Great Construction

What Do You Think of This Fact?

     Each issue of the church’s newspaper Hikari and its magazine Chijôtengoku is filled as much as possible with the testimonials of those who have experienced miracles. Needless to say, the authors have been cautioned to write their accounts exactly as they occurred, so they do not contain exaggeration of any form. The number of accounts testifying with appreciation and emotion to the miracles received increases day by day, month by month, and lately several hundred are received each month, so it has become impossible to carry all the submitted reports in the periodicals, so we look for other ways to publish them, but this fact alone shows quite clearly the increase of people who are saved. Readers may experience for themselves that their eyes grow warm and moist with tears as they peruse the sentences overflowing with gratitude. Such reactions describe the emotional aspects, but the important factor is the astonishing results from the healing of diseases which I would like to discuss from various perspectives.
     Frankly speaking, when all the testimonials of these miracles are taken together, we see that therapies currently in use, including those of medical science, are not effective in about two thirds of the cases, and in one third of the cases, actually worsen the conditions. This is a grave problem. There should be no one, currently working medical specialists to be sure but also members of the general public, who is not conflicted by these unexpected results.
     At present, all of what is known as the civilized world believes in the progress of contemporary medical science and with no doubt whatsoever is convinced that putting life in its hands is the correct way to cure disease. Medical science has for the most part become the commonly received wisdom of today. Nevertheless, for the past decade or so, I have sought to correct medical science as it exists, and in order to inform the world of its errors and eliminate the suffering from disease, humanity’s great torment, published three books before the war, but I had to give up these efforts when all three were prohibited by the authorities. Nowadays, the social mood is not as strict as before, but previously I was not even allowed to use the word “medical.” For example, face to face with a patient, even if I did not say “my medical treatment,” but used only the words, “I will heal you my way,” such an expression was still grounds for being summoned for prosecution under the Medical Practitioner’s Law. I was kept in a detention center once for three days on suspicion of violating this law. On another occasion I wrote in a pamphlet that current medical treatment utilizes the barbaric method of cutting out human flesh and depleting blood thus adding to the pain of disease as a way to remove body parts affected by disease in contrast to our healing method which does not add to pain, does not injure the flesh, and still manages to eliminate the cause of disease that is situated in the deepest recesses of the human body. These lines incurred official displeasure, for which I was summoned to the police station and fined after a long sermon by the police. I leave the rest to your imagination. Because such was the tenor of the times we unavoidably kept silent and were only able to show the world the facts by our results.
     Even now although our work takes the form of religion, we still continue healing salvation in silence, but the time has now come for active efforts to be made to inform humanity. This is not my idea, but God’s will that has been entrusted to me.
     The time has come to end the sufferings of humanity. I have continued to teach that the origin of suffering lies in the disease of human beings, and that when human beings become healthy in spirit and body, it is quite clear that all the other sufferings and afflictions of humanity will disappear as well. The dawn of such a time is our motto, the appearance of paradise on earth.
     Christ’s prophecy of the approach of the kingdom of heaven and Shakyamuni’s foretelling of the world of Maitreya mean nothing other than paradise on earth. I am neither a medical doctor nor have I studied medical science. Everything I have learned about sickness has been fundamentally through divine revelation, so it is quite clear how far contemporary medical science has gone astray. Correcting this error must be the basis of the salvation of humanity. I have been chosen and entrusted by God with the great mission of constructing a world without disease, bestowed with the power necessary to bring into realization the great ideal of paradise on earth.

Hikari, Issue 11, May 31, 1949
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