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Biography of the Author
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Recommendation / Endorsement by Tahk Myeong-hwan 1
Preface 6
The Man I Met in Prison 15
Believing him to be the Returning Messiah 17
Heungnam Special Labor Detention Center 17
Prisoner Number 596 – Moon Yong Myung (文龍明) 22
Appointed as Chief Prison Trustee 24
Why did Eve cover the lower part of her body? 26
Jesus and six women 30
“Blood purification” through a pikareum sex relay (血代交換) 34
The heretic who caused an uproar in Pyongyang 39
The first arrest and detention 39
Sentenced to five years for a marriage scandal with a married woman 41
The Korean War and the great air raid 42
Kim Il-sung’s clemency 44
Fleeing South to Escape the War 45
From Pyongyang to Seoul 47
Pak Chung-hwa’s ankle bone fractured by thugs 47
Reunion with Yong Myung Moon 48
Leaving my family in the North and following Teacher Moon 49
The man who promised to stay together until death 50
A desperate and grueling refugee journey 52
Finally arriving in Seoul 54
From Seoul to Busan 56
The second flight as refugees 56
Parting at Gyeongju 58
Teacher Moon, driven by financial needs, comes looking for me 60
Reunion with Ok Se-hyun from Pyongyang 62
The Period Before and After the Founding of the Unification Church 67
The Zeal of the Female Believers 69
The church in Sujeong-dong, Busan 69
A major disturbance by Mrs. Choi Seon-gil (Moon’s legal wife) 70
Electric shock torture at a Police Station 74
A test concerning the will of heaven 75
The enraged husband of Kim Soon-cheol 76
The gathering at Yeongdo, Busan 80
The tragedy of the female college student, Kim Myung-hee 80
Days of being constantly pursued by investigative authorities 83
The Founding of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification
of World Christianity 85
Eu Hyo-won writes the [1957] ‘Explanation of the Principle’ 85
The day the Unification Church was founded 89
Around the time of the Ewha Womans University incident 91
Professors and students joined in droves 91
A man named Kim Deok-jin 92
Another electric shock torture, this time in Daegu 93
The production and sale of photo bromides 95
Song Do-uk, the third Association secretary 98
Pausing briefly to catch our breath 99
The truth behind the arrest of the church leaders 100
Sun Myung Moon’s arrest 100
The focus of the investigation was on illicit sexual relations 103
The indictment of five church leaders 105
Fleeing from the hands of the investigators 107
The Women Who Were Sacrificed 109
The fate of Ok Se-hyun, a meritorious contributor 111
Socks knitted from hair 112
The lament of the master of the house, Elder Woo Ha-seop 우하섭 113
Body, mind and property given to Sun Myung Moon 115
Mrs Ok discharged from hospital with nowhere to go 117
Park Bong-shik and Oh Yeong-choon 121
A married couple devoted to Sun Myung Moon 121
Song Do-uk, the husband who had an affair 122
Park Bong-shik was a woman of outstanding character 123
Oh Yeong-choon contributed large sums of money to Moon 124
“Even if I have to work as a maid, I must live” 126
The tears and anger of Kim Chong-hwa (金鍾和) 128
“I want to kill Moon Yong-myung” 128
The tragedy of the Six Marys 130
Six married women snatched away 130
Lee Deuk-sam 131
Kim Soon-cheol 132
Oh Yeong-choon 134
Kim An-shil 135
Eu Shin-hee 136
Park Cheong-sook 136
Not six Marys but sixty Marys 137
A lover stolen and murdered 140
A man named Kim Won-deok (金元德) 140
A mystical romance 141
A beautiful lady and a lavish feast 143
Strange precognitive abilities 144
Sun Myung Moon stole his own disciple’s lover 146
The True Nature of the Returning Messiah 149
Contradiction between Principle and Practice 151
My memoir is a record of the truth 151
Unsuspecting followers who do not know anything 152
What kind of messiah is Sun Myung Moon! 154
The strange relationship with Chong Deuk-eun (丁得恩) 157
Sex-based proselytizing naturally led to arrests 159
Sex, greed and money 162
“Steal your husband’s money and bring it” 162
Why do innocent [sinless] children of the messiah die! 164
Sex under the pretext of pikareum “restoration” 165
Many families were destroyed 167
The resentment of a woman brings frost even in summer 169
Children born to virgins 170
Who was the traitor? 173
A letter of introduction from Sun Myung Moon 173
The relentless exploitation of labor 174
Moon’s sons, Heung-jin and Hyo-jin 176
The name of one of the founders erased 178
“When an incident occurs, flee immediately” 180
The traitor is Sun Myung Moon 182
The Real Satan is Sun Myung Moon 185
The use value of a living witness 187
Remarriage in order to enter the new world 187
Collapsing with a serious illness 189
Meeting a church elder again after a long time 189
A living witness to the founding of the Unification Church 191
Sun Myung Moon’s lies and the Japanese members 193
The Principle was stolen from Kim Baek-moon (金百文) 195
Suspicions of a marriage between half-siblings 197
Kim Deok-jin (金德振) who practiced according to the Principle 198
The role of the 36 Couples 200
Measures against the proliferation of self-proclaimed Returning Messiahs 200
The contributors who were sacrificed 204
Eu Hyo-won was a man of greater character than Sun Myung Moon 204
Eu Hyo-min, the entrepreneur who built the church finances 206
Eu Hyo-yeong, President of the Il Shin Stone Company, exported the famous miniature Dabotap pagodas [to Japan] 208
The immorality and crimes of Sun Myung Moon 209
The misery of Kim Myung-hee 211
Another “Mother” 214
My shameful participation experience 215
The red dragon (龍) who deceives the world 216
Testimonies – The Reality We Experienced 219
Eu Hyo-min – contributed to the economic foundation of the Unification Church but was then betrayed 221
Eu Shin-hee – was one of the Six Marys 227
Kim Deok-jin was a practitioner of the sex relays 232
From the Japanese edition:
Postscript by Pak Chung-hwa 279
Appendices 283
‘Original Principle’ ‘Wŏlli Wŏnbon’ (1952) Table of Contents 283
‘Explanation of the Principle’ ‘Wŏlli Hĕsŭl’ (1957) Table of Contents 287