"many shall rejoice at his birth" - Japanese Female Spiritual-Human Being of 100 Years Ago

 

Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo

Japanese Female Spiritual-Human Being of 100 Years Ago

Not only Christ Jesus but some people performed miracles even in Japan as officially recorded, say, 100 years ago. 

Toshie Osanami (1863 - 1907) could produce from nowhere water in a sealed bottle that could heal various sickness.  She started to exercise the supernatural power since the age around 20 after showing some spiritual power such as prediction about her neighbors while working as maid in her village, which surprised her landlord.  

As time went by, people around her village (in the northeast of Honshu Island) came to ask her to cure their diseases with empty bottles in the size of a wine bottle.  She prayed to gods of shintoism, sitting before a shinto altar in her home for half an hour, with bottles, which sick people or their families had brought, placed before the altar.  And then suddenly water appeared in the bottles, with various colors such as red, yellow, brown, etc. according to the types of sickness of the sick people.  However, when someone tried to test her, pretending to be a sick man, no water appeared.

While she was living with her mother in their village, her reputation spread and many sick people came to her house to be cured by her mysteriously generated water.  Finally, the police arrested her for causing social disturbance and performing illegal medication.  She was put in a jail for two months till her release for no guilty.  During this detention, she did not spontaneously eat and drink almost at all.  She almost did not excrete. She did not have bath, but her hair never lost luster and her body never lost aromatic odor.  She was not bitten by a mosquito while others in cells were suffering mosquitos.  Indeed, even in her home, she had been living in such a manner, and she looked young as if she had been a girl before the age of first menstruation.  Her skin looked transparently white according to a girl who knew Toshie well as she was financially helped by her.

Later at the age of late 20s, she visited her younger brother who was an ordinary business man in Osaka, a big city next to Tokyo, and performed the healing practice, drawing big attention from the society.  But, newspaper companies suspected her of cheating people.  A reporter was sent to her to check a trick, but she produced healing water before him among audience.  Yet, their anti-Osanami campaign led to a legal step.  And, subject to a court, she performed healing water generation from nowhere while locked in a small space.  Judges had to admit the miracle.  Even one judge took it to his home.  So, his brother asked the court to certify her supernatural or spiritual power as in the former case in the local police in her home region.  But, the court and police gave only ambiguous words. 

She died at around 43, while she still looked like being 20 years old or so.  She predicted her own death two months before her death like Swedenborg.  She did not marry and did not try to earn big money as professional religious woman, although she founded her own religious body with help from her supporters.  She mostly helped and cured people in an innocent manner.  According to her younger brother, she was simple-hearted like a young girl all through her life.  But, she was an active woman, sometimes defeating strong men in arm wrestling.  She liked to climb mountains, such as Mt. Fuji and other mountains with spiritual reputation, walking up surprisingly quick and leaving companions behind.  She occasionally wrote some splendid Kanji letters as she said that the spirit of a certain past notable calligraphy master came into her mind to occupy her hand, although she did not even learn in a modern primary school.  Even today, she is revered by some people concerned with her legacy.        

It is mystery why she could obtain such supernatural power.  But, among her distant ancestors, there was a noble man named Sugawara-no Michizane in Kyoto, an ancient capital of Japan, about 1,000 years ago, who was well known in the Japanese history for his scholarly acquisition but suffered a political tragedy.

Some people interested in spiritualism in Japan today call her a spiritual-human being.  Even in the Internet, we can still see and find some information about her although mostly in Japanese.

Anyway, she is a kind of miracle woman whose record is officially found in modern Japan, since she died in 1907.                  　   

++++ ++++ ++++
Luke 1, King James Version

13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
14 And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.
16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.
17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

"the spirit driveth him into the wilderness" - Sense of Values in this World Must be Reversed

 

Tokyo

Sense of Values in this World Must be Reversed

What St. Peter said before his death on cross in Rome under Roman Emperor Nero should be noted as the Acts of Peter tells, although which is uncanonized.

Learn ye the mystery of all nature, and the beginning of all things, what it was. For the first man, whose race I bear in mine appearance (or, of the race of whom I bear the likeness), fell (was borne) head downwards, and showed forth a manner of birth such as was not heretofore: for it was dead, having no motion. He, then, being pulled down -who also cast his first state down upon the earth- established this whole disposition of all things, being hanged up an image of the creation (Gk. vocation) wherein he made the things of the right hand into left hand and the left hand into right hand, and changed about all the marks of their nature, so that he thought those things that were not fair to be fair, and those that were in truth evil, to be good. Concerning which the Lord saith in a mystery: Unless ye make the things of the right hand as those of the left, and those of the left as those of the right, and those that are above as those below, and those that are behind as those that are before, ye shall not have knowedge of the kingdom. (http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/actspeter.html)

The ideas on value systems in this world are wrong, since this world is corrupted and contaminated by Satan.  The true value system should be found in Heaven.  They are so opposite to each other as the right is against the left, what is above is against what is below, and what is before is against what is behind.  It is like a real thing is against a mirrored image. 

People brainwashed by Satan should regard Satan as God.  They should regard fallowers of the God as followers of Satan.  Even, they regard money, which has no value in Heaven, as the most valuable thing in this world. 

Satan has brainwashed people that every problem in this world can be solved with money.  But, every problem should be solved trough love and faith in the God or Christ Jesus like in Heaven.  

Those brainwashed by Satan think that power of money is stronger than power of love or faith, which should be found fault in the Kingdom of God.

Put simply, what St. Peter wanted to say before his death on cross seems that the sense of values in this world must be reversed in order to enter into the Kingdom of God.  

++++ ++++ ++++
Mark 1, King James Version

10 And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
11 And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
12 And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness.
13 And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.

"beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow" - Be Poor Enough to See the Heavenly Truth

 

Around Tokyo toward Mt. Fuji

Be Poor Enough to See the Heavenly Truth

In anything, truth is simple.  Therefore, the teaching of Christ Jesus should be simple.  Except his teaching to love the God with all of our strength and hearts and love our neighbors like ourselves, the most simple teaching of Christ Jesus is that the rich cannot enter into Heaven.

However, this teaching on the rich being unable to enter into Heaven leads to creation of various and many deliverables that need volumes of books on theology.  

The underlying truth of this teaching should be that being rich means being evil.  Every issue concerned with evil and wickedness in the human society is related to this underlying truth.  Therefore, to save this world means to suppress evil so that people should be stopped trying to be rich.  For this reason, Christ Jesus said the truth that rich men cannot enter into Heaven after their death in this world.  In other words, Christ Jesus said to be poor if we wanted to be accepted in Heaven after our death in this world.

Indeed, if all the people stopped trying to be rich, most of evil and wickedness in this world would disappear.  The poor should be helped by the rich, and the rich would try to be poor by abandoning their wealth and giving it to the poor so as to be accepted in Heaven after their death in this world. 

A poor man, when he dies and goes into the spirit world, would be rejoiced to see light of the love from the God, since the love of the God is given free and unconditional.  But, a rich man would try to buy happiness with their money in the spirit world in vain, since he cannot trust anything that cannot be bought by money.  Such rich men should join Satan who praises those with much money and the capacity of doing any evil for money.  Therefore, poor men go up to the bright Heaven from the spirit world, but rich men go down to the dark hells from the spirit world spontaneously as witnessed by Swedenborg who observed the afterlife while living in this world in the 18th century.

Christ Jesus meant that although poor men are suffering in this world, they will be accepted in Heaven and become happy in the afterlife.  This is a simple and effective teaching to the poor suffering in this world.  Their salvation is promised, although which should come true after their death in this world.  But, if Christ Jesus had not come from the God, none should have believed this teaching.

So, Christianity depends on people's belief that Christ Jesus came from the God or He is the Son of the God.  And, to make people believe that Christ Jesus came from Heaven and He is the Son of the God, Christ Jesus had to fight against Satan, defeating evil spirits, and heal the sick, even reviving the dead.   

However, to see that Christ Jesus came from the God, one needs spiritual eyes.  To have spiritual eyes, one must have sound spiritual sense like that possessed by little children.    

         

Otherwise, one must be poor enough so that his eyes and senses are not contaminated or blurred by desires, wealth, and evil minds to see that Christ Jesus came from Heaven and He should be the Son of the God.

Anyway, a priest in every church should proclaim that their aim is to be poor and thus get accepted in Heaven after death in this world.

++++ ++++ ++++
1 Peter 1, King James Version

9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

"let the dry land appear: and it was so" - What is Told in The Tibetan Book of the Dead

 

Around Tokyo

What is Told in The Tibetan Book of the Dead

About 50 years ago, in the era of the Vietnam War, some young and radical Americans were interested in The Tibetan Book of the Dead (reportedly composed in the 8th century), since it tells how dying people would feel and should be treated.  Its description appealed to young Americans who wanted to see a different and peaceful world while they might get drafted and be sent to Vietnam where 50,000 American soldiers were to be killed.  Some of them found the sate of death described in The Tibetan Book of the Dead resembled the effect of narcotic drugs, such as LSD, on the human body and mind.   

According to the book, after three and a half days later after the moment of death, every dead man would surely come to oneself; his soul should find that it is alive.  And, within 49 days after death, the soul of a dead man would undergo reincarnation.

During the three days after death, some Buddhist sutras should be chanted to the ears of a dead man to make his undying soul understand that his body is in the state of death.  And when a metempsychosis or a cycle of death and life is made, his identity in the former life should be lost in most cases.  But, when a disciplinant of yoga or a yogi masters a way to join his soul to universality or universal status in the universe, his own identity loses its meaning. Or, the Buddha found the way to cut off this cycle through enlightenment.   

This process of dying generally matches what people having near-death experiences reported, although there seems to be no report of reincarnation.  The body can be dead, but the soul does not die.  It goes to the entrance of the spirit world.  According to The Tibetan Book of the Dead, the spirit stays in the spirit world for scores of days till reincarnation, but those with near-death experiences come back to life into their own old bodies after being told to go back to their old life by some spirits.  

In the Japanese Buddhism, memorial services for the dead have been traditionally practiced to console dead men's souls.  On the 49th day after death, the 49th-day memorial service is performed.  On the day of death one year after the death, the anniversary memorial service is performed.  Even when a man is dying or dead, sutra recitation at the bedside is performed.  However, this tradition is nowadays fading away.  

Anyway, the spiritualism, the study results on near-death experiences, etc. are generally approvingly accepted by the Japanese people.  However, immortality of souls and the existence of the spirit world seem to have lost appealing power to people while the human world is being contaminated more and more by materialism and the worship of money.   

In this context, we should remember the teaching of Christ Jesus that the sols of poor men are accepted in Heaven, but those of rich and evil men cannot enter into Heaven but go to the hells in the spirit world.

Anyway, both Christ Jesus and the Buddha took it for granted that a soul is immortal and there is the spirit world.  However, it is rare for a living man to see his own soul and see the spirit world.  That may be why we need religions such as Christianity or Buddhism.  However, Christ Jesus and the Buddha taught truth through the spirit world and the human world but not religious business.

++++ ++++ ++++
Genesis 1, King James Version

3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.