Claim. Receiving the blessing on earth is not the end of the process; couples must additionally pass through a church-level, national-level, and world-level Blessing, the purpose of which is to reach total self-denial in which children and possessions are recognized as belonging to God and True Parents.
Elaboration. SMM sets a graduated post-Blessing trajectory: ‘Just because you have received the Blessing on earth does not mean that everything is finished. You must also pass through a church-level Blessing, a national-level Blessing and ultimately a world-level Blessing. You will need to go through these three stages. Why? So that you can effectively reach the point of total selfdenial’ (Section 6. True Parents and the Nation Why have we sacrificed until now? It).
The formula for entry through the True Parents’ gate is severe: ‘You should not even remember the names of the friends you have known. Married women should not be thinking of the man they first loved. They must reach the point of completely forgetting him. Those who think about how they lived in the past cannot enter the Heavenly Kingdom.’ Total cognitive and affective re-anchoring on True Parents and God is required because ‘if something else is mixed in, you will not be able to travel in a straight line. You will not be able to walk the path of love.’
The self-denial extends to one’s own children: ‘Just because you have sons and daughters does not mean that they are your possessions. You must reach the point of total self-denial. These sons and daughters belong to God and True Parents.’
This atomic illuminates the formation-growth-completion-stages pattern applied to the Blessing itself — the sacrament is not a one-time event but a progression through three providential scales. It also clarifies why Blessed couples participate in repeated re-Blessings and pledge events across decades of UC practice. The ‘children belong to God and True Parents’ clause is the theological warrant for high-commitment patterns including missionary deployment of children, matched marriages across nations, and the historical patterns of family separation in mission work — patterns that critics (sociology, ex-member) typically engage on the experiential/ethical merits.
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