¹In 1929 (DG 59), during the Chiseong of January 3, Taemonim conducted the initial offering of drinks before the altar and the disciples offered their prostrations.²Taemonim then turned toward the disciples and recited three times in a thunderous voice, “The predetermined principle of heaven and earth—mu-gi earth!”

³At that moment, Taemonim beheld a large spider hanging on the ceiling just above the ritual altar, and She said to Gahng Jae-suk, “Speak if you know the underlying principle of the spider.”

⁴“I know not,” Jae-suk answered.

“This is another principle that you must explore with particular interest,” Taemonim instructed him.⁵She then declared, “A spider builds its home by spinning a web in all twenty-four directions. When the web is finished, the spider retreats to a place out of view and hides.”

⁶One day, a disciple asked Taemonim, “How did heaven and earth originally come into being?”

⁷“All the qi in the east, west, south, and north rushed inward to form heaven and earth,” Taemonim revealed.