Claim. A tribal messiah’s function in the tribe is to cut the false wild root and engraft each tribal household onto the True Parents’ lineage — the “true olive tree” of restoration.
Elaboration. SMM uses the olive-tree image to describe the lineage reconnection: “What I mean by telling you to go as the tribal messiah is for you to go to your tribe, plant the new seed, and produce a true olive tree. Because all of the existing wild trees are false, they must be cut and engrafted onto the true olive tree, making a garden of true olive trees. There isn’t any better news than this for the family. It is more valuable than restoring the nation, the world, or heaven and earth” (CSG 13.4 §3, 197-207, 1990.1.14). The mechanism is genealogical-substantial: “I am sending out tribal messiahs to become the ancestors of Abel families. These ancestors have the seed of life. Because these messiahs are parents, they come with the seeds of life; your parents and family have received the seed of the satanic world. However, you can use this seed of life to go anywhere you want” (ibid, 198-267, 1990.2.4). The image inverts ordinary descent: rather than receiving lineage from parents, the tribal messiah deposits the new seed back into the parental and tribal generations. “Now you must straighten out your roots … Only after turning yourself around 180 degrees and engrafting onto the true root can you begin anew.”
See also. tribal-messiah, lineage