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Book 4: May You Blossom, My Beloved
Part 3: The Wilderness Course and True Mother's Victory
Outline of True Mother's Life 3: The Wilderness Course and True Mother's Victory
After the Holy Wedding, True Parents finally came to stand in the position of the parents and opened the way to the marriage Blessing, through which they could save humanity. In addition, they presented all things in front of Heaven and began their work of restoring the world in earnest. All of these things were accomplished in the seven-year course after the Holy Wedding.
The seven-year course and its providential meaning
True Parents began three consecutive seven-year courses in 1960, spurring on the expansion of both internal and external foundations. In particular, the seven years after the Holy Wedding was the completion-period course in True Father's 21-year course, and internally it was the moment when True Father determined his victory on the family level by marrying Mother as a perfected man. At the same time, it was a period in time when True Mother freed herself from the conditions of accusation from the satanic world and substantially restored the standards of daughter, mother and True Parents, which were lost due to the Fall.
For three years after the Holy Wedding, True Mother was subjected to all kinds of schemes, slander and arrows of hatred, but Daemonim saw them all in advance through revelations and fulfilled the responsibility of blocking them all.
True Mother explained about Daemonim's mission of the time: "After the Holy Wedding, Daemonim saw everything that was going to happen to me through revelations she received in advance. My position would have been difficult for anyone, but I was able to overcome all the difficulties thanks to Daemonim. What she did compensated for the wrongdoings of all women.”
True Father's 21-year course, True Mother's seven-year course, and the first seven-year course of the Unification Church were concluded successfully, and on that foundation, the second and third seven-year courses of the tribal, national and global levels began.
Throughout the urgent providential course, True Mother always followed behind True Father in silence and led a life of devotion and perseverance. She lived like a shadow, not even buying a single dress for herself of her own accord, and yet she still fulfilled her providential mission of having to give birth to at least 12 children. Starting with Ye-jin nim in 1961, True Mother gave birth to 14 True Children within 21 years, with little or no time for recovery in between.
True Mother recalled: "During the five years from 1971 to 1975, I went through several miscarriages. It was a very difficult time. True Father had recently arrived in America, and there were threats on his life. Accompanying Father under such circumstances, I was so anxious all the time that I could not help but miscarry.” Mother also added, "Since that time, if I so much as take a cold shower, I catch a chill, which paralyzes me for at least five minutes.”
Victory in the indemnity course in America
True Parents proclaimed the Day of Victory of Heaven at the victory celebrations for the Washington Monument Rally on October 4, 1976, after which they proclaimed the Day of Victory of Earth on True Parents' Birthday, February 23, 1977. That day was True Mother's first birthday after reaching the age of 33 [by Korean reckoning] and the "day of the condition for indemnifying on earth, through True Mother, Jesus' wish to joyfully celebrate his 34th birthday together with Heaven.” On that day True Father said, ''As of today, on the path of Reverend Moon and True Mother, an era ushering in a whole new level has begun.” He also declared, ''At the close of the year 1976, True Mother was completely liberated.”
On May 3, 1977, on the seventeenth anniversary of True Parents' Holy Wedding, True Mother gave her first-ever official testimony of her life. On that day she said, "The path I have walked has been a continuation of difficult hardships that do not even bear thinking about. Just as God put True Father through hardships, He also made me go through ordeal after ordeal. Satan, too, tested me just as he had tested True Father and Jesus. This weak woman standing before you has overcome stringent and severe hardships, of the kind that the Messiah has had to go through, though you may find it impossible to believe.”
On that day True Father said of True Mother, first, that she had a quick spiritual sense and excellent inborn power of discernment; second, that she practiced absolute obedience toward the Will and had a firm and persevering determination to achieve her goal; third, that she by nature enjoyed giving to others; and fourth, that she had performed a truly wonderful feat in giving birth to and raising the True Children.
From after the Holy Wedding of 1960 to the proclamation of the Day of Victory of Earth in 1977, True Mother led the life of an absolute object partner who stood behind True Father and followed him with unquestioning faith. Thus, she overcame all difficulties and was liberated, which was also True Father's success and victory.
Meanwhile, the Unification movement that swept across America like wildfire from 1972 came to face opposition from the leading class, and the US court indicted True Father on suspicion of tax evasion. After several trials, True Father was imprisoned in the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut on July 20, 1984, where he had to suffer incarceration for 13 months until August 20, 1985.
True Father never despaired, even when he was climbing the world-level hill of Golgotha. While he was still in prison in Danbury, he instructed that the end of communism be declared, and that various activities for the Victory over Communism movement be carried out to swiftly bring an end to the Cold War. Moreover, he called True Mother in East Garden in the early morning of February 1, 1985, and proclaimed the Day of the Opening of the Gate of Heaven, by which the gates were opened wide and the spirit world and physical world became connected.
Remembering the day True Father began his prison term, True Mother expressed her feelings: "I truly deplored my helplessness in being unable to do anything other than send him off. I resolved again and again to strengthen my heart, biting down hard on my lip, but I could not hold back the tears that kept coming.”
True Mother never failed to travel to Danbury to see True Father every time he had visiting hours. Holding the hand of Jeong-jin nim, who was just two years old at the time, Mother visited Father every day with her devoted heart. When she walked back down the hill after the visit, she would swallow her tears, turn and look back at Father, and affectionately wave goodbye.
True Father's imprisonment was a difficult cross for True Mother to bear, but she still continued to walk her path in silence with that heavy burden on her shoulders, and the members who looked upon her came to depend on her. While True Father was in prison, True Mother presided over internal events, both big and small, including Church holy days and celebrations, in place of True Father. At the same time, she also followed a busy schedule of presiding over such external events as the International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences and receiving important guests.
In the 40-year wilderness course from 1945 to 1985, True Father and True Mother sacrificed everything and continued to march forward solely for the fulfillment of the Will. After the Holy Wedding, True Mother, in particular, had to endure many ordeals in her heart, but she triumphed over all these hardships and was able to expand the providence on the worldwide level.