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Further Thoughts on Johrei Through the Printed Word

     I have written about Johrei through reading before,* but the experiences of the woman described below are so remarkable that I decided to print her story in the newspaper. This record is particularly important because it brings up the unusual example of masculinization caused by large amounts of medicinal toxins. You can see from this example how terrifying medical science is, and that no matter how many different medical treatments one tries in order to cure the original condition, the symptoms only worsen, and rather, produce a reverse effect. Fortunately, this woman learned about Johrei, gradually recovered, and was able to relieve herself of worry and anguish, so I thought her experience would be of value to others.

Cured from Masculine Characteristics Caused by the
Medicinal Toxins for Treatment of Women’s Diseases—
Experiencing for Myself Johrei Through the Printed Word

Teruko Enome, 31
Meisei Church, Ishikawa, Japan

     In October last year my period stopped for two and a half months. During that time, I went to my local gynecologist, and even traveled out of the prefecture to a large general hospital quite faraway for help. I took the medicines that were said to be good for my condition, from medicated counter drugs, 70 injections of estrogen, sixty injections of Bidex [an SNMC no longer produced in Japan, tr.], massage therapy, as well as moxibustion treatments on my stomach consisting of moxa in 10 places three times at 60 to 70 different sessions. Each day, however, my physical condition deteriorated. My lower abdomen swelled and hardened and for long periods I could not bear to do even housecleaning and laundry. Before long, I became dizzy and even walking short distances, I felt giddy and once almost fell. My condition was so bad that from spring this year, I despaired of ever getting better, but I still continued to go to the doctor, though, and received two injections each visit for seventy days to no effect. In April, my doctor told me about a medicine made from the pituitary gland of cows, but in his hospital I did not meet the three conditions for treatment with it, so instead, my thigh was cut open and implanted with an expensive crystalized hormone. I was still happy that I had received one of the newest, most advanced forms of medical treatment. The doctor said it would take about four months for the implant to dissolve and take effect, so I waited for the summer and my recovery to come. In the meantime, however, my condition gradually worsened and after December of last year growths that looked like the pimples on men appeared on my breasts, and my body would become feverish and itchy all over. This condition gradually spread until summer when it reached my face. By July and August the hair on my head had completely fallen out, and successively the skin underneath became completely visible, and conversely, on my hands, feet, breast, and back, hair grew and became blacker and thicker. My face lost its feminine softness and hair like men’s facial hair grew and became rough, black, and thick, and I had to shave every three days. The color of my blood became quite dark and my vessels thickened and bloated. Because I did not have stools, I took laxatives, but instead of improving, my lower abdomen region further hardened and bloated, to become as large as in the fifth month of pregnancy. I looked absolutely terrible, and it pained me to be seen by people, so I avoided going outside in the daytime, and then did only the most basic things a housewife has to do. I really felt embarrassed and humiliated.
     I had eagerly waited for the effects of the spring hormone implant to take hold, but now I fell from despair to hell. I was completely disgusted with myself when I looked at myself in the mirror. Where was the value in blaming my husband for stepping out every night? I completely gave up all hope in getting help from the Jizo Buddha that I had regularly prayed to every day. I asked Jizo merely for a place and a way to die. I prayed to find a way to die, either through rat poison, hanging, or drowning.
     It was from these depths of despair that Meishu-sama proffered his hand of salvation and did not abandon me. At the beginning of October, I visited a neighbor who could not walk and was bedridden due to rheumatism. Three days later, however, she walked over to my house and visited me. Surprised, I asked her what had happened, and she told me she had gotten better by going to World Messianity. I wondered if they also dealt with women’s diseases and asked her to please take me there. So, from October 7, I started going to the World Messianity center at Minamifujibashi-cho and received Johrei from the center head, Mr. Kadoshima. I had severe purification of diarrhea and was constantly shuffling back and forth to the bathroom. On one visit, I spent over twenty-five minutes there. By morning I had gone to the bathroom six times, but the next day I felt less pain and rather refreshed. I was quite surprised at the difference in effect between the diarrhea caused by Johrei and that from which I had experienced before.
     On the fourth day, while bowing before a photograph of Meishu-sama, I was quite surprised. Until the day before, the eyes in the face of the picture had seemed to be only half open, but today when I looked at the face in the picture, the face was smiling. How strange I thought, blinked my eyes, and looked again. Yes, he was smiling! The next day, the face was again different. From that time, I came to firmly believe that God was indeed in the flesh, that there was a tremendous divine presence in this photograph, and that I would absolutely be healed. The center head and his wife had explained to me that this path was absolute, and until then I had not believed there could be anything in this world that was absolute, but now I could recognize the existence of something absolute and I was very happy. As the days passed by, there was change in my body and I felt the purification. The center head earnestly told me about the work of World Messianity and kindly lent me some of Meishu-sama’s teachings to read and study.
     As I received Johrei from the center head and his wife, the toxins in my head dissolved, and I could distinctly feel the toxins gradually move downwards through my neck, shoulders, and abdomen. As I read the volumes of the teachings that I had borrowed, such as Essays in Faith, The Divinely-Inspired Approach to Health, and Stories of the Spiritual World, I felt the same sensation I had when I received Johrei. I did not have the sensation when I read a regular newspaper or even a testimonial in the church newspaper. I did not understand what was going on at first, but later, when I told the center head what was happening, he told me, “In Eikô, Issue 184, Meishu-sama writes in the teachings ‘The Bomb That Contemporary People Carry’ and ‘Johrei Through the Printed Word,’ ‘One can receive Johrei through the eyes from reading what I have written. This occurs because the spirit of the writer is conveyed through what he writes. What I write is directly God writing so the reader is purified by that spirit.’”

Eikô, Issue 244, January 20, 1954
translated by cynndd

    * “Katsuji no Jôrei,” Eikô, Issue 184, November 26, 1952, posted on this site as “Johrei Through the Printed Word.”