"for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits" - A Lesson from a Rich Novelist

The Tokyo Station

A Lesson from a Rich Novelist

A famous Japanese novelist died recently, saying that he did not believe in existence of the afterlife. He thought that there was only nothingness after his life, although he once wrote a modern Japanese version of a Buddhist scripture. He had also become a politician with help from a Japanese sect of Buddhism. But he did not believe that his soul would continue to live after his physical death. He wrote scores of novels and more short stories in his life.

The novelist was a rich man.  He became a famous novelist when he was a student of a university.  He never experienced poor life since his novel won a big prize in his early 20s.  He looked so busy in enjoying amenities of his bountiful life.  While he was ill in bed in his last days, he said that he wanted to go to a resort destination with his family members, which could not be realized.

Christ Jesus said to a rich man who enjoyed his prosperous life and died that he could not be accepted in Heaven as he had enjoyed amenities and riches in the world so much.

Indeed, some rich men cannot see the spirit world while living in this world.  They cannot see the real state of this world.  Their eyes become blind due to too much worldly pleasure.  Indeed, the Buddha said that if you have a home, your mind is bound by your home; if you have a family, your mind is bound by your family.  So, if you have riches, they bind your mind, so that you cannot see Heaven and the hells in your mind.  Therefore, the Buddha lived a poor life like Christ Jesus did.

In this material world, people pursue wealth and success in the society.  But, worldly wealth and success make people blind to the spiritual matters, Heaven, and the hells.  Only poor men who have no hope to acquire big money and happiness in this world would turn their eyes to the afterlife and ask the God to allow them to enter into Heaven, if they knew that there is Heaven.

Therefore, poor men who are promised by the God to be admitted into Heaven would not envy rich men in this world, since Heaven should be full of riches.

But, it is very rare that a poor man has the ability to write novels and short stores about the afterlife, the spirit world, Heaven and the hells like Swedenborg while living in this world.  Yet, there are some religious groups and spiritual persons who claim that they have heard spiritual voices from the deceased novelist.  But, they do not assert that the novelist is now in Heaven or the hells.         

Indeed, Satan would use some religious groups and spiritual persons so as to diffuse an idea that a successful rich man can also enjoy a rich life after death in this world.  If a rich man can enjoy a rich life even after death in the spirit world, nobody wants to accept poverty in this world.  They will not understand a deep meaning of Christ Jesus that the rich and wealthy cannot be accepted in Heaven.

Scores of novels and short stories the novelist wrote in his life should not be any help for him to enter into Heaven.  It is thought that the novelist could not see what poor men in this world could see through their souls.   He should have had to be poor enough to write truth of this world and the afterlife.

Anyway, there cannot be a rich Christ Jesus or a rich Buddha.

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Mark 1, King James Version
23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,
24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.
27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.

"after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived" - Love Poverty to be Admitted into Heaven

Mt. Fuji covered by Snow from around Tokyo

Love Poverty to be Admitted into Heaven 

The main teaching of Christ Jesus is simple: Be poorer than your neighbor and be poor as much as possible so as to be happy in the afterlife leading to Heaven.

If all the people accepted this teaching, this world would be a place for competition for being poorer and living in poverty as much as possible.  This world would be the world of holy poverty.  And, as one becomes poorer, one can understand more truth and exercise more love to the poor and the God, so that he wants to be all the more poorer.  And, every problem in this world and each one would be solved.  

The highest poverty is the state of having nothing worldly but everything heavenly.  But this state of having nothing can be a source of everything as the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tse said.   

According to Lao Tse, a cup can contain water as it is empty; if a cup is full of something else, water cannot be poured in it.  The cup is the human mind, and water is truth and love coming from Heaven, so that a poor man with nothing in his mind and his body or as his assets can absorb truth and love coming from Heaven.

So, the states of a man in the human world in terms of faith can be summarized as follows:

State 1: One feels nothing when seeing the poor and poverty.

State 2: One despises the poor and hates poverty.

State 3: One dislikes to poor and avoids poverty.

State 4: One has compassion to the poor and tries to help them as much as possible.

State 5: One tries to be poor himself and live in poverty as much as possible.

At the State 1, the man is in moratorium in terms of responsible spontaneous judgment.  All the infants and small children are in this state.

At the State 2, Satan and evil spirits are dominating the man by teaching him worldly wisdom.  They teach him that only fools cannot earn money enough to buy necessary and luxurious goods.  So, he thinks that such fools deserve contempt.

At the State 3, the man has acquired commonsense that someone must be poor in this world, and he tries not to see losers and the defeated in the society while trying not to become poor.  He wants to be a member of rich or ordinary people.  He may feel sense of guilt or he may not at all, according to how much he is brainwashed by Satan and evil spirits.

At the State 4, the man comes to realize that he might also become poor by misfortune or due to devil's play, so that it is better for his security and safety to help the poor as much as possible while securing his own riches and worldly happiness.     

At Stage 5, the man discovers that the God loves the poor so that He sent Christ Jesus to the human world to teach people to love poverty.  But, he also understands through words of Christ Jesus that the poor in this world can be happy in the afterlife.  Therefore he tries to be poor enough to be admitted into Heaven after death.      

In summary, those who do not know the meaning of poverty cannot defeat those who despise poverty; those who who despise poverty cannot defeat those who have compassion to the poor; those who have compassion to the poor cannot defeat those who love the poor to help them; those who love the poor to help them cannot defeat those who have become poor for themselves so as to enter into Heaven.   

Satan and evil spirits completely rule those at State 2 and 3, sometimes penetrating into minds of those at State 4.  But, those at State 1 and State 5 are protected by God's angels.

Any scholars, doctors, experts, religious leaders, elite members of churches, etc. cannot see truth of the human world and the spirit world as much as the poorest man in the world can see.  I think that even the Pope must be missing something that can be only realized by the poorest man in the world.

In other words, the major issue and focus of the Gospels are related to poverty where every evil is concentrated.   

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Luke 1, King James Version

22 And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.
23 And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.
24 And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying,
25 Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.

"God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas" - Our Mind to God's Mind for a Miracle to be Realized

 

Our Mind to God's Mind for a Miracle to be Realized

It is well known that prayer can work mysteriously to cure the sick.  And, some spiritualists and psychics emphasize that thoughts, notions, ideas, and power of such mind works can cause super-natural phenomena or miracles to the eyes of ordinary people.  

The Bible also reads that Christ Jesus performed various miracles, such as curing the diseases and bringing the dead back to life, without using modern medicines or devices.  Even those with super-natural power can bend a spoon without using muscle power but by use of mind-power or psychokinesis.

But why does mind-power or psychokinesis work well on human bodies and other material entities?  It is because the God created this material world by use of His mindpower through His words.  Therefore, modern physics cannot find how this universe was created and how elementary particles such as electrons behave mysteriously beyond human commonsense and laws of classical physics.  Our material world and this universe are based on the spirit world and the spirit energy coming from the God.  But, as the God used His words to specifically create each entity of concrete maters and abstract concepts, the Bible reads that nothing that was not created by the word of the God does not exist (in both the material and spirit worlds).

Put simply, our minds can lead to the realm of the God through the material world and the spirit world.  Indeed, our mind-power can work in the spirit world and thus work on the material world.  We move our bodies following instructions of our minds which are not material entities.  So, there is no wonder that our prayer can influence the conditions of the sick, as it works on diseases through the spiritual world that is above the material world.  This status of flow of the holy energy and men's mind power can be summarized as follows: 

God => Spiritual Energy with Words => Spirit World => Material/Human World 

Men => Prayer/Mind-power => Spirit World => Realm of the God => Power of God => Spirit World => Material/Human World

In other words, our prayer or mind-power can reach the realm of the God; thus it can return to the material/human world from the realm of the God through the spirit world.  And, finally, a miracle is realized in the human world.  

Some powerful psychics told that they could cause super-natural phenomena such as levitation by help from some higher-level spirits.  However, when they wish that their human desire comes true, it cannot be realized in the human world as their wish is rejected while going through this process through the spirit world and the realm of the God.  If Uri Geller always thinks how much he can earn through his performance, even a spoon could not be bent as he wishes.  

We have to be truly, but not ostensibly, humble to invoke power of the spirit world or the spiritual energy, or ultimately the power of the God.

When a man dies, he usually abandons his worldly desire; thus his soul can enter into the spirit world leaving his dead body.  Indeed, a man's soul, which was controlling his physical body, entering into the spirit world after his physical death in this world is a kind of miracles.  

Indeed, since what could control physical entities in this universe must be physical entities or systems according to modern physics, from the beginning it is a mystery that a human mind based on its soul belonging to the spirit world can control the human material body.  The fact that a man consisting of only molecules, atoms and elementary particles which are all material entities has a mind or mind-power is itself a mystery.  So, we must admit that spiritual energy came from the spirit world to the human world in the material world.

But, Christ Jesus said that His soul had come from Heaven but men's souls had come from the lower level of the spirit world that should be close to the hells.  For a man to exercise his super natural power or spiritual power, the status of his mind or soul should be close to Heaven or have nothing to do with the hells that can come into his soul through his human desire.  Therefore, ascetic training is needed for a man to enhance his ability to exercise his power.

A monk in Himalayas who acquired the ability to walk across a rapid river failed in demonstrating his ability to newspaper reporters and other audience, falling into a river.  He further continued his training and tried again before people, but failed again.  A Japanese yoga master Naruse who succeeded in performing levitation wrote that he believed that the monk had really acquired the ability to walk on water but his desire to publicly show his ability made him fail.

So, when you pray for a sick person, you must abandon your desire and profits.  You must only wish happiness of the sick.  Then, your prayer will go up to the realm of the God through the spirit world, and the God should respond to your prayer with His mind power that can work on materials beyond laws of classical physics.  Even an angel of the God should respond to a wish of a little child who wants to bend a spoon without human desire.             

The relationship between material entities and human minds, such as how a man can move his body by only thinking that he wants to do it, is still a big mystery for modern science.  But, anybody can do it without knowing modern physics; you can move your fingers as you wish without minding how your mind works on your fingers; you only have to think of it.

If you want to realize something with faith in God, it should be realized only if it is not against the mind of the God.  

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Genesis 1, King James Version
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.