Great Construction

Regarding Sickness

     Followers of World Messianity are apt to take the beneficence of divine favours which are so great and wonderful for granted.
     Yet, nothing is so feared today by people in general as disease. There is almost no one who does not need to rely on doctors and medicine. For example, a person has a fever and loses appetite which he catches cold. When a person has a heartburn, he worries himself as to whether he has a stomach ailment.
     Difficulty of breathing through the nose, or a dull sense of smell causes one to worry about nose diseases. A sore throat accompanied by a fever, causes fear of tonsilitis. Slow reaction or reflexes in the limbs causes one to fear spinal injury or disease. A sore protocele causes one wonder if it is not an indication of piles.
     The troubles that can beset modern people and cause them anxiety and nervousness are endless.
     Should a person suffer from a cold, which becomes complicated, and a persistent cough accompanied by excess of sputum lingers, this causes worry as to whether it may not be the first indication of lung disease.
     Should a member of a family be stricken with tuberculosis, other members fear that they might also have this disease. However, it is a well known fact that people who suspect that they have this disease, fear to be told the truth, because in such cases where it may be tuberculosis, they would be forced to give up their positions in office or in social life.
     Usually, such people begin to secretively read books on tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is explained in detail in such books, and this only causes the reader further anxiety.
     Not only diseases, but also various epidemics are the cause of anxiety. A severe diarrhea causes worry of dysentery. A continuous fever causes fear of typhus. Parents worry over their child should symptoms point to dysentery or Japanese Encephalitis B.
     Continuous strangled coughing of a child causes parents to fear whopping-cough. Woozy sounds in the throat, diphtheria. Stilted walking, polio or spinal caries. Abnormal thinness, scrofulosis.
     In modern times, women suffer from irregular periods, menstrual pain, and other complaints. In the event of pregnancy, morning sickness, kidney ailments, or even premature birth are feared.
     The sickness and diseases of mankind are too numerous to list, and it is no exaggeration to say that there does not exist a single person who is completely healthy on this earth.
     Here one must deliberate whether such is the normal condition of human beings. Is it that our Creator has created an incomplete creature in man? This is unthinkable.
     Then what is disease? The answer is very simple. It is nothing but the pain which accompanies the excreting process of toxic substance within one’s body. Such toxic substance must be excreted out of man’s body to maintain health. Therefore, one should be thankful for disease. Only when one has completed understood the above fact, one can be thankful for catching cold, having diarrhea and even for existence of bacilli. One’s health is gradually improved though disease and one can become a healthy person in the true sense. Many instances prove this fact.
     By receiving Johrei, one becomes less susceptible to disease with every purification one experiences and thus becomes gradually healthier with lapse of time.

Teachings of Meishu and Kyoshu, page 10, no date [1959?]