- A Work of Renewal Concerning
the Venerable Seed That Mediates Immortality
- 1 About Ho-yun, Sahng-jeh-nim had said to Hyung-yul, “All people are born of their mothers, but she is the one who conveys to them the pulse of dao.
- 2 Take good care of this child to receive the Venerable Seed That Mediates Immortality.”
- 3 He then gave Hyung-yul detailed instructions for a work of renewal to be done during Ho-yun’s first menstruation.
- 4 After Sahng-jeh-nim’s ascension, Ho-yun stayed in Gu-rit-gohl village until December, when she moved to her mother’s house in Heuk-suk Valley. In 1912, when Ho-yun was sixteen, Hyung-yul came to her to conduct the work of renewal for the Venerable Seed That Mediates Immortality.
- 5 He prepared a pile of small rectangular sheets of paper and wrote on each one. He then waited for Ho-yun’s first menstruation to begin.
- 6 When it started, she was seated on the pile of paper. On the first day, the menstrual blood soaked almost enough paper to make one book. On the second day, enough paper to make two books was thoroughly soaked, and the excess blood was squeezed out, filling two bowls.
- 7 This blood was used on unsoaked papers to make dots, write words, and draw talismans in the shape of scissors.
- 8 After finishing this work of renewal, those who had participated cut up some blood-stained paper and each took a piece home. They also each took a piece of paper with dots and writings.
- 9 Those involved in the work included Gim Hyung-yul, Suh Joong-ohk, Gim Ghee-bo, and Jahng Ghee-dohng.
- 10 Sometime later, in accordance with Sahng-jeh-nim’s plan, Ho-yun married Hyung-yul.
- (JSD Dojeon 10,72)
