May 17 2009
Physical, energy and spiritual bodies
As the people became more numerous, the need to wait for the nourishing milk of the Earth became acute, and some started feeling hunger. Ilchi Lee writes one of them, unable to stand the hunger, ate a grape and started the humans on a slippery downward slope. The book calls this the “Downfall of the Five Tastes,” because the grape has five different tastes to it: bitterness, sourness, sweetness, saltiness, and tanginess. By eating grapes, human beings lost their world of absolute Oneness and developed the ability to differentiate and judge. They saw the difference between good and evil, cleanness and dirt, and Heaven and Earth. They differentiated between their physical, energy, and spiritual bodies. They lost their ability to commune directly with the Yuln’yo and thereby lost their sense of Oneness with all.
In this story, the original couples—Yellows, Whites, Blacks, and Blues—take collective responsibility and decide to leave the castle with all their descendants, for they have decided they could not stay in that perfect world in such an imperfect state. Outside the castle, they go on their separate ways. Before leaving, however, they vow to recover their divine selves and return to the castle, taking with them two things each that will help them accomplish this: one, a method to control and commune with the Ki energy that forms the source of all things visible and invisible; and two, a simple scripture of eighty-one letters summarizing the essential Truths of the cosmos. This scripture is called the “Heavenly Code.” It is our great fortune that we have this scripture with us still. Then the couples go in separate directions, promising to meet inside the castle walls again.
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