Great Construction

Spiritual Lung Diseases

     Because several years ago, my wife suddenly became feverish and experienced coughing that produced lots of bloody phlegm, symptoms like the third stage of tuberculosis, I immediately treated her, but there were no noticeable results. Two to three days passed and repeatedly symptoms first improved, then worsened. It was at this point that I thought that this case must be spiritual, so when I went to investigate the possibility of possession, sure enough it was possession. The possessing spirit had been a young man whom I had treated the previous year for pulmonary tuberculosis and had died. He had lived with his father and because of his long illness, their finances had been spent and he had died in conditions of extreme poverty, so appropriate offerings for him had hardly been made. I discovered that he had possessed my wife to tell me that he wanted me to enshrine him due to the fact that in the spiritual world, he was alone, isolated, and neglected. At this point, I told him because there was preparation I would enshrine him the next evening, to which I further told him that because the physical body was suffering, leave the body and wait. He immediately left my wife’s body after which my wife returned to normal as if nothing had happened. As it was such a clear case of possession, even I was surprised. He is still enshrined at my home.

The Pathway to Light, Jikan Library, Volume 9, page 58, December 30, 1949
translated by cynndd

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“Reiteki Haikan,” which originally appeared as the fifteenth chapter of the Nihon Kannon Kyōdan (Japan Kannon Church) publication Hikari e no Michi (The Pathway to Light), December 30, 1949, was not anthologized while Meishu-sama was alive, nor has it, as far as is known, appeared in translation. “Reiteki Haikan,” with over a dozen revisions, is the fourth paragraph of the chapter “Haikekkaku” (“Pulmonary Tuberculosis”) from Tengoku no Fukuin (Gospel of Heaven), page 329, February 5, 1947.