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The Problem with the BCG Vaccine

     Recently the issue of the Bacillus Calnette-Guerín vaccine has become highly contested, and debates continues ardently in various forums of public opinion. Doctors themselves are divided on the issue, and a conclusion appears hard to reach. The origin of the controversy was an article about the lack of benefit from and the potential harm of the BCG vaccine by Dr. J. A. Myers, professor at the University of Minnesota, which appeared in the August eighteenth issue of the journal of the American Medical Association. Around that time, in the April issue of the magazine Bungeishunjû was published an opinion by Dr. Tarô Takemi under the title “The policy to exterminate tuberculosis should be exterminated” in which he said that doubts about the efficacy of the BCG vaccine had arisen and declared that efforts to compel BCG vaccination by law were misguided. Whether or not these articles gave impetus to the controversy, Health and Welfare Minister Ryûgo Hashimoto announced his position that there were still uncertainties about the efficacy of the BCG vaccine and that until its efficacy had definitely been confirmed, it was better to postpone inoculations. The minister’s announcement only sent out ripples, caused political problems, and simply created a mess. Allow me to add a critique from my viewpoint, such as it is, of this situation.
     What I have to say is nothing new. The efficacy of all medicines, not only that of the BCG vaccine, is only temporary, and as time passes the harmful effects of the drug appear. This has been my opinion and it applies to this drug as well. Although we understand this situation quite well, scientists trained in the materialistic tradition will probably find it exceedingly incomprehensible. To begin, this drug is not being used for the first time. Even though it has been in great use for the past twenty to thirty years and although there has not been anything spectacular about it up to the present, something quite unexpected as in the present series of events has occurred, so as is usual in these cases, the causes must be investigated, but true answers as to the cause will be impossible to determine. Discovery will be impossible because the cause of this problem is not a part of the field of science. The evidence for this is the fact that because nothing has been settled about this issue, the current problem has occurred. The true cause of this problem is spiritual, so there is no way to understand the true cause in terms of the knowledge of material science. When scientists read the explanation I have written here, they will probably think it either a ridiculous theory or superstitious dogma, but from our viewpoint it is these very people who have been taken in by a great superstition concerning science.
     To clarify the true cause of the problems caused by the BCG vaccine, I give the following explanation. I have written about this subject before as well, but to repeat, because the long age of night is finally turning into the daylight age, the spirit of fire, which is composed of elements of the sun, is increasing, and because the power of purification grows stronger each day, what until now could be solidified with drugs has now become impossible to solidify, and this increase of purifying power is the cause of the BCG problem. For such reasons, as time moves forward, drugs will increasingly be unable to solidify and harden the toxins, and eventually all doctors will come to have doubts about pharmaceuticals. They will come to understand the frightening aspects of the harm caused by drugs, and there will probably come a call for a new start to the field of healing. As a result of attention being diverted from materialism to another direction for the first time, the true worth of the Johrei therapy of World Messianity will be comprehended, medical science will experience a great revolution, and it is probably only a matter of time before finally a great sensation comes about in the world of medical science. That this controversy has occurred at this time only suggests that the occasion for this great sensation is approaching.

Eikô, Issue 130, November 14, 1951
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