Poems in Chijôtengoku, Issue 55
December 25, 1953

　 　 　 　 　
　 苦しみを　作る文明楽しみを　作る文明と切替えるなり吾は
430 　

It is I, Mokichi Okada,
Who changes the
World that creates suffering
Into a world that
Creates enjoyment.

 #1, page 3, S6-404A
　 　 　 　 　
　 　 表には　平和を唱えその裏に　刃を磨く世にぞありける
431 　 A world it is that
On the outside
Proclaims peace
But on the inside
Sharpens swords.		 #2, page 3, S6-404B 
　 　 　 　 　
　 　

人間の　作りし理屈に囚はれて　真の見えぬ愚かなる世や
432 　 A foolish world it is
That does not see Truth,
Taken in it is
By the logic and reasoning
Created by human beings. 		 #3, page 3, S6-404C
　 　 　 　 　
　 　

科学もて　事実を枉げるうかつさを　賢きものとおもふ愚かさ
433 　 The foolishness of
Thinking wise
The thoughtlessness of
Perverting the facts
With science. 		#4, page 3, S6-404D
　 　 　  　 　
　 　

真理とは　事実のままに受け入れる　事より外になしと知れかし
434 　 Know that
Truth is nothing
Other than
Accepting facts
As they are. 		#5, page 4, S6-404E
　 　 　  　 　
　 　

理屈もて　治らぬものは医術なり　理屈なく治るものこそ浄霊の業 
435 　 With reason
What does not heal
Is medical science.
What heals without reason
Is the work of Johrei. 		#6, page 4, S6-405A
  
It is medical science
That cannot cure any diseases at all
With all its theoretical knowledge,
Whereas it is none other than the act of Johrei
That can cure any disease with no theory.		December 18.2011 by taki
　 　 　  　 　
　 　 誤れる　理屈を信じ誤らぬ　理屈信ぜぬ盲の世なるも
436 This is world of the
Blind who believe in
Mistaken reasoning
And who do not believe in
Unmistaken reasoning.		 #7, page 4, S6-405A-B [SS698G] 
   
　 　 古へゆ　救いの道は数あれど　真の救いはメシヤのみなる
437 　 Since antiquity
Though numerous are the
Paths of salvation,
True salvation is
Only of the Messiah.		 #8, page 4, S6-405B
   
宗教も　科学も過去のものとならむ　神の作れる文明出でなば
438 Religion and science
Will become relics
Of the past when
There appears
Civilization created by God. 		#9, page 4, S6-405C
   
今の世の　科学も神の御眼には　幼き童の玩具と等しき
439 The science of the
World today as well
In the eyes of God,
The equivalent to the
Toys of a juvenile child.		 #10, page 5, S6-405D
   
科学迷信に　眼奪はれ真実の　見えぬ盲の世ぞおそろしも
440 How terrifying! The world
Of the blind where people
Do not see the truth, dazzled,
Taken in are they by the
Superstition of material science.		 #11, page 5, S6-405D-E [SS698K]
   
　 科学迷信が　作る病と凶作の　災を絶つ我救いかも
441 　

My salvation it is
That puts an end to
The superstitious science
That causes the misfortune
Of disease and crop failure.

 #12, page 5, S6-405E 
   
　 恐ろしき　肥毒迷信此土から　消へて生まるる農村天国
442 　

From the earth
Will disappear
The frightening superstition
Of fertilizer and what will
Be born is a farming paradise.

 #13, page 5, S6-406A
   
　 主の神に　代りて吾は三界の　万霊救う大いなる業
443 　

As agent
For the Creator
Is my great task
To save all spirits
Of the three realms.

 #14, page 5, S6-406B
   
　 釈迦キリスト　マホメットとて我でづる　までの救いの聖者なりける
444 　

Saints of
Salvation
Until my advent
Were Shakyamuni,
Christ, and Mohammed. 

 #15, page 6, S6-406C
    
　 八百万　神も仏も我前に　額づき救いを願ぐる今はも
445 　

Even now
The eighty myriads
Of gods and buddhas
Kneel before me
Seeking salvation.

 #16, page 6, S6-406D 
   
　 わが光　世界万民照らす時　歓喜の声は地をどよもさむ
446 　

The earth will indeed
Resound with the cry
Of jubilation at the time
My light illumines
The people of the world.

 #17, page 6, S6-406E
 
 
　 太陽の　黒点こそは主の神の　尊き御魂と知れよ世の人
447 　

People of the world,
Know that sunspots
Themselves
Are the precious soul
Of the Creator.

 #18, page 6, S6-407A
   
　 神智もて　一切の謎明らかに　解くなり吾は神のまにまに
448 　

Simply as God
Leads me, with
Divine wisdom
I make clear
The riddles of all.

 #19, page 6, S6-407B
   
　 神人と　唱ふる深き言の葉の　謎はいよいよ吾証さなん
449 　

I, Mokichi Okada,
Now reveal the
Profound riddle
Of the words
Declared by God and man.

 #20, page 7, S6-407C
   
　 神人合一の　力揮いて乱れたる　この現し世を救う吾かな
450 　

I, Mokichi Okada,
Save this present world
So confused, wielding
The power of
God and man united.

 #21, page 7, S6-407D 
   
　 恐ろしき　サタンも堤婆もやうやくに　我軍門に降る節見ゆ
451 　

Will be seen the time
When finally are defeated
By my forces
The terrifying
Satan and Devadatta.

 #22, page 7, S6-407E
   
　 如何ならむ　曲津なりとて我ふるう　金剛力に向い得べしや
452 　

How can it
Stand up to
My diamond power
Whatever evil
Forces there may be? 

 #23, page 7, S6-408A
   
　 我揮う　力は太陽の精にして　常世の暗を打ち晴らすなり
453 　

The power I wield
Is the spirit of the sun;
It clears away
The darkness of
The eternal world.

 #24, page 7, S6-408B
   
　 今までの　如何なる救いも月なれば　光は薄く力弱かり
454 　

So far, all
Salvation has been
Of the moon; its
Light, dim,
Power, weak.

 #25, page 8, S6-408C
   
　 薬毒と　肥毒の為に汚されし 世を清めなん神に代わりて
455 　

As God’s deputy,
I cleanse the world
That has been
Polluted with medicinal
Toxins and fertilizers.

 #26, page 8, S6-408D.
Previous translation, Book of Gosanka, #254, page 64; translation based on non-Meishu-sama text薬毒と 肥毒のガイニソコナワル 世を清めなんミチカラモチテ
 
Book of Gosanka translation
The world harmed and wronged / By chemicals fed to soil; / Poison sprayed on plants; / Can only be purified / By the power of God’s Light.
   
　 黴菌の　亡者蠢くこの大地　浄むる業は浄霊なりける
456 　

Johrei is the activity to purify
This great earth, so overrun
With squirming,
Crawling ghosts
Preoccupied with germs.

 #27, page 8, S6-409A
 
　天災を　生む人災の深き理を　分すは神智の科学なりけり
457　

The profound principle
That clarifies how natural
Calamity gives birth to
Human catastrophe is the
Science of divine wisdom.

#28, page 8, S6-409A
S5-495D 天災を　生む人災の理を　知るが神示の科学なりけり In an untitled set of unpublished poems from 1950. 
It is the science
Of divine intelligence that reveals
The deep and profound way
Of things in which human-made disaster
causes natural catastrophe to occur.		December 18.2008 by taki
S5-495D translation
Science revealed by / God is the way to know / The principles of how / Natural calamity gives / Birth to human catastrophe.