Ye-Jin Moon is the first daughter of Reverend Sun Myung Moon and Hak-Ja Han, the founders of the Unification Movement. She received her B.A. from Barnard College (1986), her M.A. in Religious Studies (2015), and her Doctor of Ministry (2020) from Unification Theological Seminary. She has devoted her life to searching for the gender-balanced understanding of Heavenly Parent and His/Her purpose of creation, which are limited in her parents’ theologies.
This text is the product of the author’s providential course, without which the recovery of the basics of the Divine Heart Principle (Heart Principle for short) and the explication of the restoration history based upon it would not have been possible.
Especially after her parents could not recover the complete Heart Principle, and after the failures of other adults except for the author herself, all of whom were called for the “wilderness course” to connect the prolongation or extension course, the burden of indemnity fell on the author as the only remaining First Child or first ‘fruit’ collective extension of Father/Mother Moon and the lineages that prepared them.
Given that Heavenly Parent’s purpose of creation is to limit His/Her creative involvement to 95 percent portion while allowing each creation their 5 percent free will to co-create befitting their creative purpose, although the basic, revealed foundational logic of the Heart Principle does not change, how it is presented in this written form is up to the author’s portion of the responsibility. Thus, as she had to endure the indemnity course on her own, she was, in many respects, not well prepared for this monumental mission, which required the highest intellectual caliber to adequately represent His/Her Heart Principle and to illustrate the whole of human history from its many-faceted perspectives.
There was also a time limit, as specified in the providential course. After that period, the text had to be published, thereby precluding a more measured pace for in-depth scrutiny and thorough revision. For all these concerns, whatever is lacking in the author’s intellectual and creative capacity should be judged separately from the fundamentals of His/Her Heart Principle, which should remain absolute and unchanging.