The Types of Healing Demonstrated in Jeon-gyeong and Their Implications

This article attempts to identify cases of healing described in Jeon-gyeong (The Canonical Scripture), Daesoon Jinrihoe’s main scripture, by type and examine their characteristics and implications. Jeungsan compared the Former World to a diseased state such as “a boil on the body” and the point of “annihilation.” By diagnosing the world as falling under the dominance of sanggeuk (mutual contention) and executing cheonji-gongsa (the Reordering works of Heaven and Earth) for 9 years, He attempted to change the order of the universe from sanggeuk (mutual contention) to sangsaeng (mutual beneficence). In order to save all the people in the world, Jeungsan tried to “resolve the grievances and grudges accumulated from time immemorial by recalibrating the Degree Number of Heaven and Earth, harmonizing divine beings, and establishing the Later World’s paradisiacal land of immortals which will be based on the principle of mutual beneficence.” In this context, it can be said that in Jeungsan’s cheonji-gongsa, which aimed to save and restore to normalcy throughout the Three Realms of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind, there is an implied remedial meaning. If Daesoon Jinrihoe’s tenets, creeds, aims, precepts, ethical rules, and other cultivation methods, can be correctly understood and practiced, then the healing process will also take place concurrently. Thus, the healing implications seen through this remedial principle can be distinguished into healing via cheonji-gongsa on cosmic level and healing through cultivatory practices on human level. In addition, the process of healing and restoration throughout the Three Realms of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind are in line with the practice to ultimately attain the religious aims of Daesoon Jinrihoe, which indicates the justification and significance of healing cultivatory practices.