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     Those who read the accounts of miracles that fill each issue of this newspaper know fully well that there is no need to say that World Messianity, as its name states, in fact continues to save the world, with followers who step closer to a paradisiacal home life, receiving blessings in all areas of life, from those that have been rescued from critical situations, dark homes that have been made brighter, incomes that have been increased, as well as to individuals and families for whom matters and affairs have started to proceed smoothly. Of all the various forms of blessings received, here I will write candidly as I feel about those dealing with sickness and disease, which is the most vital issue.
     What draws the most attention is the fact that without exception all writers at the beginning of their affliction believed in medical treatment and had fully intended to follow the doctor’s orders but who, contrary to expectation, experienced a gradually deteriorating condition. Such circumstances do appear clearly whatever the kind of sickness or disease. If members of the general public read this essay, they may probably be quite astonished by this description, but it is a fact that when these patients for some reason or another quit medical treatment, they unexpectedly make a turn by various degrees for the better. On the contrary, the more doctors earnestly apply this or that of the various new medical techniques, the conditions of patients simply do not merely deteriorate but unforeseen complications arise which increase one by one until doctors find themselves in the dilemma of having to treat five or six conditions at once. Doctors then give up on patients that are now beyond help.
     In the beginning, however, writers relate that doctors, seem to be full of confidence and make statements like, “Your condition is a light case, so you will quickly recover,” or “You will certainly become better in so-many weeks,” and the patient believes the doctor absolutely. Results, however, turn out to be the opposite, and here confusion arises. Patients go to this hospital or that doctor and receive all sorts of treatments but their conditions do not improve. Rather conditions continue to deteriorate and sufferers lose hope. Not few are those who, on the verge of despair, contemplate suicide. Moreover, to get to this stage, large sums have been spent on medical expenses and a financial impasse that increases the sense of despair is reached. Such are the paths of which I continually read. These accounts are not fabrications. The mental state of the writers themselves at the time of their experiences come to my mind, and as I read such accounts, tears well up in my eyes and for moments I am totally at a loss.
     As can be seen from the above, it is more than clear that medical science not only has no power to heal disease, rather it includes therapies that worsen diseased conditions. I do believe you doctors must have become aware of this fact, but there is no indication of this awareness. What I am talking about is that, yes, upon application of medical treatment, there is certainly a slight improvement at first, and here doctors declare that the patient is healed, but this condition does not continue for long. A counter reaction surely arises, and in spite of the worsening of the condition even beyond that at the beginning of the affliction, the fact that doctors do not see this problem can, when considered from any angle, only be taken to be an enigma. The only conclusion is that doctors are plagued by a deeply-rooted superstition.
     Superstition can also be said to be the reason for the new drugs for treating tuberculosis that have successively appeared on the market. As we all know, these drugs disappear as soon as they appear, after which is born still another new drug. These drugs are enthusiastically applauded at first, but after a time defects appear. The drugs are found either to have no effect at all, or that they have a good effect on one person but a bad effect on another person. Such that it is a fact that year round, the same phenomenon is constantly repeated, and this phenomenon can also be called a mystery. In truth, it is not a mystery or anything of the sort. It is only natural. The efficaciousness of treatment at the beginning stages was not efficacy to heal. The efficacy went only to the extent of lessening the pain. Moreover, as medicinal toxins are added to stop the purification process, the reverse results. That is, recurrence of the disease. Here arise doubts about the drug, and it comes to be considered a failure. Merely observing this fact alone, it can be seen that the efficacy of drugs is only temporary. Complete recovery with drug therapy is impossible, and the reason for the constant appearance of new drugs is obvious.
     If such a clear, simple logic cannot be understood by the brains of those involved in the contemporary medical sciences, should not this lack of comprehension be the topic for research? I do not wish to speak ill of medical science, but until this truth is perceived, the ignorance of doctors and the unfortunate conditions of patients will be just too much to stand by and watch. I do believe doctors truly want to heal disease, and patients absolutely believe in medical science and put their very lives in the hands of doctors and medical science, but the truth is that the condition of the disease worsens and for some, their lives come to nothing, so my plea is not just a fuss about ignorance.
     What I particularly want to be considered at this point is that, if God does indeed exist, God’s love has no reason to be silent forever in the face of the continued suffering and pain of humanity when it does not awaken to this tragedy. If the human being is a child of God as has been taught since antiquity, only natural it is that the divine hand of salvation be extended. It is all a matter of time. The knowledge and circumstances of this situation is all a matter of timing in God’s economy, of which I have been informed. Fortunately, the time has come, and I have been chosen for and entrusted with this great task. In addition to being revealed to me the source of all pathologies, I have also been given the power to cure disease. In this essay, I have been rather bold in exposing the deficiencies of medical science but there should be no doubt as to why I have done so when the reasons I have given above are truly understood.

Eikô, Issue 150, April 9, 1952
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