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The Meaning of the Cheon Jeong Palace

Jinchun Kim
June 12, 2006
President of the Chungshim Graduate School of Theology

The Chinese character "?" of the Cheon Jeong Palace ("?") means a "House of a King." A king is a person who has the highest value and sovereignty. The Chinese character "?" means "right, or original." Therefore, "?" means a house of king who has the highest original value and sovereignty. "?" means God, True Parents, Cheon Il Guk, Heavenly Kingdom, the Universal Peace Federation, and the universe. Therefore , "?" means the place of God and True Parents who are the king and queen of cosmic peace, and the Holy Land which is a headquarter and an office of Cheon Il Guk.

When we interpret the meaning of the Original Palace, it is "Headquarters of God's Kingdom." Adam and Eve would have completed without falling, received the blessing following God's will, become True Parents, and established God's Kingdom. Therefore, the Original Palace is one of many buildings on earth, but its internal meaning is more important. It is a symbol of the Ideal of Creation, which is to fulfill the Three Great Blessings. This building is a symbol of completion of the providence of restoration and a symbol of the life of original ideal of Creation, so those who visit here need to be qualified as original humankind.

For example, the first blessing is the perfection of individual character through three steps of growing period of the formation stage, the growth stage, and the completion stage. On the ground below stairway of the Cheon Jeong Palace, there are the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which are symbols of man who completed the ideal of creation and woman who completed the ideal of creation respectively. Then, going up through the stairways of the growing period from the two trees, people reach the plaza, which is a symbol of completion of the second blessing. The highest part of the main building means God, and the dome means the spirit world. The right and left parts of the main building mean True Father and True Mother respectively, who are separately manifested as projections of God's dual characteristics. The central part of the main building symbolizes the harmonious union of True Parents. There are four columns in each of the right, left, and central parts of the main building. The four columns mean completion of the Four Position Foundation of True Father, True Mother, and harmonious union of True Parents. The columns are a total of twelve, and this means completion of the Four Position Foundation through communion of twelve object partners. The right annex means sons of True Parents, which are yang types of discrete substantial object partners, and the left annex means daughters of True Parents, which are yin types of discrete substantial object partners. The sons and daughters are symbols of men and women of all humankind.

Therefore, this plaza is a symbol that "all human beings build the universal family as sons and daughters of God and True Parents on the foundation of the unity of God, the vertical true parent, and True Parents, the horizontal true parents." There is also a meaning of the third blessing, the perfection of a human being's dominion over the natural world.

As a conclusion, the Cheon Jeong Palace is a symbol of the first, second, and third blessings which all original human beings have to fulfill, and a symbol of God's Kingdom. So, it is the headquarter of God's Kingdom, the holy palace God dwells, the place True Parents live, the model of the heavenly kingdom in heaven and on earth, and the headquarter of the Universal Peace Federation which True Parents proclaimed in 120 nations. It is also the holy place in the spirit world and the physical world, where all spiritual and physical human beings go on a pilgrimage.

The Chinese character "?" of the Original Palace ("?") has meanings of "root," "essential," "original," or "model." Therefore, it is a holy place as a residence of True Parents who is the root of humankind. Also, it is the holy place of holy places which shows a living example of True Parents who have walked the model course. On June 13, "True Parents' Entrance Ceremony into the Cheon Jeong Palace and Coronation" will be held here. People will sing the national anthem of God's Kingdom, hoist the national flag of God's Kingdom, and celebrate God's sovereignty. The national bird (animal) and national flower (plant) will be dedicated as symbols of all things, and the Cheon Il Guk citizenship card will be given as a reborn human being. The ceremony on June 13 is a ceremony where the theological value will be substantiated on earth. We, who live in this age, need to make a determination to live following God's will by fulfilling the three great blessings.

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