Claim. A seven-day fast is the minimum spirit-world registration condition — corresponding to God’s six-thousand-year labor — and the Unification training course of 2-day, 7-day, 21-day, 40-day, 120-day workshops (totalling 70 days in six months) is the codified Word and Law of formation.
Elaboration. SMM gives the fast a temporal-correspondence rationale: “When you go to the spirit world, if you have not fasted for Heaven for at least seven days, you will be unable to register in the spirit world. Why? Because God toiled for six thousand years in the course of restoration, and therefore you should fast and be thinking about His labors” (7.2. Course of education and seven- day fast, 17-182, 1966.12.18). The fast is bodily indemnity: “It is not to make you suffer but to allow you to set a condition of striking your body in front of heaven… ‘This body, my enemy. You lump of flesh! Evil blood is flowing through you’” (ibid). The cumulative training schedule is structural: “In the Unification Church, there are 2-day, 7-day, 21-day workshops and 40-day training sessions; altogether, as a rule, within six months you should receive 70 days of training. This is the Word and the Law” (ibid, 103-238, 1979.3.1). The 120-day track produces “core members who can establish the dignity and reputation of the Unification Church” (ibid, 78-188, 1975.5.8). Training is therefore measured doctrinally, not pedagogically.