True Father identified the Pantanal region of Brazil, near Jardim, as a site of special providential significance — a kind of New Eden. The Pantanal is one of the world’s largest tropical wetlands: enormous biodiversity, pristine rivers teeming with fish, abundant wildlife, and a climate suited for fresh beginnings. True Father spent extended time there himself (months at a stretch), fishing daily from dawn, and called leaders from around the world to undergo training in the region.
The theological claim: just as the original Garden of Eden was a place of abundance where humanity was to begin in God’s love and grow into maturity, Jardim/Pantanal is designated in the providential plan as a place for a fresh start in the restoration era. The wilderness provides conditions for the character formation required in the Pacific age.
In the pattern of providential history, God has consistently designated specific places at specific times for specific purposes: the land of Canaan, Jerusalem, Korea. Jardim is offered as one such place — a geographic stake in the ground for the age of restoration, a provisional New Eden in the Southern Hemisphere.
Wrestling note: For people outside the movement, this claim requires context to not appear arbitrary. The deepest logic is this: True Father acted on the belief that God guides specific places and peoples for specific purposes, and that founding a model community in a place of natural abundance could create an embodied testimony to the restored relationship between humanity and creation. Whether one accepts the specific providential claim or not, the practice of seeking and sanctifying specific places for spiritual formation is broadly attested across traditions.