"all things are possible to him that believeth" - The Key to being Free from Satan

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The Key to being Free from Satan

In what state will men live in the spirit world or the afterlife after death in this world?  

Some people who have communicated with spirits living in the spirit world or have had near-death-experience say that men's spirits have to undergo education and training after death so as to enhance themselves in the spirit world toward Heaven or the God's sphere.  Or otherwise they must fall into the hells.

Swedenborg who saw the spirit world while living in this world in the 18th century reported that no spirits in Haven ware lazy or just enjoying their status of being in Heaven; everybody was working to help other spirits.

So, we have to read the Gospels to check words of Christ Jesus, and we should find that one of the main themes of the Gospels is fight against Satan.  Therefore, we might assume that human spirits allowed into Heaven should be busy fighting Satan and evil spirits.  Indeed, this must be the reason why the God had created men and accepted some of their spirits in Heaven.  We should be expected essentially to fight Satan and evil spirits.

Heaven should be the place where happiness can be completely realized forever.  But why are simple spirits of dead men allowed to enter Heaven and enjoy the utmost happiness there forever only if they are qualified by the God?  It must be because the God wants these spirits to fight against Satan and evil spirits in the spirit world.  And, as reward these fighting spirits should be allowed sometimes to enjoy happiness in Heaven.  But, this fight against Satan and evil spirits should continue forever.  Yet, the God, His angels, and His followers cannot be defeated by Satan and evil spirits.  The end is clear, but the God wants His angels and His followers to fight for Him forever, although the God must be able to eradicate Satan, evil spirits, and even the hells at any time.  It might be a show for the God, but we are in no positions and situations where we can complain.      

Indeed, some spirits of men who were believes of Buddhism or shintoism when there had been alive in Japan said in spiritual communications with spiritualistic mediums that they had to go through more education and trainings in the spirit world to go up to the higher levels in the spirit world.  And, they looked so busy that they had no time to communicate with spiritualistic mediums or family members left in the human world. 

But what is the content of such training in the spirit world?  Some religious people or those familiar with spiritualism often say that this human world is the place for spiritual training, so that a man has to repeat reincarnation over and over again till he gets enough enlightenment like the Buddha.  The Buddha said that when one acquired such enlightenment he would go into the supreme state of spirits where only peace and tranquility exist and there would be no more reincarnation to suffer in life in the human world.  He must at least be able to flee from Satan and evil spirits in this world and the spirit world.  But, Christ Jesus tried to defeat Satan with His love to people suffering from Satan's wickedness and even Satan who is destined to be completely destroyed by the God in the end.   

In this world men are requested to enhance their personal quality.  In the spirit world, their spirits are requested to enhance their spiritual quality.  But, how?  It should be through fight against Satan and evil spirits.  And, where are Satan and evil spirits?  Satan is everywhere in the form of money, and evils spirits are in the minds of men seeking money by selling their souls to Satan.  To enter into higher levels in the spirit world, men must fight against their desire to earn money and get wealth.  In this world, men must try to be poor as much as possible, and in the spirit world their spirits must fight Satan and evil spirits fighting against everything holy and sacred. 

So, put simply, the reason for our existence in this world and the spirit world is fight against Satan and evil spirits.  And, fighting Satan means to become poor as much as possible.  Indeed, there are no such men as rich Christ Jesus and rich angels.

However, as Satan is wickedly clever, it might appear among poor people in the form of a poor saint to make them believe that money is their god.  To enhance one's ability to defeat Satan and evil spirits loving to bring pollution to the world created by the God must be a purpose for our existence in the human world and the spirit world.

Finally, poverty is the key to being free from Satan. 

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Mark 9, King James Version
23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
26 And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.

"we know not; or who hath opened his eyes" - One-Armed Japanese Manga Artist Believing in Spirits

 

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One-Armed Japanese Manga Artist Believing in Spirits

Shigeru Mizuki (real name: Shigeru Mura, 1922-2015) was a prestigious manga (cartoon) artist who started his career in 1958 after he had been demobilized and sent home from a South Pacific war front in WWII where he had lost his left arm due to an air raid by the U.S./Australian military.  

Mizuki was chosen by the Japanese Government to be a person who has performed distinguished services in the field of culture in Japan in 2010.  Indeed, Mizuki is even today recognized as one of the most successful manga (cartoon) artist in Japan after WWII like Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989) whose style influenced many manga/animation artists in Japan after WWII.  (Mizuki once said that Tezuka was younger than he, but as Mizuki used to sleep more than 10 hours per day, he could live longer than Tezuka.)

What is specific to Mizuki is his emphasis on specters or spiritual figures.  He created a Manga series with a boy called Kitaro with spiritual power as a main figure.  Kitaro fights against evil spirits and bad guys, and he always wins in the end.  Kitaro is called "Ge-Ge-Ge-no Kitaro (Kitaro of ge, ge, ge)" as animals praise him and sing luridly with sounds of "ge, ge, ge" to praise him and celebrate his victory over the wicked.    

But the most specific to Mizuki is the fact that he was a manga (cartoon) artist with only right arm, although he used some assistants after he became famous and very busy.  He came back to Japan as a disabled soldier without any hope in his life after WWII, but he did not lose his will to continue his life, so that he finally decided to use his talent for painting after various jobs such as peddling of the fish and an owner of an apartment house (called Mizuki House, which became his pen name).  And, he could marry a young woman in his home town while he was still a poor comic artist.  It was when Mizuki was almost 40 years of age that his manga (comics) became so popular in the Japanese society.  And, he finally became a rich man so as to travel the world (such as the South Pacific regions, South East Asia, Australia, and the U.S.) to see local spiritual traditions.  He has become a researcher of the spiritual culture.  Based on this experience, he created many graphic novels.    

Mizuki had believed the existence of spiritual creatures since he was a small child as he was familiar with an old woman in his home town who often came to his house for help and had a superstitious idea.  Mizuki showed his talent of painting in his primary-school age before WWII.  But, it is a kind of miracles that a disabled soldier with only one arm became a successful manga artist.

When he traveled to Australia to see Aborigine's culture, he found that they were living with spirits.  He was satisfied to see that there were people daily living with spirits.  He thinks that men after their death would go into the state like a baby before one or two years old where they do not realize that they are living. 

He did not have spiritual ability, but he believed that spirits were everywhere especially in undeveloped regions in the world.  Anyway, it is a miracle that a one-armed manga artist had become one of the most notable and successful artists in Japan after WWII.  So, disabled soldiers in the Ukraine War might become successful artists in the future.   

Shigeru Mizuki with material for manga works behind

(https://medium.com/@savensatow/shigeru-mizuki-in-postwar-manga-history-2-2015-d417bb04608c)

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John 9, King James Version
16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
17 They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.
18 But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight.
19 And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?
20 His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:
21 But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.

"Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples" - Spiritual Importance of Breathing

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Spiritual Importance of Breathing

According to various priests, monks, masters, teachers, pursuers, researchers, etc. of Japanese Buddhism, shintoism, spiritualism, etc. breathing is the key to keeping and promoting health.  

Some of them say that men can get energy in the universe into their bodies through deep and repeated breathing to fill their lungs and abdomen.  Indeed, they have proposed various ways of deep breathing based on their own theories.  Some historical Buddhist monks who launched their own schools of Japanese Buddhism are said to have practiced special breathing to get enlightenment.  Even today, some health specialists recommend an abdominal type of respiration where air is slowly taken through the nose and led to the lower part below the navel and then spewed out more slowly from the nose or mouth. 

It is said the most important nutrition to human cells is oxygen.  Especially it is said that the human brain consumes about 25% of all the oxygen taken in through breathing.  Indeed, oxygen from breathing and glucose sugar from the liver are needed for our brains to work and function normally.  

A Japanese medical doctor, called Nobuo Shioya who had practiced special breathing for decades, did not show mountain sickness when he climbed up the Himalayas at his age of 74 in 1990s while other climbers, younger than he, in his group all suffered altitude sickness.  So, he confirmed the effect and advantage of his method of breathing.  Cells in his body must have been filled with oxygen due to his breathing method.   

Anyway, importance of oxygen to the human body has been confirmed in this period of the corona-pandemic.  Oxygen inhalers have played the key role in medical treatment of corona-virus infected patients.

But, what should be noted is Shioya's theory for recommending deep breathing: Energy in universe, which should be regarded as spiritual energy, can be taken into one's body through deep breathing.  He thinks that some mysterious energy surely fills the universe, although he had been educated in the University of Tokyo.  Some yoga masters often study and practice traditional breathing by which they believe that they can take in universal energy into their bodies to enhance their super-natural ability.  Even the Buddha is said to have practiced a special way of breathing, so that he could live up to 80 years 2,500 years ago.  Shioya lived up to 105 years old and died in 2008, while writing about 10 books about his method of breathing and thoughts.  Shioya thought that his health had been realized by his specific breathing; he became an age shooter in playing golf a few times at his 90s of his age.  

Shioya did not have specific spiritual ability but he encountered some super-natural phenomena in his life such as falling of gold powders from the air in his clinic or spiritual communications with a great priest of Japanese shintoism who had been living more than 1,000 years ago.  So, he found that breathing is a way of connecting oneself to spiritual energy.  If Shioya lived today, he should be free from the corona-pandemic.  Indeed, if Queen Elizabeth II had practiced Shioya's method of breathing, she should have continued to live over 2022.  In addition, he came to believe that he had been Lao-tze, a great Chinese thinker about 2,500 years ago, in one of his previous lives (In Japan, there were founders of new religions after WWII who claimed that they had been, each, once the Buddha in their former incarnation, although without concrete evidence).  Although he had been a prestigious physician in Tokyo till the middle of 1980s since days before WWII, he was a great researcher of spiritualism.  

Shioya believed the existence of spirits and the spirit world.  So, he practiced a kind of hand healing and is said to have cured privately the Empress Kojun (a grandmother of the incumbent Emperor) of Showa Emperor decades ago.  And, what occupied Shioya's mind was the coming crises of the earth such as WWIII.  So, he recommended to practice his method of breathing with a notion and prayer that peace would prevail in the world.  Indeed, while he was living, peace prevailed in Japan and WWIII did not happen.

According to Shioya, one's prayer to the God, etc. can be heard through its breading, although he was not Christian but a kind of followers of Japanese Buddhism and shintoism.  Shioya thought that the human civilization had corrupted and gone rotten enough to make WWIII happen.  Our civilization has contaminated the air of the earth so much that abnormal weather should come.  Even pole shift would occur, he is afraid. 

After death in this world, one's spirit needs not to breath in the spirit world.  But, breathing might be a way of connecting oneself to the spirit world. Psychics might be unconsciously performing a special method of breathing when they are showing effects of their spiritual power. 

So, the corona pandemic might have occurred to remind us of importance of breathing and oxygen to the human bodies and cells.  We must be able to live longer and healthier through practicing specific breathing or especially Shioya's method of breathing (https://www.naturalscience.org/news/2020/03/the-healing-power-of-breath/).            

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Matthew 9, King James Version
15 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
16 No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.
17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
18 While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
19 And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.