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Should Germs Be Feared?

     These days members of the general public hold germs in fear to an astonishing degree. In this sense, contemporary people are indeed unfortunate. From where we stand, people in situations where they continue to lead lives full of unease are seen as nothing more than truly pitiful lambs. Think about it. When you board a trolley or a train, you do not know how many billions of germs are in the air. You cannot avoid touching handles and straps, yet you do not know if a tubercular patient has just touched them or not. When you go to the barbershop, you do not know if the germs from scarlet fever might not get into a small scratch. When you take a bath, you do not know whether or not some germ like spirochaete or gonococcus will attach to and invade your body. If these germs get into your eyes, you might come down with gonorrheal ophthalmia. When you eat out, you do not know if typhoid germs may be sticking to the tableware or in might be in your food. When you have a conversation with someone, you do not know if tubercular or influenza germs might come flying at you or not. When you come back home after going out, it is truly bothersome to gargle and wash your hands. All suffer from a form of germ phobia. Therefore, what if you could be freed from this suffering? Such happiness would exceed all imagination. You may ask if there is such a welcome method in this world, and I hereby announce that there certainly exists a way to free yourself from the fear of germs.
     This method, however, does not entail going to some place faraway, to some island in distant seas or to a mountain where no one lives, building a house and living there. Rather that would be the perfect way to solve the problem, but such ridiculous measures are not possible, so any resolution must entail living in security in the same way as you so far have lived. The way to secure confidence that germs will not attach themselves and attack is to have a healthy body. In the same way that as a nation weak in armaments fears war, if sufficiently armed so that an enemy cannot invade, there is no anxiety. Here lies the greatness of Johrei. A truly healthy body can be achieved through Johrei, so issues such as the invasion of germs are not at all a problem. It is a true story that seems like a dream. Fear does not arise at all. Confirm for yourself that this is true when you become a follower of World Messianity.
      On just this one point alone can be seen that the greatness of World Messianity’s salvation, that it could be nothing other than God’s true salvation.

The Divinely-Inspired Approach to Health, page 59, April 20, 1950
    translated by cynndd