I have as much faith in this book as in the Hoondok textbooks and teaching materials I have mentioned. For this reason, I recommend it to you, believing that it will show you how to lead your lives according to true principles. It does not subtract or add anything to the ninety years of my life, which I have led under Heaven’s decree. I pray you will carefully read this articulation of true love and find great inspiration. (from Sun Myung Moon January 8 -- 15, 2012 Cosmic Assembly...)

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