Great Construction

What Are Humanity’s Three Great Superstitions?

     The goal for which World Messianity aims, the creation of a new civilization, is as I always teach. If third parties should read this, they will probably find our goal to be a bit peculiar. This sense of peculiarity results because the present is surely not a barbaric age so there must be something wrong with us to talk about the construction of a new civilization. That perception would not be correct, and readers will most likely agree when this essay is read carefully.
     From our perspective, the present age is a civilization that has indeed developed only in form, but as far as content is concerned, it cannot be said that the present is a true civilization. This is because almost everything in our civilization today is riddled with fallacy that can be described within three large categories. Let me explain them.
     The first fallacy I will touch upon is the superstition of the efficacy of pharmaceuticals. I have already taught sufficiently about this topic, so further elaboration is not necessary, but I write here as I want third parties to know and understand. Nowadays, what individuals look to depend on when contracting a disease are pharmaceuticals. Do not be surprised. It is these very pharmaceuticals that weaken the health of human beings, that create disease, and that put human life in peril. Nothing is more frightening in this world. It is only natural that would arise the doubt why did not the world perceive something so terrible. The world did not come to perceive this frightening fact because all of humanity has fallen into the superstition of the efficacy of pharmaceuticals. There is no other way to save humanity than to bring about awareness of the danger and completely destroy the superstition of belief in the efficacy of pharmaceuticals.
     The second fallacy is the superstition of the need for fertilizer in agriculture. This superstition is also a fallacy of which followers of World Messianity are well aware, so there is no need for further exposition on this topic either, but again to note briefly for the benefit of third parties, God has provided the soil with the wonderful function of being able to make foodstuffs for human beings. It should be said that the soil is a very precious medium, itself a lump of fertilizer. At some time in the distant past, a mistake was made and it came about that the fertilizer called “the soil” was killed, a lot of trouble was taken to apply to the soil pollutants that interfere with the nutrition of the soil itself, farmer’s pockets were squeezed, and artificial fertilizer ended up helping only to reduce agricultural production. Humanity has indeed contracted another astonishing superstition. The best demonstration of this fallacy is that I have been warning for many long years now that Japan’s rice production is annually deficient by 20 million koku [133.33 tonnes] and that the destruction caused by insect pests increases each year are both completely due to the use of fertilizers.
     The third fallacy is the superstition of the necessity for laws, and this superstition slightly differs from the previous two. This is how the law superstition differs. The purpose of laws should be, needless to say, to keep crime at bay, but as a method used to do so, laws only control and penalize. Furthermore, that this method is not able to fulfill the goals as anticipated is known and understood. The times we live in nowadays speak most eloquently to this failure. Such circumstances have come about because a fundamentally important point has not been perceived. Such perception is lacking because all are captivated by another kind of superstition, and that superstition has been that the soul of the human being which is the true cause of crime has been and continues to be ignored. Laws merely deal with what appears on the surface, and it has been a mistake that concern and efforts are put only into surface aspects. Therefore, it is rather obvious that there is no other way to eliminate crime than to work for the improvement of the soul of the human being.
     If religion is taken to be the vehicle for such an undertaking, those concerned should perceive the importance of the soul and commit to policies that destroy crime at its root. If this point is taken to heart, then the first thing is for you yourself to become involved with faith. Even so, not much could probably be expected from the religions that have appeared to date. This deficiency can be seen only too clearly by the facts that until now, education and morality have been given more weight than religion, and that because of this misplacement of emphasis, it was inevitable that the principle of using legal penalties be applied as the only expedient means. Such practices were not unreasonable for the times.
     An ideal world without crime will naturally come about when there appears a religion with true power, something above that which has been included in existing religions, morality, and education. That religion is World Messianity which should be explored and examined as soon as possible. Then it will be understood that what I teach is definitely not fabrication.

Eikô, Issue 119, August 29, 1951
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