Great Construction
Medicines Create Misfortune
In my writings and talks, I have discussed medicines from many aspects, but I feel I have not written in as much detail as I could about the relationship between medicine and misfortune.
It should be thoroughly understood that our state of fortune or misfortune has its cause in the spiritual world, so first, a short explanation of how the spiritual world is organized. It is composed of one hundred and eighty levels, divided into top, middle, and lower levels of sixty sections each. The lower level is, of course, hell; the middle, the intermediate plane; and the upper, paradise. Each of the sixty sections is further subdivided into twenty levels, each with upper, middle, and lower levels.
In referring to hell alone, for example, suffering gradually increases as we descend into the lower regions. The lowest region of hell is a world of serious disease, starvation, and conflict in extreme degrees. Shinto and Buddhism both have names for this world and Dante called it purgatory. But these extreme conditions lessen each level upward, and what we regard as the normal conditions of society can be experienced for the first time in the intermediate levels. Here we find an intermediate amount of suffering and an intermediate amount of joy, as the name implies. Continuing upward, breaking out of the intermediate levels, is paradise, or what is referred to in Buddhism as the land of eternal bliss. Here, there is no disease or poverty, food is abundant, and all is at peace, truly a world enveloped in happiness.
As you can see from this explanation, most people belong somewhere in the intermediate levels, but these levels are not places where we can relax our guard. What we think and do determines whether we can rise upward or whether we fall downward. Because the spirits of most people fall downward, conditions in the physical world follow, and their physical world becomes a hell for them.
This is only a brief explanation of the connection between the physical and the spiritual worlds, but as I always stress, the law of all spiritual laws is the law of the spirit preceding the physical, and this law applies to all without exception. Thus, the amount of fortune or misfortune a person experiences is determined by the position of that person’s spirit in the spiritual world.
This is truth and as long as it is kept in mind and acted upon accordingly, becoming a happy, fulfilled person is not difficult. No matter how much you may desire happiness or others may yearn for your happiness, unless your spirit belongs to the upper levels of paradise, happiness will only be temporary and your condition will always drop back to the corresponding position your spirit occupies in the spiritual world. In line with this principle, conversely, no matter how unhappy you are, if, with the proper attitude, you try to do good by practicing virtue and by helping other people, your spirit will rise in the spiritual world according to the law of spiritual affinity, and thus you will become happy.
The fundamental reason a spirit’s level drops in the spiritual world is that clouds on the spirit accumulate and the spirit becomes heavier. Therefore, as the amount of clouds decrease, the spirit becomes lighter and its position rises. Happiness increases proportionately. The happiness of human beings is subject to the amount of clouds on their spirit. Just knowing this fact will allow you to join the ranks of the fulfilled, happy ones. This is an eternal, ironclad rule of the spiritual world.
So, what are clouds? Since ancient times various religions have preached about clouds using the words “sins” and “impurities,” and because everyone is familiar with these concepts, there is no need to discuss them here, but what is understood of sin and impurities is only the surface. Deep below the surface is the basis for the great consequence that are sins and impurities. The source of clouds on the spirit are the medicines that have been so widely extolled and used by humanity since antiquity. People may be shocked by this statement, but it has been learned through divine revelation, so it is of vital importance.
The poisons contained in the medicines introduced into the body pollute the blood. As the blood, the physical manifestation of spirit, becomes polluted, the spiritual body becomes clouded according to the law of the oneness of body and spirit. There is nothing more frightening than medicines. Medicines cloud the spirit, making it heavier and dragging it downward in the spiritual world, finally pulling it into hell. Thus, by the law of spiritual affinity, the number of people who commit heinous acts increases, and our world becomes a place of suffering, besieged by sickness, poverty, and conflict. The first, fundamental step in making this a world of peace and happiness is to eliminate from society medicines, the root of human misfortune.
Chijtôtengoku, Number 44, page 6, January 25, 1953
translation by cynndd