Autumn around Tokyo
Immunity against DNA of Satan
One day, the Buddha watched down Hell from a clear pond of Paradise to find a particular sinner suffering in a pool of blood. The Buddha wanted to save the sinner since he once saved life of a spider under his foot without crushing it, though based on vagrant compassion. So, the Buddha took the silvery thread of a spider in Paradise and lowered it down into Hell. The sinner found the thread coming down from shining Paradise and started to climb it up. But when he found that other sinners in Hell were following him and climbing up the same thread of the spider, he feared that the thread would be cut off due to the weight of all the sinners climbing. So he shouted down to the following sinners to stop climbing: "This is my thread, only mine!" At the moment the thread was cut off above the sinner, and all the sinners fell down to Hell. The Buddha felt a little sadness but walked away from the clear pond of Paradise.
It was thought that this story could be used as a lesson teaching Children not to be selfish and help and save one another, although the author Akutagawa was a more sophisticated person who later committed a suicide.
But, some Japanese thought that a thread of a spider would be naturally cut off due to its own weight if it extends too long.
The density of spider's thread is 1.28 g/cm^3; the strength is 20,000 kg/cm^2. By dividing the strength by the density, it is found that the specific strength is 156 km (about 100 kilo-miles), which means that the thread would be naturally cut off if the distance between Heaven and Hell is 156 km or more without a sinner climbing it up. Therefore, it is concluded that the distance between Paradise and Hell is less than 156 km if gravity in the space works in the same manner as on the ground.
However, the aim of the story is not to have readers calculate the distance between Heaven or Paradise and Hell.
One day, the Buddha watched down Hell, which is this world. And, he lowered a thread of something for people to be saved. But as the Buddha found that people were infected by viruses, he cut it off to prevent viruses from invading Paradise. So, a disciple of the Buddha in Paradise asked why the Great Mater would not save infected people. The Buddha said, "If it is corona-viruses that have infected them, I would save them. But those viruses that have infected people have DNA of Satan who is trying to contaminate Paradise." "Great is our Sacred Master!" shouted the disciple of the Buddha. "The Holy Buddha keeps our Paradise always clean!"
This humble story tells that those who have immunity against DNA of Satan should be allowed to enter into and live in Heaven with Christ Jesus.
Just to make sure, Akutagawa also wrote some short stories related to Christianity.
**** **** ****Matthew 10 King James Version
24 The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
27 What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.