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The Four Fallen Natures of the Divine Principle are used as a means of controlling members.

Updated January 9, 2017

On initially hearing Moon’s Divine Principle we may have felt a tremendous feeling of joy and hope for personal growth, and that a new dawn for mankind was being ushered in which would bring world peace. Accepting the DP means also accepting responsibility for the ‘providence’, and gradually more and more sacrifice is required of us.

However, the goals of personal perfection and global peace were, and are, unattainable in the framework of the Divine Principle. Why?

The Divine Principle is not what it appears to be; it is a false bill of goods. The DP is offered as a gift, but accepting it may result in the surrender of your soul to a foreign power.

Reading the DP, a Unification Church / Family Federation for World Peace member may think they are entering into a covenant with the messiah, who is offering salvation. Sun Myung Moon promoted himself as the messiah in the Divine Principle. As a representative of God, he may be seen as having a portion of responsibility, or a duty of care, towards his followers. However, it is evident that Moon did not take responsibility for his legitimate children, or his illegitimate children, let alone his trusting followers.

Moon diminished everyone. By the time a member discovers this, years of their life may have passed.

The DP is a clever construction, but it is a work of fiction. Wolli Wonbon, written by Moon himself in two notebooks in Pusan in 1952, is largely a synthesis of the work of several authors who pre-dated him. In Wolli Wonbon Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene! A senior DP follower recently commented about this major change to the DP: “I would think the probable reason was that, in consultation with Eu Hyo-won [who was a main contributor to the 1957 DP], Father decided that this was not something that would help Christians to accept him.”

Moon later changed that DP plot line, saying Jesus failed to marry! Some early followers, who had actually been to university, added scholarly material to the DP, and the first book was published in 1957.

The Mary Magdalene as the wife of Jesus narrative has massive implications for the entire fiction that is Unification Theology.

Ultimately, what does the DP teach us?

The purpose of the DP is not to educate us, but to manipulate us. This is done through our emotions.

Gates are opened which allow other forces (such as the group dynamics of the Unification Church) to enter and subvert us, ultimately putting a Korean man on the throne.

How does the DP work on our emotions to subvert us?

The ‘Sin and Fallen Nature’ model in the DP is based on the story of Adam, Eve and Lucifer and the ‘fall of man’. According to Moon, everyone is full of sin (Divine Principle, 2004, page 72).

Four types of sin are described.

First is the original sin ... It is ingrained in our lineage and is the root of all sins.

Second is hereditary sin. This sin is inherited from our ancestors on account of their connection through lineage.

Third is collective sin. This is the sin for which we are responsible as a member of a group, even though we neither committed the sin ourselves nor inherited it from our ancestors.

Fourth is individual sin, which is what we as individuals have committed.

The ‘Four Fallen Natures’

According to the DP, these were Lucifer’s wrong behaviors:

1. Failure to see from God’s point of view 2. Leaving proper position 3. Reversal of Dominion 4. Multiplication of Sin

This is how these concepts are used to control members:

1. Failure to see from God’s point of view – Man, because he is ‘fallen’ does not see things from God’s viewpoint. A follower of Moon must accept ‘God’s viewpoint’, even when it makes no sense. (‘I am a thinker,’ Moon explained, ‘I am your brain.’) If we think something is not quite right, it is because we do not understand. (Moon is different to other men. Moon lives by different rules because he is one with God.) We must crush (subjugate) any doubts we may have to reverse Lucifer’s failure.

2. Leaving proper position – We must keep the position assigned to us by God, who works through Moon, God’s central figure on earth in this age. If we leave our position, we will make a condition for Satan to invade us. We must fulfill the responsibilities we have been given, no matter what the cost. Besides the individual level, Moon has also assigned positions to nations, e.g. Korea, Japan and the USA as Adam, Eve and the Archangel (who should have served Adam and Eve), etc. Members from each nation must fulfill their responsibilities for the ‘providence of restoration’ without question or complaint. Neither individuals nor nations should leave their positions, or fail, or they will delay the providence and cause further pain to God.

3. Reversal of Dominion – Man’s sin involved a reversal of dominion – failing to obey a superior. This is a heinous offense in the Unification Church, and even thinking critically of an immediate superior will incur God’s displeasure. We must not repeat the negative feelings of the archangel. Even if we have greater abilities, and can see our leader is making mistakes, we must dutifully obey and accept that God put us in these positions for a purpose, no doubt to overcome our sinful natures.

4. Multiplication of Sin – The fall involved multiplication of sin; Eve was seduced, then in turn she seduced Adam. So no two people can be allowed to establish close relationships. We must fear multiplying sin. If two members spend too much time together – being horizontal – then others must break in and split up the relationship. This is a good reason to keep moving members around. (Belonging to Moon’s church can be a lonely business.) All attachments and loyalty should be to Moon.

This ‘sin narrative’ is a means of control.

The underlying message is to get followers to doubt their own judgement, through fear of possible ‘archangelic behavior’.

Moon asserted that he had authority over his followers and he assigned them positions in his fictional ‘providential’ drama. Of course, in reality Moon did not have that authority. However, if a recruit sees other members similar to themselves being dutiful followers, there is a strong pull for them also to accept Moon’s authority over their lives.

Moon claimed authority as the bringer of the new ‘truth’ of the DP. The DP and other UC teachings present a very high demand theology. It is also very hierarchical, reflecting its Korean roots.

However, the ideas contained in the DP were not Moon’s. He was a thief of the ideas, therefore he has no right to claim any authority from the DP.

In earlier years it was hard for a member to receive the ‘Blessing’ of Marriage – the ONLY way to free yourself from the original sin which was caused by the wrong sexual intercourse in the Garden of Eden. Original sin was cleansed through ritual sex with Moon for all wives up until 1962. (That is why they are known as Moon’s “Royal Couples”.) After that it has been done through the ritual sex of the ‘Three Day Ceremony.’ This is done by each blessed couple.

Candidates for the ‘Blessing’ of Marriage were supposed to find three spiritual children (new members) first. These three spiritual children are necessary as protective archangels. Members are warned that they may not be allowed to consummate their marriages, or could have difficulty in their marriages, if they do not find three followers as protective archangels. They also have to pay large ‘Blessing’ fees.

The ‘Blessing’ rules have now been relaxed.

The Unification Church may keep blessed members apart from their spouses for many years – seven years is not unusual for Japanese members. As single members they can do more fundraising and witnessing – and thus expand Moon’s empire.

In reality the Divine Principle exists to grab us through our emotions – our deepest hopes and aspirations, and fears about our futures in any possible afterlife (The Principle of Creation); our fears and possible feelings of guilt about sex (The Fall); our natural feelings of empathy and sympathy for Jesus (The Mission of Jesus); our responsibility (to history / mankind); our shame about historical figures who, according to Moon, ‘failed their missions’; our dedication / love and loyalty (to the coming kingdom).

Moon claimed to be the only person in history who understood God’s heart, and who could ease God’s pain. When we hear the Divine Principle we are also reminded of all those who failed to support Jesus in his lifetime, especially John the Baptist. We are told John’s lack of support was one reason Jesus had to go the way of the cross. God was let down so many times throughout history.

Moon had a narrative about his own incomprehensibly suffering life, and the difficult path he trod for ‘seven years’, ‘nine years’ (or more – the story is not consistent) to discover the truth of the DP. We are made to feel indebted to Moon and are drawn through natural empathy to support him in his noble cause. ‘We must not fail God again.’

Recruits or members who waver or have doubts about what is happening to them, or who want a little time to reflect, are reminded of the urgency of the present moment in history. Some are told of the terrible things that have happened to those who turned their back on ‘God’s new truth’ – disease and accidents to the person, or to a relative, etc. God’s protection may be lost. Fears and phobias are implanted in minds already thrown off balance by so many stirred up emotions. Pre-existing views of the self and the world are rocked to the core.

If we try to resist God’s ‘providence’ we might be made to feel selfish and uncaring. The trap is closing in on us.

Group dynamics are important. There are usually many group bonding exercises such as sports, games and the writing and performing of sketches.

Singing is always a big thing. Singing and music opens us up on an emotional level. This allows other newly experienced emotions to become more solidified within us. Music experienced with others bonds each to the group.

We remember how we felt. Those emotional memories transcend time and can endure for the rest of our lives, overriding logic.

Responsibility for God’s ‘providence’ looms before us. A narrative has been woven with a place for us in Moon’s drama. We are ‘special’ and have been ‘prepared and chosen by God’. We have been convinced that Moon’s providence is not a fiction like Harry Potter, but is real – however, both are fictions.

Almost all of us need to belong to a group or ‘tribe’. The fear of rejection is deep inside all of us. We want to avoid being rejected by our new companions in this ‘great cause’. Fear of losing the new ‘safe haven’ we have found in the ‘Unification family’ can be very powerful.

The Divine Principle is psychologically very manipulative. The DP narrative is crafted to lock members into Moon’s system.

The DP might appear coherent within itself, and even appear to have some logic. However, it is based on an unsubstantiated unorthodox interpretation of Genesis in the Bible. That is an allegorical cautionary tale. Historically the Biblical Adam and Eve never existed as literal people. The DP parallels of history are a stretch too far.

There is no such thing as original sin. (Did Jesus talk about it?); original sin is not passed down through thousands of generations to each of us; Moon is not a ‘sinless’ messiah (as Hak Ja Han stated in 2016); there is no true lineage that we need to graft on to; and Moon does not have any authority from God over anyone, except the authority that we do – or do not – surrender to him.

Moon is not managing a ‘providence’ on behalf of God. Moon knows exactly what he is doing: charm, narrative sales pitches (speeches), cutting our previous social bonds, and pressure when he has got us. We then become his willing slaves. Moon is the beneficiary to our cost.

While we are in the UC, our value is not determined by ourselves, but by Moon.

He makes heavy demands on us; these are usually unattainable. He then keeps defining us as failures. Self-esteem is continually eroded. We are often sleep-deprived and exhausted. The stress this causes diminishes the brain’s ability to think clearly. A certain level of panic can set in.

No human being ever has been, or ever will be, perfect. That is another illusion to make us feel bad about ourselves.

Moon ultimately had no answers to the complex challenges of life and society.

After being in Moon’s church we are usually more alienated from society, probably more alienated from ourselves, and often alienated from God.

Can we embrace ourselves just as we are? Embrace our natural sexuality, free from Moon-induced phobias or shame. Our sexuality is an important part of our identity, and it should perhaps be celebrated – in a respectful way.

We might discover that we are better human beings than ‘messiah’ Moon ever was. And we might learn more about what it means to be human from the fiction of Harry Potter than from the fiction of the Divine Principle.

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