? Translation, Center of the Holy Martyr Irenaeus of Lyons, 1995

? Introductory article, compilation, Alexander Dvorkin, 1995

Contents: Introduction. Moon's movement, the "Unification Church", etc. Sun Myung Moon and his "movement". New Teaching. Principle. The First Blessing: True Parents. The second blessing is pure blood. The third blessing is perfect dominion. Release of the spirit world. The development of the Moon movement after 1990.

Preface

In November 1994, the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, together with representatives of the National Council of Christian Churches of Korea, held a seminar on "Sectarian Movements of Korean Origin in Russia." It would seem that this purely special church event, held only for a narrow circle of interested persons, should have been of little interest: representatives of the Christian churches of the two countries meet to discuss one of the common problems and clarify their attitude to it, that's all.

Nevertheless, a few weeks before the start of the seminar, both sides began to receive letters from an organization with a strange name: the Holy Spirit Association for the Reunification of Christians of the World, insisting that its representatives be included in the seminar and threatening to blame themselves if they refused.

That these threats were not unfounded, explained the Korean Christians, who nevertheless showed courage and arrived at the seminar. It turned out that the father of one of them, a devout Christian who had dared to criticize the methods of the Holy Spirit Association, had been killed by one of its supporters, who had attacked him with a dagger from around the corner. This, it turns out, is what methods should be used to unite Christians all over the world...

The "Holy Spirit Association" has another name - the "Unification Church", or simply, "Moon's Church". Where did this strange name come from?

In the mid-1970s, the hitherto unknown term "moonies" began to appear more and more often in the American media. This was the name of neatly and neatly trimmed young people, rather briskly selling flowers, toys, popular prints, sweets and other small goods on street corners and at traffic lights, or even just begging. In the press, more and more stories appeared about young men and women who fell into the sect of a certain Korean Moon and, after processing, completely submitted to him. The street vendors did make a strange impression. It was pitiful to look at them: in the cold and in the heat, in the rain or snow, from early morning to late evening, they pestered passers-by and drivers of cars stopped at intersections with requests to buy their simple goods or just donate money. They preferred not to disclose their affiliation with the sect: they usually said that they were raising money to help starving children in Africa, to save the rainforests of South America, to build a shelter for the homeless, or for other humanitarian purposes. Only in response to a direct question did they admit that they were Moonies. They did not hear any objections, any critical information about Moon flew past them, they preferred not to answer the questions posed. They were only able to broadcast: the so-called "tape recorder effect" was triggered - you press a button, the text turns on and, in spite of everything, plays to the end. A person is completely immersed in the life of a small collective, only insofar as it relates to the outside world. The boundaries of the individual no longer exist – there is only a collective stereotype of behavior, which determines everything. Such an artificially caused collective autism.

Gradually, press reports about inconsolable parents whose children left them and went to the "only true parents" - Moon and his wife - became habitual; about the crippled fates of thousands of young men and women, about modern slavery and about camps behind barbed wire, where sectarian colonies were located and where "outsiders" (i.e. relatives and friends of sectarians) were forbidden to enter.

Information about Moon was spreading. His multimillion-dollar empire, his commercial ventures, and his ties to South Korea's Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) became public knowledge. As a sensation, the Western newspapers reported that Moon had finally openly and unequivocally declared himself the messiah (previously, in reports for "outsiders" he only limited himself to hints). Then one of the main topics of news was the trial of Moon for tax evasion and his sentence. It seemed that now his star would ingloriously set. But it wasn't like that...

Moon's organization has simply greatly reworked its methods of activity and has become much more effective. It now operates under the cover of an ever-expanding network of religious, political, cultural, and economic "frontline" organizations. Real estimates of the true spread of the sect can only be approximate: the Moonies keep strictly secret all statistics concerning membership in their organization. Officially, they claim to have over 3 million members. In fact, this number is exceeded by at least 10 times.

However, several hundred thousand members of Moon's "family" are an army of well-trained and unquestioningly obedient to the "heavenly parents" living robots, usually young, healthy, full of strength and energy. Each of them is ready, at the first request of his superiors, to give his life for the victory of Moonism throughout the world, i.e. for the establishment of a world theocracy headed by the adored "true father of all mankind."

Alas, today Moonism is a reality in Russia as well. Moonies are already collecting money on the streets, Russian parents are already losing their children, and a new subject is being introduced into the clock schedule in Russian schools – an introduction to the Moonist catechism – called "My World and Me". An increasing number of Russian young men and women every Sunday, every first day of each month and on each of the Moonist holidays make three full prostrations before the throne with a portrait of a Korean businessman and repeat the oath of allegiance to God, their "true" father Moon and their "true" homeland – Korea. Today, the Moonies feel like full-fledged masters in Russia, which they have long seen in their dreams as a springboard for conquering the world. And for such a purpose, you can not skimp on expenses. Here is not a complete list of events organized by them in the countries of the former USSR over the past few years:

In 1989, the Munist Association of Mass Media conducted and paid for a number of trips of Soviet journalists to Asian countries. In South Korea, the delegation was received by the Moons. In 1990, a delegation of Soviet journalists participated in a symposium organized by the above-mentioned Association in the United States. Among the members of the delegation were the editor-in-chief of "Izvestia" I. Golembiovsky and the editor-in-chief of "Moscow News" V. Loshak. The delegation was received by Moon.