"preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only" - Hellen Keller and Swedenborg

 

Autumn Sunset around Tokyo

Hellen Keller and Swedenborg

Without seeing and hearing, it is very difficult to conceive the God.  But, the ability to see and hear does not assure that you can see and hear from the God.  Yet, your soul must be able to see and hear angels in the spirit world.

Matthew 13

15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.

Without a good heart, it is useless to have eyes and ears, since it is the heart that judges what is seen and heard.  In this context, it is a big surprise that Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), although with visual and hearing disabilities, could understand the God and what Swedenborg wrote in his books on the spirit world. 

Helen Keller wrote that she could fly to Athens from the U.S. through the spirit world when she was a teenager.  But how could she know that it was Athens that she flew to?  She must have seen the city in Greece while living in the U.S. through her spiritual eyes, since she was blind and deaf.  

It is thought that Helen Keller tried to see things in this world through her spiritual eyes just like Swedenborg saw things in the spirit world through his spiritual eyes.  However, spiritual entities living in the spirit world cannot see the human world or this material world, according to Swedenborg.  As we cannot usually see the spirit world, spirits cannot usually see the human world.  Nonetheless, it is thought that Helen Keller saw this human world, which could not be seen through her physical eyes, through her spiritual world, which seems to be reflected in her writings.

Helen Keller wrote about a butterfly depicted by ancient Egyptians as a symbol of life.  She wrote that a butterfly grew from a pupa and flew to the sky.  Her description about the nature is clear and deep.  She must have seen the nature in this world from the spirit world through her spiritual eyes.  Therefore, she believed in Swedenborg, an 18th century elite scholar and psychic.  She must have been able to see and hear in the spirit world while living in this world like Swedenborg, and thus she must have understood the God to be converted and healed.     

Helen Keller visited Japan three times in 1937, 1948, and 1955.  But her faith in Swedenborg has not taken big attention in Japan, although many books about her have been published. 

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Acts 11, King James Version

18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
19 Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
20 And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus.
21 And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.

"many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary" - How to Conquer Pains and Fears

 

Tokyo Bay

How to Conquer Pains and Fears

The Buddha did not teach people about the afterlife.  He taught how to to conquer pains and fears caused when people were born, got sick and old, and finally died.  Therefore, even today some schools of Japanese Buddhism do not mention about the afterlife and men's souls and spirits while others are focusing on the afterlife or the pure land.

The ultimate goal of Buddhism seems to attain the state of mind that transcends any pains and fears through understanding truth.  But, some schools of Buddhism teach that men can be saved by entering into the spirit world or the paradise. 

The original teaching of the Buddha must have had nothing to do with the spirit world and the God who presides over this world and the spirit world.  But, Japanese people who had believed spiritualism promising the afterlife before the coming of Buddhism to Japan around the 6th century accepted Buddhism mostly as a teaching of assuring the afterlife.

Christianity is based on the notion that there are Heaven and the hell in addition to the God.  According to original Christianity, love of the God created this world and human beings, so that we have to love the God so as to get eternal life.

The most important difference between Buddhism and Christianity is whether or not regarding love of the God, the sole creator of this universe and the spirit world, as the source of everything, including our lives. 

If we follow Christianity, we have to think that pains and fears in this world would be resolved by our faith in the God.  It means that the status of a human mind when praying to the God should be similar to the ideal status of a human mind that can be acquired through ascetic training of Buddhism.

It is interesting that most of reports on the spirit world, as reported by spirit mediums who communicated with spiritual entities living in the spirit world, tell that human souls that have entered into the spirit world after death in this world are required to perform ascetic training and enhance their internal status in order to ascend to the higher levels and came closer to the God.

However, it is said that when our souls receive love of the God in Heaven, we can understand truth in the human world and the spirit world.  We must understand in Heaven why we lived in such manners and ways as we had in the human world while living in the material human world.  All the answers to questions we have in this world must be found in Heaven or in light from the God.

And, we should believe that Christ Jesus taught people to love the God with all of our hearts and might based on such answers as can be found in Heaven or truth.  In this context, we should be able to conquer pains and fears in this world by loving the God, since the God is the source of everything.

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John 11, King James Version

18 Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:
19 And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
22 But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.
23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.

"sought of him a sign from heaven" - Rich Men and Poor Men without Faith

 

Mt. Fuji around Tokyo, 100 km Far

Rich Men and Poor Men without Faith

Christ Jesus must hate the rich, according to the Gospels:

Matthew 19
23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Mark 10
23 And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!

Luke 18
24 And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!

Every poor man hears these words should believe in Christ Jesus, since he must know that being rich is being evil.  

If a rich man loves his poor neighbors, he should give money to the poor neighbors, so that he cannot be rich any more, since there should be many poor neighbors.  In other words, in order to continue to be rich, a rich man should neglect his poor neighbors.

From the beginning, a man with love to his neighbors will not become rich by competing with and defeating them, so that he cannot be rich.

In this context, being rich means having little love to neighbors.  But, Christ Jesus told to love our neighbors as much as we love ourselves while loving the God with all our hearts and might.  Therefore, it is natural that Christ Jesus declared that rich men could not enter into Heaven.

The reason why Christianity prevailed in these 2000 years must be that poor people, a majority of the mankind, have loved these words of Christ Jesus because those words match their thoughts that rich men are bad and evil or men cannot be rich without being bad and evil.

Satan uses money to tempt men.  Satan arouses men's desire for being rich so that they would do anything bad or evil to be rich.  Satan encourages men to become rich neglecting their neighbors even if they know that poor men should suffer and become unhappy.  Satan tells men to be rich even by neglecting and abusing poor neighbors.

First, men think that they have to neglect, abuse, and inflict others so as for them to be rich.  But, gradually, they must come to feel joy in neglecting, abusing, and inflicting others.  They must become happy to see others suffering and feeling pain.  In this way, they will become followers of Satan.   

Being rich is a start point to become a follower of Satan.  It is clear that rich men cannot enter into Heaven.  So, the issue is whether or not a poor man without faith in the God or Christ Jesus can enter into Heaven. 

Probably, every poor man will be put above any rich men in the spirit world.  But, a poor man without faith should love the hell more than Heaven, so that he will spontaneously go to the hell.  Therefore, only poor men who feel happy in Heaven should be true poor men.  (However, such poor men without faith should be very rare; they might be spies of Satan.) 

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Luke 11, King James Version

15 But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils.
16 And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.
18 If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.
19 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
20 But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.

"the Holy Ghost fell on them" - Prophecies on the Fukushima Nuclear Accident and the Corona Pandemic

 

Around the Tokyo Station

Prophecies on the Fukushima Nuclear Accident and the Corona Pandemic 

It is well known that Swedenborg saw the spirit of Christ Jesus and then acquired the spiritual ability to see the spirit world.  He wrote scores of books describing his experiences of seeing the spirit world.  But, a Japanese woman named Ms. Matsubara saw 40 years ago the spiritual face of a Russian American female, who was later found to live in the 19th century, and then she started to write her spiritual experiences in magazines, etc., following an advice of the female spirit.  Ms. Matsubara wrote various predictions as spiritually guided by the female spirit and other spirits, which gave her some popularity in the Japanese society, and she even got some precious advice from the female spirit that helped her get out of her financial problem.    

Eventually Ms. Matsubara obtained a big public attention as she could foretell the occurrence of the great earthquake and tsunami in North East Japan in 2011 that triggered the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident.     

It was in the middle of February in 2011 that her prediction was published in a Japanese magazine, telling that she felt something great was moving on the pacific coast side of North East Japan.  And, she saw the number 5 in space.  As she had experienced this spiritual incident five weeks before the occurrence of the 2011 Great Tsunami, it can be understood why she had seen the number 5. 

Ms. Matsubara did not who the female spirit was until 2015 when she visited New York.  After her schedule for the travel was fixed, the female spirit appeared and showed her the name of a hotel she should visit at a certain address in New York.  But, when she actually visited the address, there was a hotel with a different name.  Nonetheless, after returning home in Japan, she found that the name of the hotel the female spirt had told her was the old name of the current one of the hotel.  And the hotel was once a base of the Theosophical Society.  As she saw a book of the Society, she found the face of the female spirit who had guided her for years.  Her name was Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831 - 1891), a Russian author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875 and gained an international following as the leading theoretician of Theosophy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky).

 

It is a mystery why the spirit of Blavatsky chose Ms. Matsubara to issue the prediction of the 2011 Tsunami around the Fukushima nuclear plant more than decades ago from its occurrence.  As the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred in the Soviet Union in 1986, the spirit of Blavatsky, who was a Russian American, might have been very much concerned about the coming disaster in Fukushima, Japan, since it was before 1986 that Ms. Matsubara first saw the spirit of Blavatsky. 

Ms. Matsubara saw various figures of spirits since her childhood.  But it was around 1981 at her age around 35 that she found that the spiritual figures she could see could not be seen by others around her.  Then she saw the spirit of Blavatsky telling her to write what she told her.   After Ms. Matsubara knew that the female spirit was once called Blavatsky, the spirit told her that it had been abut 125 years since she had come to the spirit world.

Now, Ms. Matsubara wrote that when she first heard the news about the corona-virus pandemic, she thought that it would continue to 2024 or 2025.

But, I felt that its influence might continue to 2026, and several years after this pandemic, another big tragedy would occur in Japan as I referred to the Bible.  But, after this tragedy in the near future, Japan would see the star of hope.  I think that it meant that Japan would be safe in the 21st century even if WWIII should happen in the world after this corona pandemic.   

(As for the 2011 Tsunami Tragedy in Japan, I only felt an image of a gigantic wave attacking Tokyo several years before the tragedy, which was though not published.)

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Acts 11, King James Version

12 And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house:
13 And he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter;
14 Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.
15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.
16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.

"behold, the third woe cometh quickly" - Truth of Heaven, the Hell, and the Spirit World

 

Around the Imperial Plaza in Tokyo

Truth of Heaven, the Hell, and the Spirit World

Being rich is being evil, according to the words of Christ Jesus.  Therefore, it is very difficult for rich men to enter into Heaven like a camel going through the eye of a needle.  But, the Pope and priests of other churches never proclaim this teaching at the start and the end of every Mass.  Rather, each of them looks like one of rich men.

Therefore, it is natural that the God and Christ Jesus get angry.  And, it is no wonder that the God has sent an angel of death with the coronavirus to this rotten, corrupt, and degraded world.   

But, you may wonder why being rich is being evil to the degree that a rich man is condemned to the hell?  And, you may also wonder why the Vatican and other churches do not aim to become poor as much as possible, so that they compete about poverty? 

In this context, the poorest man in the world in any era should be the first man to be admitted into Heaven in the era.  Or, you can only prove your faith in the God and Christ Jesus by the degree of your poverty.  So, Heaven is the place with full of poor men, but the hell must be the place with full of rich men.  Yet, those poor men should turn to rich men in Heaven while those rich men should turn to poor men in the hell.  Poor men in this world will become rich in Heaven while rich men in this world will become poor in the hell. 

But, rich men would spontaneously go to the hell while poor men would avoid the hell and be accepted in Heaven.  If rich men tried to enter into Heaven, they could not bear the light of love, truth, and goodness overflowing Heaven.  Rich men should be happy avoiding the light of Heaven while poor men should be happy basking in the light in Heaven.

Those who were rich in this world can fully expose and exercise in the hell their characters and dispositions with love of being evil to others and exercising evil to others without fear of worldly laws and punishments and concerns about social restrictions.  They think that they can fully dominate and harm others in the hell without being afraid of what people will say and judge about them.  In other words, they try to be evil as much as possible in the hell, since no punishments come to them from the God.  Accordingly, those who were rich in this world would spontaneously and joyfully go to the hell.

This truth tells that what rich men love is ultimately being evil more than simply being rich.  They hate the God, Christ Jesus, love, truth, goodness, etc.  Satan is their symbol, king, and god.  They punish one another when they try to be good to any degree.  They must feel extreme happiness when they exercise evil and harm others.  Yet, they know there is wealth or something good in Heaven, so that they try to invade Heaven with violence and deceit only in vain.      

These are the states in Heaven and the hell, according to Christ Jesus.  This is the state in the spiritual world as Swedenborg wrote.  And, this must be the truth men should know or know vaguely subject to their instincts. 

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Revelation 11, King James Version

12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.