Great Construction
Preface (Gospel of Heaven)
Humanity’s greatest and in the long run, it’s ultimate desire is probably for happiness. There is probably no one who would deny this. But for those who seek happiness and those who have already attained it and want it to continue, there is one fact that cannot be escaped, and that fact is more than likely, the health of the human body. Jesus, the holy man of Nazareth said, “What does it profit persons if they obtain the whole world but lose their lives?”
It is for this reason that humanity until the present has over the past thousands of years created and continued to develop medical science. But sadly, those efforts have amounted to almost nothing. Nay, rather those efforts have shown reverse effects. The greatest evidence for this is the one great lamentable fact that the overall population of civilized countries has shown gradual decrease.
About this decrease, the question would most likely be, what is the reason for the reverse effect, but medical science and other materialistic endeavors do not provide answers to this question. Nay. They are unable to give answers. Just look at the fact that the concern of the authorities of all the civilized nations including England is increasingly becoming more grave.
I have been absorbed by and studied this problem for the past several decades, and without resort to medical science, through my own unique methods have been able to determine the source of the problem. And what I have found is the fact that a major fallacy latently lies in the fundamentals of medical science. On the basis of this discovery, I have succeeded in eliminating the suffering of disease from human beings which results in vigorous health and makes possible lengthening of the human life span. This great concept, the ardent wish of all humanity which has never cooled, has indeed been realized.
Ideas involving the prolongation of the lives of human beings were thought by all to merely be the dreams of idiots. In this sense, this discovery and its value is probably incomparable to any other event in the history of humanity. Therefore, at the very time this new healing therapy has spread to all of humanity, I firmly believe that there cannot but occur one great revolution throughout the world. But readers, there is no need for surprise. This revolution will be completely opposite, like the difference between the mud and the clouds, from the blood-thirsty, animosity-filled revolutions of the past. Indeed it will be a happening enfolded in joy and shining with divine light. In addition, this happening will become the basis for the establishment of eternal peace.
My declaration might be too bold. But readers, when this book is perused and it contents, carefully investigated, I do believe that not one bit of falsehood as regards to its implementation will be found.
The progress of culture means the increase in the welfare of each and every member of humanity. The key to this increase must be the expansion of health and the lengthening of the life span of human beings. All are well aware that humanity has heretofore believed that only through the progress of Western material science would these goals be accomplished and has admired the efforts made in its cause.
Why is it that in spite of the fact that all the sciences make steady progress, only the science of human life which should be the most important has not made any progress toward the goal. Indeed, like all the other sciences, the external aspects of medical science are brilliant. People are bewitched when they see hospitals which are equipped with that such as operating theaters, countless varieties of pharmaceuticals, microscopes, testing instruments using x-ray and radium, various types of radiation therapy devices, not to mention the new medical theories that are frequently announced that represent scrupulous study and research. Thus it is not unreasonable that the average person thinks that it is possible that the problem of all disease will be resolved. In spite of these circumstances, however, the reality is that the goal seems very distant, and it is unknown when reaching it would become possible.
I do not recklessly criticize medical science. I only give warning to the reality that medical science is advancing in a direction opposite to its true goal.
The ultimate goal of medical science is the creation of disease-free human beings. No matter the extent that medical science may present to the eyes of the populace with astonishing discoveries and inventions, unless there is step by step progress toward the creation of disease-free human beings, medical science becomes a useless existence within the fields of science.
But medical science has had its successes. Those are the detailed explanations through dissection and analysis we have of the functions of human body that are somewhat deserving of appreciation.
Still there is the question of why in its long history, humanity has not perceived the mistakes of medicine. It is indeed a wonder of the world.
Through the healing technique that I have created, the door of mystery, closed for thousands of years, has been opened. I do believe that God had indeed entrusted me with accomplishing the great task of returning human beings to their original, natural state of health.The Author, November 1945
Gospel of Heaven, February 5, 1947
translated by cynndd* * *
“Jobun (Tengoku no Fukuin)” is the preface written for Meishu-sama’s first major publication after the end of the war, Tengoku no Fukuin (Gospels of Heaven). Tengoku no Fukuin was published six months before the Japan Kannon Church was recognized as a religious corporation on August 30, 1947, and seven and a half months before the corporation’s inauguration ceremony on November 11, 1947. After appearing in this major volume, the essay was not anthologized while Meishu-sama was alive. “Jobun (Tengoku no Fukuin)” has appeared in translation. Citation is given below for reference.
“The Supreme Goal,” True Health, 1987, page 9.