Great Construction

Materialistic Healing and Religious Healing


     In the preceding chapters, I have described both the fallacies of contemporary medical science, that is, materialistic medical science and the clear and transparent principles of religious healing. Of those who have read so far, unless they are captives of medical science there is probably no one who can not comprehend. The real, actual goal of healing should be to completely cure the diseases of and create healthy bodies in human beings, and such should be what actually happens. Quite obvious is the fact that healthy bodies are those that have been freed from lifetimes of worry about disease, and as the number of such persons increases, then will appear the ideal of humanity, a world free from disease.
     Therefore, healing that approaches step by step this ideal is true healing. If what I have written so far based on facts is perused and pondered, there is no reason that this religious healing is the true healing should not be acknowledged. In this sense, the whole of humanity must be informed of this true healing as quickly as possible so that all may bathe in that blessing. Moreover, the healing of World Messianity is not only for the health of the physical body of one individual, it also aims to make healthy the spiritual, the mental side as well, so that the greatest sufferings of humanity, those of poverty as well as conflict, the object of terror, will also be resolved. Needless to say, the solving of these sufferings is tremendous good news that surpasses expression in language.
     In this regard, the greatest hurdle is that contemporary medical science which has been implanted in minds for such a long time has bedazzled humanity and come to attain non-critical belief to the extent that medical science can be said to have turned into a faith. As long as the brains of not only medical professionals but also of members of the general public are so inclined, there is no easy way to get them to perceive. Promoting understanding is the difficult task that we have been assigned, and in normal circumstances, this task would be as good as impossible. But if circumstances are left as they are, the sufferings of humanity will continue to worsen, not unknown could it be that the fate of civilized peoples may be that of collapse and ruin. In which case, the sooner all the peoples of the world are informed the better. As a result, when members of the general public comprehend, most likely there will arise a tremendous global sensation that will lead to a great revolution of materialistically-centered medical science. In all of history there has probably not been such a revolution. The revolution of medical science is an issue far greater, in no way comparable, to the problem of conflict. Even if World War III were to break out, the conflict would be limited by both time and place, but as far as medical science is concerned, it is a pervasive issue for all of humanity.
     The revolution that brings about the human body and spirit free of disease is an ideal that peoples have not even been able to imagine, but when such a world does come about, what will happen to the human life span? Indeed, living more than a hundred years will become possible, and here will be realized the ideal of humanity. Prehistorical times are a closed book, but not since history began has been found a record of an ordinary human being living more than one hundred years. That is because, apart from catastrophes and disasters, most all have fallen victim to disease. For human beings to die due to disease is not normal; it is abnormal. Of course, to die because of disease is not natural; it is unnatural. When human beings come to be free of disease, all deaths will be natural, and living more a hundred years will not be unusual at all.
     There are still points that need to be addressed. As I discussed previously, the cause of disease is cloud on the spirit. The source of cloud are not only the two avenues of human sin and medicinal toxin, there is another important cause. That cause is the artificial fertilizer applied to agricultural products. We cannot know of primitive ages, but we can guess that artificial fertilizers have been used since rather ancient times. In Japan, human feces and urine were used to fertilize, and in recent times, fertilizers have become chemical. In foreign countries as well, before modern times, there is no doubt that some form of artificial fertilizer was used. That artificial fertilizers are quite damaging to the human body has not at all been understood until today. The damage comes from the stage at which the artificial fertilizer is absorbed into the agricultural product and the chemical fertilizer’s toxic elements become fully activated, a process that is thought to produce no ill side effects. It is the same as with the relationship of humanity to pharmaceuticals where only the results of the actions on the disease are considered and toxin is thought to not remain.
     However, what I have discovered through divine revelation is that although there is some decrease in the amount of toxin within the body, it does not entirely disappear. In this regard are the reports published recently concerning the many long years of experience of the influential dairy farming company president J. I. Rodale. According to his conclusions, the health of livestock raised with straw and grasses cultivated with chemical fertilizer is poor and the milk they produce is of low quality. In contrast, the health of livestock raised on straw and grass that has been cultivated with only compost is very good, and their milk is also excellent. Because the results of this discovery were enthusiastically spread, they have been recognized in most quarters, and it is said that the government of the United States is supporting these efforts as well. The results of the research of scholars in various fields and the experiences of actual farmers agree with these results that have finally become public opinion which has been been reported in professional journals. Mr. Rodale also teaches that since the beginning of the use of chemical toxin in fertilizer many diseases in human beings have become malignant. These two points, however, are what I have been teaching for more than twenty years now, and in Japan, unlike the U. S., there is the tendency for new theories to be ignored, and particularly since I am a man of religion, completely snubbing me, they treat my work as superstitious. Needless to add, it is often said that my theories interfere greatly with the progress of culture.
     Since the three evils of sin and medicinal toxin and artificial fertilizer are the basis of disease, removing these three banes, as this chapter explains, must be the first task in the salvation of humanity. As for medicinal toxin and artificial fertilizer, even stopping their use today is possible, but the most difficult issue is sin. Only religion can resolve the issue of sin, but it would also be fair to say that there has not appeared a religion capable of resolving the problem of sin. As World Messianity is the very religion that fulfills this condition, my responsibility is heavy, tremendous. In that sense, I hereby sound the warning bell through this book to all the intellectuals, the thinking, knowledgeable people of the world. In regard to this warning, there is a very important event about which all must know that I will describe in the next chapter.

Creation of Civilization, 1952, unpublished
translated by cynndd


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“Yuibutsu Igaku to Shūkyō Igaku,” the sixth chapter of the third part, “Religion,” from the manuscript for Bunmei no Sōzō (Creation of Civilization) that remained unpublished during Meishu-sama’s lifetime, has appeared in translation. Citation is given below for reference.

“Materialistic Medical Science and Religious Medical Science,” Creation of Civilization, 1978, page 159.