- After Death
- 1 Gim Sohng-hwahn asked what happens after death.
- 2 Sahng-jeh-nim explained, “Everyone has a heavenly soul (魂 hohn) and an earthly soul (魄 nuk).
- 3 After death, the heavenly soul goes up to heaven and becomes a spiritual being (神 shin). After receiving ancestral memorial rites from four generations of descendants, it becomes either a brilliant being (靈 yung) or an immortal being (仙 sun).
- 4 The earthly soul returns to the earth, and four generations later, it becomes a ghostlike being (鬼 gwee).”
- Sahm-shins and West Spirits
- 5 “Spirits who have descendants on earth are yellow fountain spirits. They become sahm-shins, and from heaven, they obtain new descendants for their families and bring them to earth.
- 6 Spirits without descendants are middle heaven spirits, and they become west spirits.”
- A Human’s Birth and Death
- 7 One day, Ho-yun asked Sahng-jeh-nim, “Do spirits really exist?”
- 8 “Of course,” Sahng-jeh-nim replied. “A human’s birth and death result from the spirits’ power of creative change.”
- (JSD Dojeon 2,98)
