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What Is Johrei?


     The origin of disease and that origin in medicinal toxins has been explained, so here I shall detail the method by which disease is healed and the principle behind that method of healing. Of course, I am referring to the Johrei healing method, and I would rather discuss its wonderful healing efficacy, but, keeping to the subject, the origin of disease lies in the clouds that are on the spirit, so it is only natural that once these clouds are dispelled, disease will be healed. This principle can also be scientifically explained, but not in the narrow, limited manner of science today.
     Broadly speaking, our world is made up of three levels, upper, intermediate, lower, and this structure is the reality of all in the universe. Science, however, as already explained, narrowly limits its activities of study to the materialistic aspects, so shackled to, swayed by externals, that as research progresses, the more it gets mired in the minutia of the surface, which resulted in the birth of the science of bacteriology. Thus, straying more and more, science deviated completely from the fundamentals of pathology. The three levels of a broadly-based, daijo science are, at the top, divine science; in the middle, spiritual science; and, at the bottom, material science. As it was from the bottom level that medical science was born, it is obvious that it is of a shallow, infantile level. Science of such a low degree cannot even begin to comprehend the intricate, advanced levels that constitute human life and its presumptuous efforts are rather akin to trying to catch and pull down stars from the heavens with a long pole.
     When we probe more deeply into the three levels of science, we find the following. The world until now has recognized only two levels, that of material science and that of spiritual science, so the fundamentals of human life and of disease and health were not understood. Such has been true, not only of medical science, but can be said of every cultural endeavor. Almost all lack permanence and are only temporary expedients. The methods for healing disease as well are only from two of the three levels, that is, from the material therapies used by medical science and from the faith healing methods of the level of spiritual science. I need not describe medical science, but faith healing techniques include prayer, the practice of austerities, and magic which, like the therapies of medical science, have not had any noticeable effect. As an aside to a discussion of faith healing, we can mention Shakyamni and Christ, who are said to have reached the highest stage of enlightenment, but in reality their level was not of the highest, but was only highest of the second level, so their wisdom and strength corresponded to that level. That their wisdom and strength was not absolute is shown by history. Such was unavoidable because the time for anything greater had not arrived.
     I, however, represent the highest parts of the highest level, and having grasped the limitless, absolute fundamental, I know all matter and matters and can manifest outstanding miracles in the healing of disease and in all other endeavors. Those not familiar with me and my work will not believe, but as what I teach is an embodiment of truth, I do not hesitate to declare that there will be some who cannot help but come to believe. Because the third, highest level of reality has until today not been grasped by humanity, Shakyamuni and Christ were believed to be and revered as the highest levels of divinity, but the facts do not show this, for humanity has continued to be veiled in clouds of doubt, the reality of the spirit has been denied, and was born an age of almighty material science. Still, the Bible prophesizes the second coming of Christ, Buddhism teaches of the descent of the Maitreya, and Judaism, along with other sects, is waiting for the advent of the World Savior, the Messiah. In various ways since antiquity have been held expectations, but because the timing for these occurrences was not indicated, the populace took these teachings to be indications of ideals, and the present state of the world is such that these prophecies have all but been forsaken.
     To which, I do not declare that I am the Messiah or state that I am the Arisen Christ. One reason is because since antiquity have appeared many who made such declarations only to disappear like smoke. It is quite obvious that persons who declare themselves so today will only be looked upon as charlatan pseudo-Christs or false Messiahs. Essential are the results. In the work I perform and through the activities I carry out, do they manifest the power of Messianic salvation, show signs of the Arisen Christ’s authority, manifest the power of the virtue of Avaloketishvara, or illuminate the bright light of Amaterasu Omikami? The answers to these questions should be the deciding factors as to whether one believes or does not believe. I will be satisfied if all the world observes my work with an eye of impartial judgment. No other desire have I than this.
     To return to the main topic, as a broadly-based daijo science is composed of all three levels of reality, the material, spiritual, and divine, it would be fair to say that what I teach is from the highest level of learning which hereafter shall lead the age. This fact alone should be sufficient for understanding how low until now has been the level of science.
     World Messianity directs the Supreme God’s plan and embodies divine science. Johrei therapy was born of divine science so there is nothing mysterious about the fact that it manifests extraordinary power. Most important of all, however, truth of Johrei is more than amply demonstrated. For instance, the healing miracles of Christ were performed on an individual basis, but through my followers I perform each day the same kind of miracles as Christ yet without limit. These followers number over several hundreds of thousands, so it could be said that at present there are over several hundreds of thousands of Christs now born in Japan. Common sense alone would show that this divine power is from none other than the Supreme God.
     To describe Johrei in a little more detail, it begins first of all when I write the Chinese ideogram for “light” on sheets of paper. Each piece of paper is folded, put in a bag, and presented to each of my followers as talismans, that is to say, focal points. The follower hangs the focal point around the neck after which light can be radiated from the palm of the hand. Clouds on the spirit are eliminated and disease is healed. The radiated light is the power from the ball that is lodged within my abdomen. This light radiates inexhaustibly, transmitted through spiritual cords to each focal point. Think of it in terms of radio, comparable to a broadcasting station, antenna, and receiver. From my rather lengthy explanations, readers have learned the fundamentals of disease, the fallacies of medical science have become clear, and the fundamentals of healing have been comprehended, thus as Johrei is spread throughout the world, not difficult will be the attainment of a world free of disease.
     The light so radiated from the palm of the practitioner is a means that eliminates the breeding areas of germs. To explain this light in terms of material science, when the impure particles that are a part of the clouds on the spirit come into contact with the light, they are immediately incinerated and only pure hydrogen, the spirit of water, remains. Incineration occurs through the power of the heat of the spirit of fire. The spirit of fire is the spirit of the heat of the sun that is included within the radiated light. The spirit of fire could also be referred to as particles of the positive. That material science refers to hydrogen, that is, to the spirit of water (suiso), but not to the spirit of fire (kaso) is uncanny. The spirit of fire is not of the physical, but is the spirit of heat. The physical form is the hot, burning fire that we human beings do utilize, but because the spirit of heat or fever is very fine, it is incomparably stronger than physical fire, as is clear from our experience. For example, when Johrei is focused toward an amount of thick pus, the pus gradually thins with each radiation until finally it becomes a clear fluid. This is how the power of the heat of the spirit of fire incinerates only the toxic particles. It is in this way that, without touching any part of the physical body, pus and impure blood in even the deepest recesses of the body can be, through Johrei, dissolved and for the most part liquefied and the densest elements discharged from the body, so as I mention at the beginning of the previous chapter on surgery, none of the functions of the body have to be impaired and only disease is removed.
     Johrei must surely be the most advanced, civilized technique of healing. The ball of light within my abdomen is that which has been well known since antiquity in Buddhism as the Jewel of Cinatamani and in Shinto as the Jewel of Mani.


Book of Medical Science Revolution, unpublished manuscript, 1953
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