The Cycle of Birth in the Spring and Death in the Autumn

We live in a time when heaven and earth are about to go through gaebyeok and harvest only selected human seeds.

Heaven and earth give birth in the spring and bring death in the autumn. Heaven and earth exist to give birth in the spring and bring death in the autumn.

We call a single revolution of the earth around the sun a year. The earth on which we live presently revolves around the sun in an egg-shaped or elliptical orbit. The earth revolves around the sun in an elliptical orbit, making four seasons per orbit. This is the cycle of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. In spring, life is born; in summer, it grows; in autumn, it collects essence and bears fruit; in winter, it rests. Next spring, new buds bloom. This principle is immutable.

A similar cycle of change occurs within the universe—the cosmic year. The cycle in which the cosmos completes a full circle is called the cosmic year. In concord with the same principle as the earth’s revolution around the sun, the cosmic year observes an order marked by four seasons per year. During a cosmic year, the universe cultivates humanity. Just as trees and plants are cultivated during an earth year, humans are nurtured and harvested during a cosmic year.

Speaking Exercise
① 명사 + in which (~ 하는 “무엇”)
The cycle in which the cosmos completes a full circle is called the cosmic year.

The Later Heaven shall be a world in which spirits and humans become one.

② 장소명사 + on which (~하는 “곳”)
The earth on which we live now revolves around the sun in an elliptical orbit.

New land on which to live shall appear.

③ 시간명사 + when (~하는 “때”)
We live in a time when heaven and earth harvest human seeds.

There shall come a time when it will be difficult to find even a single person in ten ri.

What is the significance of Taeeulju Mantra meditation? What kind of power does this mantra have?

The Taeeulju Mantra is a life-giving nectar for humanity. Or it can be likened to oxygen for living things. This mantra makes us one with nature and achieve a higher level of consciousness.

When you chant it many times with a virtuous mind, your spiritual eye opens. You come to know every affair in the whole world, and your mind and body become healthy. In this world, there is no mantra better than the Taeeulju Mantra.

By chanting the Taeeulju Mantra and gaining a lot of its qi in your body, you can escape accidents and disaster.

“Taeeulcheon Sangwongun”(The God of Taeeul Heaven) in the mantra is the root ancestor of the entire human race. Chanting the

Taeeulju Mantra is like calling out to the parents of heaven and earth. The root of your life is first your parents, then your ancestors, and originally the God of Taeeul Heaven.

No one can get through to the Later Heaven without chanting the Taeeulju Mantra. Because this is the time of gaebyeok and seeking our the beginning and returning to the origin, if you disavow your roots, your parents, and your ancestors, there is no way to survive. This mantra is the source of constructing the Immortal Paradise of the Later Heaven. It is a lifeline for humanity.

Speaking Exercise
1. seeking out the beginning and returning to the origin 原始返本

Now is the age when all existence seeks out its beginning and returns to its origin.

Autumn is the time of seeking out the beginning and returning to the origin.

2. to open spiritual eye

When you chant the Taeeulju Mantra many times with a virtuous mind, your spiritual eye opens.

When you open your spiritual eye, you see the world of spirits.

In the Later Heaven, everyone will open their spiritual eye and attain enlightenment.

According to Jeung San Do, what kind of era will the twenty-first century be?

The twenty-first century will be the era of global unification, and the world will become one family. We are still in the world of cosmic summer, but in the near future, after gaebyeok, the world of autumn will come. The time of autumn is when heaven, earth, and humanity achieve their purpose.

The future world is the world in which humans and spirits unite as one. In the future, all people become enlightened by meditating with the Taeeulju Mantra. It will be a magnificent world in which enlightenment is the norm. Though you may not believe it now, in the future we will know one another’s minds. So, according to the framework of such a world, you will not do any wrong, even if you wanted to. It will not be possible to trick anyone.

In everyone’s home there will be plenty to eat and everyone will have all the clothes they want. The concept of rich and poor will vanish, and it will be, so to speak, the immortal paradise on earth. In the near future, we will go beyond the civilization of earth to the civilization of the universe.

I will tell you something incredible—in the future, a person who lives long will live for 1,200 years, the average person will live for 900 years, and those who die young will live for 700 years.

Speaking Exercise
1. unification
The twenty-first century will be the era of global unification.

The era of division in summer is giving way to autumn’s era of grand unification.

When autumn comes, material culture and immaterial culture will be united and an integrated culture of unification will be established.

2. to achieve one’s purpose

The time of autumn is when heaven, earth, and humanity achieve their purpose.

Now is the age of heaven and earth’s achievement of their purpose.

3. immortal paradise on earth
The coming world will be the immortal paradise on earth.
The world will transform into an immortal paradise on earth.

Could you tell us about the Work of Renewing Heaven and Earth?

Jeung-san Sangjenim came to this world, and in the most rational and well-thought-out way, used the principles of heaven, earth, and humanity to lay a path to a new world. This is what we call the Work of Renewing Heaven and Earth (Cheonjigongsa). In short, using the history of humankind as the raw material, he made his ideal of the future become a reality.

Sangjenim formed a government of spirits, the Government of Creation-Transformation, by assembling all the spirits filled with unresolved bitterness and grief, spirits of failed revolutionaries, the preeminent spirits of the world’s civilizations, all the world’s regional spirits, all family lineages’ ancestral spirits. Because this work was so vast, it took nine years to complete, 1901 to 1909.

All events, great and small, proceed according to the program of this government of spirits. Only those who know the secrets of the Work of Renewing Heaven and Earth can know what the future is going to be. The history of the twentieth century is one of transition—the transition from cosmic summer to cosmic autumn. Through this process of transition, the bitterness and grief accumulated throughout the Early Heaven are resolved and all conditions are met for a new world to come.

Speaking Exercise
1. bitterness and grief
Through the Work of Renewing Heaven and Earth, all the bitterness and grief accumulated throughout the Early Heaven are resolved.

Heaven and earth are filled with countless spirits harboring bitterness and grief.

Sangjenim cannot bring to pass a magnificent world without first resolving the bitterness and grief of spirits.

Sangjenim’s works of renewal for resolving the bitterness and grief of the spirit realm materializes as historical events in the human world.

2. transition
The history of the twentieth century is one of transition from cosmic summer to cosmic autumn.

We live in the time of summer-autumn transition.

The transition from the Early Heaven to the Later Heaven marks a complete transformation in the order of heaven and earth and in the culture of civilization.

Why is Jeung San Do called dao (do) rather than religion?

Jeung San Do’s teachings are based on the principle of nature. Jeung San Do is the principle of nature, and the principle of nature is Jeung San Do.

The principle of nature is, in a word, dao(do). Dao is the principle (li) that exists of itself. It is also qi that exists of itself.

Preceding heaven and earth, dao is the basis of all that exists in the universe. Without dao, all that is in the universe, including humans, could not have been born and could not go on living.

Dao(Do) is the principle of nature itself; dao is the principle of the universe. Because the truth of Jeung-san Sangjenim is dao, we call it Jeung San Do.

No better truth can exist in the future. Jeung San Do is the culmination of all teachings and culture.

Speaking Exercise
1. principle of nature

Jeung San Do’s teachings are based on the principle of nature.

When we begin our study of the truth, our study must begin with an inquiry into the principle of nature that underlies all change.

Life is a continual process of learning the principle of nature and of human life.

2. culmination
Jeung San Do is the culmination of all teachings and culture.

God the Father, the Absolute, will advent into this world to bring humanity’s civilization and history to a culmination.

The Taeeulju Mantra is the culmination of the history of enlightenment, both in the East and West.

Cheonbugyeong 천부경

At a Church in Geumsan *Dojeon 5:9

1 One autumn day, Sangjenim traveled to Geumsan Township in Muju County with Hyeong-ryeol and Ho-yeon.

2 When they finally reached Geumsan late at night, they entered a Christian church where many people were listening to a preacher’s sermon.

3 “It is said that God so loved this world that He sent His only begotten son Jesus to us, so whoever believes in Jesus without any wavering in their hearts will gain everlasting life.

4 Now, let us all hold each other’s hands and believe together,” declared the preacher as he delivered an impassioned sermon.

How Dare You Deceive the Multitudes! *Dojeon 5:10

1 Sangjenim strode toward the pulpit, berating the preacher in a thunderous voice, “You should not teach such falsehoods!

2 The principle of all affairs in heaven and earth resides within all those who dwell in heaven and earth, so how dare you deceive the multitudes!

3 If you wish to teach, teach correctly, laying out a straight path.

4 Once a path has been laid, it spreads throughout the world like veins, so if what you teach is not the right path, do not teach it at all.”

5 Sangjenim continued, “Misguiding people even thrusts the Original Master of Heaven and Earth from His rightful place.” Sangjenim then rebuked the people for the grievous sin of disavowing their fathers and ancestors.

I Am Maitreya *Dojeon 4:34

1 One day while sojourning with Geum-gok, Sangjenim all of sudden thunderously demanded of Geum-gok, “In whom will you believe? 2 Shakyamuni was conferred a destiny of only three thousand years. Do you not wish to receive a destiny of fifty thousand years?

3 The coming world shall be the world of Holy Maitreya Buddha-and it is I who am Maitreya. Should we not reunite in that future?”
4 “I shall no longer have faith in Shakyamuni Buddha,” Geum-gok answered. “I shall have faith only in You, venerable Gahng Jeung-san.”
Sangjenim laughed in delight. “Very well, preserve this faith in Me.”
5 Sangjenim often told Geum-gok, “Shakyamuni was conferred an authority lasting three thousand years, but his three thousand years will soon come to an end.”

Putrid Confucianism *Dojeon 3:60

9 While staying with Bo-gyeong later that month, Sangjenim commanded him, “Write the three words Confucianism, Buddhism, and Immortalism.”

10 He then instructed the disciples present, “Indicate one of the three, whichever you will.” Bo-gyeong pointed to Buddhism, and someone else pointed to Confucianism.
11 Sangjenim declared, “Confucianism has become putrid Confucianism.”

Sangjenim sent many sages to the East and West who established many religions such as Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, and Daoism. But without the one who governs affairs of the universe, Sangjenim, the problems of the universe cannot be solved.

Sangjenim said, “It is I who sent Confucius, Shakyamuni, and Jesus to the world, to serve in My work.” (Dojeon 2:43:5)―a Christian I know who attended the largest church in Korea heard this passage, and he said that afterward he could not get sleep at all because the truth it contained had shocked and thrilled him so deeply. Although he had always attended church, his yearning for truth had never been satisfied. He felt something missing. ‘Where, when, why, how, and for whom was the universe born? What is the purpose of human existence?’ People asked these questions in vain―whether they were a child, a scholar, a politician, or anyone in the East and West, young or old―because they had not yet encountered a universal dao.

Sangjenim Sent Confucius, Shakyamuni, and Jesus to the World *Dojeon 2:43

1 Sangjenim one day said to the disciples, “Those who believe in Jesus await the second coming of Jesus,

2 those who believe in Buddha await the coming of Maitreya Buddha,

3 and those who believe in Eastern Learning await the rebirth of Choe Su-un.

4 But whoever this person proves to be, when that one person comes, all will proclaim him their master and follow him.”
6 Sangjenim then revealed, “It is I who sent Confucius, Shakyamuni, and Jesus to the world, to serve in My work.”

Shakyamuni Buddha said, ‘Three thousand years later, Maitreya Buddha will come.’ In the West, Jesus proclaimed word of God the Father. Jesus said, “I am from Him, and He sent Me.” Jesus also proclaimed the coming of God the Father. It would not be himself but God the Father who would come to the world. John the Apostle proclaimed the coming of God on the great white throne. In the East, Confucianism and Daoism worshipped Okhwang-Sangje (“Jade Emperor of Heaven”), or Sangje. Expressions varied with religious cultures, but they all spoke of the True God. Heaven and earth are the one and only. Likewise, God the Ruler―the Supreme Governor―is the one and only.

Sangjenim (“Emperor Above” or “Supreme God”) is God the Ruler of the Universe. As the Supreme Governor of the Universe, Sangjenim rules over everything with His commands. Without Sangjenim’s advent into the world at the approach of cosmic autumn, none of the spirits of people who had lived throughout history could be controlled. In other words, only the True God could rule over all the spirits of those who had once lived as humans. Sangjenim―God the Ruler―incarnated into this world and gathered the essence of all the cultures of the Early Heaven and opened the path to a new world.

The Age of Sages *Dojeon 2:16

6 “The Early Heaven has been an age of conquerors in which sin has been the way of life, but the Later Heaven shall be an age of sages in which benevolence shall be the way of life.

7 Solemnity prevailed in the Early Heaven, but laughter shall prevail in the Later Heaven.

8 “Our work is the practice of helping others flourish. After others prosper, we need only to take what remains and our work will be accomplished. 9 Jeon Myeong-suk attempted a revolution to transform commoners into nobles, and for this he was rewarded in the afterlife with the glory of becoming the Great King of the Joseon Myeongbu(The Court of Judgment in the Hereafter).”

The message that Jeung San Do intends to convey to the public is this: ‘The cosmic season is giving way to autumn. The Autumn Gaebyeok is coming. Jeung San Do is a truth which aims to save people by spreading across the world the dao of Gang Jeung-san Sangjenim, who incarnated as a human at this time of the age of the Autumn Gaebyeok. At the time of the Autumn Gaebyeok, when all are faced with inevitable death, what must be done to save others and oneself?’ This is the core message of Jeung San Do’s teachings, which are uniquely different from all the religions and philosophies of the past. Therefore, Jeung San Do can be considered ‘a truth that transcends religion.’

The Coming of God the Father into the World *Dojeon 1:3

1 Jesus Christ proclaimed the existence of the Father in heaven as he suffered on the cross. He revealed to his apostles:

2 ... I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know. But I know Him, for I am from Him, and He sent Me.

3 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations … in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you....

4 Inspired by the Holy Spirit of the Father, John the Apostle wrote the Book of Revelation, which proclaimed the news of the Father on the great white throne and of the seven holy spirits who stand before the throne:

5 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.

6 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them.

7 Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.”

8 Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea,

9 saying, “Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”

10 God on the great white throne revealed to John, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End ... who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

11 These proclamations are heraldings of the advent of the Father Himself into the world, coming forth to end the old heaven and earth and usher in the new heaven and earth, to bring forth paradise on earth.

Maitreya Buddha, God the Father, God on the great white throne, Okhwang—Sangjenim—who are they? They are one in the same: Jeung-san Sangjenim. Peoples and cultures differ from one another, and so their expressions for God naturally differ; yet, they are referring to the same God. They are essentially referring to God who incarnates into the world in the era of ‘metal-fire interchange,’ when the seeds of humanity are harvested, to bring forth a new age by way of a new culture.