Great Construction

The Toxic Mass That Is a Human Being

     The physical body of the contemporary human being is a mass of toxins. I consistently teach this and readers may think it a terrible statement to make, but it is the unfortunate truth. As is taught to all my followers, every one in the world today is a toxic mass composed of two types of medicinal toxins, congenital toxins inherited from our ancestors and post-congenital toxins ingested after birth. Throughout the some twenty-odd years of my experience of having healed hundreds and thousands of persons, I have yet to encounter one individual who is completely free of toxins. The more apt description might be that masses of medicinal toxins are in the shape of human beings without exception. Through Johrei, of course, people can easily eliminate these toxins and reach a point where they are not anxious about disease or fear for their life, but it is probably difficult if not impossible to remove all toxins during the lifetime of a human being.
     Toxic masses in the form of human beings may haughtily force their materialistic logic on everyone around them, but from our standpoint we know that their level of reason is total absurdity from which it is only natural that no decent level of insight or judgment ever appears. I teach further that it is a law of nature that toxins accumulate in the regions of the body where the nerves are utilized the most, and that since contemporary people use their heads a great deal, the shoulders and the area around the neck are especially stiff from toxins. This condition can readily be apprehended when you look at anyone today and find lumps, either large or small, under the skin in these areas.
      Natural activity to purify the toxins in the area around the neck and shoulders takes the form of colds, so if left alone, the toxins will be eliminated smoothly and the cold will cure itself. But medical science, ignorant of this natural process, uses medicines and other measures to stop elimination and harden the affected region. As a result of the solidifying measures, medicinal toxins are further added to the human body, the level of hardness increases, and the human body becomes even a denser toxic mass. Purificatory activity will then generate even more readily, leading to the situation we have now with so many sick people. Because it is the brain that is affected the most, there is hardly anyone today who does not suffer from headaches, heavy headedness, low concentration, irritability, or dizziness. As a result, powers of discernment are dulled, people find it hard to tell right from wrong, they lack common sense, they have a lower level of intellect, and they are stupid and thick-headed. You all know this for yourselves when you try to settle a problem within narrow limitations you make for yourself and do not consider larger or long-term consequences. People are continually astonished by the resulting amount of unpleasantness, whether disease, crime, poverty, or conflict, they encounter in society which seems to be nothing more than an illustrated picture scroll of hell.
     When speaking of discernment, one point I particularly want to make concerns the low level of the intellectual classes. To the public they merely present a clash of contradictions, without well-grounded opinions, containing no thread of logic. Words are merely arranged on a page to earn a living. Hardly anything remains after reading the editorials in newspapers these days. Let me give several instances. First, the example shown by those involved with religion. Most of the people having to do with religions these days are merely attempting to put new garments on antiquated dogmas dating from hundreds and thousands of years ago. There is no freshness or novelty, and such teachings cannot move the people today. The low level of the intelligence of politicians as well is indicated by the fact they will take several days to mull over an issue that anyone with a normal brain could summarize and reach a conclusion about in thirty minutes. Just how low the level is can be gauged by the cases where politicians take not just days, but months and years to reach a conclusion. You will probably agree with this assessment when you consider the issue of rearmament, currently a topic of political discussion. Whether Japan should rearm or not has a simple and clear answer even though the issue continues to be kicked about without any conclusion being reached. The situation is truly hopeless because there are no trustworthy leaders with foresight.
     In regard to decision-making, my subordinates have standing instructions to cease consultations or discussions if the conclusion about a topic cannot be made within thirty minutes. Even so, oftentimes I have to step in and unilaterally settle matters that do not seem to be coming together, but this is the reason that business in our church can be carried out in such an expeditious manner. Those in the economic field are also dull-witted. Whether in government and financial circles, or in the commercial and industrial sectors, what all continue to suffer from is debt. There is probably no other nation in the world with as much debt and inflation as Japan. The greatest cause for this economic instability is the incompetence in handling balance between profit and interest from which being able to judge the rise and fall of enterprises, analyze world trends, and forecast national economic trends are all impossible. These deficiencies are naturally the result of stupidity, and the weight of debts spurs the stupidity forward.
     The list goes on and on, and I think you understand my point, but what I want to note particularly is the great amount of unpleasant things that occur nowadays in our world from traffic accidents, fires, mining accidents, incidents of bloodshed, suicide, to child murder and parent suicide. In addition to these statutory incidents, there is the damage from wind and flooding, and insect damage on farms. These problems and misfortunes all result from the lack of intelligence and discernment in the brains of people today, and the cause of that lack is medicinal toxins. I feel acutely that people must be awakened to the relationship between our problems and the toxins in the human body. Contemporary society, frankly speaking, seems to be nothing more than the pushing and shoving, the wriggling around, of toxic lumps. Only the divine blessing of purification will help us.

Eikô, Issue 226, September 16, 1953
 translation by cynndd