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Unforeseen Circumstances

     Recently, the decrease in the death rate and in the incidences of infectious disease has become cause for celebration, but rejoicing is a great mistake. Rather, it is a phenomenon for which care must be taken. Let me explain why.
     As we have continued to teach that illness and disease is a function of purification, so in individuals of superior health, purification does not occur, but as most individuals are of intermediate health, purification is apt to generate, and since medical treatment halts the purification process, friction results, the progress of the disease worsens, and death results. The same principle works in case of infectious diseases. The proof of this is clear when it is observed that infectious diseases break out often among individuals of ordinary health, that these kinds of diseases do not often occur in the elderly, and that they are most likely to present during childhood. In which case, a decrease in the incidences of infectious diseases is due to a weakening of physical vitality. Decrease in the death rate is due to weakening of physical vitality, so that the purification function cannot occur, therefore incidences of disease decrease, and the populace can only maintain a semblance of health.
     The principle above is illustrated by the population statistics of developed countries. That a decrease in the death rate follows a decrease in population is clear from statistics of the United Kingdom and of France. The successively diminishing increases of the population in recent years has led to the declining of the national strength of the U.K., and well known is the negative population growth of France.
     As long as Japan conducts birth control as a national policy, we are firmly convinced that in not a few years will come a period when the population will greatly decrease.

Hikari, Issue 23, August 20, 1949
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