Editing Sun Myung Moon (section)

==Second marriage and Blessing ceremonies==
[[File:Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han.jpg|Moon and Hak Ja Han.|thumb|upright|left]]

===Marriage to Hak Ja Han===
Moon married his second wife, [[Hak Ja Han]] (who was 17 at the time) on 11 April 1960, soon after Moon turned 40 years old, in a ceremony called the Holy Marriage. Han is called "Mother" or "True Mother". She and Moon together are referred to as the "True Parents" by members of the Unification Church and their family as the "True Family".<ref name="Chryssides2003"/><ref>[http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/sunmyungmoon98/SM980914-NewYorker.htm Moon At Twilight: Amid scandal, the Unification Church has a strange new mission], [[Peter Maass]] ''[[New Yorker Magazine]]'', 14 September 1998. "Moon sees the essence of his own mission as completing the one given to Jesus – establishing a 'true family' untouched by Satan while teaching all people to lead a God-centered life under his spiritual leadership."</ref><ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/12/nyregion/sharpton-in-ceremonies-of-unification-church.html| title = "Sharpton in Ceremonies Of Unification Church," by David Firestone, ''The New York Times'', Friday, 12 September 1997.| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| date = 12 September 1997| last1 = Firestone| first1 = David}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/686677772.html?dids=686677772:686677772&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jan+29%2C+1976&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=%27NEW+MESSIAH%27&pqatl=google| title = "Messiah" by John Dart, ''Los Angeles Times'', 29 Jan 1976; B1.| access-date = 7 July 2017| archive-date = 25 July 2012| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120725022843/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/686677772.html?dids=686677772:686677772&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jan+29%2C+1976&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=%27NEW+MESSIAH%27&pqatl=google| url-status = dead}}</ref> Jesus was divine but not [[God]]; he was supposed to be the second Adam who would create a perfect family by joining with the ideal wife and creating a pure family that would have begun humanity's liberation from its sinful condition.<ref name=Businessweek /> When Jesus was crucified before marrying, he redeemed mankind spiritually but not physically. That task was left to the "True Parents"—Moon and Han—who would link married couples and their families to God.<ref name=NPRExpose /><ref name=Businessweek /><ref name=AUTOBIOGRAPHY />

===Blessing ceremonies===
{{main|Blessing ceremony of the Unification Church}}
[[File:TPblessing ceremony.jpg|thumb|250px|Moon presides over a mass blessing ceremony in 2010.]]

Although they initially lived communally, his followers gradually returned to the traditional Christian family form (monogamy). Blessing ceremonies have attracted attention in the press and in the public imagination, often being labeled "mass weddings". People who have never met, from completely different countries, were married by the Messiah of the [[Unification Church]] by "matching". They were informed that a certain person, specially chosen for him/her by the Messiah, would become their husband/wife. Some of them did not see their future partner until the day of the "marriage". Public mass blessing ceremonies followed.<ref>The men and women entered a large room, where Moon began matching couples by pointing at them." [http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/sides-moon-marriages-article-1.267920 NY Daily News] "In the Unification tradition, romantic liaisons are forbidden until the members are deemed by Mr. Moon to be spiritually ready to be matched at a huge gathering where he points future spouses out to one another. His followers believe that his decisions are based on his ability to discern their suitability and see their future descendants. Many are matched with people of other races and nationalities, in keeping with Mr. Moon's ideal of unifying all races and nations in the Unification Church. Though some couples are matched immediately before the mass wedding ceremonies, which are held every two or three years, most have long engagements during which they are typically posted in different cities or even continents, and get to know one another through letters." [https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/22/nyregion/look-life-after-mass-marriage-for-2075-couples-give-take-200-10-years-together.html?pagewanted=all NY Times] "Many were personally matched by Moon, who taught that romantic love led to sexual promiscuity, mismatched couples and dysfunctional societies. Moon's preference for cross-cultural marriages also meant that couples often shared no common language." [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/03/moonies-mass-wedding-south-korea-unification-church-hak-ja-han-sun-myung-moon Manchester Guardian] "Moon's death Sept. 2 and funeral Saturday signaled the end of the random pairings that helped make Moon's Unification Church famous — and infamous — a generation ago." [https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/though-united-in-a-crowd-by-rev-sun-myung-moon-couples-say-marriages-succeeded-on-failed-on-their-own/2012/09/15/b0bfa176-fe77-11e1-8adc-499661afe377_story.html Washington Post] "Many of the couples who married at mass weddings were hand-picked by Moon from photos. It led to some strange pairs such as a 71-year-old African Catholic archbishop who wed a 43-year-old Korean acupuncturist. In 1988 Moon entered the Guinness Book of Records when he married 6,516 identically dressed couples at Seoul's Olympic Stadium. Moonie newly-weds were forbidden to sleep together for 40 days to prove their marriage was on a higher plane. They then had to consummate their marriage in a three-day ritual with the sexual positions stipulated by their leader." [https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/inside-the-sinister-moonie-cult-how-1301689 Daily Mirror]</ref><ref name="massmarr"/><ref name="Hadjimatheou 2012">{{cite web | last=Hadjimatheou | first=Chloe | title=Moon wedding: Getting married with 4,000 others | website=[[BBC News]] | date=28 June 2012 | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18624358 | access-date=9 March 2023}}</ref><ref name="Eng Jackson 2006">{{cite journal | last1=Eng | first1=Monica | last2=Jackson | first2=David | title=Despite controversy, Moon and his church moving into mainstream -- chicagotribune.com | website=Chicago Tribune | date=25 May 2006 | url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/chi-0604sushi-1-sidebar,0,6972307.htmlstory | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725201717/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/chi-0604sushi-1-sidebar,0,6972307.htmlstory | archive-date=25 July 2008 | url-status=dead | access-date=8 March 2023 | quote=The church's most spectacular rite remains mass weddings, which the church calls the way "fallen men and women can be engrafted into the true lineage of God."}}</ref><ref name="wapo"/><ref name="nyt"/><ref name="10yearslater"/> Some couples are already married, and those that are engaged are later legally married according to the laws of their own countries.<ref name="wapo">{{cite news | last1=Murphy | first1=Caryle | last2=Wheeler | first2=Linda | title=WashingtonPost.com: The Cult Controversy | newspaper=Washington Post | date=30 November 1997 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/unification/wedd97.htm | access-date=8 March 2023|quote=Church and stadium officials estimated that more than 40,000 people, mostly couples, attended the event, including the Moon-matched couples who took their marriage vows on the football field and exchanged gold rings displaying the church symbol. Those couples, however, must still fulfill whatever requirements exist where they live to be considered legally married.}}</ref><ref name="nyt">{{cite web | author=The Associated Press | title=28,000 Couples Gather for Rev. Moon Rites | website=[[The New York Times]] | date=30 November 1997 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/30/us/28000-couples-gather-for-rev-moon-rites.html | access-date=8 March 2023|quote=The real weddings were held later in separate legal ceremonies.}}</ref> Meant to highlight the church's emphasis on traditional morality, they brought Moon both fame and controversy.<ref name="10yearslater">{{cite news|last=Henneberger|first=Melinda|title=A Look at Life After Mass Marriage; For 2,075 Couples (Give or Take 200), 10 Years Together, Thanks to Sun Myung Moon|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/22/nyregion/look-life-after-mass-marriage-for-2075-couples-give-take-200-10-years-together.html|access-date=21 June 2013|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=22 September 1992}}</ref>

36 couples participated in the first ceremony in 1961 for members of the early church in [[Seoul]]. The ceremonies continued to grow in scale; over 2,000 couples participated in the 1982 one at New York's [[Madison Square Garden]], the first outside South Korea.<ref name=GuardianObit /><ref name=Businessweek /> In 1992, about 30,000 couples took part in a ceremony and a record 360,000 couples in Seoul took part three years later.<ref name=BBCMoonieMarriage>{{cite news|title=Unification Church Mass Moonie Marriage in the US|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1997/unification_church/34821.stm|access-date=21 June 2013|work=[[BBC News]]|date=29 November 1997}}</ref>

Moon said that he matched couples from differing races and nationalities because of his belief that all of humanity should be united: "International and intercultural marriages are the quickest way to bring about an ideal world of peace. People should marry across national and cultural boundaries with people from countries they consider to be their enemies so that the world of peace can come that much more quickly."<ref name=usatoday2012-09-02a /><ref name=GuardianObit /><ref name=AUTOBIOGRAPHY />

===Establishing beliefs of the Unification movement===
{{See also|Unification movement#Beliefs}}
Moon said that when he was 16 years old,<ref name="auto1"/> Jesus appeared to him, anointing him to carry out his unfinished work by becoming a parent to all of humanity.<ref name="NPR Obit" /><ref name="CNN OBIT" /><ref name="AUTOBIOGRAPHY">{{cite book|last=Moon|first=Reverend Sun Myung|title=As a peace-loving global citizen|url=https://archive.org/details/aspeacelovingglo00sunm|url-access=registration|year=2010|publisher=Washington Times Foundation|location=Washington, D.C.|isbn=978-0615393773|edition=May 2010}}</ref> The {{ill|Divine Principle|ko|원리강론||preserve=y|italics=y}}, or ''Exposition of the Divine Principle'' ({{korean|hangul=원리강론|hanja=原理講論|rr=Wolli Gangnon}}), is the main theological textbook of the Unification movement. It was co-written by Moon and early disciple [[Hyo Won Eu]] and first published in 1966. A translation entitled ''Divine Principle'' was published in English in 1973. The book lays out the core of Unification theology and is held to have the status of [[Holy Scripture|scripture]] by believers. Following the format of systematic theology, it includes (1)&nbsp;God's purpose in creating human beings, (2)&nbsp;the fall of man, and (3)&nbsp;restoration—the process through history by which God is working to remove the ill effects of the fall and restore humanity back to the relationship and position that God originally intended.<ref>[http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/jul1978/v35-2-article3.htm Korean Moon: Waxing of Waning?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216091211/http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/jul1978/v35-2-article3.htm |date=16 February 2012 }}, Leo Sandon Jr., ''Theology Today'', Vol 35, No 2, July 1978, "The movement's official doctrinal statement, and a part of the revelation, is the Divine Principle. Both an oral tradition and a written one and published in several versions, Divine Principle is the Completed Testament. The Rev. Moon claims to have come not to destroy or abrogate the Old and New Testaments, but to fulfill them-to "complete" them. To his Moonist followers, the Rev. Moon is primarily "true father," probably the Messiah, and only secondarily a theologian. In an effort to systematize Moon's teachings, several members of the Unification Church in Korea have put together a developing theological system in Divine Principle which is impressive in its imaginative nature, coherence, and consistency, if not in its Christian orthodoxy. As the most complete expression of Moonist teachings to date, Divine Principle is the basic text of the Unification Church. The two major divisions of the system are the doctrines of Creation and Restoration. There are many subsets to these major divisions, but Creation and Restoration are the foci for the Moonist theological system."</ref>

[[God]] is viewed as the creator, whose nature combines both masculinity and femininity, and is the source of all truth, beauty, and goodness. Human beings and the universe reflect God's personality, nature, and purpose.<ref name="Sontag102">{{Cite book | last =Sontag | first =Fredrick | title =Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church | publisher =Abingdon | year =1977 | page =[https://archive.org/details/sunmyungmoonunif00sont/page/102 102]  | isbn =0-687-40622-6  | url =https://archive.org/details/sunmyungmoonunif00sont/page/102  }}</ref> "Give-and-take action" (reciprocal interaction) and "subject and object position" (initiator and responder) are "key interpretive concepts",<ref name="Sontag107">{{Cite book  | last =Sontag  | first =Fredrick  | title =Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church | publisher =Abingdon | year =1977  | page =[https://archive.org/details/sunmyungmoonunif00sont/page/107 107] | isbn =0-687-40622-6  | url =https://archive.org/details/sunmyungmoonunif00sont/page/107 }}</ref> and the self is designed to be God's object.<ref name=Sontag107 /> The purpose of human existence is to return joy to God. The "four-position foundation" (Origin, Subject, Object, and Union) is another important and interpretive concept and explains in part the emphasis on the family.<ref name="Sontag108">{{Cite book  | last =Sontag  | first =Fredrick  | title =Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church | publisher =Abingdon  | year =1977  | page =[https://archive.org/details/sunmyungmoonunif00sont/page/108 108]  | isbn =0-687-40622-6  | url =https://archive.org/details/sunmyungmoonunif00sont/page/108  }}</ref>