Great Construction
The Purification Process
World Messianity defines the healing of disease as the purification process, and as the following report illustrates this definition quite well, I believe when read will be of great value.
This account shows that the accumulation of filthy, impure material within the human body is the source of disease. It is all so obvious that complete recovery will be attained when these materials have been expelled. Therefore, the treatment that has the capacity to expel filthy material is true healing, and that which does not have such capacity cannot be called healing, cannot be the science of health. To say as much means that healing which can save all is the true healing.
Saved from Many, Long Years of Pain
Masae Kobayashi, 53, Daikō Church
Higashi Kose, Fukuda Village, Katō County, Hyōgo PrefectureSince February of 1947, my kidneys had been in poor condition, and after consulting someone considered to be a good doctor in a neighboring village, going to national treatment centers along with prefectural hospitals, and having x-rays taken, no clear diagnosis had been pronounced, even after having the duodenum checked, my stomach tested for an ulcer, and even after being told there was nothing wrong in my chest. Without any diagnosis being made, I was given medicine that I took regularly. I continued this treatment for quite a long time without any improvement. I was at quite a loss.
Finally, even my family members and friends all came to have very gloomy feelings on account of my condition.
Around June of 1949, my husband Kōnosuke heard from a good friend of his in the same profession, a Mr. Fujita, about his son who had been possessed by a spirit, had gone to headquarters, and received a blessing for his severe condition. He became normal again, and Mr. Fujita thought that my condition could be easily healed. At that time, I was encouraged to go to a Mr. Fujiwara’s in Aonohara and receive Johrei, but I am from a family that is very loath to admit its pain or troubles to others. And, I thought mine was a disease different from spiritual possession and really did not think that a condition a doctor could not heal could be healed merely by prayer. What Mr. Fujita was saying did not make an impression, and I just let it pass.
When I think of it now, I sweat from shame. I heard the account of Mr. Inoue, the most gratifying story of a person in nearby Furukawa Village who two years ago in June had been crushed underneath a freight carriage and had sustained severe injuries but who had quickly recovered after receiving Johrei three times. I thought I might try and receive Johrei, and it was just around then on January 11 that the region around my kidneys began to hurt. While I was on my way to the Kobayashi Clinic in Yashiro Town to see the doctor, the pedals of the bicycle became quite heavy, and after I considered the situation for a while, I decided to visit Mr. Inoue in Furukawa Village and receive Johrei.
During my first Johrei, a small solid object within my abdomen moved about here and there, trying to avoid the Johrei, and as Johrei continued, it gradually moved lower in my body and I felt much better. With only one Johrei, I did understand how beneficial Johrei is, and from then on, I received Johrei every day. And then, three times, at 9:00 p.m. on January 17, at 2:00 p.m. on January 18, and at 4:00 p.m. the same day, I vomited and filled up a large wash basin with something that looked like black gooey seaweed that had been dissolved in water.
While this was happening, I felt a little painful, but after it was over I quickly felt refreshed and an ease that I had not experienced until then. I gained back much of my strength, and from then on earnestly received Johrei, and with much gratitude, took the introductory course from January 21 to 26. After I got home from the introductory course, I vomited up about three and a half pints of a very light yellow thickly gooey substance. Much of the pain in my abdomen was eased, much more so than in my previous experience. My physical body felt much lighter and I thought I had recovered completely.
After worship at the headquarters for three days, February 5, 6, and 7, I happily returned home, and that evening around 11:30, I received the same sort of purification I had received on the night of the twenty-sixth and vomited up about three and a quarter pints of a thick, light-yellow fluid. Then, from February 17 until February 21, I vomited a phlegm of bloody pus, and my body felt much lighter. On March 6, I again received purification when around 7:30 p.m., after I had eaten a substantial supper, I vomited up about three pints of a gooey substance that looked like it was whipped eggs, but intriguingly, even though it was after dinner, none of the food I had eaten came out, and all of my family were quite astonished.
After I continued to receive Johrei in this way, I regained my health, and my whole family, not to mention me, were able to live each day with a happy, clear feeling as if we were welcoming spring.
Eikō, Issue 93, page 1, February 28, 1951
translated by cynndd
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“Jōka Sayō” was never published in an anthology. In anthologies published in 1970, 1996, and 2018, the essay appears without the accompanying testimonial which is the way all of Meishu-sama’s blessings critique essays are anthologized. Nor was “Jōka Sayō” reprinted in the anthology Igaku Kankei Goronbun Shū (Collected Essays on Medical Science) that did enjoy a limited circulation. Igaku Kankei Goronbun Shū contains no publication data, but internal evidence suggests that its compilation stopped several months preceding Meishu-sama’s death. Furthermore, since the book lacks publication data, whether the volume had Meishu-sama’s imprimatur or not is unknown, so details concerning this volume are probably impossible to research. And yet, Igaku Kankei Goronbun Shū does contain in one place the largest amount of Meishu-sama’s essays which pertain to healing that had been available until the appearance of Okada Mokichi Zenshū (Complete Works of Mokichi Okada) during the period 1994-97.