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Does Contemporary Medicine Heal Disease? 

     The title may appear to exceed exaggeration and border on insanity, but most readers should find no room for objection if they read the argument to the very end. Society is pleased that recent advances in medical science have led to an apparent lengthening of the human life span, but these phenomena are only temporary, and it is obvious that the time will come when these advances lead to reverse effects. Make no mistake this will happen. Here is why.
     As a preliminary step, let me offer firm proof of what I say. The evidence is in the many testimonials that are carried in World Messianity’s newspaper Kyûsei (Salvation) and in its journal Chijôtengoku (Heaven on Earth). At present, several hundreds of these reports are received every month. It would not be going too far to say that almost all of these testimonials, for the past several decades, are the accounts of people whose serious illnesses were not cured by medical treatment or by any other healing therapy. A careful perusal of each account will show that not only did medical treatment have no effect, rather sometimes it even led to unintended ill effects. Pitiful is the only word to describe the long periods of suffering that come from the poor results of medical treatment, accompanied by large wastes of money. The reports carried in the church periodicals reflect not only appreciation and joy of having been totally cured by Johrei but also an enthusiastic expression of sharing their happiness with others suffering from the same conditions. I really want to know what medical doctors have to say when they read these accounts.
     Those involved in medical science do not realize that there is a close relationship between the fact that their therapies do not heal and the phenomenon that the life span seems to have been lengthened to a certain extent. Here is an interpretation based on the principles of divine healing.
     Medical science does not understand that illness, sickness, disease, “conditions,” etc., are all names that have been attached to the suffering that accompanies the process of the elimination of toxins from each and every human body. I have continued to advocate this for many years, but medical science interprets the physical suffering, the pain, that accompanies the elimination of toxins, to be bad, something that must be alleviated. The only method medical science possesses for alleviating that pain are medicines, drugs, pharmaceuticals. The essence of all these are toxic, and with their application, the power of the human body to purify its toxins is weakened and pain is alleviated. With only the pain alleviated, medical science is under the illusion that the disease has been healed.
     The mission of medical science that is perceived to be suppressing the toxins that seek elimination and alleviating pain, which is only a temporary measure, is quite mistaken. Medical treatment is only a technique for alleviating pain and is in reality not a method for healing disease. If this article is carefully read, it should be clear that as I suggest in my title medical science does not heal disease. The principles of divine healing indicate that the progress of medical science is the advance of the technique of alleviating pain, in other words, the advance of methods for postponing the elimination of toxins. The true cause of complications, relapses, and chronic conditions actually stems from the postponement of toxin elimination. So, in contrast to medical science, the true method of healing and the positive way to form healthy individuals encourages the elimination of toxins and the cleansing of the body internally. Contagious diseases naturally do not infect a completely healthy person, special disinfecting procedures are unnecessary, and contemporary peoples’ fear of germs disappears. Because the toxins that are in the human body are primarily medicinal toxins, in brief, the method that tries to cure actually results in creating disease.
     People nowadays automatically look to medical treatment for help when they come down with sickness or a condition, but, because medical treatment, as I just described above, is a continuous repetition of methods to alleviate pain through medicinal toxins and other means, it only results in postponing purification therefore creating individuals who are only half healthy. I will explain what awaits these half healthy human beings, but first it is necessary to emphasize an important point.
     The function that eliminates toxins is generated within the body as I explained, and it occurs because that physical body is healthy enough to sustain the purification process. The healthier the person, the more vigorous are the metabolic processes of that person, and therefore, what we call purification is more apt to occur. This is most clearly observable in the phenomenon that because infectious diseases are the most vigorous forms of purification, these diseases are more prevalent in younger people. Young people experience tuberculosis to a greater degree for the same reason. But these explanations diametrically contrast to the theories of medical science which hold that contracting infectious diseases and tuberculosis indicate a low rate of resistance in the body. If that were so, the older one gets, resistance should weaken and the elderly should be afflicted to a greater extent with these two conditions. Another consequence of medical treatment is that recovery from tuberculosis takes longer because the forced suppression of the purifying function prolongs the condition.
     When we consider the principles of true health, we see it is only logical that as contemporary medical science has advanced so has decreased the number of individuals possessing true health, which means that there are more and more half healthy individuals. A half healthy individual is, for example, a young person with the constitution of the elderly. The purificatory energy of a half healthy person is weaker, so the opportunity for getting sick decreases. Even if purification should occur, the suppression of purification with medical treatment alleviates the condition temporarily. Another logical outcome of medicine’s mistaken theories that cannot be overlooked is the decrease in the staying power of physical laborers these days. Physical laborers in technologically advanced nations have come to dislike work because they fatigue more easily and thus seek to have the hours they work reduced. Also, another point largely unremarked upon, is that even the ability of farmers to maintain long hours in the fields has lessened, and this is also due to the decrease in their physical vitality. As our culture advances so naturally does concern for the happiness of workers, and although respect for labor is championed as a reason for this concern, it is not difficult to overlook the basic problem of health that lurks beneath the surface of this situation.
     Vaccination, which has come to be vigorously promoted in recent times, also deserves mention. Above I stated that a person catches an infectious disease because that person’s purificatory energy is strong, so the energy to purify conversely weakens with vaccination. People are deluded into thinking that they have lessened the chances of coming down with or getting disease. A person of true health, however, has no poisons in the system and will not contract disease, but at this time it is fair to say that there is no one with true health. Because members of the general public are half healthy individuals carrying toxins around in their bodies, purification is prone to be generated, that is, people will get sick, but then their conditions are temporarily alleviated with medicines. When people get sick and use medical treatments, these therapies force a stop to the purifying process which results in friction with the opposing purificatory energy.
     As this friction increases, physical vitality weakens correspondingly, which can lead to death. One example is the case of inflammation of the lungs. Inflammation of the lungs is ordinarily a very vigorous purification, but if asked for a diagnosis, doctors recommend such-and-such medicine saying that it will cure the condition right away, and that if not used, one may die. The medicine they use on their patient must be a very strong one to be able to overcome the vigorous purificatory process. These principles apply all the more to infants. The reason there are so many infant deaths is because infancy is the period of the most vigorous purifying energy. The medicines used to suppress infant diseases, even if judged to be suitable for the age group, act very powerfully, and the activity of friction produced between the purification process and the effect of the medicine may cause death.
      The reader should have gotten a general idea of the issues involved in healing from the explanation of the specific examples I have given. As long as the number of half healthy people increases, the opportunity for getting sick gradually decreases and even when sickness does occur, the purifying energy is weaker. In this weakened state, the severe friction between the two opposing forces does not occur, so people believe they have avoided death, and this is the true reason that the life span appears to have been prolonged in recent years. But these half healthy people will not lead truly long lives. In their later years, the toxins that have built up over the years in their systems will hasten senility, hardening of the arteries, stroke, and constriction of the kidneys will occur. That the lengthening of the average life span in recent years has not changed the absolute longest length of the life span bears out my point. Statistics show that the average longest life spans still hover at a little over eighty years. Thus we can see that what we have experienced is not a lengthening of the life span due to an increase of true health.
     The true worth of the divine healing therapy is that instead of suppressing purification, purification and the elimination of as much toxin as possible in case of an outbreak of disease is encouraged. Many cases of the purification process are described in the testimonials published in our periodicals. These testimonials show sufficient proof that through divine healing therapy individuals with true health can maintain a life span of over ninety years.

Chijtôtengoku, Number 15, page 5, April 20, 1950
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