"out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts" - Toward Clarification of the Spirit World as the End of the World is Closer

 

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Toward Clarification of the Spirit World as the End of the World is Closer

Since the late 19th century, spiritualism or communications with the spirit world have been intensified as many and various people have come to report their near-death experiences or psychic phenomena.  

Indeed, it might tell that the end of the world is coming closer, since the Bible (Act 2) says:

17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come:
21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

First of all, everybody should admit that he has his mind that is neither material nor substance.  And his mind is in his body or specifically in the brain that is made of biological cells which are made of molecules and atoms that are material or substance.

Therefore, when molecules, atoms or element particles that are material or substance build a human body or the brain in specific configuration, a mind is generated, the mechanism of which is, however, not yet scientifically elucidated.

So, it must be possible that this whole universe that is material or substance has a kind of minds.  However, conversely, it might be possible that spirit generate a material universe like ours.  In other words, it seems reasonable that the God, who is Spirit, created this material universe where human beings and their minds have been generated.

The material world and the spirit world must be closer than we think that they are.  And, the God must be able to put spirit in the human brains, so that some people come to have the spiritual ability to communicate with spirits in the spirit world.

Through WWI and WWII, human activities regrading communications with the spirit world seem to have been intensified.  It must indicate that the end of the world has come closer.  For example, the Marian Apparitions at Lourdes were reported in 1858; the Miracle of Fátima occurred miraculously in 1917; Raymond Moody wrote strenuously his books about Afterlife and near-death experiences (NDE) since 1970s; and even some American children saw Heaven or Christ Jesus, books on which became bestsellers in the U.S. in these decades.

Therefore, as it is 2000 years since the first appearance of Christ Jesus in this world, the end of the world must come closer in the 21st century, since some scientists are trying to clarify the mystery of consciousness, which should lead to deeper understanding of the spirit world and religious matters.   

However, there is Satan in the spirit world.  It should try to interfere with these human activities related to the spirt world.  Satan must be able to come into the minds of preachers, priests, bishops, etc.  Therefore, only spiritual phenomena linked to faith in the God or Christ Jesus should be trusted among many and various stories reporting spiritual experiences.   Especially it must be necessary to keep watch on those who earn money by selling their spiritual ability or power.

Nonetheless, it is better to choose a priest with true spiritual power as the Pope or the head of any churches.  

 
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Mark 7, King James Version
20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

"Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down" - The Core of the Teachings of Christ Jesus

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The Core of the Teachings of Christ Jesus

The core of the teachings of Christ Jesus is as follows:

1. Men's souls continue to live in the spirit world after physical death of his body and mind in this life.

2. From the spirit world, the souls of bad men go to the hell to be completely destroyed by the God while those of good men can enter into Heaven to live forever.

3. The measure to judge whether one is evil or good is whether one is rich or poor.  

Therefore His teachings are good news for the poor, the unhappy, the suffering, etc.

It is as if Christ Jesus were saying to poor men that they should be glad since they will be well accepted and blessed in Heaven after death in this world.  And actually, He told to abandon wealth so as to be accepted in Heaven, and emphasized that it was much better to abandon money but get eternal life in Heaven than to accumulate and keep money but go to the hell so as to be completely destroyed by the God there.

Happy men in this world do not need the God, which means that they cannot enter into Heaven to be blessed by the God.  Only sick people need a medical doctor, but healthy people do not need him.

If you are a poor man suffering from poverty and unhappiness, you must be relieved from pain and agony when hearing these words from Christ Jesus.  

No matter evil or good a man is, his soul continues to live in the spirit world after his death in this life.  However, evil men should die the second death in the hell while good men can further continue to live forever in Heaven. 

This is the core of the teachings of Christ Jesus, which is really good news.    

        

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Matthew 7, King James Version
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

"Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph" - Reincarnation to be Allowed by the God

 

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Reincarnation to be Allowed by the God

More than 100 years ago, a notable foreign writer in Japan once wrote about a report on a child who was born in the late samurai era before modernization of Japan and claimed that he had been reborn.

Koizumi Yakumo (June 1850 – 26 September 1904), born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (Greek: Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χερν), was a writer. He worked in the United States before moving to Japan and becoming Japanese. He was of Greek-Irish descent. He wrote about Japanese culture, especially his collections of legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. In the United States, he is also known for his writings about New Orleans, based on his decade-long stay there. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafcadio_Hearn) 

The child, Katsugoro, living in a farming village around Tokyo (then called Edo) said, when he was 8 years old, that he had been reborn here.  He had once been born in a family, not known to his current family members, in another village several miles from the current one more than a decade ago but had died of a disease there when he had been six years old.  First Katsugoro hinted his rebirth to his elder sister and then to his parents, and finally told a detailed story as asked by his grandmother who later stated the story to officials (samurais) coming from Edo.   

His claim of rebirth was identified and proved by his current and former family members.  And his story reached Edo, so that some notable scholar in the capital of Japan wrote about it, which took attention of Hearn who was interested in spiritual matters and religions.  Accordingly Hearn wrote abut the boy to readers in the U.S., etc.:

"The Rebirth of Katsugoro
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The following is not a story—at least it is not one of my stories. It is only the translation of an old Japanese document—or rather a series of documents—very much signed and sealed, and dating back to the early part of the present (i.e. the 19th) century. Various authors appear to have made use of these documents, especially the compiler of the curious collection of Buddhist stories entitled Bukkyo-hiyakkwazensho, to whom they furnished the material of the twenty-sixth narrative in that work. The present translation, however, was made from a manuscript copy discovered in a private library in Tokyo. I am responsible for nothing beyond a few notes appended to the text... (https://www.bps.lk/olib/bl/bl094_Hearn_The-Rebirth-of-Katsugoro.html)"

According to Katsugoro, when he died, his soul left his body and met an old man who looked like the grandfather in the new family where he was later reborn.  After three years of moving to various places with the boy, the old man, pointing to a house, said to Katsugoro that he had to be reborn again in this house, since there was a good old woman: “Now you must be reborn—for it is three years since you died. You are to be reborn in that house. The person who will become your grandmother is very kind; so it will be well for you to be conceived and born there.”  

Accordingly, Katsugoro entered into the body of the wife of the house to be reborn.  However, we may doubt the story and suspect that his grandmother instilled the story of rebirth to her grandson Katsugoro for some reason.  However, "Grandmother, never forget to offer warm food to the honourable dead [Hotoke Sama], and do not forget to give to priests—I am sure it is very good to do these things."  Put simply, the grandmother was a kind of devotional and benevolent women sometimes found in local Japan.  She never forgot to help and give any little money to traveling poor monks.  It is unthinkable that his grandmother brainwashed Katsugoro for any reason. 

Rather, we should take Katsugoro's story as face value.  For some reason, at the end of the samurai era and before the start of modernization of Japan in the 19th century, the God made a plan to have a boy who died at six years old get reborn in a new family as a grandson of a devotional and benevolent woman.  Additionally, Katsugoro lived from 1814 to 1869 as a rich farmer according to official records. 

However, Katsugoro's case has been taken by today's Japanese as just one of strange spiritual stories, generated due to old superstition, recoded in the samurai era or before modernization of Japan.  Nonetheless, Ian Pretyman Stevenson (October 31, 1918 – February 8, 2007), a Canadian-born American psychiatrist who studied reincarnation examples all over the world, paid an attention to Katsugoro's case.

Anyway, reincarnation cases must have background religious stories like Katsugoro's case.  There must be some reason for reincarnation to be allowed by the God.       

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Acts 7, King James Version

15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
16 And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.
17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.