¹During this period, Ryu Ui-gyeong of Notjeom-ri Village was nearing death from typhoid fever, and his family members rushed to Gyeong-hak and begged him to save Ui-gyeong’s life.²Gyeong-hak went to their house in the evening, and after offering a bowl of cheongsu, he prayed to Sangjenim and chanted the Taeeulju Mantra. Ui-gyeong’s dire condition thus improved, and he was completely cured in a matter of days.

³Afterward, Ui-gyeong inquired of Gyeong-hak about the principle that underlay the curing of a terrible disease through mantra chanting.⁴Gyeong-hak explained to Ui-gyeong about Sangjenim’s divinity and that Sangjenim was the Lord of Creation-Transformation who renewed heaven and earth, and so it was that Gyeong-hak guided Ui-gyeong to the path of faith.

⁵Soon after, Gyeong-hak and Ui-gyeong journeyed together to the Maitreya Shrine of Geumsansa Temple and offered a chiseong. Thereafter, they traveled to the medicine room in Guritgol Village and, sojourning several days, visited sites significant to Sangjenim’s work.⁶During this time, Gyeong-hak noticed a crisscross cut in the wallpaper on one side of the medicine room.⁷Puzzled by the sight, he peeled away the paper from this four-edged cut and discovered the character for sun (日) written approximately a foot tall.

⁸A few days later, Gyeong-hak revisited the medicine room, reexamined its interior, and discovered another crisscross cut in the wallpaper above the lintel of the eastern doorway.⁹He peeled away the paper and discovered five characters written horizontally that read, “Uphold the mandate to spread the Supreme Dao of Mugeuk (十奉命開訓).”

¹⁰The night Ui-gyeong returned home, he offered a bowl of cheongsu and chanted the Taeeulju Mantra, and his spiritual eye opened and numerous miracles ensued. ¹¹Thereafter, word spread far and wide that ‘chanting the Taeeulju Mantra brings spiritual inspiration,’ and so from that time onward, Sangjenim’s disciples began to chant the Taeeulju Mantra in their meditation practice.

¹²These events accorded with Sangjenim’s words, “I shall establish the School of Great Learning at Gyeong-hak’s house. This school shall become the greatest in the world.”