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I AM A RELIGION-SCIENTIST

　 　When you hear me, who am a person of religion, say that I am a scientist, you might be puzzled, but anyone who reads through this article would be convinced of it.  That is because the contemporary science, as I always say, still stands at much lower level and has reached to the level of true science yet.  Now I will give you the details: To begin with, it is evident that what science today lays emphasis on is the discovery of particles and the investigation about them.  Of course, that has been made possible through the progress of microscope, and consequently the understanding of minute particles has amazingly advanced; it is indeed an unlimited advance like a several-thousandth, several-ten-thousandth and several-millionth part, by which we can go so far as to grasp an ultramicroscopic infinitesimal and we are on the point of entering into the unlimited world; such is the present situation.  The word "infinitesimals" which have been set forth recently is probably what indicates that unlimited world.  To be sure, their having been allowed to become aware of the unlimited world is owing to not their scientific manipulations but the hypothesis that has been concluded by inference as a result of inquiries of scientific theories, for otherwise they would come to a dead end and could not do anything.  However, that unlimited world is the very one which I refer to as the spiritual world, which shows that science has managed to reach this stage at last and the science that has long kept on denying the existence of spirits has finally lost the day.

　　Leaving that aside, since the above-mentioned infinitesimals are none other than spirits or spiritual force, if science can comprehend them accurately, then it will rise to a high position in a single bound, and at the same time will have taken a step toward the ideal of scientific pursuit of the truth.  Then, however, now that science takes spirit as its subject, the way of thinking which takes material as its object like the one up to now will become an early-period science and science of spirit will appear on the world stage as the late-period science, so then science will turn 180 degrees around and be necessitated to accord with religion.  To put it simply, draw a line down the middle of the realm of science, and the science of material occupies the lower half below the center line and the science of spirit occupies in the upper half above the line: this is an illustration from a vertical point of view, and from the horizontal point of view, the former is all bout external objects, and the latter internal.  In other words, the science of physical existence has risen to the one of physically non-existent; this would be very pleased indeed.  However, there is some difficult problem here, for it is no good only figuring out the realm of spirit.  It is a must to comprehend its essence and make use of it for humankind by all means.  The trouble is that there is no way for the science of material to do that at all.  We have simply no choice but to deal with problems of spirit by resorting to spirit itself.

　　From the standpoint of mine, however, it is quite possible to easily get over the difficulty.  Nay, I have already made it.  In fact, I am acting it out now and have achieved remarkable results.  That is, I do solve the problems of spirit by operating spirit.  This is curing illness, needless to say.  Now let me explain it in outline.  Because all causes of the disease are impure substance which has accumulated in the spirits of patients, it is quite natural for the disease to be cured when the impure substance is eliminated.  That is because it follows the law of the spiritual primacy over the corporeal existence.  Its method is to radiate the special spirit, an atomic bomb of spirit as it were, so that it burns out the impure substance.  This method is a highly scientific operation called Johrei, and in addition, this it not only for medicine but for the problems that have been considered impossible to solve through any science or religion, so what could it be other than a super science?  Let me describe it also from a different angle.  As everyone knows, the established theory of medicine is that all the sources of diseases are germs.  The discovery of germs marked an epoch in the history of medicine and the modern medicine has made a revolutionary development; however, this is development in the science of material and this alone is no more than a half development.  For killing germs alone does not reach to the underlying cause.  Seen from our side, it is like scooping water up with a sieve.  This is because appearance of germs is a result and even germs are what have grown from larvae, which are the very viruses themselves.  It is said that there have been arguments among scholars about whether viruses are organic or inorganic, which is very absurd.  That is because viruses are the form of intermediate stage of particles which are in the process of changing from inorganic substance to organic substance, so it cannot be determined whether inorganic or organic.  Therefore, the important thing is the place where inorganic substance originates, and it is the spiritual world.  Consequently, knowing of this fact would make microscopes unnecessary any more.

　　From the above explanation it follows that science of material until the present is a low-level one, so it is quite natural for this low-level science to be unable to solve problems of human life, which is high-level existence, because it means a reversal where the low dominate the high.  As evidence the serious diseases regarded as incurable by medical science are easily cured by Johrei, crystal clear facts.  To put it plainly, you can say the science of spirit is an innermost sanctuary of the science of material.  Here I will delve deeply into what the spiritual world is.  To begin with, the true nature of the spiritual world is that it consists of three elements of spirits: spirit of the sun, spirit of the moon and spirit of the earth, in terms of science they correspond to oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen, and we call each of them fire spirit, water spirit and earth spirit, the combinations of which form the spiritual world.  Among these three elements of spirits, spirit of the earth is the substance of physical matters, spirit of the sun is the essence of spirits and spirit of the moon is that of air; it is the atmosphere that these spirits of the sun and the moon control, and this atmosphere replenishes the space above the ground.  Although the fire spirit is the most powerful, the science of material could not detect it because it is very rarefied, so heat and light have been known but their essence as spirit has been unknown until today.  Consequently the object of scientific study has been limited only to the spiritual element of water and that of soil, so that the present world is predominated by the culture of water and earth, which has been a major fault in civilization.  Now I must write about an incredible cataclysm of the world.  This world consists of three elements of spirits: spirit of the sun, spirit of the moon and spirit of the earth as described above, and there is a distinction between day and night, which is caused by the interchange of the sun and the moon.  This is, however, a phenomenon viewed from the physical aspect, and the important fact is that there is another distinction between day and night also in the spiritual aspect.  Needless to say, this distinction cannot be realized by the science of material, but the science of spirit sees it well.  Then what is the above-mentioned cataclysm?  This is indeed the astounding great change of the world that humankind have never dreamed of, which is now on the edge of opening up.  That is a historic cataclysm which is expanded from the cycle of day and night; the only way to understand it is to consider in terms of time.  That is to say, in the spiritual world there are alternations of day and night also in spans of ten years, one hundred years, one thousand years, and ten thousand years.  That is, just as the substance of the earth consists of three spiritual elements of fire, water and soil, so everything in the universe is based on the figure 3, which is a cardinal rule of the universe and even the alternation of day and night has cycles of 3 years, 30 years, 300 years, 3000 years…  As a matter of course, depending on the quality and the scale of things there are some different rates of progress in their transferring from the spiritual world to the corporeal world; however, things flow precisely at the base.  Surprisingly, the turning point of the 3000-year-cycle corresponds to this time of ours.  We stand now at the dawn of it.  Even the date when that happened has been made clear, as I wrote about it before.  It was on June 15, 1931.  At this juncture the world got into Day.  And yet, until some time the change occurs only in the spiritual world, which will gradually transfer to this corporeal world and become known realistically.  However, although I would like to explain more deeply, it is not possible without entering into the realm of religion, so here I leave it out.  In any case it is good for you to believe that the above description is unconditionally true.

　　The spiritual world becomes Day, which means that the spiritual elements of fire increase.  This change is gradually transferring to the corporeal world.  In other words, the world in which water spirits has prevailed over fire spirits until now is to change into the reverse: fire spirits prevail over water spirits. Although the science of material cannot see this situation, the science of spirit can well.  Hereby all problems that have been unsolved until now will be solved definitely.  On the basis of what I have explained so far, I will make the present low-level science grow by leaps and bounds, boosting it up into a high-level one, and create a true civilization.

Eikoh, No.255, April 7, 1954 (the 29th year of Showa)

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This essay has previously appeared in translation once. The citation is given below for reference.

“I Am a Scientist of the Spirit,” True Health, 1987, page 95.