Great Construction

Medical Science, Defier of the Creator


     Readers may find the title a bit strange, but because it is an undeniable truth, such a feeling is unavoidable.
     Medical science currently exalts the advance of surgery, but nothing is probably as mistaken as surgery. For example, suppose a person were to come down with appendicitis. The treatment of medical science calls for the body to be immediately cut up and the appendix excised. The reason is said to be that the appendix is superfluous to the health of the human body. Thus, because there is something so useless as the appendix, appendicitis occurs, so the appendix should be cut out. This thinking is truly frightening. It is difficult to believe that the Creator who has fashioned each and every thing in the universe has made anything in his most magnificent creation, the physical body of the human being, superfluous. Whether it be a toenail or a strand of hair, nothing is useless. Each part has its own useful role. It has been decided that such-and-such a part is superfluous because the fundamentals of the functions of the human body are not understood. In which case, it would be fair to say that contemporary surgical science is the epitome of barbarism. In this sense, the true art of healing will not impair even one bit of the body’s functions but leave the original as is, removing pus and impure blood, the source of disease. Toward such a goal should be progressing step by step the true art of healing.
     As such, contemporary medical surgery is a method that only alleviates pain temporarily and is not healing. To be more specific, surgery is only a shortcut for temporarily relieving pain that weakens the entire body and shortens the life span. To harm and maim the masterpiece of the Creator is an act of insubordinate, of treason.
     So, even in this sense, it is not one bit of exaggeration to say that Johrei of the Japan Kannon Church accords with the Creator and is the true healing art.


Hikari, Issue 30, October 8, 1949
translated by cynndd