♦ Last Updated on August 18, 2024 ♦
The Cheon Seong Gyeong, Pyeong Hwa Gyeong, and Chambumo Gyeong are publications that are fairly new and comprise a first-hand account of the life and works of True Parents. Published in 2015, they are texts sacred to leaders and members of the Family Federation for World Peace.
https://familyfedihq.org/2015/09/on-chambumo-gyeong-publication
Each book, in its English language translation, is around 1,600 pages looong.
What are they all about?
Cheon Seong Gyeong is an anthology of True Parents’ teachings.
Chambumo Gyeong is a record of True Parents’ life course, activities, and major providential events.
Pyeong Hwa Gyeong is a selection of True Parents’ speeches.
How can local Unification leaders introduce these tomes to new, young, and old members? Will everyone read the tomes from beginning to end? How can a studious reader internalize the sacred content before his or her eventual demise on earth? How long would reading the whole text take? How does one start?
The Bible is also a lengthy tome. Over time, people have found summaries and commentaries of the Old and New Testaments very helpful. Everyone attending college will perhaps know CliffNotes as a handy study guide. Summaries and commentaries have brought about the practical guidance that the faithful have come to rely on in their day-to-day lives of faith.
Thanks, Tom, for dusting off your retired brain and asking Generative AI to provide summaries of the Cheon Il Guk scriptures.
At the end of July 2024, I downloaded the pdf of the Chambumo Gyeong from Gary Fleisher’s site at tparents.org, and converted the pdf into plain text files. I then submitted these texts, book by book, to Gemini 1.5 (a Google chatbot), at https://aistudio.google.com, all along prompting for summaries. (Ditto for the other books.)
In my prompt, I did not try to elicit these summaries in a certain style and tone, a style and tone perhaps favorable to adherents or the sacred text. Instead, these summaries turned out to be rather factual about the content of the Chambumo Gyeong.
However, the chatbot’s responses varied slightly in style and tone between sessions when my computer’s unscheduled reboot inadvertently interrupted the chatbot’s train of thought. So, there are multiple summary versions of books 1 to 4.
This forebodes that telling a chatbot in what style and tone to respond to a prompt is consequential. I now wonder if a pastor or coach can get a chatbot to respond in a manner more familiar or empathetic to the faithful.
Tom, more needs to be done to make the amazing words of and by the True Parents accessible to the world.
Until now, all the chatbots of the world have probably had little prominent access to Cheon Il Guk’s sacred words. Now, the ‘cat is out of the bag,’ so to speak. The English-speaking worldwide knowledge is being enriched with the content of Cheon Il Guk as we speak!
Yes. Would it not be nice if curious people like us could prompt Christine’s chatbot for a coherent, two-page essay on any particular issue touched on anywhere in these books of the Cheon Il Guk and then some? For example, “How did the Rev. and Mrs. Moon experience and explain God’s love?” We do not want the essay written by Google naysayers based on what was once said in the New York Times or the Washington Post.
Yeah, that is the next thing for me to try and code and enable. I am already working on it. But it will cost a little money. The necessary service providers behind the various chatbots and LLMs want to make money. Who can chip in?
At least we can use these summaries as some presentation outline for developing outreach material.
However, we must not forget to thank the Rev. and Mrs. Moon for offering their guidance by investing their lives in goodness and all the many people who spent countless hours compiling, writing, and translating these sacred texts.
Chambumo Gyeong
Chambumo Gyeong – Summary of Book 1
Chambumo Gyeong – Summary of Book 2
Chambumo Gyeong – Summary of Book 3
Chambumo Gyeong – Summary of Book 4
Chambumo Gyeong – Summary of Book 5
Chambumo Gyeong – Summary of Book 6
Chambumo Gyeong – Summary of Book 7
Chambumo Gyeong – Summary of Book 8
Chambumo Gyeong – Summary of Book 9
Chambumo Gyeong – Summary of Book 10
Chambumo Gyeong – Summary of Book 11
Chambumo Gyeong – Summary of Book 12
Chambumo Gyeong – Summary of Book 13
We are still working on getting the Cheon Seong Gyeong and the Pyeong Hwa Gyeong online here
Well, I figure that there is no final authoritative version of a summary of any of the sacred texts – as much as I would wish. These chatbots are touchy like kinetic mobiles, or humans, yes. Not indicating a style or tone in the prompt, running the prompt via a different LLM, and other minute factors all make for slightly different answers at different times.
LOL, what do you expect?
May these summaries of the sacred books guide you in your victorious journey of life!