¹In 1902, Sangjenim conducted his first work of healing, bestowing it upon Yi Gyeong-o of Hwajeong-ri Village.

²Gyeong-o had long suffered from a severe illness, and when his condition worsened, he urged his friend Bak Geum-gok, the abbot of Daewonsa Temple, to find him a healer. ³Knowing well of Sangjenim’s divinity, Geum-gok approached Sangjenim about Gyeong-o’s desperate condition and beseeched him to bestow a divine healing.

⁴Thus, Sangjenim went with Geum-gok to visit Gyeong-o, and he observed Gyeong-o’s symptoms.⁵The fourth toe of the sick man’s left foot was throbbing with pain, and between afternoon and dawn, his leg would swell into a bloated pillar. Only in the morning would the swelling subside, the leg not regaining its normal shape until noon.⁶Gyeong-o had been suffering from this condition for nearly four years and had become crippled, no longer able to take even a single step.

⁷Sangjenim said, “This illness is truly mysterious. In all matters, the small is a means of understanding the vast,⁸and so using this illness as an example, I will conquer all the world’s illnesses.”

Sangjenim then ran his hand along the man’s swollen leg once and ordered Geum-gok,⁹“Collect the rain falling from the eaves and wash his leg.” Geum-gok washed Gyeong-o’s leg, and it was soon cured.