Poems in Chijôtengoku, Issue 18
November 25, 1950

　 　 　 　 　
　 　 信仰は　いくつともなく世にしあれど　未だ此世を救へぬぞ憂き
190 　

Various faiths
Indeed exist in the world
But it is so sad that none of them
Has yet been able to
Save humanity.

 #1, page 1, S5-482A
 
S6-109B 信仰は　いくつともなく出でたれど　未だ此世を救へぬぞ憂き In a set of poems titled “A Sound Teaching” in Gosanka Poems, Revised, page 73, #327, May 28, 1951.
 
S6-109B translation
Various faiths / Have indeed appeared / But it is so sad that none of them / Has yet been able / To save the world.
　 　 　 　 　
　 　 あな危ふ　噴火山上に置かれたる　二十幾億の人類思へば
191 　 I think of the some
Twenty billion souls of
Humanity as being on
So dangerously poised  
Atop an erupting volcano.		 #2, page 1, S5-482B
　 　 　 　 　
　 　

恐ろしの　劫火は遠近燃え初めぬ　やがて人の世焼き尽さんかも
192 　 Starting to burn here and
There, the kalpa-fire
In the end, will be
Incinerated away
The world of human beings. 		 #3, page 1, S5-482C
　 　 　 　 　
　 　

赤き火は　あちらこちらに燃えんとす　消さでおくべきや神の力に
193 　 How can not be
Put out the red
Fire that is about to
Burn here and there
Without the power of God? 		#4, page 1, S5-482D 
 
　 　

燃え出でし　怪しき火の手は拡ごりて　此土の上を舐めつくさんずも
194 　 Starting to burn,
The flames of
Suspicious fire are
Spreading to burn up
The face of this earth. 		#5, page 1, S5-483A 
　 　 　 　 　
　 　

火具槌の　神は汚れし地の上を　浄め給はん天国近まり
195 　 Paradise on earth
Approaches as the
Fire-Shining-Spirit-Deity
Purifies the face
Of the impure earth. 		#6, page 1, S5-483B 
 
　 　

滅ぶもの　甦へるもの自から　立ち分るらめ世の終りには
196 　 At the end of the
World will naturally
Separate that which
Perishes from that which
Revives and lives.  		#7, page 2, S5-483C 
 
　 　 The population
Who are to go to ruin
And those
Who are to come to life
Will separate by themselves on Doomsday.		 November 15.2008 by taki 
 
　 　

神は世ぞ　すみきらはんと畏くも　火の洗霊をなさしめ給はむ
197 　 To magnanimously
Clear and clean
The world, God will
Provide us with
Cleansing of the spirit by fire. 		#8, page 2, S5-483D
 
　 　

醜草の　所狭きまではびこれる　地ぞ焼きまさん火の洗霊をもて
198 　 With cleansing of the spirit
By fire, the earth almost
Completely overgrown
With worthless weeds,
Will be thoroughly incinerated. 		#9, page 2, S5-483E 
 
　 　

神ありや　無しやなどとう戯言を　封じ給はむ神裁かれて
199 　 Judging by God
Will stop the drivel that
Makes a big deal of
Whether or not
God does exist. 		#10, page 2, S5-484A 
 
　 　

神ありや　無きやを知らす神業は　奇蹟より外なきと知れかし
200 　 Know that there
Is nothing other than
Miracles of God’s work
To show whether
God exists or not. 		#11, page 2, S5-484B 
 
　 　

神無しと　いふ物識りのはかなさよ　やがて神前に鰭れ伏すも知らで
201 　 The fleetingness of
Know-it-alls who say
That God does not exist.
Not knowing they will end up
Prostrating themselves before God. 		#12, page 2, S5-484C