Samsin Sangjenim and Spirit Teaching

Samsin Sangjenim and Spirit Teaching

1 At the great beginning, heaven and earth came into being. 2 Amidst the glorious resplendence of the sudden opening of the universe was Samsin. Samsin is the One Spirit, the universe’s Holy Spirit of Creation-Transformation.
3 Samsin gave birth to heaven and earth and begets all that exist.
4 Being one with Samsin, God governs all the universe from Heaven’s Golden Palace; and so it is that the people of Joseon, who have long dwelt in the Eastern land, have known him since ancient times as Samsin Sangjenim, Samsin God, or Sangjenim. 5 Sangjenim is the Supreme Governor of the Universe and God the Ruler.
6 Joseon of the East, the fountainhead and sovereign land of Spirit Teaching, has long worshiped Sangjenim and the spirits of heaven and earth. Joseon is the homeland of all the world’s traditions of offering rituals to the spirits.
7 Despite this, beginning in the Several States Period that followed the Three Sacred Nations known as 

Hwanguk, Baedal, and Joseon, ancient historical roots have been severed by the distortion of history by China’s Han people and by Japan, causing profound and widespread suffering.
8 Sangjenim incarnated as a human into the land of Joseon to deliver humans and spirits by restoring the root of humanity’s history and by renewing heaven and earth, which had grown diseased, through the dao of seeking out the beginning and returning to the origin.
9 It was his incarnation that had been heralded by Shakyamuni, Jesus, Confucius, and myriad other sages and awakened ones whom he had sent to the world. 

[JSD Dojeon 1:1]

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1) Samsin. 삼신 (三神). (Sam, “three,” or “threefold”; sin, “spirit.”) The Primordial Spirit that is one with the universe and is the source of all existence. The name Samsin signifies the three-part function of the Primordial Spirit that impels all existence via three means: by creating, by edifying, by governing.

2) Joseon. 조선 (朝鮮). An overarching term that encompasses the entire historical identity of the Korean people. Joseon is also synonymous with Ancient Joseon, or Dangun Joseon, in the context of the Three Sacred Nations (see 1:1:7). Joseon also was the name of Korea under the Yi Dynasty (1392–1910), an era known as the Joseon Dynasty.

3) Sangjenim. 상제(上帝)님. (Sang, “supreme”; je, “God the Ruler”; nim is an honorific suffix.) God the Ruler of the universe, whose formal title is Okhwang-Sangje (“Jade Emperor of Heaven”). Sangje is the same being that the Chinese call Shangdi.

4) Spirit Teaching. 신교 (神敎). Singyo (Sin, “spirit” or “God”; gyo, “teaching”). The source and impetus of the cultures in the East and West. As the archetypal culture that began at the dawn of human civilization, Spirit Teaching―the primordial spiritual culture, the ur-religion, of the East and West―was the source of all religions, political systems, and cultures. In Spirit Teaching, the spirits are distinguished as either nature spirits or anthropomorphic spirits, and people worship Samsin  Sangjenim, the spirits in heaven and earth,  ancestral spirits, and nature spirits.

5) Several States Period. 열국시대 (列國時代). Third century BCE to first century CE. Many states were founded during this period between the rise of North Buyeo, which succeeded Joseon (aka Ancient Joseon or Dangun Joseon), and the founding of the Four Kingdoms (Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, and Gaya)