Before his ascension, Sangjenim selected his consort Taemonim, who incarnated in 1880 in Korea as Go Pan-rye, as the successor of his dao lineage and authority. Uniting their virtues into one as the Father and Mother, and on this basis of equal yin and yang, they established a path to the new heaven and earth of right yin and right yang.

The uniting of our virtues into one will renew all three realms. (Sangjenim to Taemonim, Dojeon 6:27)

Revere my Subu, your Mother, faithfully. My work cannot be accomplished without the Subu. (Sangjenim, Dojeon 6:64)

Sangjenim called her ‘Subu,’ which signifies ‘the woman who is the head of humans and spirits’ and ‘the consort of God.’ Jeung San Do practitioners call her ‘Subunim’ or ‘Taemonim’ (“Great Mother”), signifying ‘the mother of all humans and spirits in heaven and earth.’ Sangjenim conferred his dao lineage and authority upon a woman, not upon a man, because he had decreed a new era of equal yin and yang.

Two years after Sangjenim returned to heaven, Taemonim attained ultimate enlightenment and wielded the spirits’ power of creation-transformation at will. She then established her dao order, which grew quickly. In 1926, Taemonim began her ten-year Work of Renewing Heaven and Earth.

In the Early Heaven, yin and yang have been unbalanced, spawning a history of bitterness and grief. I will usher in the Later Heaven to bring forth a new heaven and earth. (Taemonim, Dojeon 11:139)

Through her work, Taemonim also ensured that Sangjenim’s great dao was firmly rooted in history. But she faced continuous opposition from Korea’s male-centered Confucian society and from the ironfisted Japanese Government General in Joseon, the Japanese colonial government that ruled Korea from 1910 to 1945. Surmounting these struggles, she established an organized movement to disseminate Sangjenim’s great dao. In 1935, after fulfilling her role as dao successor, Taemonim returned to heaven to rejoin Sangjenim.