January 1st, 1976, at the former church headquarters in First Street, Chung-Pa Dong

Why did I return to Korea this time? I returned this time in order to pay indemnity for all of history. To do this, I have conducted the Unification Ceremony. What I did after returning here was conduct the Unification Ceremony. On the first of January, the Unification Ceremony took place. Until now, we didn't have the victorious foundation for the nation centering on both spiritual and physical worlds, as the originating point of unification from which to begin this. I came in order to perform this ceremony.

What comes next is that today people talk about the citizens of the heavenly kingdom, and children of the heavenly kingdom, but we could not celebrate the birthday of parents. We do not have the qualifications to celebrate a birthday of parents. Spirits who have gone to the spirit world went there before being able to celebrate the birthday of parents. Under these circumstances, we, as people of the heavenly nation, cannot celebrate this day. Even though there is an angelic world of the heavenly nation, if the parents' birthday had been celebrated, they would have obtained the right to participate in the domain where Adam attained perfection, but that did not happen. Tremendous beings of the angelic world... Do you understand? If the birthday had been celebrated, perfection would have been achieved?

Therefore, I have conducted a ceremony which provides the privileged motivation for people in the spirit world and the world of earth to celebrate the birthday centering on the True Parents. (84-152)