- The Initiation of Gim Gyung-hahk and Other Disciples
- 1 In April 1907, while staying with Wun-il at the house of Shin Gyung-wun, the caretaker of the Guan Yu Shrine,
- 2 Sahng-jeh-nim summoned the spirit of General Guan Yu and, in a work of renewal, gave him a heavenly mandate.
- 3 On this occasion, Gim Gyung-hahk, Chey Chahng-jo, Chey Nae-gyung, and Chey Duk-gyum, all from Tae-in County, awed by Sahng-jeh-nim’s presence, became His followers.
- Sahng-jeh-nim Gives an Order to General Guan Yu
- 4 Sahng-jeh-nim said to Gyung-wun, “Because Korea has honored Guan Yu so highly, he should repay us by participating in My work.”
- 5 Sahng-jeh-nim then wrote something on Western paper and burned it. Having seen this for the first time, Gyung-wun thought it strange.
- 6 The next day, while performing his duties in the shrine with other caretakers, he noticed part of the beard was missing from Guan Yu’s statue.
- 7 The other caretakers were puzzled, but Gyung-wun remembered what Sahng-jeh-nim had said on the previous day.
- 8 He interpreted it as a sign that Guan Yu had taken part in the work of renewal.
- Sahng-jeh-nim Frees Bohng-nahm’s Spiritual Qi
- 14 In 1907, Sahng-jeh-nim told Bohng-nahm, “You must now see all the spirits.”
- 15 Sahng-jeh-nim then freed Bohng-nahm’s spiritual qi, which Sahng-jeh-nim had suppressed when Bohng-nahm was eleven years old.
- 16 Bohng-nahm viewed the world around him with this divine spiritual qi and saw that the world no longer appeared as before. Like a blind person suddenly gaining sight and beholding a magnificent brilliance,
- 17 Bohng-nahm shouted in exultation, “I have lived in a dark world!”
- 18 Sahng-jeh-nim told Bohng-nahm what to do in the future―secretly, to avoid attention.
- (JSD Dojeon 3,121)
