Shong Lue taught that all human beings, animals and plants that exist in this world were created by God. Chia Koua asked Shong Lue where God resides now and Shong Lue told him that once God had created the earth, the sun, the moon and the stars, he chose the moon as his dwelling place and made the sun, the place for his wife. In addition, he chose two stars, one with six points, the other with twelve points, to be dwelling places for his sons, leaving the earth to be populated by human beings, animals and plants. [The moon is the father of the physical universe, the sun the mother, and the earth and stars are their children.]

Shong Lue said that God painted his own dwelling place in two colors, the first [half] black, the second {half] white, to indicated time [phases of the moon] to the earth. He lit the dwelling place of his wife like a torch to dry the earth. The earth and the moon turn themselves in synchronized time, so that day and night exist on the earth. Chia Koua asked Shong Lue how the world was positioned so that it could turn by itself. Shong Lue responded by saying that the world is made up of rocks, dirt and minerals. God created four streams of air located in the four corners of the atmosphere [understood as a rectangular shape outside of the ball-shaped earth]. These streams of air support and turn the earth to match [the passage of) time. If the four streams of  air ever stop operating, the earth will disintegrate.
The earth itself is composed of many successive layers of clay, rock, and water. There is air surrounding the surface of the earth. God sent his twelve sons down on earth to establish the weather cycles. As they came [in succession] the seasons on earth changed twelve times.

Shong Lue taught that at one time God caused the water part of the earth [conceived as half of the surface of the earth] to cover the ground part, killing everything. [He did this because human beings had become evil again.] But from now on God will never again tip the water over the dry land because sinful as well as innocent creatures alike were killed. Small creatures with tiny life [tiny creatures like ants, lice, etc.] are hard to create [they are extremely numerous and take a long time]. Whenever there are more sinners than good creatures, God will release fire to burn only [the sinners].

Chia Koua asked how the water rose to flood the ground. Shong Lue said that [God] only needed to cut off two of the streams of air, tipping the earth so that the water would flow to flood the dry land. It was not a rain flood. If God should cut off three of the streams, the earth would disintegrate at once. Chia Koua feared that to burn in a fire would be even worse [than drowning in a flood]. He asked Shong Lue why good and the bad people alike died in the flood, and how innocent people would be spared the fire, which would be even worse. Shong Lue said the fire would not burn everything from one end [of the world] to the other, but it would be ignited by weapons and guns, and could therefore escape.

What God created

Shong Lue said that of everything God created on earth, nothing will succeed in rebelling against Him. As for the human beings on earth, if God had not sent his sons down to teach them, they would not know how to use all the products of God's creation. He added, "So far as human beings are concerned, no matter how clever and educated they are, none of them have total knowledge of anything or of everything."

Chia Koua reminded Shong Lue that people had been able to reach the moon from earth, and that very soon they would be able to bring life back to the body. What else remained to be done? Shong Lue replied by saying, "Even though people have reached the moon, they surely did not reach the exact place [where God lives]. On the other hand, educated people might be able to put life back in some things but not in everything that died because the medicine used to bring life back does not exist on earth. The most educated people may be able to find and use only six kinds of technology but no one 'wiil be able to find and use the remaining six. [Chia Koua does not know what these categories of technology are.]

The Hmong

Shong Lue said that the Hmong on earth are a very impatient people who have no endurance to accomplish difficult tasks. For any difficult task they do not know how to perform, the Hmong still hope that some day God will descend from the sky and help them. They believe the face of God will be as wide as a fan, his eyes as large as cups, his nose as big as the handle of an axe, his feet as big as rice-winnowing trays, and that he will darken the face of the earth when he comes down [a recurring image in Hmong tradition]. But it will never happen like that, according to Shong Lue, because the way God comes to human beings on earth is just a rotation of God's twelve sons coming down one after another [born as human beings except for one who came to the Hmong as a pig] to make sure that no kind of creature does harm to the others. If a species [or nation or ethnic group] becomes too bad God will reduce the power [and unity] of that group. God will never let any part of his creation die off without leaving offspring or seed.

There are still human beings on earth who are suffering, and who keep appealing to God and waiting for God to come and help them and to live with them. God has actually already come to them but no one knows it because he does not come beautifully dressed and only comes to where human beings do not know who he is. Shong Lue disclosed further that he was one of God's twelve sons sent down to be savior of the people. Chia Koua thought to himself [about the fact] that Shong Lue was born of human beings and wondered how he was different from others. Responding to Chia Koua, Shong Lue said, "If you want to know who God's son is, I will tell you." "The time of punishment for the sins of the Hmong people is over," he added [reference to a period when, according to Shong Lue, God left the Hmong people to suffer on their own because they had successively killed four of his sons who had been sent to help them]. "Now old people as well as animals can drink the milk from a woman's breast without being killed by lightning" [reference to a traditional Hmong taboo, such that if even a drop of milk from a woman's breast falls on food intended to be eaten by adults, the food has to be thrown away lest lightning strike the person who eats it. According to Shong Lue this taboo was established only for the period of punishment, and was no longer in effect now that period is over.] "If you don't believe me you can try drinking it yourself. If lightning strikes you I am responsible because the time of punishment for the sins of the Hmong people has been over since the year 2500 of the Buddhist calendar" [1957 A.D., two years before Shong Lue started teaching the Pahawh Hmong]. Chia Koua said to Shong Lue, "If what you have said is true please give me some milk to drink." Shong Lue's wife then massaged out some of her breast milk to give to Chia Koua, who drank it and was not killed by lightning.

Religion

Shong Lue said that to be human, people must have religion, and must be guided by it to worship God, in order to become a long-lasting nation. [Shong Lue did not see traditional Hmong religion as the unified ethnic religion he advocated.]. God has bestowed great good fortune [on people] and has also given his bottle of life-restoring medicine for curing blindness, deafness and maintaining flesh of copper and skeleton of iron, flesh of stone and skeleton of rock [perpetual life]. It is for his son to take down [to earth] to save humanity.

Many ethnic groups have prayed, begging to go and live with God, but human beings must know that they and the animals and the plants cannot stay where God is because they were all created with a life that belongs to earth and clay. But God will send his son to live with people because human beings and evil spirits are living intermingled on the earth.  If anyone wants to workship God and wait for him to come [respond] that person has to know the right time when God can be called upon [primarily the fifteenth day of the month in the lunar calendar, plus the fifth and twenty-fifth as well, if necessary].  On the other hand, worshipping and waiting for God at the wrong time will result only reaching evil spirits [because they will be the ones which responds at the other times.]