Great Construction
Saved By a Book
The person who wrote this account saw a newspaper advertisement for the book Faith Healing Therapy of Tuberculosis, and through reading this book was saved. This is a case where the patient was not saved through a member but through an invisible connection. How favorably he recovered probably appears to be astonishing. Furthermore, after recovery the cavities that had presented at his first diagnosis had completely disappeared and he was completely healed, so Johrei truly is an ideal therapy for tuberculosis. And, as the writer himself says, that he was completely healed while continuing to live an unfettered, ordinary life, which from the viewpoint of medical treatment is so irresponsible, just demonstrates how meaningless medical science is.
After reading this account, therefore, if one still doubts and cannot accept Johrei, then one really is a pitiful, unfortunate sentient being.
Cavities Disappear with Complete Recovery
After One Year With Pulmonary TuberculosisSusumu Takahashi, 41, Nyoiwa Church
Oita Prefecture
In the summer of 1951, I stayed in bed for about two weeks due to a cold, but after recovery, experienced terrible stiffness in the shoulders. I did not pay much attention to this stiffness, though, and continued to go to work, but at the December group physical check-ups, held at my workplace, I was told there was pulmonary infiltration in my left lung. The doctor said it was still in the primary stage and that treatment while working would be enough, so from January the following year I underwent artificial pneumothorax therapy for a little more than a year. During that time, officially I was at work, but with the understanding of the principal and colleagues of my school that I not overwork and take care not to overly fatigue myself. I hoped that such a regimen would lead to recovery, but after a check-up at the end of the fiscal year in March of 1953 I was abruptly given a mandatory temporary leave of absence from work for medical treatment. I had relied totally on pneumothorax therapy for the previous year and had experienced absolutely no fever or coughing and phlegm, so I had thought I was getting better. The shock of this diagnosis was enough to keep me from eating for two to three days.
Colleagues and friends as well as the doctors urged me to get hospitalized for the time being, but since being diagnosed all the books I had read about tuberculosis and its treatment had left me feeling the limits of medical treatment, and when I observed the conditions of those being treated in hospital, the more I felt I could not leave everything to medical science and be hospitalized. Previously, I had been attracted to books on popular medical treatments and I decided to receive acupuncture and massage treatments along with resistance treatment. I immediately started treatments, but these treatments certainly demanded perseverance and I truly felt unease at whether these treatments would really succeed.
April third was a day I will never forget, only one week after I had started to undergo resistance therapy. My eyes came to rest on an advertisement in the Mainichi newspaper for a book titled Faith Healing for Tuberculosis. As an atheist I had not even known of the name World Messianity, but I was somehow drawn to the advertisement. The book did not appear to describe the ordinary kinds of spiritual exercises and I thought it might turn out to offer something specific. Let me investigate this, I thought, and with that, after supper that evening, I took a walk to visit the major bookstore in town, but the book was not in stock. I thought it most strange that Faith Healing for Tuberculosis not be there, and I wanted it even more, so the next day, I waited outside for the opening of the department store and when the doors were opened, I went straight to the book section. The book was there, just one copy. As I took it off the shelf, I somehow felt relieved. I thumbed through the pages, looking at different places. Just as I had thought, it differed greatly in content from most religious books. I took it home and immediately read it from cover to cover. “Oh!” I murmured to myself. The excellence of Meishu-sama’s opinions, the theory of disease that was divinely revealed, and the wonderful miracles that were performed so easily seemed a bit difficult to believe, but the accounts of one hundred persons that were appended to the book all contained the writers’ addresses, so their stories could not be false. I thought that talking to one of those who had actually experienced this therapy would be the quickest way to understand, so the next morning, I visited the home of a Mrs. Sei Iwata, who lived in the Ueno district of my town, and confirmed the accounts to be true and actual, and fortunately from that day I was able to receive Johrei from Sei Iwata who was a minister.
From about the third Johrei, I began to feel the spiritual rays penetrating areas in my head and was able to confirm for myself that some kind of spiritual wave was being radiated from the channel’s hand. From that time on, I began to experience many times the elimination of a black, sticky mass, phlegm, and bloody nasal discharge, just as had been related in the personal experiences of others I had read in the book. I was able to confirm the power of Johrei and before I knew it, I was completely astonished to find that I had forgotten about and was healed of heaviness that I had felt in my head and chronic stuffy nose both of which I had suffered from for many years. During this period, I was able to learn from Rev. Iwata about the church from many perspectives, and day by day the eyes of my faith were opened. I attended a three-day course that started on May 18, and I was able to bathe in the glory of my precious sacred focal point. Since then I have continued to receive Johrei from Rev. Iwata, attend services at the branch and main churches, and count on guidance from the ministers. As the days pass, the color of my blood has unmistakably improved and gradually I have come to have more confidence about my physical condition. I was told by the doctor that a cavity had opened in one place in a lung, but I can clearly feel my vitality improving. Amazingly, I have lost the unease I had felt at mention of the word, “cavity,” and every day I walk wherever my curiosity takes me two or three miles around town. I do not follow any special diet, and from my doctor’s viewpoint. I lead a rather irresponsible daily schedule, but whether it is because I have not taken any medicines since the start of my illness or whatever, neither have I had any major purification, and my recuperation has been rather pleasant. At times I help Rev. Iwata with church work and during the ten-month period since April and the beginning of my enforced leave from work, I had a check-up in February where I heard the doctor pronounce me completely recovered. No cavities were apparent on my x-rays.
I had never expected that within a year I would hear the words “completely recovered.” How powerful Johrei must be! From the guidance I have received from Rev. Iwata and the branch head, I understand Meishu-sama’s divine status, and I can only bow in appreciation. This emotion and enthusiasm will not grow cold, and from now on, I intend to help as many people as possible learn about the power of Johrei and of Meishu-sama’s holy work, so that I can repay, even if only by thousandths, the blessings I have received.
Since joining the church, my family has also received many blessings. On October 23 of last year, my wife, Haruyo, age 38, along with my uncle, a teacher, Masakazu, age 58, were allowed to join the church together for which I am very thankful.
Meishu-sama, thank you very much.
Eikô, Issue 259, page A1, June 2, 1954
translated by cynndd