Great Construction

Embodiment of Truth（The Glory）

     The true purpose of a religion is embodiment of truth. Truth is nothing but a natural phase of the Universe itself, the reality of which none can deny. The sun rises from the east and sets in the west. Man, being once born, must someday die (this is, in Buddhist terms, expressed as follows: Everyone living must die; those who meet must part, and man keeps living by breathing and eating.) These are all “truth”. The present condition of human beings is so confused that even such a patent fact needs an explanation.
     Confusion, conflict, disorder, crime, etc., are pervading every aspect of the modern community. Nobody will deny that such conditions are, for human beings, the cause for unhappiness rather than happiness.
     Where is, then, the root of such conditions? I think that the root of all affairs in the world are deviating from the truth too evidently. Only people have not taken notice of the said fact.
     Frankly speaking modern people do not even know what truth itself is, partly because they have not enough time to think about “truth” under the pressure of living.
     Even religions have not hitherto been able to clearly understand what truth is, and has been preaching non-truth as truth.
     If religions in existence had been able to really preach “truth”, human society would have been free from such a profound agony which it is now suffering.
     Maybe, an earthly paradise would have already been realized to some extent.
     Now the time has come, however, when the Great Love of God should be manifested, and God preaches “truth”, through myself.
     One will be able to gradually understand what truth is when one open-mindedly reads with appreciation, articles and remarks by me in which I am preaching “truth” using as easy a language as possible to enable eveyone to understand.
     For example, man falls ill because he has deviated from truth in some points, and medical science can not truly cure man of disease because it has deviated from truth.
     Misgovernment, dangerous thoughts, increase of crime, shortage of money, inflation or deflation, etc., are all results of deviation from “truth”.
     Human society is so made by God that every wish man has is easily realized, as long as it is right and if everything in the world is not deviated from “truth”.
     Then, an ideal human society pervaded with good and beautiful thoughts, and human life full of joy and happiness are sure to be realized. This is none other than the true phase of the Earthly Paradise, the advent of which I am always advocating.
     One might think that my opinion is very different from others, but it is not so. It is quite normal and not strange.
     It is because one reads my articles with eyes clouded by non-truth that one thinks they are abnormal. The stranger my opinion seems to people of the world, it follows that the more abnormal the modern community is. The people who affirm my opinion can be said to have grasped what truth is.
     God has granted boundless freedom to human beings. This is a “truth”.
     In contrast, very limited liberty has been given fauna and flora. Here consists the reason why human beings are far superior to other creatures. Then what does the liberty allowed to human beings mean? Man is situation between God and beasts, the two extremes, approaching nearer to God by elevating himself, and to beasts by degradation. In other words, it depends upon the actions of a human being whether this world becomes a sweet paradise or a miserable hell. This is “truth”. It is a mater of course that anyone unless he is a devil should prefer the former to the latter.
     In short, realization of the heavenly world is the final purpose of human beings and to attain this purpose, “truth” should be embodied. That is the essential mission of religion in general.
     So I am always preaching and writing on “truth”, making efforts, and leading a busy life day and night as a person with a mission to embody “truth”.
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The Glory, Number 002, page 1, December 1, 1954