Claim. The Pacific’s Black Current — a four-thousand-mile circulation that drives all five oceans — supplies SMM’s image of how the Unification Church must function: a single living mainstream from which the whole world’s purification flows.
Elaboration. SMM gives the oceanographic image first: “No matter how large the river is, it flows to the ocean, and no matter how vast the ocean is, it follows the Black Current … a strong current of water that follows a four thousand mile path in the Pacific Ocean. Because of this powerful current, all the water currents in the five great oceans are alive and on the move” (2.3. We can learn a great deal from the ocean, 220-201, 1991.10.19). The ecclesial transposition is direct: “The Unification Church must become the main stream of the world and resemble the Black Current in the Pacific Ocean … Through this, we must purify the tarnished world” (275-32, 1995.10.30). The mainstream survives precisely by not refusing the polluted: “When there is something dirty, water will embrace it, even if it spoils the pure water’s essence. Water will absorb and assimilate the things around it” (218-292, 1991.8.22).
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